Many young foreigners these days love K-pop so much that they do not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy a ticket for a K-pop concert. They are also fond of the K-movies and K-dramas streamed on Netflix. Many of them idolize K-pop singers and want to visit the country that has produced such charming and appealing pop culture. But for K-politics, things are quite the opposite. While K-pop and K-film have made South Korea proud, K-politics has been an embarrassment. Foreign experts who care ab

Wine for sale in a department store in Seoul, Tuesday. According to data from the Korean Customs Service, alcohol imports to South Korea doubled over four years, to log $1.6 billion in 2022. The numbers record a 54 percent increase from the alcohol imports logged in 2018 ($1 billion). As a result, the balance of the liquor trade in Korea was a deficit of $1.2 billion last year. With the increased amount of wine imports, the trade deficit for alcohol nearly doubled in four years, from the deficit

Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Chung Euisun (right) talks with a member of a foreign delegation at a banquet in Paris on Monday, the night before a symposium on Tuesday to promote Busan's bid to host the 2030 World Expo. Hyundai Motor provided 10 electric vehicles wrapped in designs promoting Busan's Expo bid for the Korean delegation, as it carries out various campaign activities such as hosting the symposium and a K-pop concert in the French capital this week. (Hyundai Motor Gro

Part Ⅰ Choose the best answer for the blank. 1. A: Do you have any glue? B: There should be ______ in my desk drawer. (a) the others (b) each (c) every (d) some 해석 A: 너 풀 가진 것 있니? B: 내 책상 서랍에 조금 있을 거야. 해설 올바른 부정 대명사 채우기 'There + 동사(should be)' 다음에 진짜 주어 자리가 비어 있다. 보기 중 주어 자리에 올 수 있는 대명사 (a), (b), (d)가 정답의 후보이다. 문맥상 ‘내 책상 서랍에 조금 있을 거야’라는 의미가 되어야 하므로, ‘조금, 약간, 몇몇’을 뜻하는 부정대명사 (d) some이 정답이다. (a) the others는 부정대명사로 쓰일 때 ‘정해진 것 중 남은 것 전부’라는 의미이고, (b) e

Despite coming from vastly different beginnings -- one of us comes from a fishing district in Malawi with one of the country’s highest adolescent pregnancy rates, the other grew up in West Germany during the height of the women’s movement -- we have both seen the transformative impact of empowering women and girls. What also unites us is the same sense of urgency for more to be done -- faster and at a bigger scale. During the first 20 years of this century, progress toward equality w

By Yoon Hee-keun Industrialization and advanced technology have driven human progress, but they can also, ironically, lead to environmental disasters and transnational dangers. An OECD report, “Emerging Risks in the 21st Century,” published in 2003, forecast that modern society would face five major risks: natural disasters, technological accidents, infectious diseases, food safety and terrorism-related risks. Twenty years later, these forecasts appear to be becoming a reality. COVID

LG Group’s advertisement for Busan’s bid to host 2030 World Expo is displayed at a Fnac store in Paris. The Korean conglomerate plans to carry out diverse promotional activities across the French capital until Nov. 28 when the Bureau International des Expositions holds a general assembly to decide the host country of the 2030 Expo. (LG Group)

Hyundai Motor Group on Monday unveiled a new promotional video for Busan’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo. Titled “Busan Initiative with the Whole World,” the new video explores South Korea’s rise as an advanced economy from a war-torn country in the 1950s and Busan’s potential as the host of the 2030 Expo to inspire other nations for sustainable growth. (Hyundai Motor Group)

On Aug. 2, the ruling People Power Party and the government jointly issued a decision to grant aspiring homeowners who intend to occupy apartment units constructed without sufficient reinforcing bars, commonly referred to as “rebarless” apartment units, to cancel their contracts. From a legal point of view, it is crucial to clarify that this decision has a specific scope, which applies only to contracts for the purchase of dwellings built by state-run entities such as Korea Land and

In recent days, the country has been subjected to a chilling preview of what MAGA rule would look like if Donald Trump returns to power, as America’s allies looked on in shock while its enemies had good reason to cheer. Having failed to shut down the government, but succeeded in axing Ukraine aid, a handful of Trump acolytes on Capitol Hill set out to cripple the US government by other means. Led by MAGA Rep. Matt Gaetz, whose narcissism trumps Trump, these Republican Party hard-liners axe

After weeks of finger-pointing, rhetorical gamesmanship and intra-Republican high jinks, Congress managed to avoid a federal government shutdown over the weekend by passing a 45-day stopgap funding package. US President Joe Biden wasted no time signing it into law. For supporters of additional military aid to Ukraine, the continuing resolution was a bitter pill to swallow. Despite last-minute lobbying from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the law doesn’

(From left) Ukrainian Ambassador to South Korea Dmytro Ponomarenko, Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Nikolayenko, Posco Group Chairman Choi Jeong-woo and Ukrainian lawmaker Serhiy Taruta hold hands for a photo after their talks on rebuilding the war-torn country at the steel giant’s Seoul headquarters, Friday. During the meeting, Posco said its chairman renewed his commitment to joining the reconstruction work. In March, Posco launched a task force dedicated to supporting Ukraine’s rebuil