Paju Munsan Station 3rd Dongmun East Central which Dongmun Construction is selling on a first-come Dongmun Construction announced on the 1st that many prospective contractors visited the East Central sample house of the 3rd Dongmun Dongmun of Munsan Station in Paju during the weekend of the 26th to the 27th has two basement floors and up to 28 floors above the ground with 951 households of 59-84㎡ dedicated to seven buildings Visitors showed interest in the interest-free mid-payment benefit "Middle gold interest is one of the important factors that ease the initial financial burden in the subscription market," adding "Customers who are considering actual residence and investment continue to inquire." He added "The visitors showed satisfaction with the location conditions with excellent transportation access and a stable residential environment." The business site is 200 million to 300 million apartments in the Seoul metropolitan area (based on 59·74㎡ exclusively) and provides various financial benefits to reduce the initial financial burden These include a flat rate of 5 million won for the first down payment and 60% interest-free for the intermediate payment options worth 10 million won will be provided free of charge when expanding balconies You can quickly move to Seoul by using Munsan Station on the Gyeongui Jungang Line and transfer to GTX-A line at Daegok Station The GTX-A route is 83.1km long from Unjeong PajuThe section of Seoul Station has opened Munsan Elementary School is located in front of the business site and Pago High School are also within walking distance It is possible to support special admission to farming and fishing villages and Munsan Dangdong-ri Academy Street and Munsan Library are close Dongmun Construction is holding a prize lottery event every weekend at the sample house some events may vary depending on the situation in the field ※ This service is provided by machine translation tool A multi-vehicle pileup involving 43 vehicles occurred near the Goyang Junction on the Seoul-Munsan Expressway in the Munsan direction in Goyang on the 11thThere was an accident in which a train stopped urgently on the Gyeongui Central Line in the direction of Seoul The train was found to have stopped operating after identifying a track abnormality 110 passengers were evacuated on their own due to the accident Korail is temporarily operating a shuttle train using the first improvement of disembarkation while transporting passengers by bus "We plan to find out the cause of the route abnormality and resume operation as soon as safety measures are completed." All Headlines North Korea Sports Top News Most Viewed Korean Newspaper Headlines Today in Korean History Yonhap News Summary Editorials from Korean Dailies July 17 (Yonhap) -- A heavy rain watch was issued across parts of northern Gyeonggi Province on Wednesday with 100 millimeters of rain per hour pouring in the border city of Paju heavy downpours of 100.9 mm per hour had been pounding Munsan according to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) The accumulated precipitation recorded 269 mm in the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjom and 127 mm in nearby Yeoncheon County as of 7 a.m The KMA sent out emergency text alerts warning of torrential rain in the areas on 10 occasions from 4:24 a.m in what marks the first time this year such a warning was issued in the greater Seoul area The alert was also issued across many parts of Seoul including in Seongbuk District and Jongno District with heavy rainfall of over 50 mm per hour pounding the areas as of 9:20 a.m The heavy rain alerts are issued when the rainfall exceeds 50 mm per hour or 90 mm in three hours and in the case the hourly precipitation rate exceeds 72 mm Over 200 cases of damage had been reported to firefighters and the police as of 8:30 a.m. and the roads were off-limits due to the heavy downpour in over 20 regions in northern Gyeonggi Province as of 7:30 a.m. The KMA said 30 to 60 mm of rain is expected to continue pounding northern Gyeonggi Province and the northern part of Gangwon Province in the morning Seoul and southern Gyeonggi Province are forecast to receive rainfall of around 30 mm per hour In this photo provided by Gyeonggi-do Fire Services a road is inundated from torrential rain in Paju All News National Economy/Finance Biz Culture/K-pop Images Videos Korean Newspaper Headlines Korea in Brief Useful Links Weather Advertise with Yonhap News Agency Stanford University This month marks the 71st anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War on June 25 I started to reflect on the work that my colleagues (past and present) at SPICE have done to promote the study of Korea in U.S schools and directly to students in the United States They have developed extensive curriculum on Korea. The offerings can be found on this webpage and includes offerings such as the following: In addition, the Sejong Korea Scholars Program an online course for high school students in the United States The SKSP annually selects 20–25 exceptional high school students from throughout the United States and engages them in an intensive study of Korea and U.S.–Korea relations Selected students participate in the online course on Korea from February to June of each year These programs focus in part on Korea and are funded by the Freeman Foundation Learn more about how your support makes a difference or make a gift now This work, ROK, US Marines sync artillery techniques during KMEP 14-7, by Cpl Thor Larson, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright Business GS E&C opens Seoul-Munsan highway worth W2.1tr A total of 2.1 trillion won ($1.87 billion) was poured into the Seoul-Munsan Expressway The Seoul-Munsan highway is expected to reduce traffic in the Tongilro and Jayuro highways “The Seoul-Munsan highway will be able to absorb 8,000 vehicles from Tongilro and 27,000 vehicles from Jayuro daily the new highway will cut travel time by 40 minutes and 10 minutes compared to Tongilro and Jayuro GS E&C was able to complete the construction without any delays with the help of its smart construction technologies GS E&C utilized a 3D construction method by scanning bridge junctions by laser and drones The plan to unify the candidacies of conservative People Power Party presidential candidate Kim Moon-soo and former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo faces a rocky road What’s next after deadline: Mass medical student retentions to come Korea mark 60 years of ties with sculpture Europe highlights plastic pollution at OOC Korea CU launches visa support services for foreign nationals SK Telecom scrambles to restore trust after massive data breach Costco’s steep membership hike tests loyalty of Korean shoppers Rise of Korea’s dollar store Daiso explained in 2 minutes Respect wanes: Teaching no longer highly coveted job in S Lee Jae-myung leads in hypothetical three-way race with Han Duck-soo South Koreans get creative with Parents’ Day gifts Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker “There are a lot of adoptees like me who were adopted and grew up in the US but who haven’t gotten US citizenship We desperately need attention and support from our home country’s government.” This was the urgent plea from adoptee Joy Alessi who arrived in South Korea early this October Alessi was entrusted to the Yeongsaengwon orphanage in Munsan she was adopted in the US through the Holt Children’s Welfare Association at the age of seven months Her visit was her first time in her homeland in 49 years Don’t children automatically obtain citizenship when adopted in the US Over 160,000 South Korean children have been adopted to the US since the Korean War but an estimated 15,000 to 18,000 do not have US citizenship Alessi began visiting several places to find evidence of herself and her birth parents She also met with members of the Hanmaeum Association a friendship group for those formerly associated with Yeongsaengwon She visited adoption agencies and administrative agencies - but all in vain Alessi first learned she was not a US citizen at age 25 when she attempted to apply for US passport to travel to Mexico She was baffled to hear that she couldn’t be issued a passport because she wasn’t a US citizen It was an utter repudiation of her identity as someone who had until then believed herself to be a citizen The immigration bureau warned that she could be deported Alessi checked her orphan registration record and discovered her South Korean citizenship still stood But going to the consulate and applying for a South Korean passport was a painful process She had to fill out the application documents in Korean Having growing up in a US household with only an English-language education she didn’t understand a word of written Korean Only after some difficulties was she finally able to obtain her South Korean passport she had to present her South Korean passport and adoption papers and explain her situation her diligence landed her a job as a flight attendant but she still had to regularly renew her long-term sojourn visa Voting in presidential and other elections was out of the question Why is it that South Korea is believed to account for the most stateless adoptees It’s not simply because of the sheer scale of adoptions A bigger factor was the sloppy handling of adoption procedures - a byproduct of the South Korean government viewing adoption as a way of earning foreign currency in the wake of the Korean War A representative example was the simplification of adoption procedures to allow them to take place through document alone The US automatically confers citizenship on children when the adoptive parents go to the country in question But in cases of adoptions where the parents don’t visit in person they have to go through “re-adoption” procedures in the US or the child has to become naturalized when they turn 15 to gain US citizenship When parents neglect the procedure - perhaps believing it done once the child has been placed in their care - the child ends up “lost” internationally It’s like a second scar being visited on them This is a large issue left to be resolved here in the US,” she said But she still holds on to her second scar - her South Korean citizenship and to help other “lost” international adoptees facing their own difficulties “I hope that anyone who knows even the slightest thing about my birth will not hesitate to contact me,” she said The Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link and Korea Adoption Services are currently carrying out a study called AND (Overseas Adoptee Nationality Survey and Study of Possible Support Measures) which investigates whether Korean-born adoptees have gained US citizenship “There actually was a case a few years ago of a Korean adoptee in their twenties who belatedly found out they were stateless and committed suicide from the shock,” said tammy ko Robinson a Hanyang University professor participating in the study “This sort of thing happens in other adopting countries besides the US But no country has accurate statistics on it.” Robinson noted that a bill for an Adoptee Citizenship Act to help stateless adoptees was put before the US Senate in Nov South Korea needs to conduct an accurate survey on the number of adoptees who are lost internationally and help the aid legislation go through,” she said Please direct questions or comments to [english@hani.co.kr] 2 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has decided to waive a preliminary feasibility study for a project to build a highway near the border with North Korea as part of efforts to reconnect a cross-border road The Ministry of Strategy and Finance recently accepted the Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport's request to forego the feasibility study for the project to build an 11.8 kilometer highway between Munsan and Dorasan Station "As the Munsan-Dorasan highway belongs to the South the government can push forward the construction project irrespective of international sanctions on the North The highway is not subject to an economic analysis as it is a core part of inter-Korean economic cooperation," a spokesman for the transport ministry said As a new construction project with a required budget of over 50 billion won (US$45 million) it must undergo a preliminary feasibility study But the study usually takes at least six months or up to three to four years depending on projects The government has allocated 517.9 billion won for the Munsan-Dorasan highway in the South It plans to kick off the project within this year a 171 kilometer highway between Pyongyang and Kaesong will be built once denuclearization on the Korean peninsula is achieved and economic sanctions on the North are lifted This file image shows the planned railways and highways between two Koreas Firefighters rescue individuals who were trapped in a building following a nearby road flooding in Paju on Thursday Vehicles move slowly on national route 1 in Munsan-eup Nine people were injured after 43 cars were involved in a pileup on an icy highway near a junction in Goyang on the Seoul Munsan Expressway headed for Munsan Police and firefighting authorities have cordoned off the road to handle the accident and it led to other single accidents in trailing vehicles severely congesting the road," a police official said Another series of pileups involving 44 trucks on a freeway near Gusan Interchange in Goyang A 16-ton truck driver was taken to a hospital with minor injuries while the other drivers sustained abrasions Authorities blocked off entire roads near the accident area and scattered calcium chloride on icy roads seven cars collided with each other on a road in Gimpo Police suspect a truck collided with a car from behind triggering the pileup with the other vehicles It has been six days since Suwon Messe canceled the lease contract on the grounds of violating the Education Environment Protection Act (Educational Environment Act) on the 29th of last month so it is expected that the adult festival will be held As a result of the Maeil Economic Report on the 5th as the venue for the "2024 KXF The Fashion Adult Festival" (hereinafter referred to as KXF) The hosting period is from 20th to 21st and is held from 12:00 p.m the KXF was scheduled to be held at Suwon Messe in Seodun-dong Suwon City sent an official request for cancellation of the rental to Suwon Messe on the 29th of last month The city judged that the exhibition was related to "operations that provide services that are likely to engage in sexual or similar activities such as secret exposure," which is an act within the educational environment protection zone prohibited by Article 9 of the Education Environment Protection Act (prohibited activities in educational environment protection zones "We received a notification from Suwon City and the education authorities to take action because the KXF's exhibition may violate the Education Environment Act." "This is a reason for termination because disputes have occurred with local residents over the exhibition of KXF and legal disputes such as criminal charges are expected when the exhibition is held." organizers said the event has been reviewed and does not fall under the Education Environment Act and Suwon Messe will be held legally liable including claims for damages for business obstruction Paju Mayor Kim Kyung-il strongly protested when he heard that the KXF event was changed to Munsan "We will take all measures to cancel the KXF event." The reason why Mayor Kim is protesting like this is that he has strongly pushed for the closure of prostitution collections advocating a "women-friendly and gender-equal city," because the KXF event could tarnish its image Mayor Kim issued an emergency statement on the 5th "If an adult festival is held in Paju City which can instill a false sense of adulthood by commercializing sex and sexual objectification of women the establishment of a gender-equal society that Paju has actively tried to create will be far removed." "AVs target women's bodies and produce videos that excessively expose them and encourage forced harassment and rape," he pointed out Paju City desperately opposes the hosting of the adult festival "We will do our best to prevent citizens and adult festivals by mobilizing available administrative power." Paju City also requested restraint from the 'K Art Studio' that provided the location we will not be able to avoid the fingers of Paju citizens including women and civic groups who oppose it," adding "There are the most studios in Gyeonggi Province and it could adversely affect Paju's studio industry where various dramas and movies are filmed." "The detailed schedule of KXF will not change much," adding "The intention to hold KXF successfully remains unchanged." Gyeonggi Province announced on the 4th that it has selected 23 Gyeonggi Tourism Festivals in 2024 as this year's excellent regional festivals with excellent festival planning and operation and high development capabilities 30 local festivals were recommended by the city and county and selected through presentation evaluation of the festival's hosting plan and deliberation by the local festival review committee starting with the Icheon Ceramic Festival in April and the Paju Jangdan Soybean Festival in November will be supported to deliver local culture and local values in various ways the Yangpyeong Yongmunsan Mountain Wild Vegetable Festival plans to show Yangpyeong's unique regional characteristics with a clean natural environment by conducting programs such as a reproduction of the wild vegetable feast and sharing wild vegetable bibimbap in April under the slogan of "Let's GO (Green Only) Wild Vegetables!" The Hwaseong Jeongjo Hyo Cultural Festival will then be held in October to re-examine the historical and cultural values and meanings by organizing programs such as the reproduction of Hyeonryungwon Cheonwon and the demonstration and experience of King Jeongjo's filial piety food The province plans to grade the 23 festivals selected this time by evaluation ranking and provide provincial subsidies of 100 million won for the top six 70 million won for the middle 10 and 50 million won for the lower seven it plans to strengthen cooperation with the city and county so that the festival can be held safely and to improve guest reception to solve inconveniences related to festival venue rip-off fees head of the tourism industry division in Gyeonggi-do "The local festival is returning to its true state due to the transition of the COVID-19 pandemic last year As the festival is an important tourism resource for the region we will continue to provide systematic support so that excellent local festivals can grow and develop into festivals that are sustainable and helpful to the region." South Korea got hit with a blizzard of over 25 centimeters (cm) of snow The blizzard was concentrated in the Seoul area Gimpo Airport was virtually shut down for the first time in nine years and highways and ports experienced great difficulties The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said the blizzard was so bad that the 25.8 cm of snow that had fallen in Seoul by 3:00 p.m Monday represented the most snowfall it had seen since it began recording snowfall in 1907 The previous record of 25.6 cm occurred on Jan One KMA official said although records for new snowfall have only been kept since 1937 a look at past precipitation and snowfall records suggest the snowfall that fell in Seoul on Monday may be the most ever in 100 years since modern meteorological observations were collected in 1907 Other places in central South Korea also got hit hard with snowfall On the matter of heavy snowfall in Seoul and central South Korea the KMA said large snow clouds resulted from continental cold air passing through Korea meeting warm moist air over the West Sea By the first morning rush hour of the new year many Seoul residents were forced to give up driving and had to take the bus or subway to work instead with roads closed and trains breaking down the snowfall had caused the closure of 43 roads throughout the country while seven highway interchanges were blocked the runways at Gimpo Airport were frozen over and as of Monday afternoon the first in mass flight suspensions since January 2001 The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and regional Seoul Incheon and Gyeonggi governments went into emergency mode as a result of the historic heavy snowfall Even the army lent a hand and deployed an estimated 5,000 men and 80 heavy vehicles Deongneung and Mok-dong major transportation control areas Please direct questions or comments to [englishhani@hani.co.kr]