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- Candid life stories told at documentary festival
- Oct 25, 2013
- Documentaries, full of candid life stories, were told at an annual festival organized by Korea’s Educational Broadcasting System (EBS), the EBS International Documentary Festival. Marking its tenth anniversary this year, the festival began on October 18 with a theme of “Truth, Le...
- Polish President delivers special lecture to Korean you...
- Oct 24, 2013
- Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski delivered a special lecture about his country and its relationship with Europe at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) in Seoul on October 23. “Though Poland and Korea are far away from each other geographically, that is just physical ...
- Busan film festival comes to an end
- Oct 15, 2013
- The 18th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) concluded its ten-day run on October 12. The two weeks in Busan were crowded with a flock of both domestic and international movie stars. Invitees to the 18th Busan International Film Festival hit the red carpet. This year’s ...
- Six ASEAN nations participate in employment insurance w...
- Oct 14, 2013
- The Korea Employment Information Service (KEIS) invited twelve labor and employment ministry officials from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to a workshop in Seoul from October 7 to 11. The six-nation delegation and its Korean hosts, under the auspices of the In...
- Hangeul week: festivities across central Seoul
- Oct 11, 2013
- On October 9, 1446, King Sejong The Great proclaimed the invention of Hunminjeongeum, a new phonetic system designed to help the citizens learn their letters, and declared that its official use would begin immediately.This week, Koreans celebrated the 567th birthday of their alph...
- Sejong Institute’s global students arrive in Seoul
- Oct 10, 2013
- A large group of Korean language students from overseas are visiting Seoul from October 4 through 10. The students all attend branches of the King Sejong Institute, an overseas educational institute where non-Koreans can study Korean language and learn about Korean culture. Being...
- Autumn in Seoul with deep blue sky
- Sep 27, 2013
- Amid the peak of autumn, the temperature drops and the weather is chilly especially early in the morning. A deep blue sky stretches out over Seoul, as seen from Cheongwun Park in Jongno District, Seoul, on September 26 (photo: Jeon Han).As typical autumn weather with a high ...
- Korea, Taiwan top world earth science Olympiad
- Sep 24, 2013
- Korea walked away the winner at the International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO) 2013 which was held in Mysore, India, earlier this month.The four Korean high school students who represented Korea competed with 101 students from 27 countries for nine days starting on September 11....
- President visits traditional market ahead of Chuseok
- Sep 23, 2013
- President Park Geun-hye visited a traditional market on September 17, a day before the Chuseok holiday. Visiting the market in Yongin City, Gyeonggi-do (Gyeonggi Province), she looked around shops inside the market and wished the market traders good fortune for the high season ah...
- Police share its experiences with four Asian nations
- Sep 09, 2013
- The Korean National Police University is conducting training on how to deal with cyber crimes for 20 middle managers from Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Cambodia. Police officers from four Asian nations are under training (photo courtesy of Korean National Police U...
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