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- Nobel laureate downplays jitters over Korea's 'miraculous' economy
- Joel Mokyr, a co-laureate of this year's Nobel Prize in Economics and a professor at Northwestern University in the U.S., on Oct. 13 answers questions at a news conference held at his school in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois. (Yonhap News) By Lee Jihae Joel Mokyr, a professor of economics ..
- 2025.10.15
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- Work while wandering: 'workation' model offers good life balance
- Workers on Sept. 19 type on their PCs at Seosang Workation Center in the township of Seo-myeon in Namhae-gun County, Gyeongsangnam-do Province. Formerly a passenger ship terminal until the 2012 World Expo in Yeosu, Jeollanam-do Province, the facility underwent renovation and was reopened as a commun..
- 2025.10.15
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- Institute helps find supermassive galaxy glowing bright blue
- Shown is an imagined illustration of a supermassive black hole galaxy. (Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institute) By Koh Hyun Jeong The Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) on Oct. 13 said it jointly discovered with an international research team a blue-excess dust-obscured galaxy (bl..
- 2025.10.15
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- Gugak goes global: expat band promotes traditional music
- Sound Trek, a gugak (traditional music) band composed of five foreign members, on Sept. 18 performs at the Yeongdong World Traditional Music and Arts Expo in Yeongdong-gun County, Chungcheongbuk-do Province. (Korea International Broadcasting Foundation) By Kim Seon Ah The Yeongdong World Traditional..
- 2025.10.15
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- Family centers nationwide to host programs over Chuseok holiday
- Marriage immigrants on Sept. 29 wear Hanbok (traditional clothing) in a program to make songpyeon (half moon-shaped rice cakes) for Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving) at the Family Center in Chuncheon, Gangwon-do Province. (Family Center in Chuncheon) By Park Hye Ri Family Centers nationwide will offer p..
- 2025.10.15
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- Winners of 2025’s Talk Talk Korea content contest announced
- The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on Sept. 26 announced the 79 winning entries of this year's Talk Talk Korea, a global contest for Hallyu (Korean Wave). Shown is "The Light of Gwangbokjeol (Liberation Day)" by Vina Aulia Zakiah Sodikin from Indonesia, the first-place winner of a special c..
- 2025.10.15
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- No. of Korean-language test takers breaks 550K; 15 exams set for 2026
- The number of people taking the Test of Proficiency in Korean, aka TOPIK, has surpassed 550,000 this year. Shown are foreign contestants on Oct. 9 displaying their entries in a Hangeul calligraphy competition to mark the 579th anniversary of Hangeul Day at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul's Jongno-gu Dis..
- 2025.10.15
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- New rules to boost hiring of disabled workers in gov't, private sectors
- Competitors on May 26 in Busan fix computers in a skills contest for disabled people. (Yonhap News) By Koh Hyunjeong The Ministry of Employment and Labor on Oct. 1 announced its gradual raising of mandatory employment rates for disabled workers by 2029 to 3.5% in the private sector and 4% in the pub..
- 2025.10.15
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- Research team makes bio-based raw materials for plastic bottles
- A research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has produced the raw materials for PET bottles -- benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and paraxylene -- from bio-based sources instead of petroleum refining. (Kim Seon Ah) By Kim Seon Ah A research team from the Korea Advanced In..
- 2025.10.15
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- New location correcting tech boasts data accurate within cm
- The National Geographic Information Institute (NGII), an affiliate of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, on Sept. 30 announced that it will launch on Oct. 1 trial operations of the Gridded-Virtual Reference Station (G-VRS), a location data service based on a new satellite. (Screen c..
- 2025.10.15