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Models promote accessories for rainy weather in a store in Seoul on Monday. /Newsis

May 6th, 2013 at 1:02 pm » Comments (3)

Park Gyu-lee of girl band Kara smiles at a press event for her drama in Seoul on Friday. [Chosun Ilbo]

May 5th, 2013 at 1:00 pm » Comments (37)

Actress Kim Yun-seo attends the opening ceremony of the Jeonju International Film Festival on Thursday. [Chosun Ilbo]

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Models take part in an environmental campaign at Mt. Nam in Seoul on Wednesday. /Newsis

April 13th, 2013 at 1:44 pm » Comments (8)

Female North Korean soldiers patrol along the banks of Yalu River, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, April 11, 2013. South Korea and the United States were on high alert for a North Korean missile launch on Thursday as the hermit kingdom turned its attention to celebrating its ruling Kim dynasty and appeared to tone down rhetoric of impending war.  [Reuters via a reader tip]

November 30th, 2012 at 6:31 pm » Comments (21)

I am willing to bet that the majority of hard core Internet users in Korea are male and thus why these so called “Ladygate” receive more attention than similar videos involving males: An annual report by the World Economic Forum on gender equality lowered South Korea’s ranking by a notch for this year, placing it 108th out of 135 countries. Gender bias is often blamed on Korea’s history of Confucianism for lowering the social position of women, and these days, perhaps nowhere else is the bias more prominent that on
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November 27th, 2012 at 3:57 am » Comments (7)

This doesn’t seem to be a very scientific way to determine a statistic but regardless it is a lead story in the Chosun Ilbo: Korean women first have sex at the age of 21.5 and hope to have their first child at 31.9, according to a straw poll marking 2012 World Contraception Day. The poll by 11 international NGOs among 100 women in their 20s or 30s each in eight Asian countries and sponsored by Bayer HealthCare was released on Monday. The Asia-wide average age when women first have sex is
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November 13th, 2012 at 1:42 pm » Comments (0)

Winners of the 2012 Super Model Contest pose after the final round in Seoul on Friday. [Newsis]

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July 14th, 2012 at 1:00 pm » Comments (0)

Via the Chosun Ilbo.