Articles by Yoon Min-sik
Yoon Min-sik
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Plane lands safely after bird strike at Incheon Airport
A T'way flight was hit by a bird during landing late Wednesday, but the pilots managed to land the aircraft safely in Incheon, the airline said. The TW216 flight, bound for Incheon from Narita International Airport in Tokyo, had been touching down on a runway at the Incheon International Airport around 9:28 p.m., when a bird was sucked into one of its engines. The pilots aborted the landing temporarily, but were able to land the plane safely some 13 minutes later, T'way Air said. Small
Social Affairs Jan. 11, 2024
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'Angel of Goesan' donates over W90m anonymously
In the small county of Goesan-gun, North Chungcheong Province, a man has been anonymously leaving donations for district officials over the past three years, amounting to a little over 90 million won ($68,000) since 2021. Goesan-gun Office said the unidentified middle-aged man made his most recent contribution on Monday, when he left an employee of the resident welfare team at the Buljeong-myeon office a paper bag, which contained 400 50,000 won bills. He mouthed "I'll leave it her
Social Affairs Jan. 11, 2024
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What should we call you, Chun Doo-hwan?
State-run broadcaster KBS was recently embroiled in controversy over its abrupt change of the title used for the late Chun Doo-hwan, a former military dictator of South Korea who ruled over the country with an iron fist in the 1980s. Last Thursday, a senior journalist of the public broadcaster, Kim Seong-jin, issued a notice on the company's intranet that its reporters should refer to Chun as "former President Chun," instead of "Chun-ssi (Mr. Chun)." After the notice was
Social Affairs Jan. 10, 2024
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Man finds out his 'wife' was already married with child
The Gwangju High Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that handed down a jail term for fraud to a woman who faked her marital status and scammed a man into marrying her and giving her money. The 38-year-old defendant, who was given a prison term of three years and six months, had swindled a total of 570 million won ($430,000) from the victim in their one year of marriage that started in 2021. She pretended to be single and got the victim to marry her, when she had in fact been marr
Social Affairs Jan. 10, 2024
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Woman gets jail term for stalking superstar couple
A South Korean court on Wednesday handed a six-month prison term to a woman who was convicted of stalking a local celebrity couple, singer and actor Rain and actress Kim Tae-hee. The Seoul Western District Court also ordered 40 hours of psychological treatment for the defendant in her 40s, who was found to be suffering from mental illness. "The defendant is a first-time offender and it does not appear as if she intended to harm the victims," the court said in its verdict, adding that s
Social Affairs Jan. 10, 2024
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Man fined for erasing over 4,000 company files before quitting
A man who erased thousands of digital files owned by his former employer has been fined 5 million won ($3,800), a South Korean court said Wednesday. The Seoul Eastern District Court assessed the punishment for a 35-year-old former employee of a local online retailer. The former employee was indicted on interference with business charges for erasing 4,216 files the company had saved to Google Drive in April 2021. He had been feuding with the company over distribution of profit, and quit the compa
Social Affairs Jan. 10, 2024
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Selling Kim Jong-un T-shirt isn't national security crime: police
Seoul police on Monday said that they have decided not to press criminal charges against those accused of violating the National Security Act by selling T-shirts bearing a photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. "The T-shirts (with Kim's smiling face) cannot be regarded as an expression that benefits the enemy, or that threatens the safety and existence of the state... We (the police) determined the distributors were merely selling them for profit," the Seoul Metropolitan Police
Social Affairs Jan. 8, 2024
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Police seek to arrest college students for forcing entry into presidential office grounds
South Korean police said Monday it has requested an arrest warrant for 16 college students for attempting to enter the presidential office grounds while demanding a special investigation into allegations against first lady Kim Keon Hee. The National Office of Investigation chief Woo Jong-soo told reporters that officials are conducting investigation on 20 college students on charges of breaking and entering and violating law on demonstration, seeking arrest warrants for 16 of them. He said warra
Social Affairs Jan. 8, 2024
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9 out 10 S. Koreans say they won't eat dog meat: survey
Over 90 percent of South Korean respondents said they would not eat dog meat, the results of a survey showed Monday, as the government seeks to pass a bill prohibiting dog meat consumption in the country. In a Dec.12-17 survey on 2,000 adults across the country conducted by local animal rights group Aware, 93.4 percent of respondents answered that they have no intention of eating dog meat in the future, up from 88.6 percent in a survey conducted by the same group the year before. The survey al
Social Affairs Jan. 8, 2024
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2 people who drove politician's stabber unrelated to attack: police
South Korean police on Monday confirmed that two people who drove the 67-year-old man charged with stabbing the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea's leader Lee Jae-myung were unrelated to the attack. The suspect, surnamed Kim, arrived at the Busan island of Gadeokdo on Jan. 1, a day before he attacked the liberal politician. The police investigation discovered that in addition to public transportation, he rode in cars of two individuals while going to the island off the country'
Social Affairs Jan. 8, 2024
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Half of women find return to work short-lived
Many of the women residing in Seoul whose careers have been interrupted by family-related issues tend to sustain a job for less than two years after returning to work, a report by a city-run foundation found Monday. The Seoul Foundation of Women & Family recently surveyed 1,200 women whose careers were interrupted between the ages of 25 and 54 currently living in South Korea's capital. A goal of the study was to figure out the average length of time women whose post-interruption caree
Social Affairs Jan. 8, 2024
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Fried chicken voted most popular K-food overseas
Korean-style fried chicken was selected as the favorite Korean food outside of Korea, according to the results of a government survey announced Thursday. In an international study involving some 9,000 people living in 18 major cities across the world, officials investigated the global perception of Korean food. The study excluded anyone of Korean descent and surveyed people in New York, Toronto, Paris, London, Beijing, Tokyo, Bangkok, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and Rio de Janeiro. About
Food Jan. 6, 2024
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SBA evaluation reveals Korea's worst judges as picked by lawyers
The Seoul Bar Association on Friday revealed its annual list of the best- and worst-ranked judges in South Korea, based on an evaluation of its members. The list evaluated 1,402 judges across the country whom the SBA lawyers faced during their respective trials, selecting 109 judges with the highest marks and 20 who scored the lowest. Of some 22,000 members of the association, 2,341 lawyers participated in the assessment. Gang Gyeong-pyo, a judge of the Daejeon High Court, led all categories
Social Affairs Jan. 5, 2024
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Police investigate two murders of female coffee shop owners
South Korean police said Friday they are investigating two potential murder cases in northern Gyeonggi Province, both of which targeted elderly female owners of local coffee shops and occurred within the past week. Officials are considering the possibility that the same person may be behind the two killings. Earlier Friday, a woman in her 60s who ran a cafe in Yangju, some 29 kilometers north of Seoul, was found dead in what appeared to be murder. A cafe employee left the venue late the previous
Social Affairs Jan. 5, 2024
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Residents of border regions feel anxious over inter-Korean tensions
North Korea's latest provocations on Friday have worsened tensions in the already-stressed inter-Korean relations, heightening worries for residents of the northwestern border islands. Residents of the islands of Baekryeong and Yeonpyeong were ordered to evacuate after North Korea on Friday morning fired some 200 artillery shells into the sea off its western coast. The shells fell in the maritime buffer zones just north of the de facto maritime border between the two nations, with no injuri
Social Affairs Jan. 5, 2024
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