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Paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II at British Embassy

A memorial altar is set up at the British Embassy in Seoul, Tuesday, to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II after the longest-serving monarch in British history died at the age of 96, Sept. 8. The altar will be open to the public through Friday during visitor hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Yonhap

Sep 13, 2022By Lee Hyo-jin
Paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II at British Embassy

Yoon pledges support for young people leaving care of social welfare

President Yoon Suk-yeo, center, speaks during a visit to a welfare center dedicated to helping young people who have left the care of the social welfare system in Asan, 86 kilometers south of Seoul, Sept. 13. YonhapPresident Yoon Suk-yeol traveled south Tuesday to meet with and pledge support for young people who have left the care of the social welfare system.Yoon traveled to Asan, 86 kilometers south of Seoul, where he visited a welfare center dedicated to helping children and young people settle into society within five years after their period of foster care ends.The visit was a demonstration of Yoon's commitment to expanding welfare services for vulnerable groups amid a spate of suicides among struggling citizens, including two young people who had left their orphanages in recent years.Yoon said he was not well aware of the problems faced by young people preparing to support themselves until he had a chance to speak with some of them around Christmas last year."I understood that the state is unable to properly listen to their voices and that these citizens are really abandoned,"

Sep 13, 2022
Yoon pledges support for young people leaving care of social welfare

Ruling party wary of forthcoming court decision on new interim leadership

Ruling People Power Party interim leader Chung Jin-suk answers reporters' questions at the National Assembly on Yeouido, Seoul, Tuesday. Joint Press CorpsPPP unveils list of six interim committee membersBy Nam Hyun-wooRuling People Power Party (PPP) interim chief Chung Jin-suk said Tuesday that courts should refrain from excessively interfering in the party's internal affairs, as the Seoul Southern District Court is poised to decide whether it will accept the filings of PPP ousted leader Lee Jun-seok of four injunctions to suspend the interim leadership.“It is desirable for the courts to refrain from excessively intervening in the decisions made independently, autonomously within a political party,” Chung told reporters. “If the line of judicial restraint is crossed, very worrisome things could happen,” Chung said. “Meaning ultimately that the courts will rule over politics.” Chung's comments came hours before the PPP to named six members to Chung's interim leadership committee. The six consist of three lawmakers, Reps. Kim Sang-hoon, Jun Joo-hyae

Sep 13, 2022By Nam Hyun-woo
Ruling party wary of forthcoming court decision on new interim leadership

PPP names emergency committee members

Rep. Chung Jin-suk, the interim chief of the ruling People Power Party, talks to the press at the National Assembly, Sept. 13. YonhapThe ruling People Power Party (PPP) announced members of its new emergency committee Tuesday, completing transition to a new leadership amid an ongoing dispute with former party leader Lee Jun-seok.Emergency Committee Chairman Chung Jin-suk announced the nine emergency committee members, including Reps. Kim Sang-hoon and Jeong Jeom-sig as well as Joo Ki-hwan, a former investigator at the Supreme Prosecutors Office known as a close aide to President Yoon Suk-yeol.The new members, whose appointments will be endorsed at a national committee meeting later in the day, came one day before a Seoul court holds a hearing on an injunction suit that former PPP leader Lee filed against Chung's leadership.The PPP formed the new emergency committee after the same court ruled in favor of Lee last month in an earlier injunction suit filed against the previous emergency committee. (Yonhap)

Sep 13, 2022
PPP names emergency committee members

VANK points out multiple errors about Korea in English dictionaries

In this photo, American Heritage Dictionary exclusively used the term “Sea of Japan,” the term used in Japan, to describe the body of water between Korea and Japan, instead of concurrently using “East Sea,” the term used in Korea. Screenshot from the American Heritage dictionary websiteBy Lee Hyo-jin The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), a civic organization promoting Korean culture and history online, has pointed out multiple errors and distortions in nearly a dozen English dictionaries and encyclopedias, Monday. The organization, which searched for “Korea” in 15 well-known dictionaries online, found that 11 of them exclusively used of the term “Sea of Japan” to describe the body of water between Korea and Japan. Such dictionaries include the American Heritage Dictionary, Dictionary.com and Your Dictionary.Korea and Japan have long been at odds over the issue of the sea's name, with Korea using “East Sea” and the latter calling it “Sea of Japan.”Following a resolution adopted at a U.N. Conference on the

Sep 13, 2022By Lee Hyo-jin
VANK points out multiple errors about Korea in English dictionaries

Collaborations key to attracting Generation MZ consumers

An advertisement for Oriental Brewery's new collaboration of sparkling liquor FiLGOOD with the London Fruit & Herb Company / Courtesy of Oriental BreweryBy Kim Jae-heunFood and beverage companies are adopting a distinctive marketing strategy of collaborating with other industry players to attract Korea's Generation MZ consumers ― millennials and Generation Z ― according to company officials, Monday. Collaborations between companies allow them to offer unique products and services that many millennials would not hesitate to pay for ― even if the prices are a little higher. Such collaborations also create synergies between brands.Oriental Brewery (OB) recently introduced a new sparkling liquor in collaboration with Britain's London Fruit & Herb Company.The product includes tea bags in four fruit flavors and OB's sparkling liquor, FiLGOOD, which comes in a 500-milliliter-size can. Consumers can choose to mix the different tea flavors into the alcohol beverage to their taste. The product is only available at GS25 convenience stores in Seoul for now. “We have introduced a ne

Sep 13, 2022By Kim Jae-heun
Collaborations key to attracting Generation MZ consumers

Victim of Japan's forced labor dies at 91

This file photo, taken on Nov. 27, 2015, shows Choi Hee-soon, center, and elderly Korean victims of Japan's wartime forced labor staging a protest rally calling for an apology and compensation in front of the Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. headquarters. YonhapChoi Hee-soon, a victim of wartime forced labor who filed a damage suit with a Korean court against Japanese companies, has died, civic group officials said Monday.Choi died of illness the previous day at the age of 91, the officials added. In 1944, she was deceived into volunteering at a munitions factory in Toyama Prefecture and labored without pay and under poor working conditions during World War II. Korea was under Japan's colonial rule from 1910-1945.Choi was among the 23 victims who sued Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. in 2003 for coercing around 1,000 Korean girls aged 12-18 into forced labor at the factory.A Japanese court ruled in favor of the Japanese firm, saying all reparation issues regarding the colonial period were settled in a 1965 treaty signed by Seoul and Tokyo.The victims brought the case back home in 2013 and continued their

Sep 12, 2022
Victim of Japan's forced labor dies at 91

UN ambassador stresses need for S. Korea to co-sponsor resolution on N.K. human rights

This undated file photo shows Hwang Joon-kook, the South Korean ambassador to the United Nations. YonhapSouth Korea should co-sponsor an annual resolution condemning North Korea for its human rights abuses and urging the regime to improve the situation, Seoul's new ambassador to the United Nations said.Ambassador Hwang Joon-kook made the remark in an interview with Yonhap News Agency on Sunday, stressing that North Korean human rights is a "very important issue in terms of safeguarding universal values.""For the past few years, we have been clearly passive in addressing the resolution on North Korean human rights ... this has to return to normal," he said. The United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution condemning North Korea's human rights abuses for the 20th consecutive year since 2003.South Korea, however, has not participated as a co-sponsor of the resolution since 2019 amid its efforts to avoid tensions with the North and resume inter-Korean dialogue under the previous liberal government.Hwang will likely seek to co-sponsor the resolution as early as next year s

Sep 12, 2022
UN ambassador stresses need for S. Korea to co-sponsor resolution on N.K. human rights

Conservative, anti-Japanese groups clash overnight at rally near symbolic peace statue

A group of conservative activists and an anti-Japanese group opposing wartime sex slaves clash at a rally held near the Statue of Peace in central Seoul on Sept. 11. YonhapScuffles plagued the site of a statue of a girl symbolizing victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery Sunday night as members of a right-wing organization raided the site and clashed with anti-Japanese activists guarding the statue.The four-hour melee happened as members of New Freedom Solidarity held a surprise rally near the statue around 10 p.m. Sunday, demanding the breakup of a civic organization established to help victims of the sexual enslavement of Korean women during Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule.Clashes continued past midnight as the leader of the right-wing organization attempted to force his way near the statue and anti-Japanese activists tried to keep him away. One protester was taken to the hospital for exhaustion.Although police separated the two sides with police lines, they continued to clash with loudspeakers and caused inconvenience to people nearby before the conservative group finally left the

Sep 12, 2022
Conservative, anti-Japanese groups clash overnight at rally near symbolic peace statue

Bill on recording ban sparks debate on privacy, self-protection

Rep. Yoon Sang-hyun of the ruling People Power Party speaks during a debate session on a bill that bans recording without consent at the National Assembly on Sept. 6. YonhapA proposed bill that bans the recording of phone calls and conversations without consent has prompted a debate on the boundary of privacy in a country where recorded clips of conversations often make headlines in whistleblowing cases and political spats.A group of ruling People Power Party lawmakers, led by Rep. Yoon Sang-hyun, proposed the bill in late August that bans phone recordings and conversations without the consent of everyone taking part. Those who breach the law can face up to 10 years in prison, according to the proposal.The ruling party lawmakers claimed that the current law, which allows recordings by a person taking part in the conversation, carries the risk of compromising privacy and breaching one's dignity and right to pursue happiness as written in the Constitution.In a policy discussion session at the National Assembly on Tuesday, Yoon also claimed that banning the recordings will prevent the c

Sep 12, 2022
Bill on recording ban sparks debate on privacy, self-protection
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