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.
Soongsil University, the first modern university established on the Korean Peninsula by U.S. Christian missionary William M. Baird, will celebrate the 127th anniversary of its founding and the 70th year of its reestablishment in Seoul on Thursday.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government will lift a curfew and implement a revised pay system and regulations for Filipino caregivers starting this month. The decision follows a pilot program that highlighted several issues over the past two months, including two caregivers being absent without permission.
The largest firework display of the year is set to illuminate the skies above Seoul for more than an hour on Saturday evening.
Three of the nine Constitutional Court justices are set to retire in two weeks, amid a political gridlock that raises concerns about the potential paralysis of the institution for many months to come.
South Korea’s miraculous rise to become one of the world’s largest economies, rising from the devastation of war, has inspired many developing nations over the past 70 years.
Introducing a separate minimum wage system for foreign workers is de facto infeasible and such a plan won’t materialize in Korea, Labor Minister Kim Moon-soo said Monday.
Reunifying the Korean Peninsula into one nation has always been a challenging mission. But over the past year, skepticism has grown to an unprecedented level. After the North Korean regime officially abandoned its goal of unification late last year, some politicians in the South have also joined increasing calls for “peaceful coexistence.”
Seoul Cyber University has been approved to offer online doctoral programs in social work and counseling psychology, according to officials on Thursday.
Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon faces growing calls from labor activists to scrap the city’s Filipino nanny program, one of the key policies he introduced to help alleviate Korea’s fertility crisis.