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Does 52-hour workweek rule create more jobs?

A survey on 181 companies in South Korea reveals less job creation growth by companies subject to 52-hour workweek rule

Police to summon K-pop star Seungri, YG Entertainment chief over gambling charges

Police plan to summon this week Seungri, a former member of popular K-pop boy band BIGBANG, and the former chief of the band's music label on charges of overseas gambling, according to officials Sunday. Seungri and Yang Hyun-suk, the former CEO of YG Entertainment, were booked by the police earlier this month on charges of gambling in a foreign country and securing gambling money in violation of the country's Foreign Exchange Transaction Act. Cable network JTBC earlier reported that Yang an

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S. Korea launches Dokdo defense drill amid tension with Japan

The South Korean armed forces launched a two-day military exercise to defend the easternmost islets of Dokdo on Sunday amid growing tensions over trade and their shared history, in a show of its staunch defense stance against Japan's repeated sovereignty over the cluster of rocks in the East Sea. The Navy announced that the drill involves Navy, Air Force and Army forces, such as naval warships and aircraft, as well as Army and Marine Corp troops. The drills have been held twice a year, usu

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Defense
N. Korea says it tested new super-large multiple rocket launcher

North Korea said Sunday that it has successfully tested a 'new' super-large multiple rocket launch system the previous day under the guidance of leader Kim Jong-un. Kim "guided the test-fire of newly developed super-large multiple rocket launcher on Saturday," the Korean Central News Agency said. "The test-fire proved that all the tactical and technological specifications of the system correctly reached the preset indexes."The KCNA added that Kim underscored the need to push

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North Korea
Cheong Wa Dae says it never used Japan's intel in analyzing NK missiles under Moon

South Korea never used Japan's intelligence in analyzing North Korea's missile launches under the current Moon Jae-in administration, a senior official at the presidential office said Saturday, amid concerns over possible limits in countering the North's threats with the termination of an intel-sharing deal between Seoul and Tokyo. The official made the remark after North Korea fired two projectiles believed to be short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea earlier in the day, marking the s

Aug 24, 2019
Defense
[Newsmaker] Police launch probe as video shows man allegedly beating Japanese woman on street

Police have launched a probe after a video and photos of a South Korean man allegedly threatening and beating a Japanese woman went viral on social media, they said Saturday."We have found the victim and the suspect in the alleged assault case, which occurred the previous day and contacted them," an official at Seoul Mapo Police Station said. "We will call them in later in the day and investigate the details of the incident." In the video that went viral online, the man

Aug 24, 2019
Social affairs
Trump says US has really good relations with N. Korea: report

US President Donald Trump has said his country has a very good relationship with North Korea, foreign media reported, after Pyongyang fired two projectiles believed to be short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea on Saturday."Kim Jong-un has been, you know, pretty straight with me,"Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday (Washington time), according to a video released by the cable channel C-Span."He likes testing missiles, but we never restricted short-range miss

Aug 24, 2019
North Korea
Int'l lawyers to visit Seoul, Pyongyang to probe N.K. restaurant workers' defection

A team of international lawyers will visit South and North Korea in the coming weeks to investigate a high-profile 2016 defection of a dozen North Korean restaurant workers, a Seoul-based lawyers' group said Saturday.Members of two organizations -- the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and the Confederation of Lawyers of Asia and the Pacific -- will arrive in Seoul on Sunday for a six-day stay and travel to Pyongyang next week for another six-day visit, according to the Lawyer

Aug 24, 2019
North Korea
S. Korea mulling further delay of Dokdo defense drills

South Korea is considering determining when to conduct maritime drills on and around its easternmost islets of Dokdo after watching whether Japan will take the South off a list of trusted trading partners as planned next week, an official said Saturday.The drills, involving the Navy, the Marine Corps and the Coast Guard, have been held twice a year, usually in June and December, to better fend off possible foreign infiltrations to the rocky outcroppings and the surrounding waters.But this year's

Aug 24, 2019
Defense
NSC members express 'strong concern' about N. Korea's launch of projectiles

South Korea's top security officials voiced "strong concern" Saturday over North Korea's continued launch of projectiles despite the end of its combined military training with the United States.They urged the North to halt such acts of escalating military tensions on the Korean Peninsula during an emergency session of the National Security Council standing committee, Cheong Wa Dae said.Its members began the meeting at 8:30 a.m., presided over by Chung Eui-yong, chief of the presidentia

Aug 24, 2019
Defense
N. Korea fires unidentified projectiles into East Sea: JCS

North Korea fired two projectiles presumed to be short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea on Saturday, South Korea's military said, ratcheting up tensions even after the end of a joint military exercise between the South and the United States.The projectiles were fired at 6:45 a.m. and 7:02 a.m. from the eastern town of Sondok in South Hamgyong Province into the East Sea, and both flew around 380 kilometers at a maximum altitude of 97 km and a top speed of around Mach 6.5, according to t

Aug 24, 2019
Defense
Scrapping GSOMIA raises questions about intel-sharing capability, alliance with US

The South Korean government is attempting to ease concerns that the country’s decision to abandon a military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan will weaken its alliance with the US and cooperation in fending off North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats. Following Cheong Wa Dae’s announcement Thursday that the General Security of Military Information Agreement with Japan would be scrapped, the presidential office and related ministries here on Friday stressed that the allianc

Aug 24, 2019
Defense
France to host 47th WorldSkills Competition

KAZAN, Russia -- Lyon, France, has been selected to host the 47th WorldSkills Competition in 2023, beating Japan’s Aichi with more than double the support from member countries, organizers said Friday.In a vote held during the 2019 General Assembly in Kazan, Russia on Wednesday, Lyon gained 44 votes and Aichi, a village in Japan’s Nagano prefecture, 20 votes. Lyon, the third-largest city in France, hosted the 33rd WorldSkills Competition in 1996.“Thank you for trusting us

Aug 24, 2019
Social affairs
Cheong Wa Dae: S. Korea has talked enough with U.S. on GSOMIA issue

South Korea consulted with the United States often and adequately on the fate of a bilateral pact with Japan on sharing military intelligence, Cheong Wa Dae said Friday, as Washington has voiced "strong concern" and "disappointment" over Seoul's decision to discard the key tool for strengthening trilateral security cooperation in Northeast Asia."It's true that the US hoped for the extension of the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA)," South K

Aug 23, 2019
Foreign Affairs
N. Korea hopes for more investment, economic cooperation with foreign countries

A senior North Korean official said Friday that Pyongyang is making active efforts to create a business-friendly environment to attract investment and foster economic cooperation with foreign countries.North Korea's Minister for External Economic Affairs Kim Yong-jae made the remark at a forum held in Changchun, the capital city of China's Jilin province. "(We) are making active efforts to expand and advance economic cooperation with several countries, while pushing to preserve an investmen

Aug 23, 2019
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