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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 Women’s Bioscience Forum (WBF) and the Moonsook Science Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Wednesday to nurture talented female bioscientists in the country and celebrate their achievements.
A recent suggestion by some studies and municipalities to introduce foreign care laborers who are paid less than the legal minimum wage has been emerging as a hot-button issue, triggering criticism within labor circles for being a “racist and inhumane” measure breaching international and domestic labor standards.
One out of three foreign tourists who visited Korea last year was aged under 30, recent data of travel authorities showed, highlighting the trend in which the median age of inbound travelers to the country grows younger amid the rising popularity of K-pop and other Korean cultural sectors.
Korea has experienced a "downward slope" in its democratic process since President Yoon Suk Yeol took office, according to a Sweden-based political science research institute. The regression is attributed to the government's measures to penalize figures associated with the previous administration, its assaults on gender equality, and its undermining of freedom of expression.
James Gessner Jr., the chairman of global resort operator Mohegan Tribe, said the group’s success in the global gambling and hospitality business stems from what he describes as the “tribal legacy.”
The Mohegan Tribe, based in the Thames River region in Uncasville, Connecticut, is a Native American tribe and a sovereign nation officially recognized by the United States Federal Government.
Mohegan Inspire Entertainment Resort held a long-awaited grand opening to its first phase of construction, Tuesday, aiming to become a travel and cultural landmark in Asia by leveraging Mohegan's expertise in entertainment integrated resort operations and the growing popularity of K-pop and other Korean cultural content.
INCHEON — Mohegan Inspire Entertainment Resort, set to become the largest integrated entertainment resort in Northeast Asia, celebrated a grand opening, Tuesday, with the completion of the first phase of a four-stage development project in Korea.
Several “difficult heritage” sites in Seoul, which bear cultural heritage designations but have a history associated with collaborators during Japan's 1910-45 colonial occupation of Korea, are reigniting questions over how to manage and remember them, in the wake of March 1 Independence Movement Day.