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[Multicultural Korea] Universal birth registration first step to ensuring children’s rights: Lawmaker

The number of foreign residents in Korea continues to grow and now accounts for some 3.6 percent of the country's population. This is part of a series that examines how Korea is grappling with the is...

Feb 10, 2019
Social affairs
[Multicultural Korea] Undocumented children in South Korea deprived of basic rights

‘Biggest problem is we do not know where the kids are’

Feb 10, 2019
Social affairs
South Korea, US ink provisional defense cost-sharing pact

South Korea and the United States signed a provisional agreement Sunday on the sharing of costs to maintain US troops here, with South Korea raising its share by 8.2 percent. Seoul’s negotiator, Cha...

Feb 10, 2019
Defense
[From the scene] Koreans mourn overworked doctor’s death

Emergency doctor’s death sheds light on poor working conditions for emergency medical staff

Feb 10, 2019
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] No damage reported from 4.1 magnitude earthquake off Pohang

A 4.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the southeastern city of Pohang on Sunday, but there have been no reports of damage, meteorological officials said. The quake happened at 12:53 p.m. in waters 5...

Feb 10, 2019
Social affairs
Seoul Mayor vows to root out dog meat biz

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon on Saturday pledged to completely eliminate the business of dog meat in South Korea’s capital. “Once dog-butchering businesses are completely removed soon, I plan to mak...

Feb 10, 2019
Social affairs
South Gyeongsang Province to discuss marathon exchange with North

The mayor of South Korea's southeastern city of Changwon will travel to North Korea this week for talks about athletes from the province participating in an international marathon to be held in Pyong...

Feb 10, 2019
North Korea
Korea to launch negotiations on aircraft swap deal with Spain

South Korea and Spain are expected to launch negotiations as early as this month on a proposed deal to swap military transport planes of the European nation with Korean trainer jets, defense official...

Feb 10, 2019
Defense
S. Korea denies media report on lodging of additional protests over Japanese aircraft's flyby

South Korea’s defense ministry on Saturday denied a Japanese newspaper report claiming that it had lodged additional protests over a Japanese military plane‘s low-altitude flyby of a South Korean nav...

Feb 9, 2019
Defense
S. Korean PM expects 2nd US-NK summit to deliver concrete results

South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon said Saturday that he expects the second summit between the United States and North Korea to deliver concrete results. Lee made the remarks at an internationa...

Feb 9, 2019
Foreign Policy
N. Korean leader urges military‘s role for economic growth

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for the military’s contribution to economic development, commemorating the founding anniversary of the nation‘s armed forces this week with a visit to the d...

Feb 9, 2019
North Korea
Summit venue raises chance for N. Korean leader‘s state visit to Vietnam

The pick of Vietnam’s capital city as the venue for a second North Korea-US summit has raised the possibility that Kim Jong-un will make a state visit to Vietnam late this month, observers said Satur...

Feb 9, 2019
North Korea
US nuclear envoy calls summit prep talks with NK 'productive'

The US envoy for North Korea on Saturday cast this week's working-level talks with North Korea to prepare for the two countries' second summit late this month as "productive" but said "some hard work...

Feb 9, 2019
North Korea
Trump says 2nd US-NK summit to be held in Hanoi

US President Donald Trump announced that his second meeting with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un will take place in Vietnam's capital city. He made public the summit venue in a Twitter message on S...

Feb 9, 2019
North Korea
US nuclear envoy to brief allies on results of Pyongyang visit

The US envoy for North Korea will meet his South Korean counterpart in Seoul on Saturday for a briefing on the results of his visit to the communist state for preparations for a second summit between...

Feb 9, 2019
North Korea

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