Pregnant women are often left unable to use the special priority seating made just for them. Pregnant women are often asked to give up their seats to the elderly.

Fifty seven photos looking back at the last year as experienced by the grieving families of the April 16, 2014 sinking of the Sewol ferry in Ansan, Korea.

Marking 1 year since the Sewol tragedy, students in one Ansan school bow their heads for a moment of silence.

Korean parents are spending hundreds of dollars buying designer backpacks for their elementary school-aged kids. Netizens mock this trend, and the 14k gold backpacks that the kids are carrying to school.

After marrying abroad, many marriage immigrants are failing the new Korean language proficiency test required for entry into Korea.

Netizens touched by a photo of a Korean firefighter sitting down to a meal of cup ramen after extinguishing a fire at 1AM in the morning.

Some Korean couples are resorting to hiring fake wedding guests to fill out large halls. Most netizens cite culture as the reason for this new trend.

Netizens on the popular Facebook page, Liberalism, discuss the state of welfare programs in Korea.