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1 in 4 students, new graduates studying for civil service exam

One in 4 university students and new graduates in South Korea are preparing to take the state-run civil service exams mostly for job security, a survey showed Monday. In a poll of 1,022 university s...

Aug 5, 2019
Social affairs
Police place travel ban on official involved in Ronaldo saga

Seoul police said Monday they have put a travel ban on an official involved in a controversy surrounding football star Cristiano Ronaldo's absence in a recent exhibition match. An official with the ...

Aug 5, 2019
Social affairs
Japan issues travel advice for citizens traveling to S. Korea

Japan on Sunday asked its nationals traveling to South Korea to exercise caution, citing anti-Japanese protests in South Korea. Japan's foreign ministry also advised its nationals not to get involve...

Aug 5, 2019
Social affairs
Credit demanded for search dog who found missing girl on Cheongju mountain

Calls are mounting for an official commendation for a military service dog who played a key role in finding a missing 14-year-old on Friday in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province. The 7-year-old Da...

Aug 4, 2019
Social affairs
Japanese tweets with ‘I like Korea’ hashtag offer message of goodwill

Despite the worsening diplomatic and economic relationship between Korea and Japan, some from the two countries continue to promote goodwill-based ties via social media. Thousands of tweets from Jap...

Aug 4, 2019
Social affairs
South Korean man arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of illegal protest

Amid mass protests in Hong Kong objecting to a controversial extradition law, a South Korean man in his 20s was arrested for allegedly participating in an illegal protest, South Korean authorities sa...

Aug 4, 2019
Social affairs
Police to focus on areas with large foreign populations in safety push

Police are expanding efforts to improve safety in neighborhoods with large foreign-born populations. The Korean National Police Agency rolled out additional plans for improving safety in areas with ...

Aug 4, 2019
Social affairs
Korean victim of Japan’s WWII sex slavery dies, survivor number down to 20

A Korean woman who was forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers during World War II died Sunday. The Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan said Sunda...

Aug 4, 2019
Social affairs
Repeat sex offender sentenced to life for rape, murder of neighbor

A 41-year-old man surnamed Kang was sentenced to life in prison for rape and murder of a neighborhood woman. The Supreme Court on Sunday confirmed the life sentence and 200 hours of sex offender tre...

Aug 4, 2019
Social affairs
Adopted Koreans return for international conference

Over 550 international adoptees and family members attended the International Korean Adoptee Association’s 15th anniversary gathering last week at Lotte Hotel Seoul. The first official IKAA Gatherin...

Aug 4, 2019
Social affairs
Typhoon Francisco forecast to pass through Korean peninsula

Typhoon Francisco, the season's eighth typhoon, is forecast to land on South Korea's southern coast on Tuesday night, the weather agency said Sunday. The typhoon was moving northwest at a speed of 2...

Aug 4, 2019
Social affairs
Teenager poisoned by toxic gas unconscious for six days

A teenager has been unconscious for six days after she inhaled toxic gas at a restroom in a fish market in Busan. According to local police on Saturday, the 18-year-old was found unconscious around ...

Aug 4, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] 72-year-old man dies from self-immolation in apparent protest of Japan's trade curbs

A 72-year-old South Korean man died on Saturday three days after setting himself on fire in Seoul, police said, in apparent protest against Japan's trade curbs against Korea. The man, whose identity...

Aug 4, 2019
Social affairs
S. Koreans censure Japan's Abe for expanded trade curbs

Thousands of South Korean demonstrators staged a rally on Saturday for the third straight weekly demonstration to censure Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for expanding trade curbs against Seoul, d...

Aug 4, 2019
Social affairs
Teen missing for 10 days found alive on Cheongju mountain

A teenage girl reported missing 10 days ago has been found alive, local authorities said Friday. A senior military officer taking part in the search with police and rescue workers found Cho Eunnuri ...

Aug 2, 2019
Social affairs

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