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Top court advises on sexual violence trials

The Supreme Court said Friday it overturned a lower court decision to reinstate a professor who was fired for sexually harassing students, saying it lacked sensitivity to gender equality. The top co...

Apr 13, 2018
Social affairs
Police officer indicted on bribery, sex trafficking charges

Prosecutors have launched on Friday a probe into allegations that a police officer accepted bribes from the owner of a brothel and selectively conducted raids on its rival brothels. Uijeongbu prosec...

Apr 13, 2018
Social affairs
Massive fire sets Incheon chemical recyling plant ablaze

A massive fire set a chemical processing plant ablaze in Seo-gu, Incheon, at 11:47 a.m. on Friday, as thick, black smoke and toxic fumes poured out from the plant. Incheon authorities said the rapid...

Apr 13, 2018
Social affairs
Hotel clerk arrested for theft from valeted car

Busanjin Police Station in Busan said Friday that it booked a hotel clerk without detention for stealing cash from a customer’s vehicle that he had parked. (123RF) The suspect valet-parked the clie...

Apr 13, 2018
Social affairs
Fire causes estimated W170m in damages at Ansan food warehouse

A fire broke out at a frozen food warehouse in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, at 2:40 a.m. Friday. It took three hours and thirty minutes to extinguish the fast-moving fire, the Ansan Fire Department sai...

Apr 13, 2018
Social affairs
Police launch preliminary probe into Korean Air heiress over suspected assault

Police said Friday they began a preliminary investigation into allegations that a daughter of Korean Air Lines Co.'s chief physically assaulted an advertising company official last month. Cho Hyun-m...

Apr 13, 2018
Social affairs
Prosecutors raid stock exchange, bank in probe into FSS chief's sponsored trips

Prosecutors raided the offices of a bourse operator and a bank on Friday as part of a probe into allegations that the new head of the country's financial watchdog received special treatment from fina...

Apr 13, 2018
Social affairs
Most sexual violence in public sector workplaces unreported: survey

The majority of recent sexual harassment cases within public sector workplaces supposedly went unreported, a government poll showed Friday. A blind survey on sexual violence in the public sector con...

Apr 13, 2018
Social affairs
S. Korea OKs restart of nuclear reactor

South Korea's nuclear safety agency said Thursday that it has approved the restarting of a reactor in the country's southeastern region, with the unit expected to come online in the coming days. (Yo...

Apr 12, 2018
Social affairs
Experts urge for changes in law, policies to reduce secondary harm from sex crimes

Although the recent #MeToo movement in Korea has encouraged many to open up about their experiences of sexual assault and harassment, the victims often end up suffering secondary victimization by thi...

Apr 12, 2018
Social affairs
Traffic island at Seocho Station to turn into ‘children square’

Seocho Distict Office said Wednesday that it will convert the traffic island, a designated area for protection of pedestrians, near Seocho Metro Station in southern Seoul into a square for children. ...

Apr 12, 2018
Social affairs
Man booked for causing fatal DUI crash

A food delivery man in his 20s was killed Wednesday night when his motorcycle was struck by a car in a suspected drunk driving crash in Daejeon, South Chungcheong Province, police said. Police offic...

Apr 12, 2018
Social affairs
Military delays transporting construction materials to THAAD site

SEOUL/SEONGJU -- South Korea's defense authorities decided Thursday to wait until this weekend to bring construction materials and equipment into the US missile defense base in the face of local resi...

Apr 12, 2018
Social affairs
Prison terms upheld for defendants over blackmailing of Samsung, Lee Kun-hee

The Supreme Court handed down prison terms to three defendants for recording indecent footage of Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee and extorting 900 million won ($841,000) from the conglomerat...

Apr 12, 2018
Social affairs
Court sentences man to jail for raping niece

A Jeonju court on Thursday sentenced a man in his 50s to a 7-year prison term and small fine for raping his niece following months of habitual sexual harassment. The man was ordered to serve the 7-y...

Apr 12, 2018
Social affairs

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