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[Weekender] Why becoming a parent takes learning

When her daughter turned 18 months a few years ago, Lee Ji-seon faced a totally unexpected situation. Her daughter only wanted to spend time outdoors -- all day, every day. She’d sit on her stroller ...

April 29, 2016
Social affairs
Second Zika case confirmed in Korea

South Korea’s health authorities confirmed the nation’s second Zika virus case on Wednesday night, identifying the patient as a 20-year-old man who lives in Nowon-gu, Seoul. According to the Health ...

April 28, 2016
Social affairs
[FEATURE] Hard knock lives of Koreans born to U.S. soldiers

More than 50 years after her American solider father left South Korea, Jang Yeon-hee still longs to meet the parent who she has never known. “Whenever I take the subway I see a lot of foreign touris...

April 27, 2016
Social affairs
[FEATURE INTERVIEW] For young immigrants, life in Korea can be constant struggle

When Kim Eun-hyung arrived in South Korea from China in 2008, at age 14, he didn’t speak a word of Korean. Prior to his arrival, he had been living alone with his maternal grandfather in China’s Fush...

April 24, 2016
Social affairs
Expats blocked from benefits for disabled kids

About five years ago, Jessica Wood, a British expat living in South Korea, learned that her then 1-year-old daughter had cerebral palsy. Wood had been living in Korea for four years prior to having h...

April 19, 2016
Social affairs
‘25 percent of children of immigrants don’t identify themselves as Koreans’: study

About 25 percent of children born to South Korean nationals and their foreign-born spouses do not identify themselves as Korean in spite of their South Korean citizenship, a study showed Thursday. T...

April 14, 2016
Social affairs
UAE woman tested negative for MERS in South Korea

A United Arab Emirates woman who was suspected to have been infected with Middle East respiratory syndrome has tested negative for the virus in South Korea on Wednesday, the Korea Centers for Disease...

April 13, 2016
Social affairs
Animals signify compassion, altruism in Korean folklore

When Kim Eun-ji was a child, her favorite part of the day was to have her mother read her “Gyeonwu and Jiknyeo,” a Korean folk tale about two lovers who were forced to live on opposite sides of the M...

April 13, 2016
Social affairs
Premature births on rise in Korea

The proportion of newborns who need critical medical care, including premature babies, has been rising in South Korea since 2010, while general fertility rate has been going down in the country, a st...

April 12, 2016
Social affairs
Korean teens fight for rights to birth control, sex life

In 2012, when Kang Min-jin was 17 years old, she decided to go public about her sex life. Back then, in a rally focusing on youth rights in Seoul, she held a banner which she thought was both deeply ...

April 11, 2016
Social affairs
Korea declares war on sugar

South Korea on Thursday released a set of measures to reduce its citizens’ sugar consumption, after a recent government study revealed almost half of young Koreans aged 3-29 are eating too much sugar...

April 7, 2016
Social affairs
[EXCLUSIVE] Racism prevalent in migrant education

When Alaina Yildiz started taking her Korean language class at a state-run institute in Busan in February, she could not believe what her teacher told her and her classmates. The class, officially ...

April 6, 2016
Social affairs
Most Korean victims stay silent after sexual harasment

Almost 80 percent of South Koreans take no follow-up actions after being sexually harassed at work, while 45 percent of such cases involving female victims occur at drinking gatherings at the hands o...

April 5, 2016
Social affairs
Ewha offers consultation for Uzbekistan’s first women’s hospital

South Korean medical experts from the Seoul-based Ewha Womans University Medical Center visited Uzbekistan last week to share tips on the nation’s ongoing project to build its first state-run hospita...

March 30, 2016
Social affairs
Koreans becoming more prone to rage

Kim Myung-hun (not his real name), a 29-year-old worker at one of South Korea’s biggest home shopping channels, was stunned last month when his female colleague was threatened to be killed by one of ...

March 30, 2016
Social affairs

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