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Korea shares smart learning knowhow with ASEAN
Korea agreed with Southeast Asian countries Wednesday to strengthen collaboration on developing joint e-learning and smart education programs at a meeting of senior educational policymakers in Indonesia. The country also proposed bilateral working-level talks with Brunei as well as Cambodia to develop technology-based educational systems in those nations. This was…
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Society
Foreigners have difficulty in using local SNS
Over half of expats in a survey by the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) here found difficulty using local social networking services (SNS) because of language problems. The government organization said Wednesday that 53.5 percent of the 1,086 foreign residents it surveyed have not used Korean language SNS in the past…
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Gov’t seeks to create more ‘Pororos’
Pororo the penguin is already a beloved television character for Korean children. It’s now also the mascot of government aspirations to foster the country’s service sector into a global power. Pororo, created nine years ago by Seoul-based animation studio Iconix Entertainment, has since been exported to 120 countries and generated…
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Consumer revolt
Firms, banks face series of class action suits for unfair pratices A sense of apprehension is taking hold at major finance and technology companies here as they brace for a wave of legal action by vengeful consumers, who feel they have been manipulated or ripped off. Backing some 40,000 plaintiffs,…
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Society
Cash or card?
Tax evasion underlies preference of store owners A few days ago, Kim Yoon-mi, a 25-year-old freelance translator, had an unpleasant moment at a small restaurant near her office in central Seoul. She wanted to grab a quick bite before rushing to meet a client. Kim ordered two rolls of “gimbap”…
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Shatter glass ceiling
Firms need to sharply increase female executives Women have come a long way to almost equal men in schools and entry- level job markets in male-dominated Korea. But female executives are still a novelty in corporate boardrooms here, meaning they have even a longer way to go to make the…
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Society
Language learning should be natural
Learning a foreign language should be a natural and instinctive process, like learning one’s first language, said Stephen Swad, chief executive officer (CEO) of Rosetta Stone. “The acquisition of vocabulary and expressions should take place without having to link them to translations,” he said during an interview with The Korea…
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Falling euro forces Samsung into emergency mode
Samsung Electronics said Wednesday that it has shifted into emergency mode to better cope with the fallout from the deepening eurozone economic crisis. This is the first time in four years that the electronics giant has declared a need for “crisis management’’ since the company first adopted the scheme in…
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Business
SC Bank to press on with meritocracy
The chief of Standard Chartered Bank in Korea hinted that the bank will soon introduce a performance-based wage system to build a more meritocratic corporate culture and turn SC into the nation’s best international lender. In an interview with The Korea Times last week, Richard Hill, CEO of the Korean…
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East Asia
China-te bird flu-r udrek
Namaskar, ami Sudhanya Ghosh, karmomukhi shikhsharthi, AJA, Asia Journalist Association. Uttar-paschim chiner Xinjiang Uygur namok swashashito ancholer poultry gulite pher Bird flu-r udrek hoyeche bole sombar krishi montraloyer torofe janano hoyeche.Akhono porjonto 1600 murgir mrityu ebong 5,500 murgi akranto hoyeche bole jana gache.Flu choriye pora rukhte sthanio kortripokhho elakatir shudhdhikoron…
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