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Fri, August 23, 2019 | 05:00

Subcontractors' deaths not counted in gov't evaluation

Korean Western Power (KOWEPO), which runs a plant where a subcontracted worker died recently, had been certified as a “workplace without accidents” for the last three years despite dozens of deaths, because the deceased workers belonged to subcontractors, not the state-run company itself, government records showed, Monday.

Jung Hae-myoung | 2018-12-17 18:02

Subcontractor operations criticized after young man's death

Subcontractor-based operations are under fire after a 24-year-old mechanic was killed recently while checking a conveyor belt at a power plant in Taean, South Chungcheong Province. Critics say large companies are outsourcing dangerous work to smaller companies without ensuring proper safety measures are in place.

Kang Seung-woo | 2018-12-13 16:21

Korea's jobless rate rises in November

South Korea's jobless rate rose slightly in November, government data showed Wednesday, despite the government's efforts to create more jobs. The unemployment rate stood at 3.2 percent last month, up 0.1 percentage point from a year earlier, according to the report compiled by Statistics Korea.

2018-12-12 10:31

Taxi driver's suicide deepens controversy over Kakao's ridesharing app

Around 100,000 taxi drivers are expected to descend on the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, next Thursday, calling on lawmakers to ban Kakao Mobility's new ridesharing app. The upcoming rally will be the biggest one yet, fanned by the suicide of a taxi driver surnamed Choi who set himself on fire in front of the National Assembly on Monday in a show of protest. He died la...

Lee Suh-yoon | 2018-12-11 16:30

Korea takes flak for illegal waste export to Philippines

Korea is in hot water over tons of plastic waste that was illegally shipped to the Philippines earlier this year. Global environmental group Greenpeace unveiled photos Monday showing that 5,100 tons of mixed waste, including plastics and other materials, are piling up on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.

Kang Seung-woo | 2018-12-11 15:41

Economic downturn, aging population push up youth unemployment rate

An economic slowdown and a rapidly aging population have resulted in more South Korean youths being jobless in recent years, a report said Wednesday. South Korea's unemployment rate of those in their late 20s was 9.5 percent as of 2017, up sharply from 6.9 percent in 2010, according to the report published by the Bank of Korea (BOK). The report noted that the steep gain in th...

2018-12-05 13:09

Greenpeace urges Korea to stop funding coal plants overseas

International environmental organizations including Greenpeace have urged the Korean government to stop funding coal thermal power generation in developing countries, local environmental groups said, Tuesday.

Kim Jae-heun | 2018-12-04 19:46

Workers slam government's labor policy

About 15,000 workers protested outside the National Assembly, Saturday, against the government's labor policy, which they claim is too friendly to chaebol, or the country's leading conglomerates.

Kim Jae-heun | 2018-12-02 17:31

Fine dust likely to remain deadly throughout winter

Korea is suffering deadly levels of fine dust in the air caused by various external factors including particulate matter and smog coming from China as well as domestically produced pollution. While this used to be an environmental hazard mainly in the spring, now it is becoming an issue in winter as well, with people facing cold and dust days. And according to the Korea Meteo...

Kim Jae-heun | 2018-11-28 19:46

US lawyer urges nations to protect sea around Ieodo

JEJU ISLAND - An American lawyer has called on Korea, China and Japan to come up with joint measures to protect marine areas, especially around Ieodo, to deal with climate change.

Park Ji-won | 2018-11-28 16:38

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