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  • [Graphic News] Life expectancy of Koreans unchanged at 82.7 years in 2018
  • Ex-Minister Cho to be summoned in power abuse probe
  • Justice Ministry seeks to overturn prosecutorial reform bill
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  • S. Korea to allow visa-less foreigners to stay up to 72 hours at regional a...
  • [Leonid Bershidsky] Europe’s young leaders are bucking politics as usual
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  • [Newsmaker] Korean Air recognizes same-sex Korean couple as family
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  • Moon stresses China's role in Korea peace process during talks with its foreign minister

    Moon stresses China's role in Korea peace process during talks with its foreign minister

    South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Thursday the Korea peace process has reached a very important stage and asked China to continue its support for progress in efforts for the complete denucleari...

    Dec 5, 2019

    Foreign Affairs
  • [News analysis] North Korea has not given up hope for nuclear talks with US yet

    [News analysis] North Korea has not given up hope for nuclear talks with US yet

    Tensions between the US and North Korea have heightened as the two sides exchanged threats and bellicose rhetoric of possible military actions if necessary, amid their stalled nuclear talks. But the...

    Dec 5, 2019

    North Korea
  • Edited (for Fri) Number of people paying into state pension falls 150,000 in 2019

    Number of people paying into state pension falls 150,000 in 2019 [News Focus] By Kim Yon-se SEJONG -- South Koreans born in 1969 or later cannot enjoy the old-age annuity benefits, paid by the nat...

    Dec 5, 2019

    Social affairs
  • Chinese FM Wang Yi hurls thinly veiled criticism at US, defends China's rise

    Chinese FM Wang Yi hurls thinly veiled criticism at US, defends China's rise

    Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday made a thinly veiled criticism of the United States over its "Cold War mindset" and "hegemonic acts" while defending China's rise as a "historical inevita...

    Dec 5, 2019

    Foreign Affairs
  • Ex-ruling party leader Choo tapped as justice minister

    Ex-ruling party leader Choo tapped as justice minister

    Lawmaker picked to reform prosecution amid power abuse scandal

    Dec 5, 2019

    Politics
  • Ruling party accuses prosecution of ‘ulterior motives’ in Blue House probes

    Ruling party accuses prosecution of ‘ulterior motives’ in Blue House probes

    The Democratic Party went on the offensive against the prosecution Thursday, characterizing the investigations into alleged abuse of power by the Blue House as an attempt to resist prosecutorial refo...

    Dec 5, 2019

    Politics
  • [Newsmaker] 2 military intelligence officers investigated for alleged rape of N. Korean defector

    [Newsmaker] 2 military intelligence officers investigated for alleged rape of N. Korean defector

    Two Defense Intelligence Command officers are being investigated by the military prosecution for allegedly raping a North Korean defector multiple times, the Defense Ministry confirmed Thursday. The...

    Dec 5, 2019

    Defense
  • S. Korea scraps conscription privilege for men from multicultural families

    S. Korea scraps conscription privilege for men from multicultural families

    The government has abolished a regulation allowing men of multicultural backgrounds to serve their mandatory military service in the same unit with friends or relatives, citing low demand and its dis...

    Dec 5, 2019

    Defense
  • [Newsmaker] Actor Kang Ji-hwan gets suspended prison sentence in rape case

    [Newsmaker] Actor Kang Ji-hwan gets suspended prison sentence in rape case

    Actor Kang Ji-hwan, who was indicted in July on charges of raping a woman and molesting another at his home, was given a suspended prison sentence by a local court on Thursday. The Seongnam branch o...

    Dec 5, 2019

    Social affairs
  • Ruling party lawmaker nominated as new justice minister

    Ruling party lawmaker nominated as new justice minister

    Choo Mi-ae, a five-term ruling party lawmaker, has been nominated for the position of justice minister, Cheong Wa Dae announced Thursday amid keen attention to her role in the South Korean government...

    Dec 5, 2019

    Politics
  • S. Korea, US end 4th round of talks on defense cost-sharing

    S. Korea, US end 4th round of talks on defense cost-sharing

    WASHINGTON/SEOUL -- South Korea and the United States ended another round of talks Wednesday (US time) on sharing the costs for the upkeep of American troops in the South, with the two sides apart on...

    Dec 5, 2019

    Foreign Affairs
  • S. Korea, Japan to hold talks over monthslong trade row

    S. Korea, Japan to hold talks over monthslong trade row

    South Korea said Thursday it will hold talks with Japan in Tokyo later this month in the latest attempt to settle their monthslong trade row stemming from shared history. The two countries will hold...

    Dec 5, 2019

    Foreign Affairs
  • Europeans again condemn North Korea's missile launches

    Europeans again condemn North Korea's missile launches

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Half a dozen European countries on Wednesday again condemned North Korea's 13 "provocative" ballistic missile launches since May, saying they violate UN Security Council resolu...

    Dec 5, 2019

    North Korea
  • North Korea warns US against meeting on its human rights

    North Korea warns US against meeting on its human rights

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- North Korea warned Wednesday that tensions on the Korean peninsula will increase and the situation "take a turn for the worse again" if the United States goes ahead with a UN S...

    Dec 5, 2019

    North Korea
  • US JCS official unaware of discussion of troop drawdown in S. Korea

    US JCS official unaware of discussion of troop drawdown in S. Korea

    WASHINGTON -- A US Joint Chiefs of Staff official said Wednesday that he is not aware of any discussion inside the Pentagon of a possible drawdown of American troops in South Korea. Speculation of a...

    Dec 5, 2019

    Defense
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