Korea Times K-Culture Reporter
I am covering trend, food and fashion. Previously, I covered diplomacy, city, environment and unification.
Police are continuing their investigation into a taekwondo instructor who abused a five-year-old boy at his martial arts studio in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province, resulting in the child's brain death.
Gimhae, a city in South Gyeongsang Province, is inviting non-Korean travelers to its upcoming one-month tour program in the city.
The increasing number of Koreans raising pets has resulted in concerns about how to manage the disposal of deceased animals.
Nuradi Noeri, 60, a retired Indonesian diplomat, is now in Korea passionately pursuing his childhood dream of becoming an artist. He recently had his debut solo exhibition at East Atelier Gallery in Seoul earlier this month.
Taebaek, a six-year-old male Siberian tiger beloved by visitors to Seoul Grand Park's zoo, died last weekend after months of deteriorating health, according to the zoo.
Two-month-old premature baby boy Elhan was born in Korea — at 27 weeks — to a Russian couple whose visa status here remains uncertain. The baby's surname has not been disclosed.
Singer Park Bo-ram died on Thursday, according to her management agency, Friday.
A district court in Gwangju has handed down a suspended prison sentence to a man who abandoned his newborn daughter in a baby box in 2016.
A court in Ulsan sentenced an elementary school teacher to eight months in prison, suspended for two years, Monday, for threatening to attack a nine-year-old boy after the boy talked back to the teacher.
Polina is from Russia and came to Korea for her Korean husband. Less than a year into their life as a married couple, her husband was diagnosed with tongue cancer, and she is now the primary breadwinner for their family, working full-time as a courier for the e-commerce company Coupang.