As Halloween rapidly approaches, here’s all of our scary and strange posts!
Easy to Learn Korean 1246 – Scary, frightening, and horrible.
Easy to Learn Korean 1321 – Frightened and terrified.
Easy to Learn Korean 1258 – Strange things.
Long-term foreign residents reaches all-time high.
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The number of long-term foreign residents in Korea reached an all-time high in 2023 of 2.5 million people. This includes migrant workers and foreigners studying abroad. For reference, in 2013, there were only 1.45 million foreigners living in Korea. Continue reading
Instagram and YouTube usage grows in 2024.
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Instagram and YouTube experienced significant growth in Korea in 2024.
Vocabulary on these and other websites is here.
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.