“Only Koreans are allowed because our employees are not able to communicate in English. It is not racist. Sorry. Please be generous about it,” reads a sign outside a bar in Hongdae—one of Seoul’s most popular neighborhoods for foreigners. Discrimination ...
In 2017, Taiwan’s National Development Council under the Tsai Ing-wen administration unveiled Bilingual 2030, a national policy to become a bilingual English-Mandarin Chinese nation by 2030. Taiwan invested NT$30 billion (U.S. $982 million) into the initiative focusing on K-12 students, ...
Thirty-five years of the one-child policy left China’s population subdued with a skewed sex ratio, in which 117.8 males were born for every 100 females at its peak. Families violating the policy faced strict punishments; thus, emulating the patriarchy, newborn ...