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Busan to offer marine leisure sports package

By Kim Jae-heunThe Busan Tourism Organization (BTO) said last Friday it will operate seasonal programs for various marine leisure sports together with the Korea Ocean Contents Association (KOCA) in the port city until November. The programs include surfing, standup paddleboarding, windsurfing and yachting, using marine resources representative of Busan. Visitors can purchase seasonal tickets to enjoy the activities during the fall. For example, one can surf this week and yacht the next. The BTO offers two types of tickets _ “pass-one” and “pass-two,” which cost 120,000 won and 200,000 won, respectively. The KOCA will provide exclusive “experience coins” to 100 customers, giving a 20 percent discount on the original price of the tickets to promote the marine leisure sports. “Busan has mild weather perfect for marine leisure sports during all four seasons. We picked killer content to attract tourists in the autumn after the busy summer vacation season. Please visit Busan to look around tourist attractions and enjoy various activities,” a

Sep 14, 2018By Kim Jae-heun
Society

Moroccan student promotes Korean college life on YouTube

Asmaa Aalbachi, a graduate student at Dongguk University / Courtesy of Dongguk UniversityBy Kim Jae-heunAsmaa Aalbachi, 25, is a graduate student taking the Global Master of Business Administration (MBA) course at Dongguk University in Seoul. She started her YouTube channel to share stories of life in Korea 11 months ago, and she already has 3,384 subscribers.“Basically, the content is about my university life in Korea. It is very different from school life in Morocco,” Aalbachi told The Korea Times, Thursday. “For example, how everything is open 24/7 and that concept of security _ you can leave your laptop and go to the toilet and nobody will steal it.”After opening her online channel, she received many questions from her followers about how she got her scholarship and what it's like to study in Korea.Aalbachi gives out general information about school programs through her videos and shares detailed answers using direct messages on her social media channels such as Instagram and Facebook.“People basically start with broad questions like how I got my sch

Sep 14, 2018By Kim Jae-heun
Others

Seoul's Catholic pilgrimage routes

Archbishop of Seoul Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, left, holds a certification officially recognizing three historic Catholic places in Seoul as international pilgrimage sites during the proclamation ceremony held at Seosomun Park in central Seoul, Friday. On the right is Archbishop Rino Fisichella from the Vatican who bestowed the recognition. /Yonhap

Sep 14, 2018By Kim Jae-heun
Seoul's Catholic pilgrimage routes
Foreign Affairs

Jeju grants humanitarian stay permit to 23 Yemenis

Yemeni asylum seekers leave the immigration office on Jeju Island after receiving humanitarian stay permits, Friday. / YonhapBy Kim Jae-heunJeju Island granted, Friday, one-year residence permits to 23 Yemenis who applied for refugee status. However, the Jeju Immigration Office decided not to recognize them as refugees. Hundreds of Yemenis arrived on Jeju Island earlier this year and they applied for the refugee status. The local immigration office conducted interviews with 484 asylum seekers and gave stay permits to 23 of them. The authority said they were mostly pregnant women, injured people or minors who fled the ongoing war in their homeland or forced conscription by Houthi rebels. Ten of the 23 Yemenis granted stay permits are under 19 and seven of them are with parents or spouses. Three are without parents or guardian. “We will keep an eye on the situation in Yemen, and if things get better there we will not extend their stay permit or will cancel it. Also, if they break any law here, we can cancel their residency status,” an immigration official said.The 23 Yemeni

Sep 14, 2018By Kim Jae-heun
Jeju grants humanitarian stay permit to 23 Yemenis
Global Community

Foreigners can leave country without paying taxes

By Kim Jae-heunForeigners will no longer be held back from leaving Korea for not paying taxes they owe here. The Ministry of Justice said Friday it decided recently to accept a recommendation by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) to end its custom of banning foreigners from departure without legal basis over unpaid penalties. Foreign children not registered to the local immigration office are also exempted.The NHRCK's recommendation will take immediate effect within this year. The Immigration Control Law has been limiting the exit of foreigners undergoing criminal trial or facing prison sentence. Those who have not paid a certain amount of their fines or surcharges are also subjected to a travel ban.However, the NHRCK suggested freeing those who have been held without legal basis.In one case last December, three young brothers and sisters aged one, three and seven years old were stopped at the airport for not having been registered as aliens at their birth here.Foreigners under 17 years old have to apply for their stay or a guardian can apply for the permit by prox

Sep 14, 2018By Kim Jae-heun
Foreigners can leave country without paying taxes
Politics

Ex-president defamed Gwangju Movement groups: court

By Kim Jae-heunThe Gwangju District Court, Thursday, ordered former President Chun Doo-hwan to pay 15 million won in compensation to each of four groups commemorating the 1980 Gwangju Pro-Democracy Movement, and 10 million won to the relatives of Cho Bi-oh, a late pro-democracy activist priest. It also ordered Chun to delete all his controversial comments on the movement in any future editions of his 2017 memoir or face a publication ban.“Chun rejected the historical reviews of the movement and defamed the plaintiffs by providing false information based on groundless claims,” the court said. “Even if he had a different point of view about the historical assessment of the Gwangju Movement, he needed to verify it based on objective data, not the testimonies of persons who were directly involved in the repression of the protesters.”Regarding Cho, Chun denied the priest's claim that he witnessed soldiers firing from military helicopters on civilians during the military suppression of the pro-democracy uprising. In his memoir, Chun called Cho a “shameless lia

Sep 13, 2018By Kim Jae-heun
Politics

Dispute re-emerging over abolishment of death penalty

By Kim Jae-heunA decades-long dispute over whether to abolish the death penalty has been reignited, following a human rights watchdog's recommendation to do so.The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) decided Tuesday to recommend the government join an international covenant to abolish the death penalty.The decision was made during an 11-member commission meeting, the first meeting held by new Chairperson Choi Yeong-ae. The Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, first introduced by the U.N. in December 1989, is aimed at ending the practice of capital punishment, providing a procedure for abolishment of the system and renouncing execution of war criminals. Only four countries among the 36 OECD member nations have not signed the protocol, which includes Korea, the United States, Israel and Japan. Several human rights watchdogs including the U.N. Human Rights Council and the U.N. Human Rights Committee have been recommending Korea join the protocol and renounce capital punishment.The NHRCK also expressed its opinion to abolish

Sep 12, 2018By Kim Jae-heun
Health

EXCLUSIVE A case revealing loopholes of MERS quarantine guidelines

Quarantine officers ask health-related questions to travelers with high body temperature arriving from the United Arab Emirates, at Incheon International Airport, Monday, two days after a man was confirmed to have contracted Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) during a visit to Kuwait. / YonhapBy Kim Jae-heun, Lee Kyung-minWith growing concerns over the spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) here following the first confirmed case in three years ― a 61-year-old man Saturday ― the government has assured the public it will do all it can to contain the disease. However, it is apparently failing to deal with suspected cases. A man in his 20s in Seoul, who wished not to be named, travelled to Dubai with his colleagues last week. Since returning to Korea last Friday, he has been suffering from diarrhea, the same symptom of the confirmed patient who is suspected of having contracted the disease also during a trip to Kuwait.The man said he rode a camel there, an act which the health authorities tell people to avoid doing so as not to contract the disease. Not only he

Sep 10, 2018By Kim Jae-heun
[EXCLUSIVE] A case revealing loopholes of MERS quarantine guidelines
  • First MERS case detected in three years
  • Gov't tracking down 408 people with 'indirect exposure' to MERS patient
  • No vaccines, treatment against MERS yet
Society

Female migrant workers can change jobs to head off sexual violence

By Kim Jae-heunFemale immigrant workers will be allowed to change their jobs if they suffer from sexual violence, according to the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, Monday.The Ministry of Employment and Labor accepted the commission's advice to change the employment system of female foreign workers who come here under the Employment Permit System (EPS) as a countermeasure against sex crimes.Those who come to Korea under the EPS are allowed to change their workplaces up to three times during their three-year stay here.According to the commission, the ministry recently provided plans to strengthen its supervision of employers' treatment of female migrant workers, offer education on sexual violence to them, and expand support for victims.The labor ministry particularly is taking immediate action to allow female workers to change their workplaces, regardless of the number of previous changes, if they have been sexually assaulted or harassed by their employers or colleagues. “It is a welcome decision by the ministry to take quick action in changing the system. Migrant worke

Sep 10, 2018By Kim Jae-heun
Female migrant workers can change jobs to head off sexual violence
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Society

Incheon queer festival disrupted as eight indicted

Anti-gay protesters clash with riot police in Incheon, Saturday, a head of a queer culture event. / YonhapBy Kim Jae-heunA queer festival, scheduled for Saturday in Incheon, was unable to proceed due to strong protest from conservative groups that led to eight people being indicted.The first-ever queer event in the port city was planned to take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. near Dongincheon Station on Line 1, with over 300 people participating.However, right after the opening declaration, 1,000 anti-gay protesters, comprised of religious and other conservative civic groups, overran the festival, preventing it from continuing.The Queer Cultural Festival is an event to promote the rights and diversity of sexual minorities such as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT). The first queer event in Korea was held in Seoul in 2000. Since then, the LGBT rights group has hosted the event in different cities, including Daegu and Busan.While protesters were attempting to block the queer event, some of them clashed with festival organizers and violence broke out.As a result, the Incheon Jun

Sep 9, 2018By Kim Jae-heun
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