• Guidebook gives tips for going abroad

    ‘Students, parents should be careful not to make mistake’ More than 200,000 students who left Korea to study abroad at a young age have come back, but many have had difficulties, especially due to a lack of preparation. Jeon Yong-hoon, 31, a professional counselor working at a counseling center in…

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  • Taming Tokyo

    President Obama’s forthcoming trip to Korea and Japan in late April is partly meant to narrow the growing differences between Washington’s two important allies in Northeast Asia. The need for action appears to be urgent from the U.S. perspective in regards to maintaining its Asian strategy. What is particularly worrisome…

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  • Obama overreacts to selfie brouhaha

    What if David Ortiz had used an iPhone for a selfie with President Barack Obama? Would the White House consider legal action against Apple? These are questions asked by some Koreans after the U.S. presidential office showed displeasure after the photo the Boston Red Sox star took of himself and…

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  • US President likely to pass on sex slave issue

    Korea visit will follow Japan trip U.S. President Barack Obama will face a couple of issues that Koreans want to see addressed during his visit here later this month. First among these is the issue of Korean women forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War…

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  • Concerns over N. Korea’s drones overblown: analysts

    A number of defense analysts have expressed skepticism about the possibility of North Korea’s unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) posing any serious threat to national security. Three drones that crashed here have dominated the headlines since the beginning of April, raising tension in South Korea over a possible new threat from…

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  • Moon stripped of doctorate over plagiarism

    Kookmin University stripped Moon Dae-sung, a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and a Saeunuri Party lawmaker, of his doctor’s degree in sports psychology last month, weeks after concluding that his thesis was plagiarized, an official from the school told The Korea Times on Tuesday. “The school revoked Moon’s…

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  • Gamblers exempted from repaying borrowed money

    The Seoul Central District Court rejected a private moneylender’s demand to order repayments of 11 million won lent to a gambler at Kangwon Land Casino. Presiding Judge Shim Chang-seop said in his ruling that moneylenders’ loans requiring “abnormally high” interest rates have a negative effect of promoting gambling and causing…

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  • 1 in 10 female patients feel sexually abused

    One in 10 female patients felt they were sexually humiliated during medical procedures, a survey showed Monday. According to the survey by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), 118 of 1,000 females who received medical services in the past five years said they experienced sexual humiliation or offense while going…

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  • Foreign law firms take big bite of Korean M&A market

    Multinational law firms are rapidly catching up with the dominant player Kim & Chang in the local merger and acquisition (M&A) legal advisory market, Bloomberg’s quarterly review showed Monday. The New York-based Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP ranked second on Bloomberg’s M&A legal advisory league table in terms of volume…

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  • East Asia

    Language exchange gathering in vogue

    As one walks into a language-exchange meeting at a hip coffee shop in southern Seoul, the youthful energy of people talking resembles the ambience of a high school classroom without a teacher. Language-exchange gatherings are springing up across the country, bringing Koreans and foreigners together in multicultural friendships. Language enthusiasts…

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