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Is NewJeans leaving Hybe?
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Yoon to visit Prague next week to forge 'nuclear energy alliance'
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1 in 4 Korean workers extend Chuseok holiday with paid leave: survey
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Korea removes over 1,300 Chinese-made security cameras from barracks
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N. Korea publicly discloses uranium enrichment facility for 1st time
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Celltrion secures contract to supply Herzuma to Brazil for 5th year
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What comes after love? Ex-lovers cross paths in new Coupang Play series
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Hyundai Motor, GM join hands to shake up EV landscape
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Why is NK back to firing missiles after monthslong hiatus?
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Former Ador CEO files injuction to remain as director after her current term
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Mail art collaboration keeps artists in touch
Missing paintings, missing painters and delays, it turns out that organizing a mail art project was not as simple as Martyn Thompson anticipated.The expat artist organized the international project in which each participant worked on a collaborative artwork twice the width and length of a standard sheet of paper for a month before sending it to the next artist. In part it was an opportunity to rediscover the anticipation of getting things in the mail.“Christmas and birthdays -- when you got some
April 20, 2016
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Talk to introduce 'Solitary Sage' Choi Chi-won
Chung-Ang University professor David Mason will be giving a talk on the ninth-century scholar, writer and spiritual sage Choi Chi-won.Choi served as a successful government official in both Tang China and Korea, but spent his later years in effective internal exile in Korea, during which he practiced Daoism and lived in great Buddhist temples, recording their histories. According to Mason, who has recently completed a book on the scholar, Choi exemplifies the tragic spirit of the Unified Shilla
April 20, 2016
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‘Death of an Anarchist’blends social commentary, comedy
Busan expats will have a rebel to root for -- or not -- in a satirical classic play that starts its run this weekend.Busan English Theatre Association is staging “Accidental Death of an Anarchist,” by Dario Fo, over two weekends.The play is a work of fiction, but was inspired by the real-life case of an activist who died in police custody while being investigated for a bombing he did not carry out -- the cause of his fall from a fourth-floor police station window being unclear. In Fo’s narrative
April 20, 2016
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Seoul center provides psychological support service
Seoul Global Center is offering psychological counseling on a weekly basis to expats suffering from social conflicts and stress.The counseling, available in English and Korean, is available on Thursday mornings from 10 a.m. to noon. It is provided by a member of the Korea Employee Assistance Professionals Association. Up to six 60-minute sessions will be available per person to discuss social conflicts, problems with work-life balance and similar issues.Michelle Kang from the Seoul Global Center
April 20, 2016
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Haebangchon to become ‘Green Culture Village’
The government announced plans Monday to transform Seoul’s Yongsan 2ga-dong, better known by the expatriate community as Haebangchon or HBC, into a “Green Culture Village,” where nature will blend with the region’s unique culture.A total of 38 billion won ($33 million) will be invested by the government to build a food street and a strolling path along Mount Namsan for culture and history tours that include a walk through a sweater factory that once was the economic motor of HBC between 1960 and
April 19, 2016
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More real estate agencies for foreigners in Seoul
Seoul city will increase the number of real estate agencies for foreigners to 220, the city government announced Friday. Currently there are 175 real estate agencies in Seoul that are tested and certified by the city as “Global.” Among these, 131 are speak English, 29 Japanese, eight speak both English and Japanese and five speak Chinese. (123RF)These agencies are mainly clustered around Yongsan, Gangnam, Seocho, Songpa and Mapo areas, where the city’s foreign population tends to be denser. The
April 15, 2016
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Pilgrimage trail next step to help orphans
Jeonju-based expat Terry Lyons will be walking the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage trail this spring to raise money for a severely disabled girl and awareness of orphanages’ needs.Lyons began walking to raise money for Esther Park in 2010, dividing the funds between the Holt orphanage that looked after her and Esther herself, who needed money to pay for growth hormone injections.When Lyons first met Esther, she was in hospital. Her condition meant that, although she was 8 years old, she was ju
April 13, 2016
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Gwangju V-Day performance to help single mothers’ shelter
Performers in Gwangju will stage “The Vagina Monologues” next week to help raise money for a single mothers’ shelter in the city and promote awareness of violence against women.Funds raised through the production will go to help My House (Uri Jip), a shelter for young single mothers and their children, which the group has helped since it started V-Day productions in 2012. “This year we decided to give all the proceeds to them because we have seen their organization grow and their facilities and
April 13, 2016
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Expat info site AngloInfo gets new look, address
Expat online information hub AngloInfo has revamped its website with a simpler visual style and added functions for users. Selling itself as “an online doorway to an off-line community,” AngloInfo is a community-driven information website for expats across the world, with information on living in different cities around the world, including Seoul. “AngloINFO has focused on making exciting new changes to the layout so that it is much more visual and vibrant as well as easier for our users to navi
April 13, 2016
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Korean Language Ability Test opens applications for May
Applications to take the Korean Language Ability Test are open until April 24.The exam will be on May 22, is available for three levels -- beginner, middle and advanced --- and is offered at four locations, in Seoul, Daejeon, Busan and Gyeongsan, North Gyeongsang Province. The test, recognized by the Culture Ministry, is one of two main Korean language tests, along with the Test of Proficiency in Korean. It is held four times a year, with the next dates in August and November.The test costs 40,0
April 13, 2016
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Arts fest Big Day South makes Gwangju foray
Annual audiovisual festival Big Day South is gearing up for its first show in Gwangju this month, with a collection of music, visual and performing arts. Run by art magazine Angle, the festival seeks to bring together expat and Korean artists in the south of the country. Angle founder and Big Day South organizer Philip Brett said that holding the festival’s third outing in Gwangju was a chance to broaden out.“The previous two were in Daegu and Ulsan, so they are quite close together. So I thoug
April 6, 2016
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ANZA Korea ball to feature Kylie tribute
The Australia and New Zealand Association of Korea will hold its annual charity ball this month, featuring a tribute group to international pop icon Kylie Minogue.Also known as “Kylie’s favorite Kylie,” 100% KYLIE will perform in Seoul for the first time for the charity ball, with a spectacular stage show complete with classic Kylie hits and a whole lot of feathers and sparkles.This year’s “focus charity” is the Mubeopjeongsa House of Youth in Yongin, also known as “Big Mama’s House.” 100% KYLI
April 6, 2016
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Talk to explore Korea’s garden culture
Korea university professor emeritus Sim Woo-kyung will give a talk on Korean garden culture for the Royal Asiatic Society on Tuesday.Gardens across the world have been designed to re-create paradise, according to Sim, but the concept of paradise has been differently imagined by Eastern and the Western cultures, especially according to their religions. He says that in the Western world, whose religions arose from arid areas, gardens were typically surrounded by high walls to protect people from h
April 6, 2016
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Tax advice offered in Seoul
Tax counselors from Yeoksam District Tax Office will be visiting Yeoksam Global Village Center to offer free tax advice to foreign residents.The advice will be available from 9:30 a.m. to noon on April 19.To register for an appointment, email ygvc0417@gmail.com with your name, nationality, mobile phone number, preferred time and a brief outline of the query.The center is near Gangnam Station. To get there, walk straight from Exit 1, turn right at the first set of traffic lights, and continue for
April 6, 2016
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Seoul Shakespeare group to mark bard’s anniversary
Seoul Shakespeare Company will be hosting an evening of the writer’s monologues and scenes in honor of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death next week.The event is part of the Shakespeare Theatre Association’s “400 Dreams: Shakespeare Around the Globe” program to celebrate the anniversary.Proceeds will go toward the SSC’s production of “Much Ado About Nothing” in May and June.The company is also running a fund-raising campaign on Indiegogo to help pay for the props, costume and venue, whi
April 6, 2016
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SIWA’s fund-raising gala goes fashion-forward
Seoul International Women’s Association will be hosting its Annual Charity Gala on April 9 at the Conrad Hotel in Yeouido, Seoul. Themed “An Evening in Shangri-la,” the event includes a cocktail reception, silent and live auctions and a four-course meal in aid of three charities -- Agit Sintesi, New Light Community and the Rainbow Community. And to keep guests fashion-forward, there will be a fashion show featuring award-winning Korean fashion designer Heill Yang’s couture brand of womenswear an
March 30, 2016
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Writer to host tour of Korean War battlegrounds
History writer and journalist Andrew Salmon will run a tour to one of the Korean War’s most notorious battlefields next week under a Royal Asiatic Society tour.Salmon will guide the group around the hills that surround the Imjingang River, where the British Gloucester Regiment was wiped out holding back a Chinese assault.The attack was part of the largest communist offensive of the war, and though the Glosters were eventually overrun, their actions blunted the assault sufficiently for U.N. force
March 30, 2016
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Busan seeks sellers for Together Day flea market
Busan Foundation for International Activities is seeking participants for its Global Flea Market on May 21.The event is part of the Busan Global Gathering, an annual outdoor festival that attracts scores of expat and multicultural organizations each year.This year, the gathering is being held in line with Together Day on May 20, a nationwide event to promote multiculturalism run by the Justice Ministry.The global flea market will be held at Dasom Madang in Busan Citizen’s Park, near Bujeon Stati
March 30, 2016
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Tour to introduce highlights of Buan
The Gwangju Interntaional Center will conduct a tour to Buan in North Jeolla Province on April 23.The trip to the coastal area will make its first stop at Chaeseokgang, a group of stratified cliffs that gets its name from its resemblance to a place from Chinese legend.After stopping for lunch -- mussel porridge and spicy seafood stew – the group will head to Naesosa Temple, which has been around since the seventh century. It is famous for its Goryeo-era bell and its central building that has int
March 30, 2016
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Global center to offer onsite counseling in Hyehwa
Seoul Global Center will offer an onsite counseling session to advise expats in the Daehangno area Sunday.Advisers will offer consultations on legal, labor and immigration issues, among others, in front of the Catholic Youth Center near Hyehwa Station Exit 1. The center is close to the Filipino Market that runs on Sundays.The consultations will be available in English, Filipino, Mongolian and Thai. The session will run from noon to 4 p.m. For more information, contact (02) 2075-4136. (paulkerry@
March 30, 2016
