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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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Allegations surrounding BTS resurface, enraged fans demand apology
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Students with history of violence will be barred from becoming teachers
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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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Govt. asks hospitals to mitigate impact of medical professors' absence
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Migrant women workers’ housing safety compromised in South Korea: report
More than 50 percent of all foreign-born women who work in Korean farms, whose accommodation in the country is provided by their Korean employers live in either containers or vinyl greenhouses often without any locks, making them vulnerable to sexual harassment and other forms of violence, a report showed on Monday. The report, released by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, showed that there were about 324,000 foreign-born migrant women who were working in Korea as of 2016. They ac
Sept. 10, 2018
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Suicide Prevention Day to curb unwelcome OECD ranking
The Ministry of Health and Welfare held a ceremony to mark Suicide Prevention Day on Monday in coordination with the Korea Suicide Prevention Center Thirty-four police officers and 36 institutions received commendations from the minister of health and welfare for their contributions to suicide prevention. Korail was one of the 36 institutions to receive a commendation from the minister of health and welfare. (Yonhap)Inspector Ham Myung-ho, who is part of the missing person investigation team at
Sept. 10, 2018
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Middle school boys accused of rape, blackmail
Police are investigating an allegation that three male students at a middle school in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, raped another student.A 14-year-old male student and his two friends from school are accused of sexually assaulting their female peer on several occasions, according to Jeonbuk Provincial Police Agency. They are also accused of groping her on other occasions. (Yonhap)The three boys also reportedly took pictures of the victim’s body with their smartphones and threatened to expose
Sept. 10, 2018
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Ministry publishes new guidelines for school violence
The Education Ministry on Monday published revised guidelines on school violence that give victims the right to participate in the retrial process. The revised guidelines, which come three years after the first set of guidelines was introduced in 2014, provide a detailed process for dealing with school violence, to allow victims to receive proper assistance from school violence centers across the country. (Yonhap)Victims of school violence were previously not notified when abusers filed for a re
Sept. 10, 2018
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Police arrest 15 for selling, injecting meth or growing weed
Police apprehended 15 people for growing cannabis on hills, selling or injecting methamphetamine, in Busan.Four people have been detained and 11 booked without detention for violation of the narcotics control law, Busan’s Sasang Police Station said Monday. (Yonhap)Two of them are suspected of selling methamphetamine to their acquaintances in the Gimhae area in South Gyeongsang Province.Ten are suspected of repeat injections of the drug from last November until recently. Another three are suspec
Sept. 10, 2018
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Man dies after 19 bee stings
A 60-year-old man died after he was stung by bees 19 times Saturday afternoon.The man was found lying face down on a hill in the county of Hadong, South Gyeongsang Province, around 5:50 p.m. by a relative, who called the police.The man had called his relative at around 5:20 p.m., saying he had been stung by bees.He had gone up the hill alone to weed an ancestor’s grave for the second time that day, having already made the trip with his relative in the morning, according to police. He was wearing
Sept. 10, 2018
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Man gets 10 years for killing ex-roommate over unpaid rent
A Seoul court sentenced a man to 10 years in prison, Monday, for stabbing his former roommate to death earlier this year following a row over unpaid rent. The Seoul Central District Court handed the prison term down to the 35-year-old man, identified only by his surname, Kim. According to court records, Kim was accused of stabbing the victim multiple times inside a home they had shared in Gangnam, southern Seoul, Jan. 17. (Yonhap)The two had been friends for 10 years, the court heard, and had a
Sept. 10, 2018
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Preschoolers of collapsed building move to day care center
As a collapsed preschool in Sangdo-dong, Seoul, is being partially demolished, some children were moved to a nearby elementary school’s day care center Monday. (Yonhap)A total of 58 preschoolers had planned to attend the elementary school’s day care center, but only 10 of the 58 preschoolers were reported to have come to class Monday morning. Though the elementary school is currently closed due to the collapse, the day care will stay open until the preschoolers can return to their own facility.A
Sept. 10, 2018
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Orion Group chairman questioned by police over embezzlement allegations
The chairman of the confectionery and media conglomerate Orion Group appeared for police questioning on Monday over allegations that he embezzled company money to build his vacation home. (Yonhap)Chairman Tam Chul-gon is accused of spending about 20 billion won ($17.7 million) in company funds between 2008 and 2014 to build the vacation house in the Gyeonggi Province county of Yangpyeong, east of Seoul.After arriving at the National Police Agency, Tam denied the allegations, claiming that the ho
Sept. 10, 2018
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Woman accused of luring men to motels, robbing them
A woman in her 40s was taken into custody in Busan for allegedly stealing cash from men she met online, police said Monday. (Yonhap)The suspect is accused of stealing about 300,000 won ($260) from a man who accompanied her to a Busan motel in May after meeting her online. He said she stole cash from his bag while he was looking the other way.Police believe the accused woman has used the same tactic to steal about 920,000 won from three other men over three months.The suspect was arrested at a sa
Sept. 10, 2018
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[Weather] Wider temperature range expected this week
Residents in most parts of Korea woke up to clear, sunny skies Monday morning, with temperatures having plummeted to a chilly 13 to 20 degrees Celsius. Areas on the east coast will receive light rain showers in the morning. (Yonhap)Daytime temperatures will rise to 21 to 28 C nationwide and cool down again at night. The daytime high in Seoul will record 28 C, Incheon 27 C, Suwon 28 C, Chuncheon 26 C, Gangneung 22 C, Daejeon 27 C, Gwangju 28 C, Daegu 25 C and Busan 25 C.As the daily temperature r
Sept. 10, 2018
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Death toll nears 40 in northern Japan earthquake
TOKYO (AP) -- The death toll has hit 39 from a powerful earthquake that struck the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido last week, authorities said Sunday. One person remained missing in the hard-hit town of Atsuma, where multiple landslides triggered by the quake slammed into houses at the foot of steep hills. Rescue workers used backhoes and shovels to search for the missing in a tangle of dirt, fallen trees and the rubble of homes left by the landslides. All but four of the victims were fr
Sept. 9, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Queer festival severely delayed by violent anti-gay protests in Korean port city
The first queer festival held in the South Korean port city of Incheon was severely delayed throughout Saturday, as some 1,000 Christians staged an anti-gay protests on the scene, which led to physical attacks and verbal abuse against LGBT individuals. In spite of the violent clashes and subsequent delays, the participants of the festival carried on with the event. While many planned events were canceled, the LGBT community persisted with and completed the queer parade, the last program of the
Sept. 9, 2018
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More than 400 to be monitored after first MERS case in three years in Korea
A total of 22 people, including four medical professionals and a cab driver, have been quarantined at home after the country’s first Middle East respiratory syndrome case in three years was reported, health authorities said. Some 440 people who had indirect contact with the patient will be monitored, they added. The patient, 61, was diagnosed with the infectious disease after returning from a business trip to Kuwait from Aug. 16 to Sept. 6. He took two flights to get home from Kuwait to arrive
Sept. 9, 2018
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[Feature] Dying senior activist pushes for different funeral culture in South Korea
Last month, Kim Byung-guk attended his own funeral. The 85-year-old, who was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer last year, asked the attendees not to wear black. “I want to have this service while I’m still alive,” Kim wrote in his invitation to his friends. “Please dress in bright colors. Hope we can sing and dance together.” Kim’s funeral ceremony, held on Aug. 14 in a hospice facility in Seoul, was indeed quite different from what one normally sees at Korean funerals. No one was sobbing.
Sept. 9, 2018
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Authorities begin demolition of collapsing kindergarten
Authorities on Sunday began demolishing a collapsing kindergarten in southern Seoul, a property that has been causing a public uproar over a lack of safety measures for young children. The three-story building, where some 120 preschoolers went to kindergarten, started leaning nearly 20 degrees on Thursday after a retaining wall in a nearby construction site collapsed. The wall’s collapse is reported to have been caused by heavy rain earlier this month. A kindergarten in Seoul`s Dongjak district
Sept. 9, 2018
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Depression affecting 16% more Koreans in 5 years
The number of South Koreans treated for depression last year rose 15.8 percent from five years before, government data showed Sunday.Some 681,000 patients were treated for depression last year, up from 588,000 tallied in 2012, according to the data compiled by the National Health Insurance Service. (Yonhap)While the number for women grew 12.1 percent from 406,000 to 455,000, the comparable figure for men jumped 24 percent from 182,000 to 226,000, the data showed. Emotional fluctuation following
Sept. 9, 2018
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Korean court upholds entry ban on Chinese businessman over sexual harassment
A Seoul court upheld the Korea Immigration Service’s decision to permanently ban a Chinese businessman, who has a history of sexually harassing two Korean women employed by his company, from entering Korea.The man who was investigated by the Korean prosecution in 2016 after two Korean female employees filed a complaint against him, claiming he sexually harassed them. The women worked as his secretary and a flight attendant on his private jet. South Korea`s Incheon International Airport (Yonhap)
Sept. 9, 2018
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Nearly 7 out of 10 Koreans play video games: survey
Nearly 7 in 10 South Koreans played some type of video games in the past year, a survey showed Sunday. According to the survey conducted by the Korea Creative Content Agency, 67.2 percent of the respondents said they had experienced playing a video game since July last year. The poll was conducted on 3,020 people aged between 10 and 65 from June 21 to July 8. (Yonhap)Among those who played games during the period, 88.3 percent used mobile games, followed by PC games with 59.6 percent, console g
Sept. 9, 2018
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Supreme Court strikes down military academy's decision to expel cadet for drinking
The Supreme Court struck down a decision by a military academy to expel one of its cadets for unauthorized drinking, saying the academy's code of conduct is too restrictive.The ruling is expected to lead to sweeping changes in the so-called three bans that the military academies in South Korea have in their codes of conduct for cadets: prohibiting drinking, smoking and marriage. (Yonhap)The cadet, identified by his surname Kim, filed the suit after the Korea Army Academy expelled him in November
Sept. 9, 2018