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77% of South Koreans see need for ‘filial duty contracts’Social affairsDec 30, 2015More than 75 percent of South Koreans surveyed by a local pollster think “filial duty contracts” -- a legal document that makes it mandatory for all grown children to financially and emotionally care... -
Controversy grows over wartime sex slavery agreementSocial affairsDec 29, 2015South Korea and Japan’s epochal agreement Monday to settle the comfort women issue drew angry reactions from surviving Korean victims, ethnic Koreans living overseas, activist groups and opposition ... -
Health Ministry to invest W52.5b in infectious disease researchSocial affairsDec 28, 2015Following a number of public health disasters this year, including the Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, South Korea’s Health Ministry announced Monday that it will invest 52.5 billion won (...
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Workplace bullying gets smarter, crueler in South KoreaSocial affairsDec 28, 2015The South Korean government has been striving to curb violence in various corners of society, including at schools, homes, workplaces and online. The Korea Herald is publishing a series of articles d... -
Dispute rises over child care budget in South KoreaSocial affairsDec 24, 2015The Education Ministry on Thursday threatened to file a lawsuit against municipal education offices that have been refusing to allocate their budget on next year’s child care allowance for children a... -
South Korea to monitor absent students for possible domestic abuseSocial affairsDec 23, 2015Following a high profile child abuse case this week reported in Incheon, where a father confined his 11-year-old daughter at home and continually abused her for more than two years, the South Korean ... -
Cause of collective pneumonia outbreak identified in South KoreaSocial affairsDec 23, 2015Health authorities on Tuesday identified the bacteria that may have caused the collective pneumonia outbreak that took place at Konkuk University in Seoul and affected 55 students beginning from Octo...
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Nearly 70% survive 5 years after cancer diagnosis in South KoreaSocial affairsDec 22, 2015Almost 70 percent of Korean patients who were diagnosed with cancer from 2009-2013 have survived or are expected to survive at least five years after their initial diagnosis, a newly released governm... -
Postnatal care center sued for TB infection in South KoreaSocial affairsDec 21, 2015Choi Young-doo, a father of two children, received an abrupt phone call from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in August. He was told that his second child, born in June, may have ... -
California schools to teach about Japan’s WWII sex slaverySocial affairsDec 21, 2015Students who attend public high schools in California in the U.S. will learn about Japan’s sex slavery during World War II starting 2017, according to Japanese daily Sankei Shimbun and the Californi... -
S. Koreans outlive N. Koreans by 12 yearsSocial affairsDec 20, 2015South Koreans on average outlive North Koreans by some 12 years, partly because North Korea’s high infant mortality rate is about seven times higher than the South’s, according to South Korean govern... -
‘Why I left Korea to become a refugee’코리아 헤럴드Dec 17, 2015With risks and challenges faced by refugees across the world having become one of the greatest global issues today, the status and conditions of asylum seekers in South Korea have also been highlight... -
Sex trade exploits legal loopholes in South KoreaSocial affairsDec 15, 2015It’s been some 10 years since South Korea enacted its antiprostitution law, but new forms of sex trade have continued to evolve through legal loopholes, including sex services for women and overseas ... -
Most South Koreans short on retirement savingsSocial affairsDec 11, 2015Shin Yu-hee (not her real name), a 29-year-old office worker, is worried whenever she thinks about her parents’ postretirement years. Having graduated from a private women’s colleges in Seoul, she cu... -
‘My country pimped me to U.S. soldiers’Social affairsDec 9, 2015UIJEONGBU, Gyeonggi Province -- Near one of the U.S. military camps in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province, there is an old, white cement building that now serves as a shelter for former sex workers for U.S...
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