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I Wear Experiment concert in Seoul, Kizomba dance lessons

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-18 21:03

Stella Foundation spreads happiness in Seoul

The Stella Foundation has been raising awareness about the importance of mental health, removing the stigma surrounding depression and suicide and sprinkling some happiness around Seoul. The foundation brings people and communities together for fun workshops and programs, which they call “Happiness Boosters.”

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-18 18:42

[Cityscapes] A surprise tour of Cheongnyangni's cat houses

The major holidays are an ideal time to go urban exploring in Korea. Seoul clears out twice a year as everyone goes to their hometown for Lunar New Year and Chuseok. These holidays are also when animal abandonment peaks, so I pledged to always have some cat food in my trespassing kit.

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-18 00:36

Seoul Community Radio celebrates two years on air

Seoul Community Radio (SCR), an online radio station operating out of Itaewon dedicated to promoting underground electronic dance music in Korea, celebrates its second anniversary this month.

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-18 00:34

Foreigners can leave country without paying taxes

Foreigners will no longer be held back from leaving Korea for not paying taxes they owe here. The Ministry of Justice said Friday it decided recently to accept a recommendation by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) to end its custom of banning foreigners from departure without legal basis over unpaid penalties.

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-14 17:11

Korea to issue permanent residency to F-5 visa holders

The government will replace alien registration certificates with permanent residency for F-5 visa holders, starting Sept. 21. The Ministry of Justice said Wednesday that people who fit the requirements of staying here permanently can receive permanent residency, which must be renewed every 10 years.

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-13 15:53

Pakistani Korean pioneers halal food business

It all started with difficulties buying halal meat for Ha San, a Pakistani Korean who started a business and pioneered a sales network of halal food for over 13,000 Pakistanis living in Korea. Halal food was not available in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, when he opened a restaurant there in 1997, three years after he permanently settled in Korea. He had to shop at a Muslim gro...

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-12 16:30

Dulwich takes education out of the classroom

A child's education happens outside the classroom just as much as inside the classroom. David Jewitt, head of Outdoor Education at Dulwich College Seoul, has been working to provide a more cohesive curriculum providing not just classroom lessons but also real-life learning opportunities. “Living in a risk-averse and digital culture, many of the lessons I learnt from adventure...

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-11 18:47

[Korea Encounters] Weekly scribbles reflect life in Seoul in 1970s

The author Ahn Jung-hyo is best known for writing the novels “White Badge” and “Silver Stallion,” but he also wrote a column for The Korea Times in the late 1960s and 1970s. In early 1972 he translated a series of “scribblings” published in weekly magazines, a type of column that had originated in the Weekly Hankook in 1965. As he put it, these pages printed “all sorts of scribblings, cartoons, and sometimes funny poems contributed by readers.”

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-11 18:35

First wave of Korean overseas adoptees returns

A select group of Korean overseas adoptees have returned to Korea for a series of events intended to reconnect them with the land of their birth. These particular adoptees, many now in their 50s and 60s, were mostly born in camptowns outside U.S. military bases, to a Korean mother and U.S. military father. Many came with their families from their host countries.

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-11 18:27

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