Korea is a 750-mile-long (1,200-kilometer-long) peninsula located in the easternmost part of the Asian continent.
The largest amount comes from value-added tax and, after that, corporate income tax. Individual income, the third largest source of revenue, is taxed according to a progressive scale. In order to attract foreign investment, the government provides such tax incentives as limited-time exemption ...
Goguryeo was the largest of the three kingdoms into which ancient Korea was divided until 668. It is traditionally said to have been founded in 37 BCE.
The Korea Herald is South Korea’s largest English-language daily and the country’s sole member of the Asia News Network (ANN).
So, folks…I’ve been pretty lazy in my necessary duties as a staffer at the Liberal Dead. I don’t really pull my weight and even though I’m not doing this for pay or anything like that, I do feel consequences whenever I don’t pitch in. And it’s not because of my editors ...
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, is a country in East Asia. The country is home to almost 52 million people and uses the South Korean won as its currency. Its capital city, Seoul, is geographically located in the nation’s upper region. Thanks in part to its bustling capita...
Incheon International Airport, which opened in 2001, replaced Seoul’s Gimpo Airport as the country’s main point of entry by air. The city has a subway system, and a number of expressways and railways connect Incheon to its surrounding region and to Seoul and other South Korean cities. ...
During debates over whether the US will ever be willing to approach North Korea and request a good faith dialogue to calm tensions in the region, one cannot help but think there is a certain useless quality to such questions. How can the US be ready for dialogue with another country when ...
People have a much better understanding of what we do and although the [consulting] industry has gotten much more competitive, when it comes to the heavy lifting people will now say, ‘you should probably go to McKinsey.’” The Korea office moved to its new building, Center 1, in ...
Among the Japanese sanctions lifted is a restriction asking its citizens not to travel to North Korea, which opens the door for more Japanese tourists to embark on commercial tours of the country. Behind the curtain Our flight on North Korea’s only airline (one of just 10 scheduled flights ...