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Sun, January 19, 2020 | 08:06

'Korea should create DNA banks for overseas adoptees'

'Korea should create DNA banks for overseas adoptees'

Han Woo-sung, 63, head of the government-funded Overseas Koreans Foundation (OKF), says it is imperative for the government to set up a DNA database for overseas Korean adoptees and their birth family.

Lee Suh-yoon | 2020-01-17 16:48

Korean language test applicants hit record high in 2019: data

Korean language test applicants hit record high in 2019: data

A record number of applicants took the Korean language proficiency test last year, data showed Friday, reflecting the growing popularity of the language. A total of 375,871 people sat for the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) in 2019, up 14.2 percent from 329,224 in the previous year, according to the National Institute for International Education's data analyzed by educa...

2020-01-17 16:09

Japanese band Daiei Spray tours Korea

Japanese band Daiei Spray tours Korea

The Japanese hardcore punk band Daiei Spray is coming to Seoul this Saturday to play at the eighth installation of the “Behind the Tongue” concert series. According to Kyo, the band's guitarist, he met Yoon Daemin, the guy behind “Behind the Tongue,” at a Daiei Spray show in Japan several years ago. Yoon told him about the Korean scene, and he eventually got to see Korean ban...

2020-01-15 14:20

[Holiday in North Korea] Encountering S. Korean pastor in N. Korea

[Holiday in North Korea] Encountering S. Korean pastor in N. Korea

I met a surprising number of interesting people on my 2010 visit to North Korea, the most memorable of whom was probably South Korean pastor Han Sang-ryeol. Han, a Presbyterian pastor and reunification activist who had been staying at the Yanggakdo Hotel, the same as my group. One of my friends noticed an elderly Asian man dressed in simple clothes, and suspected it was Han, ...

2020-01-14 20:30

F2 visa changes disrupt foreign residents' lives

F2 visa changes disrupt foreign residents' lives

Many foreign residents of Korea are scrambling after the sudden introduction of stricter visa rules late last year and their implementation early this year. The rule change stands to affect all applicants for the F2-7 visa, as well as current F2-7 holders looking to renew their visas, plus their spouses.

2020-01-14 20:13

[Joseon Images] Streetcars of Seoul: 'first step toward civilization'

[Joseon Images] Streetcars of Seoul: 'first step toward civilization'

When streetcars were introduced into Seoul in spring 1899, Harper's Weekly declared them to be “the first step toward civilization in the Hermit Kingdom.” They were relatively inexpensive (a ride, depending on the distance, cost between two cents and 15 cents), accessible to all (regardless of social status or gender) and viewed as cosmopolitan and fashionable. By the end of ...

2020-01-08 11:16

Mockumentary lambasts online urbex culture

Mockumentary lambasts online urbex culture

There's no shortage of crazy rooftopping videos online, showing some thrill-seeker hanging off a ledge or climbing a perilous construction crane. It's all been done and netizens seem to have grown tired of them. But a new upload, made by Russian urban explorer Alex G. Ringo, offers something different: it's a satirical mockumentary savaging the international jet-set urbex com...

2020-01-08 11:14

B3 returns to Gyeongnidan's Boogie Woogie

B3 returns to Gyeongnidan's Boogie Woogie

B3, an expat blues, soul and rock band, has a show at Boogie Woogie in Itaewon's Gyeongnidan this Saturday. In an interview with The Korea Times, the band members requested their names be left out of the article, putting the focus on the band itself. “We're very team-oriented and prefer not to focus on band individuality - the music's the most important to us,” they explained...

2020-01-08 11:13

Hwacheon ice fishing festival begins Saturday

Hwacheon ice fishing festival begins Saturday

The world famous festival was originally scheduled to kick off on Saturday on a frozen river in the Gangwon Province county of Hwacheon, about 120 kilometers northeast of Seoul, but has been delayed by one week due to unseasonably warm weather.

2020-01-04 10:45

Studying Jeju Island's endangered language

Studying Jeju Island's endangered language

Long relegated to the category of an “unintelligible Korean dialect” by the Korean government, UNESCO designated Jejuan, known in Korean as Jejueo, as an endangered language in 2010. Jejuan has fewer than 10,000 native speakers but is only fluently spoken by an ever-shrinking group of people aged 75 and older. The younger generations are not fluent and do not use the complete...

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