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- Students with immigrant backgrounds to get more school aid
- The Ministry of Education has pledged more support for customized education for students with immigrant backgrounds. Shown are such students in a Korean-language class in March last year at Yaho Center of Youth Culture Center in Gwangju's Gwangsan-gu District. (Gwangsan-gu Office) By Park Hye Ri The..
- 2025.02.13
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- Value of foreign transactions of gov't bonds breaks KRW 60T
- The Korea Securities Depository (KSD) is located in the Yeouido neighborhood of Seoul's Yeongdeungpo-gu District. (KSD) By Yoo Yeon Gyeong The cumulative transactional amount of integrated government bond accounts by foreign investors has surpassed KRW 60 trillion. The Korea Securities Depository (K..
- 2025.02.13
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- Int'l workers, families to get free medical service in Seoul suburb
- This is a promotional poster for a program in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do Province, in which the city offers free medical service for foreign nationals on select days. (Hwaseong Special City) By Yoo Yeon Gyeong The municipal government of Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do Province, and the city's medical service volu..
- 2025.02.12
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- Nat'l Winter Para Games open in eastern province
- This year's National Winter Para Games are slated for Feb. 11-14 in Gangwon-do (State) Province. Shown is a Group B game between teams from the provinces of Chungcheongnam-do and Gyeonggi-do at the last competition from Feb. 18-21, 2024. (National Winter Para Games) By Lee Dasom This year's National..
- 2025.02.12
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- Jeju Island grants bottlenose dolphin official legal status
- Jeju Special Self-Governing Province on Feb. 9 hosted a ceremony for the launch of a group of supporters for Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins off the coast of Jeju Island at Haenyeo Museum in the town of Gujwa-eup in Jeju City. (Jeju Special Self-Governing Province) By Jeon Misun Residents of Jeju I..
- 2025.02.12
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- Is archive and document restoration the next big thing in Hallyu?
- This is a 19th-century edition of the Quran before (top) and after (bottom) restoration by the National Archives of Korea (NAK) per request by the Pakistani government. (NAK) By Yoo Yeon Gyeong The country's know-how in archive and document restoration could be the next big thing in Hallyu (Korean W..
- 2025.02.12
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- Winning weekend earns Korea 11 golds at Winter Asian Games
- Choi Minjeong (center), Kim Gilli (left) and Lee So-yeon, who won the gold, silver and bronze medal, respectively, in women's 500-m short track at the Asian Winter Games, on Feb. 8 wave the national flag Taegeukgi in front of fans at Multifunctional Hall of Heilongjiang Ice Training Center in Harbin..
- 2025.02.11
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- Teen becomes nation's 1st ballerino to win Swiss competition
- Park YounJae, 16, on Feb. 8 became the country's first ballerino to win the Prix de Lausanne competition in Lausanne, Switzerland. (Prix de Lausanne) By Margareth Theresia Park YounJae, 16, on Feb. 8 became the first Korean ballerino to win the prestigious dance competition Prix de Lausanne in Lausa..
- 2025.02.11
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- 100 ethnic Koreans from Sakhalin return home after 80 years
- Overseas Koreans Agency (OKA) Vice Commissioner Byun Chul-hwan (center) on Feb. 9 pushes the wheelchair of Choi Gun-ja, 92, the eldest among a group of ethnic Koreans moving back to Korea from Sakhalin Island of Russia, at the international passenger terminal of the Port of Donghae in Donghae, Gangw..
- 2025.02.11
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- Newly developed tech makes hydrogen without CO2 emissions
- Senior researcher Han Seung Ju (second from left in back row) poses with his research team. (Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology) By Koh Hyunjeong Domestic scientists have developed a technology to more effectively produce turquoise hydrogen by using a liquid metal catalyst (NiBiSe, CuBi..
- 2025.02.11