The Korea Times - Article List

Site Map E-paper Subscribe Register LogIn
Site Map E-paper Subscribe Register LogIn

National

Foreign Communities

Sat, July 20, 2019 | 19:01

Kontrast creates art, collaboration, community

Kontrast, an interactive experience featuring fashion, music and art connecting professional and aspiring creatives, made its debut on Dec. 15 at Paper Street Cafe in Jung-gu, central Seoul, and will be presenting its second episode Saturday, Jan. 26.

Kim Ji-soo | 2019-01-02 19:20

Sexy Seoul chefs pose for pin-up calendar

It's 2019, which means time to open up a new calendar. Twelve months of Seoul chefs in pinup poses sounds like the unlikeliest of calendars, but it's printed and ready.

2019-01-01 22:01

Inside and outside the gates of Yongsan Garrison

When I arrived in Korea, they were celebrating Chuseok. I found it ironic that my return coincided with the celebration of Koreans returning to their hometowns to pay respects to their ancestors. Like other Koreans, I had returned to my ancestral home, Yongsan. In my own personal way I paid homage to my Korean ancestors, too.

2019-01-01 21:17

[Yongsan Legacy] Returning to Yongsan, in search of long-lost family

Filipino Xmas festivities mark cash remitter's expansion in Seoul

The joy of Filipinos celebrating Christmas in Korea highlighted the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the sixth branch of a Seoul-based multinational money remittance service.

Ko Dong-hwan | 2018-12-30 17:35

[Cityscapes] Celebrating Christmas in Seoul's underground river

It's Christmas again, and I find myself once again somewhere deep beneath Seoul, knee-deep in benzene-polluted water, armed with fireworks and a fake beard and firing at shadows moving in the dark.

2018-12-25 17:31

[Cityscapes] Saying farewell to Yongsan Pochachon…again

Korean-British band Wooze launches Korea tour

Theo Spark and Jamie Shie are intimately familiar with Korean culture, and now Korea is about to get to know a lot more about the pair, who make up the genre-bending Korean-British musical duo Wooze.

2018-12-25 17:06

S. Korea grants refugee status to Chinese broker for N. Korean defectors

The immigration office on South Korea's southernmost island of Jeju said Saturday it has granted refugee status to a Chinese smuggler who helped hundreds of North Koreans defect to the South.The office under the Ministry of Justice said that an F-2 permit was issued to Tu Airong, 55, on Friday.It is the third case of refugee approval by the Jeju immigration authority followin...

2018-12-22 16:28

Koo, Park named 'Asians of the Year'

Two Koreans have been selected as “Asians of the Year” for 2018 by the Asia Journalist Association (AJA).The association selected Koo Bon-moo, the late former chairman of LG Group, in the economic category. Koo, who died in May, received the award for leading the conglomerate to make rapid growth and become a global company. The group also set up an award to recognize people ...

Jung Hae-myoung | 2018-12-20 17:50

[INTERVIEW] 'Korea does not have a true LCC'

Korea does not truly have a low-cost carrier (LCC), only airlines disguised as such, said Tony Fernandes, CEO and founder of Air Asia Group. “Korea needs one really true low-cost airline. Korean Air and Asiana (operating their own LCCs) just block other airlines from entering the market. They are full-service airlines,” Fernandes said in an interview with The Korea Times duri...

Kim Hyun-bin | 2018-12-19 17:48

Number of naturalized Koreans nears 190,000 over last 70 years

Nearly 190,000 foreign nationals have become naturalized South Korean citizens over the past seven decades, government data showed Wednesday. The Ministry of Justice said the number of people naturalized here since the enactment of the Nationality Act on Dec. 20, 1948, reached 189,193 as of the end of November. The nation's first naturalization occurred on Feb. 8, 1957, when ...

2018-12-19 16:00

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Code of Ethics