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[Korea Encounters] Weekly scribbles reflect life in Seoul in 1970s

The author Ahn Jung-hyo is best known for writing the novels “White Badge” and “Silver Stallion,” but he also wrote a column for The Korea Times in the late 1960s and 1970s. In early 1972 he translated a series of “scribblings” published in weekly magazines, a type of column that had originated in the Weekly Hankook in 1965. As he put it, these pages printed “all sorts of scribblings, cartoons, and sometimes funny poems contributed by readers.”

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-11 18:35

First wave of Korean overseas adoptees returns

A select group of Korean overseas adoptees have returned to Korea for a series of events intended to reconnect them with the land of their birth. These particular adoptees, many now in their 50s and 60s, were mostly born in camptowns outside U.S. military bases, to a Korean mother and U.S. military father. Many came with their families from their host countries.

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-11 18:27

RASKB lecture on Korea and Mongolia, Dead Buttons, Jambinai

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-11 11:46

60% of foreign workers feel discrimination in Korea: research

Three in five foreign workers in Korea (59.2 percent) said they have experienced discrimination, according to a report by the Gyeonggi Family and Women's Research Institute issued on Thursday. Out of a survey of 688 foreigners, 58.4 percent chose “language barrier” as the first area in which they feel hardship. Next were racism and discrimination from Koreans (23.7 percent), ...

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-08 10:44

80 percent of Yemeni refugees interviewed on asylum request

A total of 382 Yemeni asylum seekers were interviewed on Jeju Island from June 25 to Sept 4, the Korea Immigration Service said Wednesday.

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-06 15:36

Korean Forest Gump's race for Vietnam

Buddhist monk Ven. Jino is sorry for the atrocities South Korean soldiers committed against Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War. South Korea sent about 320,000 soldiers to the war, the second-most following the United States. Some murdered and raped civilians and destroyed their houses.

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-06 09:18

Foreign Community brief

Southside Parlor in Itaewon hosts Wordsmiths, an open stage event for spoken word, poetry and music.

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-04 18:53

Part Time Cooks drop track with Jay Park

Seoul-based hip-hop duo Part Time Cooks are on their way to full-time success with the release of their latest song “California Butterfly” with Jay Park last week

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-04 17:42

[Joseon Images] Aviation history made at Yongsan

At 1:30 p.m. on April 3, 1913, aviation history was made on the Japanese military base in Yongsan. Before a huge crowd of people _ including Sunjong, the former emperor of the Korea Empire _ the Ohtori 4, an aircraft built by Japanese Lt. Sanji Narahara, raced down an impromptu 35-meter-long runway and soared into the air reaching the astounding height of 30 meters off the gr...

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-04 17:14

Metalheads take Mullae-dong

By day it is filled with metalworkers in hole-in-the-wall shops, and after dusk come the metal musicians, also making a terrific racket with their own hands and creativity. Mullae Metal City (MMC) is the showcase festival of Mullae-dong, this humble working-class neighborhood in southwestern Seoul. As gentrification has forced out the live music scene in the Hongik University...

Foreign Communities | 2018-09-04 17:11

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Inter-Korean Summit in Pyongyang