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Kim Young-woo, a 47-year-old bank employee with two teenage kids, has had trouble sleeping in recent months. Kim’s family lives in a posh neighborhood in Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, southern Seoul, but may not be able to stay there. “My jeonse contract expires in December. I have to look for a new apartment since I was told that my landlord is moving back to this apartment,” he said. Under South Kor...

South Korean police say the man accused of stabbing South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung wanted to kill him to prevent his becoming president.

While classrooms are shrinking in South Korea as a consequence of waning fertility rates, classrooms in Seoul have been seeing a steady rise in the number of students with multicultural backgrounds. Data released by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education on Sunday indicates that at least 4 in 10 students at nine elementary schools in Seoul have at least one parent of non-Korean nationality or who is naturalized. ...

It is time to reflect objectively on what has been achieved to date

The latest ruling once again confirms that the “third-party compensation” plan that’s being unilaterally promoted by the Yoon administration flies in the face of the judiciary’s position

Declining new enrollments translate into issues of shrinking school sizes and imbalanced student distribution

The number of South Koreans smoking every day has dropped significantly over the past 10 years, with government statistics showing Thursday that 15.4 percent of the population aged 15 or over were daily smokers as of 2021. The joint study by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention defines daily smokers as people aged at least 15 years who smoke every day, and have sm...

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The latest ruling once again confirms that the “third-party compensation” plan that’s being unilaterally promoted by the Yoon administration flies in the face of the judiciary’s position

South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung has been stabbed in the neck by an unidentified man during a visit to the southeastern city of Busan.