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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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Nicaragua shuts down Seoul embassy
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Rocket engine expert, ex-NASA exec to lead Korea's new space agency
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Hybe's multilabel system tested amid conflict with Ador
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SNU profs to suspend treatment for one day
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SK hynix pledges W20tr to ramp up DRAM production at home
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Over-50s, men, single-person households take up majority of those filing for bankruptcy
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Ministry denies blame for Jamboree debacle
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Pianist Cho Seong-Jin named Berlin Philharmonic's artist-in-residence
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Bus runs over passengers at Suwon Station, kills 1, injures 17
A bus ran over passengers at Suwon Station in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, on Friday, killing one and injuring at least 11. The incident occurred at around 1:27 p.m., when the bus rammed into passengers who were crossing the street to the transfer center on the upper level of the station, subsequently moving to the sidewalk where it hit more people. The site of the accident draws high foot traffic, including to adjacent shopping centers. A woman in her 70s was killed, despite being carried to a h
Dec. 22, 2023
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Main street in Seocho-gu becomes utility pole-free zone
The district office of Seocho-gu in southern Seoul has removed all utility poles across Gangnamdaero, officials said Friday. Gangnamdaero is a 7.2-kilometer, 10-lane main road connecting the northern and southern part of the district, and is among the busiest roads in South Korea. It is adjacent to the commercial district of the affluent Gangnam region, along with Gangnam Station and Yangjae Station, among the most populated subway stations here. The district office said it just completed the th
Dec. 22, 2023
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Court clears man accused of leaving his children on the street
A man who left his three children on the streets temporarily to look for their mother has been cleared of child abandonment charges, after the court decided that he did not intend to actually leave his children. "(The defendant) left his children on the streets so they could meet their mother. It does not appear that his actions were to an extent detrimental to the children's mental health," the appellate division of the Gwangju District Court said in its ruling Wednesday. The 44-
Dec. 21, 2023
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Daily commute in greater Seoul takes 83 minutes: report
An average worker living in Seoul and its surrounding regions spends an average of 83.2 minutes a day going back and forth from home to work, a state report showed Thursday. The Statistics Korea announced a report on commute time for workers across the country, specifically for who use the mobile services of SK Telecom, one of the country's top three mobile carriers. The agency compared data it had of workers' home addresses and jobs with data compiled by SK's mobile tracking syst
Dec. 21, 2023
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Freezing temperatures engulf S. Korea
Thursday’s temperatures were recorded to be the lowest so far this year, with morning lows reaching as low as minus 19 degrees Celsius and daytime highs expected to range between minus 10 C and 2 C. However, with winds traveling as fast as 55 kilometers per hour nationwide, the Korea Meteorological Administration stated that it would feel a lot colder than the actual temperature. In Seoul, morning low temperatures were minus 15 C, with high temperatures of minus 7 C and a wind chill of min
Dec. 21, 2023
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Justice minister becomes interim leader of ruling party
Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon on Thursday stepped down to take on the role of interim leader of the ruling party, heeding the growing calls to steer the party through next year's general election. President Yoon Suk Yeol officially accepted Han's offer to resign from his current post, hours after he had expressed his intention to step down earlier in the day. The Justice Ministry explained that Han decided to take on the role of chairman of the People Power Party‘s emergency lea
Dec. 21, 2023
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Seoul holds first-ever gathering of global influencers
The Seoul city government said Thursday it will host 2023 Seoul Con together with Seoul Business Agency from Dec. 30 to Jan. 1, 2024. Seoul Con is billed as the world’s first-ever convention for social media influencers. Taking place at Dongdaemun Design Plaza, a whopping 3,000 groups representing 50 countries, are to participate in the Seoul Con in its first year, according to city officials. The Seoul Metropolitan Government hopes to promote Seoul through YouTube and TikTok to boost the
Dec. 21, 2023
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Former prosecutor who sparked #MeToo loses damages suit
Seo Ji-hyun, a former prosecutor who ignited a nationwide #MeToo movement in 2018 with her disclosure of sexual misconduct and abuse of authority by a senior prosecutor, lost a damages suit against him and the state on Thursday. The Supreme Court upheld the lower courts' decision to reject Seo's claim for compensation from former senior prosecutor Ahn Tae-geun over allegations that he sexually harassed her and abused his authority to retaliate against her in personnel reshuffles. Seo f
Dec. 21, 2023
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Police arrest doctor accused of giving drugs to 'Parasite' actor
A South Korean doctor accused of providing narcotics to actor Lee Sun-kyun, currently under investigation for drug use, has been arrested by police late Wednesday. Incheon District Court issued an arrest warrant for the 42-year-old suspect, on request of the drug unit of the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency, saying that there is a risk that he may flee or destroy evidence. The unnamed suspect, a plastic surgeon at a hospital in Gangnam-gu, southern Seoul, is believed to have provided drugs to
Dec. 21, 2023
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Teachers' union hits back against complaints over school trip to watch hit film '12.12: The Day'
A teachers’ union on Wednesday criticized a right-leaning civic group for making complaints against a Seoul high school principal for organizing an outing to watch "12.12: The Day," a film about military dictator Chun Doo-hwan's rise to power through the 1979 coup. The civic group, called the Freedom Korea National Defense Corps, has accused the principal of abusing his authority, which is stipulated via Article 123 of the Criminal Act, according to the Korean Teachers and E
Dec. 21, 2023
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Understanding the use of a recording as evidence in the court in South Korea
Evidence is any information that can be used to support or refute a legal argument. Direct evidence directly proves a fact, while circumstantial evidence does not directly prove a fact yet implies a fact. Evidence includes physical objects, recordings, documents etc. Proving a fact with an evidence in the court hugely affects the outcomes of the trial. At this juncture, a better understanding on the evidence in court in Korea will be examined with Daeun Han, attorney at law. Q. Will a person
Dec. 21, 2023
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2 students wrongly rejected from university due to error
Gyeongsang National University said Thursday that a computer error during its admissions process resulted in two students being rejected despite having the necessary credentials for acceptance. The university belatedly notified the two students that they have actually been accepted. According to school officials, its college of pharmacology announced last week the three students who were accepted through its early admissions process. But the computer did not take into account the college entranc
Dec. 21, 2023
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Supreme Court again rules in favor of Korean victims of Japan's forced labor
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld two appellate court rulings that ordered Japanese companies to compensate South Koreans forced into wartime labor during Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule. The top court handed down the decisions on two damages suits filed against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Nippon Steel Corp. between 2013 and 2014. The Supreme Court previously confirmed similar compensation orders for the two Japanese companies in 2018 in response to lawsuits launched in 2012. In
Dec. 21, 2023
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Extreme cold, heavy snow to hit S. Korea from Thursday
Temperatures are expected to drop significantly from Thursday as the cold weather continues to persist in the central region, with heavy snow forecast in southwestern parts of South Korea until Friday, according to the national weather agency on Wednesday. As the continental high pressure builds, cold air will begin to move toward the west, causing snow clouds that have formed along the west coast to move inland, it said. This will cause snow to fall near the west coast of South Chungcheong Prov
Dec. 20, 2023
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Seoul invites 18 special guests to ring in new year
The Seoul city government on Wednesday announced a list of 18 people who will join the city‘s bell-tolling ceremony on New Year’s Eve. The 12 civic bell ringers, selected by the city as “People of the Year,” include 18-year-old Yoon Do-il, who risked his life to help others when a knife attack occurred at Seohyeon station in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province, in August; Park Sang-woo, a radiology technologist who performed CPR on a person who had collapsed in an Itaewon alley fo
Dec. 20, 2023
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S. Korea nabs 1,183 gang members, most of them 'MZ gangsters'
South Korean police on Wednesday said it has apprehended 1,183 members of organized crime rings across the country, detaining 189 of them on arrest warrants, the majority of whom are younger than 30 and focus more on non-traditional gang activities. The arrests were made after a special crackdown by the National Police Agency during the second half of this year, conducted between Aug. 7 and Dec. 16. The government had apprehended 1,589 gang members after a four-month investigation took place dur
Dec. 20, 2023
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457 organizations, firms fail to meet disability employment obligations
A total of 457 public organizations and private companies failed to comply with disability employment obligations, the labor ministry said Wednesday, with Prada Korea found to have had zero disability employment for over 10 years. Under the act on the employment promotion for people with disabilities enacted in 1991, public institutions are required to have 3.6 percent of their workforce comprising workers with disabilities. The rate required for private firms is 3.1 percent. Those violating the
Dec. 20, 2023
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[Graphic News] Adults 60 and over take up half of new jobs in 2022: data
More than half of the new jobs in 2022 were taken by adults 60 or older, while younger people took up only about 1.15 percent of the year’s newly added posts, data showed. South Korea added 870,000 new jobs in 2022, marking a 3.4 percent on-year increase to bring the total jobs to 26.45 million, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea. Of the total, jobs for those aged 60 and older rose the most by 440,000, followed by 260,000 new jobs for people in their 50s. The number of jobs
Dec. 20, 2023
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Temperatures set to tumble midweek
South Korea is forecast to come under the grip of the season's strongest cold wave later this week, with morning lows dipping to minus 20 C in some parts of the country, the state-run weather agency said Tuesday. Wednesday's morning lows will range from minus 12 C to 1 C above zero nationwide, but the mercury is likely to plunge in the afternoon as the country will fall under the influence of continental high pressure expanding from northern China, according to the Korea Meteorologic
Dec. 19, 2023
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Police apprehend Gyeongbokgung vandals
South Korean police on Tuesday said they arrested two teenagers suspected to have recently vandalized the walls of Gyeongbokgung Palace in Jongno-gu, central Seoul. According to Jongno Police Station, the 17-year-old male suspect was taken in by officers at around 7:08 p.m. near his home in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province. The other suspect, a 16-year-old girl, was also apprehended at her home which was nearby. The pair is accused of spray-painting promotional messages of an illegal video-downloading w
Dec. 19, 2023