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- Foreigners can vote in June 4 local elections
- May 27, 2014
- Expatriates in Korea can vote in the June 4 local elections.Foreigners who are eligible to vote should be over 19-years-old, be a permanent resident for more than three years according to immigration law, and be officially registered at their residential address with local g...
- Korea grows by one more Seoul
- May 23, 2014
- Korean territory as recorded on the official land registry turned out to be 100,266 square kilometers as of late 2013, up from 99,617 square kilometers in 2004. In only one decade, the amount of land belonging to the nation has increased by about 649 square kilometers, 223.7 time...
- Queen's coronation banner returns
- May 23, 2014
- On June 2, 1953, when the Korean War (1950-53) was close to an end, a large, painted banner was hung at the British Royal Artillery Regiment camp on the frontlines of the conflict, in Yeoncheon-gun, Gyeonggi-do (Gyeonggi Province).The banner celebrated Queen Elizabeth II’s corona...
- Birthplace of Korean Catholicism, Solmoe
- May 22, 2014
- Naepo lies along the western shore of Chungcheongnam-do (South Chungcheong Province). The name means a bay, on the shores of a sea or a lake. Ships travelled up the small rivers, like the Sapgyo-cheon, during high tide and traded goods, including rice, along the banks of the wate...
- 77.2 million people use Korean as mother tongue
- May 15, 2014
- Korean is the 13th most widely used mother tongue in the world. According to Ethnologue (www.ethnologue.com), a web-based publication that provides various language-related statistics, 77.2 million people across the world use Korean as their native language. The language is mainl...
- Children's songs bring Asia together
- May 08, 2014
- Seven Asian countries -- Korea, Mongolia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, and the Philippines -- have recently made a children’s song book together. “Singing Asia to Live Together” was recently published by the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Unders...
- April showers bring blue skies
- Apr 30, 2014
- Under a bright clear sky on April 30, views of the Banpo Bridge, and even as far as the Hangang Railway Bridge far to the west, can be seen from the Hannam Bridge. (photo: Jeon Han)After a few days of April spring showers, the skies over Seoul have now dried. Rain soaked most ...
- We humbly accept criticism from foreign press
- Apr 30, 2014
- It has been two weeks now since a ferry carrying hundreds of passengers, most of them high school students, capsized off the southwestern coast near Jindo Island. This tragic accident has now been making headlines in the international press. Many news outlets see this tragedy as ...
- Commonwealth veterans remember Imjingang River battle
- Apr 29, 2014
- Sixty-three years on, modern Korea has remembered some of the 700 fallen soldiers of a British regiment who sacrificed their lives during the Korean War. The soldiers belonged to the Gloucestershire Regiment, the "Glorious Glosters," the British Army infantry regiment to which th...
- Pope Francis reaches out to believers
- Apr 21, 2014
- "The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus. Those who accept his offer of salvation are set free from sin, sorrow, inner emptiness and loneliness. With Christ, joy is constantly born anew."This is a part of the preface from "Evangelli Gaudium," o...
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