Cambridge University’s English language department has launched a competition to find the best young Cambridge English speaker in Asia. Open to 18- to 25-year-olds, winning candidates will be awarded with prizes including an MBA scholarship in London.All those studying Cambridge English programs in Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and India are eligible to ap

The obese and smokers are likely to die before their peers, a state-run institute said Tuesday, stressing the importance of staying fit and smoke-free. The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs said Tuesday that overweight people are likely to die 2.6 years before those of healthy weight, while smokers die 5.6 years earlier on average than non-smokers, based on analysis of the National Hea

The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family Affairs is to recruit a female marriage immigrant in the first such move for a central government agency, officials said Tuesday. The hiring is hoped to bring diversity to the ministry’s policies and eventually into other departments, which are also pushing multiculturalism. The ministry made the announcement of a job opening for an assistant position for

Sleeping five hours a night and only exercising when required to, Kwon Hye-won, like the majority of other female high-school students, was unhappy with her body.“I spent most of my time studying, so a lot of my peers and I weren’t happy with how we looked,” said the second year university student.Sadly, Kwon’s case is the majority here, according to a survey released Tuesday.The National Youth Po

According to figures released Monday by the Seoul office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, 423 asylum seekers applied for refugee status here in 2010, nearly a third more than the year before.Although there is a global trend toward a decrease in asylum seekers, experts believe it is hard to say that it is having an effect here.They predict the number of refugee seekers will exceed 400 ap

   South Korea's quarantine agency said Tuesday it found bacteria that may be harmful to babies in a powdered milk product imported from Japan.   The National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service (NVRQS) said enterobacter sakazaki bacteria was detected in powdered milk made by Wacodo Co. Ltd.    The discovery was made when inspectors checked samples from a 50-box shipment containing 222 kilo

   Traces of radioactive iodine have been detected in Seoul and a few other areas of South Korea following the nuclear crisis in quake-stricken Japan, a state-run nuclear safety agency said Tuesday.   The Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS) said that it started to analyze materials taken from the air in 12 places across the nation Monday and detected traces of radioactive iodine-131 in the at

Hongik University, one of the leading higher-educational institutes in arts, will establish a campus in California to give its students the opportunity to study abroad and open their eyes to the broader world, the school said Monday. The move follows the recently announced guidelines of the Education Ministry allowing establishment of overseas campuses of educational facilities.Hongik said they ch

Children of migrant families will be given the chance to learn Korean through an after-school program, Seoul Metropolitan Government said Monday.Hoping to ease the children’s transition into the culture, officials have established the program in elementary schools in districts with a high ratio of foreigners.The program includes lessons on Korean culture in order to raise the effectiveness of lear