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East Asia
No. of students studying overseas falls
Economic slump puts pressure to curtail education spending The number of South Korean students studying in foreign colleges for degrees decreased this year for the first time in seven years mainly due to the economic slump, according to a government report, Monday. Money remittance from parents in Korea to their…
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Eliminating discrimination key to multiculturalism
As Korea is becoming more multicultural and multiracial, the government is seeking to introduce an anti-discrimination law, arguing that racism should not be tolerated. Minister of Gender Equality and Family Kim Kum-lae pointed out that the country doesn’t have a law banning racial discrimination although it is seeing a growing…
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East Asia
‘I’ll be a singer more famous than Michael Jackson’
GWANGJU ― Everybody recognized him. On his way back home from school on Nov. 12, eight-year-old Hwang Min-woo, the boy who appeared in Psy’s “Gangnam Style” music video, was surrounded by other students who kept following him, calling him “the Gangnam Style boy” and even asking for his autograph. He…
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East Asia
From killing fields to healing fields
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia ― Kim Gi-dae, a missionary and principal of a vocational school in Cambodia, takes a lengthy pause when he is asked in which years his three children are at school. Koreans tend to ask ages indirectly. The person who asked the question teases him, “You are their…
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Actress Lee Young-ae to open Korea souvenir shop in Seoul
Actress Lee Young-ae, best known for her title role in the MBC TV drama “Daejanggeum,” will open a souvenir shop in Seoul for foreigners drawn to visit the country by Asian-wide enthusiasm for Korean pop culture, her management agency said Monday. The shop will open in mid-December on Seoul’s Samcheong-dong…
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East Asia
Kokdu Museum opens branch in Bukchon
“Kokdu,” traditional wooden figurines which were used to adorn a bier to drive out evil spirits for the deceased, can now be seen in Bukchon Hanok Village in Seoul. The Kokdu Museum, which is based in Dongsoong Art Center in Daehangno, opened a new branch in a “hanok” (traditional Korean…
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East Asia
Oman invites Korea for abalone farming
Oman is well known for its flourishing oil and gas industries. Perhaps somewhat unexpectedly, it also has an expanding abalone market, and the Omani government is currently investing in farming of the mollusc along its 1,700-kilometer long coastline. The interest was clearly expressed last week by an Omani delegation visiting…
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East Asia
‘Korea’s weather forecasting still immature’
Korea’s weather forecasting system has greatly improved in recent years but it still has a long way to go to catch up with leading countries, according to an American weather expert. Eugenia Kalnay, who participated in the 2012 KIAPS International Symposium on Global NWP System Modeling from Monday to Wednesday,…
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Bus, taxi operators on collision course
Lawmakers’ move to allow taxi drivers to drive in bus-only lanes, coming just a month before the Dec. 19 presidential election, is drawing fierce protests from bus operators. Bus operators said they will stage a strike if the plan becomes the law, while taxi firms are calling for the legislation,…
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