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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.
Seoul designated extended reality (XR), video, media, webtoons, and games and esports as five key sectors, Wednesday, to boost its competitiveness in creative industries.
Jeju Shinhwa World (JSW), a luxury integrated resort launched in 2018 on the southern resort island, is offering a set of year-end events featuring music concerts, fireworks and promotions.
Mohegan Inspire Entertainment Resort foresees attracting domestic and overseas music fans to Incheon’s Yeongjong Island, near Incheon International Airport, with the company's December lineup and entertainment plans for the upcoming holiday season.
Korea’s low-cost carrier (LCC) operator T’way Air leaped to rank second among local budget carriers and expects its sales to reach 1 trillion won ($771 million) by year-end due to the company’s strategic expansion of long-distance routes, the airline said, Tuesday.
Mohegan Inspire Entertainment Resort in Incheon will partly open its doors ahead of its full launch, Thursday.
Once praised as the paragon of digital governance, Korea’s administrative digital network system has been disgraced and is losing public trust following a series of service disruptions that caused massive inconveniences across the country.
SINGAPORE — Hundreds of crowd gathered at Singapore’s Jewel Changi Airport, Thursday, staring up at the ceiling and counting down to film a spectacle with their mobile phones.
BATAM, Indonesia — Incheon International Airport Corp. (IIAC), the operator of Incheon International Airport, seeks to develop Indonesia’s Batam Hang Nadim International Airport into an ASEAN gateway capable of accommodating 25 million passengers a year by 2046, its operator, PT Bandara Internasional Batam, said, Wednesday.
Three months have passed since China lifted its ban on group tours to Korea, but the economic effects of Chinese tourists, formerly seen as big spenders traveling in large groups, are failing to meet the industry’s hopes of market revitalization.
In 2030, a treatment that can make men pregnant becomes available in Korea in an effort to increase the fertile population as the country hits a record-low fertility rate of 0.4 in Noh Gyeong-mu’s short animation film and webcomic “How to Get Your Man Pregnant.”