Writ requested swiftly after Moon’s order, but rejected; Seongnam raided belatedly

An array of problems have come out of the prosecution’s investigation into corruption suspicions in connection with a real estate development project in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. The rejection of an arrest warrant for Kim Man-bae, the largest shareholder in Hwacheon Daeyu who is a key person of interest in the scandal, is a humiliation for the prosecution. The court threw out its request for an arrest warrant of Kim on Thursday night. The scandal stems from allegations that Yoo Dong-

Government data on job growth glosses over worsening employment conditions

South Korea recorded the largest job growth in 7 1/2 years last month, according to government data released this week. The data from Statistics Korea showed the number of employed people in the country reached 27.68 million in September, up 671,000 from a year earlier, the steepest increase since March 2014, when the figure rose by 726,000 on-year. Buoyed by the increase, Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki, who doubles as deputy prime minister for economic affairs, said the job recovery momentum had