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[Newsmaker] Search continues for missing teenage girl in Cheongju

Hundreds of personnel continued the search Wednesday for a teenage girl who went missing eight days ago while hiking with her family in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province. Cho Eunnuri, 14, was las...

Jul 31, 2019
Social affairs
Kia workers vote to go on strike over wages

Unionized workers at Kia Motors Corp. on Tuesday voted to go on strike over wages, raising concerns of production losses at a time of rising demand for some models. In the companywide vote, 83 perce...

Jul 30, 2019
Social affairs
Long-term smokers eligible for state lung cancer screening

Long-term heavy smokers aged between 54 and 74 are eligible for National Health Insurance-covered lung cancer screenings, starting from Monday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Tuesday tha...

Jul 30, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] ‘Park Yoo-chun invited police officers home while under probe’

Police said Tuesday they are looking into suspicions that singer-actor Park Yoo-chun invited police officers, who were in charge of probing rape allegations against him, home for a meal while under i...

Jul 30, 2019
Social affairs
Childbirths down 9.6% in May

The number of newborns in South Korea fell 9.6 percent in May from a year earlier, government data showed Tuesday, a sign of the continuing low birthrate that has plagued Asia's fourth-largest econom...

Jul 30, 2019
Social affairs
S. Korea's pro football body sends protest letter to Juventus

South Korea's pro football governing body, the K League, said Tuesday that it has sent a letter of protest to Juventus FC for its breach of contract for benching Cristiano Ronaldo in an exhibition ma...

Jul 30, 2019
Social affairs
Hungarian swimmer accused of groping sent to prosecutors

Hungarian swimmer Tamas Kenderesi who is competing in the FINA world championships in Gwangju was sent to prosecutors Monday on charges of groping a teenager. On Sunday, cops from the Gwangju Seobu ...

Jul 29, 2019
Social affairs
Korea’s recovery team for Hungary boat disaster to wrap up 2-month mission

South Korea’s team of rescue and recovery workers dispatched to Hungary in May to cope with a tourist boat disaster will wrap up its months-long operations this week, the foreign ministry said Monday...

Jul 29, 2019
Social affairs
Ruling party lawmakers questioned on confrontation over fast-tracked bills

Lawmakers from the ruling Democratic Party of Korea on Monday urged opposition lawmakers to cooperate in police investigation into physical scuffles at the National Assembly in April, as they appeare...

Jul 29, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Police probe leaked video footage of Jeju murder suspect

Police have launched a probe into circumstances surrounding the leak of video footage taken during the arrest of Koh Yu-jeong, a prime suspect in the murder of her ex-husband. The leaked footage, re...

Jul 29, 2019
Social affairs
Top court rules sharing pornography torrent file same as distributing porn

South Korea’s top court ruled that sharing torrent files that contain only metadata about pornographic videos and not the video content itself can be taken as the act of distributing such videos, and...

Jul 29, 2019
Social affairs
Cristiano Ronaldo’s no-show prompts upset fans to seek legal action

Juventus officials to visit South Korea soon to apologize, says event organizer

Jul 29, 2019
Social affairs
Sweltering heat wave hits Korea

A scorching heat wave began to grip South Korea on Monday after the monsoon season ended, with heat wave advisories issued for most of the country. Showers were expected between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Tu...

Jul 29, 2019
Social affairs
Police accelerate probe into collapse of club balcony in Gwangju

Police on Sunday are speeding up the investigation into a collapse of a balcony inside a nightclub in Gwangju, which killed two people and injured 16, including eight foreign athletes competing at th...

Jul 28, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Foreign swimmer arrested for alleged sexual harassment

A foreign swimmer participating in the FINA World Championships in Gwangju was arrested Sunday for alleged sexual harassment. Gwangju Seobu Police Station in the southern metropolitan city said it h...

Jul 28, 2019
Social affairs

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