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Vegan group asks why Korean ‘hoesik’ menu is always meat

Animal rights groups Animal Liberation Wave and Nutties have jointly begun running a series of advertisements against eating meat at “hoesik,” or after-work company bonding meals, in Korea. The grou...

July 9, 2018
Social affairs
Korea’s ‘Garlic Girl’ curling champion marries skating coach

Kim Eun-jung, the captain and the skip of the Korean women’s Olympic curling team, tied the knot on Saturday. The wedding was held in Daegu, where the groom works as a skating coach. The two had rep...

July 8, 2018
More sports
Is it safe to wear a bikini in Korea?

Statistics by the Korean police show a spike of spy camera crimes in summer, local media reported Saturday. The police here had reportedly arrested over 980 people nationwide between July 1 and Aug....

July 8, 2018
Social affairs
Asiana Airlines employees to stage 2nd protest

Employees of Asiana Airlines, the country’s second-largest carrier and part of Kumho Asiana Group, will hold their second protest to demand group’s chief Park Sam-koo to step down. The labor union o...

July 8, 2018
Social affairs
Estimated 60,000 women muster up ‘inconvenient courage’

The third women’s rally calling for a balanced inspection of voyeuristic hidden camera crimes took place in front of Hyehwa subway station on Saturday. The host of the protest, an online group fight...

July 8, 2018
Social affairs
[Photo News] Water Gun Festival in Sinchon quenches summer heat

The sixth Water Gun Festival in Sinchon, Seoul, brought some much needed relief to the scorching summer heat on Saturday. On the first day of the two-day fiesta, the main street that rolls down from...

July 8, 2018
Culture
Farmed halibut found with excessive mercury

Farmed halibut from Gijang-gun, Busan, were found to contain excessive levels of mercury, Tuesday. According to the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, three farms in the region were found to have shi...

July 5, 2018
Social affairs
Hawaii bans sunscreens harmful to marine life

Sunscreens containing chemical substances harmful to coral reefs will be banned in the US state of Hawaii from 2021, US local media reported Wednesday. Hawaii Gov. David Ige signed the legislation o...

July 5, 2018
World News
North Korea’s ‘Spring Fragrance’ face balm catches Chinese eyes

A product from a cosmetics factory in Sinuiju, where North Korean leader Kim Jong-un recently visited, is attracting a lot of attention in China. The “Kaesong Koryo Ginseng” balm cream, made by the ...

July 4, 2018
North Korea
‘Kimchijeon’ over ‘kimchi pancake’

The Korean dish often referred to as kimchi pancake should be instead called by the romanization of its actual Korean name, kimchijeon, claimed a cyber organization promoting online diplomacy, Wednes...

July 4, 2018
Food
Smokers fight move to close airport smoking rooms

The recent initiative by Korea Airports Corporation to remove smoking rooms from airports has got smokers fuming. “Smokers are being unfairly inched out,” protested a smokers’ community in Korea, in...

July 4, 2018
Social affairs
The disabled fight for right of mobility on Seoul subways

People in wheelchairs staged a protest on Monday at metro stations in Seoul to demonstrate their right to mobility. Some 50 disabled people gathered at Singil, Seoul and City Hall Stations on Line N...

July 3, 2018
Social affairs
Korean women boycott spending on first Sunday of every month to expel ‘pink tax’

A group of Korean women have decided to stop spending money on the first Sunday of every month, in a move to protest against gender discrimination. The campaign, started by a Facebook group called “...

July 3, 2018
Social affairs
Passengers slam Asiana Airlines service

Passengers traveling via Asiana Airlines on Sunday and Monday had to endure unexplained departure delays stretching up to five hours, subsequently followed by a journey without in-flight meals. On S...

July 3, 2018
Industry
CEO of in-flight meal supplier for Asiana found dead: report

The CEO of a subcontractor of a small in-flight meal supplier for Asiana Airlines reportedly took his own life Monday morning, after criticisms mounted from angry passengers who were served no meal o...

July 3, 2018
Social affairs

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