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[Newsmaker] Conservative groups backtrack on plans for Oct. 3 rally

Some conservative groups are backtracking on their plans to hold mass anti-government rallies in central Seoul on Oct. 3, in the face of coronavirus concerns. Former Gyeonggi Province Gov. Kim Moon-...

[Newsmaker] Supreme Court affirms prison terms of singers in rape case

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court's prison sentences for Jung Joon-young and Choi Jong-hoon, two South Korean singers convicted of rape and other crimes. In May, Jung, a disgraced s...

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Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Trump skips NK for first time in UN speech

US President Donald Trump made no mention of North Korea in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday (US time), for the first time in any of his four UN speeches since taking off...

Sept 23, 2020
North Korea
[Newsmaker] Seoul mediates again in diplomat’s alleged groping of New Zealander

The Foreign Ministry has resumed mediation between one of its diplomats and a male staffer in New Zealand who accused the diplomat of groping him in late 2017. The ministry said it has informed th...

Sept 22, 2020
Foreign affairs
[Newsmaker] Irregular workers more susceptible to job loss from COVID-19: survey

Temporary contract workers were more susceptible to job loss due to the coronavirus pandemic than full-time workers, with one in every three irregular workers losing their jobs over the past eight mo...

Sept 21, 2020
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Offline classes to resume in Seoul schools from Monday

Schools in Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi Province will resume in-person classes Monday after South Korea eased its social distancing measures in the capital region. To minimize the risk of infection i...

Sept 20, 2020
Education
[Newsmaker] How '70s oil shock led to SK battery biz

For the late SK Group Chairman Chey Jong-hyun, the 1970s oil shock was a wake-up call, a moment of reckoning that a petrochemical company cannot and should not let its destiny be dictated by the pric...

Sept 20, 2020
Industry
[Newsmaker] 2 killed in fire at waste recycling facility

Two foreign workers were killed as a fire gutted a waste recycling facility located south of Seoul, authorities said Saturday. The incident occurred at around 4 a.m. inside a plastic waste recycling...

Sept 19, 2020
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Nat'l pension fund employees under drug probe: police

Four employees of the National Pension Service Investment Management (NPSIM) have been under criminal investigation over suspected drug charges, police said Friday. According to the Jeonbuk Provinci...

Sept 18, 2020
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Seoul city to file 4.6b won compensation suit against pastor

The Seoul city government said Friday it plans to file a 4.6 billion-won ($3.9 million) compensation suit against a pastor blamed for worsening the new coronavirus outbreak here by holding mass ralli...

Sept 18, 2020
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Yoon Ji-oh reveals whereabouts, rebuts prosecution's claim

Yoon Ji-oh, an actor who has been engulfed in donation fraud and defamation allegations related to late actress Jang Ja-yeon, denied the Justice Ministry’s statement that the investigation against he...

Sept 17, 2020
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Celltrion on path to break W1tr in operating profit

Celltrion Group is expected to become the first Korean biologics drug company with an operating profit of over 1 trillion won ($850 million), financial data aggregator FnGuide projected Tuesday. T...

Sept 16, 2020
Industry
[Newsmaker] N. Korea continues missile development: defense minister nominee

North Korea is continuing to develop its missile capabilities, defense minister nominee Gen. Suh Wook said Wednesday, vowing to sternly respond to any provocations. Suh made the remark in an opening...

Sept 16, 2020
North Korea
[Newsmaker] Public consensus needed before exempting BTS from draft: defense minister nominee

Defense Minister nominee Suh Wook said Monday that the ministry should consult with the public before deciding whether to grant the members of K-pop group BTS exemptions from mandatory military servi...

Sept 14, 2020
Defense
[Newsmaker] Suga as next Japanese premier likely to stay course on S. Korea relations: experts

As Yoshihide Suga, a key loyalist of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is poised to succeed the hawkish leader, Tokyo is likely to stay the course in its hard-line stance on Seoul rather than seeki...

Sept 14, 2020
World News

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