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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 Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) held its Korea Tourism Startup Center (KTSC) investor relations Demo Day in Singapore, Wednesday, to showcase the innovative technologies of Korea’s leading travel tech startups to key industry stakeholders in Singapore and Southeast Asia, the state-run tourism promotion agency said Thursday.
Malicious comments against foreign nationals who were killed or injured in the deadly Aricell plant fire in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, have begun popping up online. Experts warned that such comments can cause pain to the living victims and the families of the living and the dead, and called on people to refrain from spreading hatred against immigrant workers.
About six out of 10 global consumers visited at least one Korean restaurant in a foreign country in the past year, with an average frequency of 1.7 visits per month, a survey showed Tuesday.
With the number of foreign students in Korea continuing to rise, a report released Monday showed they are densely populated in the Seoul metropolitan area, just like Korean students.
The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) is ramping up efforts to discover and support the global expansion of local startups in the tourism industry.
The Yoon Suk Yeol administration's recently announced set of countermeasures against the plummeting birthrate is facing cynical and skeptical responses from citizens. They said the plans, which include expansion of maternity and paternity leaves and afterschool child care programs, are only fragmentary solutions that cannot fundamentally solve the underlying cause of the demographic crisis.
Busan will launch Busan Pay, Korea's first foreigner-only mobile currency service, to boost local tourism, the city government announced Tuesday, the day before the service's introduction.
Heavy rain is expected to soak parts of Jeju Island, as the southern resort island braces for the annual monsoon season starting Wednesday, according to the national weather agency, Tuesday.
Korea’s gender imbalance among the unmarried population has widened significantly, with unmarried men outnumbering unmarried women by nearly 20 percent. This imbalance is attributed to traditional parental preferences for boys over girls, as well as sex-selective abortion practices decades ago.
The government will launch a campaign this month to encourage the K-pop industry to embrace more eco-friendly policies, including minimizing the use of plastic in album packaging, the Ministry of Environment said, Sunday.