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[News Focus] Meager birthrate expected to undermine Korea’s GDP

SEJONG -- The number of South Koreans aged 14 or under accounted for only 12.5 percent of the total population as of October 2019, according to the Ministry of Interior and Safety. The demographic d...

Nov 14, 2019
[Newsmaker] Koreans sit for national college entrance exam

Nearly half a million people sat for the annual state-administered college entrance exam Thursday, with the number of test-takers marking an all-time low. The College Scholastic Aptitude Test, local...

Nov 14, 2019
What’s in a name? Ex-president’s confidante wants media to use her new name

Former President Park Geun-hye’s confidante Choi Seo-won, better known as Choi Soon-sil, has officially requested that the Korean media stop using her old name, saying that doing so amounts to defama...

Nov 14, 2019
Prosecutors grill ex-Justice Minister Cho Kuk

Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk was questioned for eight hours by prosecutors Thursday. Cho appeared at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office for questioning on Thursday morning, a month af...

Nov 14, 2019
One dead, another in coma after inhaling toxic gas from waste oil tank

One man was killed and another injured after inhaling toxic gas in an offshore waste oil tank on Wednesday, the coast guard said. The incident occurred in an oil storage structure docked near a ship...

Nov 13, 2019
Prosecution requests $6,000-fine for Mongolian judge over sexual abuse charges

The Incheon District Prosecutors’ Office said Wednesday that it asked the court withhold trial and instead fine a Mongolian judge accused of groping a Korean flight attendant roughly $6,000. Prosecu...

Nov 13, 2019
[Newsmaker] First hearing in ‘comfort women’ case held three years after lawsuit filed

The first hearing in a lawsuit brought against the Japanese government by former victims of Japanese military sexual slavery was held Wednesday, nearly three years after the suit was filed. The Japa...

Nov 13, 2019
1 killed, 5 injured in Daejeon lab explosion

At least one person was killed and five others were injured in an explosion at a state-run scientific lab in Daejeon on Wednesday, local fire authorities said. The explosion occurred at 4:24 p.m. at...

Nov 13, 2019
1 killed, 5 injured in Daejeon lab explosion

At least one person was killed and five others were injured in an explosion at a state-run scientific lab in Daejeon on Wednesday, local fire authorities said. The explosion occurred at 4:24 p.m. at...

Nov 13, 2019
Sexual minorities, activists call for legalization of gay marriage

Some 40 gay couples and rights activitists held a press conference in front of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea in Seoul on Wednesday, calling for legalization of same-sex marriage and f...

Nov 13, 2019
[News Focus] Will K-pop singer Steve Yoo be allowed into South Korea?

Once a K-pop icon, Steve Seung Jun Yoo, also known as Yoo Seung-jun, is ever closer to entering South Korea again for the first time in more than 16 years. With the exception of a brief sojourn in 2...

Nov 13, 2019
Nightclub rejects NHRCK’s recommendation on racism

A South Korean club accused of denying foreigners entry has rejected the recommendation by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea that the club not discriminate against customers based on race...

Nov 13, 2019
Man claiming wrongful conviction in rape, murder of child requests new trial

SUWON, Gyeonggi Province -- A man surnamed Yun on Wednesday filed a request for a retrial in hopes of overturning his conviction for the 1988 rape and murder of a child, for which he served nearly 20...

Nov 13, 2019
S. Korea to offer $100,000 in aid for flood-hit Central African Republic

South Korea plans to provide Central African Republic with $100,000 in emergency humanitarian assistance, Seoul's foreign ministry said Tuesday, as tens of thousands of local residents have been left...

Nov 12, 2019
Man test-parachuting from skyscrapers under investigation

Police said Tuesday they are questioning one of two men, identified as Russians, who performed a parachute glide from a 155-meter-tall, 42-story hotel in the Haeundae district of Busan last Sunday. ...

Nov 12, 2019

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