FOR the 47th time, Yong Taek Lee, South Korea s honorary director of public administration and chairman of the Memorial Service Association for the Deceased Compatriots Overseas, visited Saipan to pay
It s not easy to live in Korea as foreigners
Posted : 2021-05-30 12:23
Updated : 2021-05-30 13:14
A group of foreign student volunteers carry charcoal briquettes for impoverished residents in Busan, in this Jan. 13, 2016 photo. Korea Times file
Korea s residents of foreign nationality see disparities between Korea s image, reality
By Bahk Eun-ji
Merita, an Iranian national working at a Korean company here, has been in Korea for 10 years. Although she speaks Korean quite well and has adapted to Korean culture, she feels she is still regarded as an outsider. Being fluent in Korean helps me to be closer, but at some point it stops, and I have never been close or intimate with Koreans, she told The Korea Times.