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Jeju likely to receive more tourists during Chuseok this year than last year: sources

JEJU -- More tourists will likely visit Jeju Island during the 10-day Chuseok holiday, which largely takes place in early October, than the same period last year, industry sources said Thursday. The...

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KAI vice president found dead amid corruption scandal

A senior official of Korea Aerospace Industries was found dead Thursday in an apparent suicide, amid a sprawling prosecutorial probe into corruption allegations surrounding the head of the country’s...

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South Korean confirmed dead in quake-hit Mexico

SEOUL/MEXICO CITY (Yonhap) -- South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday a South Korean national was found dead from a massive earthquake that hit Mexico earlier this week. A 7.1-magnitude quake ...

Sept 20, 2017
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Prosecution opens probe into former leader Lee

The prosecution on Wednesday began looking into a complaint filed against former President Lee Mung-bak that he masterminded the national spy agency’s alleged smear campaign against Seoul Mayor Park ...

Sept 20, 2017
Social affairs
Singles give gifts to sweethearts' parents for Chuseok, Seol: survey

The majority of South Korean singles gave gifts to their sweethearts' parents for the Chuseok and Seol holidays, a survey showed Wednesday. About 64 percent of the respondents said they did so durin...

Sept 20, 2017
Social affairs
Seoul’s rooftops to turn into concert hall, yoga studio and library

Seoul is turning the rooftops of five public buildings into venues for jazz concerts, yoga classes and other outdoor activities, as part of the first rooftop festival. Citizens enjoy outdoor activit...

Sept 20, 2017
Social affairs
Another IV bag with insect found, ministry orders recall

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety ordered a recall of some 110,000 intravenous fluid products from two local medical suppliers following two cases in which an insect was found inside the sealed pl...

Sept 20, 2017
Social affairs
Moon confident PyeongChang Games will be peaceful, successful

NEW YORK -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday sought to assure the world community that the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in South Korea will be held peacefully, apparently dismissing the...

Sept 20, 2017
Social affairs
Korea to build control tower to manage renewable energy

South Korea will establish a centralized “control tower” to manage its renewable energy policies and prepare backup facilities for solar and wind power plants for stable power supply, a government pa...

Sept 19, 2017
Social affairs
Insect found inside IV fluid bag given to 5-month-old

Health authorities are investigating an intravenous fluid bag with an insect inside that was found at a hospital in Seoul on Sunday while being administered to a five-month-old child. Parents of the...

Sept 19, 2017
Social affairs
Tension mounts over upcoming pro-LGBT event at Haeundae beach

The first LGBT festival to take place in Busan this weekend is hiking up tensions between pro- and anti-LGBT groups, according to Haeundae Police on Tuesday. The possibility of clashes between the t...

Sept 19, 2017
Social affairs
Seoul mayor files complaint against ex-president Lee over smear campaign

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon on Tuesday asked state prosecutors to investigate former President Lee Myung-bak and now-imprisoned former spy chief Won Sei-hoon for an alleged covert smear campaign agains...

Sept 19, 2017
Social affairs
Four people found dead in suspected suicide pact

Four people were found dead inside a guesthouse room near Gyeongpo lake in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, Tuesday. The four are suspected to have gassed themselves to death in a suicide pact as a nitr...

Sept 19, 2017
Social affairs
Woman found dead on riverbank in Cheongju

The naked and bruised body of a woman was found on a riverbank in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, early Tuesday. Heungdeok Police Station in Cheongju said the incident is being investigated as...

Sept 19, 2017
Social affairs
PM orders investigation into death of farmer hit by police water cannon

Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon instructed the prosecution Tuesday to investigate the 2016 death of a farmer left comatose after being hit by a police water cannon during a protest rally a year earlier. ...

Sept 19, 2017
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