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.
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.
A political feud grows as the opposition party is unilaterally pushing for a bill on cash handouts, a scheme the rival ruling party slams as an unconstitutional, populist move that would fuel inflation.
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.