Korea Times Politics & City Reporter
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.
The National Human Rights Commission of Korea urged a prison warden to minimize the use of restraint devices, saying that “excessive use” of such equipment could be detrimental to the health of some inmates.
A consultative body consisting of the government, the ruling People Power Party (PPP), and the medical community has pledged to achieve what it described as "meaningful results" by the end of the year to resolve a protracted strike by trainee doctors.
The government on Friday launched an advisory group to improve the minimum wage system — a move that raises labor activists' suspicions because of its lack of representation from the labor side.
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency has issued a health advisory following a surge in scrub typhus cases in recent weeks.
Donald Trump’s tough approach to immigration was one of the key reasons that helped him recapture the White House. A surge in the number of migrants crossing into the U.S. illegally at its southern border during the Joe Biden administration apparently raised worries among many voters and hardened their views on immigration.
South Korea has vowed not to repatriate people to North Korea against their will as it did in 2019 with two North Korean fishermen, according to the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) on Wednesday.
The National Human Rights Commission of Korea called for the government to come up with measures to protect seasonal foreign workers from abusive brokers.
Many children of undocumented immigrants who are born in or brought to Korea as babies have little physical or emotional connection to the birth country of their parents. They speak Korean as their first language, eat and think just like their Korean peers.
Six Cambodian citizens have been put behind bars for assaulting a compatriot with weapons in Suwon five months ago.