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Tue, October 15, 2019 | 19:05

[Cityscapes] Finding clarity on top of The Korea Times

I stopped by The Korea Times office recently to visit my editor. In the elevator, I found two foreign guys carrying big bags obviously holding camera gear. On the way down we made small talk about rooftopping in Seoul. They were obviously there for the roof. On another visit later the same week, I ran into another pair boarding the elevator as I got off downstairs. I stayed a...

2019-01-29 17:23

Asian tourists love to go to Myeongdong; Westerners royal palaces in Seoul

The research paper was based on an analysis of a Korea Tourism Organization survey of 9,942 foreigners who visited Seoul in 2017. They were selected out of 13,841 foreign tourists sampled by the organization after visiting South Korea that year. The study said that 30.9 percent of Chinese visitors to Seoul named Myeongdong as the most satisfactory place, trailed by Dongdaemun...

2019-01-25 11:38

WinK Kitchen & Taphouse clothing swap, 2019 Australia Day Australian Open

2019-01-22 19:42

TNKR hosts fundraiser for S. Korean abducted to North 50 years ago

Half a century ago this year, on Dec. 11, 1969, Hwang Won, 32, a program director at MBC, boarded Korean Air flight YS-11 at Gangneung Airbase in Gangwon Province, bound for Seoul's Gimpo Airport. But the flight never landed in Seoul. A North Korean agent aboard hijacked the plane to North Korea, and its four crew members and 46 passengers became captives of the North. Sixty-...

2019-01-22 18:29

Forced haircuts in 1960 opened rift in Korea-U.S. alliance

It is not well-known that the 1960s in Korea began with an explosion of anger against the U.S. On Jan. 2, 1960, two Korean women found after midnight in the billet of a tank battalion in Dongducheon had their heads shaved by two American sergeants, Ora Curnutte and Harry Saunders, who were following the orders of company commander Capt. John W. McEnery. According to the US, t...

2019-01-22 18:14

Documentary shows Korean indie rock's uphill battle

When Korean blues-rock band Wasted Johnnys toured the U.S. in 2013, documentary film director Joe Je-hwan followed them everywhere they went, but so did the rain. “Sadly every time they performed outdoors in the U.S., it rained,” Joe told The Korea Times. Joe was filming his Korean indie rock documentary, titled in English “Life Is a Dream We'll Wake Up & Scream,” named after...

2019-01-22 11:38

Foreign students get taste of traditional life in promo campaign

Nine foreign students at Chonbuk National University will enjoy a month's stay at Hanok Village in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, where traditional Korean-style houses are preserved, as part of a promotional campaign.

Dong Sun-hwa | 2019-01-17 16:15

Facebook shuts down 'OinK - Only in Korea' group

One of the largest Korea-based online communities disappeared from the internet around 1 p.m. last Wednesday. According to its founder Travis Hull and moderators, Facebook deleted the 28,000-member group “OinK - Only in Korea” without warning or explanation.

2019-01-15 17:26

Edgy Memes Only in Korea

Reading Korean literature in the era of the Korean novelist

Forty years ago, during my first sojourn in Korea, I read Kim Eun-kook's now well-known novels. “The Martyred,” his first, was written in English, and later translated into several languages. He was one of the first Korea-born writers of note and helped introduce modern fiction by and about Korean topics to the world. Kim was the first Asian writer to be nominated for the Nob...

2019-01-15 17:12

Foreign wage earners required to file tax returns: gov't

South Korea's tax agency said Tuesday that all foreign wage earners must file their year-end 2018 tax settlement by the end of next month, regardless of their nationality or length of stay.

2019-01-15 16:57

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