"K-everything: The rise and rise of Korean culture" (The Guardian) "The art market: Korean cool" (Financial Times) "Hallyu: 'Cool Korea' and the art of soft power" (Le Monde Diplomatique) From music and films to food, art and fashion, the world is falling in love with everything South Korean, according to overseas media reports. In their effort to understand this new object of .
Over 100 Hana Financial Group employees and their family members attended a group-organized volunteer campaign to help create portable braille teaching aids for the visually impaired, according to the group, Sunday. Braille is a six-dot code system that can be read by touch.
Lee Ho-young, a linguistics professor at Seoul National University, says the most pressing issue in the field of Korean language education overseas is the shortage of teaching staff. In an email interview with The Korea Herald, he pointed to the ongoing government-funded projects to cultivate domestically trained lecturers of Korean language, although he said their effectiveness remained to be seen. He echoed many le.
Same-sex marriage is gaining ground in South Korea, but the pace of doing so is slow compared with neighboring countries, due to increasingly polarized views on the issue. Korea has yet to legalize same-sex marriage, unlike in 34 countries where marriage equality either became law or was recognized in court rulings, according to Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Taiwan has not only legalized same-sex marriage but als.
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