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65% of transgender people experience discrimination

gettyimagesbankBy Jun Ji-hyeSixty-five percent of transgender people in Korea have experienced discrimination and harassment over the past year, according to a survey released by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK), Tuesday. The state-run human rights watchdog said 591 transgender individuals aged 19 and older participated in the online survey.The NHRCK carried out the survey, in cooperation with Sookmyung Women's University Research and Business Development Foundation, for the first time among government institutions to determine discrimination and hatred against transgender people here. The survey showed that transgender individuals have faced discrimination and harassment almost everywhere ― within their own families, schools and workplaces. Harassment has occurred especially frequently at home ― 44 percent said their family members suppressed their expressions of gender identity, while 39.4 percent experienced verbal violence. Thirteen percent suffered the suspension of economic support from their parents just because they were transgender, while 9.9 percent exp

Feb 9, 2021By Jun Ji-hye
65% of transgender people experience discrimination
Health

Jeju raises alarm over 'excessive' tourists during holiday

Tourists walk along an olle trail on Jeju Island in this undated file photo. / Courtesy of Jeju Olle FoundationBy Jun Ji-hyeMore than 100,000 people are expected to travel to the southern resort of Jeju Island during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, angering many who followed the advice of the health authorities and refrained from visiting their families and relatives amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This is raising concern among officials and residents of Jeju as the visitors may bring the coronavirus to the island.This year's Lunar New Year holiday, or Seollal in Korean, is one of the country's key traditional holidays, running from Thursday through Sunday. The Jeju Tourism Association (JTA) expects 143,000 people to visit the island during the holiday, despite government pleas to refrain from unnecessary travel to stem the spread of the contagious disease. The number is down by about 30 percent from a year earlier, but JTA officials deem it still to be too many amid the prolonged public health crisis. “I decided not to visit my parents living in Busan to comply with the gover

Feb 9, 2021By Jun Ji-hye
Jeju raises alarm over 'excessive' tourists during holiday
Society

Sungkyunkwan University's business school ranked 35th in world, 1st in Korea

Professor Eric Shih, dean of Sungkyunkwan University Graduate School of Business / Courtesy of Sungkyunkwan UniversityBy Jun Ji-hyeSungkyunkwan University Graduate School of Business (SKK GSB) jumped 19 positions to 35th place in the 2021 Financial Times (FT) Global MBA Ranking, the university said Monday, noting that its ranking was seventh in Asia and first in Korea. The FT Global MBA Ranking is an annual indicator of business schools' overall status and quality. Unlike other rankings focusing on U.S. MBA programs, the FT ranking assesses business schools from around the world.The 35th place was the highest for the school since it began participating in the ranking assessment. SKK GSB's MBA has taken the top spot in Korea for a decade, while it has been among the top 50 worldwide since 2017.In the FT ranking, the France-based Insead ranked first, followed by the London Business School and University of Chicago Booth School of Business.Twelve Asian business schools were included in the top 50, including China's CEIBS in seventh and the National University of Singapore Business Schoo

Feb 8, 2021By Jun Ji-hye
Sungkyunkwan University's business school ranked 35th in world, 1st in Korea
Law & Crime

Indonesian gets suspended sentence for escaping quarantine facility by digging hole under fence

Quarantine officials guide foreign arrivals at Incheon International Airport Terminal 1 amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic in this July 12 file photo. / YonhapBy Jun Ji-hyeAn Indonesian man has received a suspended jail term for fleeing from a COVID-19 self-isolation facility in Seoul by digging a hole under a fence and crawling through.The Seoul Central District Court said, Monday, it sentenced the 24-year-old man to an eight-month prison term, suspended for two years, for violating the Immigration Control Law.The man entered Korea Sept. 21 and was put in 14-day self-isolation at a hotel in central Seoul. The hotel was one of the government-run self-quarantine facilities used to stem the spread of COVID-19.The man fled from the facility Oct. 4, a day before his self-isolation period was supposed to end, by digging the hole in the hotel's flower garden with his bare hands.Police apprehended him three days later in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, and he was put on trial. “He was a foreign arrival subject to self-isolation, but fled from the facility before his self-isola

Feb 8, 2021By Jun Ji-hye
Indonesian gets suspended sentence for escaping quarantine facility by digging hole under fence
Politics

Hospital under KEPCO criticized for employing ex-minister's daughter as intern

Lawmakers from the main opposition People Power Party hold a news conference at the National Assembly, Feb. 1, calling on the prosecution to indict former Justice Minister Cho Kuk's daughter for admission fraud at a university and medical school after Cho's wife was convicted of forging her daughter's academic records. / Yonhap By Jun Ji-hyeHanil General Hospital run by the state-run Korea Electric Power Corp.'s (KEPCO) medical foundation is facing criticism for accepting former Justice Minister Cho Kuk's daughter, Cho Min, as one of its interns. The controversy follows the conviction and sentencing of Cho's wife to four years in prison in December for forging their daughter's academic records to get her into university and medical school. The ruling has led to growing calls for the qualifications of Cho's daughter to be revoked. The hospital recruited three interns and notified them individually Thursday ― a departure from its typical practice of disclosing the ide

Feb 5, 2021By Jun Ji-hye
Hospital under KEPCO criticized for employing ex-minister's daughter as intern
Health

Entertainment spots in unfavorable position following mass infections at restaurant

An official from Gwangjin-gu Office disinfects a restaurant operated as a de facto entertainment establishment, Wednesday, following mass infections there. / YonhapBy Jun Ji-hyeNighttime entertainment establishments such as clubs and hostess bars, which have been unable to operate normally for more than eight months due to social distancing guidelines aimed at stemming COVID-19 outbreaks, have been put in a further unfavorable position following mass infections at a restaurant in Seoul. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG), Friday, a total of 51 infected people have so far been traced to a restaurant in Seoul's Gwangjin District since the first case was reported there Jan. 29. The location, registered as a general restaurant, was caught having operated as a “hunting pocha,” a Korean style bar in which people can go on blind dates while drinking and dancing, violating distancing regulations banning gatherings at entertainment establishments categorized as facilities with a high risk of infection. During an epidemiological investigation, the health authoriti

Feb 5, 2021By Jun Ji-hye
Entertainment spots in unfavorable position following mass infections at restaurant
Politics

Top judge embroiled in suspicions of political bias

Supreme Court Chief Justice Kim Myeong-su arrives at work in Seoul's Seocho District, Thursday. / YonhapBy Jun Ji-hyeSupreme Court Chief Justice Kim Myeong-su is facing suspicions of attempting to side with the ruling bloc and thus harm judicial independence, after a sitting judge claimed that Kim had stopped him from stepping down to allow the National Assembly to impeach him. On Thursday morning, a lawyer for Lim Seong-geun, a senior judge of the Busan High Court, revealed a transcript of a recorded conversation between Kim and Lim during their meeting in May last year.The revelation came hours before the Assembly put to vote a motion to impeach Lim for meddling in several politically sensitive trials presided over by junior judges during the previous administration of conservative President Park Geun-hye. The motion was passed during a plenary session later that day and marked the first impeachment of its kind. Lim was one of several judges who had been brought to trial on charges of abusing judicial power to meddle in politically sensitive rulings. The Assembly is only authorized

Feb 4, 2021By Jun Ji-hye
Top judge embroiled in suspicions of political bias
  • National Assembly passes impeachment motion against judge accused of judicial power abuse
Health

4th virus wave feared as Korea sees 3 variants

A medical staffer carries out COVID-19 testing on a resident at a public health center in Gwangju, Wednesday. / YonhapBy Jun Ji-hyeConcerns are growing here over a possible fourth wave of COVID-19 infections after the health authorities said they were seeing a consistent increase in the number of people infected with new variants of the coronavirus, which are known to be more transmissible. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said Wednesday that it had confirmed ― as of Tuesday ― 39 cases of extra-contagious variants of COVID-19 since last OctoberOf the 39, 27 were from the United Kingdom, followed by seven from South Africa and five from Brazil.Adding to concerns is that five patients were infected with the new variants in Korea, unlike the others who arrived from abroad. “The five cases show the increasing possibility of the spread of the new variants within local communities,” a KDCA official said. “We will expand new variant testing to those who have not traveled overseas.” The recent emergence of several COVID-19 mutations has been putt

Feb 3, 2021By Jun Ji-hye
4th virus wave feared as Korea sees 3 variants
  • New virus cases bounce back to over 400
  • South Korea's COVID-19 cases exceed 80,000
Law & Crime

Child rapist allowed to receive basic living allowance

Cho Doo-soon, one of Korea's most notorious sex offenders, leaves a probation center in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, Dec. 12, after being released from prison earlier in the day. / Korea Times photo by Wang Tae-seokBy Jun Ji-hyeThe government of Ansan City has approved for Cho Doo-soon, one of Korea's most notorious child rapists, to receive money as part of the basic livelihood security program, enabling him to receive about 1.2 million won ($1,075) per month in welfare allowances, according to city officials, Tuesday. Cho, 68, applied for the welfare assistance program a few days after he returned to his home in the Gyeonggi provincial city, following his release from prison in December, claiming that he and his wife were suffering financial difficulties.The city government approved the application at the end of last month, with the first payment being made in the same month. Cho's application for welfare assistance has provoked anger from members of the public who said it was inappropriate to provide financial assistance to the sex criminal using taxpayers' money.“We could not

Feb 3, 2021By Jun Ji-hye
Child rapist allowed to receive basic living allowance
Society

Delivery workers file petition against apartments for infringing on human rights

Members of the union of delivery service workers under the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) hold a press conference in front of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) office in Seoul, Tuesday, before submitting a petition against apartments and buildings, claiming that they have been treating delivery workers unfairly. / YonhapBy Jun Ji-hyeDelivery workers filed a petition with the state human rights watchdog against more than 80 residential and office buildings, Tuesday, claiming that “unfair” regulations such as forcing the workers to use freight elevators have infringed on their rights.The union of delivery service workers under the progressive Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) asked the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) to investigate 83 apartments and other buildings that are mostly located in Seoul.“Delivery workers have played an important role in enabling people to use contactless services in the COVID-19 era, but the workers' own human rights have not been guaranteed,” a union official said during a

Feb 2, 2021By Jun Ji-hye
Delivery workers file petition against apartments for infringing on human rights
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