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Korea-made space tech

President Moon Jae-in inspects an assembly facility of the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Jeolla Province, Thursday, during his visit for an engine combustion test of the Nuri, a Korea-developed space rocket which is propelled by four 75-ton engines creating 300 tons of thrust power. Moon said the combustion test is virtually the final test before the rocket's launch scheduled for October, and the country will actively engage in space exploration programs to accomplish its goal of making a landing on the moon with domestically developed technologies by 2030. Yonhap

Mar 26, 2021By Nam Hyun-woo
Korea-made space tech

Gov't steps up efforts to battle doubts on vaccination

Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun, left, receives his first dose of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine at a public medical center in Jongno District, Seoul, Friday. YonhapBy Nam Hyun-wooPrime Minister Chung Sye-kyun and other ministers have gotten their shots of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine publicly, in what appear to be the government's efforts to ease public concerns on the vaccine's safety.Chung visited a public medical center in Jongno District, Seoul, Friday, and received his first dose of AstraZeneca vaccine. Along with Chung, Health and Welfare Minister Kwon Deok-chul and Interior and Safety Minister Jeon Hae-cheol also got their jabs at the center, where President Moon Jae-in received his first shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine on Tuesday.“Vaccination is a matter of science, not politics,” Chung said. “However, sometimes there are misunderstandings and groundless rumors, and we received shots to address that and it feels the same as getting a flu vaccine.” He added, ”To have the public to get their vaccines as soon as possible and return to our normal da

Mar 26, 2021By Nam Hyun-woo
Gov't steps up efforts to battle doubts on vaccination
  • Rising cases of COVID-19 variants unnerving health authorities

Moon says North Korea's missile provocation 'undesirable'

President Moon Jae-in speaks at the event marking the sixth anniversary of the Yellow Sea Defense Day at Pyongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, Friday. YonhapPresident Moon Jae-in on Friday censured North Korea's recent ballistic missile launches, saying that military provocations by Pyongyang are "undesirable" amid efforts to revive stalled international negotiations on the North's nuclear program.In his speech to a ceremony to mark the sixth anniversary of the Yellow Sea Defense Day held at the Navy's 2nd Fleet Command in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometers south of Seoul, Moon said that "actions providing difficulty for the mood for dialogue are undesirable.""I'm aware the people are greatly concerned by the North's missile test-firings. Now is the time for South and North Korea and the United States to work to continue our dialogue," he added. Moon stressed South Korea remains firm in its security readiness to combat any and all types of provocations.The president's remarks came hours after Pyongyang confirmed its first launch of ballistic missiles in a year.On Thursday, South Korea's military said

Mar 26, 2021
Moon says North Korea's missile provocation 'undesirable'
  • North Korea says it test-fired new tactical guided missiles
  • Biden, Trump in stark contrast on North Korea

Korea's homegrown rocket on track for October launch

President Moon Jae-in inspects an assembly facility of the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Jeolla Province, Thursday, during his visit for the engine combustion test for Korea-developed space rocket, Nuri. YonhapSouth Korea's plan to launch its first homegrown rocket later this year is on a roll after researchers successfully conducted the final combustion test for its main first-stage engines, the science ministry said Thursday.The Ministry of Science and ICT said the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) successfully ran the third and final test for the four 75-ton liquid engines of the 200-ton rocket, named Nuri, at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, 473 kilometers south of Seoul.Local researchers will now test the locally developed three-stage rocket's launch pad until July and complete assembly of the rocket's flight model before its planned launch with a mock payload in October.Nuri's second launch, which aims to carry a 1.5-ton satellite, is slated for May next year.South Korea has been seeking to develop a homegrown space launch vehicle since 2010, earmarking nearly 2

Mar 25, 2021
Korea's homegrown rocket on track for October launch

Conspiracy theory targets Moon's vaccination

A nurse extracts the AstraZeneca vaccine from a vial to a syringe, ahead of the inoculation on President Moon Jae-in at a public health center in Jongno District, Seoul, Tuesday. YonhapHealth authorities file police reports against conspiracy theoryBy Lee Hyo-jin Rumors have been spreading online that the nurse who inoculated President Moon Jae-in for COVID-19 deliberately switched syringes right before the injection. In preparation for his attendance at the G7 summit set for June in Britain, Moon and first lady Kim Jung-sook received their first shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine at a public health center in Jongno District, Seoul, Tuesday. The inoculation was made public as Moon's early vaccination was partially aimed at easing public anxiety on vaccine safety. But rumors began the next day, when an internet user wrote on an online community that the nurse who inoculated Moon deliberately switched the syringe filled with AstraZeneca's vaccine and used another syringe in order to avoid his injection of the “controversial” vaccine. “After extracting the vaccine from t

Mar 25, 2021By Lee Hyo-jin
Conspiracy theory targets Moon's vaccination

Seoul mayoral election campaign kicks off, with race heating up

Park Young-sun, the ruling Democratic Party of Korea's candidate for the April 7 Seoul mayoral by-election, delivers a speech during a ceremony to mark the launch of her election campaign held in front of a building in Guro District, Seoul, Thursday, the first day of her official 13-day election campaign. Joint Press CorpsBy Jung Da-min The competition is heating up between rival candidates of the ruling and main opposition parties for the April 7 Seoul mayoral by-election, with both candidates officially embarking on election campaigns starting Thursday. The official election period lasts for 13 days until the day before April 7, the day of the by-elections according to relevant election law.Park Young-sun of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) started her campaign right after midnight on Thursday by visiting a young part-timer at a convenience store in Seoul to learn more about young people's ways of living and policy demands, while also listening to the difficulties of small business owners and vendors.Oh Se-hoon of the main opposition People Power Party (PPP), also kicked

Mar 25, 2021
Seoul mayoral election campaign kicks off, with race heating up
  • Conservative party candidate enjoys strong support from voters in 20s: poll

Conservative party candidate enjoys strong support from voters in 20s: poll

Oh Se-hoon, the main opposition party's Seoul mayoral candidate / YonhapOh Se-hoon, the main opposition party's Seoul mayoral candidate, outpaced his liberal rival Park Young-sun by nearly 20 percentage points, according to the latest public opinion poll Thursday. According to the Realmeter survey conducted on 806 voters in Seoul on Wednesday, 55 percent of the respondents said they will vote for Oh of the People Power Party (PPP) in the April 7 Seoul mayoral by-election, while 36.5 percent chose Park of the ruling Democratic Party (DP) as their preferred candidate.The survey was the first public opinion poll conducted on the state of the Seoul mayoral race after Oh was chosen as the unified single candidate for the conservative bloc on Tuesday.Oh has shown strong support among those in their 20s, 30s and those above 60, with approval ratings of 60.1 percent, 54.3 percent and 70.5 percent, respectively.The former Seoul mayor also beat Park in favorability in terms of residential areas across Seoul. Among those who responded they will "definitely" go cast ballots, 57.9 percent threw t

Mar 25, 2021
Conservative party candidate enjoys strong support from voters in 20s: poll
  • Seoul mayoral election campaign kicks off, with race heating up

National Assembly approves $13.2 billion extra budget to fight aftermath of COVID-19

The National Assembly's Special Committee on Budget and Accounts on Thursday passes rolling out an extra budget worth 15 trillion-won to help small merchants and the vulnerable hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. YonhapThe National Assembly on Thursday approved an extra budget worth 15 trillion-won (US$13.2 billion) to help prop up small merchants and the vulnerable hit hard by the yearlong COVID-19 pandemic. The bill's passage enables the country's fourth round of emergency relief assistance since the first case of the new coronavirus was confirmed in South Korea in January last year. The latest aid package, which will selectively benefit small business owners, the jobless and other vulnerable people, amounts to 20.7 trillion won in total. The parliament advanced the supplementary budget bill through a plenary session in a 242-6 vote, with 11 abstentions.Nearly 10 trillion won of the approved extra budget will be financed by issuing government bonds, with the rest to be assigned from the national budget. (Yonhap)

Mar 25, 2021
National Assembly approves $13.2 billion extra budget to fight aftermath of COVID-19

Parliament approves set of laws to crack down on property speculation by public officials

The National Assembly approved Wednesday a set of legislation aimed at cracking down on illegitimate real estate speculation by public officials as the country has been roiled by an ongoing land speculation scandal involving the state housing developer.Three bills got the parliamentary nod during a plenary parliamentary session earlier in the day, to revise the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) Act, the Public Service Ethics Act and the Special Act on Public Housing.A logo of Korea Land and Housing Corporation. YonhapThe initiatives seek to eradicate public officials' illegitimate real estate transactions based on secret land development-related information they gleaned while working for the government. The government is currently facing a public backlash over a growing land speculation scandal involving officials of the state housing developer, LH.The scandal, which centers on allegations that employees of the state-run firm used insider information to make speculative land purchases on public housing development sites, inflamed public outrage at a time the government is strug

Mar 24, 2021
Parliament approves set of laws to crack down on property speculation by public officials

Opposition Seoul mayoral candidate overwhelmingly leads ruling party rival: poll

Oh Se-hoon, the Seoul mayoral candidate of the main opposition People Power Party, smiles during a media conference Tuesday. A poll revealed Wednesday shows that he leads his rival from the ruling Democratic Party Park Young-sun by a margin of nearly 20 percentage points. YonhapOh Se-hoon, the opposition Seoul mayoral candidate, led his rival from the ruling Democratic Party (DP) Park Young-sun by an overwhelming margin of nearly 20 percentage points, the latest public opinion poll showed Wednesday. According to the survey conducted on 1,042 voters in Seoul from Monday-Tuesday by Realmeter, 48.9 percent of the respondents said they will vote for Oh if he runs in the April 7 Seoul mayoral by-election as a single candidate for the opposition bloc. Another 29.2 percent said they will opt for Park.While the two-day opinion poll was in progress, Oh, running on the ticket of the main opposition People Power Party (PPP), was selected Tuesday as the single unified Seoul mayoral candidate for the broader opposition bloc, beating Ahn Cheol-soo of the conservative minor People's Party (PP) in a

Mar 24, 2021
Opposition Seoul mayoral candidate overwhelmingly leads ruling party rival: poll
  • Oh becomes conservative opposition bloc's single candidate for Seoul mayoral by-election
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