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[Newsmaker] Prosecution rejects ex-president’s stay of execution request

The prosecution concluded Thursday that former President Park Geun-hye, who was jailed for corruption, should not be allowed a stay of execution of her prison sentence as her state of her health does...

April 25, 2019
Social affairs
Court rules against Angolan family stranded at Incheon Airport

INCHEON -- A court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Angolan family that has been stranded for four months inside Incheon Airport’s transit zone after being denied a chance for refugee appl...

April 25, 2019
Social affairs
Soon-to-be released child rapist’s face made public

The face of convicted child rapist Cho Doo-soon, whose brutal rape of an 8-year-old girl in 2008 shocked the South Korean public, was revealed on a TV program Wednesday amid growing concerns over his...

April 25, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Singer Park Yoo-chun to retire from showbiz over suspected meth use

K-pop singer and actor Park Yoo-chun was expelled from his agency on Wednesday, after results revealed that he had tested positive for methamphetamine. A hearing on whether to arrest him is scheduled...

April 24, 2019
Social affairs
Japan’s Akito Tani wins 1st Tchaikovsky online piano competition

The first International Tchaikovsky Online Piano Competition for Young Musicians ended last week with an award ceremony at Seoul Cyber University in Seoul, where a South Korean student claimed the se...

April 22, 2019
Education
Garbage returned from Philippines to be incinerated Wednesday

Some 1,200 metric tons of plastic waste shipped back to Korea from the Philippines in January and 3,400 tons of waste stopped from illegally being exported are to be incinerated starting Wednesday. ...

April 22, 2019
Social affairs
Seoul to fight against closed tents, trash in Hangang parks

The Seoul Metropolitan Government laid out plans Sunday to designate tent zones and reduce the amount of trash generated in parks along the Han River, as part of efforts to better keep the parks clea...

April 21, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Hyundai scion arrested over drug-use allegations

A grandson of the late Hyundai Group founder Chung Ju-yung was apprehended Sunday at the Incheon Airport on suspicions of using liquid marijuana, even as another SK Group family member is under probe...

April 21, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Court says no need to release documents on 2015 deal over sex slavery

An appeals court said Thursday the government does not have to disclose documents on the negotiations that led to a controversial 2015 deal between South Korea and Japan on Tokyo’s wartime sex slaver...

April 18, 2019
Social affairs
Subway Line No. 5 services partially suspended

Subway Line No. 5 in Seoul was partially disrupted at around 11 a.m. Thursday due to a power outage, Seoul Metro said. (Yonhap) The power cut took place on the rail connecting Gwangnaru Station and...

April 18, 2019
Social affairs
Local developer tied to alleged sex bribery arrested

The prosecution on Wednesday apprehended the businessman at the center of allegations of rape, sexual bribery and abuse of power involving former Vice Justice Minister Kim Hak-eui, accusing him of fr...

April 17, 2019
Social affairs
Moon’s confidant suspected of opinion rigging released on bail

South Gyeongsang Province Gov. Kim Kyoung-soo, on trial for his alleged role in rigging online comments to benefit then-presidential candidate Moon Jae-in, has been released on bail after 77 days in ...

April 17, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Sewol victims’ families call for new probe, punishment

Bereaved families of the victims of the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster on Monday called for a fresh prosecutorial investigation into the event and punishment for those accountable, a day before the fifth ...

April 15, 2019
Social affairs
After ruling on abortion ban in S. Korea, what now?

After the Constitutional Court ruled the abortion ban as unconstitutional, South Korea faces the tough task of revising the criminal code that has criminalized abortions, by the end of 2020. One of ...

April 12, 2019
Social affairs
Hwang Ha-na transferred to prosecution for alleged drug use

Police on Friday referred the case of Hwang Ha-na, a granddaughter of the founder of a major South Korean dairy company, to the prosecution on charges of using and selling illegal drugs. (Yonhap) H...

April 12, 2019
Social affairs

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