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Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) Korea invites the British ambassador to give a talk right after the Lunar New Year long weekend. As British ambassador to Korea, Colin Crooks also holds the title of honorary president of RAS Korea, the world's oldest Korean studies organization founded in 1900.
There are two Koreas. I am not talking about the North and the South. I am talking about the two contrasting narratives about Korean society, one positive, another negative.
My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this My Firsts we talk to Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene.
Startups have become a buzzword among North Korean defectors living in South Korea as they mull various options to start their own business in order to escape what they perceive as discrimination at South Korean companies against people from the North. A 2022 survey conducted by Korea Hana Foundation, which was set up to help defectors settle here, found that 17.9 percent of North Koreans living in South Korea are self-employed. The longer they've lived in the South, the higher the self-employment rate, the survey showed.
The purpose of the law on protection of state secrets is to promote national security...