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[Newsmaker] What is Kim Jong-un’s next move?

With the war of words between the US and North Korea showing no signs of subsiding, growing attention is being focused on what Kim Jong-un’s next move will be. North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-...

Sept 29, 2017
North Korea
[Newsmaker] Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner dies at 91

Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, the pipe-smoking hedonist who revved up the sexual revolution in the 1950s and built a multimedia empire of clubs, mansions, movies and television, symbolized by bow-t...

Sept 28, 2017
People
[Newsmaker] Police probes mysterious death of folk singer's daughter

The elder brother of deceased folk singer Kim Kwang-seok was questioned by police Wednesday in connection with the mysterious death of Kim’s daughter, which had been concealed by his widow for a deca...

Sept 27, 2017
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Jailed ex-spy chief grilled over political manipulation

The prosecution summoned Won Sei-hoon, former chief of the National Intelligence Service, for questioning Tuesday amid a sprawling investigation into the spy agency’s alleged irregularities including...

Sept 26, 2017
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Probe over spy agency expands to ‘media blacklist’

State prosecutors are set to launch an investigation this week into allegations that the National Intelligence Service blacklisted media professionals deemed unfriendly to the Lee Myung-bak administr...

Sept 24, 2017
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Farmers, animal rights groups clash at pro-dog meat trade rally

At least 400 dog meat farmers staged a protest in Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul on Friday, calling on the government to legalize the dog meat trade and classify dogs used as pets separately fro...

Sept 22, 2017
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] 9 in 10 Koreans say anti-corruption law effective

Nearly a year after the implementation of an anti-corruption law, 9 in 10 Koreans said the law was effective, a recent survey showed, despite an ongoing debate on whether to raise price ceilings, as ...

Sept 21, 2017
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Prosecution opens probe into former leader Lee

The prosecution on Wednesday began looking into a complaint filed against former President Lee Mung-bak that he masterminded the national spy agency’s alleged smear campaign against Seoul Mayor Park ...

Sept 20, 2017
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Corruption scandal shakes up KAI’s vision

Until last year, Korea Aerospace Industries, the nation’s sole aircraft manufacturer, was riding high on the expectation of its increased entries into foreign markets with homegrown choppers and jets...

Sept 19, 2017
Industry
[Newsmaker] Number of dementia patients to surpass 2.7 million by 2050

In South Korea, some 700,000, or 1 in 10 of the elderly population, suffer from dementia, but this number will balloon to 2.7 million by 2050 amid the nation’s rapidly aging society, data from a mini...

Sept 18, 2017
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Disabled students in South Korea struggle to find right school

At Park Hyun-soo’s home in Gangseo-gu, western Seoul, weekday mornings are just like in any other household with young students. She wakes up her daughter, fixes her something to eat, and rushes ...

Sept 17, 2017
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Seoul's aid to NK faces Japan's opposition

The South Korean government said Friday that its plan for an $8 million humanitarian aid package for North Korea would not be affected by the rogue regime’s military provocation Friday. But pressure ...

Sept 15, 2017
North Korea
[Newsmaker] Kaesong businesses: Forgotten casualties of N. Korean crisis

South Korean business operators of the now-shuttered joint industrial complex in North Korea’s border city of Kaesong are stuck in a limbo. Amid North Korea’s escalating military provocations and en...

Sept 14, 2017
North Korea
[Newsmaker] Naver, Kakao compete to secure more AI speaker purchases

South Korea’s two biggest IT companies are ramping up efforts to achieve more preorders for their artificial intelligence-powered smart speakers that are slated to hit shelves here soon, with aims to...

Sept 13, 2017
Technology
[Newsmaker] Top court nominee grilled over left-wing views, qualifications

Kim Meong-su, the nominee for South Korea’s Supreme Court chief justice, was grilled over his qualifications and ideological orientations Tuesday during a parliamentary confirmation hearing. In his ...

Sept 12, 2017
Social affairs

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