• Korean women marrying Western men on the rise

    Korean women who marry Western men from such countries as the United States and Australia, are on the rise. The number of Korean women who marry Chinese and Japanese men during the last three years, has diminished whereas Korean women who marry Western men such as Americans, Canadians, Australians and British are on the…

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  • [Q & A] ABU 2012 Seoul…’Beyond the Wave’

    -What is ABU? The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union is a non-profit, non-governmental professional association of broadcasting organizations, formed in 1964 to facilitate the development of broadcasting in the Asia-Pacific region. It currently has about 220 members in 60 countries, with its broadcaster members reaching a potential audience of about 3 billion…

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    More Nepali women workers leave for foreign employment

    KATHMANDU, July 23 (Xinhua) — The departure of Nepali women for overseas jobs more than doubled in the last fiscal year. The surge has been attributed to the increased hiring from major labor destinations and aspirants choosing legal channel to leave for foreign employment. A total of 22,655 Nepali women…

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  • Consumption pattern among rich Chinese Changes rapidly

    Consumption pattern of wealthy Chinese has changed greatly in recent days, according to a report by the KOTRA Shanghai Office released on July 16. The rich people in China changed to prefer commodities with cutting-edge technological functions to just luxury bands. They no longer stick to buying expensive commodities just for demonstration. Thay have come…

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    Has smartphone ruined disco?

    Too many standing still at Asia’s 1st Sensation seeking perfect shot GOYANG, Gyeonggi Province — Over 20,000 people, each and every one of them dressed entirely in white, filled the KINTEX Saturday night for one of the world’s largest gatherings of house music fans. These attendees of the Asia debut…

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    Embassy of Fiji opens in Seoul

    The Pacific island of Fiji opened a brand new embassy in Korea Thursday, the first in 41 years after the two countries established bilateral diplomatic relations. To an opening ceremony held at Westin Chosun Hotel in Seoul came a high-profile delegation led by Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama. In his…

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    SNU hires University of Tokyo professor

    Seoul National University (SNU) has hired a professor from the University of Tokyo as a full-time faculty member. The hiring is expected to strengthen the two top schools’ exchanges but, at a more fundamental level, serve as another small but necessary step to help overcome the two countries’ unhappy chapter…

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  • Small firms urged to hire Koreans over foreigners

    The Ministry of Employment and Labor said Sunday that it will encourage small- and medium-sized firms to hire Koreans rather than foreigners in order to provide more jobs for local jobseekers. A ministry official said that firms with a staff of 50 to 300 will not be allowed to recruit…

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    S-N team eyed for 2018 Olympics

    Contacts will be made soon, says PyeongChang organizer The chief organizer of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics said Sunday that he intends to involve North Korea in the games as much as possible. “We will try to have North Korean athletes train together with our athletes and form a unified…

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  • Migrant women ask protection from husbands’ violence

    Two married migrants women were killed by the violence of their Korean husbands during this month. It touched off a rally in front of Deoksu Palace in downtown Seoul Wednesday (July 18) by some 150 migrant women living here. According to the police, Lee Sun-ok, an ethnic Korean living in…

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