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    Seollal exodus

    (PHOTO NEWS) A couple with children in hanbok, or Korean traditional dress, head for...

    • Posted January 29, 2014
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    Choco Pie sold for $10 in NK black market

    Choco Pie, the enormously popular marshmallow sandwich snack, is selling for $10 each in...

    • Posted January 29, 2014
  • Kim Seong-do, 74, holds a receipt for the value-added tax the Dokdo resident paid for what he earned from the sale of Dokdo-related souvenirs last year, at the National Tax Service, Monday. (Courtesy of NTS)
    Dokdo resident pays tax

    By Choi Kyong-ae Korea has collected value-added tax from the only household in Dokdo...

    • Posted January 28, 2014
  • The two Koreas have held 18 reunions since 2000 but they were halted in 2010 after inter-Korean ties plunged to one of their lower ebbs following North Korea’s deadly attack on a South Korean warship and an island.
    S. Korea proposes reunions Feb. 17-22

    By Chung Min-uck South Korea has proposed an inter-Korean family reunion from Feb. 17...

    • Posted January 27, 2014
  • Executive director of Korean American Family Services Connie Chung Joe, right, is announcing their new Korean Foster Family Initiative to recruit Korean foster parents to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate homes for Asian/Korean foster children on Wednesday. (Park Sang-hyuk)
    Show Some Love!

    Korean American Family Services (KFAM) launches Korean Foster Family Initiative (KFFI) Each year, nearly...

    • Posted January 24, 2014
  • South Korea is known for big spending on private tutors and luxury goods, but half of elderly are poor, which is the highest rate in the industrialized world. (Newsis)
    No Country for South Korea’s Old

    “For S. Korea’s old, a return to poverty as Confucian filial piety weakens”  Washington...

    • Posted January 23, 2014
  • This scene from "The Bourne Legacy" was filmed at subway stations in the Gangnam area, southern Seoul. (Korea Times file)
    Korea emerges as film location spot

    Hallyu boom, incentives attract foreign filmmakers By Chung Ah-young When Hollywood spy movie “The...

    • Posted January 23, 2014