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A recent Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development report showed a great disparity in the obesity rates of boys and girls in Korea. While 26.4 …

The growing tide of violent crimes against Koreans in the Philippines has prompted the Korean authorities to increase support for the Philippine police. Kang …

Koreans are inquisitive by nature. A foreigner who visited Korea in 1892 wrote, “Koreans are curious and like to meddle in other people’s business.” Even …

The unveiling of Seoul’s new English slogan “I.Seoul.U” at the end of October stirred a hearty round of laughter on social media as people made jokes and …

A cable car construction boom is underway across the nation. According to reports, more than 30 cable car projects are being promoted or planned by local …

The operations of the National Assembly have been normalized as the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy ended its boycott of parliamentary …

Recently released national scores reveal that high-stakes testing is not helping public education. Scores from the 2015 National Assessment of Educational …

I don’t know why, but we Koreans love to make a spectacle of everything, and the latest round of family reunions at the Mount Geumgangsan adds new wrinkles …

Much of the national debate about widening inequality focuses on whether or how much to tax the rich and redistribute their income downward.But this debate …

It is not unusual for the central government and local governments to clash over policy priorities. It is the same between provincial and metropolitan …