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Police who handled Hwang Ha-na’s 2015 drug use allegation questioned

Police said Tuesday they had questioned two police officers about allegations that Hwang Ha-na, the granddaughter of the founder of a major South Korean dairy company, avoided a probe into drug use i...

April 9, 2019
Social affairs
KAIST-KU Joint Research Center opens in UAE

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and United Arab Emirates’ Khalifa University of Science and Technology opened the KAIST-KU Joint Research Center in Abu Dhabi, as part of their effo...

April 9, 2019
Education
Seoul launches fine dust control tower

The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Sunday that it will establish a new body under Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon to fight worsening particulate pollution in the nation’s capital. Under Park’s dire...

April 7, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Probe on drug use broadens to celebrities

Police are expanding an investigation on drug use to celebrities, as Hwang Ha-na, the granddaughter of the founder of a major South Korean dairy producer, has revealed she took illegal substances on ...

April 7, 2019
Social affairs
Angolan asylum seekers stranded at Incheon Airport testify in court

An Angolan family who had been stranded for more than three months in Incheon Airport’s transit zone after being denied entry to the country, testified in court Thursday to fight the immigration offi...

April 4, 2019
Social affairs
KAIST placed 4th in innovation in THE University Impact rankings

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology placed fourth in industry, innovation and infrastructure in the 2019 Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings, KAIST said Thursday. Pa...

April 4, 2019
Social affairs
Bus hours extended for Cherry Blossom Festival

Operation hours for bus services running past Yeouido Hangang Park and more trains will be deployed on Line. 9 subway this weekend for an upcoming April 5-11 Cherry Blossom Festival, the Seoul Metrop...

April 3, 2019
Social affairs
Third-generation chaebol scions booked on drug use charges

The police have booked a number of third-generation scions of South Korean family-owned conglomerates on suspicions they bought and used illegal substances even as the investigation into more drug de...

April 2, 2019
Social affairs
KAIST, THE to hold summit, university ‘impact’ ranking to be revealed

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Times Higher Education are jointly holding a three-day conference in South Korea on the changing roles of universities in the era of the “fo...

April 1, 2019
Social affairs
Sweden willing to play facilitating role in nuclear diplomacy: Swedish ambassador

Sweden stands ready to assume a discreet facilitating role in nuclear diplomacy with North Korea to contribute to building peace on the Korean Peninsula, Swedish Ambassador to Korea Jakob Hallgren st...

April 1, 2019
Foreign Affairs
[Feature] Debate on abortion ban intensifies as decision looms

When Hong Seung-hee, 28, discovered she was pregnant, she felt her world was falling apart. She decided to terminate the unwanted pregnancy, even though it meant she would have to live as a criminal...

March 31, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Prosecution to reinvestigate sex bribery case of ex-vice minister

Prosecutor-General Moon Moo-il on Friday ordered a reinvestigation into a high profile case involving former Vice Justice Minister Kim Hak-eui, over allegations of rape, sexual bribery and abuse of p...

March 29, 2019
Social affairs
Jung Joon-young transferred to prosecution in sex video scandal

Police on Friday referred the case of singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young to the prosecution, recommending he be indicted on charges of secretly filming sex videos and sharing them in online chat group...

March 29, 2019
Social affairs
Sewol footage might have been doctored: inquiry panel

Surveillance footage retrieved by the Navy and Coast Guard from the ferry Sewol, which sank in 2014 claiming more than 300 lives, may have been doctored, an independent panel looking into the Sewol f...

March 28, 2019
Social affairs
Lights to be turned off Saturday for Earth Hour

Lights in South Korea will be turned off for an hour on Saturday as part of the World Wide Fund for Nature’s annual Earth Hour campaign to raise awareness about climate change, WWF said Thursday. 20...

March 28, 2019
Social affairs

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