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Lee Hae-rin is a City Desk reporter at The Korea Times, covering social issues, tourism and taekwondo. She is passionate about speaking up for the rights of minorities, including women, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities and animals as well as discovering the latest makgeolli trend in town. Feel free to reach her at lhr@koreatimes.co.kr.
The city government in Seoul is searching for symbolic and catchy names for each of its eight Han River Buses, part of a water transportation system set to launch next year, officials announced on Sunday.
Masked and dressed in black, more than 6,000 people gathered at Marroninier Park in northeastern Seoul, Saturday, to call for stronger legal action against deepfake crimes targeting women.
This autumn, Four Seasons Hotel Seoul pays tribute to the creativity and finesse of Korean contemporary art with an in-hotel exhibition titled “Timeless Art, Passion at Heart” from Aug. 29 to mid-November.
Police plan to spend 2.7 billion won ($2 million) next year to develop a deep-learning technology to detect deepfake content, in response to the increasing number of AI-generated material targeting women.
The city government in Seoul will set up temporary outdoor libraries at Seoul Plaza, Gwanghwamun Square and Cheonggye Stream as part of its efforts to promote Korean literature to book lovers from other countries.
The government announced on Thursday that people using hospitals or pharmacies during the Chuseok holiday will face an increase in costs of 30 to 50 percent compared to usual.
Children dressed in hanbok make "songpyeon," traditional Korean half moon-shaped rice cakes specially made during Chuseok, at a community center in Seoul's Songpa District, Thursday. This year's Chuseok holiday falls on Sept. 17. Yonhap
POCHEON, Gyeonggi Province — Arong, a seven-year-old mixed breed dog that lives with her owner Lee Bo-young in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, had a “paw-fect” autumn picnic at an apple orchard with a group of canine friends, last Thursday.
Yang Ji-in, who won the gold medal in the women’s 25-meter pistol event at the Paris Olympics last month, will promote her southern hometown of Namwon as a tourism ambassador.
Korea, China, and Japan will collaborate to foster balanced and qualitative growth in their tourism industries, aiming to achieve 40 million annual exchanges between the three countries by 2030, according to senior government officials, Wednesday.