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 number of hand-foot-and-mouth disease cases is surging in Korea at an alarming rate recently, reaching the highest level in at least a decade, according to health officials on Monday.
The United Christian Churches of Korea (UCCK), the largest coalition of Protestant churches in Korea, has joined international protests against the segment of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday that parodied Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting, The Last Supper.
The government will conduct inspections of 120 workplaces over the next 10 days to protect foreign workers from heat-related illnesses amid scorching temperatures.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) apologized to South Korea after the country's athletes were wrongly introduced as North Korean during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
Applications submitted by Seoul residents to hire Filipino caregivers, a service which will start as early as September, have been “pouring in” since the first day of registration, a source told The Korea Times, Thursday.
The government aims to ban the commercial use of cadavers, following a controversial incident where a donated human body was used in a paid lecture for fitness trainers, according to officials familiar with the matter, Wednesday.
The Korean government should redouble its efforts to address persistent prison overcrowding, according to the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, Tuesday. It said overcrowding is the root cause of many other problems inside the facilities.
The Korean government is seeking to grant access to abortion pills, as officials plan to include the right to using such drugs in their legislation bill, The Korea Times learned, Monday.
Five men face indictment after hunting badgers, one of the species that is on the list of wild animals under government protection in Korea, according to police on Friday.