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Seoul’s nighttime lows hit record high for two consecutive days

Seoul’s nighttime temperature hit a record high for two consecutive days amid the country’s prolonged heat wave, the state weather agency said Friday. The city’s overnight lows hit 30.4 degrees Cel...

Aug 3, 2018
Social affairs
[KH Explains] Why is ‘appellate court’ at center of judiciary scandal?

One of the major power abuse allegations that Yang Sung-tae, the former Supreme Court chief justice, faces is his use of “politically sensitive” trials as bargaining chips to gain presidential approv...

Aug 2, 2018
Social affairs
Koreans experience electricity supply failure amid prolonged heat wave

Amid the prolonged heat wave, some 2,000 households in southern Seoul experienced a blackout for about two hours Wednesday, the day Seoul hit a record high of 39.6 degrees Celsius -- the city's highe...

Aug 2, 2018
Social affairs
Spy-cam footage of teenage girls traded via Tumblr

Hidden-camera clips showing teenagers’ legs and other body parts are being traded on Tumblr, adding to a series of digital sex crime reports to spark public debate and rallies demanding a wider polic...

Aug 2, 2018
Social affairs
UN rules Korea’s mandatory HIV, drug test for foreign teachers violated human rights

The UN Human Rights Committee recently concluded that South Korea had violated the international human rights law in mandating foreign teachers take HIV and drug tests to be issued or granted the ext...

Aug 2, 2018
Social affairs
Cases of taking heat wave-stricken people to hospitals triple in July

The number of cases in which rescuers drove ambulances to take people hit by a heat wave across South Korea to hospitals tripled from a year earlier to 1,066 in July, government data showed Thursday....

Aug 2, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Kim Kyoung-soo’s office and home raided in Druking probe

The independent counsel looking into the Druking scandal searched the home and office of South Gyeongsang Province Gov. Kim Kyoung-soo on Thursday, as it gears up to summon him for questioning. Kim ...

Aug 2, 2018
Social affairs
Heat-related health incidents spike amid record high temperatures

The number of people suffering from heat-related health conditions is expected to skyrocket this year to well over 20,000 as record high temperatures grip most parts of South Korea, the government sa...

Aug 2, 2018
Social affairs
Seoul sees one of its hottest nights in century

The capital of South Korea experienced one of its hottest nights Wednesday evening since records began in 1907. The continuing heat wave once again broke records after temperatures reached a low of ...

Aug 2, 2018
Social affairs
Sex crime reports rise despite decrease in overall crimes

Sex crime reports are continuing to increase in Korea despite a decline in overall crimes. One of the reasons is because more people are speaking up amid a changing social perception of sex crimes. ...

Aug 1, 2018
Social affairs
Panel allows recovery of citizenship after faltered marriage

An administrative appeals panel under the nation’s anti-corruption watchdog ruled against the Justice Ministry’s refusal to reinstate the Korean citizenship of a woman whose marriage to an Iranian ma...

Aug 1, 2018
Social affairs
Floor leader says Liberty Korea Party falsely accused of collaborating with martial law plan

Kim Sung-tae, the floor leader of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, said Tuesday that his party has been falsely accused by the Moon Jae-in administration of having been complicit with the Def...

Aug 1, 2018
Social affairs
[Graphic News] More than 50% of seniors engage in economic activity

Over 50 percent of South Korea's elderly are engaged in economic activity due to lack of preparation for retirement, and many are doing so for a living, government data showed. According to the da...

Aug 1, 2018
Social affairs
1 Korean, 3 Filipinos held captive for nearly a month in Libya

A South Korean man and three Filipinos have been held captive in Libya for 27 days by an unidentified armed group, a Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday. The four were abducted at a water plant...

Aug 1, 2018
Social affairs
Former police chief says he felt pressure in actress Jang Ja-yeon death probe

Citing former police authorities and a lawmaker, the MBC investigative news show “PD’s Notepad” claimed that the investigation of a sexual abuse case involving the late actress Jang Ja-yeon was swaye...

Aug 1, 2018
Social affairs

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