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97% of Korean workers have witnessed ‘gapjil’: poll

An overwhelming majority of workers in Korea were found to have experienced abuse of power by someone in a superior position, a recent survey showed Wednesday. According to a poll conducted by job s...

Apr 18, 2018
Social affairs
Court upholds jail term for Daegu pharmacy thief

The Daegu High Court on Wednesday upheld the district court’s ruling on a man in his 50s charged with serial theft, citing his prior theft convictions and considerable damage to numerous victims. Th...

Apr 18, 2018
Social affairs
Prosecutors raid 5 Samsung business locations in anti-labor union probe

Prosecutors on Wednesday raided five locations of Samsung Electronics Co.'s after-services unit as part of an ongoing probe into the conglomerate's suspected attempts to sabotage labor union activiti...

Apr 18, 2018
Social affairs
Court arraigns ex-prosecutor to decide on arrest warrant over sex scandal

A Seoul court held a hearing Wednesday to determine whether to issue an arrest warrant for a former senior prosecutor accused of unfairly disadvantaging his junior colleague for raising sexual miscon...

Apr 18, 2018
Social affairs
Hongik Univ. Station most prone to hidden camera crimes: statistics

Hongik University Station on Line No. 2 had the greatest number of hidden camera crimes reported, followed by Express Bus Terminal Station and Gangnam Station, a local subway operator said Tuesday. ...

Apr 17, 2018
Social affairs
One arrested, 10 booked for swindling 4,600 Chinese migrants

A group of Chinese migrants has been arrested for swindling over 4,600 other Chinese migrants out of billions of won in a fraudulent multilevel investment scheme. Busan Metropolitan Police Agency’s ...

Apr 17, 2018
Social affairs
Academy owners get suspended sentence for abusing student

The Gwangju District Court handed down a six-month jail term suspended for two years and a four-month jail term suspended for two years respectively to the older and younger sisters, indicted for phy...

Apr 17, 2018
Social affairs
Newborn baby found dead in shopping mall restroom

CHEONGJU, North Chungcheong Province -- A newborn baby was found dead in the toilet bowl of a restroom at a shopping mall in the city of Cheongju, central South Korea, on Tuesday, police said. The H...

Apr 17, 2018
Social affairs
Uijeongbu city demands defense ministry examine soil contamination at ex-US military base site

The city government of Uijeongbu, north of Seoul, has demanded the defense ministry conduct an examination into soil contamination at a former US military base site in the city, officials said Tuesda...

Apr 17, 2018
Social affairs
Korean Air heiress incident sparks interest in ‘behavior disorder’

Following the controversy surrounding Korean Air Senior Vice President Cho Hyun-min and her alleged verbal abuse on an advertising agency manager last month, the public interest in intermittent explo...

Apr 17, 2018
Social affairs
Soldier arrested for taking photos of woman in ladies’ room

A soldier on vacation was arrested for taking photos of a woman in a public restroom, Cheongju Heungdeok Police Station said Tuesday. According to the police, a soldier was caught after he secretly ...

Apr 17, 2018
Social affairs
Stricter code of conduct for public officials takes effect

Under a revised code of conduct that took effect Tuesday, public officials are now required to report in advance all personal meetings with retired officials. Civil servants must report to the head ...

Apr 17, 2018
Social affairs
Webtoon campus to be built in Daejeon to promote manhwa industry

Daejeon Information and Culture Industry Promotion Agency announced Tuesday that it has been selected by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as the leading agency of local webtoon campus deve...

Apr 17, 2018
Social affairs
Hospital arson suspect under arrest in Jinju

A fire broke out at a seven-story orthopedic hospital at approximately 00:50 a.m. Tuesday in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province. Fire authorities believe arson was the cause of the hospital fire. It i...

Apr 17, 2018
Social affairs
Prank calls...or are they? Police respond to ‘noodle delivery order’

Prank calls to the police are no novelty. But what if a delivery order made to 112 is really a distress call in disguise? Gyeonggi Nambu Police on Thursday shared recorded clips of actual emergency ...

Apr 17, 2018
Social affairs

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