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Five-year prison sentence confirmed for fake university chairmanSocial affairsMay 24, 2020A top local court confirmed a five-year prison sentence for a cyber-university chairman who sold fake college diplomas to around 200 people. The Supreme Court on Sunday confirmed the lower courts’ f... -
Hana Financial, Hahn & Co. agree to buy H-Line Shipping for W1.8trMoneyMay 24, 2020South Korea’s private equity house Hahn & Co. and Hana Financial Group have agreed to buy a 100 percent stake in H-Line Shipping, former dry bulk cargo arm of bankrupt carrier Hanjin Shipping, for 1.... -
Families with kids in high school prioritize private educationSocial affairsMay 24, 2020Lower middle-class households with children in high school saw private education expenditure grow faster than their income in the past 12 years, a study showed Sunday. The study by the Korean Educat... -
Labor leader to meet Seoul mayor, discuss universal employment insuranceSocial affairsMay 24, 2020Korean Confederation of Trade Unions Chairman Kim Myeong-hwan is meeting with Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon this week to discuss the government’s plan to implement a universal employment insurance progra... -
Lotte Shopping to sell 121 stores this year due to virus impactIndustryMay 24, 2020Lotte Shopping Co., the operator of South Korea's biggest department store chain, said Sunday it will sell 121 brick-and-mortar stores within this year amid the new coronavirus impact on the retail i... -
S. Korea to give 370,000 masks to Koreans adopted overseasForeign affairsMay 24, 2020South Korea will provide 370,000 face masks to Koreans adopted overseas to help them fight the new coronavirus, the foreign ministry said Sunday. Starting Monday, 210,000, or 60 percent of the total... -
Navy to send 2 destroyers to US-led RIMPAC exerciseDefenseMay 24, 2020The Navy plans to send just two destroyers to a US-led multinational maritime exercise slated to kick off near Hawaii in August, a military source said Sunday, as the biannual exercise is expected to... -
N. Korea designates army anniversary as national holidayNorth KoreaMay 24, 2020North Korea has designated the date its late founder Kim Il-sung created anti-Japanese guerrilla forces in 1932 during Japan's colonial rule of Korea as a national holiday, its main newspaper said Su... -
S. Korea's new virus cases hover around 20 for 3rd day, Itaewon cluster keeps growingSocial affairsMay 24, 2020South Korea added 25 new coronavirus cases Sunday, marking the third consecutive day the number has been around 20, as the country steps up efforts to bring the latest infections tied to Seoul's nigh... -
Remains of 4 S. Korean teachers killed in Annapurna avalanche return homeSocial affairsMay 24, 2020INCHEON -- The remains of four South Korean teachers found dead in an avalanche in the Himalayas returned home Saturday. The four victims, all of them school teachers in South Chungcheong Province, ... -
S. Korea's consumer goods imports from Japan fall 37% in AprilEconomyMay 24, 2020South Korea's imports of consumer goods from Japan plunged 37 percent in April from a year earlier due to Japan's export curbs and the new coronavirus impact on consumer spending, government data sho... -
NK leader presides over key party meeting to discussNorth KoreaMay 24, 2020North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presided over a Central Military Commission meeting and discussed "new policies for further increasing the nuclear war deterrence of the country," state media reported... -
BTS Suga's new mixtape 'D-2' tops global iTunes chartsK-popMay 23, 2020A new mixtape released by Suga of Korean pop sensation BTS dominated the iTunes album charts in 80 regions across the world, his management agency said Saturday. “D-2,” Suga’s second mixtape release... -
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[Photo News] Tiger family at S. Korean amusement parkCultureMay 23, 2020Tiger cub siblings, one male and one female, were introduced to the public Thursday at Everland, a zoo and theme park in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. The mother tiger was shown taking care of her cubs... -
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[Eye Plus] Modern Korean history at a glanceCultureMay 23, 2020The forces that shaped today’s Korea -- from its belated opening to the outside world in the late 19th century and its annexation by Japan in 1910 to the 1950-53 Korean War, dictatorships, rapid indu...
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