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[Newsmaker] Moon Jae-in is ANN's Person of the Year

Moon Jae-in is Asia News Network's Person of the Year. For more on the finalists and runners up, please click this link here . In a few decades, when people look back on 2018, perhaps they will on...

Dec 28, 2018
Politics
[Newsmaker] President Moon makes surprise visit to military camp

President Moon Jae-in made a surprise trip Friday to a military training camp near the inter-Korean border for lunch and a special meeting with new army conscripts. "Thank you for welcoming me with ...

Dec 28, 2018
Politics
[Newsmaker] Military plans to ease restrictions on soldiers’ off-base activities, cellphone use

South Korea’s conscripted soldiers will soon be allowed to go off base and to use cellphones in barracks after working hours, the country’s military said Thursday, as part of efforts to improve basic...

Dec 27, 2018
Defense
[Newsmaker] Trump makes first visit to US troops in harm’s way

AL-ASAD AIRBASE, Iraq (AP) — In an unannounced trip to Iraq on Wednesday, President Donald Trump staunchly defended his decision to withdraw US forces from neighboring Syria despite a drumbeat of cri...

Dec 27, 2018
World News
[Newsmaker] Prosecution raids presidential inspection office

Investigators looking into allegations surrounding a former inspector with the presidential office on Wednesday searched related Cheong Wa Dae facilities. According to the presidential office, inves...

Dec 26, 2018
Politics
[Newsmaker] IS-claimed attack on Libya foreign ministry kills at least three

Suicide attackers stormed the Libyan foreign ministry in the capital Tripoli on Tuesday, killing at least three people including a senior civil servant in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihad...

Dec 26, 2018
World News
[Newsmaker] US judge orders North Korea to pay $500m in student’s death

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ordered North Korea to pay more than $500 million in a wrongful death suit filed by the parents of Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died shor...

Dec 25, 2018
North Korea
[Newsmaker] Govt. to reflect hours of paid rest in calculating minimum wage

Legal hours of paid rest will be reflected in the calculation of minimum wage from 2019, the government said Monday. However, extra hours of paid rest designated by contracts between companies and la...

Dec 24, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] US envoy to anti-IS coalition resigns after Trump's Syria decision

Brett McGurk, the US special envoy to the anti-Islamic State group coalition, has resigned, a State Department official said Saturday, capping a chaotic week that saw the departure of Defense Secreta...

Dec 23, 2018
World News
[Newsmaker] Partial US government shutdown set to last through Christmas

The partial US government shutdown is set to stretch on through Christmas as the Senate adjourned Saturday with no deal in sight to end the impasse over funding for Donald Trump's wall on the US-Mexi...

Dec 23, 2018
World
[Newsmaker] Former provincial Gov. An attends sexual abuse hearing in appeals court

Former South Chungcheong provincial Gov. An Hee-jung attended the first hearing of his appeal trial Friday to defend himself against charges that he sexually abused his secretary. The Seoul High Cou...

Dec 21, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Taxi drivers protest carpool service again, stage 24-hour strike

Tens of thousands of taxi drivers across the nation flocked to Seoul on Thursday to protest tech giant Kakao’s launch of a carpooling app, causing inconvenience as the labor unions also began a 24-ho...

Dec 20, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Report: 53 journalist deaths tied to work so far in 2018

NEW YORK (AP) — The number of journalists killed in retaliation for their work nearly doubled this year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The New Yor...

Dec 20, 2018
World News
[Newsmaker] Taxi drivers to hold massive protest against Kakao carpool service

About 100,000 taxi drivers will gather at Yeouido, Seoul, Thursday afternoon for a massive protest against Kakao’s carpool service, taxi unions said Wednesday. The drivers also warned that they might...

Dec 19, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Police confirm defect in gas-fired boiler in Gangneung guesthouse accident

GANGNEUNG/SEOUL -- Police said Wednesday they have confirmed a defect in the gas-fired boiler at a guesthouse in Gangneung that likely caused the deaths of three students by carbon monoxide poisoning...

Dec 19, 2018
Social affairs

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