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Authorities investigate reports of larvae found in Jeju tap water

Authorities are investigating tap water contamination in Seogwipo, Jeju Island, after residents reported finding larva-like creatures in water coming from their faucets. The Ministry of Environme...

Oct 21, 2020
Lee Jong-hyun seeking to create shared value through innovative activities

“We will act as a change maker that delivers change for social innovation with entrepreneurship,” said Lee Jong-hyun, managing director of Social Enterprise Network (SEN). Lee received a regional in...

Oct 21, 2020
Seoul subway stations to get parking facilities for electric scooters

Seoul Metro said Wednesday that it is working to install parking and charging facilities for shared electric scooters around subway stations in the city to help enhance the safety of its citizens. T...

Oct 21, 2020
[Graphic News] Draft dodging cases rising steadily

The number of illegal exemptions from mandatory military service detected by local authorities has surged nearly 60 percent over the past five years, a ruling party lawmaker said, calling for toughe...

Oct 21, 2020
S. Korea faces uptick in both local and imported virus cases

A surge in imported COVID-19 cases coming from overseas is again emerging as a threat to South Korea’s anti-virus fight as it struggles to put the virus sitaution stably under control. Korea added 9...

Oct 21, 2020
Coronavirus hits jobs for young S. Koreans hardest

Young South Korean workers have borne the brunt of the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak that first struck Asia's fourth-largest economy in late January, data showed Wednesday. The number of emp...

Oct 21, 2020
[Newsmaker] S. Korea investigating teen death’s link to heat-exposed flu vaccine

Public health authorities in South Korea are investigating possible links between the death of a teenager and a flu vaccine that experienced heat fluctuations. The Korea Disease Control and Preventi...

Oct 20, 2020
Consumer watchdog recommends telcos compensate users over 5G network quality

A consumer advocacy group has recommended South Korea's three major telecom operators compensate users for the mediocre quality of their 5G services, a civic group said Tuesday. Since last December,...

Oct 20, 2020
Courier dead in apparent suicide over financial difficulties

A delivery man took his own life in Busan early Tuesday, police and a courier labor union said, as apparent deaths from overwork and poor working conditions among couriers have surfaced as a social i...

Oct 20, 2020
S. Korea, EU seek to boost cooperation on 'Green New Deal'

Environment officials of South Korea and the European Union on Tuesday discussed expanding cooperation on Seoul's plan for a "Green New Deal," the environment ministry said. The discussions, the sec...

Oct 20, 2020
Profitability miscalculated in Wolsong-1 early closure: BAI

Nuclear reactor will stay closed, but report reignites debate over Moon administration’s anti-nuclear drive

Oct 20, 2020
Justice minister pledges fair probe for fund cases

Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae urged state prosecutors to investigate, thoroughly and in accordance with law and principle, a sprawling financial fraud scandal allegedly involving politicians and incumb...

Oct 20, 2020
Septuagenarian found dead one day after getting flu vaccine shot

A septuagenarian was found dead inside her home in the southwestern province of North Jeolla on Tuesday after getting a flu vaccine shot at a neighborhood clinic the previous day, provincial official...

Oct 20, 2020
Court upholds revocation of S. Korea's first for-profit hospital's license

JEJU -- A court on the southern island of Jeju on Tuesday upheld the local government's revocation of the business license of what would have been the nation's first for-profit hospital. The operato...

Oct 20, 2020
Pileup on foggy expressway injures 17

Seventeen people were injured in a multi-vehicle pileup on a foggy expressway in central South Korea on Tuesday, police said. The 15-car crash occurred at 5:52 a.m. on a section of the Seohaean (wes...

Oct 20, 2020

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