Consulate in LA will setup an Emergency Storhouse
South Korea’s Consulate General in Los Angeles will set up a warehouse for the storage of relief materials as part of efforts to counter natural disasters.
Consul General Kim Jae-soo said Tuesday that the office decided to set up the warehouse upon request by the Korean community in L.A. following a five-point-eight magnitude earthquake that shook Chino Hills near L.A.
Measuring 50 square meters, the underground warehouse will be the first of its kind for Koreans in L.A.’s Koreatown.
The storehouse will hold enough tents, blankets, water, food, emergency medicine and batteries for some three-thousand people. The Korean community plans to organize a fund-raising event to purchase the relief items.
news: biased religious activities banned Civil Servants
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Engaging in biased religious activities banned among Civil Servants
The government deliberated on a revised plan that seeks to prohibit civil employees from engaging in biased religious activities during a Cabinet meeting at the presidential office Tuesday morning.
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Meat Imports Tainted with Germs
Meat imports over the past three years were found to have been seriously tainted by germs.
According to the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the germ Staphylococcus aureus was found in more than 40 percent of all the beef imported by Korea since 2005.
Almost half of imported pork was also found to be tainted with listeria and Staphylococcus aureus in the ministry’s germ tests.
Imported chicken and duck were also not safe from the germs, which cause food poisoning.
About ten percent of the tainted meat came from the U.S.
Seoul.com: “We Are Not Anti-Foreigner”
After I translated their press release of August 18, which I and others criticized for calling certain foreigners “poison mushrooms” and “viruses”, being factually inaccurate in some ways, and not mentioning some solutions to the problem, Seoul.com responded through a new press release, this time in English. I don’t have too much to say about it other than that the conciliatory tone is nice, except that Korea Beat is not a “club for foreigners”, and only one commenter mocked Seoul.com’s English — hey, my Korean writing ability is not that good, you know. Key paragraphs:
Joseon-Korean Faces Uncertain Future
Due to ever-growing trade between China and Korea - as well as closer political ties, the distinctive Joseon form of Korean,
largely spoken by China’s ethnic-Korean community and North Koreans, is
under threat from calls for a standardization of Korean.
news: UN Chief Vows to Support Yeosu's Hosting of 2012 Expo
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