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By AsiaToday reporter Hong Sun-miPresident Yoon Suk-yeol criticized North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Tuesday for defining inter-Korean relations as..

The Yoon Suk Yeol administration has come up with a series of policies aimed at revitalizing the economy and lowering the cost of living, as part of the president’s bid to focus the government’s policy efforts toward improving the livelihoods of the people.

Proposed Bill: Partial Amendment to the Act on Special Measures for Strengthening the Competitiveness of, and Protecting National High-tech Strategic Industries Proposed by Rep. Yang Hyang-ja (Hope of Korea) ● In response to demands to diversify and strengthen government support for specialized complexes and high-tech technologies, this amendment allows the state to directly create industrial infrastructure of speci...

More than 70,000 children and teenagers are identified as “homeless” in South Korea, wandering the streets or living in poor conditions, signaling an urgent need to enhance support for them. Professor Lim Se-hee of Seoul Cyber University, speaking at a recent Children Policy Forum, reported that there were 73,399 homeless individuals under the age of 18. Citing government data, the professor said that amo...

Amendments aim to compel all municipalities and provinces to award tenders according to failed national govt policies

A year after Halloween crowd crush, legislation remains stalled Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.

In this article we look at this year’s ESG trends from a South Korean perspective. What impact can we expect from international reporting measures? And what local measures are being...

Proposed bill: Partial Amendment to the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection Proposed by Rep. Yoon Doo-hyun (People Power Party) ● Disinformation is difficult to recognize but can be rapidly reproduced and distributed across various communication channels. Not only can this lead to defamation and privacy violations, but disinformation can also be especiall...

On Aug. 2, the ruling People Power Party and the government jointly issued a decision to grant aspiring homeowners who intend to occupy apartment units constructed without sufficient reinforcing bars, commonly referred to as “rebarless” apartment units, to cancel their contracts. From a legal point of view, it is crucial to clarify that this decision has a specific scope, which applies only to contracts f...

A Seoul-based office worker surnamed Kim, 35, was perplexed at being unable to locate the Japanese restaurant he had reserved last week. The restaurant only had a signboard written in Japanese, which he was unable to read.