The Ministry of Education asked the prosecution Friday to investigate 17 people who were involved in the previous administration’s plans to scrap textbooks on Korean history and introduce state-authored ones.They are five former Cheong Wa Dae officials, eight ministry officials and four people who are not government officials. The ministry will take disciplinary actions against six other ministry staff.If government officials do anything illegal in performing their jobs, it is a matter of course

Beginning July 1, maximum weekly working hours will decrease from 68 to 52 for companies employing 300 or more workers.Though the related bill passed the National Assembly on Feb. 28, the government has yet to specify as to what should be regarded working hours, with just three weeks left to the enforcement date, causing confusion among companies.　Dong Seoul Bus Terminal in eastern Seoul posted a public notice Wednesday that it would stop selling bus tickets in advance online from July, then wit

For the asylum seekers in the Moria refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece, the word “almost” has become a source of devastation. They almost made it. They are almost at the end of their brutal journey. As Aarash, a 27-year-old father of a young daughter and an MBA graduate from Kabul, Afghanistan, put it, “When all is said and done, we are only almost human.” And Europe only almost welcomes them."Almost" causes unbearable despair to the asylum-seekers trapped on Lesbos and Samos. According to a report

With the unemployment rate at generational lows, companies are increasingly trying to squeeze more economic growth out of their current workforces, rather than hiring. That may prove counterproductive, as shown in labor trends in fields where performance is closely monitored. While more difficult culturally, a better change would be to have more workers laboring for fewer hours each.　 "Do more with less" is the typical corporate response whenever labor is scarce or revenue is pinched. If an empl

One of the most controversial public intellectuals today is an eccentric, primly dressed professor who writes about esoteric mythology, dispenses old-fashioned wisdom such as “clean your room” and champions embattled ideals of manhood.　Jordan Peterson, University of Toronto professor, psychologist, bestselling author and YouTube star, has been hailed by some as a messenger of hope for young men perplexed by cultural upheaval, and denounced by others as a charlatan preaching patriarchy and fascis

As the clock ticks toward the US-North Korea summit in Singapore on June 12, speculation is rising over what issues US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will discuss. The fate of 28,000 American troops stationed in South Korea might be one of them. There have been conflicting messages from top US officials. Trump and diplomats like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo seem not to have ruled out the possibility of Trump and Kim discussing the issue. In contrast, Secretary of De