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Korea to consider animals not ‘things’
Social affairs
Aug 19, 2021
The Ministry of Justice made a pre-announcement of legislation Thursday to revise the Civil Act to introduce the clause to declare “Animals are not things.” As the number of households with companion animals has increased significantly over recent years in Korean society, there is widespread social consensus that animals should be more protected and cared for as living creatures. There are also growing concerns about animal cruelty and animal abandonment. The rationale behind insu
JeongSeon Forum 2021 sheds light on living together with sustainable Earth
Social affairs
Aug 19, 2021
Sessions on carbon neutrality, eco-friendliness held virtually due to COVID-19 precautions
Korea, Colombia to hold summit in Seoul next week
Foreign affairs
Aug 19, 2021
President Moon Jae-in and Colombian President Ivan Duque will hold summit talks next week in Seoul to further boost bilateral ties between the two nations, Cheong Wa Dae announced Thursday. The Colombian president will visit Seoul for three days, from Aug. 24-26. The summit talks will be held Aug. 25 and a dinner banquet will follow later in the day. The upcoming visit will be the second state visit to Seoul since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, following this week’s visit by Kazak
Maskless Chuseok looks ‘increasingly unlikely’
Social affairs
Aug 19, 2021
COVID-19 cases rise past 2,000 once again
[News Focus] Controversial ‘fake news’ bill draws closer to legislation
Politics
Aug 19, 2021
Ruling party’s bill to penalize journalists for “fake news” criticized for limiting freedom of press
[Newsmaker] COVAX allocates 3m Sinovac vaccines to North Korea
Foreign affairs
Aug 19, 2021
The UN-backed vaccine-sharing program COVAX has allocated around 3 million doses of the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine to North Korea, but it remains to be seen whether the reclusive regime will accept them. According to Radio Free Asia on Thursday, Edwin Salvador, head of the World Health Organization office in Pyongyang, said the program allotted 2.97 million shots of China’s Sinovac to the North during the latest round of vaccine allocation. COVAX is a multinational program that distri
Health workers plan strike, demanding more staff, support
Social affairs
Aug 19, 2021
Authorities in negotiation with union to prevent the strike slated for Sept. 2
[Newsmaker] High court okays 34-year prison term for university student in sexual blackmail case
Social affairs
Aug 19, 2021
DAEGU -- An appellate court on Thursday upheld an imprisonment of 34 years for a key member of an online sexual blackmail ring indicted on 12 criminal charges, including the violation of laws on protecting minors from sexual abuse. The Daegu High Court in this southeastern city approved the hefty prison term after convicting Moon Hyung-wook, a 24-year-old university student, of coercing 21 women and girls into sharing nearly 3,800 sexually explicit videos of themselves for distribution on a Tel
Renowned Kazakh poet commemorated at Seoul Cyber University
Education
Aug 19, 2021
Bust of Abai Qunanbaiuly installed on campus
Chief of S. Korean peacekeeping unit in Lebanon dismissed over corruption allegations
Foreign affairs
Aug 19, 2021
The commander and two other officers of South Korea's peacekeeping unit in Lebanon have been relieved of duty and ordered to return home amid a probe over suspected embezzlement and other irregularities, military sources said Thursday. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) made the decision after holding a deliberation session earlier in the day on corruption allegations against the Army colonel heading the Dongmyeong Unit and three other officers. The 300-strong Dongmye
Moon pledges to expand free cervical cancer vaccination program for adolescent girls
Social affairs
Aug 19, 2021
President Moon Jae-in pledged Thursday to expand South Korea's free cervical cancer vaccination program to benefit all girls under age 18. "(The government) will enlarge the scope of beneficiaries of the free vaccination program to include girls up to the age of 17 from the current cap at age 12," Moon said in response to a civic petition submitted on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of Cheong Wa Dae's online public petition service. "I will work to entitle all female ado
2 more Army recruits test positive for COVID-19
Defense
Aug 19, 2021
An Army boot camp reported two more cases of the coronavirus Thursday, bringing the total caseload in the latest cluster infection there to 13, the defense ministry said Thursday. The two recruits at the Korea Army Training Center in the central city of Nonsan, 213 kilometers south of Seoul, were confirmed to have been infected, after the military conducted virus tests on all of the around 900 soldiers there following a cluster infection reported the previous day. Twelve of them are awaiting t
Court orders seizure of Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy's assets in S. Korea over forced wartime labor
Foreign affairs
Aug 19, 2021
A South Korean court has ordered the seizure of Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s assets here to provide compensation to forced wartime labor victims' families, according to judicial sources Thursday. According to Haemaru Lawfirm, the Anyang branch of Suwon District Court, just south of Seoul, recently ordered the seizure of about 850 million won ($725,000) worth of bonds the Japanese company owns in LS Mtron, Ltd, a South Korean industrial machinery manufacturer. The value is the eq
New cases at over 2,000 again; toughest curbs likely to be extended
Social affairs
Aug 19, 2021
South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases topped 2,100, the second-largest number recorded here during the COVID-19 outbreak, following an extended weekend, as the country will likely again extend the toughest virus restrictions in the greater Seoul area and the enhanced restrictions across the country. The country added 2,152 more COVID-19 cases, including 2,114 local infections, raising the total caseload to 230,808, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). Daily
Seoul to continue monitor situation in Afghanistan: Korean ambassador
Foreign affairs
Aug 19, 2021
South Korea will continue to monitor the situation in Afghanistan, including the formation of a new government, following the Taliban’s rapid takeover of the country, according to the South Korean ambassador to Afghanistan on Wednesday. “The embassy will continue to monitor the situation in Afghanistan, including how the international community will respond to the formation of the government, and jointly respond with the international community,” Choi Tae-ho, Korea&rsqu
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