About Hyejin Kim
Hyejin Kim enjoys hiking, learning about new places, and pondering the world. In her free time, she writes about interesting things she has encountered through work, school, and life. She blogs with Erik Mobrand at katongcouple.blogspot.com.
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January 9th, 2009
Korea: Marriage is reality
In order to avoid political issues for once, I found an interesting post and comments from other netizens. It’s about Love, Marriage, and Reality. What do you think?
"결혼은 현실이다"라고 말하는 여자..
몇달 전에 선을 봐서 조건이 좋은 여자 만났습니다. 외모도 이쁘고.. 학벌도 좋고.. 직업도 괜찮고.. 무남독녀 외동딸에.. 집안에 재산도 어마 ...
January 6th, 2009
Korea: New Year Episode on the Internet and public channels
Waiting for New Year excites people everywhere. People gather together in a place and welcome the New Year. In Korea, every year people gather together around Bosingak Bell Tower and bring in the New Year.
But this year seems to start with chaos.
Citizens have put the public channel ...
December 30th, 2008
Korea: Raising New Candles against ‘7 Evil Laws.'
While welcoming 2009, Korea has another series of candlelight vigils against the government. The major political party, the Grand National Party, and the government presented new and revised bills. Among citizens, it is called the '7 Evil Laws [KR].' They are about national security laws, communications track regulations (to make ...
December 23rd, 2008
Korea: Teachers who have been fired
Recently, some Korean teachers were fired because they were opposed to a new test that the government initiated, Ilje Gosa (one-type test, a nationwide scholastic achievement assessment). It is a test that all students take with the same questions and the same date, so that students can be compared across ...
December 20th, 2008
Korea: Teenage Rape and Parents' Responsibility
A teenager who has suffered from attention deficit disorder raped a seven year old girl. Having a previous record, the 18 year old was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the court. An interesting decision that the court made this time was to make his parents responsible for not ...
December 11th, 2008
Korea as a Multi-Ethnic Country
A daily newspaper, Hankyoreh, which is categorized as a progressive newspaper (or sometimes left-wing) introduced a series of articles, 'Multi-Culturalism is Our Future.' [KR] Korea, where one culture and one ethnic group are emphasized, currently has a population with only 2 percent foreign residents --1 million population. The newspaper article ...
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