Hints and tips:
...Education minister Yoo Eun-hye urged students to be tested at home with the rapid antigen test kits twice a week before coming to school....
...Ko Kum-sook, who runs one of Seoul’s 200 zero-waste shops, says about 80 per cent of her customers are women in their 20s and 30s....
...Kang Eun-mi, a politician with the progressive Justice party, expects a new labour law to drive change....
...But Yoo Chang-keun, a South Korean businessman, has a cautionary tale....
...Choi Eun-young, the former chairwoman of Hanjin Shipping, is under investigation for alleged insider trading, as the South Korean shipping group struggles to raise funds needed to ease disruptions in cargo...
...There’s a deliberate irony to In-Sook Chappell’s engrossing play about life in North Korea....
...Kim Eun-sook, a publisher, shuttles manuscripts and proofs to the censors’ office; the play she has had translated is returned butchered, whole pages obliterated using an ink roller....
...Yoo’s fears are justified — an annual average of nine haenyeo have died in the water over the past four years....
...About 50 investigators went into the offices of Cheonghaejin Marine, the operator of the ill-fated Sewol, and its affiliates, as well as homes of the company’s owner, Yoo Byung-eun, and his family, in search...
...“I think it will be an improvement,” says Yoo Soo-hee, 55, as a small white dog loiters in search of scraps. “But we are frustrated with the politicians.”...
...Kyung-sook Shin’s Please Look After Mother (“Mom” in the US edition), the tale of a country woman who goes missing in Seoul train station, has been published in 34 countries....
...The country’s financial regulator on Tuesday launched an investigation into Cheonghaejin Marine, the operator of the ill-fated Sewol, and into the company’s owner, Yoo Byung-eun, over possible illegal foreign...
...In a statement issued on Friday, Yoo Byung-eun, whose two sons control Chonghaejin’s parent company, said he was “shocked and deeply saddened by the loss of life”, but stressed that he was not involved in...
...But for Ms Yoo, the TOEIC syllabus is “not helpful” for a good understanding of English....
..., London is hosting the K-Music festival to give a wider picture of the music of the Korean peninsula: last night the National Orchestra of Korea played its first concert in the UK; later this week Ahn Sook-Sun...
...Koh Yoo-hwan, a North Korea expert at Dongguk University, said Pyongyang’s rhetoric was an attempt to “cement its position as a nuclear power and to draw the US to the negotiating table”....
...“I don’t see any signs of the succession going awry,” says Goh Yoo-hwan, a professor at Dongguk University in Seoul....
...Experts say it could gradually undermine both Kim Jong-eun’s police state and his propaganda machine....
...I am worried there could be some conflict after this funeral as many people believe Lee Myung-bak is responsible for what happened,” said Yoo Hyo-suk, 28, an office worker....
...Lee Eun-sang, deputy director of Korea’s sexual violence relief centre, hoped the police inquiry would prove a landmark case in cracking down on abuse....
...Both Mr Yoo and Mr Grayken deny any wrongdoing. A court verdict for Mr Yoo is set for February 1....
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