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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.
Chinese travelers visiting Korea spend more than double on accommodation than they did in 2019, while their average travel expenditures here remain lower than those spent in neighboring Japan, data showed.
A 26-year-old Korean man who traveled to South Africa was fined 381,676 rand ($20,300) by a local court for illegally catching scorpions.
Starfield Suwon, the massive shopping mall that launched in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province on Friday, is facing growing complaints from local residents as well as visitors regarding traffic congestion and safety issues.
A Madagascan woman who developed a tumor that covered her face and caused vision problems has a new lease on life thanks to the treatment she received from a Korean medical team.
Everland will showcase a special collaboration with Japanese entertainment company Sanrio for this year’s spring flower festival, the amusement park's operator said, Wednesday.
A K21 infantry fighting vehicle of the Army's Capital Mechanized Infantry Division participates in a river-crossing excercise during cold-weather exercises conducted in sub-zero temperatures in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, Wednesday. Yonhap
Korea plans to tighten criteria on national health insurance coverage for foreign nationals' dependents in order to control insurance expenditures and screen indiscreet abuses of the state health care system.
A Ukrainian delegation focused on reconstruction cooperation inspected urban development projects belonging to the Korea Water Resources Corp. (K-water), such as eco-friendly power plants, Tuesday, to shed light on how the war-torn country might be able to apply learnings here to the post-war recovery of Ukraine.
The first giant panda born in Korea is expected to be delivered to her parents' home country by Air China, not Korean Air. But the specific timing of Fu Bao's transfer to China is under discussion.