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.
Kim Myung-gon, a famous actor and musical director who served as Korea’s culture minister between 2006 and 2007, has been convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in 2014.
Dance clubs, bars and other high-risk entertainment business facilities in Seoul, where drug offenses often occur, will be given rapid GHB test kits as stronger anti-drug laws are set to come into force in two months.
A fishing boat carrying nine people capsized in waters off Korea’s southwestern coast early Thursday, leaving its Korean captain dead and two Indonesian sailors missing.
Batteries used for electric kickboards, also known as electric scooters, caused 467 fires that occurred between 2019 and 2023, according to the National Fire Agency on Wednesday.
Two people have been arrested on charges of blackmailing people, mostly drunk drivers and undocumented foreign nationals, after intentionally crashing into their vehicles.
Dozens of Christians were tortured and killed en masse at a church in Nonsan by communist soldiers during the Korean War, South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission said Wednesday.
Kukkiwon, a state-sponsored taekwondo academy, is planning to send taekwondo educators to Cuba for the first time, four months after the establishment of South Korea’s diplomatic relations with the socialist country.
More than 65 percent of South Koreans say they prefer Joe Biden over Donald Trump as the president of the United States, a survey showed on Tuesday.
Health officials in Goyang, a city close to the inter-Korean border, have issued a malaria advisory following the confirmation of two cases of the mosquito-borne disease in the same area within just four days.