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- Korean language education goes global
- Feb 07, 2012
- In recent years, there has been a rise in worldwide interest in learning Korean, along with the ever-growing popularity of Korean pop culture around the world. The widespread enthusiasm for K-pop and dramas has led fans overseas craving to learn the Korean language, a prerequisit...
- Social media usage in Korea
- Feb 07, 2012
- While the prevalence and ease of internet usage in Korea is nothing new, a recent report from Statistics Korea offers insight into a trend that has accompanied the arrival of an increasingly connected world: the rise of social media. Social media servicesAccording to Statistics...
- The transcendental power of poetry
- Jan 26, 2012
- One of Korean female poets, Kim Hye-soon“Poetry should not be concerned with quantity, as long as it contains a connotative and implicative nature within,” says Kim Hye-soon, a poet and professor at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. “So it doesn’t matter if the poem goes on for 35...
- Comedy of truths
- Jan 20, 2012
- Korean comedians who are featured at DarinIn Korea, the most popular brand of comedy is known colloquially as “gag concerts” (sketch comedy). Gag concerts got their start in 1999, a time when Korea was suffering in the wake of the Asian financial crisis. The reality facing comedi...
- Useful tips for expats during Seollal
- Jan 19, 2012
- One of Korea’s biggest traditional holidays, Seollal or Lunar New Year’s Day, is just around the corner. During the three-day national holiday, which falls on January 23 this year, a majority of Koreans visit their elder relatives in their hometowns to observe ancestral rites on ...
- Pyeongchang Bid Committee, Pororo receive CICI Korea Im...
- Jan 18, 2012
- Cho Yang-ho, chairman of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Games Bid Committee received the Korea Image Stepping Stone Award at the Corea Image Communication Institute’s (CICI) award ceremony in the Grand InterContinental Seoul on January 17. CICI awarded its grand prize to the bid com...
- Ringing in the Year of the Black Dragon
- Jan 18, 2012
- The New Year is almost upon us. But wait, didn’t we just ring in 2012 a couple weeks ago? How can it be New Year again so soon? The answer is that Korea has two calendar systems, one governed by the Sun and one governed by the Moon, and each of them has its own year-end holiday. ...
- Support for digital TV to be expanded
- Jan 12, 2012
- Every household with an analogue TV will receive financial support from the Korean government for converting to digital TV.The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) announced on January 9 that the beneficiaries for the financial support to switch from analogue TV to digital TV wi...
- Sumi Jo's Art of Sharing
- Jan 12, 2012
- Sumi Jo performs at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in 2010.Since debuting in Trieste, Italy, in 1986, Sumi Jo has become one of the most sought-after sopranos of her generation, performing in nearly all the major halls and conquering seemingly impossible vocal height...
- Travel back to 1970 at the Sejong Center
- Jan 10, 2012
- During the '70s, the military government imposed a curfew on all civilians. As curfew approaches, there is a sudden rush to get a taxi home (photo courtesy of the Sejong Center). The Korea of 40 years ago was a very different place, and it’s hard to imagine it developed into the...
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