First domestic worker abuse case filed in Cebu

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 05/21/2015

A Korean mother is facing trial for allegedly maltreating a household worker last year. The case is the first one for violation of the Batas Kasambahay filed in Cebu City since the law took effect on June…

Jinri Park’s beating Pinay heart

Jonas N. Panerio, Maria Niza Mariñas 05/17/2015

Imagine this: you’re sick and in need of medical assistance. And so you head over to the hospital, looking for some TLC. You open the door and, lo and behold, it’s Jinri Park, the doctor of your…

Korean consular office to open next Wednesday

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/13/2015

Residents of Cebu wishing to go to Korea can secure a visa from the Consulate of the Republic of Korea which opens its office in Cebu City next week. Their office at the 12th floor of the…

South Korea to open consulate in Cebu

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 12/18/2014

Cebuanos who want to visit Korea will no longer need to fly to Manila to get a visa while Korean residents in the region who need consular assistance will have their needs attended to in the neighborhood.…

‘Korean culture now part of Cebu’

Anie M. Paujana 10/06/2014

Booming drum beats of both South Korean traditional music and Cebu’s famed Sinulog dance welcomed the crowd that gathered at SM City Cebu’s Northwing Atrium for the Fourth Cebu City Korea Day last Saturday evening. “The presence…

Korean champions Bohol coffee

Anie M. Paujana 10/05/2014

Yoon Yamini had traveled far and wide in search for the best coffee in the world. And the 56-year-old coffee lover has found it in Talibon town, northern Bohol. “Twelve years ago, in my quest to see…

Korean arrested for phone theft

Melissa Q. Cabahug 10/05/2014

A 20-year-old Korean was arrested Friday afternoon for allegedly stealing two Apple iPhone smartphones of a barangay captain inside a hotel gym in barangay Lahug, Cebu City. Kim Yeon Hui, 20, a student and a staffer of…

Labella wants Korean in fatal road mishap in BI watchlist

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 07/19/2014

CEBU City Vice Mayor Edgardo Labella wants the Korean who ran over a traffic enforcer to be included in the watchlist of passengers leaving country. “I have asked the Bureau of Immigration (BI) in Cebu to include…

Korean trader arrested for rape

Norman V. Mendoza 02/09/2014

Police arrested a Korean man who is accused of raping his househelp in barangay Casuntingan, Mandaue City. Young Yul Lee was arrested Friday afternoon in the restaurant he owns in barangay Pusok, Lapu-Lapu City. The victim said…

Snowpiercer: Visually stunning, richly satisfying futuristic epic

01/31/2014

Two decades into a second Ice Age, a few thousand human survivors live out their days aboard a state-of-the-art luxury train in “Snowpiercer,” an enormously ambitious, visually stunning and richly satisfying futuristic epic from the gifted Korean…

Korean loses valuables

Christine Emily L. Pantaleon 11/07/2013

A KOREAN national lost valuables estimated to be P70,000 in a burglary in barangay Lambug, Badian town, southern Cebu. Evihwan Jeong, 19, was away when his cottage at the Cebu International Golf Course was burglarized past midnight…

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