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October 18, 2018 Social affairs

[Weekender] Hiking a national pastime with benefits, consequences

Hiking is a hugely popular pastime in Korea, with 32 million of the 51.6 million population said to visit a mountain at least once a year. Hiking’s popularity, and older generations’ apparently love...

[Newsmaker] Taxi drivers rise against Kakao’s new carpooling service

Tens of thousands of private and corporate taxi drivers took to the streets Thursday to protest Kakao Mobility, a new carpooling service to be launched by the end of the year. At Gwanghwamun Square,...

October 18, 2018
Social affairs
339 Yemeni asylum seekers only granted 1-year stay visas

The Justice Ministry on Wednesday granted one-year stay permits to 339 of the 458 Yemeni asylum seekers staying on Jeju Island, while granting actual refugee status to none of the applicants. In a p...

October 17, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] No mole found on Gov. Lee’s body: doctors

Doctors confirmed Tuesday that Gyeonggi Province Gov. Lee Jae-myung does not have a distinctive mole on his body after he visited a university hospital to deny an actress’s claim. Actress Kim Bu-seo...

October 16, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Former deputy head of court administration grilled over alleged power abuses

The prosecutors grilled a former deputy chief of the top court’s administration affairs body, who is at the center of the massive judiciary power abuse scandal involving former Supreme Court Chief Ju...

October 15, 2018
Politics
Accounting fraud at private kindergartens sparks uproar

South Korean parents are fuming after a lawmaker revealed thousands of cases of financial fraud at private kindergartens during a National Assembly session on Thursday. As more and more parents call...

October 14, 2018
Social affairs
Bodies of Korean climbers recovered in Himalayas

All of the nine bodies of Korean climbers and Nepali guides were recovered on Sunday, a day after they were found dead on a Himalayan mountain in Nepal. “At around 10:30 a.m. (local time), the rescu...

October 14, 2018
Social affairs
Chadwick International offers experience-based learning opportunity

From its diverse education methods and state-of-the-art facilities, Chadwick International in Korea offers experience-based learning opportunities. Located in Songdo International Business District ...

October 11, 2018
Education
Office of ex-Constitutional Court justice nominee raided over illegal stock-trading allegations

Prosecutors raided the office of a former Constitutional Court justice nominee who is suspected of using private information to profit from stock investments and make hundreds of millions of won, inv...

October 11, 2018
Politics
Oil tank fire suspect freed as arrest warrant request denied

Police on Wednesday released a construction worker suspected of causing a fire at an oil storage tank, as prosecutors decided not to issue a warrant for his arrest. Goyang Police Station said the Go...

October 10, 2018
Social affairs
‘Immediate actions from corporations, the public needed to limit global warming to 1.5 C’

Paradigm changes are needed in all aspects of society to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and this should be an essential goal for corporations, experts said Wednesday. At the Climate Ac...

October 10, 2018
Social affairs
NLCS Jeju students head to top universities around the world

North London Collegiate School Jeju said its 2018 graduates have achieved outstanding results in the International Baccalaureate Diploma, with students receiving scores higher than the global average...

October 10, 2018
Education
Designing the future at Korea International School

Korea International School aims to help students prepare for their future. With its North American-based school curricula, KIS pursues education that builds a strong academic foundation for students ...

October 9, 2018
Education
Average compensation increased for defectors reporting on North Korea in 2018: lawmaker

The average compensation given to North Korean defectors for reporting information valuable to the South’s national security has quadrupled from last year, a lawmaker said Tuesday. According to data...

October 9, 2018
Social affairs
Cause of Goyang oil tank blaze still unknown

Fire authorities on Monday conducted a joint state inspection of a gasoline storage tank that exploded and was engulfed in a massive blaze in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province. However, they had yet to deter...

October 8, 2018
Social affairs

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