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[Newsmaker] FSS chief’s resignation casts doubt on Blue House vetting process

Financial Supervisory Service Gov. Kim Ki-sik resigned Tuesday, once again highlighting problems in Cheong Wa Dae’s vetting process. After Kim took office, it emerged that he had donated 50 million ...

Apr 17, 2018
Politics
[Newsmaker] Another online scandal engulfs politics

The country’s political arena is being engulfed by yet another online public opinion manipulation scandal, this time with the ruling Democratic Party in the hot seat. According to the police, a Demo...

Apr 16, 2018
Politics
[Newsmaker] New tests for Macron and May with first major military operations

Shortly after coming to power last year, Emmanuel Macron mused to a friend about the role of president. "You go through stages," he said. "Innocence is not allowed." On Friday night, like British Pr...

Apr 15, 2018
World News
[Newsmaker] Moon says FSS chief will be asked to step down if illegality found

President Moon Jae-in said Friday he would remove the controversial financial watchdog chief if his overseas trips are found to have been illegal or unethical as a lawmaker. Kim Ki-sik, who was appo...

Apr 13, 2018
Politics
[Newsmaker] Mobile carriers say cost breakdown disclosure could expose business secrets

South Korean mobile carriers on Thursday expressed concerns about the country’s top court’s ruling to reveal the breakdown of their operating costs to the general public. The Supreme Court of Korea ...

Apr 12, 2018
Industry
[Newsmaker] Environment Ministry urges local governments to collect plastic waste

The Ministry of Environment said it will start providing financial support to local recyclables collection and disposal companies as early as this week, as recycling companies continue to refuse to c...

Apr 11, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] WHO delays controversial decision on recognizing game addiction as mental disorder

The World Health Organization has delayed by one year its 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases, which had included controversial plans to list video game addiction as a menta...

Apr 11, 2018
Technology
[Newsmaker] Residents slam $93m project to expand Gwanghwamun Square

Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul is where South Korea’s largest political protests take place. The 2017 massive candlelight vigils here led to the impeachment of the former President Park Geun-hye last ye...

Apr 10, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Key pension funds pull plug on Samsung Securities

The National Pension Service ceased trading with Samsung Securities in the wake of the latest dividend error that revealed a blind spot in the brokerage system, officials said Tuesday. “Due to the s...

Apr 10, 2018
Finance
[Newsmaker] FSS chief’s integrity dispute burdens Blue House

Mounting criticisms against the integrity of the newly appointed financial market watchdog chief is adding extra burden on the Moon Jae-in administration, which has vowed to eradicate “accumulated ev...

Apr 9, 2018
Economy
[Newsmaker] Samsung heir likely to officially return this week

Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong is expected to return to the management of the world’s top provider of chips, smartphones and electronics this week, after coming back from a 16-day ove...

Apr 8, 2018
Industry
[Newsmaker] Brazil's Lula surrenders to serve prison sentence

SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil -- Brazil's election frontrunner and leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva turned himself in Saturday to start a 12-year sentence for corruption after a chaotic attempt...

Apr 8, 2018
World News
[Newsmaker] S. Korea cautious about return to six-party talks

As North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has reportedly agreed to return to six-party talks, South Korea reaffirmed Friday that talks on denuclearization should be discussed first among the two Koreas and ...

Apr 6, 2018
Foreign Policy
[Newsmaker] FSC chief plays down concerns on Elliott’s return

Amid growing speculation on US activist hedge fund Elliott Management’s move towards Hyundai Motor Group, the chief of the nation’s top financial regulator on Thursday urged stakeholders not to react...

Apr 5, 2018
Automode
[Newsmaker] Confusion, anger continue over restrictions on recyclables

Recent Chinese restrictions on the types of recyclables that it will purchase continue to cause much confusion, as both residents and management offices of apartment complexes struggle to understand ...

Apr 4, 2018
Social affairs

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