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About disappearing jobs

About disappearing jobs

Books published on different kind of extinction No jobs seem to be permanent. Jobs that flourished once would eventually disappear, leaving behind confounded workers. To shed light on this, in a cultural aspect, the National Folk Museum of Korea has recently published three books featuring jobs – match manufacturing, wall painting, dyeing and traditional fishing. […]

‘Korea feels colder than Greenland’

‘Korea feels colder than Greenland’

“I’ve been freezing while I’ve been in Korea,” said Karsten Peter Jensen, 27, a political-science student from Greenland. “Last month, when Korea was minus 16 and minus 18 degrees Celsius, in Greenland, it was around minus 5 degrees.” Jensen arrived in Korea in mid-November for an internship opportunity preparing for the visit of a delegation […]

Verbal abuse floods call centers

Verbal abuse floods call centers

Call center employees have in the past had to cope with verbal and sexual harassment from abusive customers. Now, the latter will face criminal punishment. The unsavory experiences of people dealing with customers and clients by telephone have been revealed by the financial companies that hire them, prompting law enforcement authorities to act. A woman […]

Local Residents Protest Against Power Cuts In Srinagar, Indian-Controlled Kashmir

Local Residents Protest Against Power Cuts In Srinagar, Indian-Controlled Kashmir

Local residents shout slogans as they block a road during a protest against unscheduled power cuts on the outskirts of Srinagar, summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, Jan. 8, 2013. Locals said that only three hours of power supply was provided daily for the past several weeks, which led to the worsening of the living condition […]

Xi Jinping Gets Together With Russian Security Council Secretary In Beijing

Xi Jinping Gets Together With Russian Security Council Secretary In Beijing

Xi Jinping (R), general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 8, 2013. <Xinhua/Lan Hongguang>

Yu Zhengsheng Visits Old Communist Party Member During His Inspection Tour To Ganzi

Yu Zhengsheng Visits Old Communist Party Member During His Inspection Tour To Ganzi

Yu Zhengsheng (3rd R), a Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, visits Zhaxi Zhoima’s home, who has been a CPC member for 44 years, in Qangba Village, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Jan. 6, 2013. Yu made an inspection tour in Ganzi […]

14 Cars Seen Piled Up In An Accident That Killed Eight People In Minhe County, China

14 Cars Seen Piled Up In An Accident That Killed Eight People In Minhe County, China

Photo taken on Jan. 8, 2013 shows the site where a 14-vehicle pileup occurred in Minhe County of northwest China’s Qinghai Province. Eight people were killed and 28 others were injured in the accident on Tuesday afternoon, said rescuers. <Xinhua/Kong Xianyao>

Li Keqiang With French Minister Of Economy And Finance In Beijing

Li Keqiang With French Minister Of Economy And Finance In Beijing

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (R) meets with French Minister of Economy and Finance Pierre Moscovici in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 8, 2013. <Xinhua/Yao Dawei>

U.S. Delegation Including Google Chairman Visits Kim Il-sung University In Pyongyang

U.S. Delegation Including Google Chairman Visits Kim Il-sung University In Pyongyang

Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (R) and Google Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt (C) watch a student using the online library service in a reading room at the Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Jan. 8, 2012. A U.S. delegation including Richardson and Schmidt visited North Korea’s top […]

Egyptian President, PM Talk With Qatari PM, Two Other Cabinet Ministers In Cairo

Egyptian President, PM Talk With Qatari PM, Two Other Cabinet Ministers In Cairo

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi (C) and Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil (4th L) meet with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani (2nd L) and Qatari Finance Minister Yousef Kamal (1st L) in Cairo, Egypt, on Jan. 8, 2013. <Xinhua>

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