As few as one out of five South Koreans considers his or her grandparents as "part of the family," according to a recent survey, reflecting the shrinking definition of a family in the rapidly changing society.According to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, only 23.4 percent of 4,754 respondents said in the survey released Monday that they consider their paternal grandparents to be part of

Programs for foreigners fall victim to council's anachronismThe spat between Seoul City government and city council is likely to ruin the administration’s efforts to promote local tourism, as many programs for foreigners have been downsized due to a budget shortage this year.The Seoul Metropolitan Government last week announced this year’s cultural experience programs for foreigners, under which i

An actor who confessed to smuggling in and using drugs was sentenced to two and a half years in jail by a Seoul court Monday. The prosecution had demanded four years.Kim Seong-min, 38, was arrested and indicted by prosecutors last month on charges of bringing in methamphetamines and marijuana from the Philippines on several occasions from April 2008 to August 2010 and consuming them at his residen

REMBAU, Malaysia -- An accident that resulted in about RM75,000 worth of coins being strewn on a highway saw motorists risking their lives as they scrambled to get the money.They parked their vehicles haphazardly along KM234 of the North-South Expressway and scooped the coins into helmets, pockets, plastic bags and whatever else that they could find until they were stopped by the police.Some were

First co-ed ROTC cadets go through military training side by side with men, look to change attitudesSEONGNAM, Gyeonggi Province ― At a military training camp in the mountainous outskirts of Seoul, Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets in camouflage, equipped with K-2 assault rifles, strike at their imagined enemy with the butt of their weapons.Closer examination of the future warriors reveals some

A former pastor has been sentenced to nine years in prison for having sex with underage members of his congregation, the Seoul High Court said Sunday. The 65-year-old man, surnamed Kang, had been indicted on charges of having sex with his victims, including a then 11-year-old girl, and sexually molesting three others at his church in 2006. (MCT)He was also found to have taken photos of them in sex

(Yonhap News)Two light planes collided and crashed in southern South Korea on Friday, leaving two pilots dead, police said.The mid-air collision happened during training flights at around 9:51 a.m. and the civilian planes went down into road-side rice paddies in the coastal town of Uljin, about 320 kilometers southeast of Seoul, according to police.The aircraft had taken off from Uljin Airport's f