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Korea searches for 50 foreigners possibly exposed to MERS

South Korean health authorities are searching for some 50 foreign nationals who may have been in contact with the recently confirmed Middle East respiratory syndrome patient, including those who arri...

September 11, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] MERS patient may have withheld information: Seoul Mayor

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon on Monday called for additional and thorough epidemiological investigation into South Korea’s first case in three years of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, confirmed Saturd...

September 10, 2018
Social affairs
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 ...

September 10, 2018
Social affairs
[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 physic...

September 9, 2018
Social affairs
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,...

September 9, 2018
Social affairs
[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 whi...

September 9, 2018
Social affairs
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-st...

September 9, 2018
Social affairs
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...

September 9, 2018
Social affairs
Generational conflict severe in South Korea: study

Generational conflict is severe in South Korea, especially between the elderly and the younger generation, with almost 90 percent of young and middle-aged adults saying they cannot “communicate well”...

September 6, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Mass food poisoning reported at schools nationwide in South Korea

South Korea's food safety agency on Thursday banned Pulmuone Foodmerce, a major food distribution firm, from distributing chocolate cakes that are believed to have caused some 460 school children nat...

September 6, 2018
Social affairs
Seoul Mayor postpones unveiling of master plan amid real estate price row

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon indefinitely postponed the unveiling of his master plan for the next four years, saying making the announcement at this point could worsen the continued escalation of real e...

September 5, 2018
Politics
Ex-police chief questioned over illicit online opinion rigging

Former National Police Agency Commissioner-General Cho Hyun-oh was questioned by police Wednesday on allegations that he masterminded an online opinion-rigging operation carried out by police during ...

September 5, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Head of Congo’s electoral body says ‘very few’ Congolese oppose Korean-made voting machines

Corneille Nangaa, the head of the electoral commission of the Democratic Republic of Congo, said in Seoul on Tuesday that “very few” in his country are against the idea of using the much-disputed Sou...

September 4, 2018
Social affairs
Critics doubt sincerity of Seoul Mayor’s ‘wheelchair experience’ pledge

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon’s latest pledge -- to spend a day in a wheelchair to experience the difficulties disabled people face in using public transportation -- is raising eyebrows among the people ...

September 3, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Park pressured court to delay colonial forced labor ruling: report

Ex-President Park Geun-hye ordered the Blue House staff to deliberately delay the Supreme Court’s ruling on a lawsuit filed by Koreans subjected to forced labor during Japan’s colonial rule, accordin...

September 3, 2018
Social affairs

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