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Fri, July 28, 2017 | 05:35

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Expats want friendlier Seoul

Foreign residents of Seoul gathered at City Hall, Wednesday, to propose policies to the Seoul Metropolitan Government on behalf of foreign residents of Seoul. It was the third time the Seoul City Foreign Residents Council, consisting of 38 residents from 23 countries, held a general meeting since its launch in December 2015. Eleven policies were proposed, of which five were p...

Foreign Communities | 2017-07-27 16:56

Ruling camp agrees on tax hike plan

The government and the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) agreed Thursday to raise the taxes on top salary earners and giant corporations and revise the state tax code in this direction. The agreement was made during a consultation meeting held at the National Assembly between party leaders and public officials of the finance ministry over how to reform the taxation syste...

Politics | 2017-07-27 17:09

Councilor saves four lives through CPR

A councilor at Yeosu in South Jeolla Province recently saved a man through cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) - her fourth time to perform such a feat. Park Seong-mi was enjoying a vacation with her family in a valley in Gwangyang near Yeosu last Saturday. She suddenly saw a dozen people running about in confusion. Her children told her that it seemed there was a drowned man there. Park hurried over quickly, and found that the people had pulled the man in his 60s out of the water and laid him on a rock. He didn’t seem to be breathing and they had no idea what to do next.

Seoul & provinces | 2017-07-27 22:00

NIS to shut down disputed bureaus

The National Intelligence Service (NIS) plans to close two departments in charge of collecting and analyzing domestic intelligence as part of measures to accomplish President Moon Jae-in’s election pledge to reform the spy agency. The move comes as the two departments have long been accused of meddling in politics and elections to support the ruling elite.

Politics | 2017-07-27 15:54

Korea's ambassador to Washington still up in the air

President Moon Jae-in is still having difficulty finding someone for the role of ambassador to the United States, according to Cheong Wa Dae sources, Thursday. The sources said Moon is debating whether to choose a career diplomat or not. Many career diplomats are pro-U.S. figures. They are expected to serve Moon well in maintaining the bilateral alliance and settling sensitive issues such as renegotiation of the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) and the deployment of a U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery in Korea.

Foreign Affairs | 2017-07-27 17:01

28 bears on Mt. Jiri go unmonitored

Out of 47 Asian black bears born on Mount Jiri, 28 are currently not connected to the monitoring system, said Rep. Lee Jeong-mi of the Justice Party. The Ministry of Environment spearheaded the bear restoration project on Mount Jiri in 2004, turning young bears loose in the wild and monitoring their whereabouts through chips implanted in their bodies. According to Rep. Lee’s ...

Labor & environment | 2017-07-27 17:41

Foundation under probe over sex slave deal

Any moves over the controversial 2015 sex slave deal reached between Korea and Japan will be decided after a team completes its investigation into the deal, Minister of Gender Equality and Family Chung Hyun-back said Thursday. “The team has launched and is inspecting the foundation,” Chung said in a press conference in Seoul. “We will be able to decide what to do next after t...

Foreign Affairs | 2017-07-27 16:41

Kyung Hee University makes cleaners regular workers

Kyung Hee University has become the nation’s first university to establish a subsidiary to provide its cleaners regular working status. The move is set to influence ongoing negotiations at other schools amid the Moon Jae-in administration’s drive to improve working conditions for irregular workers. Kyung Hee University said Thursday it directly hired 135 cleaners by setting up a subsidiary named K-ecotec earlier this month, two years since it began negotiations with a private think-tank to improve their working conditions.

Labor & environment | 2017-07-27 15:54

LKP draws fire over tobacco tax cut bill

The main opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) is drawing public criticism after it submitted a bill Wednesday to slash cigarette taxes to lower the average price per pack to 2,500 won from the current 4,500 won. This is largely viewed as a politically oriented attempt to spur public resistance against the ruling camp’s move to increase taxes on high-income earners and conglomerates. The Saenuri Party, the predecessor to the LKP, was the ruling party when the Park Geun-hye administration raised the tobacco price to the current level in 2015. Tax revenue from tobacco sales doubled from 6.9 tri...

Politics | 2017-07-27 16:57

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