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Woman arrested over K-pop concert swindle

A woman in her 20s has been arrested for swindling nearly 500 million won ($412,000) from K-pop fans in Korea and overseas, according to police, Friday. By Kim Jae-heunA woman in her 20s has been arrested for swindling nearly 500 million won ($412,000) from K-pop fans in Korea and overseas, according to police, Friday. The Mapo Police Station said the woman, identified by her Twitter handle Maydoni, deceived 282 people from last July to March this year into paying a total 489 million won, saying she would buy them tickets to sold-out concerts of K-pop bands such as BTS, EXO and Wanna One.However, after taking their money, she would suddenly break contact.According to the police, she used bank accounts borrowed from two Chinese people, pretending to be Chinese. In addition, the investigation also found she had created more social media accounts on several other platforms to post her fake offer for tickets to concerts and fan meeting events of popular K-pop bands held in Taiwan and Hong Kong. “She has acknowledged most of her charges and we will investigate further to see if

Aug 16, 2019By Kim Jae-heun
Woman arrested over K-pop concert swindle
Foreign Affairs

Massive anti-Abe rallies held on National Liberation Day

Korean protesters with images of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shout slogans during a rally to mark the Korean Liberation Day from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday. / AP-YonhapBy Kim Jae-heunMassive rallies took place throughout Seoul Thursday amid the rain as the nation celebrated the 74th Liberation Day, condemning Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his trade restrictions on Korea. An association of more than 10 civic groups including the Movement for One Korea and Institute for Research in Collaborationist Activities gathered at Seoul Plaza to celebrate the 74th anniversary of the country's liberation from the 1910-45 Japanese colonial rule, while discussing ways to address issued related to wartime forced labor.Japan removed Korea recently from its “whitelist” of trusted trading partners apparently in retaliation to the Korean Supreme Court's verdicts that ordered Japanese firms to compensate individual surviving South Korean victims of wartime forced labor. Three survivors of the wartime atrocit

Aug 15, 2019By Kim Jae-heun
Massive anti-Abe rallies held on National Liberation Day
  • Moon offers olive branch to Japan
Foreign Affairs

Anti-Japan movement taking new turn

By Kim Jae-heunIn the wake of the Japanese government's trade restrictions on Korea and removal from its list of preferred trading partners over the past month, Korean consumers have launched massive boycott movements ranging from the boycott of Japanese products to the cancellation of trips to the neighboring country. But as the bilateral situation worsens, Koreans are looking to learn more about the history between the two countries.“I was talking to my American friend about how Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is distorting history and denying Japan's use of wartime forced labor. But when he asked in-depth questions about the background, I had limited knowledge to answer them,” said Cho Hyun-soo, a 31-year-old office worker.“So I recently joined a book club to read books on Korean history. I realized that before teaching my foreign friends about the truth of Japan's distortions of history, I must know about the background history first.”Kim Ga-yeon, another office worker, said she had also bought several books on the history of the modern world and Korea.

Aug 15, 2019By Kim Jae-heun
Anti-Japan movement taking new turn
  • Moon offers olive branch to Japan
Law & Crime

Dismembered body found near Han River

The Goyang Police Station said the body of a man believed to be in his 20s or 30s was found near the southern end of Magok Railway Bridge around 9:15 a.m. / GettyimagebankBy Kim Jae-heunA dismembered male torso has been found around the Han River in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, according to police, Wednesday. The Goyang Police Station said the body of a man believed to be in his 20s or 30s was found near the southern end of Magok Railway Bridge around 9:15 a.m. Monday by a staffer of the Hangang Project Headquarters.The police sent the body to the National Forensic Service (NFS) for an autopsy and DNA testing and found that the victim died about a week ago but the NFS couldn't determine the cause of his death. “It has not been so long since the corpse was abandoned near the river and we are trying to identify the man through DNA testing at NFS,” a police officer said. “The body had no arms or legs and it was naked when it was first spotted.”Police are looking at missing persons cases to see if the body matches anyone reported missing. Police secured surveillance

Aug 15, 2019By Kim Jae-heun
Dismembered body found near Han River
Health

Sex doll import continues to spark controversy

A court ruling allowing the import of life-size sex dolls is prompting controversy here. / Korea Times fileBy Kim Jae-heunA dispute over the Supreme Court's verdict to allow the import of life-size sex dolls from “Real Doll” has intensified here over its possible effects on society.In June, the court ruled in favor of sex doll importer Bururu.com that sued the government customs agencies for blocking their imports. Judges ruled that the sex dolls are for personal use and as such the government should not interfere in such private affairs. However, feminist groups here are opposing the import of sex dolls, saying it could induce sex-related crimes and it infringes on women's personal rights, since the options to customize the dolls could lead to the creation of replicas of real women. Activist Park Ah-reum at the Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center pointed out that there are problems with the way sex doll importers promote their products. “Promotional slogans commodifying women are an affront to women's rights,” Park said.Professor Kim Jong-gab at the Institute

Aug 13, 2019By Kim Jae-heun
Sex doll import continues to spark controversy
Foreign Affairs

Two Koreans found dead at Croatian public park

Two Koreans, reportedly a father and a daughter visiting Croatia, were found dead in a public park situated in the southeast part of the country. / GettyimagebankBy Kim Jae-heunTwo Koreans, reportedly a father and a daughter visiting Croatia, were found dead in a public park situated in the southeast part of the country. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Monday, a French tourist found the bodies of two Koreans, a man in his 50s and a woman in her 20s, at Krka National Park on Saturday at 3:40 p.m. local time. The Korean Embassy in Croatia confirmed the two victims were Korean citizens and the diplomats have delivered the news to the bereaved while requesting the local police authority to carry out an investigation.A Korean police officer dispatched there said the Croatian police will conduct a postmortem to find the cause of the two tourists' deaths. Currently, six Korean police officers are working in Croatia after being sent to protect Koreans traveling there under the memorandum of understanding signed to collaborate on public security in tourist areas.“The Korea

Aug 12, 2019By Kim Jae-heun
Two Koreans found dead at Croatian public park
Society

Cooling off

Summer vacationers cool off under a waterfall in Seogwipo, Jeju Island, Wednesday. Hot weather is expected across the country for a while after Typhoon Francisco weakened and passed across the country the previous day. / Yonhap

Aug 12, 2019By Kim Jae-heun
Foreign Affairs

15,000 protesters condemn Abe

People protest against Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in front of Japanese Embassy in Korea, Seoul, Saturday, calling to withdraw economic strike on Korea. / Korea Times photo be Oh Dae-geunBy Kim Jae-heunFifteen thousand protesters gathered at the former site of the Japanese embassy in Seoul on Saturday night to condemn Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his economic strike on Korea and call for withdrawal from a three-way military information-sharing pact that also includes the United States.In particular, the fourth candlelight vigil since July 20 drew teenage students and members of a Japanese civic group alliance to urge the Japanese government to stop such measures.On the Korean side, some 700 civic groups including the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), YMCA Korea and the Korean Alliance of Progressive Movements took to the streets to pressure Abe despite the sweltering heat. The weekly rally continues after the Japanese government announced, July 1, it would restrict the export of three key materials that Korean companies need to make semiconductors and flat

Aug 11, 2019By Kim Jae-heun
15,000 protesters condemn Abe
  • Korean carriers slash flights to Japan
Society

Greenpeace warns Korea of Japan's radioactive water discharge

Storage tanks for radioactive water are seen at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, in this picture taken on Feb. 18. ReutersBy Kim Jae-heunAn international environment organization has said that Japan plans to discharge radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean in the near future and Korea will fall particularly vulnerable.Greenpeace Korea, the global NGO's branch in Seoul, reposted on Facebook, Wednesday, a column by its nuclear specialist Shaun Burnie published in The Economist, saying Japan is planning to discharge more than 1 million liters of contaminated water stored at the Fukushima nuclear plant since the massive earthquake and nuclear disaster of 2011.Burnie wrote in his article that the Japanese government has decided recently to take the “cheapest and fastest” way to dispose wastewater, which is to discharge it into the Pacific Ocean.The scientist added neighboring countries will be exposed to radiation as a result and Korea, in particular, will suffer the most from

Aug 8, 2019By Kim Jae-heun
Greenpeace warns Korea of Japan's radioactive water discharge
Health

Online content creators earn average 5.36 mil. won per month

Six-year-old YouTuber Lee Bo-ram plays with her toys in her room on a video posted last month. / Captured from YouTubeBy Kim Jae-heunOnline content creators such as YouTubers make an average of 5.36 million won ($4,411) a month, according to a joint study conducted by the Korea Labor Institute and the Korea Culture & Tourism Institute, Wednesday.It showed people working in one-person media businesses have a higher level of job satisfaction than office workers, but the profession holds risk factors like low job security and sustainability.The research teams surveyed and had in-depth interviews with 250 members of the Korean Multi Channel Network Association, a group of one-person media content creators, between last October and November.Among those surveyed, 24 percent worked as full-time content creators and 23.2 percent did it part-time. Over 50 percent created content as a hobby. The full-time creators earned 5.36 million won a month on average, while those who work on it part-time, 3.33 million won, and people doing it as hobby, 1.14 million won.Recently online media content c

Aug 7, 2019By Kim Jae-heun
Online content creators earn average 5.36 mil. won per month
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