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Police begin probe into professor over remarks on wartime sexual slavery

Police have launched an investigation of a conservative professor who allegedly called Korean victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery "prostitutes" during a school lecture, a Seoul prosecution offi...

Sept 27, 2019
Social affairs
Prosecutors grill Cho Kuk’s brother over foundation

Prosecutors grilled Justice Minister Cho Kuk’s younger brother on Thursday over alleged irregularities involving the Cho family’s private school foundation. Cho’s brother left the Seoul Central Dist...

Sept 27, 2019
Social affairs
Ninth case of African swine fever confirmed in Ganghwa

Another case of African swine fever has been found in the Ganghwa district of Incheon, pushing up the total number of confirmed cases to nine. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs sai...

Sept 27, 2019
Social affairs
S. Korea's gender pay gap widened to 37% last year: survey

South Korea's gender pay gap widened in 2018 from a year earlier, marking the largest difference among the 36 member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a local worke...

Sept 26, 2019
Social affairs
[Graphic News] Most imported fake products are Chinese-made: data

Nearly 90 percent of the counterfeit goods found by customs authorities in the last five years were from China, with Louis Vuitton the biggest victim among reputable brands, data showed. The value...

Sept 26, 2019
Social affairs
Cho Kuk's scandal tops agenda at parliamentary session

Corruption allegations involving embattled Justice Minister Cho Kuk and his family engulfed a parliamentary interpellation session Thursday, with the opposition bloc calling for his impeachment. Mak...

Sept 26, 2019
Social affairs
KGGTF holds symposium on green growth

A two-day symposium on green growth organized by the World Bank Group Korea Green Growth Trust Fund opened in Seoul on Thursday, bringing together more than 150 government officials, industry leaders...

Sept 26, 2019
Social affairs
Samsung heiress ordered to pay W14.1b to ex-husband in divorce case

An appeals court on Thursday ordered Samsung Group heiress Lee Boo-jin to pay 14.1 billion won ($11.76 million) in alimony to her ex-husband Im Woo-jae, a former employee at a Samsung affiliate. The...

Sept 26, 2019
Social affairs
Govt. to review college admission policy amid controversy

South Korea's education minister said Thursday the government will review the country's college admission policy following a recent debate over a policy that may benefit students with influential par...

Sept 26, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Police say Jeju ex-husband murder suspect likely killed stepson too

Police have reached a tentative conclusion that Koh Yu-jeong, who is suspected of murdering her ex-husband, killed her 5-year-old stepson as well. Cheongju Sangdang Police Station said Wednesday tha...

Sept 26, 2019
Social affairs
Police to use forensic hypnosis to solve serial killings from 1980s

Police are using forensic psychiatry to solve a cold case of serial killings in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, from over 30 years ago. A forensic hypnosis technique will be used to help collect memory...

Sept 26, 2019
Social affairs
Conflicts of interest could arise in probe of justice minister’s wife: anti-corruption body

The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission said Thursday that there is a possibility conflicts of interest may be present with the justice minister overseeing the prosecution while his wife is u...

Sept 26, 2019
Social affairs
2 dead pigs found inside DMZ test negative for African swine fever

Two dead wild pigs found inside the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas have tested negative for African swine fever, the defense ministry said Thursday. The results came amid suspicions th...

Sept 26, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Myungsung Church's father-to-son succession practically approved

An order of the Korean Presbyterian Church on Thursday practically approved the father-to-son succession by a megachurch affiliated with the order, a move expected to fuel the heated debate over here...

Sept 26, 2019
Social affairs
Torch for sports festival lit on Dokdo

A torch for the 100th Korean National Sports Festival, the nation's biggest annual sports competition, was lit on the easternmost islets of Dokdo on Thursday. The ceremony was held at dawn at the he...

Sept 26, 2019
Social affairs

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