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Tue, July 5, 2022 | 21:30
(550) Debut of TV
(550) Debut of TV
The 20th century has been called by many names. It was “the century of the atom,” “the century of space flight,” or “the century of television.” The last label is as good as any other, but one has to keep in mind that TV began its rise to prominence only in the middle of the 20th century. Nonetheless, in a few decades television changed the way we lived, learnt and spent our ...
2011-01-27 16:40
(549) Second wife
(549) Second wife
Old Korea was a polygamous society where a man could keep as many concubines as he could support. However, from the 15th century, Korean law clearly stipulated that every man was allowed only one wife (remarrying after a spouse’s death was nearly obligatory for men and nearly prohibited for women).
2011-01-13 16:11
(548) Pyongyang enjoyed boom in colonial era
(548) Pyongyang enjoyed boom in colonial era
This city is long gone. No, it is still on the maps, and all our readers know its name ― Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
2010-12-30 17:01
(547) Slush funds
On Oct. 16, 1995, a group of high school alumni met in the Lotte Hotel in Seoul. In Korea, the connections between alumni are taken seriously and supposed to last a lifetime.
2010-12-16 16:00
(546) Spy ship
On early morning of Dec. 22, 2001, a Japanese patrol plane discovered a suspicious ship in the territorial waters of Japan. It was ordered to stop for inspection, but the order was ignored and the suspicious ship tried to flee.
2010-12-02 17:04
(545) North Korean defectors
Nowadays, there are between 20,000 and 30,000 North Koreans hiding in China, and roughly three quarters of them are women.
2010-11-18 17:01
(544) New wave of Chinese migrants
Until recently most Koreans would confidently tell you that in their country there were no ethnic minorities. But this was untrue: there was one ethnic minority in Korea. The ethnic Chinese or huaqiao began to arrive in Korea from the 1880s and their numbers peaked at some 85,000 in the early 1940s, but in the years 1945-50 many of them left Korea.
2010-11-04 16:35
(543) Great discoveries
People do not talk much about the “great geographical discoveries” nowadays. This term, so popular until the 1970s, is becoming unfashionable now.
2010-10-21 17:38
(542) Chaebol in Korea
The 1997 “Asian crisis” led to a dramatic re-arrangement of the Korean economy dominated by a small number of family-owned conglomerates, known as chaebol.
2010-10-07 16:52
(541) Price hikes
When one reads old Korean newspapers, the ads often attract your attention. Of course, the pictures appear exotic: the antiquarian contraptions which are marketed as the last word in high technology or women dressed in nostalgic looking outfits which are clearly presented as the latest fashion.
2010-09-16 17:50
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