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The government disbanded the central authority dedicated to Covid-19 management on Friday, marking the end of a four-year-long pandemic response.
The holding company of Hanjin Group, the owner of Korean Air, sold the three-star resort to Sonoin International for $101 million.
Yoon’s approval rating dipped to a historic low of 23 percent, dropping by 11 percentage points compared to the previous rating from the last week of March.
Patients in critical condition or with severe illnesses are being hit the hardest by the ongoing clash between the government and the medical sector over the medical school quota expansion. Patients hold both sides responsible for the medical crisis.
The French aviation authority have opposed T'way Air's assumption of Korean Air's Paris route, dealing a blow to compliance with the European Commission's stipulations for the flag carrier's merger with Asiana.
Nine full-time professors are expected to take leave or quit their jobs after winning seats in the latest general election, leaving many university students dumbfounded at seeing a new lecturer suddenly showing up to class.
The main Kospi bourse fell 1.63 percent on Friday to close at 2,591.86 as investors shed risky assets with worsening tension in the Middle East.
The central bank has put forward an economics professor at Seoul National University and a former Bank of Korea deputy governor to replace two outgoing members.
President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday called the liberal Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung to invite him to the presidential office next week, the presidential office said.
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