Jung Min-ho has worked as a staff writer at The Korea Times since 2012, mostly covering social and political issues. He currently belongs to the Politics & City Desk where he covers topics such as health, labor and human rights. Prior to joining the team, he was responsible for covering North Korea and sports. His article about a biosecurity breach of Middle East respiratory syndrome won him an award from the Korea Science Journalists Association in 2016. He is also the co-author of the book, "Medical Pioneers of Korea" (2019). He served as the head of the international relations committee at the Journalists Association of Korea from 2021 to 2023.
Chief of Japan Pension Service office removed after hate speech against Koreans
An anti-Korea rally at Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on June 5, 2016. Yonhap
By Jung Min-ho
By Jung Min-ho
The head of a Tokyo pension office has lost his job over hateful tweets against Koreans.
Yukihisa Kasai, head of the Japan Pension Service's (JPS) office in Setagaya Ward,
said on Twitter that “Korean residents should be purged from Japan and new entries refused” and called them “cowardly people with vassal-like spirits.”
The incident came only days after a high-ranking official at Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare was dismissed as head of its wages division for allegedly assaulting a Korean Air employee at Gimpo International Airport in Seoul.
Kasai admitted to posting the tweets and, after the issue emerged, deleted them all.
He was dismissed from his post and transferred to JPS's human resource division.