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Mutzine x Makers offers creative workshops for foreigners

DJ Bowlcut and two Mutzine x Makers participants dig for vinyl records at Dol Record near Dongmyo Station during the Makers field trip. / Courtesy of Mutzine x MakersBy Celeste KrielMutzine magazine is collaborating with local artists and makers on monthly creative workshops, aptly titled Mutzine x Makers, for English speakers in Korea to gain more insight into Korean fashion, music and other artistic endeavors while learning new creative skills.Gissella Ramirez―Valle, the founder of Mutzine, first came to Korea as an exchange student and K-pop fan in 2010. She came back in 2013 after graduation to teach English for a five-month stint, and started the magazine in 2013, working on it from the U.S.“I started Mutzine three years ago as an independent magazine about Korean fashion mainly,” she told The Korea Times. “I started with focusing on fashion designers because there wasn't much media concentrating on fashion back then but now we've broadened to focus more on culture because fashion is getting a lot of attention from other media sources these days which is great.

Aug 14, 2018
Mutzine x Makers offers creative workshops for foreigners

Job fair for foreign students due Oct 1-2

By Jung Hae-myoung, Park Si-sooThe Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) will hold a job fair for foreign students here at COEX convention center in Seoul on Oct. 1-2. Nearly 120 Korean companies, including POSCO, LG Chem, Jeju Air and Amorepacific, will participate to look for talented foreign job seekers.The fair will be free. Pre-online registration is required for on-site interviews. For more information, call KOTRA's overseas employment team (02-3460-7397 or 02-3460-7384) or visit: http://jobfair.contactkorea.go.kr/

Aug 13, 2018
Job fair for foreign students due Oct 1-2

Inter-Korean cruise travel looms for foreign tourists

South Korea will promote a new tourism product that allows foreigners to visit the two Koreas on a single cruise as part of efforts to promote inter-Korean economic exchanges, a public enterprise here said Monday.The Incheon Port Authority (IPA) said that it will push for foreign cruise ships to call at both South and North Korean ports ahead of the opening of the nation's largest cruise ship terminal in Incheon, about 50 km west of Seoul, in April next year.Under the project, the IPA will enable foreign tourists to visit South and North Korea at the same time by leading foreign cruise ships at Incheon to make additional calls at the North's ports like Nampho and Haeju.IPA officials said successive port calls at Incheon and Nampho, about 50 km west of the North's capital Pyongyang, will greatly appeal to foreign cruise tourists.In January 2016, a Chinese cruise operator based in Shandong Province unsuccessfully pushed to launch a new cruise travel service linking China's Qingdao, Nampho and Incheon due to disapproval from the South Korean government.The operator had planned to introd

Aug 13, 2018
Inter-Korean cruise travel looms for foreign tourists

Stale policies and awareness fuel migrant workers abuse

Migrant workers in Korea and supporters of their human rights parade in Jongno-gu, Seoul, in December 2003, bearing photos of migrant workers who died during a crackdown on illegal migrants due for deportation. Protesters demanded no more forced deportations and that migrant workers who have been killed be remembered on International Migrants Day on Dec. 18. Korea Times fileThe Justice Ministry has ignored immigrants for more than 20 years, says the head of the Changwon migrant workers support center.By Ko Dong-hwanTwo Cambodian female workers at a hot pepper and perilla leaf farm in the South Gyeongsang Province rural city of Miryang reported to police in June that their Korean boss consistently harassed them.The migrants, aged 25 and 24, who worked there for 14 months and three months respectively, accused their employer, identified by his surname Park, to Gimhae Jungbu Police Station. Miryang police took over the case.The following month, the women asked the employment and labor ministry to change their workplace.According to the victims' testimonies, Park treated them like his pr

Aug 9, 2018
Stale policies and awareness fuel migrant workers abuse

Canadian punk band Pseudo return to Korea

Jonathan of Pseudo performs at Club SHARP last Sept. 9. / Image by Jon Dunbar By Jon DunbarToronto-based punk band Pseudo toured Korea last year, but they're coming back for more punishment. Not even a head wound and a trip to the hospital could keep them away.At a show in GBN Live House last Sept. 22, a Korean punk band's bassist threw his guitar and struck Pseudo bassist Liam Lachmansingh in the head.“I did not see it coming and before I knew it blood was coming from my head,” he told The Korea Times. “The hospital was quick and easy, very unlike Canada.” He holds no animosity toward the other bassist, meeting up with him at a restaurant after the show, his shirt still drenched in blood. “I told him if I ever had a child then he is cursed to be the godfather,” he said. “The most I was upset about was having to leave and get stitches.” Pseudo bassist Liam, right, returns

Aug 7, 2018
Canadian punk band Pseudo return to Korea

Royal Asiatic Society Collecting books since 1900

The RASKB office is filled with books, some part of the library and others part of the bookstore. / Courtesy of Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch By Michael WellesWhat is it about a library that draws us in? Is it the smell and the feel of old books? Is it the accumulation of knowledge and information we can reach out and touch? Is it the sense of history as we sort through the shelves?For me, as the librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch (RASKB), it's all three. We have books that date back to the time of Lincoln's assassination, or to put it in terms of Korean history, we have books from the time King Gojong ascended to the throne. We have the first copies of Transactions, the annual journal of the RASKB, from when it started in 1900.When I became the RASKB librarian in 2010, the post had remained vacant for 20 years, but the library has managed to survive through more difficult times, such as when it had no space, or when there were no books! I

Aug 7, 2018
[Royal Asiatic Society] Collecting books since 1900

The Sool Company raises awareness of Korea's alcoholic traditions

Julia Mellor / Courtesy of The Sool Company By Hallie Bradley“Sool,” meaning all alcohol, including beer, wine and soju in modern Korean language, has made devotees out of Koreans and non-Koreans alike. Back in 2012, there wasn't much reliable information in English on sool, so Julia Mellor and Daniel McLaughlin teamed up to change that. They started Makgeolli Mamas and Papas Korea (MMPK). With a group of fellow “like-minded sool explorers,” as Mellor described them, they'd meet every three weeks at a different serving establishment to try, taste and describe a variety of traditional alcoholic beverages hoping to create a directory of information. They realized quickly it would take them down an Alice-like rabbit hole with how much knowledge and stories were yet untold. Mellor and McLaughlin spent hours culling information, drinking and meeting craft brewers around Korea which led to founding The Sool Company, an educational and tourism business. Mellor, an Austral

Aug 7, 2018
The Sool Company raises awareness of Korea's alcoholic traditions

Kenyan marathoner awarded South Korean citizenship

By Ko Dong-hwanKenyan marathoner Wilson Loyanae Erupe reaches the finish line in the Seoul International Marathon in March 2012, setting a personal best time. Korea Times file.The Ministry of Justice has selected Kenyan marathoner Wilson Loyanae Erupe and four other foreigners to be naturalized as South Korean citizens, acknowledging each of their exceptional talents in different professional fields.Twenty-three civic experts in the fields of science, business and athletics and Korea Immigration Service Commissioner Cha Gyu-geun formed the ministry's nationality audit committee. They selected earlier this month Erupe from the athletic field and four others ― whose names were withheld by to protect their privacy ― from semiconductor manufacturing, traffic logistics engineering, telecommunication repeaters and German music. Erupe is widely known in Korea for his athletic performances. He won the Gyeongju International Marathon in 2011, 2012 and 2015 and the Seoul International Marathon in 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2018. His best time in Korean events is 2:05:13 in Seoul in 2012. Lee Bong-ju

Aug 7, 2018
Kenyan marathoner awarded South Korean citizenship

VIDEO Immigration cops bash Uzbek student

This security camera video footage, aired by KBS1, shows officials from the Changwon Immigration Office in South Gyeongsang Province attacking an Uzbek man near a construction site in Haman, where he was allegedly working without a permit.By Ko Dong-hwanSouth Korean immigration officers have bashed an Uzbek student, a video released by a welfare agency for migrant workers showed.The male victim, 24, whose identity was withheld, was resting in shade while working at a construction site in Haman, South Gyeongsang Province, when two officers approached him. The video, apparently recorded by a nearby security, showed the officers attempting to take him into a minivan. But as the man resisted, the officers started punching and kicking him. The student seemed to resist the beating but three other officers from the van joined the attack.During the scuffle, the officers took what appeared to be a work tool from the student and hurled it away, possibly to prevent him wielding it against them. The attack continued even when the victim fell to the ground. The incident lasted nearly a minute and

Aug 1, 2018
Immigration cops bash Uzbek student [VIDEO]
  • Five immigration cops face accusation of violence against Uzbek student

Sex trade victims' guardian plans to follow US troops to Pyeongtaek

Members of Durebang scout an entertainment district near United States Forces Korea's Camp Stanley in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province, in an outreach program to help migrant women, mostly from the Philippines, who were forced into prostitution as a result of human trafficking. Photos courtesy of Durebang's homepage.By Ko Dong-hwanThe sex trade has been rife near U.S. military camps across Korea. Many of the prostitutes were tricked by brokers in Korea who targeted migrants entering the country with E-6 entertainer visas.Durebang, a welfare agency for women in prostitution in the entertainment districts near U.S. Forces Korea military camps in Uijeongbu and Dongducheon, is planning to move to Pyeongtaek where 90 percent of American forces across South Korea are relocating.The agency plans to move its main office in Gosan-dong in Uijeongbu ― next to Camp Stanley ― and a branch office in Dongducheon, both in Gyeonggi Province, to Pyeongtaek, the site of Camp Humphreys, which houses the largest U.S. Army garrison in Northeast Asia.“There have been districts or camp towns, populated by

Aug 1, 2018
Sex trade victims' guardian plans to follow US troops to Pyeongtaek
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