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Thu, October 17, 2019 | 16:43

Top court upholds suspended jail term for Lotte chief

South Korea's top court on Thursday affirmed a lower court ruling that gave a suspended jail sentence to Lotte chief Shin Dong-bin in a massive graft scandal that rocked the country and led to the ouster of former President Park Geun-hye. Shin, who heads the country's fifth-largest conglomerate, was indicted for giving 7 billion won (US$6 million) in bribes to the former pres...

2019-10-17 15:41

Korea-based dark web child porn bust leads to 338 arrests worldwide

Law enforcement officials said on Wednesday they had arrested hundreds of people worldwide after knocking out a South Korea-based dark web child pornography site that sold gruesome videos for digital cash. Officials from the United States, Britain and South Korea described the network as one of the largest child pornography operations they had encountered to date. Called Welc...

2019-10-17 09:19

Taiwan cannot be absent from the global fight against transnational crime

The World Drug Report 2018 published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) pointed out that North America, East Asia and Southeast Asia are key regions in the production and consumption of amphetamine.

Yi Whan-woo | 2019-10-17 05:48

Korea-U.S. friendship night

Park Jin, right, chairman of the Korean-American Association, toasts former U.S. Forces Korea Commander Vincent Brooks, who received the Korean-American Friendship Award for his contribution to the promotion of bilateral ties between the two countries, at the Grand Walkerhill Seoul hotel, Wednesday. / Yonhap

Baek Byung-yeul | 2019-10-16 21:50

Moon apologizes to victims of 1979 pro-democracy protests

President Moon Jae-in made a public apology to victims of the Busan-Masan democratic protests during a ceremony at Kyungnam University in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, Wednesday.

Do Je-hae | 2019-10-16 18:14

3 out of 10 foreign patients received cosmetic treatment last year

Nearly three out of 10 foreign patients visiting Korea last year came for cosmetic treatment, data showed Wednesday. According to information submitted by the Korea Health Industry Development Institute to Rep. Nam In-soon of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), 136,400 out of 464,452 patients who came here for medical purposes visited plastic surgery or dermatology clinics.

Kim Jae-heun | 2019-10-16 18:00

Dispute settled before strike

From left, Seoul Metro CEO Kim Tae-ho, Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon and the subway operator's union leader Yun Byeong-beom show a written agreement over wage increase and other working conditions, at Seoul Metro headquarters, Wednesday. According to the agreement that came minutes before the union's planned strike, the company will raise workers' wages by 1.8 percent and hire 24...

Kim Jae-heun | 2019-10-16 17:47

Provincial councils suspend passage of bills on purchase restrictions for Japanese products

Provincial councils have continued to put a hold on bill reviews restricting the purchase of products from “Japanese war crime firms” amid worries that the measure might have a bad effect on the trade dispute with Japan.

Park Ji-won | 2019-10-16 17:22

New public servants training chief appointed

Park Chun-ran, a former education ministry vice minister, has been appointed president of the National Human Resources Development Institute (NHI, the presidential office announced Wednesday.

Park Ji-won | 2019-10-16 17:21

Seoul, Tokyo discuss details of Lee-Abe meeting

South Korea and Japan held working-level talks Wednesday afternoon on arranging a brief one-on-one meeting between Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo. Seoul's foreign ministry said Kim Jung-han, director-general for Asian and Pacific Affairs at the ministry, met with his Japanese counterpart Shigeki Takizaki at the ministry's headquarte...

Kim Yoo-chul | 2019-10-16 17:09

PM to meet Abe at Japanese emperor's enthronement event

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