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37 injured in expressway pileup involving 5 vehicles

A pileup of five vehicles on a highway in the southeast of South Korea injured 37 people Friday, police said. The accident occurred on the Namhae Expressway in Changwon, about 400 kilometers southea...

Aug 16, 2019
Social affairs
Seoul to toughen inspections of waste imports from Japan

South Korea will tighten its environmental and safety inspections for recycling waste imported from Japan, the government said Friday, in an apparent attempt to counter Japan’s recent trade restricti...

Aug 16, 2019
Foreign Affairs
Cheong Wa Dae holds NSC meeting over NK projectiles

South Korea’s presidential office on Friday convened an emergency National Security Council meeting following North Korea’s latest projectile launches. “An emergency NSC meeting was called, and the ...

Aug 16, 2019
North Korea
North Korea fires two projectiles into East Sea

North Korea has fired two more projectiles into the East Sea in the early hours of Friday, further raising tensions on the peninsula. According to Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, North Korea fired tw...

Aug 16, 2019
North Korea
N. Korea says it will not talk with S. Korea

North Korea said on Friday that it has no desire to talk with South Korea, criticizing President Moon Jae-in’s Liberation Day speech and blaming Seoul for its joint military exercise with the US. Th...

Aug 16, 2019
North Korea
[Newsmaker] Public fury grows over Jeju road rage

A video in which a driver assaulted another driver who had been complaining about the former’s aggressive driving, went viral Friday, sparking public outrage and calls for punishment for the violent ...

Aug 16, 2019
Social affairs
Cheong Wa Dae urges N. Korea to stop launches of 'projectiles'

The office of President Moon Jae-in called on North Korea on Friday to halt launches of projectiles, expressing concern that such acts would escalate military tensions on the peninsula. Briefing med...

Aug 16, 2019
North Korea
Trump: NK leader called within 10 minutes after DMZ tweet

US President Donald Trump said Thursday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called him "within 10 minutes" after he tweeted an invitation to meet at the inter-Korean border in June. Trump was talki...

Aug 16, 2019
North Korea
N. Korea says it has no intention to talk with S. Korea

North Korea said Friday that Pyongyang has no intention to talk with South Korea again, calling it a "senseless" hope to expect talks to be resumed when Seoul's joint military exercise with the Unite...

Aug 16, 2019
North Korea
NK raises military tension on peninsula: NSC

2 unidentified projectiles flew 230 kilometers with peak altitude of 30 km: JCS North Korea fired two unidentified projectiles into the East Sea on Friday, South Korea's military said, the sixth suc...

Aug 16, 2019
North Korea
Typhoon Krosa passes over East Sea

Typhoon Krosa, the season's 10th typhoon, reached the East Sea after landing on the Japanese city of Hiroshima earlier in the day, Seoul's weather agency said Thursday. The typhoon, which reached Hi...

Aug 15, 2019
Social affairs
Ex-US Rep. Honda visits shelter for sexual slavery victims

Former US Rep. Mike Honda paid a visit to a shelter that houses South Korean women who were forced into sexual enslavement by Japan on Thursday. Honda met two victims at the shelter and expressed ho...

Aug 15, 2019
Foreign Affairs
[Newsmaker] Controversy brews over Cho Kuk’s ties to socialist group

Cho Kuk, former senior presidential secretary for civil affairs, sought to fend off criticism over his involvement in the South Korean Socialist Workers’ Alliance in 1991, saying it had been a way to...

Aug 15, 2019
Politics
Typhoon Krosa forecast to pass over East Sea

Typhoon Krosa, the season's 10th typhoon, is forecast to pass over the East Sea after landing on the Japanese city of Hiroshima earlier in the day, Seoul's weather agency said Thursday. The typhoon ...

Aug 15, 2019
Social affairs
[From the scene] Anti-Abe rallies dominate central Seoul on Liberation Day

Thousands of citizens from South Korea and Japan on Thursday urged the Shinzo Abe administration to apologize to Korean victims forced to work for Japanese occupiers during a rally in central Seoul, ...

Aug 15, 2019
Social affairs

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