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Home-Grown Organic Bananas Hit the Market

HADONG, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Being around 4,000 kilometers north of the equator hasn’t stopped one South Korean paprika grower from succeeding at cultivating bananas, one of the most representative fruits of the tropics. The South Korean bananas hail from the paprika and cucumber farm of sixty-year-old Ha Dong-gyoon, a farmer based about 330 [...]

North Gyeongsang Province Home to an Increasing Number of Multicultural Students

GYEONGSANG, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) – With a growing number of immigrants choosing to call the South Korean countryside home, the number of students with a multicultural background in North Gyeongsang Province has quadrupled over the last seven years. In a report released yesterday by the Gyeongsangbuk-do Office of Education, the number of multicultural students as [...]