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Mon, August 8, 2022 | 00:44

[RAS Korea] World's oldest Korean studies journal publishes 95th volume

One hundred and twenty-one years in the making, Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) Korea has published the 95th volume of its now-annual “Transactions.” RAS Korea's journal began humbly in 1900, the year of the society's founding, with a small, 90-page booklet. Yet its contents represented some of the world's first-ever academic studies of Korea in the English language. Interrupted ...

2021-06-15 17:50

'Embracing Black joy through struggle:' Korea's Black community celebrates Juneteenth

Juneteenth was a word not known to many outside of the U.S. ― as well as some inside it either ― before this last year. According to Google Trends, searches for the word “Juneteenth” reached their highest level in 2020 since 2004, the earliest data available. According to data, the word didn't only trend in the U.S., but worldwide too.

2021-06-15 17:50

Canadian rural photographer captures Korea's 'other' side

While most photographers in Korea are drawn to big city tourist attractions or well-known temples and other heritage sites out in the country, William R. Pugsley goes in the other direction. He's a “rural explorer” which is like an urban explorer, except he scours Korea's countryside looking for photographic subjects that resonate with him.

2021-06-08 23:31

[Cityscapes] Wrapping construction sites in art

Construction is encountered everywhere in Seoul, even if we aren't always aware of it. So it's no wonder that sometimes the temporary fences built around construction sites are decorated with various types of designs. They may show local government slogans, or list off heritage sites in the neighborhood, or contain information on the new construction to be built here. They ma...

2021-06-08 19:47

Artist paints portraits of authentic Korea

Portrait painter Aaron Cossrow hopes to host an exhibition in the coming weeks featuring his more than 20 oil, acrylic and digitized artworks. Of those works that he wants his audiences to see, he has largely intended to display realism and Norman Rockwell-esque portraits of Korean men and women using their hands and physical might to earn a living.

2021-06-08 19:36

Songdo's Cinder Bar witnesses birth of a city

Warren Kidd runs a bar in a city so new, it isn't even old enough to drink. Songdo International City is said to have officially “opened” in 2009, and The Cinder Bar opened there in early 2013. Kidd took it over from its first owner, a fellow New Zealander, in December 2014.

2021-06-01 18:42

'It's not easy to live in Korea as foreigners'

Merita, an Iranian national working at a Korean company here, has been in Korea for 10 years. Although she speaks Korean quite well and has adapted to Korean culture, she feels she is still regarded as an outsider. “Being fluent in Korean helps me to be closer, but at some point it stops, and I have never been close or intimate with Koreans,” she told The Korea Times. “Korean...

Bahk Eun-ji | 2021-05-30 12:23

20% of foreigners overstaying their visas amid pandemic

Local governments creating support programs to manage foreign national residents

Amidst an increase in the population of residents with foreign nationalities across rural areas and small towns of Korea, some local governments are providing various support programs for foreign national residents in a bid to prevent them from being excluded from Korean society, as well as to enable the government to be more closely in touch with their lives and whereabouts....

Jun Ji-hye | 2021-05-27 13:16

Irish Catholic priest honored as 'Immigrant of the Year'

Father Daniel Brendan O'Keeffe, formation programme director of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban in Korea, was honored as the “Immigrant of the Year,” recognized for his over 40 years of dedication to supporting marginalized people in the Korean society. The 70-year-old Catholic priest from Ireland was awarded with a presidential citation at an award ceremony organize...

Lee Hyo-jin | 2021-05-27 07:50

[Korea Encounters] Trying to save a gov't from a coup in 1961

At 3 a.m. on May 16, 1961, tanks and trucks carrying around 4,000 marines and soldiers began rolling into Seoul. Other than some military police on the Hangang Bridge, no one opposed them, and by 5 a.m. key buildings had been secured and KBS was broadcasting their message to the country.

2021-05-25 17:46

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