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Sun, June 20, 2021 | 06:40

Expat-run garden offers fresh food, spicy sauces

Bear Foot Gardens has been making a name for itself with its extra-spicy sauces for a couple years, but now they'll be reaching even more people with the help of Shuttle Delivery. Bear Foot's landowner, gardener Ryan Phillips, has started to bring seasonal comfort foods straight from the farm to Seoul residents with his new endeavor, Farm Kitchen by Ryan. This option will all...

2020-05-19 00:17

Life in the time of coronavirus

It seems like years, but it was just a few weeks ago that life changed. At first, family abroad were concerned about us here next to China. But now, it's us looking, mouths agape behind our masks, at Europe and America, wondering whether the conviction we had that they do everything better in those advanced countries was insecurity.

2020-05-18 17:24

South Korea offers undocumented foreigners free virus test with no risk of deportation

In the Korean message delivered to millions of mobile phone subscribers across the country, the Ministry of Health and Welfare urged undocumented foreigners with virus symptoms to contact a public health office and arrange a test.

Park Si-soo | 2020-05-14 15:42

TOPIK canceled worldwide due to pandemic

Seoul's National Institute for International Education said it has canceled the 69th Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK), scheduled to take place in 64 countries, including South Korea, on May 24, for fears of community spread of COVID-19.

2020-05-14 13:53

[Holiday in North Korea] 'Nobody' can escape K-pop, not even North Korea

One of the appeals of visiting North Korea is the chance to escape a lot of the trappings of modern society. We leave behind a world of advertising, of colorless high-rise complexes, of hypercompetitive consumer capitalism. We say goodbye to our phones and sign off on social media; at least that was the case on my first visit in 2010. And we are not subjected to K-pop - or so...

2020-05-12 19:27

Foreigners to face heavier fines for violating quarantine rules

Foreigners in Korea will face heavier fines for violating coronavirus quarantine rules. The Ministry of Justice said Monday that it will revise enforcement regulations to raise fines to 3 million won ($2,500) from 500,000 won this month for first-time violators of mandatory 14-day quarantine. Second- and third-time violators will face fines of 5 million and 10 million won, re...

Jung Min-ho | 2020-05-11 13:29

[RAS Korea] Social Distancing? RAS Korea is 'Zooming' along!

RAS Korea has had to suspend normal operations only two times before. The first was in 1940 as World War II began to affect the Pacific area, and the Japanese occupiers began to expel all foreign residents from Allied countries. RAS Korea was finally able to resume in 1948 but was forced to suspend activities just two years later when the Korean War broke out. It restarted in...

2020-05-07 14:43

Short story anthology analyzes faces of Seoul, 'City of Han'

Expats come, expats go, and some even come again. Seoul will no doubt leave a lasting impression on everyone who visits, and what better way to remember than with a book of short stories written by foreign residents, past and present?

2020-05-07 14:39

Short story anthology explores magical realism in Seoul's alleys

If you find yourself in Guisin-dong, a nomadic, shape-shifting neighborhood of Seoul, you may never escape. That's one of the revelations in “Guisin-dong and other Seoul Villages,” a recently released ebook by Stephane Mot, a Seoulite originally from France.

2020-05-06 14:58

Kazakh brothers seeking better life in Korea killed in fire

Two Kazakh workers killed in the warehouse fire in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province were brothers who moved to Korea with their families in pursuit of a better life.

Kim Se-jeong | 2020-05-05 17:31

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