SABUK, GANGWON PROVINCE (ANN/THE KOREA HERALD) – The profound impact of the three-line stanza in poet Ahn Do-Hyun’s Korean poem that reads “Never kick a lump of used coal briquette; has your heart ever burned for someone?” is rooted in everyday ‘yeontan’. The symbolic significance of the yeontan – punctured, cylindrical briquettes once ignited the […]
SABUK, Gangwon Province “Never kick a lump of used coal briquette; has your heart ever burned for someone?” reads one of the most beloved Korean poems by poet Ahn Do-hyun. The resonance of this three-line-stanza poem in Korean draws its depth from the commonplace “yeontan” the perforated, cylindrical briquettes that fueled the hearths of most Korean households in the mid- to late-.
South Korea plans to reduce some 4 percent of jobs at state-run organizations by 2025, the finance ministry said Monday, in line with efforts to tighten its belt amid the economic slump.Under the plan, the country will eliminate 17,230 jobs at public orga
The government announced on Monday that it will slash 17,230 jobs or 3.9 percent of all positions at 350 state-run organizations by 2025 to streamline their structure and implement President Yoon Suk-yeol s fiscal belt-tightening policies. The government will also re-assign 4,788 workers or 1.1 percent of the employees at public organizations with new duties over the cited period.