Over half of Korea's high-ranking public officials saw their personal wealth decrease in the past year amid a real estate slowdown, according to an annual report by the state ethics committee.
The boy band member will begin his mandatory enlistment without fanfare on April 15.
The National Pension Service (NPS), the second-largest shareholder of Korean Air, voiced its opposition of the reappointment of Korean Air and Hanjin KAL chairman Walter Cho as a board member of the airline company.
An Indian exporter has been arrested for allegedly falsely labeling Indian gold jewelry as Korean goods in order to evade U.S. import duties.
A satellite party coalition led by the liberal Democratic Party (DP) excluded a proportional candidate over his past refusal to comply with the nation’s mandatory military service.
A subpanel under a parliamentary committee for pension reform has endorsed two potential strategies for overhauling the national pension system on Tuesday.
The National Forensic Service (NFS) is suffering an acute shortage of medical examiners even as the government moves to increase the enrollment quota at medical schools.
Streaming service Tving CEO Choi Ju-hee promised to improve on Tuesday after its entrance into the baseball broadcasting world was plagued by errors over the weekend.
In his comments at a meeting of the PPP’s emergency steering committee, interim leader Han Dong-hoon said that his party “will pass legislation to restore the National Intelligence Service’s (NIS) right to investigate pro-communist activities.”
Korean streaming platforms, backed by the government, aim to challenge Netflix globally by funding original content, expanding overseas and supporting barrier-free services.
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