Dec. 21

• ●Whe romance turns into abuse: Struggles and limitations to curb dating violence The Korea Herald
  A South Korean court on Tuesday upheld a lower court's conviction of a 33-year-old man in Jeonju who assaulted his girlfriend so severely that she fled onto a window ledge and fell to her death.
  
  

• ●Record influx of medical tourists delivers $2.47 bil. economic windfall for Korea The Korea Times
  For Natsagdorj Namuun, a 30-year-old freelance model from Mongolia, the imagined Korea of her youth was a neon-hued daydream of K-pop, defined by the synchronized glitz of Wonder Girls and Girls' Generation.

Dec. 22

• ●Solitary deaths increased 7% last year The Korea Herald
  South Korea recorded nearly 4,000 solitary deaths in 2024, a 7.2 percent increase from 3,661 in 2023, amounting to 1.09 deaths per 100 overall deaths.
  
  

• ●Lee Government Reverses Neulbom School Expansion, Sparking Parent Backlash The Chosun Daily
  A Seoul-based office worker in her 40s, Yoo Mo, who is raising a child entering third grade next year, recently scrambled to find an academy to entrust her child with after receiving a school notice.