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Former presidential chief of staff sentenced to 1 1/2 years in prison for abuse of power

A Seoul court on Friday sentenced former President Park Geun-hye’s chief of staff Kim Ki-chun to 1 1/2 years in prison and former Presidential Secretary Cho Yoon-sun to one year in prison suspended f...

Oct 5, 2018
Social affairs
[Weather] Korea on full alert as Typhoon Kong-rey approaches Jeju

Scattered rainfall fell over parts of South Korea on Friday due to Typhoon Kong-rey, with strong winds and heavy rain expected in most parts of the nation over the weekend. According to the Korea Me...

Oct 5, 2018
Social affairs
710,000 illegal online contents reported in 5 years: data

More than 710,000 instances of illegal or harmful online content were reported in five years, government data showed Friday. According to data from the Korea Communications Standards Commission and ...

Oct 5, 2018
Social affairs
Ex-police chief arrested over illicit cyber operations

Former National Police Agency Commissioner-General Cho Hyun-oh was arrested early Friday on charges of masterminding cyber maneuvers to benefit a previous conservative government. The Seoul Central ...

Oct 5, 2018
Social affairs
Court set to deliver ruling on corruption charges faced by ex-President Lee

A Seoul court was set Friday to deliver its verdict on former President Lee Myung-bak on a string of corruption charges. The sentencing hearing is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. at the Seoul Central D...

Oct 5, 2018
Social affairs
Korean missing in Indonesia found dead: Foreign Ministry

A South Korean who has been missing in Indonesia since last week’s earthquake has been found dead, Seoul’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday. The deceased, identified by the surname Lee, was...

Oct 4, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Two Yemeni asylum seekers attacked by Koreans in Jeju

Two Yemeni asylum seekers were attacked by Koreans on the southern island of Jeju, police said Thursday. According to Jeju Dongbu Police Station, two Yemeni asylum seekers reported they were beaten ...

Oct 4, 2018
Social affairs
More weirs to be opened in monitoring four rivers

The Environment Ministry opened the Ipo Weir on the Han River on Thursday in an effort to revive the four major rivers that underwent refurbishment under the conservative Lee Myung-bak administration...

Oct 4, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Korean service sector workers fight for ‘right to sit’ at work

Unionized workers in South Korea’s service and retail sectors -- mainly those who work at department stores and duty-free shops -- are fighting for their “right to sit down” at work, saying many of t...

Oct 4, 2018
Social affairs
1 worker dies, 4 others injured at thermal power plant fire in Yeosu

YEOUSU, South Jeolla Province -- One worker died and four others were injured in a fire at a thermal power plant in Yeosu on South Korea's southwestern coast on Thursday, the police and fire departme...

Oct 4, 2018
Social affairs
[Weather] Typhoon Kong-rey expected to bring heavy rain this weekend

Typhoon Kong-rey, which is forecast to batter Japan, is also likely to impact the Korean Peninsula indirectly, with heavy rain and strong winds starting from late Thursday. The typhoon was about 340...

Oct 4, 2018
Social affairs
Former Japanese Prime Minister apologizes to Korean survivors of atomic bomb

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama apologized to atomic bomb survivors in Korea on Wednesday. During a visit to a welfare center for atomic bomb survivors in Hapcheon, South Gyeongsang Pr...

Oct 3, 2018
Social affairs
[Graphic News] 4 in 5 Koreans concerned about heavy dependency on smart devices

According to the research conducted by Embrain, 82.8 percent of South Koreans believe society is overly reliant on smart devices. The survey was conducted on 1,000 respondents, aged from 19 to 59,...

Oct 3, 2018
Social affairs
1% of domestic violence suspects get jail: lawmaker

Only 1 percent of domestic violence suspects are sentenced to a prison term in South Korea, a lawmaker said Wednesday. Rep. Lee Jae-jung of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea said the ratio is bas...

Oct 3, 2018
Social affairs
[Feature] South Korea's odor pollution problem

Chloe Choi, a Korean-British living in London, says she fears visiting her native South Korea because of something she cannot bear: odor from the sewers. The 29-year-old, who lived in Seoul from 20...

Oct 3, 2018
Social affairs

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