The amount of Korean household waste has fallen sharply over the past 20 years thanks to the introduction of a new disposable system, a report showed Wednesday. Since 1995, the government has implemented a volume-rate disposal system which requires residents to purchase and use special trash bags. The price of the trash bag is proportional to its volume. As of 2013, Koreans threw out about 49,000 tons of waste each day, which is 16.2 percent lower than before the system was introduced. The dail

A senior South Korean official was found dead Sunday in the northeastern Chinese city of Jian while he was handling affairs surrounding a deadly bus crash that killed 10 Koreans, the government said. Choi Doo-yeong, the president of the Local Government Officials’ Development Institute, was found dead on the ground outside a hotel. He seemed to have fallen from his fourth-floor hotel room, but the reason for it had not been confirmed, the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs sa

The South Korean government on Thursday sent an emergency response team to China to handle a deadly tourist bus accident that killed 10 Koreans and one Chinese, officials said.  (Yonhap)On Wednesday afternoon, a bus carrying 28 passengers fell 15 meters into a river from a 4-meter-wide bridge in the northeastern Chinese city of Jian, killing 11, including nine Korean public servants and one Korean tour guide. The injured are under treatment, with five in critical condition, the Ministry of Gover

Another Samsung Medical Center doctor was found to have been infected with the Middle East respiratory syndrome, raising questions over measures to protect medical staff treating patients with the deadly virus, health officials said Friday. The Health Ministry said a 26-year-old doctor caught the virus while treating the 135th patient -- an emergency worker who was infected while taking a MERS patient to the hospital.   Park Chang-il, director of Konyang University Hospital in Daejeon, hugs the

More than half of Seoul City residents do not feel safe in the capital with anxiety growing over their daily life, a public think tank’s survey showed Thursday.According to a survey by the Seoul Institute, about 52 percent of the respondents said the capital is not safe, with 9 percent replying that the city is very unsafe. Over 60 percent of the surveyed said the city has become more dangerous than 10 years ago, with 11.6 percent saying that it became a lot more dangerous. Women, white-collar w

 Seoul City and Hyundai Motor Group kicked off discussions Tuesday over the use of land in Gangnam bought from Korea Electronic Power Corp., as controversy persisted over the scope of its development. (Seoul Metropolitan Government)In September last year, the conglomerate purchased the 79,345-square-meter plot of land in southern Seoul for 10.55 trillion won ($9.5 billion), which was nearly triple its appraised value. It proposed to invest about 5 trillion won in constructing its new headquarter