A first ? Today at Seoul Pride I was pleasantly surprised to find KB Life Partners, a Korean financial services company, offering consultations for LGBTQ people including how to adopt children. KB promoted its LGBTQ staff and say they promote diversity in recruitment.

Happy Pride month!🌈🏳️‍🌈 I met South Korea's first South Korea's first openly LGBTQ legislator, Cha Hae-young: “We need to show the people that we exist,” Cha, who uses they/them pronouns, told AFP. yhoo.it/3VpwVAY

Hello! We’re hosting a summer mixer 💥 on Thurs. June 13! Members and non-members are all welcome to stop by & we’ll also have a short meet-and-greet session for college students or recent grads interested in journalism to ask any questions. Please help us spread the word!

today was kim yeonkoung’s last game as a national player for south korea womens volleyball team after a 17 year run! KYK was such a strong force on the court i can honestly say that SK may never come across a talent like hers again, she’ll be missed lots 🥲

#BREAKING Seoul says it will resume loudspeaker propaganda campaigns against North

#UPDATE North Korea has sent hundreds more trash-carrying balloons over the border, Seoul's military says, after Kim Jong Un's powerful sister warned of further responses if the South keeps up its "psychological warfare". In recent weeks, North Korea has sent hundreds of

أعلن الجيش في #كوريا_الجنوبية أن #كوريا_الشمالية أرسلت الاثنين مئات البالونات الإضافية المملؤة قمامة عبر الحدود، بعدما حذرت شقيقة كيم جونغ أون النافذة من ردود أخرى إذا واصل الجنوب "حربه النفسية". u.afp.com/5erN #فرانس_برس ✍️ Cat Barton Hieun Shin (신희은)

BTS member Jin will be discharged today. Lots of media, but barely any fans seen.

As the Korean War raged 8 of Pyongyang's young heroes — all members of the elite, destined for a life of privilege and power -- left for Moscow to study film. They never returned. Ahead of this week’s Kim-Putin summit, sharing this AFP News Agency story from 2019: shorturl.at/HSLqU

When Bae Jin-soo quit his stable job to become a storyteller, everyone around him had doubts and he barely knew how to draw. Around 17 years later, he is one of the biggest names in South Korea's thriving billion-dollar #webtoon industry. AFP News Agency story: shorturl.at/83Uy0

A 22-year-old North Korean man was publicly executed for watching and sharing South Korean films and music, according to the 2024 Report on North Korean Human Rights released by South Korea’s unification ministry yesterday. My piece for the Guardian: theguardian.com/world/article/…

I met the man who cleans South Korea's tallest tower. The only downside: he is afraid of heights. Magnificent pictures by Anthony Wallace 💙 yhoo.it/4cATkky

아침 7시33분 남자가 보호사 4명에 의해 담요에 둘둘 말려 실려 나갔습니다. 마치 짐짝이 운반되는 듯한 모습입니다. 죽어서야, 남자는 풀려났습니다. 열흘 이상 손과 발, 가슴이 침대에 묶인 채 보호실에 누워 있던 터였습니다. 2022년 1월8일 아침 춘천ㅇ병원 폐쇄병동 보호실(진정실)에서 정신질환

"Today, love won again," said So Seong-wook🌈🌈💜 I wrote about the monumental ruling that will be a great stepping stone for LGBTQI rights in South Korea. The case will be applied to other discriminatory cases and help legalize same-sex marriage as well.

Heading out from an interview, we were lucky enough to find contents of NK trash balloons on the streets of Seoul. We found newly printed food packaging and sweet wrappers and more. More here: yhoo.it/3Slj50I

"Mankind's fastest otaku" From "Dragon Ball" to "Haikyu!!", Olympians show their admiration for Japanese manga and anime yahoo.com/entertainment/…

I had fun writing this one! Kim Jong Un’s reported use of ‘South Korean’ words is exaggerated, experts say: North Korea has cracked down on ROK expressions, but the terms Kim used in recent speech are just rare, not forbidden nknews.org/2024/08/kim-jo…

I wrote about AI pet care in South Korea and how an AI software can read pet xrays in minutes.