The nation’s most popular podcast’s hosts have come under fire for encouraging their fans to make racy actions to save one of its imprisoned colleagues. Several female supporters took pictures of themselves dressed in bikinis with a slogan written on their breasts, saying “let’s save Chung Bong-ju,” and posted them on a website created to rally support for a drive to free the former Democratic P...

A clothing and shoe drive is set to help homeless people in Seoul. Volunteer groups BEAN Seoul and PLUR are asking people to donate old-but-usable clothes, shoes, blankets and socks at the Presbyterian Church of the Lord in Songpa-gu, Jamsil, on Saturday from 1-4:30 p.m. The goods will then be distributed by the Korean Support Center for the Homeless. A movie on social justice and distribution o...

A charity gala organized by French speakers in Korea is to take place on Feb. 18. The Association des Francophones en Core (Association of the Francophone Community in Korea) is holding the event to raise funds to provide Hye Myeong Bo Yook Won orphanage with a media library including a study area and a computer room. AFC is working with Han Design Concept, a design and project management servic...

Performers are being sought to celebrate Black Beauty in Seoul on Feb. 4. The Beaute De Noir group is looking for performers and poets to contribute to a Bob Marley Birthday Bash in Itaewon. Photographers and videographers are also needed to record the event to run from 8-11:30 p.m. at Bar Ireland Yuki and then from 12-3 a.m. at Spy Club. Janet Kim, Jae Yoo, Fancy, Sarah B, Da Green, Lyric, Josh...

The police recommended earlier this week that the prosecution rethink its directive for them to investigate a fraud case, a move that ratcheted up tension between the two over their investigative authority. On Monday, a senior official at the Namhae Police Station in South Gyeongsang Province made the recommendation to the Jinju branch under the Changwon District Prosecutors’ Office, officials s...

Employers in financial services, retail, restaurants and a dozen other industries will likely be banned from having their staff work in excess of the 52-hours-a-week limit, according to a decision Tuesday by a tripartite panel of workers, employers and the government. The Korea Tripartite Commission reached an agreement to scale back exemptions from the statutory limit on weekly hours currently ...

A North Korean youth soccer team boycotted a match with its South Korean counterpart on Tuesday in an international soccer event in China, boding ill for future sport exchanges between the two Koreas, officials here said. The U-14 North Korean and South Korean squads were scheduled to play at a stadium located in China's Yunnan Province. The game was part of the four-day event that kicked off on...