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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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S. Korea, Japan could consider simplified entry agreement: Seoul official
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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[Weekender] How DDP emerged as an icon of Seoul
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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Doctor group's incoming head renews call for govt. to scrap medical school quota hike for dialogue
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'The Roundup: Punishment' becomes fastest 2024 film to top 2 mln admissions
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[Music in drama] An ode to childhood trauma
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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New head of doctors' association vows war in case of disadvantage to medical professors
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[News brief] LB Investment head gets suspended sentence for fabricating bank statements
Koo Ja-doo, chairman of venture capital firm LB Investment, received a suspended prison term for fabricating bank statements to close accounts he maintained under other people’s names, a court said Wednesday. The Seoul Central District Court sentenced Koo, the fourth son of LG Group Founder Koo In-hoi, to one year in prison, suspended for two years, on charges of fabricating documents.Koo had a total of 281 bank accounts under the names of foreign students in Seoul who received schol
July 17, 2019
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[News brief] Car crash at FINA leaves no injuries
A bus carrying participants of the ongoing world championships in Gwangju collided with a passenger car, but there were no injuries, police said Wednesday. The bus crashed into the vehicle, which was changing lanes, near Eodeung bridge in Gwangju, where the FINA World Aquatics Championships are being held, according to the Gwangju Metropolitan Police Agency. The bus was transporting 25 athletes from five countries from the Yeomju Gymnasium Artistic Swimming Competition Venue to the athletes
July 17, 2019
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Police detain 1,089 people in 4-month crackdown on int'l crimes
A four-month crackdown on international crimes, such as illegal entries and drug trafficking, has resulted in the detention of 1,089 people, the Korean National Police Agency said Wednesday.The crackdown, conducted from March 4 to July 12, mainly targeted illegal employment of foreign workers, fake visa issuance, drug manufacturing and smuggling, and voice phishing, the agency said, noting 237 of the 1,089 detainees were formally placed under arrest. The crackdown busted 557 cases, and illegal e
July 17, 2019
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Asking job applicant’s personal information now illegal
From Wednesday, prospective employers cannot ask job seekers for information unrelated to the positions they are being hired for.The Employment Ministry said Tuesday that a revised hiring law prohibits employers from collecting information irrelevant to job performance and engaging in behavior that may hurt fairness in employment practices.Asking about a job applicant’s weight, height, place of birth, marital status and assets is subject to a fine of up to 5 million won ($4,200) under the
July 16, 2019
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More young people seeking public jobs, professional licenses
A growing number of young South Koreans are preparing for state exams for public jobs and professional licenses, data showed Tuesday.The data released by Statistics Korea showed that 714,000, or 15.3 percent, of 4.68 million economically inactive youths aged 15-29 prepared for state exams in May, up 2.2 percentage points from the same period last year. Among the 714,000, 30.7 percent were preparing for state exams to become low-ranking public officials, while 6.7 percent were getting ready for h
July 16, 2019
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Busan launches fact-finding team over atrocities against vagrants decades ago
The Busan metropolitan government said Tuesday it has launched a commission to investigate human rights violations that took place at a vagrants' detention facility in the southeastern port city decades ago. The commission, headed by social welfare professor Nam Chan-seob, will meet and interview people who survived the alleged illegal confinement and mistreatment of inmates at the Brothers Welfare Center in the city in the 1970s and 1980s. The commission's nine-month investigation, due to
July 16, 2019
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Workplace anti-bullying law takes effect
A new law aimed at preventing harassment in the workplace took effect in South Korea on Tuesday, bringing the widespread but overlooked issue of bullying at work into the legal domain.A revised law on labor standards, commonly called the workplace anti-bullying law, went into effect after a six-month grace period.Under the new law, workplace harassment is defined as an act of incurring physical or mental suffering or a worsening of the work environment by employers or workers using their status
July 16, 2019
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Plaintiff in forced labor lawsuit against Japanese company dies at 90
Lee Young-sook, a South Korean victim of wartime forced labor who filed a damage suit with a Korean court against Japanese companies, has died. She was 90.Lee died of old age on Sunday, relatives of the deceased said. She was one of hundreds of Korean victims of wartime forced labor who took legal action in April, seeking compensation from Japanese firms, including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. During World War II, hundreds of thousands of Koreans were mobilized as f
July 15, 2019
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[Graphic News] No. of Koreans with positive view of Japan falls to record low: poll
Japan’s restrictions on exports to South Korea seem to be having a significant impact on Koreans’ feelings toward Japan, a recent poll by Gallup Korea suggests. In the nationwide survey of 1,005 Korean adults, only 12 percent said they had favorable views of Japan, the lowest figure since polling on the topic began in 1991. Seventy-seven percent said they did not feel friendly toward the neighboring country, while another 10 percent refused to answer. (Yonhap)
July 15, 2019
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Driver’s license to include English info
Driver’s licenses will include personal information in English starting in September, which will enable Korea-issued licenses to be used abroad automatically, according to the government Monday. New licenses issued from September will have the driver’s name, address and gender on the back of each card in English, which will allow the holders to drive without special procedures in at least 35 countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. The move will boos
July 15, 2019
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UNESCO institute for documentary heritage slated to open late 2020 in Cheongju: ministry
The government has finalized an agreement with UNESCO to host an institute for its documentary heritage register in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, according to the Ministry of Interior and Safety.The ministry said, the South Korean Ambassador to UNESCO Lee Byung-hyun and Audrey Azoulay, director-general of the UN agency, signed the agreement at the its headquarters in Paris on Friday. The International Center for Documentary Heritage is designed to support UNESCO’s programs to conse
July 15, 2019
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Christian group chief who attacked Moon under probe for other charges
Jeon Gwang-hoon, a pastor and chief of the Christian Council of Korea who has been accused of seditious conspiracy for repeatedly calling for President Moon Jae-in to step down, is under investigation over other charges, including violation of the banking law and forgery of documents. According to police, Jeon was questioned at Hyehwa Police Station in Seoul on Friday over allegations that he walked away with money he collected from Christians for a “mission bank” that he established
July 15, 2019
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300 nabbed for drunk driving nationwide over weekend: police
Police caught 300 drunk drivers during a nationwide crackdown over the weekend.The National Police Agency said Monday that the drunk driving crackdown, conducted between 8 p.m. Saturday and 7 a.m. Sunday, resulted in the license suspensions of 122 drivers and revocations of 166. Five refused to take the field sobriety test and seven asked for a blood sample test for further confirmation of the breath test results.Police said 3,716 officers were mobilized at 914 checkpoints around the country in
July 15, 2019
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[Newsmaker] New law to bring to light widespread but overlooked problem of workplace bullying
A new law designed to prevent bullying in the workplace is set to go into effect in South Korea this week, setting the stage for victims of harassment at work to get some protection.A revised law on labor standards, commonly called the workplace anti-bullying law, will be effective starting Tuesday, after a six-month grace period.Physical assault and sexual abuse in the workplace are being handled in the legal domain, but harassment has been mostly overlooked as it is regarded as a personal rela
July 15, 2019
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[Newsmaker] Representatives of militant labor group to step down from minimum wage panel
A major umbrella labor union group said Monday its representatives will resign from the minimum wage panel in protest of last week's decision to hike the wage by the slowest pace in a decade.The Minimum Wage Commission, involving labor and business representatives and experts, set the minimum wage at 8,590 won ($7.32) per hour for next year Friday, up 2.9 percent from this year.The decision was a far cry from an initial demand of 10,000 won by the labor sector, a level that President Moon Jae-in
July 15, 2019
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Japanese man accused of illicitly filming athletes at FINA barred from leaving country
A Japanese spectator at the FINA World Championships has been barred from leaving the country following accusations he took illicit footage of women’s water polo players in a restricted area, according to police.Gwangju Gwangsan Police Station on Sunday booked the Japanese man, 37, on suspicion of violating laws on sex crimes. While the suspect was scheduled to return to Japan on Monday after undergoing police questioning, police requested immigration authorities prohibit him from de
July 15, 2019
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[From the Scene] Bombarded with deliveries, veteran postal worker asks for family time
HANAM, Gyeonggi Province -- Prospects of an all-out strike by mail delivery workers of the state-run Korea Post surprised the country last week. In a nation heavily reliant on fast-speed delivery services, postal workers’ first-ever strike in the 135 year history of the Korea Post would have brought 245 post offices nationwide to a standstill.Unlike most strikes here that call for a wage hike or an upgrade in employment status, the Korean Postal Workers’ Union urged for a bigger pool
July 14, 2019
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[News Focus] Seoul-Sejong Expressway to revamp Korea’s traffic map
SEJONG -- There are three major expressways linking the Seoul metropolitan area and the southern parts of the country.Along the western side of the peninsula, there is the Seohaean Expressway running between Seoul and Mokpo, South Jeolla Province. The oldest route, the Gyeongbu Expressway, runs between Seoul and Busan. Lastly, the Jungbu Expressway runs from Hanam, Gyeonggi Province to Tongyeong, South Gyeongsang Province.Over the past decades, the highways have played a great part in the countr
July 14, 2019
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[Newsmaker] Exploiting disadvantaged teens for sex to be punished by law
People who incite suicides and adults who have “consensual” sex with teenagers under the age of 16 will be punished under newly revised laws, the police said Sunday. The Korean National Police Agency said it will strictly enforce violations of both laws -- on protecting juveniles from sexual abuse and preventing suicide. The amendments take effect Tuesday. Under the revised law on sexual abuse, adults who have sexual intercourse with teenagers aged between 13 and 16 by taking advant
July 14, 2019
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Expressway plans spark safety concerns for Namiseom tourist boats
People living and doing business on Namiseom, a popular tourist site in Gangwon Province, are voicing doubts about plans to build a new expressway to mitigate heavy traffic between Seoul and Chuncheon, the second-largest city in the province by population.Their main concern is that tourist boats could crash due to a new bridge that would be constructed over the Bukhan River, a Han River tributary that runs through both North and South Korea, then westward to the Yellow Sea. The bridge would cut
July 14, 2019