Challenges for mixed couples adopting and residing in Korea.

While it’s getting more difficult for the international community to adopt from Korea, it’s even harder for mixed couples residing here. The Korea Times shared a story about the hardships of adoption faced by an American husband and Korean wife couple living in Gyeonggi Province.

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Easy to Learn Korean 971 – Mixed Feelings, bittersweet emotions.

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Easy to Learn Korean 970 – Flirting with someone.

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Easy to Lean Korean 969 – Social issues: self-immolation.

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Happy 1st!

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Birthday-cakeWe began as a newspaper series in 2009 and didn’t expand online until one year ago. 2013 was an exciting year as we launched the ETLK website, jumped into social networking, and published our first book. Thank you for following us so far and stay tuned for big projects ahead! Continue reading

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Easy to Learn Korean 968 – Avian Influenza.

Update: “The virus is usually spread by migratory birds.” The word, generally-일반적으로, is missing from the beginning of the sentence. It should read: 일반적으로 그 바이러스는 철새로 인해 전염되요. [Thanks to reader David So for pointing that out^^]

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Reduced flights to Japan due to weak Yen.

Flights-JapanKorea-based airlines will dramatically reduce the number of flights to Japan in 2014 as less passengers choose this as their destination. The number of people traveling between Japan and Korea fell 15% in 2013. Continue reading

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