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Thu, March 30, 2023 | 09:54

Farewell Peter Bartholomew, defender of Korea's heritage

Farewell Peter Bartholomew, defender of Korea's heritage

Sometime in the middle of the night of May 11 or 12, Peter Bartholomew's 53-year-long sojourn in Korea ended with his sudden, unexpected death. Known for his passionate defense of traditional Korean houses, or hanok, his deep appreciation for Korean history and culture, his relationship with Korea's royal family and his business success, he often appeared on television, in ne...

2021-05-18 15:48

[Friends of Korea] Witnessing Gwangju's 1980 democratic uprising

Friends of KoreaWitnessing Gwangju's 1980 democratic uprising

May 18, 1980, started like most Sundays with the peal of church bells dominating the clucks of thousands of chickens enriching my village with their prolific egg production. As with four other of my Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) colleagues who ended up in Gwangju during the May 18 democratic uprising (referred to as 5.18), the quiet start to the day did not prepare me for the u...

2021-05-18 09:10

Politicians see parallels to Gwangju in Myanmar uprising

Activists demand removal of ex-President Chun's monument in Incheon

Moon recalls 1980 Gwangju uprising, hopes for breakthrough in Myanmar

North Korean propaganda website calls 1980 pro-democracy movement 'historic event' in anti-fascism movement

New Toastmasters club goes online

New Toastmasters club goes online

Toastmasters International, founded almost a century ago in 1924, has 364,000 dues-paying members in over 16,200 clubs in 145 countries. There are over 70 Toastmasters clubs already in Korea, offering get-togethers on various days of the week in locales across the country in a variety of languages, including Korean, Chinese and English. There are also bilingual clubs and even...

2021-05-11 19:00

Tokki Soju opens restaurant in Ryse Hotel

Tokki Soju opens restaurant in Ryse Hotel

Ever wondered how well Korean soju pairs with Italian cuisine? Find out at the newly launched Tokki Bar located in Ryse, a trendy hotel near Hongik University in western Seoul. What started out as a onetime invitation for the first American distiller of traditional Korean liquor to participate in Ryse's Sunday Rooftop Party last October, has now become an entire bar on the fo...

2021-05-05 10:35

[Joseon Images] Children of early modern Korea

Joseon ImagesChildren of early modern Korea

There are certain times of the year that even the most mischievous child becomes well-behaved. For many Western children, it is the weeks leading up to Christmas; for Korean children it may be the weeks leading up to Children's Day on May 5. Although Bang Jeong-hwan is credited as the creator of this holiday in the 1920s, Children's Day's origin appears to go back much earlie...

2021-05-05 10:33

Moon holds online meeting with kids for Children's Day

Migrant groups say temporary stay permits for undocumented children 'ineffective'

Migrant groups say temporary stay permits for undocumented children 'ineffective'

A policy introduced by the Ministry of Justice to give undocumented migrant children legal status and allow them to have temporary residency rights, may not be helpful for those in need, according to local migrants' rights groups. Currently, children without legal immigrant status are allowed to stay in the country until they finish high school, after which they face deportat...

Lee Hyo-jin | 2021-04-29 15:46

2021-04-28 00:34

[Cityscapes] Exploring beneath Gwanghwamun's surface

CityscapesExploring beneath Gwanghwamun's surface

A lot of people went nuts a few weeks back, when pictures distributed in the media showed an ancient stream unearthed in downtown Seoul as part of the Gwanghwamun renovation project. Its excavation was cool to me, while also a little banal, on account of how much is hidden beneath the ground we walk on.

2021-04-27 19:02

Jeju Afrobeat band Omar and the Eastern Power transcends boundaries

Jeju Afrobeat band Omar and the Eastern Power transcends boundaries

Omar Benassila doesn't care much for boundaries, either in music or nations. If he did, he might not have left his home country of Morocco and settled in Korea, where he started Omar and the Eastern Power. It's an ever-evolving four-piece band most simply described as Afrobeat, with influences from dub, funk, folk and sufi music among others. It's an accumulation of the life ...

2021-04-27 18:59

Foreign population in Korea falls below 2 million for 1st time in over 5 years

Foreign population in Korea falls below 2 million for 1st time in over 5 years

The foreign population in South Korea has fallen below the 2 million mark for the first time in over five years amid the new coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Tuesday. As of March, the total number of foreign residents here stood at around 1.99 million, down 9.2 percent from a year ago when the corresponding figure was slightly over 2.2 million, according to data c...

2021-04-27 11:06

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