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Tue, September 26, 2023 | 03:55

Violinist Big Lux returns to Korea

Violinist Big Lux returns to Korea

It's been over five years since Big Lux last set foot in Korea, but he's happy to be back in a place he considers a “second home.” “The last time I came back to Korea in 2017, even after being gone two years, I couldn't walk down the street in HBC (Seoul's Haebangchon) without bumping into someone I knew,” he told The Korea Times.

2023-04-11 09:30

Adolescents with diverse backgrounds invited to Rainbow School for Korean education

Adolescents with diverse backgrounds invited to Rainbow School for Korean education

The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family invites adolescents with immigrant backgrounds including North Korean defectors and children of multicultural families to the Rainbow School offering Korean language and career education programs. The ministry said Wednesday that those aged between nine and 24 can apply for entrance.

Jun Ji-hye | 2023-04-05 15:50

Gwangju's popular Alleyway restaurant resurrects

Gwangju's popular Alleyway restaurant resurrects

“I missed the Alleyway.” Jang Bo-in ― or just Bo to her friends and coworkers ― voiced what so many people in Gwangju have felt for the past two years. As a former cook at The First Alleyway, she may have felt this more acutely than most, but she did something about it. She rebooted it.

2023-03-31 05:16

Foreigners under 19 to get free admission to royal palaces

Foreigners under 19 to get free admission to royal palaces

Foreigners under the age of 19 can visit major royal palaces and tombs without paying admission fees starting next month, the cultural heritage authority said Wednesday.

2023-03-29 14:27

[TEMPLE ADVENTURES] Haedong Yonggung Temple prospers on Busan's coast

TEMPLE ADVENTURESHaedong Yonggung Temple prospers on Busan's coast

In Korea, there are three different types of temples that can be organized into groups based upon their age. In the first group, you'll find hundreds of historic temples that were built several centuries ago, if not a millennium or more. Then there is the modern type of temple built within the past 100 years.

2023-03-27 19:30

Suwon pizzeria hosts Jamaican patty pop-up

Suwon pizzeria hosts Jamaican patty pop-up

Corner Pizzeria in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, is hosting a pop-up event this Saturday, selling Jamaican meat patties made by Mike's Korean Kitchen, a social media culinary project. “I just love cooking and know what it's like to not be able to get the things you crave,” said Mike, the guy behind the pop-up. “This popup is just trying to push my hobby to the limits.”

2023-03-27 19:28

Multiculturalism campaign kicks off

Multiculturalism campaign kicks off

Sunfull Foundation Chairman Min Byung-chul, front row third from right, attends the launching event of a campaign to encourage respect for multicultural families and foreign residents in Korea at the National Assembly in Seoul, Monday. Lawmakers and some 40 foreign diplomats were ...

Lee Hae-rin | 2023-03-27 17:09

Campaign launched to promote equal treatment for multicultural families

Campaign launched to promote equal treatment for multicultural families

The National Assembly Sunfull Committee, together with the Sunfull Foundation, will hold a ceremony at the National Assembly next Monday to launch a campaign promoting equal treatment for multicultural families and ethnic groups living in Korea. Called Respect for Multicultural Families and All Ethnic Groups in Korea, the campaign is also aimed at informing the public of the ...

Jun Ji-hye | 2023-03-22 16:18

Korea's aging country music scene and the disappearance of Kimchi Kitty

Korea's aging country music scene and the disappearance of Kimchi Kitty

The Korean Grand Ole Opry performed on most of the over 50 U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) bases spread throughout South Korea from the early 1970s until well into the 1990s. They were a massive hit, playing in the officers'clubs for generals and colonels as well as for senior NCOs, and even in the enlisted clubs for the lonely privates far from home.

2023-03-21 16:09

Local band Oily Rag flies to Japan

Local band Oily Rag flies to Japan

The year of Bovver has come to an end. The British skinhead, known to his friends only as Bovver, a Cockney word for violence, has left the country after a whirlwind year here. He shook up the local underground music scene, helping to energize it as it emerged out of the pandemic while also making plenty of friends and enemies.

2023-03-21 10:27

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