President Moon Jae-in on Thursday ordered aides to come up with measures using excess tax revenue to help small merchants and self-employed people suffering from the economic fallout of COVID-19. Moon gave the instruction after he was briefed about last year's excess tax revenue, presidential spokesperson Park Kyung-mee told reporters. In the first 11 months of last year, tax revenue rose 55.6 trillion won ($46.5 billion) on-year to 323.4 trillion won, according to the finance ministry. The a

Doosan Bears' sidearm pitcher Choi Won-joon likes to live high in the strike zone. He threw his fastball about 58 percent of the time last year, and about 40 percent of those pitches sat in the top of the zone. Until last year, Choi wasn't always getting strike calls on those pitches. But things are expected to change this upcoming season, with the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) set out to expand the zone. Umpires have been asked to start calling strikes on those high pitches, and that's mus

The Seoul city government said Thursday it will invest a total of 345.9 billion won ($291.4 million) this year in projects harnessing such cutting-edge digitization technologies as metaverse, big data and artificial intelligence (AI). Up to 1,067 projects, including those to be pursued by the city's 25 districts, will benefit from the city's investment plan for "paradigm shift to digitization," according to the city government. A chunk of 112.6 billion won of the total investment all

"Squid Game" creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has said he still believes in a humanity that moves people to put confidence in a better and more just society even under the life-and-death pressure of social survival games. "We are living in a society where people dare to tread on other people to survive," he said Wednesday in a pretaped interview by the Seoul-based Corea Image Communication Institute. "But I still believe that this society doesn't have to be one where we need to

President Moon Jae-in expressed his condolences Thursday to the family of an Air Force pilot who died after his F-5E fighter crashed into a mountain earlier this week. "I pray for the repose of Major Shim Jeong-min, who died in the line of duty while defending the nation's sky, and offer my deep condolences to the family members," Moon said in a message posted on social media. The aircraft crashed into a mountain in Hwaseong, some 40 kilometers south of Seoul, minutes after taking of

Sixteen Cabinet members resumed their schedules on Thursday after they all tested negative for the coronavirus after attending the same meeting with an infected member. The members had to take virus tests and cancel their schedules on Wednesday after they attended the same Cabinet meeting with Second Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-moon, who tested positive for COVID-19, in Seoul the previous day. Those who attended the meeting included Interior Minister Jeon Hae-cheol, Defense Minister Suh Wo

South Korea will consider introducing a new visa category for foreign startup entrepreneurs to vitalize the domestic startup ecosystem, according to Seoul's justice minister. At a South Korea-Germany startup industry roundtable meeting in Berlin on Wednesday (local time), Justice Minister Park Beom-kye said Seoul will "review the adoption of a startup visa." "In order to vitalize our startup ecosystem, we need to have an influx of foreigners who want to launch startups in South

South Korea is expected to become the biggest investor in chip fabrication facilities this year, a global industry association said Thursday. According to SEMI, a global industry association representing the electronics manufacturing and design supply chain, South Korea is forecast to rank at the top of fab equipment spending this year, followed by Taiwan and China. Global fab equipment spending is predicted to increase 10 percent from last year to reach an all-time high of $98 billion, the SE

South Korea said Thursday it will ban all entrants from using ordinary public transportation to try to stem the inflow of the omicron variant from overseas as the number of imported cases reached an all-time high. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said all entrants must use their private vehicles, or officially designated infection-proof taxis, buses or trains. They will also be required to present negative test results issued within 48 hours before their departure for Sou

South Korea's military on Thursday reported 11 additional COVID-19 cases, including 10 breakthrough infections, raising the total caseload among its personnel to 3,537. Of the new cases, seven are from the Army, three from the Air Force, and one from a unit under the direct control of the ministry. Currently, 212 military personnel are under treatment. Of the total military caseload, 1,718 are breakthrough cases. (Yonhap)

South Korea's tax revenue rebounded in November last year from a year ago as corporate income tax increased amid the economic recovery, the finance ministry said Thursday. The government collected 16 trillion won in taxes in November, compared with 14 trillion won a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Tax revenue rebounded in the month after a fall of 6.2 trillion won in October when the government delayed the payment of some taxes by small merchants and firms hit b

　Seven out of 10 South Koreans chose China as the biggest security threat to their country among the neighbors, excluding North Korea, a survey showed.  　According to a survey by the state-run Korea Institute of National Unification on 1,006 adults, 71.8 percent of the respondents picked China as the biggest threat to the nation, followed by Japan with 21.1 percent and the United States with 6.3 percent. 　The institute said China‘s “coercive and disrespectful attitude”

    1) 단어 + 예문 10개 더 많은 토익빈출 단어 '해커스 토익 기출 보카'에서 확인 ▶   2) 파트 5 3문제 1.  The secretary makes a reservation at the Calico Hotel in Barcelona ------- the manager has to fly to Spain to attend an important conference. (A) whatever (B) whenever (C) wherever (D) however 해석 그 비서는 매니저가 중요한 회의 참석차 스페인으로 가야 할 때면 언제든 바르셀로나에 있는 Calico 호텔을 예약한다. 해설 -- 복합관계부사 채우기 문제 빈칸 뒤에 주어(the manager)와 동사(has to fly)를 갖춘 완전한 절이 왔으므로 완전한 절을 이끌 수 있는 복합관계부사 (B), (C), (D)가 정답의 후보이다. ‘매니저가

A nuclear reactor automatically shut down Thursday after a coolant pump stopped working, but no radiation leak was found, the operator of the country's nuclear plants said. The Reactor-5 at the Hanul Power Plant in Uljin, some 330 kilometers southeast of Seoul, was shut down at around 1:26 a.m., according to the state-run Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. The Nuclear Safety and Security Commission said it is currently looking into the stoppage to find the exact cause of the automatic shutdow