DAEGU, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Two South Korean-born sisters, who were abandoned as infants and sent abroad by an adoption agency in the early 1970s, were reunited in Daegu on Monday after living separately in North America and Europe for nearly five decades. American Christine Pennell, 49, and Belgian Kim Haelen, 47, were reunited [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Scouts, once a symbol of youth, will be disappearing from elementary, middle, and high schools in Seoul as the city’s office of education decided to relieve teachers from being involved in youth organizations. The Seoul Office of Education announced on Sunday that it would ask all teachers to “exclude [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The portion of South Koreans who are opposed to homosexuality fell below 50 percent for the first time, a report showed Sunday, in an indication of Koreans’ growing openness to sexual minorities. In a 2018 poll of 8,000 Korean adults, 49 percent said that they cannot accept homosexuals, down [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversies reignited on Friday over whether to allow abortion after a government survey showed that many women had opted to end their pregnancies due to socio-economic reasons. On Thursday, the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs released a survey on 10,000 women aged between 15 and 44, the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Commemorating the 10th year since the death of Cardinal Kim Sou-hwan this week, the South Korean Catholic community developed a computer typeface memorializing the handwriting of the widely revered Catholic leader, according to the Catholic Publishing House on Friday. The publishing house said the “Cardinal Kim Sou-hwan font” was [...]
TOKYO, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Bereaved families of South Koreans who performed forced labor during World War II for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. visited the company’s head office on Friday in Tokyo to urge the company to honor recent South Korean court rulings. In November last year, South Korea’s Supreme Court upheld two rulings [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that younger South Korean women tend to wrongly think of themselves as overweight, while older women see themselves as slimmer than they actually are. A joint research team led by Prof. Lee Yu-mie from Yonsei Severance Hospital and Prof. Choi Kui-son from the National [...]
INCHEON, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Human Chain Movement, where more than 500,000 participants will come hand in hand to create a human chain along 500 kilometers of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) at the border of the two Koreas, will hold its opening ceremony at Boleum Island in Incheon. Hosted by DMZ Peace Chain, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — As speaking multiple languages is gaining importance in a rapidly globalizing world, institutions set up across South Korea to support multicultural families are offering special programs to provide children with early opportunities to learn multiple languages. Seoul’s Dongdaemun District Family Center is offering ‘one home two languages’ program for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting this year, universities will hold a gender sensitivity class about sexual harassment and sexual violence as part of orientation for college freshmen. The Ministry of Education announced on Wednesday that it had recommended that universities implement these types of educational programs for new students. The ministry has distributed [...]