Korea Times Finance Reporter
Hello, I am Jun Ji-hye, a reporter at The Korea Times. I primarily cover financial authorities and write articles on a wide range of topics related to finance and capital markets. If you have any information to share, feel free to email me at jjh@koreatimes.co.kr, and I will review it carefully. I am committed to always doing my best to communicate with readers through high-quality articles.
Police are investigating 13 former and current baseball players suspected of being prescribed sleeping pills and handing them to former Doosan Bears infielder Oh Jae-won, who is currently on trial on drug charges after being arrested in March.
President Yoon Suk Yeol is set to present his stance on multiple politically contentious issues in a press conference at the presidential office, Thursday, on the eve of the second anniversary of his inauguration, his office said Monday.
Seoul City’s annual Space-Out Competition will return at 4 p.m. on May 12 on Jamsu Bridge over the Han River, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, Friday.
The Korea Coast Guard’s (KCG) first 3,000-ton vessel, which was deployed in 1994, will be transferred to Ecuador after completing 30-years of service in Korea.
Patients are growing increasingly anxious as medical professors vow to resign or suspend treating patients once a week, amid a protracted health care standoff with the government over the Yoon Suk Yeol administration’s plan to increase the medical school admissions quota starting next year.
A special presidential committee for medical reform the Yoon Suk Yeol administration created to discuss policy, finds itself in trouble even before its official launch on Thursday, as doctors — one of the most important stakeholders — have vowed to boycott the committee.
Students preparing for medical school admissions are complaining about the government's latest decision to allow schools to decrease the size of enrollment expansion by the hundreds, creating confusion for them at a time when the application period for early admissions is now less than five months away.
Korea will receive 100 domestic helpers from the Philippines at the end of July for a pilot program to test the import of foreign care workers. They are expected to begin working in Seoul in late August at the earliest after going through necessary education and training, according to the Ministry of Employment and Labor, Thursday.
A growing number of Koreans in their 20s and 30s are actively considering starting families, cautiously raising hopes that the nation's demographic crisis, exacerbated by the alarmingly low birthrate, could be resolved in the near future.