한국 Lemmy 커뮤니티 / Korea Lemmy community

Oh man every year it's so stressful because the login never want's to work for me. This year again I had to use the new Mobile ID with the QR code, because putting in my name with spaces didn't work. But that didn't help I got some error that it only works for individuals (I am a individual). Then I tried with the PASS app, had to reset it and set it up again because every time I want to use it I need to reset it for some reason, and that means to go through SMS and my Bank app for some reason. But that also didn't help, same error.

Then I remembered that I had a password for the hometax website and used it, once I logged in with that I had to log in again with the PASS app and suddenly it worked!!!1

And everything is in Korean and a lot of things put in as pictures so that the automatic translation doesn't work.

It's Sunday afternoon in January, I live close to a street with a lot of cafés and each and every one is full of people, mostly young women but also couples and mixed groups.

It's not that those cafés have amazing coffe, those are not coffe first cafés. In fact in this city I only found like 3 cafés which have outstanding coffe.

It's more about the culture meeting up and talking, etc.

"The visit laid a solid foundation for the full restoration of Korea-China relations, and paved the way for increased exchanges and cooperation in economic and cultural sectors," he said during the meeting at Cheong Wa Dae.

"In a ruthless international order where there are no eternal enemies, friends or rules, the fate of the Republic of Korea hinges on pragmatic diplomacy centered on national interests," he said, referring to South Korea's official name.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/55766002

The AP investigation, in collaboration with Frontline (PBS), detailed how South Korea’s government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to send some 200,000 Korean children overseas despite evidence that many were procured through questionable or unscrupulous means.

Western nations largely ignored the abuses and sometimes pressured South Korea to maintain the supply to meet their high demand for babies

U.S.-listed e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. said Saturday it has confirmed personal information from 33.7 million customer accounts was exposed.

The updated figure suggests that nearly all Coupang customers may have had personal information — including names, phone numbers, email addresses and delivery addresses — compromised.

However, the company said payment information, credit card numbers and login credentials were not accessed.

Today is very rainy and cold outside, exactly like fall is in Europe where I'm from.

It's dark and moody and I have the desire to buy a house with a cosy fireplace, just drink some hot mulled wine and listen to easy jazz on a vinyl record player.

But at least instead I am sitting here in a cosy café with my flat white and a small eggtard and listen to Christmas music.

I'm updating it on mastodon as it goes on, sometimes with pictures.

https://toot.jeena.net/@jeena/115511440599372193

Growing numbers are finding work in the business of death.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/death-becomes-a-growing-business-in-ageing-lonely-south-korea

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-gifted-gold-crown-south-102755807.html

thought some people here may find this interesting :)

Seoul (AFP) – Ten South Koreans have been arrested in Cambodia for alleged involvement in cyberscams and two more rescued, Seoul's top diplomat said Monday, days after dozens accused of working in the vast fraud operation were repatriated.

A multibillion-dollar scam industry has ballooned in Cambodia in recent years, with thousands involved, some willingly and others forced by the organised criminal groups, experts say.

Over the weekend, Cambodia sent home 64 South Korean nationals who had been held for their alleged links to "pig butchering" scams -- so-called for the method of building trust with victims over time before stealing funds.

On Monday, South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said that 10 more people were arrested and two individuals rescued.

They were detained on Thursday and will be repatriated this week, he said.

Seoul is also working to locate 80 South Korean nationals still unaccounted for in Cambodia, Cho said.

About 550 South Koreans had been reported missing or held against their will after entering Cambodia since last year, the foreign ministry said last week.

Seoul has estimated around 1,000 South Koreans are among the 200,000 people working in scam operations in Cambodia.

Some have been forced under threat of violence to execute "pig butchering" or romance scams.

Those deported over the weekend were detained as soon as they boarded a chartered flight home and were escorted off the plane in handcuffs.

Seoul's National Police Agency said Monday it was seeking arrest warrants for 59 of them.

The repatriated individuals have been implicated in crimes like voice phishing, romance scams and so-called "no-show" fraud schemes, Park Sung-joo, head of the National Office of Investigation, told reporters last week.

The group included both "voluntary and involuntary participants", National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac has said.

The high-profile repatriations follow public outcry over the torture and killing of a South Korean college student in Cambodia this year, reportedly by a crime ring.

Last week, South Korean foreign ministry officials met with Cambodia's prime minister and local police to discuss fake jobs and scam centres.

Public areas designed for older adults' exercise and recreation to expand to all Seoul districts as seniors aged 65 or older expected to surpass 20 percent of city's population

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55044412

Since the 17th century, the all-female Haenyeo divers have harvested seafood near South Korea's Jeju Island — and they don't use modern scuba gear to this day.

United Nations (United States) (AFP) – South Korea's dovish new president vowed Tuesday at the United Nations to work to end the "vicious cycle" of tensions with the North as he promised not to seek regime change.

"We intend to end the vicious cycle of unnecessary inter-Korean military tension and hostile acts," President Lee Jae-myung told the UN General Assembly.

He pointed to his administration's decision to halt measures that include the sending leaflets with hostile messages across the military frontier.

South Korea "clearly reaffirms that it respects the North's current system, that it will not pursue any form of unification by absorption, and that it has no intention of engaging in hostile paths," Lee said.

"We must end the era of hostility and confrontation on the Korean Peninsula and usher in a new era of peaceful coexistence," he said.

The approach marks a strong contrast in tone from his conservative predecessor Yoon Suk Yeol, who advocated pressure on North Korea and highlighted the human rights situation in the authoritarian state. Yoon was impeached after he briefly imposed martial law.

Despite the new president's outreach, North Korea has said so far said it has no intention of sitting down with Lee and has long cast Seoul as a puppet of Washington.

But North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has voiced openness to meeting with Donald Trump, recalling fondly their three meetings during the US president's first term.

On a visit to Washington last month, Lee encouraged Trump to pursue fresh diplomacy with Pyongyang.

North Korea, however, has been firm that it will not give up its nuclear arsenal. Trump in his first term failed to seal an agreement to end the North's nuclear program.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/48863264