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[Newsmaker] To fight spycams, women’s bathrooms may adopt digital entry

Social affairsSept 28, 2020

A state-owned property developer in Korea is introducing QR code-based entry systems at public women’s bathrooms in a bid to ward off spy camera crimes. Korea Land and Housing Corp. said in a press ...
[Newsmaker] Opposition party slams Cheong Wa Dae’s response to NK’s killing of civilian

PoliticsSept 27, 2020

Opposition lawmakers are stepping up attacks on President Moon Jae-in over the killing of a South Korean civil servant by North Korea, framing the incident as a case of mishandling or even neglect of...
[Newsmaker] Moon briefed 4 times on killed civil servant, UN message too late to be changed: Cheong Wa Dae

PoliticsSept 25, 2020

President Moon Jae-in was briefed on four occasions between Tuesday and Thursday on developments concerning the South Korean civil servant killed by the North Korean military, Cheong Wa Dae said. Ac...
[Newsmaker] Korean lawmakers to summon Google, Netflix chiefs

IndustrySept 24, 2020

The National Assembly of South Korea has selected the chiefs of Google and Netflix’s Korean operations as witnesses at the upcoming audits scheduled for October to ask questions about their business ...
[Newsmaker] Supreme Court affirms prison terms of singers in rape case

Social affairsSept 24, 2020

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court's prison sentences for Jung Joon-young and Choi Jong-hoon, two South Korean singers convicted of rape and other crimes. In May, Jung, a disgraced s...
[Newsmaker] Trump skips NK for first time in UN speech

North KoreaSept 23, 2020

US President Donald Trump made no mention of North Korea in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday (US time), for the first time in any of his four UN speeches since taking off...
[Newsmaker] Seoul mediates again in diplomat’s alleged groping of New Zealander

Foreign affairsSept 22, 2020

The Foreign Ministry has resumed mediation between one of its diplomats and a male staffer in New Zealand who accused the diplomat of groping him in late 2017. The ministry said it has informed th...
[Newsmaker] Irregular workers more susceptible to job loss from COVID-19: survey

Social affairsSept 21, 2020

Temporary contract workers were more susceptible to job loss due to the coronavirus pandemic than full-time workers, with one in every three irregular workers losing their jobs over the past eight mo...
[Newsmaker] Offline classes to resume in Seoul schools from Monday

EducationSept 20, 2020

Schools in Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi Province will resume in-person classes Monday after South Korea eased its social distancing measures in the capital region. To minimize the risk of infection i...
[Newsmaker] How '70s oil shock led to SK battery biz

IndustrySept 20, 2020

For the late SK Group Chairman Chey Jong-hyun, the 1970s oil shock was a wake-up call, a moment of reckoning that a petrochemical company cannot and should not let its destiny be dictated by the pric...
[Newsmaker] 2 killed in fire at waste recycling facility

Social affairsSept 19, 2020

Two foreign workers were killed as a fire gutted a waste recycling facility located south of Seoul, authorities said Saturday. The incident occurred at around 4 a.m. inside a plastic waste recycling...
[Newsmaker] Nat'l pension fund employees under drug probe: police

Social affairsSept 18, 2020

Four employees of the National Pension Service Investment Management (NPSIM) have been under criminal investigation over suspected drug charges, police said Friday. According to the Jeonbuk Provinci...
[Newsmaker] Seoul city to file 4.6b won compensation suit against pastor

Social affairsSept 18, 2020

The Seoul city government said Friday it plans to file a 4.6 billion-won ($3.9 million) compensation suit against a pastor blamed for worsening the new coronavirus outbreak here by holding mass ralli...
[Newsmaker] Yoon Ji-oh reveals whereabouts, rebuts prosecution's claim

Social affairsSept 17, 2020

Yoon Ji-oh, an actor who has been engulfed in donation fraud and defamation allegations related to late actress Jang Ja-yeon, denied the Justice Ministry’s statement that the investigation against he...
[Newsmaker] Celltrion on path to break W1tr in operating profit

IndustrySept 16, 2020

Celltrion Group is expected to become the first Korean biologics drug company with an operating profit of over 1 trillion won ($850 million), financial data aggregator FnGuide projected Tuesday. T...