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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.
Korean travelers are becoming dissatisfied with trips to countries that use the U.S. dollar due to rising travel expenses from fluctuating exchange rates, a survey showed Thursday.
Korean Muslim YouTuber Daud Kim plans to build a mosque in the western port city of Incheon.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government has disapproved a festival featuring Japanese porn actresses, scheduled to take place next week on board a Han River cruise ship.
"Is it true that time heals everything?” asked Yoo Gyung-geun, a bereaved father who lost his 18-year-old daughter Ye-eun in the Sewol ferry tragedy on April 16, 2014.
Jang Joon-hyung, a student from the class of 2016 at Danwon High School in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, was an amiable boy who would always greet others first.
Twin giant pandas, Rui Bao, left, and Hui Bao, play at Everland Panda World in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, in this photo provided by the amusement park, Friday, as the panda cubs mark their 100th day in the public eye. Courtesy of Samsung C&TTwin giant pandas, Rui Bao, left, and Hui Bao, drink milk at Everland Panda World in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, in this photo provided by the amusement park, Friday, as the panda cubs mark their 100th day in the public eye. Courtesy of Samsung C&TTwin giant pandas, Rui Bao, left, and Hui Bao, play with their zookeeper at Everland Panda World in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, in this photo provided by the amusement park, Friday, as the panda cubs mark their 100th day in the public eye. Courtesy of Samsung C&TAi Bao, a giant panda, licks her female twin panda cubs at Everland Panda World in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, July 7, 2023, right after giving birth to them. The photo was selected as TIME's Top 100 Photos of 2023. Courtesy of Samsung C&TTwin pandas born to mother Ai Bao and father Le Bao mark their 30th day since birth at Everland
The Embassy of Rwanda in Seoul held a ceremony Tuesday to mark the 30th commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.
Korea’s travel agencies are scrambling to offer panda-themed tour packages to leverage heated attention on Fu Bao, the first Korea-born giant panda who was transferred to her motherland China last week.
Kim Dong-il, right, the executive vice president of the Korea Tourism Organization, and Krithpaka Boonfueng, the executive director of Thailand’s National Innovation Agency, pose at the Korea Tourism Organization Seoul Center, Thursday, after signing a memorandum of understanding to foster travel tech exchange and innovation between the two countries. Courtesy of Korea Tourism Organization
China's treatment of Fu Bao, a female giant panda born in Korea which was returned, Wednesday, to her parents' country under an international agreement, has caused a stir among Korean and Chinese fans over animal welfare.