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YouTubers unveil alleged identities of Miryang gang rape assailants (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)

Weather this year

With climate change and the 52 degree Celsius in Deli in India I expected June in Korea to be devastating this year. But to my surprise I still didn’t turn on the AC. It’s still less than 30 degrees and especially the humidity is very low when I compare it to the last years I was here, it’s not raining yet either....

First day in daycare; He is doing great (jeena.net)

We have to pay half a million out of our pocket even though his mom is Korean, but the baby is not, because his mom wasn’t Korean when he was born....

Wartime alarm on the phone

I just got some wartime alarm on the phone. Did you guys get it to in Korea?

A Small Group in South Korea Has a Big Homophobic Agenda (www.nytimes.com)

Learning Korean is so difficult :(

I’ve been living in Korea for about three and a half years now. I have the language around me, my partner and her daughter speak it at home. But for some reason I am not learning anything from being exposed to it for such a long time....

Me asking my friend ... (jemmy.jeena.net)

South Korea hopes new speed train links will help boost birthrate (www.reuters.com)

I can only imagine it helps, if it has sleeping wagons - designated for boosting birth rate - connected to it.

K-pop star apologises to angry fans for having a boyfriend (news.sky.com)

South Korean companies are offering workers $75,000 to have babies amid the country's desperate bid for more children (www.businessinsider.com)

South Korea jails former hero pastor for sexually abusing North Korean teenage defectors | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

Happy lunar new year dumplings (jemmy.jeena.net)

We are visiting the inlaws and making dumplings....

What is the best U.S. bank for accessing money in South Korea?

Hello, Korea community. I taught English in Korea for a few years over a decade ago. At the time, my bank I used in the U.S. was Wells Fargo. I had an absolutely awful experience with them while in Korea. I never once had access to the money in the Wells Fargo account the entire time I lived in Korea....

Is this the Korean Lemmy instance?

Hello. I am from Korea. I heard of Lemmy while I was browsing the Korean community DCinside. I thought lemmy.world was “the” Lemmy community. But it turns out each community is hosted by different people, which are divided into smaller communities?...

Danish report underscores 'systematic illegal behavior' in adoptions of children from South Korea (apnews.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11193156...

30 babies in line for nursery

It’d be funny if it weren’t so tragic. Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world and it has many reasons, 4th quater last year was 0.6 children per woman. Here is one of the reasons:...

North Korea will no longer pursue reconciliation with South, Kim Jong Un says (apnews.com)

South Korea Expects Its Already-World’s-Lowest Fertility Rate to Keep Falling (time.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9547028...

South Korea on brink of ‘extinction’ unless embraces immigration, says minister (www.telegraph.co.uk)

South Korea pushes ‘carbon-free’ plan, but its shift to renewables has slowed (www.washingtonpost.com)

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/4712637...

Hotels grapple with chronic staff shortages (www.koreatimes.co.kr)

It is difficult for hotels to hire staff because of the typically heavy workloads and comparatively low compensation....

Twitch to shut down in Korea over 'prohibitively expensive' network fees (techcrunch.com)

Influenza test is like Covid test at the doctors

Covid changed even Influenza testing. Yesterday I went to the doctor here in Korea because I was feeling sick for over 3 days already and they asked if I want a test. I didn’t quite understand for what and thought it’s necessary so I said yes. It was the same as for Covid, they tickle your brain with a stick through your...