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Sun, January 29, 2023 | 10:31

Foreign academics zoom in on e-learning's scope and promise

Foreign academics zoom in on e-learning's scope and promise

Erin Murphy, a law professor at Yeungnam University in North Gyeongsang Province, has not introduced her courses to her students the way she preferred following the COVID-19 lockdown. Instead she prerecorded her lectures through existing online platforms that the university's IT department helped normalize to start the spring semester.

2020-04-21 13:27

Gyeonggi to offer universal basic income to marriage immigrants, permanent residents

Gyeonggi to offer universal basic income to marriage immigrants, permanent residents

The Gyeonggi provincial government will offer universal basic income to marriage immigrants and permanent residents amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Governor Lee Jae-myung said Sunday that F-5 and F-6 visa holders will also be eligible to receive 100,000 won ($82) just like Korean citizens. Initially, all foreigners were excluded from access to the benefit. “It would be difficult ...

Jung Min-ho | 2020-04-21 13:19

South Korea begins offering coronavirus relief funds

Bucheon offers stimulus money to foreigners, including undocumented ones

Death on the Imjin

Death on the Imjin

When the weather is clear and the sun shines bright, one can see for several kilometers to the north from the trenches on the slopes of “Hill 235.” In the valley below, the Imjin River flows westerly until it joins the Han River on its journey to the Yellow Sea. When the spring and summer foliage is lush, it's difficult to see that one is standing on the edge of the world.

2020-04-21 05:49

Long-standing Korea expat, Thomas Pinansky, passes away

Long-standing Korea expat, Thomas Pinansky, passes away

Thomas Pinansky, a pillar of the international legal community in Seoul, passed away on April 8, 2020 in a Portland, Maine hospice at the age of 61 after a battle with cancer. Pinansky, who was a Senior Foreign Attorney for Barun Law LLC since 2005, will be buried in a small cemetery next to his late wife in his hometown of Cape Elizabeth, Maine. A long-standing expat, he liv...

2020-04-20 10:14

Gyeonggi mulls giving universal basic income to foreign spouses, permanent residents

Gyeonggi mulls giving universal basic income to foreign spouses, permanent residents

Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds Seoul, is considering granting marriage immigrants and permanent residents the right to disaster basic income, which it will pay to citizens to help cope with the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, its governor said Wednesday. The province announced last month that it will provide 100,000 won (US$81.99) per person to all citizens beginning ...

2020-04-15 18:47

Expats ask for universal basic income amid COVID-19 crisis

Gov't extends visas for 18,000 foreign workers amid COVID-19 pandemic

Gov't extends visas for 18,000 foreign workers amid COVID-19 pandemic

The government has extended visas for more than 18,000 foreign workers as employers here are struggling to replace them due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Ministry of Employment and Labor said Tuesday that the 50-day extension will apply to 18,508 foreign workers under the Employment Permit System (EPS) - most in labor-intensive industries - whose visas are set to expire in...

Jung Min-ho | 2020-04-14 13:18

Jeju Island's Haenyeo, A User's Manual

Jeju Island's Haenyeo, A User's Manual

“Since there are so many representations of the 'haenyeo' geared at ultimately drawing tourism to Jeju Island, I decided to interview three generations of women divers about how they felt about their new fame and what their lives are really like in this time of commercial development on Jeju and the pre-COVID- 19 tourism boom,” began author Joey Rositano.

Kim Ji-soo | 2020-04-14 10:45

Crazy Multiply hosts zine exhibition

Crazy Multiply hosts zine exhibition

Crazy Multiply, a local art collective that promotes contemporary and Korean artists, is hosting their next exhibition soon in downtown Seoul's Euljiro district and they're doing it in what might be considered the “new normal” for art museums and exhibitions.

2020-04-14 10:41

[Korea Encounters] Containing the cholera epidemic in 1960s Korea

Korea EncountersContaining the cholera epidemic in 1960s Korea

Efforts to prevent a disease “from invading this country,” The Korea Times reported, “have been intensified by public health officials” in “sanitation, vaccination, and quarantine works at all ports and airports. Vaccinations will be given to all passengers and port workers” from a stockpile of 378,000 doses distributed to the nation's ports by the health ministry. Passengers...

2020-04-14 09:39

Virus-beating Chinese donates W1.2 million in thank-you gift to Korean medical workers

Virus-beating Chinese donates W1.2 million in thank-you gift to Korean medical workers

“I was scared when I got quarantined for treatment in the first place,” the woman said. “But I became relieved and relaxed and was able to concentrate on treatment thanks to the kindness and dedication they showed me.”

Park Si-soo | 2020-04-08 15:51

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