Gov’t to help overseas workers receive severance pay

  Gov’t to help overseas workers receive severance pay   Korea will strengthen the management of its departure guarantee insurance system that covers non-Korean workers in the country. The Korean government will help foreign workers receive their departure guarantee insurance, which many of them fail to receive when they depart Korea. The Ministry of Employment and Labor announced…

Korea receives awards in int’l math, physics competitions

  Korea receives awards in int’l math, physics competitions   Korean high school students have recently received remarkable results in a series of international scientific competitions. Korea took seventh place in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), held in South Africa earlier this month, and the country was also the silver winner at the International Young Physicists’…

Early explorations of Korea

  Early explorations of Korea   Before the opening of Korea to western diplomats and businessmen in the 1880s, there were two visits that, rather than helping prepare for the opening, encouraged the Koreans to turn their backs on the outside world. The first was that recorded by the French artist Jean Henri Zuber, (1844~1909)…