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Calls for new national anthem grow amid anti-Japanese sentiment

Debate has surfaced over whether the use of South Korea’s national anthem composed by Ahn Eak-tai, whose pro-Japanese activities during Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula have come under s...

August 9, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Police probe ex-YG chief on gambling charges

The police said Friday that they are probing allegations that Yang Hyun-suk, former CEO and chief producer of K-pop entertainment powerhouse YG Entertainment, gambled overseas. South Koreans are pro...

August 9, 2019
Social affairs
Outdoor movie week begins Friday at Yeouido Hangang Park

“Cinema Week,” featuring free outdoor screenings and talk shows, opens Friday at Yeouido Hangang Park. A preview screening of American musical drama film “Teen Spirit,” starring American actress Ell...

August 8, 2019
Social affairs
Some air purifiers fall short of claimed performance: ministry

Some air purifiers sold here, both foreign and local brands, fall short of the output promised by manufacturers, the government said Wednesday. A total of 35 models of air purifiers and 50 models of...

August 7, 2019
Social affairs
Prosecution to issue warrants in foreign languages

The prosecution will use warrants translated into foreign languages when apprehending or arresting foreign suspects as part of efforts to better protect their human rights in investigations and court...

August 7, 2019
Social affairs
Ministry to process all illegal waste within the year

The Ministry of Environment announced its plan Tuesday to process all waste across the country that has been illegally dumped, neglected and exported within this year, three years earlier than initia...

August 6, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Typhoon Francisco to hit Korea on Tuesday afternoon

Typhoon Francisco, the season’s eighth typhoon, will hit Korea from Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday, with heavy rains expected across the country, the weather agency said Monday. The typhoon was...

August 5, 2019
Social affairs
1 in 4 students, new graduates studying for civil service exam

One in 4 university students and new graduates in South Korea are preparing to take the state-run civil service exams mostly for job security, a survey showed Monday. In a poll of 1,022 university s...

August 5, 2019
Social affairs
S. Koreans slam Japan’s ‘whitelist’ decision, vow all-out boycott

South Korean citizens and civic groups on Friday lashed out at Japan’s decision to remove their country from a “whitelist” of countries with preferential trading status and called on the Korean gover...

August 2, 2019
Social affairs
Police investigate assault of Uzbek migrant

The police said Friday that they have launched an investigation into an assault case amid growing public outrage as a video went viral showing a migrant from Uzbekistan being beaten by a Korean manag...

August 2, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Three dead at construction site hit by heavy downpour

A 15-member task force team was launched under Yangcheon Police Station on Thursday to investigate an accident at a rainwater pump construction site in Seoul that left three people dead, amid critici...

August 1, 2019
Social affairs
Gwangju police chief vows thorough probe into balcony collapse

Jang Ha-yeon, commissioner of the Gwangju Metropolitan Police Agency, on Wednesday vowed to thoroughly investigate the collapse of a balcony inside a nightclub in Gwangju that killed two people and i...

July 31, 2019
Social affairs
Officials summoned for Incheon tap water crisis

Police said Wednesday they had called in Incheon city officials for questioning in connection with the reddish tap water problem that has swept through parts of the city over the past few months. Th...

July 31, 2019
Social affairs
Heavy downpour kills one at construction site

Heavy rainfall on Wednesday morning in Seoul and the surrounding Gyeonggi Province isolated three workers at a rainwater pump construction site, leaving one dead and two missing, with torrential down...

July 31, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] ‘Park Yoo-chun invited police officers home while under probe’

Police said Tuesday they are looking into suspicions that singer-actor Park Yoo-chun invited police officers, who were in charge of probing rape allegations against him, home for a meal while under i...

July 30, 2019
Social affairs

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