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[Photo News] Vacationers invade Busan’s Haeundae Beach amid heat wave

South Korea continues to experience a record-breaking heat wave, with more than 15 days of high temperatures over 35 degrees Celsius. According to the weather agency, Wednesday was the hottest day i...

Aug 5, 2018
Social affairs
Five men jailed for gang rape of woman

The Busan High Court on Sunday upheld the appellate ruling on five men in their 20s charged with the aggravated rape of a woman they met through a mobile messaging app. The top court upheld the conv...

Aug 5, 2018
Social affairs
Cult leaders face prosecution on suspicion of assaulting, confining believers

Police said Friday they have arrested a female pastor and three others on charges of relocating hundreds of followers to the Pacific island country of Fiji and using violence against them as part of ...

Aug 3, 2018
Social affairs
Gov't affirms next year's minimum wage raise won't be changed

South Korea's labor ministry said Friday that the country's 2019 minimum wage will be set as earlier decided, rejecting calls from businesses for the sharp raise to be reconsidered. The ministry pos...

Aug 3, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Police widen probe into ‘treasure ship’ scam

Police are widening their investigation into Shinil Group, which claimed to have found a sunken Russian warship carrying gold in an alleged attempt to attract capital. The Seoul Metropolitan Police ...

Aug 3, 2018
Social affairs
Former girl group idol investigated for fraud

Former girl group member Shoo of S.E.S. is under investigation for failing to pay back hundreds of millions of won in debt which she used to gamble. The criminal division of the Seoul Eastern Distri...

Aug 3, 2018
Social affairs
Woman found dead after sleeping inside coffin in ‘spiritual ritual’

A woman in her 40s was found dead in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province, reportedly after sleeping in a coffin as part of a spiritual ritual, regional police have said. According to police, the wom...

Aug 3, 2018
Social affairs
Seoul’s nighttime lows hit record high for two consecutive days

Seoul’s nighttime temperature hit a record high for two consecutive days amid the country’s prolonged heat wave, the state weather agency said Friday. The city’s overnight lows hit 30.4 degrees Cel...

Aug 3, 2018
Social affairs
[KH Explains] Why is ‘appellate court’ at center of judiciary scandal?

One of the major power abuse allegations that Yang Sung-tae, the former Supreme Court chief justice, faces is his use of “politically sensitive” trials as bargaining chips to gain presidential approv...

Aug 2, 2018
Social affairs
Koreans experience electricity supply failure amid prolonged heat wave

Amid the prolonged heat wave, some 2,000 households in southern Seoul experienced a blackout for about two hours Wednesday, the day Seoul hit a record high of 39.6 degrees Celsius -- the city's highe...

Aug 2, 2018
Social affairs
Spy-cam footage of teenage girls traded via Tumblr

Hidden-camera clips showing teenagers’ legs and other body parts are being traded on Tumblr, adding to a series of digital sex crime reports to spark public debate and rallies demanding a wider polic...

Aug 2, 2018
Social affairs
UN rules Korea’s mandatory HIV, drug test for foreign teachers violated human rights

The UN Human Rights Committee recently concluded that South Korea had violated the international human rights law in mandating foreign teachers take HIV and drug tests to be issued or granted the ext...

Aug 2, 2018
Social affairs
Cases of taking heat wave-stricken people to hospitals triple in July

The number of cases in which rescuers drove ambulances to take people hit by a heat wave across South Korea to hospitals tripled from a year earlier to 1,066 in July, government data showed Thursday....

Aug 2, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Kim Kyoung-soo’s office and home raided in Druking probe

The independent counsel looking into the Druking scandal searched the home and office of South Gyeongsang Province Gov. Kim Kyoung-soo on Thursday, as it gears up to summon him for questioning. Kim ...

Aug 2, 2018
Social affairs
Heat-related health incidents spike amid record high temperatures

The number of people suffering from heat-related health conditions is expected to skyrocket this year to well over 20,000 as record high temperatures grip most parts of South Korea, the government sa...

Aug 2, 2018
Social affairs

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