Additionally, many people, mostly men, feel reluctant to approach their ex to ask for their money back. “I couldn’t bring myself to ask her to send me my share of the money,” said Choi Kyun-tae, a 38-year-old man whose ex-girlfriend managed the couple's bank account. “I let her have all the remaining balance. So it was a loss for me in the end since I had been depositing more money every month,...

In the statement, Kim also denied rumors of friction between him and Son during the 2022 Qatar World Cup. Earlier, KBS reported that Kim had already expressed discomfort playing with a particular player during the last World Cup. This immediately prompted speculation that Kim was referring to Son. Kim dismissed the report, calling it groundless. At present, Kim and Son are following each other...

From matching couple items (i.e., couple T-shirts, bracelets) to lovestagrams, and the frenzy for celebrating love milestones, the country speaks of love everywhere. In such a climate, being a mossol or single can feel isolating. “I was under a lot of pressure to date back in college because it felt like I was falling behind others if I didn’t get a boyfriend,” Lee So-young, a woman in her mid-...

Sex education is a story about human beings When asked about one thing she wants her students to take away from her course above anything else, it was respect for human beings. “The essence of sex and gender can be boiled down to human beings. So it is really about learning how to form healthy relationships with another human being and learning to respect one another,” Bae said, underscoring th...

South Jeolla Province announced Sunday that it would expand the distribution of the AI companion robot Hyodol for seniors living alone in the region. South Jeolla Province Public Agency for Social Service plans to deliver Hyodol to 1,360 of those aged 65 and older -- a high risk group for solitary death and suicide -- up from 260 last year. Hyodol, launched by the start-up of the same name in 2...

Kakao, which runs the KaKaoTalk messenger app, started handing out three emoji packages to its messenger users Thursday as a general compensation for a data center fire last October, but faced criticism that a free service it also offered transitioned into a paid subscription. “To compensate all our users for the damage caused by the fire at SK C&C data center last year, we are going to hand out...

The South Chungcheong Province Office announced Tuesday that it has built a large "bee food forest" as part of efforts to prevent the ongoing mass death and disappearance of bees. The size of the bee food forest constructed by the province is equivalent to 4,733 soccer fields -- 31 percent larger than the original target of 25.79 million square meters. More than 8 million honey trees have been ...

A local civic group supporting Muslims in the conflict over a mosque construction in Daegu announced Monday that they filed a petition to the UN requesting emergency relief. The activists condemned the central government, Daegu Metropolitan Government and Daegu’s Buk-gu office, accusing them of inaction in the issue. “The fact that the government, Daegu and Daegu Buk-gu turn a blind eye to ongo...

Residents of Daehyeon-dong in Daegu in opposition to the construction of a mosque in the neighborhood on Thursday cooked a whole pig near the construction site, stepping up the ongoing clash with Muslim residents of the city. On the same day, the Daegu anti-mosque committee, which was formed to stop the construction, held a press conference at the west gate of Kyungpook National University, anno...

A Changwon City Council member is facing public outcry over a social media post accusing families of the Itaewon crowd crush victims of using the deaths. On her Facebook account on Sunday, Kim Mi-na, a member of the People Power Party on Changwon City Council, accused the bereaved families of “killing twice the innocent souls of their kids who died young in their prime” and “doing business with ...

The South Korean government on Thursday issued an interagency advisory to caution local tech companies about North Korean IT workers allegedly seeking employment under assumed nationalities. This follows reports that North Korea is using these workers as a source of foreign currency earnings that are being channeled into the North’s nuclear and missile development. In the advisory, the Foreign,...