The Seoul Metropolitan Government is expected to cut next year's budget for firefighters' psychological support, even as more and more emergency workers complain of traumatic stress.
President Yoon Suk Yeol ordered the government to mobilize all available resources to cope with the aftermath of the recent heavy rainfall in a disaster relief meeting in Seoul Monday.
We hope the defense ministry takes this as an opportunity to extend the drone and artificial intelligence technology to other fields of the military.
The Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Chang-yong said the central bank’s monetary policy is partly responsible for the recent spate of housing fraud.
North Korea exploited public interest in the deadly crowd crush in Seoul in October to conduct cyber attacks on South Korean targets, Google said on Thursday.
The police questioned Lee Im-jae, former chief of the Yongsan Police Precinct, and Choi Seong-beom, chief of the Yongsan Fire Station, on Monday about the Itaewon Halloween tragedy.
An intelligence officer at Yongsan Police Precinct, who was accused of deleting a report related to the Itaewon tragedy, was found dead at his home on Nov. 11.
A government-wide civil emergency communication system set up in the aftermath of the 2014 Sewol ferry sinking was barely used to coordinate inter-agency action while the fatal Itaewon crowd crush unfolded last weekend.
Prosecutors raided the headquarters of Doosan Group on Tuesday in relation to allegations that former presidential candidate and current Democratic Party Chairman Lee Jae-myung, who was mayor of Seongnam from 2010 to 2018, took donations from...
Daily confirmed cases of Covid-19 doubled Friday compared to the week before. According to the Central Disease Control Headquarters, the number of confirmed cases on Friday was 38,882...
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