Instagram and YouTube experienced significant growth in Korea in 2024.
Vocabulary on these and other websites is here.
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Special Tourist Zones.
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Which of South Korea’s special tourist zones have you visited? There’s 34 destinations within 13 cities. While some are struggling to attract high volumes of tourists, most are worth a visit.
Want to learn vocabulary about tourists? Check out this post and this post. And here for our articles on Gangnam.
Samsung taking hits from all sides.
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In September 2024, it was announced that Samsung would soon roll out 30% employee layoffs across many of their global divisions. This comes just months after crisis-mode kicked in and executives were asked to work 6-day weeks.
Now, many are questioning the value of Korean celebrities since many of them prefer to use iPhones. Want to learn smartphone vocabulary? Here’s our articles on: smartphones.
Online gambling is illegal in South Korea.
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Although popular, online gambling is illegal in South Korea and the country has strict regulations prohibiting most forms of it. This includes betting websites and casinos with only a few exceptions like the state-run Sports Toto and limited forms of horse racing, cycling, and boat racing betting.
The number of illegal gambling cases has tripled since 2019.
Here’s our article on gambling and casinos.
Hiking in the fall season.
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The sky is high and the horses are fat.
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“The sky is high and horses grow fat.”
천고마비 – (cheon-go-ma-bi).
Coming from Chinese, this ancient 4-letter-Chinese-idiom (사자성어) is used in Korea to represent the autumn/fall season.
Check out our detailed illustrate articles on the autumn season for more information.
Koreans line up for Nobel prize winner’s books.
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Koreans line up for books by Han Kang (female) on 10/10/2024 following her Nobel prize win in literature.
And our article on Korean poems.
Click here to learn more about the poet, Han Kang