In July 2025, a bill known as the "English Kindergarten Regulation Act (영어유치원 금지법)" was proposed in South Korea. The bill seeks to regulate early childhood education at private institutions, especially those offering subject-based instruction like English. It was introduced in response to concerns about the academic pressure placed on young children.

1) The bill prohibits subject-based instruction (e.g., English) for children under 36 months.

2) For children over 36 months but not yet in elementary school, subject-based lessons would be limited to 40 minutes per day.

3) Private institutions that violate these rules may face suspension or cancellation of their teaching license.

Hostile architecture (also called “defensive design”) refers to design features in public spaces that make certain behaviors uncomfortable or impossible. These features are intentionally built into benches, ledges, pavements, lighting, or sound systems to discourage long resting, sleeping, lying down, lingering, or gathering in specific areas.

You stroll up next to a Tim Horton's on a cold winter day. It is busy but not packed. There are families sharing laughter around boxes of donuts, construction workers warming up their hands on their steaming double doubles, and a few grumpy university students getting in their caffeine fix.

There is an adorable little pine tree on the side of the highway. It's fluffy bundles of deep green needles stand out amongst the shorter, yellow-green needled, longer branched trees in the forest surround it.

There is an adorable little pine tree on the side of the highway. It's fluffy bundles of deep green needles stand out amongst the shorter, yellow-green needled, longer branched trees in the forest surround it.