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.
A new policy aimed at protecting single mothers and their newborns is set to go into effect on Friday, as Korea takes steps to address the issue of "ghost babies," or infants left without birth registration, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Thursday.
The conditions of detention facilities for undocumented foreign nationals, along with the methods used to manage them, have been found to violate human rights, a report showed on Wednesday.
The government will take applications from Seoul citizens who want to receive caregiving services provided by Filipinos, as 100 workers are expected to arrive here in September, according to the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Seoul Metropolitan Government, Tuesday.
As millions of athletes and foreign tourists are expected to gather in Paris next week for the first post-pandemic Olympics, the Korean government issued a guidance, Tuesday, warning its participants of the risks of contracting infectious diseases there.
The legal question of whether an abortion can be performed on a nine-month-old fetus is currently under intense scrutiny in Korea, as the country examines and potentially reforms its abortion legislation.
The number of illicit fentanyl trafficking cases in Korea has increased sharply this year, a report showed on Sunday.
A court in Seoul has ruled in favor of the Ministry of Justice over its decision to denaturalize a Pakistani man who fraudulently obtained his Korean citizenship through marriage.
A vast majority of Korea's medical students graduating next year have vowed not to take the medical license tests to become doctors as the feud continues over the government's decision to hike the nation's medical school enrollment quota.
Heavy rains triggered landslides and flash floods in the Korean Peninsula’s southern regions, Wednesday, leaving at least six people dead and two missing, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) and regional fire headquarters.
All students in elementary, middle and high schools, along with employees at public institutions in Korea, must now undergo annual suicide prevention education, as part of stepped-up government efforts to address suicide, which is the leading cause of death among young Koreans, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Tuesday.