Park Geun-Hye’s administration is on the brink of issuing 6,000 pardons for minor offenders in honor of the Lunar New Year. These pardons are a power of the President and are often handed out twice a year. This year was notable as she excluded politicians and high-profile businessmen.
A Korean SW engineer leaked credit card information for 80 million accounts. This is a huge story since Korea only has a population of 50 million people.
Long lines are forming at bank branches as people try to cancel their credit cards. The leaked data comes from three credit card companies: KB Kookmin Card, NH NongHyup Card and Lotte Card. Many people are complaining about poor customer service as the website servers are overloaded and bank lines are extremely long. Foreigners are complaining that they’re received no information at all about the breach. Continue reading
According to a recent survey of 38,000 Koreans, seven out of ten seniors would rather live alone than with their children. This reflects a growing desire to remain social and independent.
Koreans watch more movies than people from any other country – even the U.S.
A fun list that says a lot about the people of South Korea.
There’s a bit of online talk over what the perfect face looks like, in the eyes of Koreans. What do you think?
Hard to see in the blowing wind, but there’s snowflakes coming down.