Police across the country apprehended 2,626 people on drug charges in the second quarter and detained 614, the National Police Agency said Tuesday. Teenagers and people in their 20s made up 40 percent of all those apprehended, an increase of about 28 percent on year. People in their 30s accounted for 24.5 percent of the total. Police in South Gyeongsang Province brought in 42 teenagers accused ...

CORNWALL, England/SEOUL -- Korea’s invitation to the G-7 summit signifies that it has risen to the ranks among developed countries standing shoulder to shoulder with global leaders, Cheong Wa Dae said Saturday. The Group of Seven is an organization of leaders from some of the world’s biggest economies: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. The G-7 membe...

The third session on climate change activism was followed by panel discussions on what kind of actions need to be taken to address the climate crisis. “I think it’s OK to start from what you like or what you are curious about climate crisis,” said BigWave campaigner Jo Eun-byeol. BigWave is a Korean youth climate change network that was established shortly after the 2015 United Nations Climate ...

The school’s boarding system embodies the second pillar of pastoral care. There are eight boarding houses at NLCS Jeju. For each house, six to seven adults provide care and support students on a daily basis. Some 400 students are currently boarders, according to the school. “Our boarding element is not just living in a dorm. They actually live this NLCS experience. They have academic opportuniti...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced universities to turn to online classes last year. As the coronavirus swept the country, both students and professors struggled to adapt to video-based courses. But more than three semesters into the pandemic, students are discontented with the quality of the online classes. “After taking the midterm exam in one of my core courses, the professor did not upload online...

Sejong University ranks as the 46th best in Asia, according to the Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2021. It marked the first time in school history to crack the top 50 in the region, the university said Thursday. While other universities in Korea struggled to improve their scores from the British institute for higher education, the school said that Sejong University’s latest repu...

Sejong Univeristy’s College of Hospitality and Tourism Management is the sixth best in the world for its subject, according to ShanghaiRanking’s the 2021 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects. It climbed three places from last year’s ninth place, maintaining the top spot among Korean universities for two consecutive years. ShanghaiRanking began to publish world university rankings by subject in 2...

For someone who is not familiar with the term “zero waste,” it might seem like simply creating no waste. But there is a whole lot more to it. To establish guiding principles, the Zero Waste International Alliance defines it as “the conservation of all resources by means of responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials without burning and with no d...

In a press briefing Thursday, Seoul’s Foreign Ministry reaffirmed that the Dokdo islets were clearly South Korean territory not only historically and geographically, but also under international law. Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong said Friday that Seoul will address Tokyo’s territorial claim over Dokdo on the Olympic website as strongly as possible. He told the members of parliament’s foreign a...

A total lunar eclipse will take place Wednesday night, according to the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute. The eclipse, which can be observed in the Americas, Asia, Australia and Antarctica, and over the Pacific and Indian oceans, will peak for about 18 minutes starting at 8:09 p.m. Korean Standard Time. Although the unusual celestial alignment will begin before moonrise, the full vis...

South Korea’s local governments -- all 243 of them -- have pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, officials said in a joint declaration at Dongdaemun Design Plaza in central Seoul Monday. It marked the first time in the world that every local government of a country made a joint pledge to reach net-zero carbon emissions, according the Environment Ministry. In order to achieve carbon neut...

South Korea has become the first country in Asia to launch a project officially endorsed by the World Meteorological Organization’s Integrated Global Greenhouse Gas Information System, or IG3IS, the Korea Meteorological Administration said Friday. The project is named Inverse-Korea, which is short for inverse modeling for validating and evaluating the reduction of sectoral emissions in Korea, ac...

Education superintendents of 17 cities and provinces across the country have called on the central government to provide subsidies for kindergarteners of foreign nationality. The National Council of Governors of Education passed the proposal to offer financial support for foreign kindergarteners in its regulatory meeting on May 13, the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education said Monday. The gov...

The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials on Tuesday raided the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education over alleged hiring irregularities surrounding five teachers in connection with an ongoing probe against the city’s education chief. Seoul Education Superintendent Cho Hee-yeon is accused of abusing his power by pressing for a special employment process for five teachers wh...

South Korea will resume offering first doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine this coming weekend, health authorities said Sunday. Their use was suspended early this month so the scarce resource could be reserved for people getting their second shots. The unstable supply put a stop to the use of Pfizer’s vaccine across the country for people getting their first shots. The government is currently pro...