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Mon, December 9, 2019 | 08:30

High temperatures cause household electricity use to hit new record in 2018

High temperatures cause household electricity use to hit new record in 2018

South Korea's household electricity use hit an all-time high in 2018 as the country experienced record high temperatures that caused people to turn on their air conditioners for longer periods of time, official data showed Sunday. Last year the country witnessed the hottest summer in 111 years that pushed up electricity used by homes to 72,895 gigawatt hours (GWh), up 6.3 per...

2019-02-24 12:43

Ruling on physical labor age limit to have huge ripple effects

Ruling on physical labor age limit to have huge ripple effects

The top court's Thursday decision to raise the expected legal maximum age for physical work from 60 to 65 is likely to affect many sectors of the rapidly aging society, fueling debates on age adjustment for retirement, insurance, elderly benefits and others.

Lee Suh-yoon | 2019-02-22 17:10

Top court recognizes maximum working age for physical labor to be 65

Top court recognizes maximum working age for physical labor to be 65

The Supreme Court recognized the maximum working age for physical labor as 65, Thursday, overturning a 1989 decision that set the figure at 60. The decision, which came in a suit calculating the lost income of a family member in a death compensation claim, is likely to affect many other social factors such as insurance and retirement age.

Lee Suh-yoon | 2019-02-21 17:14

From 60 to 65: Top court ups maximum working age

From 60 to 65: Top court ups maximum working age

The Supreme Court on Thursday recognized the age of 65 as the maximum age that people are physically fit to work, breaking a nearly 30-year precedent that will likely reshape the notion of retirement and affect related industries. The 13-judge bench reversed an appellate court ruling that ordered the family of a drowning-accident victim to be compensated based on the applied ...

2019-02-21 15:07

Gov't to remove 1.2 million-tons of illegal waste by 2022

Gov't to remove 1.2 million-tons of illegal waste by 2022

The government plans to take care of illegally dumped waste around the country, amounting to 1.2 million tons over the next three years, the environment ministry said Thursday.Of the total waste load, 839,000 tons came from the waste abandoned by businesses that either went bankrupt or stripped of their licenses, the findings by the Ministry of Environment showed.Illegally-di...

2019-02-21 13:28

Discontent rises over flexible work hour deal

Discontent rises over flexible work hour deal

Representatives from labor and management have agreed to revise the flexible work hour system to further increase its scope. Although this is the first agreement made following talks and concessions between both sides, neither is fully satisfied - management says the six-month period for calculating working hours is not enough for effective business operation, while labor rep...

Kim Hyun-bin | 2019-02-20 16:37

'Shortage of nurses creates bullying culture'

'Shortage of nurses creates bullying culture'

A year has passed since Park Seon-wook, a nurse from Seoul Asan Medical Center, committed suicide due to intense bullying at work. Park's death shed light on the rampant hazing in the nursing community. Such abhorrent behavior has become prevalent, creating a culture of so-called “taeum,” or burn-to-ashes in Korean, meaning senior nurses harass junior nurses and new staff wit...

Kim Hyun-bin | 2019-02-20 15:41

Coal imports set another record in 2018

Coal imports set another record in 2018

South Korea's coal imports hit a new high last year despite government efforts to phase out the use of fine dust-emitting energy sources, industry data showed Tuesday. The country shipped in 131.52 million tons of coal last year, breaking the record for the second consecutive year. Coal imports in 2017 totaled 131.46 million tons. The figure for 2018 marks an 11 percent incre...

2019-02-19 10:17

Workers call for crackdown on undocumented foreign colleagues

Workers call for crackdown on undocumented foreign colleagues

Local construction workers urged the government to crack down on the illegal employment of foreign workers, Monday, who they claim are taking away their jobs amid an economic slowdown. Some 1,200 members of the Korean Federation of Construction Industry Trade Unions gathered at a construction site for a luxury apartment in Yongsan, central Seoul, at 5 a.m. and staged a four-h...

Kang Seung-woo | 2019-02-18 16:16

One-month crackdown on undocumented foreign workers, employers begins

Seoul to propose fine dust reduction treaty to China

Seoul to propose fine dust reduction treaty to China

South Korea will push for the signing of a trilateral treaty with China and Japan to fight fine dust pollution in Northeast Asia during their environment ministers' meeting slated for November this year, government officials said Friday. The decision to propose a trilateral treaty on fine dust reduction was reached during the first meeting of the Special Committee on Tackling...

2019-02-15 14:45

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