Buying sex is illegal for Koreans, even abroad. Yet no legal measures penalize such online postsSouth Koreans leaving online reviews about visiting prostitution establishments in Southeast Asian countries like Thailand, Vietnam and Laos have proliferated, despite legal prohibition both here for Koreans and there abroad, according to observers and ( Read more... )

The main perpetrator of the so-called "Seoul National University Nth Room" digital s** crime case has been brought to trial. He trembled and sobbed while giving his testimony in court.

According to the legal community on the 4th, the 31st Criminal Division of the Seoul Central District Court (Chief Judge Park Joon-seok) held the first trial of Park ( Read more... )

Average Korean workers in their 20s need 86.4 years to buy an apartment in Seoul using only their wage earnings, a report showed Monday. Lee Han-jin, a researcher at the Labor Institute of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the largest umbrella union, released the report based on official statistics on household finance and real estate data ( Read more... )

The crowd-pulling panda will return to China as part of Beijing's "panda diplomacy" under which animals are leased as goodwill gestures. Fu Bao became a favorite as she was born in South Korea to loaned animals.

A South Korean theme park in Yongin near Seoul on Sunday threw a farewell bash for one of its most famous residents, Fu Bao, the giant ( Read more... )

Report calls for measures to maintain minimum infrastructure for child careThe sharply declining birthrate in Korea is projected to result in the closures of approximately one-third of daycare centers and kindergartens in the country by 2028, a report showed Tuesday ( Read more... )

Ratio of those aged 19 to 34 set to fall to 11 percent in 30 yearsKorea will see the population of young people decline at an accelerated pace, with the number of those aged 19 to 34 expected to drop by half about 30 years from now, according to a report, Monday ( Read more... )

A 15-year-old boy said he wishes he could turn the clock back to before he began gambling, as he has been staying in the remote rural village of Muju for a treatment program after losing more than 100 million won ($76,934) to gambling ( Read more... )

A man in South Korea has been arrested for a late-night attack on a female convenience store worker after thinking she was a feminist.

CCTV footage showed the man in his 20s entering the store in the south-eastern city of Jinju after midnight and punching and kicking the woman.

He also assaulted another customer, in his 50s, who tried to ( Read more... )

In a rare collab Sooyoung, appears on OneShotHansol's Youtube channel! You may recognise him from this post last year.

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For 3 years now, Muslim students of Kyungpook National University in Daegu have wanted to build a mosque. However this is been met with opposition by local residents in the neighbourhood just outside the uni campus. Their reasoning? They think that the mosque will turn their neighbourhood into a 'slum' and have placed a tall display fridge with ( Read more... )