GCash, the Philippines’ number one finance app and largest cashless ecosystem, has forged a strategic partnership with South Korea’s leading cross-border money transfer fintech, E9pay.
This partnership enables Filipinos residing in Korea to remit money back to the Philippines quickly, effortlessly, and at competitive rates via mobile devices.
With the direct connection between the two Asian fintech leaders, Filipinos living in Korea could send money to their friends and family’s GCash wallets through the E9Pay app with unprecedented ease and speed. The transaction procedure is fully online and requires only the receiver’s phone number, eliminating the need for bank visits or complex paperwork.
The transferred funds arrive within a few minutes or hours, far faster than traditional banking processes. Users will also benefit from lower transaction fees and more promotional events co-hosted by the two nation’s leading service providers.
E9pay CEO, Jun Goo Hyok, expressed his excitement about the partnership: “With the Korean Government’s plans to bring in more health care and housekeeping workers from the Philippines, we anticipate significant transaction growth potential with GCash soon.”
Meanwhile, Paul Albano, general manager of GCash International said: “This partnership with E9Pay ensures that we will continue to serve Filipinos wherever they are in the world.
This is also a big boost to the cultural and economic ties between the Philippines and Korea with monthly transactions seen growing substantially as we open the service to the over 60,000 Filipinos in Korea and over 94 million people who have tried using GCash in the Philippines.”
According to Immigration data from South Korea’s Ministry of Justice, the foreign resident population, encompassing both short-term and long-term stays, stood at 2.25 million in 2022, up by 14.8% from the previous year. Among these, the Philippines ranked 6th, accounting for roughly 60,000 individuals. Furthermore, there has been a significant surge in Filipino tourists visiting South Korea, rising from 116,000 in 2021 to 308,000 in November 2023, or a substantial increase of 165.5%.
In response to increasing interactions between South Korea and the Philippines, the two companies plan to broaden their remittance services in the future. This expansion will facilitate the flow of funds from Korea to the Philippines and vice versa, accommodating various financial demands, including tourist payments and hospital fees in Korea.
GCash has been solidifying its international presence for Filipinos across the world. Aside from allowing direct and easy remittance services for Filipinos residing in Korea, GCash users visiting the country can also use the app to pay by scanning national QR codes as well as using their GCash Visa Card. (PR)
Blind Lawyer, Blind Teachers, and the Inspiring Oxymorons of our Times
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR III
Oxymorons may be something that has been old fashioned for a long time and lay dormant for a while but it has resurfaced to be an important inspiring stories.
Grammarly blog define it as : An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings, like “old news,” “deafening silence,” or “organized chaos.” Oxymorons may seem illogical at first, but in context they usually make sense. An oxymoron is a literary device that juxtaposes contradictory terms. Oxymorons are often used poetically as a way of bringing out a fresh meaning in a word or phrase. Like a paradox, an oxymoron is what’s known as a “contradiction in terms,” although oxymorons and paradoxes are two different things, as explained below.
The word oxymoron is an ancient Greek word, which translates most closely to something like “sharply dull” or “cleverly stupid.” In other words, the oxymoron definition is itself an oxymoron. (https://www.grammarly.com/blog/oxymoron/).
For now having passed the difficult Bar Examinations and the Board: Licensure Examinations for Teacher we have a Blind Lawyer, Blind Teachers.
Michaerl Palisoc Morano, Nerikka Escario are just two of the Blind people who had surmounted the Board Licensure Examinations for Teachers, Mark Anthony Dulawan Emocling though just visually impaired, is the first one to pass the Bar with said condition.
In my youth I have known Carol Catacutan, the Pinay Dubbed as the Philippines Helen Keller. Carol is a graduate of Ramon Magsaysay High School (RMHS), Espana, Manila, Batch ’83. She completed a degree in European languages then pursued a Mass Communications course and graduated Cum Laude from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, QC. Carol is a professional writer, teacher and one of the founders of ATRIEV (Adaptive Technology for Rehabilitation, Integration & Empowerment of the Visually Impaired). She’s writing teleplays including her life story, entitled “Liwanag”, which appeared on ABS-CBN television show, “Maalaala Mo Kaya”, hosted by Charo Santos and portrayed by Claudine Barretto.
Carol is a contributing writer to various national magazines in the Phlippines including the Sunday Inquirer Magazine and wrote romance novels. She was the anchorwoman at Radio Veritas. Her successful accomplishments are beyond compare.
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Overall, these highlight reels of achievements are worthy of the attention that they are getting. For one, these are inspiring REAL stories that creates hope and push the human spirit breaking the barriers of disability and attaining a fighting chance like normal mortals . It showcased grit and stamina and even persistence unheard of with the many whiners out there.
According to a well-known pair of denim jeans’ commercial, these are inspirations that are always in trend. These, in my opinion, are preferable to the depraved oxymorons we encounter frequently, such as police-criminals, teachers-predators, legislators-lawbreakers, etc.
There is promise in these oxymorons.