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Wed, October 5, 2022 | 05:09

Korea to ease visa rules for skilled foreign IT, R&D workers

The government will ease visa rules for foreign workers in R&D and new industries such as artificial intelligence (AI) to more actively attract skilled foreign professionals as part of measures to secure a competitive edge in the rapidly changing global industry ecosystem, officials said Wednesday. The government will also create a “digital nomad visa” that would allow skille...

Jun Ji-hye | 2021-03-31 16:52

[Korea Encounters] Hoaxster James 'Swim' takes readers to 'places the RAS dare not go'

On May 4, 1974, the author of The Korea Times' “Scouting the City” column, Alf Racketts, wrote that, “the local spring tour season is in full swing,” and offered a list of upcoming “picnics disguised as cultural tours” that were to take advantage of the pleasant spring weather.

2021-03-30 17:09

Camarata Music turns to donations to survive pandemic

After Camarata Music has given so much to the local community, now it needs community support to continue its existence and survive the pandemic. The nonprofit music organization, which operates several music groups including choirs, musical theater and a chamber orchestra, has been hit hard by the pandemic, so Jamie Wheatley launched a crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe to he...

2021-03-30 17:08

Lawmakers, journalists in Korea voice concern over anti-Asian American violence in US

Concerns are growing over anti-Asian American violence in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Racism against Asian Americans has been growing after the Chinese city of Wuhan was said to be the origin of the virus, with the global crisis coinciding with geopolitical tension between the U.S. and China. The shootings in Atlanta, March 16, which killed eight people, a...

Jung Da-min | 2021-03-26 16:53

Justice minister encourages undocumented foreigners to take COVID-19 tests

Justice Minister Park Beom-kye on Friday tried to encourage migrant workers to undergo coronavirus testing freely, reiterating that undocumented foreigners can also get tested without fears of crackdown. He visited Ansan, an industrial city with a large expat population near Seoul, to inspect workplace conditions, coronavirus testing and government support systems for foreign...

2021-03-26 16:06

Rising cases of COVID-19 variants unnerving health authorities

[Joseon Images] Korean idols made in America

Religions often extol the virtues of tolerance towards one another but in Korea in the late 19th and early 20th centuries there seems to have been little tolerance. Rev. Samuel Forman Moore, a fire-and-brimstone Presbyterian who has been described as being “sometimes more zealous than wise” demonstrated his intolerance while visiting a Buddhist monastery outside of Seoul in 1...

2021-03-23 17:34

Longboat Smoker provides Korea's best smoked salmon

Salmon is hardly unfamiliar here, and smoked salmon is widely available in many supermarkets. But that stuff is no preparation for trying Longboat Smoker's smoked salmon, which is all prepared locally in Yeonhui-dong, in a small shop crammed with specially made metal equipment.

2021-03-23 03:32

[Holiday in North Korea] Aboard North Korea's captured US ship, the USS Pueblo

It's hard for younger people to relate to, but the 1968 USS Pueblo incident is still an open wound to many who can remember the tense incident over 50 years ago. North Korea captured the U.S. ship - either in its own waters or international waters, depending on which side you believe - and held 83 crewmen hostage for almost a year, until the U.S. signed a document that was cr...

2021-03-16 17:34

Despite facing uncertainties, barbecuer Linus Kim chips in to rally Itaewon neighborhood

When Linus Kim shuttered the second branch of his barbecue restaurant Linus' Bama Style Barbecue in the Seoul neighborhood of Haebangchon (HBC) late last year, it brought more sorrow than closure, even to this day. “Having closed in HBC was heartbreaking because I put so much of myself in there,” he said.

2021-03-16 17:23

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