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☆ North Korea executed 30 teenagers for watching South Korean dramas: reports
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Hannah Abraham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewIn North Korea, watching your favorite Korean dramas could end in tragedy. According to reports from South Korean news outlets Chosun TV and Korea JoongAng Daily, around 30 middle schoolers were publicly shot last week for watching South Korean dramas. Despite eyewitness accounts compiled by Amnesty International, the North Korean government has denied that public executions take place in the country. Recently, experts have speculated that North Korean military personnel could be sent to aid Russian efforts in Ukraine, following closer ties between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russia's President Vladimir Putin. AdvertisementRepresentatives from North Korea and the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea didn't immediately reply to requests for comment.

Persons: —, Kim Jong, Vladimir Putin, North Korea didn't Organizations: Service, South, Chosun, Business, Korean Unification Ministry, Korean, Rights, South Korea's Ministry of Unification, Amnesty International, North Korean, North, Korea Herald, Human Rights Locations: Korea, South Korean, North, South Korea, Japan, UN, Kangwon Province, North Korea, Ukraine

☆ South Koreans are dealing with burnout and loneliness by getting pet rocks
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-19 | by ( Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

South Korean millennials are turning to pet rocks to combat loneliness and burnout at work. Originally a 1970s joke gift, pet rocks can give a low-maintenance sense of companionship. AdvertisementAdults in South Korea are using pet rocks to help with loneliness and burnout at work. The Journal's Jiyoung Sohn spoke to millennials turning to pet rocks to help them through difficult periods in their careers. Related storiesThe coronavirus pandemic prompted a pet-rock boom in South Korea, according to a July 2023 report by Korea JoongAng Daily.

Persons: —, Gary Dahl, Bettmann, Jiyoung Sohn, Koo Ah, Sohn, Koo, Yoon Jeonghan, Gen Z Organizations: Service, Street, Business, South Korea's Ministry of Interior, Safety, The Korea Herald, South Korea's Ministry, CNN, Bloomberg, Companies Locations: South Korea, Asia, Seoul, Korea

☆ Google's efforts to shrink its workforce in Korea has hit a snag as some employees are refusing to go
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

About 10 Google employees from its office in Seoul have accepted the company's suggestion to resign, the report said. Around 100 Google workers in Korea formed a union last year due to mounting concerns over the industry-wide layoffs in the US. "With the ongoing job cuts within the US tech industry, employees have been concerned about their job security and decided to establish a union," Kim Jong-sub, head of the Google Korea union, told Korea Herald last April. Google laid off 12,000 employees in 2023 — about 6% of its headcount — and it's continuing to make job cuts this year. A total of 262,595 employees were laid off from 1,186 tech companies in 2023, Layoffs.fyi, which tracks job cuts, showed.

Persons: KangNam, Bongsoo Jung, Kim Jong, Sundar Pichai, Hugh Langley, Google didn't Organizations: Service, Google, Korea JoongAng Daily, Business, Google Korea, Korea Herald, Korea Locations: South Korea, Korea, Seoul

☆ Please don't: People keep trying to open the exits on South Korean planes in mid-air, and airlines are asking them to stop
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

There have been three incidents with emergency exits on South Korean airlines in the last six months. There will be a pre-flight warning telling passengers not to open the emergency exits mid-flight, per JoongAng Daily. AdvertisementAfter three incidents in the last six months, South Korean airlines will have to warn passengers not to open the emergency exits mid-flight, according to local outlet JoongAng Daily. According to South Korea's Aviation Security Act, tampering with emergency exits is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. AdvertisementIt's not the first measure that South Korea has introduced to try to prevent further incidents.

Persons: —, hyperventilation Organizations: Service, JoongAng Daily, South Korea's Aviation Security, Korea Times, Asiana Airlines, Guardian, Korean Locations: Korea, Philippines, South Korea, New York, Incheon

☆ Woman on Meth Tried to Open Plane Door of Korean Air Flight: Report
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A woman tried to open the emergency door of a Korean Air flight several times mid-air. AdvertisementAn airline passenger tried to open the emergency door of a Korean Air flight midair while under the influence of drugs, a report says. AdvertisementPolice said she had come to South Korea after spending six months in New York and had no record of mental illness. South Korean citizens are prohibited from using drugs, even if they are in another country where drug use is legal. In June, a 19-year-old tried to open the door during a flight traveling from Cebu to Incheon and was arrested, the outlet said.

Persons: — Organizations: Korean Air, Service, Korean, South, Yonhap News Agency, Police Locations: New York, Incheon, Korea, South Korea, Jeju, Daegu, Cebu

☆ A Korean woman in Japan says she was hospitalized after being served a cup with bleach in it. She's accusing the restaurant of a hate crime.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Korean woman said she was the victim of a hate crime in a Tokyo restaurant, per local media. She said she was served a cup of water with bleach in it and had to be taken to the hospital. The Korean Embassy has asked local police to investigate the incident, per local reports. The woman, surnamed Kang, told the South Korean broadcaster JTBC that the incident happened at an unnamed high-end restaurant in Tokyo's Ginza district on August 31, according to the English-language South Korean newspaper The Korea Times. "We apologize to the customer who was food poisoned and her family for causing great pain and inconvenience," the restaurant said in a written statement, per the South Korean newspaper JoongAng Daily.

Persons: Kang, JTBC Organizations: Korean Embassy, Service, South, JTBC, Korean, The Korea Times, South Korean, Embassy, United States Institute of Peace, Japan Times Locations: Tokyo, Wall, Silicon, South Korean, Ginza, Japan, South Korea, Korean, Kyoto Prefecture

☆ People online are mocking a bizarre crossover that's turned arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin into streetwear in South Korea
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Users on X and TikTok spotted Lockheed Martin brand streetwear being sold online in South Korea. "Why is lockheed martin making streetwear for swagged out Asians," wrote one user on X. The South Korean company told Insider in an email that it acquired the official Lockheed Martin license brand through an agency. The collection was spotted by X user @wiggerwakanda on Friday, which read: "why is lockheed martin making streetwear for swagged out Asians." "Military industrial complex sponsored Korean streetwear is wayyyy too insane to have made it onto my 2023 bingo card," X user @candidspeaks posted on Wednesday.

Persons: Lockheed Martin, lockheed martin, streetwear, Doojin Yanghang, opaleyes369, Daily's Shin Organizations: Lockheed, lockheed, Service, Won, South, CNN, Yale, Billboard, Kodak, Equity Management Locations: South Korea, swagged, Wall, Silicon, American, Korean, Korea

☆ A South Korean airline plans to weigh passengers, putting them on scales before each flight to comply with local laws
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementKorean Air, South Korea's flagship airline, plans to weigh passengers before they board flights, saying local laws demand it. AdvertisementAdvertisementKorea JoongAng Daily reported that the airline told it: "The data collated anonymously will be utilized for survey purposes and doesn't mean overweight passengers will need to pay more." There has been an online backlash to the measure, with some potential passengers raising concerns about their privacy, according to the Korea JoongAng Daily. However, the airline told the newspaper that passengers who feel uncomfortable with the process can communicate their feelings to boarding staff. AdvertisementAdvertisementAir New Zealand, however, is asking passengers to step on the scales as part of a "passenger weight survey" to fulfill a requirement by New Zealand's Civil Aviation Authority.

Organizations: South Korea's, Gimpo Airport, Incheon Airport, Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, Ministry of Land, Daily, Korean, Korea Times, Federal Aviation Authority, New Zealand's Civil Aviation Authority Locations: South, Korea, Zealand

☆ The 10 least affordable places to live if you're an expat in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Reena Koh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

New York, Hong Kong, and Geneva are the top 3 unaffordable cities to live in if you're an expat in 2023. Read further for the 10 least affordable places to live if you're an expat in 2023, ranked from the most expensive to the least expensive. Alberto MazzaThe average monthly rent for a four-room apartment in Geneva's city center is about $4,600. GettyThe median monthly rent for a two-bedroom flat in London touched a high of $2,895 in December, according to CNBC. JaCZhou 2015/Getty ImagesThe average monthly rent for a four-room apartment in the city center of Zurich sits at around $4,200, per The Local.

Persons: —, Lee Quane, Read, Sharp, ANTHONY WALLACE, Alberto Mazza, LondonlovesBusiness, Justin Sullivan, Alexander Spatari, Marielle, Allan Baxter, Tokyo Kantei Organizations: Service, York, ECA, Big Apple, NBC, New York Times, Getty, expats, Bloomberg, CNBC, San Francisco Bay Area, Jerusalem Post, Central Bureau of Statistics, CBS, South Korea Skyline, South, Financial Times Locations: . New York, Hong Kong, Geneva, London, Singapore, New York, Asia, expat, Manhattan, expats, NBC New York, China Hong, Switzerland, Geneva's, Swiss, NurPhoto, Zurich, San Francisco, US, San Francisco Bay, Tel Aviv, Israel, Jerusalem, Seoul, South Korea, South Korean, —, Korean, Tokyo, Japan

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