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[Newsmaker] Minister apologizes for troops' sexual violence during Gwangju Uprising

Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo apologized Wednesday over the sexual assaults by troops during their brutal crackdown on a 1980 pro-democracy uprising in the southwestern city of Gwangju. During a...

Nov 7, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] NK leader sees off Cuban president after 3-day visit

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has seen off Cuban President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez after his three-day visit to Pyongyang, the communist state's state media reported Wednesday. The Cuban ...

Nov 7, 2018
North Korea
[Newsmaker] NK leader talks with Cuban president in his office

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met with his Cuban counterpart at his office in Pyongyang and discussed in-depth “ways to vitalize cooperation and exchange in various fields,” along with the situatio...

Nov 6, 2018
North Korea
[Newsmaker] Koreans stressed out about group chats: surveys

A significant number of South Koreans are stressed out over group chats on platforms such as KakaoTalk, according to a number of surveys in recent years. In a survey conducted last year by the Korea...

Nov 6, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Ordinary North Koreans join elite in acquiring taste for coffee

North Koreans have developed a new taste for coffee as its consumption saw a rapid increase over the past few years with the introduction of market forces to the state-run economy, according to a rep...

Nov 5, 2018
North Korea
[Newsmaker] Storms, floods in Sicily kill at least 12 people; 2 missing

ROME (AP) — Storm-related floods killed at least 12 people in Sicily, Italian authorities said Sunday, including nine members of two families who were spending a long weekend together when water and ...

Nov 5, 2018
World
[Newsmaker] Shin Sung-il dies of cancer at 81

Actor Shin Sung-il died of lung cancer Sunday. He was 81. Shin was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer in June 2017 and was undergoing chemotherapy when his condition recently deteriorated. Shin was...

Nov 4, 2018
Film
[Newsmaker] Newest iPhones to hit Korea’s Apple Store on Nov. 2

The first and only Apple Store in Korea will introduce the latest Apple smartphones on Friday: Get ready for the iPhones XR, XS and XS Max. Presales through local carriers SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplu...

Nov 1, 2018
Technology
[Newsmaker] IT entrepreneur says will quit following abuse scandal

Yang Jin-ho, the chairman of file-sharing platform WeDisk and Hankook Mirae Technology, on Thursday delivered an “apology letter” via Facebook to the many victims that he “may have hurt,” adding on t...

Nov 1, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Minister under fire as opposition chokes on NK’s naengmyeon remark

Taking issue with inaction against a remark by a high-ranking North Korea military negotiator, the main opposition Liberty Korea Party submitted a proposal for the dismissal of Unification Minister C...

Oct 31, 2018
Politics
[Newsmaker] 19 private kindergartens said they will shut down

Nineteen private kindergartens said they will close as of Monday, days after a lawmaker revealed thousands of accounting fraud cases involving private kindergartens. Six of the kindergartens have su...

Oct 30, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Gyeonggi governor grilled for power abuse, election law violations

The path seemed to be wide and smooth for lawyer-turned-politician Lee Jae-myung, a two-term mayor of Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, and previously a prominent presidential primary candidate for the ru...

Oct 29, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Supreme Court reaffirms prison term for ex-Hanjin Shipping chairwoman for insider trading

The Supreme Court on Monday finalized an 18-month prison term for a former head of the now-defunct Hanjin Shipping Co. for selling off her family's stake in the firm using insider information. Choi ...

Oct 29, 2018
Industry
[Newsmaker] Anxiety heightens on stock market depreciation

Market observers remained tense throughout the weekend amid burgeoning skepticism that the stock benchmark Kospi might dip below the psychologically significant threshold of 2,000 this week, reeling ...

Oct 28, 2018
Economy
[Newsmaker] Me and my porn shadow: 'spycam' epidemic seizes South Korea

South Korea is in the grip of a ‘spycam’ epidemic, with covert footage of sex, nudity and urination posted online in what amounts to a “social death penalty” for thousands of women forced to live wit...

Oct 28, 2018
Social affairs

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