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Teenager charged over London Underground attack: police
Trump calls North Korea's Kim 'a madman'

Sept 23, 2017 Social affairs

‘Stop ethnic cleansing of Rohingya’

Amnesty International Korea Director Catherine Heejin Kim held a one-person protest in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Seoul on Friday, calling for an end to the alleged ethnic cleansing of Rohingya in Rakhine State. Following the protest, Kim delivered a letter addressed to Ambassador Thura Thet Oo Maung at the Myanmar Embassy to call on the Myanmar authorities to end the military’s campaign of violence and human rights abuses. Amnesty International Korea Director Catherine Heejin Kim holds a o

[Weekender] 4,000 kilometers of business and pleasure

After its first expressway -- the 28.8 kilometer Seoul-Incheon route -- was built in 1968, South Korea set about rapidly expanding its highway network. Two years later, the new decade saw the completion of the Seoul-Busan expressway -- a project personally overseen by late President Park Chung-hee and often considered a milestone in Korea’s industrialization. Since then, the network of highways have expanded to over 4,000 kilometers, and nearly 700 kilometers of new and extensions will be added

Sept 23, 2017
Social affairs
20 years, life imprisonment for child murder teens

A local court sentenced an underage girl to 20 years in prison and her teenage accomplice to life imprisonment on Friday for murdering an 8-year-old girl and dismembering her body, in a murder case that shocked the nation earlier this year for its brutality.The Incheon District Court handed down the heaviest possible punishment for each underage offender under the local juvenile law, saying the murder was “brutal” and “carefully planned.” (Yonhap)The killer, surnamed Kim, was sentenced to 20 yea

Sept 23, 2017
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Farmers, animal rights groups clash at pro-dog meat trade rally

At least 400 dog meat farmers staged a protest in Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul on Friday, calling on the government to legalize the dog meat trade and classify dogs used as pets separately from those raised for human consumption. Unleashed dogs are inside cages during the dog meat farmers' protest in central Seoul, Friday. YonhapIn one of the largest pro-dog meat rallies ever held in South Korea, an association of Korean dog meat farmers marched toward the presidential office Cheong Wa Da

Sept 23, 2017
Social affairs
Chinese visitors number drops for 6th straight month amid THAAD row

The number of Chinese tourists in South Korea declined 61.2 percent on-year in August, marking the sixth straight month of decrease following the diplomatic row over the deployment of a US anti-missile system here, government data showed Friday.The tally of Chinese visitors came to 339,388 last month, down from 873,771 the previous year, according to the data by the Korea Tourism Organization.he overall number of visitors from the neighboring country in the January-August period stood at 2.87 mi

Sept 22, 2017
Social affairs
Cancer still top killer of Koreans in 2016

Cancer remained the leading cause of death in South Korea in 2016, and fatalities from dementia doubled from a decade ago in line with the rapidly aging population, government data showed Friday.A total of 280,827 South Koreans died in 2016, up 1.8 percent from a year earlier, according to the data from Statistics Korea.It marked the largest death toll since 1983 when the statistics office started to compile such data. (123RF)Of all deaths reported last year, a total of 78,194 people died of ca

Sept 22, 2017
Social affairs
Prosecutors raid financial watchdog for alleged illicit hiring

Prosecutors raided South Korea's financial watchdog Friday over alleged unfair recruitment of some graduate staff with ties to influential figures including politicians and bankers.Investigators from the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office searched the headquarters of the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) in Seoul's Yeouido district and seized documents, according to the prosecution.They also visited the residences of three FSS officials, including current FSS senior deputy governor Se

Sept 22, 2017
Social affairs
New TB patients drop amid gov't strengthening medical staff: KCDC

The number of new tuberculosis (TB) patients dropped slightly in 2016 from the previous year, government data showed Friday, amid the government increasing the number of dedicated doctors and other medical staff charged with treating the contagious disease in recent years.South Korea had the highest incidence rate of TB among the 34-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in 2015 with as many as 80 out of every 100,000 South Koreans having been infected with the disease in t

Sept 22, 2017
Social affairs
Koreans negative about their health: OECD report

Only about one-third of South Koreans think that they are in good shape, despite the country's long life expectancy, an international report showed Friday.According to the report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 32.5 percent of South Koreans considered themselves healthy as of 2015. The number for men was 37.3 percent, with that for women reaching 27.9 percent.The overall figure was far lower than the OECD average of 68.2 percent. Japan was another country with a r

Sept 22, 2017
Social affairs
Seoul's subway Line No. 2 may get 24-hour service: official

Seoul Metro is considering operating its subway line No. 2 around the clock. Kim Tae-ho, managing director of Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation said it will run Subway Line No. 2 all night every Friday and Saturday during a test period. (Yonhap)Subway Line No. 2 is the most used line in Seoul and connects the city’s key areas. There has been an increasing demand for late night service.By Im Eun-byel (silverstar@heraldcorp.com)

Sept 22, 2017
Social affairs
Paris Baguette ordered to directly hire over 5,000 bakers

The government on Thursday ordered Paris Baguette, a leading bakery brand of food giant SPC Group, to directly hire nearly 5,400 bakers currently dispatched by its partner firms. 　The Ministry of Employment and Labor concluded that Paris Baguette directly supervised jobs of the bakers employed and dispatched by partner firms, constituting illegal dispatch of workers under the local labor law. (Yonhap)The ministry ordered Paris Baguette to directly hire all of the 5,378 bakers who are working at

Sept 22, 2017
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] 9 in 10 Koreans say anti-corruption law effective

Nearly a year after the implementation of an anti-corruption law, 9 in 10 Koreans said the law was effective, a recent survey showed, despite an ongoing debate on whether to raise price ceilings, as the law bans those subject to it from receiving meals and gifts exceeding designated prices.A flower shop owner looks at the empty store. YonhapAccording to a survey conducted last month by professor Lim Dong-kyun from University of Seoul, 89.5 percent of some 1,202 respondents said that the new law

Sept 22, 2017
Social affairs
3 in 10 divorces happen after 20 years of marriage

Three out of 10 divorced couples in South Korea last year were married for at least 20 years, setting a new record in “gray divorces,” a judicial yearbook showed Wednesday. According to 2017 Judicial Yearbook released by the Supreme Court, 32,594 couples got a divorce after living together for more than 20 years, accounting for 30.4 percent of all the divorces last year. The proportion of divorces accounted for by couples who have lived together for more than 20 years has been gradually increasi

Sept 22, 2017
Social affairs
Korean speaking contest opens for foreigners

A Korean language speaking contest for foreigners will be held in celebration of Hangul Proclamation Day on Oct. 10.Organized by a local language tutoring service 247MyTutor, in partnership with the Korean Language Society, Kwangwoon University and EBY Talkingclub, the competition is open to foreigners of all ages and levels of proficiency in the Korean language who reside here. The preliminary round will take place online at 247MyTutor.net, where interested applicants can apply until Sept. 26 w

Sept 22, 2017
Social affairs
Korean colleges alert about ‘spy cam’ on campus

The recent rise in the number of “spy cam” cases on campus is pushing colleges to come up with measures to protect students and make sure their policies keep up with the reality of campus life.According to The Herald Business on Thursday, a growing number of universities, including top-rated Seoul National University, are grappling with the reports of spy cams on campus.(Yonhap)At College of Natural Sciences building in Seoul National University last month, a male student was reportedly caught i

Sept 22, 2017
Social affairs

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