An old folk song from Hadong County in South Gyeongsang Province evinces the importance of tea in Korean culture. It goes like this: “The first budding tea leaves are for the local.
HANOI (Vietnam News/Asia News Network): “Mummy, I’m afraid to go to school.” These are the heart-breaking words released after a female student at Vinh University's High School for the Gifted in the central province of Nghe An killed herself, allegedly due to school violence, on April 15.
The main wildfire at Mount Jiri National Park in southern Korea was put out Sunday 21 hours after it began, having burned more than 900,000 hectares of woodland, authorities said.