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Sun, December 15, 2019 | 13:55

Traditional fishing village welcomes foreign visitors

Traditional fishing village welcomes foreign visitors

Development has spared no corner of the Korean Peninsula, not even remote fishing villages on the east coast. The coastal fishing community of Galnam Village, south of Samcheok in Gangwon Province, is losing its vitality, as the country's fishing industry industrializes and relies increasingly on imports, and 70 percent of local residents are over 70 years of age. With seemin...

2019-10-01 18:12

[Yongsan Legacy] Korea's postwar country music scene keeps kicking

[Yongsan Legacy] Korea's postwar country music scene keeps kicking

As import and domestic pop variations like trot, rock and roll, folk, and disco flooded national airwaves and club stages throughout postwar Korea from as early as the late 1950s, Park Soon-hwan remained behind the walls of U.S. Army Garrison (USAG) Yongsan and other U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) bases. There, he would perform American-style country music in front of large crowds ...

2019-10-01 18:10

This Thursday is Gaecheonjeol, commemorating the mythical founding of Korea 4,352 years ago. It is an important day for Korean shamanism. David Mason, an academic specializing in spirituality and tourism related to Korea's mountains, is leading a visit to a major public ceremony honoring Korea's ancient founding king and a walk up nearby Mount Inwang, where participants have ...

2019-10-01 18:03

Seoul City gives foreigners Korean names

Seoul City gives foreigners Korean names

The Seoul city government said Monday that it has launched a pilot program to give foreigners Korean names as part of efforts to promote the Korean alphabet, hangeul. The program, titled "Korean Names for Non-Koreans," is available to foreigners who reside overseas and are interested in Korean culture, Park Jin-young, a city official in charge of communication, said. The appl...

2019-09-30 10:59

15% of expats here are illegal immigrants: report

15% of expats here are illegal immigrants: report

Nearly 15 percent of foreigners staying in Korea are illegal aliens, with Thais taking up the largest ratio, government data showed Sunday. According to the data submitted by the Ministry of Justice to Rep. Lee Eun-jae of the Liberty Korea Party, 370,889 foreigners were staying here illegally as of July - 15 percent of total foreign residents.

Kim Rahn | 2019-09-29 12:57

[Korea Encounters] Fighting segregation in Seoul's schools in 1969

[Korea Encounters] Fighting segregation in Seoul's schools in 1969

In the spring of 1969 the Korean government decided to take a principled stand against the stigma associated with Hansen's Disease, also known as leprosy. Children at a leprosy rehabilitation center in southeastern Seoul known as Ettinger Village, which was established by the American-Korean Foundation in 1966 and housed “63 families of cured lepers,” usually attended school ...

2019-09-24 17:19

Zandari Festa offers 118 bands from 20 countries

Zandari Festa offers 118 bands from 20 countries

Zandari Festa is back for its eighth year, reviving the live music scene in the Hongik University area (for which Zandari is a historic name) for a three-day weekend of high-quality live music of various genres from Korea and around the world.

2019-09-24 17:16

IPAC offers new form of dinner theater

IPAC offers new form of dinner theater

It's around 7 p.m. in Seoul and after having meetings all day, Park Chan-ju, owner of IPAC, prepares dinner for about 30 guests. The wine bottles are chilled. Chairs are arranged in an intimate setting. The setting is intimate.

2019-09-24 17:14

Busan companies in quandary over foreign workers' ever-increasing paychecks

Busan companies in quandary over foreign workers' ever-increasing paychecks

The average per-capita monthly income of foreign workers in Busan was 2.46 million won ($2,059), data showed on Wednesday.

2019-09-19 16:43

Book on labor union establishment, collective bargaining published in English

Book on labor union establishment, collective bargaining published in English

The authors are Jung Bong-soo (labor attorney and Ph.D. in law) and Park Sang-yung (attorney). And their collective 223-page brainchild, titled “Labor Union Manual,” recently hit the shelves.

Park Si-soo | 2019-09-18 14:14

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