Asia South Korea 2024 Winter Youth Olympics are to begin tomorrow 19 January through 1st February in Gangwon
Asia South Korea In 2024 more “mobile museums” - containers equipped for immersive experience stationing at schools and institutions - will allow underprivileged students, people with disabilities and seniors to feel what it is like touring cultural heritage
Asia South Korea Around 100.000 people gathered at various locations across Busan to see the first sunrise of the year, though it was delayed by 20 minutes due to heavy clouds; Haeundae and Gwangan Beach areas drew around 65.000 individuals, while 20.000 visited temples
Asia South Korea A survey released on 10 December by nongovernmental organization Workplace Gapjil 119 showed that 15,3% of South Korean workers have been subject to direct physical or verbal abuse at work, highligthing the ongoing issue of workplace harassment
Asia South Korea Of some 50.000 middle and high school students asked across the nation in 2022, 14,3% thought of suicide over the past 12 months, says a survey released by the Korea Center for Disease and Prevention Agency, now bringing the rate to 1 in 7 students
Asia South Korea National Assembly voted to discard a set of bills aimed at giving the state broadcasting regulator more power in choosing heads of public broadcasters, proposed by the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea, which controls the parliamentary majority
Asia South Korea Being athletes, teaching and becoming a doctor were picked by elementary school children as the most desirable job, while teaching is the dream job for middle and high school students, a survey published on Sunday shows
Asia South Korea BTS members Jung Kook, RM, Jimin and V are to begin military service in December; the last four members of the pop supergroup have begun enlisting, meaning the band will finish their mandatory military service by 2025
Asia South Korea Activists, unions, environmental groups will stage protests in Seoul today, as part of a series of demonstrations to demand various concessions from the government, including the resignation of President Yoon Seok-yeol
Asia South Korea Recent reports of bedbug infestations in public spaces have raised alarms of an impending nationwide outbreak across South Korea, prompting the government to launch a multi-agency task force and pushed investors to buy stocks of pesticide manufacturers
Asia South Korea The number of babies born in Korea in August plummeted to the lowest level in nearly three years, data showed, heightening concerns of a looming demographic crisis driven by the world’s lowest fertility rate, decline in marriage and aging population
Asia South Korea The US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan has docked at Busan for a five days stay to strengthen the defence posture of the country, as Seoul warned of a greater threat from North Korea and held joint maritime drills with the US and Japan
Asia South Korea Thirty people in South Korea have bought 8000 apartments in the past five years, despite measures sought by the government to restrict the ability to multiple houses property