The government plans to improve living conditions here for migrant workers by building 20 more dormitories across the country, to be completed by 2026, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Thursday.
The financial regulator said Tuesday that it has published the latest edition of a handbook for North Korean defectors designed to help guide the new settlers financially.
The Korea International Trade Association (KITA) has enhanced communication with small and medium-sized exporters through its chairman's frequent visits to those companies after he was appointed to lead the business organization in February, the association said Thursday.
Political rival parties intensified their campaigns for the April 10 general elections Sunday, primarily in the wider capital area that observers say is crucial for determining the election outcome. Surrounded by cheering supporters, the leaders of the country's two major parties staged rival events in Greater Seoul on Sunday. The move is aimed at winning voters in the wider capital area since the number of seats cho...
Every so often, the Korea Times publishes an article about the destruction of one historic neighborhood or another, usually in a poor district of Seoul. Each piece brings for me a nostalgic pang for the Korea of yesteryear. The intricate alleys and passageways of the city’s older districts are a relic of one of the most important and transformative stages in the country’s history - a time of rapid post-war growth when a people united in the face of a common threat, rebuilding a nation and forging a future together. That future has now arrived in the form of sparkling buildings looming into the sky, and it is destroying the very towns where its progenitors were born, lived, worked, died.
President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea has earmarked $372.86bn for the city of Yongin as the government starts the transformation of southern Gyeonggi into a hub for chip production.
Every so often, the Korea Times publishes an article about the destruction of one historic neighborhood or another, usually in a poor district of Seoul. Each piece brings for me a nostalgic pang for the Korea of yesteryear. The intricate alleys and passageways of the city’s older districts are a relic of one of the most important and transformative stages in the country’s history - a time of rapid post-war growth when a people united in the face of a common threat, rebuilding a nation and forging a future together. That future has now arrived in the form of sparkling buildings looming into the sky, and it is destroying the very towns where its progenitors were born, lived, worked, died.
What is your dream? What do you want to be? Most new arrivals from North Korea would struggle to provide a straight answer to these questions. Having just escaped from a country where no one talks or asks about dreams, they may find such curiosity perplexing.
What is your dream? What do you want to be? Most new arrivals from North Korea would struggle to provide a straight answer to these questions. Having just escaped from a country where no one talks or asks about dreams, they may find such curiosity perplexing.