SEOUL, March 27 (Yonhap) -- The chief of the National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday urged each party and candidate to refrain from hate speech ahead of the April 10 parliamentary elections.
Song Doo-hwan, chairman of the commission, said in a
SEOUL, March 27 (Yonhap) -- Increasing the nationwide medical school admission quota is a "prerequisite" for the normalization of the country's medical services, the interior minister said Wednesday, sticking to the government's 2,000-seat expansion de
SEOUL, March 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's military seeks to acquire around 60 small and micro-sized spy satellites by 2030, a source said Wednesday, amid efforts to bolster independent monitoring capabilities against North Korean threats.
The milita
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By Song Sang-ho
WASHINGTON, March 26 (Yonhap) -- A major bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed early Tuesday after a Singapore-flagged container ship struck a pillar of the decades-old bridge, leaving six people presumed d
By Kim Han-joo
SEOUL, March 27 (Yonhap) -- The ruling People Power Party will seek to relocate the National Assembly to the central city of Sejong, leader Han Dong-hoon said Wednesday, a campaign pledge ahead of the April 10 general elections.
Han s
SEOUL, March 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the United States have launched a task force to effectively block North Korea from financing its unlawful nuclear and missile programs, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.
The inaugural meeting of the Sou
SEOUL, March 27 (Yonhap) -- The following is the weather forecast for South Korea's 12 major cities at 9:01 a.m. Wednesday.
Temperature (C) Condition Possibility
High/Low of Rain (
No dialogue only leads to medical catastrophe
A doctor with a hardline stance against the government will soon lead the Korean Medical Association (KMA). Both Lim Hyun-taek and Joo Su-ho, candidates for the new president of the association, are the mo
Mind your words!
Lee Jae-myung should stop being subservient to China
While on the stump on Friday in Dangjin, South Chungcheong Province, Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), shared his thoughts on China w
Populist pledges
Careful review by voters required amid flood of populist promises
Lee Jae-myung, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea, proposed offering 250,000 won to every South Korean 17 days ahead of the April 10 general electi
SEOUL, March 27 (Yonhap) -- The following are the top headlines in major South Korean newspapers on March 27.
Korean-language dailies
-- Anxious ruling party goes all out to raise questions about ideology (Kyunghyang Shinmun)
-- Voter trend in capital
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By Song Sang-ho
WASHINGTON, March 26 (Yonhap) -- A major bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed early Tuesday after a Singapore-flagged container ship struck a pillar of the decades-old bridge, leaving at least six
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By Song Sang-ho
WASHINGTON, March 26 (Yonhap) -- A major bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed early Tuesday after a Singapore-flagged container ship struck a pillar of the decades-old br
By Song Sang-ho
WASHINGTON, March 26 (Yonhap) -- A major bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed early Tuesday after a Singapore-flagged container ship struck a pillar of the decades-old bridge, leaving at least six people unaccounted for, the state a
SEOUL, March 26 (Yonhap) -- South Korea evacuated two of its citizens from Haiti via helicopter Tuesday, the foreign ministry said, as gang violence has gripped the island nation.
The two were flown from Haiti's capital city Port-au-Prince to the ne
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SUWON, March 26 (Yonhap) -- Police on Tuesday apprehended a man suspected of posting an online message threatening to kill Rep. Ko Min-jung of the main opposition Democratic Party.
The ma
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SEOUL, March 26 (Yonhap) -- President Yoon Suk Yeol offered Tuesday to jointly discuss next year's medical budget with the medical community, his office said, amid a protracted walkout by
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SEOUL, March 26 (Yonhap) -- A major lobby group of community doctors picked a new leader Tuesday as a prolonged walkout by junior doctors over a medical school enrollment quota contin
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