The number of full-time stay-at-home dads in South Korea has jumped over the past five years as more women enter the workforce, replacing men in many professional jobs, data showed Wednesday.   The number of househusbands, who stay at home to do household chores, totaled 156,000 at the end of last year, up 34.5 percent from 116,000 in 2005, according to the data offered by Statistics Korea.    The

Prison term sought for Gyeonggi superintendent By Bae Ji-sookThe prosecution on Tuesday asked a local court to give a one year prison sentence to Gyeonggi educational superintendent Kim Sang-gon for violating the election law.His establishment of the foundation and distribution of a scholarship in his own name violates the election law prohibiting candidates from making public donations, the inves

One out of every four Southeast Asians living in Seoul has experienced discrimination, according to survey results released Tuesday.The poll of 333 expatriates living in Seoul, conducted by the Seoul Development Institute, found that Asians experience more discrimination than foreigners from OECD countries, which also include Japan.According to the poll, 25.9 percent of those from Southeast Asian

Livestock farmers and their families will be obliged to receive medical inspections when they return from a country where an infectious animal disease has broken out, according to a revised bill approved Tuesday. The revision, which belatedly passed through the National Assembly on Thursday, was approved during the Cabinet meeting in order to better control the rampant foot-and-mouth and other con

Six Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court justices appointed under the Roh Moo-hyun administration are scheduled to retire this year and are likely to be replaced with conservative figures. The change of personnel is expected to create a stir within the judiciary, which has been accused of left-wing bias by the conservative administration and other politicians. A committee under the Supreme C

Nearly eight out of 10 Korean households considered additional private health insurance a necessity even under the obligatory national health insurance scheme, a recent survey found Tuesday. In 2009, Korean families had an average of 3.62 private health plans, up from 3.48 in 2008, according to a study conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs. Of the 6,300 households surveyed

Minor but pervasive conduct of a sexual nature can be seen as sexual harassment, the state human rights watchdog said in a guidebook released Monday.The guidebook, by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, illustrates scenarios where offensive verbal, physical and visual conduct constituted sexual harassment, and advises on how to deal with such situations.The watchdog has distributed 12,0

Students here are using mobile phones as a tool in cyber bullying, according to a study released Monday.Professors from the Cyber University of Korea and Soongsil University conducted a survey of 718 middle school students in Seoul in 2008. Of the 715 that answered, 13.7 percent said they had been victims of bullying through their cell phone.According to the survey, one out of every seven students

Private educational facilities for 3- to 5-year-olds that teach English as part of their main curricula could be shut down by the government as early as this year. Any name implying English education at preschools will also be banned, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said Saturday, announcing its submission of a pertinent bill to the National Assembly. If passed, the law is expect

Latest in cases victimizing aspiring entertainersAn entertainment agent was arrested Monday for coercing prostitution among aspiring celebrities to achieve sponsorship, the police said.According to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, a man identified as the family name of Lee was arrested for having raped two aspiring actresses and one singer several times between September 2007 and September la

January saw the highest ever competition ratio of young men applying to be enlisted in the Marine Corps, according to a report submitted to a lawmaker by the Military Manpower Administration on Sunday.The number of applicants for the Marine Corps for January was 4,553. The competition ratio of 4.5 to 1 is the highest since the MMA began tallying the number of applicants for the Marine Corps in 200