Jeju Island is to get an “English Town” on a 3.8 million sq.m site, some 1.4 times the size of Yeouido, Seoul, in 2010 or thereabouts. The education facility will accommodate school students in dorms or private homes for one or two years and offer classes in English, which are recognized as formal education by the government. Thus a student in the first year of junior high school in Seoul c..
The global anti-trans fat movement is spreading to Korea. The artificial partly hydrogenated oils, which have been linked to an array of cardiovascular diseases, are now banned in New York’s fast food restaurants, while India is seeking to insert the warning “not for children” in fast food packaging. The Korean Federation of Teachers' Associations, in a drive against fast food, has starte..