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Thu, June 8, 2023 | 14:08

Seoul city adopts discrimination-free design for public restrooms

Seoul city adopts discrimination-free design for public restrooms

Seoul Metropolitan Government and the affiliated Seoul Universal Design Center (Seoul UDC) have selected the restrooms at three community service centers in Guro-dong, Sinjung-dong and Mangwon-dong for remodeling as part of the city's efforts to bring inclusive design to urban civic spaces.

Park Han-sol | 2021-07-14 15:47

Entrepreneur Ryan Kulp develops Korean word board game

Entrepreneur Ryan Kulp develops Korean word board game

Ryan Kulp, app developer, founder of the social proof marketing platform, fomo.com, and a self-taught musician from Atlanta, recently set foot in a new field - board games. Based on his experience of learning Korean, Kulp created a Korean word game named "Yangmal Game." Growing up in Atlanta, which has a large Korean American population, Kulp was aware of Korea and Korean cul...

Kwon Mee-yoo | 2021-07-14 13:02

KOCCA gears up for this year's Fashion KODE fashion fair

KOCCA gears up for this year's Fashion KODE fashion fair

The Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) is gearing up for Fashion KODE, its annual fashion fair, co-organized by the Council of Fashion Designers of Korea and hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Lee Gyu-lee | 2021-07-13 17:21

Abandoned rural schools reborn as art galleries, animal shelters

Abandoned rural schools reborn as art galleries, animal shelters

As the birthrate continues to plummet in Korea, hitting a new record low of 0.84 children per woman last year, schools in rural counties have been hit hard. It's not hard to find closed schools across the peninsula, after the young populations they once served dwindle and disappear.

Park Han-sol | 2021-07-12 17:05

Korea in search of solutions for looming ultra-low childbirth, aging population

Korea in search of solutions for looming ultra-low childbirth, aging population

The inclination against having babies and raising a family, particularly stronger among South Koreans, has turned out to be a trend that apparently not even money can solve.

2021-07-11 09:19

Nearly 90 cities, counties in danger of extinction due to population decrease

Global comics market transforming in favor of Korean webtoons

Global comics market transforming in favor of Korean webtoons

Rafael Zerbini, 30, a Brazilian graphic designer, is an avid reader of Korean web comics, better known as webtoons in Korea, or web-based, scroll-down comics optimized for smartphone users. He used to be a huge fan of Japanese manga since childhood, but grew tired of zooming in and out on his smartphone screen to read poorly-scanned pages. In 2018, he discovered South Korea's...

Lee Hae-rin | 2021-07-08 09:05

[INTERVIEW] Lifestyle startup helps millennials, Gen Z find their true self

INTERVIEWLifestyle startup helps millennials, Gen Z find their true self

A working mom stumbled across a website that offers a program that requires her to devote 40 minutes of her time every morning to follow a set of self-development tasks. A friend introduced her to the platform, called “meet me,” after seeing her struggling to balance work and family life. The online program invites participants to set aside 20 minutes to keep a journal and an...

Lee Gyu-lee | 2021-07-01 15:05

Calls grow for more vegetarian options in school meals

Calls grow for more vegetarian options in school meals

Lee Seung-ju, a 19-year-old high school senior, could barely eat at the school cafeteria for the last three months. Rice and dry seaweed, with no other side dishes, are usually all that's on his tray. If he's lucky, he might have some fruit, too. Kim is a vegetarian and, for many other young vegetarians like him, lunch break is an everyday challenge in Korea.

Lee Hae-rin | 2021-06-30 16:45

Korea's April childbirth hits fresh low

Korea's April childbirth hits fresh low

The number of babies born in South Korea declined to a fresh record low in April, data showed Wednesday, underpinning the country's gloomy demographic situation with the chronically low birth rate. A total of 22,820 babies were born in April, down 2.2 percent from the previous year, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea. It marked the lowest for any April since 1...

2021-06-23 13:34

Nearly 80% of Korean consumers increase online shopping amid pandemic

Nearly 80% of Korean consumers increase online shopping amid pandemic

Nearly 8 out of 10 South Korean consumers have increased their online shopping during the coronavirus pandemic, a poll showed Monday.

2021-06-21 10:05

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