German sociologist Ulrich Beck (1944-2015) argued in his 1986 book “Risk Society” that modern risk should be distinguished from past danger. To Beck, a natural disaster like a wildfire is a danger of the past. The danger can be...
From 11:24 p.m. on Dec. 1, 2019 to 1:16 a.m. the following morning, an official of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy crouched over a desk deleting sensitive files on the Wolseong-1 reactor. He did overtime work after...
The ruling Democratic Party (DP) has lambasted the prosecution for its launch of a probe into the government’s interference to fabricate the economic evaluation on the Wolseong-1 reactor to justify the decommissioning of the...
The ruling Democratic Party (DP) has been ratcheting up its attack on Choe Jae-hyeong, head of the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI). During a parliamentary questioning session on the BAI on July 23, DP Rep. Song Gab-seok...
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