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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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Samsung chip business back on track, logs W1.9tr operating profit in Q1
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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Shinsegae faces showdown with investors over SSG.com's delayed IPO
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Hopes rise for possible Gaza truce deal
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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Ex-pro baseball player who killed debtor appeals sentence
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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S. Korea to issue travel ban on Haiti amid intensifying gang violence
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Leaders of S. Korea, Angola agree to boost economic, trade cooperation
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Man jailed in K-pop concert ticket scam
A 30-year-old South Korean man who pretended to sell tickets for K-pop concerts and swindled 595 million won ($450,000) from his victims has been sentenced to six years in prison, a court said Tuesday. The Seoul Central District Court found the defendant, surnamed Kim, guilty on multiple counts of fraud. An investigation found that Kim had pretended to sell tickets for concerts of popular artists here including IU, Blackpink and Lim Young-woong, some 130 times, pocketing the profits from the sal
Jan. 16, 2024
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Suspect in attack on Singaporean student arrested
A Korean man in his 30s suspected of attacking a female Singaporean student in broad daylight last week was arrested by the police Tuesday. The suspect, whose name and age were being withheld as of Monday afternoon, is being accused of punching the student several times in the face at around 4 p.m. on Friday, according to the Dongdaemun Police Station. The victim was walking at a crosswalk in Hwigyeong-dong, Dongdaemun-gu in Seoul when she was attacked. Police said the suspect has been diagnos
Jan. 16, 2024
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Inspection conducted on 'fake business trip' claims by civil servant
Yangju city government in Gyeonggi Province said late Monday that it had launched an inspection into one of its first-year employees, who recently claimed on social media to be neglecting their duties while pretending to be on a business trip. "(The city) will hold a thorough investigation on whether the employee in question has violated the Local Public Officials Act by posting what can only be interpreted as a fake business trip on their social media page, thereby demoralizing the other h
Jan. 16, 2024
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Dogs abandoned twice by the same owner
A local animal rights group and the city of Cheonan said Monday they are planning to file charges of animal abuse and abandonment against the owner of a poodle and a Maltese poodle who is suspected of abandoning the dogs twice last week. According to the city government, the owner left the dogs in front of a convenience store in Seobuk-gu, Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, on Jan. 10. A resident of the area took the dogs to the city's animal protection center, which acquired the informat
Jan. 15, 2024
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Only 2 out of 10 in Seoul hail cabs the old fashioned way
Using a mobile application has become the standard in catching a taxi in Seoul, as a recent study shows 72.2 percent of its citizens use taxi-hailing apps while only 22.7 percent hail a passing cab on the street. The city-run Seoul Institute announced the result of its annual study on Seoul citizens' perception of the taxi service in the South Korean capital, based on a survey of 4,370 people who used Seoul taxis, another online survey of 1,001 people living in Seoul, and a survey on 42
Jan. 15, 2024
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No indication of foul play in woman's death at Han River: police
South Korean police said Monday that they have found no indications of a crime in the death of a young woman found floating in Han River with a knife lodged in her chest. In a regular press briefing, a high-ranking official of the National Police Agency said that security camera footage and other evidence showed that it was the victim herself who bought the weapon, and that she did not meet anyone on the day of her death. "We (the police) will check (the victim's) credit card record, f
Jan. 15, 2024
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Seoul mulls restoration of Donuimun, tunnel underneath
The Seoul Metropolitan Government is looking into restoring Donuimun, one of the Four Great Gates of Seoul, the city government said Monday. Donuimun, also known as the West Gate or Seodaemun, is one of a series of historic gates around Seoul. It served as the opening to the Fortress Wall of Seoul that surrounded the city during the Joseon era. However, Donuimun was destroyed in 1915 during the 1910-1945 Japanese occupation of South Korea to make way for trams and has not been rebuilt since. It
Jan. 15, 2024
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Unskilled jobs hit record low, in blow to those on low incomes
The number of people employed in blue-collar jobs saw the biggest decline since the 1998 financial crisis in 2023 due to a slump in manufacturing, data showed. According to Statistics Korea's National Statistics Portal on Monday, 3.92 million people worked in low-skilled, manual-labor jobs last year, 118,000 fewer than the previous year, representing a 2.9 percent drop. This is the largest decline since 2013, when Statistics Korea began collecting relevant data on the seventh occupational c
Jan. 15, 2024
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Employment data service launches English newsletter
The Korea Employment Information Service said Monday that it released the first issue of the KEIS e-Letter, an English newsletter on Korea's latest employment trends and labor market information, on Jan. 4. The KEIS is affiliated with the Ministry of Employment and Labor, and is in charge of collecting, analyzing and providing information related to employment, careers and jobs, supporting the advancement of employment services and running the employment information system. “This ne
Jan. 15, 2024
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Men account for 85% of lonely deaths
Middle-aged men accounted for more than 85 percent of so-called “lonely deaths” in South Korea, while it took an average of more than three weeks for the bodies to be discovered, a study showed Monday. The Act on the Prevention and Management of Lonely Deaths defines the term as one in which a person dies alone after falling out of contact with friends or family, with his or her body remaining undiscovered for at least three days. The phenomenon is also referred to as a “solita
Jan. 15, 2024
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How to avoid punishment for drunk driving? Drink more, apparently
There have been multiple legal cases in South Korea in which an alleged drunk driver dodged punishment by drinking more alcohol after being caught by local authorities, touching off calls for legislative revisions to prevent such actions. Local media outlets on Sunday reported that the Supreme Court recently cleared a 2019 drunk driving charges for a person who consumed a bottle of soju mixed with a soft drink, some 18 minutes after apparently being at fault in a car accident. He claimed that he
Jan. 15, 2024
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Police investigate teen for beating up old man, after public furor
South Korean police said Monday they had launched an investigation into a high school student on suspicion of inflicting bodily injury on a security guard in his 60s, after a video of the attack sparked public outrage. Nambu Police Station in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, is questioning the suspected attacker. The security guard had scolded the teen and his friends for causing a disturbance Friday at a commercial complex in Dasan-dong, Namyangju, which is believed to have led to the assault. The
Jan. 15, 2024
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[Graphic News] Proportion of single-person households jumped to 42% in 2023
The number of single-person households increased further last year to account for a record high of 42 percent of all households, data from the Interior Ministry showed. According to resident registration data from the ministry, the total number of registered households in the country rose by 0.9 percent to reach 23.91 million as of December last year, compared to the previous year when the corresponding figure was 23.7 million. Of the total, one-person households reached 9.93 million as
Jan. 15, 2024
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Policemen punished for death of man they escorted close to home
Two South Korean policemen have been fined after the intoxicated man they escorted to the building he lived in froze to death, a local court said Sunday. The Seoul Northern District Court imposed a fine of 5 million won ($3,800) and 4 million won, respectively, to a police sergeant and a senior patrolman of Seonguk Police Station on the charge of death by occupational negligence. In November of 2022, the defendants escorted a man in his 60s who was heavily intoxicated back to the multifamily res
Jan. 14, 2024
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Soccer star accused of lying in sexual video scandal
The scandal surrounding South Korean soccer player Hwang Ui-jo has continued to escalate, with the national team striker reiterating his stance Sunday that the videos he filmed of a sexual encounter with a woman were taken with consent, while the woman claimed that Hwang is telling lies. A legal representative for the 31-year-old athlete claimed that Hwang has presented evidence to the police backing his claims, stressing that the video in question was filmed with consent as his smartphone
Jan. 14, 2024
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Pet cloning in Korea raises concerns over bioethics, regulatory void
A pet owner nuzzles her puppy Tico after months apart in a heartwarming video uploaded to YouTube on New Year’s Day. But this is no ordinary reunion. Tico died in November 2022. The puppy in the video is a clone made to replace her. For some viewers, this last detail adds a bitter aftertaste to the touching scene. Animal rights advocates have expressed concern over what cloned dogs go through, and what the surrogate mothers to the cloned pets have to go through to meet the desires of a sin
Jan. 14, 2024
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South Korea officially adopts body camera for police officers
South Korea will officially adopt body cameras for police officers to better manage violent crimes, as well as stipulate measures to ensure the protection of personal information. According to the National Assembly and the National Police Agency on Sunday, a partial revision to the Act on the Performance of Duties by Police Officers recently passed the plenary session of the National Assembly. The revision sets out the basis for the legal introduction of body cameras and specific standards for
Jan. 14, 2024
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Netizens abuzz over false rumors of 'politically correct' skirt-wearing fire exit signs
South Koreans were abuzz over the weekend over an eventually debunked rumor that the government is mulling a fire exit sign depicting a long-haired woman wearing a skirt as a supposedly politically correct move, a rumor which officials denied in a joint statement. Earlier Friday, some media outlets reported that the Ministry of Interior and Safety was reviewing whether to revamp the design of conventional emergency exit signs, which depict a generic image of a person exiting a door. The report s
Jan. 14, 2024
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Anger after video shows teen beating up security guard in his 60s
A video of a high school student beating up a security guard in his 60s has sparked public outrage here, despite the police closing the case when the victim expressed his wish not to punish his attacker. In the video that went viral through the social media, the teen was filmed launching series of brutal attacks against the man on Friday, as a female voice was heard laughing at the scene. The assault occurred at a commercial complex in Dasan-dong in Namyangju City, Gyeonggi Province. Local polic
Jan. 14, 2024
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Man fined for child abuse after attacking wife while holding child
A South Korean man accused of attacking his wife while holding their three-year-old daughter in his arms has been fined 1 million won ($760) for child abuse, Incheon District Court said Sunday. An investigation found that the 44-year-old defendant and his wife got into a physical altercation on June 18, 2022, which saw the man push the woman to the floor and throw her phone out the door when she attempted to record the situation. He grabbed their 3-year-old daughter when he attempted a secon
Jan. 14, 2024