Animal rights groups Animal Liberation Wave and Nutties have jointly begun running a series of advertisements against eating meat at “hoesik,” or after-work company bonding meals, in Korea.The groups said starting Monday until Aug. 9, advertisements encouraging meat-free alternative diets for hoesik will appear inside subway cars on Line No. 6.In one of the three images of the ad, a cow sits on a plate flanked by a knife and fork, with the line, “I can live. If tonight’s dine-out menu isn’t stea

제 19회 서울퀴어문화축제가 오는 13일부터 22일까지 열흘 간 열린다. 　이번 서울퀴어문화축제는 13일 라운드테이블 성격의 행사 ‘프리즘 오브 아트 PRISM OF ART: 인권, 문화 예술 속에서 피어나다’ (오후 7시~9시, 국가인권위원회)를 시작으로 14일 퍼레이드 (오전 11시~오후 7시, 서울광장), 15일 ‘레인보우 드레스 공식촬영’ 및 19일~22일 한국퀴어영화제 (대한극장)로 구성되어 있다.　행사에 앞서 서울퀴어문화축제조직위원회는 9일 종로구 통인동 참여연대 아름드리홀에서 기자회견을 열어 질의응답 시간을 가졌다.　강명진 서울퀴어문화축제 조직위원장, 한채윤 서울퀴어퍼레이드 기획단장, 양은오 한국퀴어영화제 집행위원장이 참석했으며 이든 서울퀴어문화축제 운영위원이 사회를 봤다.　 왼쪽부터 이든 서울퀴어문화축제 운영위원, 한채윤 서울퀴어퍼레이드 기획단장, 양은오 한국퀴어영화제 집행위원장, 강명진 서울퀴어문화축제 조직위원장 (사진=임정요 기자/코리아헤럴드)올해 축제의 슬로건은

Kim Eun-jung, the captain and the skip of the Korean women’s Olympic curling team, tied the knot on Saturday. The wedding was held in Daegu, where the groom works as a skating coach. The two had reportedly been dating for roughly five years.Members of the Olympic curling team gathered at the ceremony to celebrate the couple.  South Korean curler Kim Eun-jung poses for a photo with flowers at Goun Temple in Euiseong, North Gyeongsang Province, on March 12. (Yonhap) (Instagram)The Korea women’s cu

Statistics by the Korean police show a spike of spy camera crimes in summer, local media reported Saturday. The police here had reportedly arrested over 980 people nationwide between July 1 and Aug. 20 last year, who had secretly filmed others’ bodies without consent, or disseminated the contents. Illegally filming or photographing others’ body and or spreading the contents is punishable by a maximum of seven years in prison or up to 30 million won ($27,000) in fines. The cases were especially n

Employees of Asiana Airlines, the country’s second-largest carrier and part of Kumho Asiana Group, will hold their second protest to demand group’s chief Park Sam-koo to step down.The labor union of Asiana will gather again on the steps of the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Gwanghwamun, Seoul, at 6 p.m. on Sunday. Following the rally, from 7:30 p.m., the protesters will walk to the adjacent Kumho Asiana headquarters. An Asiana Airlines employee sheds tears behind her mask at the demons

The third women’s rally calling for a balanced inspection of voyeuristic hidden camera crimes took place in front of Hyehwa subway station on Saturday.The host of the protest, an online group fighting against female discrimination called “Inconvenient Courage,” estimated some 60,000 people took part. The police estimate is 18,000. Protesters dressed in red held up signs with slogans such as “My life is not your porn,” and “We are your future boss, not your future wife.” Other signs protested dep

The sixth Water Gun Festival in Sinchon, Seoul, brought some much needed relief to the scorching summer heat on Saturday.On the first day of the two-day fiesta, the main street that rolls down from Sinchon subway station to the front gate of Yonsei University was crammed with people of all nationalities and ages, armed with water guns and raincoats.Several were dressed up as DC and Marvel’s super heroes, including the intergalactic villain Thanos of the latest Avengers movie. The festival runs u

Farmed halibut from Gijang-gun, Busan, were found to contain excessive levels of mercury, Tuesday.According to the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, three farms in the region were found to have shipped off halibut with mercury levels surpassing acceptable standards. Nearly 4 metric tons of fish from these fish farms were distributed to shops in Busan, Pohang, Ulsan and other destinations on June 29.All remaining fish at the farms have been culled, and the shipped fish were ordered to be recalled

Sunscreens containing chemical substances harmful to coral reefs will be banned in the US state of Hawaii from 2021, US local media reported Wednesday.Hawaii Gov. David Ige signed the legislation on Tuesday, making Hawaii the first state in the US to ban the sale, distribution and use of sunscreens that contain the chemicals oxybenzone and octinoxate. The bill states, “Oxybenzone and octinoxate cause mortality in developing coral; increase coral bleaching that indicates extreme stress, even at t

아시아나 항공 기내식 대란에 함께 언급되던 중국 하이난(HNA) 그룹의 공동창업자 왕젠(王健·57) 회장이 프랑스에서 돌연 사망했다는 소식이 지난 4일 전해졌다. 　왕 회장은 출장차 프랑스 남부 프로방스 지역을 방문하던 중 파노라마 뷰로 유명한 관광명소에서 사진을 찍다가 약 12미터가량 추락하는 낙상사고를 당했다. 하이난 그룹은 왕 회장이 이 추락으로 “심각한 부상을 입었다”며 “회복하지 못하고 지난 3일 사망에 이르렀다”고 발표했다.　하이난그룹은 1993년 창립 이후 중국에서 네 번째로 큰 항공사를 운영하며, 국제적인 금융, 호텔과 운송 사업 등을 경영하고 있다.　왕 회장은 중국 민용항공학원을 졸업했고 네덜란드의 마흐스트리트 경영대학에서 MBA를 수료했다.　하이난 그룹 계열 게이트고메스위스는 아시아나 항공과 함께 게이트고메코리아(GGK)를 세워 올 7월부터 30년간 GGK 기내식을 아시아나에 공급할 계획이었다. 아시아나는 3월 GGK 공장에서 화재가 발생하며 일정에 차질이 생기자

A product from a cosmetics factory in Sinuiju, where North Korean leader Kim Jong-un recently visited, is attracting a lot of attention in China. The “Kaesong Koryo Ginseng” balm cream, made by the “Spring Fragrance” (direct translation) company in North Korea, is currently being sold at 12 shops at China’s decentralized shopping platform Taobao, with user reviews of the cream coming up on Chinese lifestyle social media Xiaohongshu. The product, according to the Chinese purchasers, is cheap, abs

The Korean dish often referred to as kimchi pancake should be instead called by the romanization of its actual Korean name, kimchijeon, claimed a cyber organization promoting online diplomacy, Wednesday.Voluntary Agency Network of Korea is raising questions over the readymade packages by firms here that label their products as kimchi pancake in English.According to VANK’s field research, Ottogi and Sajo, as well as most of the food firms, are promoting kimchijeon as kimchi pancake. (VANK)“Just b

The recent initiative by Korea Airports Corporation to remove smoking rooms from airports has got smokers fuming.“Smokers are being unfairly inched out,” protested a smokers’ community in Korea, intuitively named “I Love Smoking,” Wednesday.On June 25, the KAC said that indoor smoking lounges at 14 airports in Korea would gradually disappear and outdoor smoking areas would be moved further from areas with a lot of passenger traffic, in a bid to protect nonsmokers from second-hand smoking. A smok

People in wheelchairs staged a protest on Monday at metro stations in Seoul to demonstrate their right to mobility. Some 50 disabled people gathered at Singil, Seoul and City Hall Stations on Line No. 1 in the afternoon, and collectively boarded a train from Singil and traveled five stops to Seoul Station, then reboarded the train to get off at the next stop, City Hall, where they held a press conference calling for a meeting with Mayor Park Won-soon. The protest coincided with the inauguration

A group of Korean women have decided to stop spending money on the first Sunday of every month, in a move to protest against gender discrimination. The campaign, started by a Facebook group called “Female Expenditure Strike” (direct translation of the Korean title), hopes to raise awareness of the damage done by advertisements that objectify women, gender discrimination and the “pink tax,” which refers to the extra amount that women often pay for goods and services compared to men. On Sunday, th

Passengers traveling via Asiana Airlines on Sunday and Monday had to endure unexplained departure delays stretching up to five hours, subsequently followed by a journey without in-flight meals. On Sunday, 36 Asiana flights took off without meals and 51 flights were delayed out of the 80 planes scheduled for the day. The next day, 18 flew without meals and 20 were delayed out of 75 flights, according to the tally by Asiana Airlines.Angry comments from hungry passengers took online platforms by st

The CEO of a subcontractor of a small in-flight meal supplier for Asiana Airlines reportedly took his own life Monday morning, after criticisms mounted from angry passengers who were served no meal on Asiana flights. He was found dead at his house, according to local media reports. Asiana recently terminated a 15-year-old deal with LSG Sky Chefs, a subsidiary of German airline Lufthansa, and inked a contract with Gate Gourmet Korea, an in-flight catering service firm Asiana jointly set up with C

Seoul City will receive recommendations for candidates for honorary citizenship in the capital. The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced the notice Monday, listing out the qualifications of eligible candidates as foreigners who have continuously lived in the city for three years, or if in the case of discontinued habitation, those who lived a total of five years in Seoul.Also eligible are foreign guests to Seoul who have contributed to the betterment of the city in terms of how it is received

Police in South Jeolla Province are turning their attention to unsolved cases involving organ trafficking that have occurred in the region, following a recent case of a schoolgirl who went missing and later was found dead near a mountaintop in Gangjin. The Gangjin girl incident was due to be classified as a case of trafficking, but police have refocused the investigation following the discovery of the body. A search is ongoing on Maebongsan, the mountain where the body was found, for the victim’

In South Korea’s surprise 2:0 win against Germany in the World Cup match on Wednesday, the most notable player was Korea’s goalkeeper Jo Hyeon-woo, who was made the Man of the Match by FIFA. Jo saved all six clean shoots by Germany, demonstrating quick reflexes with some astounding saves. Fans observed Jo must have “magnet hands.” German team made 10 other off target shoots. “Congratulations, Jo Hyeon-woo, you have been admitted to the ‘Do You Know’ club,” “BREAKING- Jo Hyeon-woo joins ‘Do You K