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South Korean police have arrested 34 people in a raid on a suspected crypto-powered drugs smuggling ring, officers announced on May 16.

More than 30 people face indictment for allegedly trafficking or consuming illicit drugs from Vietnam, police said on Thursday.

In South Korea, parents struggle to find decent childcare, with insufficient government support

Some trainee doctors have returned to their worksites, a senior health ministry official said Friday, amid prolonged walkouts by medical interns and residents against the governments plan to boost the number of medical students.

More than 590 resident doctors who left their hospitals in protest of the government’s medical school quota expansion have returned, the Health Ministry said Friday, without providing the names of the hospitals, citing the possibility of future disadvantages from the medical circle. Currently, a little more than 590 out of 9,900 resident doctors, or six percent of the total, have returned to their training hosp...

An international research team has developed a new type of perovskite solar cell by using 4-phenyl thiosemicarbazide (4PTSC) as a precursor additive. The device showed an improved open-circuit voltage and "exceptional" long-term stability.

Medical schools in South Korea are expected to push to increase their admission slots by 1,500 to 1,600 next year, as most of them have finalised their academic plans for the year 2025, education and university officials said on Tuesday.The ...

Students preparing for medical school admissions are complaining about the governments latest decision to allow schools to decrease the size of enrollment expansion by the hundreds, creating confusion for them at a time when the application period for early admissions is now less than five months away.

The government has accepted a request from the chiefs of six national universities for flexibility in expanding the medical school enrollment quota, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Friday, a decision that raised hopes for an end to the protracted walkout by trainee doctors.

The government is likely to accept a request made by the chiefs of six national universities to lower their medical school enrollment quotas for next year, officials said Friday. The six universities, all located outside the capital region, made the request Thursday amid an ongoing standoff between the government and the medical community over the government's decision to increase total medical school admissions...