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The Seoul city government said Thursday it will introduce a daily transit pass for tourists in July, offering unlimited access to the citys subways and buses for a temporary period in the latest move to enhance the citys competitiveness as a global tourist spot.

Koreas elderly population aged 70 and older outnumbered those in their 20s for the first time last year, government statistics showed Wednesday, as the society is rapidly aging amid record low birth rates.

Yoon Sang-ki, 75, smiled when his mentor, a middle schooler around the age of his grandchildren, approved of the answer he had carefully written down on his math worksheet during a recent tutoring session offered at Jin Hyung Middle and High School in central Seoul.

1,000 people evacuated from building in central Seoul after tremor

AsiaToday reporter Lee Yoo-jin President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s transition team has fully settled into shape, with seven standing subcommittees an..

AsiaToday reporter Lee Yoo-jin President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s transition team has fully settled into shape, with seven standing subcommittees an..

Moon gets another AstraZeneca vaccine shot for summit with Biden, G-7 session

3 officials from McDonalds supplier get suspended prison sentences for selling tainted patties Posted : 2021-01-26 17:38 Gettyimagesbank Three officials from a burger patty supplier for McDonalds Korea were given suspended prison sentences by a local court Tuesday for providing patties potentially contaminated with E. coli to the local unit of the global fast-food giant. A managing director of the supplier, whose name was withheld, and two mid-ranking officials in charge of production and qua...