Author: Mike Harrison

WeWork Jongno Tower (WeWork Korea)It is confirmed that the shared office company WeWork Korea has received a request for retirement from all employees of WeWork Korea, raising concerns over whether it has entered the procedure for withdrawing the Korean business. According to industry insiders, WeWork Korea started receiving applications for retirement last week, and some employees said they were already being offered or considering a job change to another shared office company. Last year, WeWork Korea reduced the number of community managers in its Korean branches as part of its headquarters-level restructuring. As the successive manpower reduction continued, another official…

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Donald Trump’s US Senate trial will begin in the second week of February, days after a fresh impeachment case against the former president is transmitted by the House, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday (Jan 22). The newly announced schedule reflects a deal struck by Senate leaders to delay the substantive portion of the trial for two weeks so that the chamber may conduct other critical business including confirmation of President Joe Biden’s cabinet nominees. The House of Representatives impeached Trump for a historic second time on Jan 13, just one week before he left office.…

(123rf)Research shows that coffee makes coffee more sensitive to sweet taste.A research team from Professor Alexander Fondstad of Aarhus University in Denmark reported that coffee dulls bitter taste and makes sweet taste stronger, MedicalXpress reported on the 21st.As a result of conducting an experiment to test taste and smell before and after drinking coffee in 156 people, there was no change in the sense of smell, but only the taste, the research team said.Coffee has been shown to slow the bitter taste and increase the ability to feel the sweet taste of sweetened foods. Sweet food makes you feel sweeter.Drinking…

The analysis includes dam decommissioning or ageing case studies from the U.S., France, Canada, India, Japan, and Zambia and Zimbabwe Over a thousand large dams in India will be roughly 50-years-old in 2025 and such aging structures across the world pose a growing threat, according to a United Nations (UN) report which notes that by 2050, most people on Earth will live downstream of tens of thousands of dams built in the 20th century. The report, titled ‘Ageing water infrastructure: An emerging global risk’ and compiled by United Nations University’s Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health, says most of…

Aerial view of’IT Park’ in Pakistan. [제공=수출입은행]The Export-Import Bank of Korea (hereinafter’Mercury’) is promoting a new IT business with Pakistan through the Foreign Economic Cooperation Fund (hereinafter’EDCF’).On the 6th, a mercury official said in a call with the Korea Herald that they are planning a larger-scale business and a loan grant contract following the’IT Park construction project’ in Pakistan in 2017. Mercury previously provided an external economic cooperation fund worth $76 million for the IT park project to be established in Pakistan’s capital Islabamad in 2017. An official said that the new IT project in Pakistan was discussed with the…

(National Institute of Ecology-Yonhap News)An olive tree, over 300 years old, has blossomed in a year and a half after it was exhibited in Korea.The National Institute of Ecology under the Ministry of Environment announced on the 5th that it has confirmed that a white flower of about 1 cm in size has blossomed on the 20th of last month in an olive tree on display at the Ecorium Mediterranean Pavilion at the National Ecological Center in Seocheon-gun, Chungcheongnam-do.The blooming olive tree was introduced in Murcia in southeastern Spain in 2017 and is one of the three olive trees on…

Dutch police said on Saturday (Jan. 23rd) they had arrested the alleged leader of an Asian drug syndicate – Tse Chi Lop – who is listed as one ofthe world’s most-wanted fugitives and has been compared to Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Tse Chi Lop, a Chinese-born Canadian national, was detained on Friday at the request of Australian police, who led an investigation that found his organisation dominates the US$70 billion-a-year (S$90 billion) Asia-Pacific drug trade, Dutch police spokesman Thomas Aling said. Tse is expected to be extradited after appearing before a judge, Aling said, adding that his…

Chungmugong Yi Sun-shin Youngjeong (Hyeonchungsa Temple) It is expected that the Bank of Korea, which is reviewing the processing method of the headstone containing the letters of Hirobumi Ito (Lee Deung-Bak-moon, 1841-1909), will change the picture of Youngdo, the great figure in the currency drawn by pro-Japanese painters, to a new picture. The BOK has used the standard yeongjeong set by the government in consideration of the publicity of the currency as a currency design, because the designation of the standard yeongjeong could be lifted due to the pro-Japanese actions of writers who portrayed the spirits contained in the currency,…

Ice Coffee (Yonhap News) As office worker Jeong Mo, 34, has been working from home for a long time these days, it has become one of her routines to buy ice americano at a nearby cafe. Jeong said, “It’s not easy to concentrate when I’m working at home, so I eat cold drinks and wake up,” he said. “Iced coffee is perfect for working from home alone.” Iced coffee is gaining popularity in the middle of winter instead of hot coffee. According to the food service industry on the 10th, Starbucks’ sales of hot and cold drinks in December of last…

The International Youth Federation (IYF) of a non-governmental organization (NGO) held an online world camp on the 26th to instill joy and happiness in youth who are experiencing long-term social isolation and disconnection due to COVID-19. The ‘2020 IYF Online World Camp’, a festival for college students around the world, will be held for four days from the 26th to the 29th, moving online due to Corona 19 this year. Over 170,000 university students and youth leaders from 90 countries from Korea, the United States, Japan, Africa such as Kenya and Ghana, and the South Pacific such as Fiji and…