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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.
ZA’ATARI, Jordan — Seventy kilometers from the Jordanian capital of Amman and only 30 kilometers from the Syrian border, the Za'atari refugee camp is home to some 80,000 Syrians.
World Taekwondo (WT) council member and former taekwondo referee Maher Magableh, 48, is a Jordanian migrant-turned-entrepreneur who has played a pivotal role in ensuring the success of the third edition of the Hope and Dreams Sports Festival.
AZRAQ, Jordan — Yahya Al Ghotany, 20, was 7 years old when the civil war broke out in his homeland of Syria.
Taekwondo coaches and referees from worldwide are participating in a training program in Muju County, North Jeolla Province, ahead of the Paris Olympics, World Taekwondo (WT) said, Sunday. The four-day event kicked off earlier in the day.
AMMAN, Jordan — Othman Al-Ayoub, 17, who lives at the Azraq refugee camp in northern Jordan and trains in taekwondo there, said he could not sleep a wink ahead of the special event he has been waiting for since February last year.
INCHEON — “It’s coming, the giant pink whale will appear in just a minute,” a young woman said to her child, pointing at the immersive digital entertainment street at Mohegan Inspire Entertainment Resort in Incheon.
Seoul Metro will provide two additional rides during the morning and evening rush hours for crowd control on lines 4 and 7 starting Wednesday, the subway operator announced Monday.
More than 600,000 foreigners traveled to Korea last year for medical procedures, marking a record high in the history of the country's medical tourism industry, the health ministry said Monday.
The government’s survey on providing a birth and child-rearing subsidy worth 100 million won ($72,564) per child has caused a heated debate.