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Many students see plastic surgery as resume booster

 / YonhapOne out of five female university students in Korea are willing to go under the knife if it will help them secure a job, a survey found. Conducted by the Yeouido Institute, which is run by the ruling Saenuri Party, the survey asked 5,617 male and female students at four-year colleges about their feelings regarding plastic surgery.Among the 2,214 female students who participated, 21.4 percent were positive about having plastic surgery if it were to help them land a job.However, only 6.8 percent of male students felt the same way.Despite the willingness to go under the knife, more than half the students were financially dependent on their parents for tuition. Only 3.5 percent said they pay their own tuition.

Dec 26, 2014By Kim Jae-heun
Many students see plastic surgery as resume booster

First-date kissing no taboo in Korea

/ YonhapThirty percent of women in Seoul are willing to kiss on a first date, a recent survey revealed, compared to five percent in Shanghai and 15 percent in Tokyo.Advertising agency Cheil Worldwide surveyed a total of 300 women in the three cities about their dating preferences.Among women who were willing to kiss on a first date, 14 percent said they would accept a “short” kiss.Meanwhile, 12 percent of participants in Seoul were willing to sleep with a partner on a first date, compared to one percent in Shanghai and nine percent in Tokyo.

Dec 26, 2014By Kim Jae-heun
First-date kissing no taboo in Korea

Surviving sailors

Crewmembers who survived the sinking of the Korean fishing boat Oryong 501 disembark at a port in Busan, Friday. They will have health checkups at a hospital there and undergo questioning as witnesses by the Busan Coast Guard. The 1,753-ton boat carrying 60 crewmembers sank in the Bering Sea on Dec. 1, leaving 26 missing and 27 dead./ Yonhap

Dec 26, 2014

Bowing rally

Members of labor groups prostrate themselves in Gwanghwanmun Square, central Seoul, Friday, during a protest to urge the government to abolish discrimination against non-regular workers. They began the five-day protest Monday, walking from an electronics device company building in southwestern Seoul, where they had worked, to Cheong Wa Dae./ Yonhap

Dec 26, 2014

Park meets aspiring scientists

President Park Geun-hye walks with aspiring scientists and Choi Yang-hee, behind Park, minister of science, ICT and future planning, to a lunch at the presidential office with some 200 students majoring in science, Friday. Presidential scholarship recipients and winners of the International Science Olympiad were among those invited./ Yonhap

Dec 26, 2014

Shady deal

A Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport official, center, is taken to the Seoul Western District Court, Friday, for a review of the prosecution’s request to issue an arrest warrant for him on charges of leaking details of the ministry’s investigation into the “nut rage” scandal involving former Korean Air Vice President Heather Cho. / Yonhap

Dec 26, 2014

Sled riding

A child enjoys a sled ride on a slope in Ttukseom, Seoul, on Christmas Day,Thursday. / Yonhap

Dec 25, 2014

Painful memory

A painting titled “Living in a Japanese Military Brothel,” one of the 1,065 artworks and documents on enforced sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers before and during World War II that were included in the National Archives of Korea, Thursday. The painting was done by Park Ok-seon, one of the Korean victims, while she was receiving psychological treatment. / Yonhap

Dec 25, 2014

Standing guard for peace

ROK soldiers of the Sixth Infantry Division patrol along the barbed-wire fence near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas in Cheorwon, Gangwon Province. Readiness along the DMZ areas has beenheightened after North Korea fired heavy machine guns at South Korean propaganda balloons in October. This photo was taken during a recent Army-organized trip. / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk

Dec 25, 2014

Principal beats teachers for leaving early from get-together

 / YonhapA female principal of an elementary school in Gangwon Province kicked and pushed over teachers for leaving early from a get-together in a karaoke bar. In response, Gangwon Provincial Office of Education dismissed the headmistress from her position Thursday. According to insiders, the school faculty went on a retreat to Jumunjin in Gangneung, last Friday and later moved to a karaoke bar downtown after a workshop.However, the majority of teachers left in the middle of the gathering, and the principal burst into a rage.“How can they leave, when principal is still here?” she purportedly said.The principal went back to the camp and attacked the teachers.When she realized the situation had gone too far she apologized, but the teachers refused to work with her. “I felt bad and angry because we were like family at school, but they refused my calls and left the karaoke without notice. I didn’t hot the teachers out of hatred or ill will,” said the principal. “I’ve sent apology text messages to those who are not answering my calls."

Dec 25, 2014By Kim Jae-heun
Principal beats teachers for leaving early from get-together
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