North Korean defectors are in need of English teachers this summer. Native English speakers are being sought to teach elementary and middle school students at a Hana Center near Daecheong Subway Station in Seoul. The Hana regional support centers help North Koreans continue to adjust to life in the south. They are the next step in integrating refugees into life here after they finish the three mon

Charity aims to improve young people’s rights and end child abuseMost kids in South Korea no longer lack food or shelter. But too many of them lack another necessity, according to Save the Children Korea president Kim No-bo ― they are missing a voice. By this, he means the ability for kids here to speak out in their own interest. “My greatest concern is on child abuse,” he said. “The major issue i

A new study revealed that people who don’t get enough sleep are more likely to blame others depending on the outcome as lack of sleep leads to skeptical and negative judgments, MSNBC reported. (MCT)Associate professor of psychology at the University of Arkansas, David Mastin presented the abstract of his research which linked sleepiness to alteration in people’s thoughts, at SLEEP 2011, the 25th a

A male teenager was arrested Wednesday for sexually violating the corpse of a woman who had fallen from an apartment following an apparent suicide.  The 16-year-old high-school student told police that he wanted to see “what would happen.” The incident happened in an apartment complex in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province on Monday.According to police, he found the 68-year-old woman dead in a ga

Alarm bells are ringing loudly over the rapidly growing number of suicides among aged Koreans.Figures from Statistics Korea show the number of suicides per 100,000 people aged 65 or over increased 5.38 times from 14.3 in 1990 to 77 in 2009. In comparison, the figures for age groups of 15-34 years and 35-64 years rose by 2.49 times and 3.41 times to 23.2 and 35.9, respectively, over the same period

Calls mounting for better safety net for aged people living aloneA 65-year-old woman surnamed Park was found dead in an apartment where she had lived alone in Asan, South Chungcheong Province, on a freezing day in February. Just two hours earlier, police had discovered a 55-year-old man, who had also been living in solitude, lying dead in a neighboring apartment.Police officers, who visited their

The military has introduced new rules to block the physical and verbal abuses that are allegedly rampant inside barracks, officials said Tuesday.The measures came in the wake of a deadly shooting spree by a marine in his barracks early this month. Under the rules adopted by the Defense Ministry, enlisted soldiers, excluding squad or team leaders, may no longer order or instruct fellow soldiers, an

 North Korea has been accused of doctoring a news photo to exaggerate damage from recent rains.The image showing pedestrians wading through thigh-high water on a Pyongyang street was released by North Korea’s state run Korea Central News Agency to the Associated Press, as part of their recently-signed licensing deal. The left photo provided by North Korea’s state-run KCNA is believed to have been