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[Newsmaker] Seoul, Tokyo at odds again over Japan’s participation in maritime exercises

Seoul and Tokyo are at odds over Japan’s participation in planned multinational maritime exercises in spring, raising tension between the two countries already strained by a recent military spat and ...

Feb 24, 2019
Defense
[Newsmaker] US missionaries speak out against controversial Gwangju Uprising comments

US missionaries who lived in Gwangju through the May 18 Democratization Movement in 1980 sent a letter to National Assembly Speaker Moon Hee-sang on Friday, referring to controversial remarks from fa...

Feb 22, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Why would Chey leave SK Holdings board?

The reported departure of SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won from the boardroom of the conglomerate’s holding company drew heated interest from the market on Thursday, with many viewing it as an effort t...

Feb 21, 2019
Industry
[Newsmaker] Italy confirms daughter of missing N.Korea diplomat returned home

ROME (Reuters) - North Korea informed Italy last year that the daughter of its acting ambassador had asked to return home after her father left his post in Rome, the Italian foreign ministry said on ...

Feb 21, 2019
North Korea
[Newsmaker] 182 cases of hiring irregularities found across public organizations

Some 182 cases of hiring irregularities were found through a three-month survey of hundreds of public institutions, the government said Wednesday. In response, the government said it would require p...

Feb 20, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Police may question Seungri as probe expands, attention turns to K-pop star

K-pop star Seungri, affiliated with the nightclub Burning Sun, may be questioned by police as the authorities have expanded a drug and assault investigation centered on the club, police said Tuesday....

Feb 19, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] ‘Japan’s Abe politicizing sexual slavery issue’: National Assembly speaker

National Assembly Speaker Moon Hee-sang said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is politicizing the “comfort women” issue as part of efforts to win supporters at home. “It is shameless. Prime Minist...

Feb 18, 2019
Politics
[Newsmaker] Search ship retrieves voyage data recorder from sunken Stellar Daisy

A deep-sea search ship has retrieved a voyage data recorder (VDR) and a bridge of the ill-fated South Korean bulk carrier Stellar Daisy that sank in the South Atlantic two years ago, Seoul's foreign ...

Feb 18, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Seoul police widen drug crackdown at clubs amid Burning Sun scandal

Police are widening a crackdown on drugs and distribution at clubs located in Gangnam, southern Seoul, according to an announcement Sunday. The crackdown comes amid heightened public anger over unla...

Feb 17, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Lawmaker’s aide says man who set himself on fire was ‘barbecued’

An aide to a ruling party lawmaker said on social media that a man who set himself on fire in front of the National Assembly building was “barbecued.” A man in his 60s suffered third-degree burns a...

Feb 15, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Concerns rise over workplace safety at Hanwha after deaths of 3 workers

The deaths of three employees in an explosion at a Hanwha factory on Thursday have fueled concerns about workplace safety at the major Korean conglomerate, as an explosion at the same factory had cla...

Feb 14, 2019
Industry
[Newsmaker] Outraged Gwangju citizens take to National Assembly over opposition lawmakers’ Gwangju Uprising remarks

Outraged over inflammatory remarks by far-right politicians about the 1980 Gwangju Democratic Uprising, some 300 family members of those who died during the uprising and Gwangju citizens on Wednesday...

Feb 13, 2019
Politics
[Newsmaker] Drunk driver in fatal car crash gets 6-year jail term

A drunk driver in a highly publicized fatal car crash that killed a young college student in a southern port city was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday. The Busan District Court handed d...

Feb 13, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] PM holds talks with Japanese lawmaker over forced labor rulings

Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon met with a visiting Japanese lawmaker Wednesday to discuss frayed ties between the two neighboring countries in the wake of South Korean court rulings on wartime forced lab...

Feb 13, 2019
Foreign Policy
[Newsmaker] Grief-filled graduation ceremony held for Sewol victims

A long-delayed commencement ceremony was held Tuesday for 250 Danwon High School students who died in the Sewol ferry disaster on April 16, 2014. (Yonhap) The students were on a school trip to Jeju...

Feb 12, 2019
Social affairs

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