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City councilman booked for sexual harassment

An Incheon city councilman has been booked for sexually harassing a female employee of a social welfare foundation. Incheon Nambu Police Station said Wednesday that it has booked the suspect without...

Apr 25, 2018
Social affairs
Korean rapper accused of ‘quasi-rape’

Rapper Jeong Sang-su, a former participant of Mnet’s music survival program “Show Me the Money,” is being investigated by police on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman, Ilsan Seobu Police Statio...

Apr 25, 2018
Social affairs
Police expanding opinion rigging probe to pre-presidential election period

Police said Wednesday they are expanding the probe into the alleged massive rigging of Internet comments by a power blogger with ties to the ruling Democratic Party to find out if the scheme was carr...

Apr 25, 2018
Social affairs
2-year jail term upheld for student bomber

A Seoul appellate court on Wednesday upheld a two-year jail sentence for a graduate student who attacked a professor with a homemade bomb last year. According to the judges of the Seoul High Court, ...

Apr 25, 2018
Social affairs
Korea's childbirths continue to decline in February

The number of newborns in South Korea dipped again in February, government data showed Wednesday, in the latest sign of the chronic low birthrate that has plagued the Asian country for more than a de...

Apr 25, 2018
Social affairs
Justice Ministry to reinvestigate sex crime charge against former vice justice minister

Former Vice Justice Minister Kim Hak-ui is likely to be reinvestigated on sex crime charges, of which he had been cleared in 2013, as the Justice Ministry views the previous decision as an apparent m...

Apr 24, 2018
Social affairs
Moon calls for means to introduce changes outlined in failed Constitution amendment

President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday ordered government ministries to draw up measures to implement changes outlined in his proposal for a constitutional amendment, as the plan to put the bill to a refer...

Apr 24, 2018
Social affairs
Lawmaker’s aide probed for suspected DUI

A lawmaker’s aide is being probed on suspicion of drinking and driving a van with the unidentified legislator in the back seat, Bangbae police said Tuesday. According to the police, the 39-year-old ...

Apr 24, 2018
Social affairs
[Feature] Seoul neighborhoods become green energy leader

The Sipjaseong Village, a neighborhood of 46 households, in southeastern Seoul may look like many other neighborhoods in the area, but it is different in an important way. Since 2012, the villagers ...

Apr 24, 2018
Social affairs
Police digging into suspects' finances in online opinion rigging probe

Police said Tuesday they are tracking down financial and accounting records of a publishing company run by the suspects in a massive rigging of Internet comments to find out if their expenses were co...

Apr 24, 2018
Social affairs
Korea reports first tick-borne disease death in 2018

A 62-year-old woman died from a tick-borne disease last week in the first such case in South Korea this year, health authorities said Tuesday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said the woman, who ...

Apr 24, 2018
Social affairs
Over 100 new signposts to decorate Gangnam streets

Seoul City plans to renovate building signposts in Gangnam-gu, the district’s office said Monday. The project aims to tear down old and worn signposts and replace them with new ones that befit the i...

Apr 23, 2018
Social affairs
1 in 3 Koreans feel office cafeterias unsafe: survey

About 1 out of 3 South Koreans are worried about dining in office cafeterias or restaurants, a survey showed Monday. According to the survey on perception of food safety from the Office for Governme...

Apr 23, 2018
Social affairs
Spouse visa extension granted for Pakistani father

The Seoul Administrative Court on Monday ruled in favor of a Pakistani father in a case concerning the right to an extended visa for foreign national parents with Korean-born children, even if the ch...

Apr 23, 2018
Social affairs
Another Korean victim of Japan's wartime sexual slavery dies

Another elderly Korean victim of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery has died at age 97, a foundation that deals with the issue said Monday. The death of Choi Duk-nye puts the number of surviving victims...

Apr 23, 2018
Social affairs

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