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'Dano' hair washing

Visitors rinse their hair with water infused with irises at Namsangol Hanok Village in downtown Seoul, Thursday, celebrating “Dano,” a traditional Korean holiday when farmers wish for a good harvest after planting rice. The hair washing ritual is aimed at expelling evil spirits./ Yonhap

Jun 13, 2013

N. Korea's Kim Jong-un may bring more reforms in coming years: Swiss businessman

Under its Western-educated young leader Kim Jong-un, North Korea is likely to bring changes to revive its moribund economy, a longtime Swiss resident-businessman in the reclusive communist country said Thursday. North Korea's consumer industry has been developing fast since Kim assumed power in late 2011 and shifted his focus to the light industry, said Felix Abt in an interview with Yonhap News Agency."I believe we'll see more changes in the next two years," said the 58-year-old businessman who lived in North Korea from 2002-9. He was in Seoul to speak at a security forum.Abt was a North Korea resident director of ABB, a Swiss-based power and automation group, and founded the European Business Association, a de facto European chamber of commerce in Pyongyang, during his stay there.Abt said he now sees clear signs in the North of economic development and reform efforts, suggesting that the country may follow China's strategy of pursuing economic growth while still maintaining the communist political system."The leader tries to strengthen the civilian sector (and) takes some powe

Jun 13, 2013

Illegal tuning

A policeman in plain clothes examines a motorcycle at Toegye-ro in central Seoul, Wednesday, which was illegally tuned by its owner. Police are cracking down on vehicles that have been illegally tuned./ Yonhap

Jun 12, 2013

Fly to the sky

A couple enjoys a traditional swing at a park in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, Wednesday, celebrating “dano,” a traditional Korean festival that calls for a good harvest after rice planting. It falls on every fifth day of the fifth month in the lunar calendar. Today is this year’s dano./ Yonhap

Jun 12, 2013

Crackdown on protests in Turkey

Protesteors clash with riot policemen on Taksim Square in Istanbul, Tuesday. Turkish police fired massive volleys of tear gas and jets of water to disperse thousands of anti-government demonstrators in the square. The gas sent the crowd scrambling, raising tensions on a 12th day of violence after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned he had “no more tolerance” for the mass demonstrations./ AFP-Yonhap

Jun 12, 2013

Ignorance leads to abuse in interracial couples

A woman sheds tears during a rally to call for stronger punishment for Korean husbands wielding violence against their foreign wives, in central Seoul, in this July 18, 2012, file photo. Three deaths of immigrant wives at the hands of their husbands were reported last year.    /  Korea TimesBy Kim RahnOverall, Korea has relatively high rates of domestic violence. According to a survey conducted in 2010 by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, 65.6 percent of married couples aged between 19 and 65 said they experienced domestic violence at least once during the last year.The figure among interracial couples is even higher, 69.1 percent. For the survey on multiethnic couples, all respondents were foreign women married to Korean men.Various forms of violence defined in the survey were included. When multiple replies were allowed, 13.4 percent of the victims in multiracial families said they were physically beaten. Mental abuse, such as using insults or swearwords, threats, or destroying the victim’s belongings, was reported by 21.5 percent.More than 15 pe

Jun 12, 2013By Kim Rahn
Ignorance leads to abuse in interracial couples

NK to allow reunion with Koreans in US

North Korea has agreed to reunions between separated families living on its land and in the United States, Voice of America (VOA) reported Wednesday.VOA quoted Baik Hyong-ki, secretary general of a federation of North Korean-born citizens now living in California, as saying that the North Korean authorities have been extremely positive in discussions over the reunions.Baik said the federation approached the United Nations office in North Korea on the issue of family reunions last November and there was a positive response from the North Korean government.Baik reportedly said the possibility has improved with mellowing ties between South and North Korea.He said the federation is accepting application for possible reunions from next month and expects about 10 persons to visit North Korea as the first part of the program.

Jun 12, 2013
NK to allow reunion with Koreans in US

N.Korean Army Chief fingered in Syria connection

The North Korean military is involved in the Syrian civil war at the initiative of hardline Army chief Gen. Kim Kyok-sik, the Dagongbao daily in Hong Kong speculated Monday. Kim was allegedly behind the sinking of the South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan and shelling of Yeonpyeong Island in 2010. He is considered one of the key figures in the North Korean regime and was recently promoted from armed forces minister to the chief of the Army's General Staff. Some dozen North Korean military officers were seen working with Syrian government troops on the northern battlefield of Halab, according to a group called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Information about the reality in strife-torn Syria is notoriously hard to verify, and this piece of news comes from a London-based pan-Arabic newspaper owned by a Saudi prince. Saudi Arabia is arming the Sunni jihadist opposition to the Assad regime because Syria is a buffer state under the influence of its mortal foe Iran. A man whose organization monitors developments on the ground has told the prince's Asharq Al-Awsat daily that the North Kor

Jun 12, 2013

S. Korea's jobless rate falls to 3 pct in May

South Korea's jobless rate fell in May from a month earlier but job creation slowed amid concerns labor market conditions might remain tough for many job seekers, a government report showed Wednesday.According to the report by Statistics Korea, the jobless rate stood at 3 percent last month, down from the previous month's 3.2 percent. The jobless rate adjusted for inflation, however, edged up to 3.2 percent from April's 3.1 percent.The pace of job creation decelerated. The report showed that the number of employed people stood at 25.39 million in May, up 265,000 from a year earlier, which is smaller than the 345,000 on-year job creation tallied in April.

Jun 12, 2013

Kim Song-hye with President Park

In this photo captured from Youtube, Kim Song-hye, right, an official at North Korea’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, who was recently the chief delegate at a working-level meeting between the two Koreas held at the truce village of Panmunjom, holds up an umbrella for President Park Geun-hye, center, during Park’s visit to Pyongyang. Park stayed in Pyongyang for four days as director of the Europe-Korea Foundation on May 2002./ Yonhap

Jun 11, 2013
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