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A missing girl and a man’s suicide baffle police
A female high school student in Gangjin County, South Jeolla, has been missing for six days, and a search operation involving 900 police officers, helicopters and drones is growing desperate. Adding to the mystery of the case, the primary suspect,…
June 23,2018
Latest fire ant discovery raises fear of colony
Authorities discovered Korea’s largest infestation of venomous red fire ants at a port in Busan on Wednesday. The nest had over 3,000 worker ants and 150 eggs, suggesting the possible presence of a colony. It is the single largest group of red fir…
June 23,2018
History textbooks get new terms
South Korea’s government said Thursday it will change the definition of its national and political system from a “free democracy” to simply “democracy” in its new guidance for secondary school history textbooks. In its revised guidance for history…
June 23,2018
Koreans rank second in Asia on Toeic scores
Koreans scored 676 points on average in TOEIC English language tests last year, ranking 17th out of 47 countries around the world and in second place in Asia after the Philippines, the test administrator said Friday. TOEIC or Test of English for I…
June 23,2018
City grapples with trash after banning food on buses
After Seoul banned passengers from bringing food and beverages onto buses in January, garbage has been piling up at bus stops around the city. Now, with warmer weather, Seoulites are complaining about the rotten smell that all the trash is causing…
June 22,2018
Sex crime probe results revealed by joint force
The National Human Rights Commission of Korea and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism held a joint press briefing on Tuesday to present the results of the series of investigations carried out by a special fact-finding group, jointly run by th…
June 20,2018
First aid
Volunteers at the Incheon branch of the Korean Red Cross on Tuesday prepare boxes of relief supplies that will go to people in need during disasters. [YONHAP] …
June 20,2018
Radioactive mattresses have a city up in arms
Residents of Dangjin, South Chungcheong, are fuming over the government’s decision to dump mattresses tainted with radioactive material in one of the city’s storage yards. “We don’t live in a dictatorship anymore!” protesters shouted outside the y…
June 20,2018
Over 700 fire ants found in port
Korean authorities discovered more than 700 venomous red fire ants inside a cargo container yard at the Port of Pyeongtaek in Gyeonggi on Tuesday, less than a month after the invasive species was found in a shipping container in Busan. Quarantine…
June 20,2018
In search of illegal poppy growers
Jeong Young-bok gazed far ahead as he landed on Pung Island off the country’s west coast last Friday afternoon. He and a colleague from the Pyeongtaek Coast Guard had traveled more than two hours via patrol boat to crack down on a dicey hobby adopted…
June 20,2018
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