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  • S. Korea pushes to embrace cohabiting couples, non-traditional families
  • Lunar New Year travel plans pose new challenge in COVID-19 fight
  • COVID-19 deals blow to S. Korea's indie, arthouse film scene
  • Imported commercial car sales fall 6.9% in 2020
  • BMW Korea to spend W60b on logistics center
  • Four USFK-affiliated people test positive for COVID-19
  • [Newsmaker] Govt. to expand in-person classes for younger students this yea...
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  • S. Korea pushes to embrace cohabiting couples, non-traditional families

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    S. Korea pushes to embrace cohabiting couples, non-traditional families

    South Korean government pushes to reform family-related laws to accommodate various types of familial and household structures such as cohabiting couples who are not married. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family laid out a basic plan for family policy on Sunday to be effective from 2021-2025, though revisions to related laws must pass through the parliament before they take effect. The current civil law stipulates that a family involves direct family by blood, siblings, a spouse and t

  • Lunar New Year travel plans pose new challenge in COVID-19 fight

    Lunar New Year travel plans pose new challenge in COVID-19 fight

    Coronavirus-weary South Koreans are making travel plans for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, posing a new challenge in the country's fight against COVID-19. With the holiday two weeks away, daily coronavirus infections are down to the 300s from a peak of 1,241 on Dec. 25. Health authorities have warned it is too early for people to let their guard down and maintained a ban on private gatherings of five or more until the end of this month. Still, some say they are hopeful the ban will be li

    Today

  • [Newsmaker] Govt. to expand in-person classes for younger students this year

    [Newsmaker] Govt. to expand in-person classes for younger students this year

    Younger students and disabled children will get more in-person instruction this year, the Ministry of Education said Tuesday, to fill their academic and social needs exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Announcing its work plan and goal for this year, the ministry said it will continue to ensure a safe learning environment at school despite the threat of the virus, and aim to bring more children back to school. "The ministry will prioritize to have preschoolers, lower graders of eleme

    Today

  • S. Korea confirms 73rd case of highly pathogenic bird flu

    S. Korea confirms 73rd case of highly pathogenic bird flu

    South Korea's agricultural ministry said Tuesday it has confirmed the 73rd case of highly pathogenic bird flu from a poultry farm, sparking concerns over a prolonged battle with the animal disease. The latest case of the H5N8 strain of avian influenza came from a duck farm in Hampyeong, 383 kilometers south of Seoul, on the previous day, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. The country reported its first farm-related case in nearly three years in November. Since th

    Today

  • Nation on alert as coronavirus cases linked to unauthorized school reported in other regions

    Nation on alert as coronavirus cases linked to unauthorized school reported in other regions

    State and local health authorities on Tuesday were cautiously tracing and monitoring the development of a mass coronavirus outbreak at an unauthorized missionary training school in Daejeon, as cases linked to the school and its operator were being reported in other regions. The IEM School in the central city, located 164 kilometers south of Seoul, experienced a cluster outbreak over the weekend, with the number of infected students and faculty members from the facility reaching 127 as of Monday

    Today

  • New virus cases fall back to below 400 again; clusters tied to religious facilities on rise

    New virus cases fall back to below 400 again; clusters tied to religious facilities on rise

    South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases fell back to below 400 on Tuesday on the back of tighter virus curbs, but authorities remain on alert over a rise in cluster infections tied to religious facilities. The country added 354 more COVID-19 cases, including 338 locally transmitted infections, raising the total caseload to 75,875, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). The figure was down from 437 on Monday and 392 on Sunday. Over 130 confirmed cases were repor

    Today

  • Ex-Seoul Mayor Park sexually harassed secretary: watchdog

    Ex-Seoul Mayor Park sexually harassed secretary: watchdog

    The state human rights watchdog said Monday that former Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon's actions toward his secretary amounted to sexual harassment. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea said it reached the conclusion after looking into allegations Park sexually harassed the former municipal government employee over several years until his death in an apparent suicide in July. The announcement came after police wrapped up their probe into the case last month without seeking any indictments

    Jan 25, 2021

  • Court rules in favor of importing life-size sex dolls

    Court rules in favor of importing life-size sex dolls

    Another court ruling came on Monday in favor of importing a life-size sex doll despite persistent controversy over the sex doll which many denounce as sexually objectifying women and prompting an increase in sex crimes. The Seoul Administrative Court ruled in favor of a firm seeking to import one life-size sex doll into the country from China, ordering the head of Gimpo Airport’s customs agency to revoke its decision to block the import of the doll. The customs agency suspended the imp

    Jan 25, 2021

  • Pohang city orders mandatory virus testing for each household

    Pohang city orders mandatory virus testing for each household

    1st administrative order in South Korea to require at least one virus testing per household

    Jan 25, 2021

  • Total cases of new COVID-19 variants reach 27 in S. Korea

    Total cases of new COVID-19 variants reach 27 in S. Korea

    South Korea reported nine more cases of COVID-19 variants over the past week, health authorities said Monday as they scrambled to block the influx of highly contagious new strains into the country. Nine people were infected with the mutated virus variants over the past week -- four from the United Kingdom, three from South Africa and two from Brazil, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. Seven of the patients were confirmed to be infected during the quarantine process

    Jan 25, 2021

  • Investing 101 for teens in South Korea gain popularity

    Investing 101 for teens in South Korea gain popularity

    Korean teenagers have jumped on the stock investment bandwagon, as investment tutorials targeted at students -- as young as elementary school kids -- have soared over the winter holidays. Bae Jin-han from the Fine Start Academy recently launched a lecture series over the winter vacation aimed at teens interested in investing in stocks. Nicknamed “super ant” -- a term referring to retail investors -- Bae is a parent of a 15-year-old child who made 600 million won ($543,000) worth

    Jan 25, 2021

  • Seoul City recruiting 350 youth interns for global enterprises and startups

    Seoul City recruiting 350 youth interns for global enterprises and startups

    Seoul Metropolitan Government announces hiring plans amid dire youth employment situation

    Jan 25, 2021

  • Police to crack down on unauthorized entertainment facilities

    Police to crack down on unauthorized entertainment facilities

    43 violations of quarantine measures found over 2-week long period in early January

    Jan 25, 2021

  • S. Korea confirms 9 more cases of COVID-19 variants, total now at 27

    S. Korea confirms 9 more cases of COVID-19 variants, total now at 27

    South Korea confirmed nine more cases of contagious variants of the new coronavirus on Monday, bringing the variants' total caseload to 27, as health authorities remain vigilant against the possibility that highly transmissible new variants could spark another uptick in virus cases here. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said the nine people were confirmed to have been inflected with the virus variants over the past week. Of them, four arrived in South Korea from Britain, t

    Jan 25, 2021

  • Labor income gap widened amid COVID-19 pandemic: report

    Labor income gap widened amid COVID-19 pandemic: report

    The labor income gap among wage earners in South Korea worsened last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a government report showed, despite narrower disparities in disposable income under the Moon Jae-in administration. The Gini coefficient -- a measure of income inequality within a population -- went up slightly to 0.306 last year when calculated on the basis of hourly labor income, according to a report from the Korea Employment Information Service. The report was based on employment data fr

    Jan 25, 2021

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