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The parliamentary judiciary committee was set to hold a subcommittee meeting Wednesday to start deliberation on a bill mandating medical institutions to register the birth of newborns after two unregistered babies were found dead in a refrigerator last week. The revision to the Act on Registration of Family Relations comprises several legal proposals that have been pending in the committee, with its primary objective...

Jeong Myeong-geun, mayor of Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, enters his second year in office on Saturday with an aim to speed along his campaign pledges centering on implementing balanced city development. The campaign pledges he addressed included establishing and operating a special committee for balanced city development, building a technopole, establishing a botanical garden, pushing forward the “Hwaseong Inte...

SUWON, South Korea, June 28 (Xinhua) -- China conceded a third defeat in the FIVB Women Volleyball Nations League here on Wednesday, falling to reigning world c

SUWON, South Korea, June 28 (Xinhua) -- China conceded a third defeat in the FIVB Women Volleyball Nations League here on Wednesday, falling to reigning world c

SUWON, South Korea, June 28 (Xinhua) -- China conceded a third defeat in the FIVB Women Volleyball Nations League here on Wednesday, falling to reigning world c

SUWON, South Korea, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Germany beat the Dominican Republic 25-19, 25-18, 18-25, 25-21 here on Tuesday in the opening match of the third and las

Police are reportedly considering applying murder charges for a woman in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, in her 30s, who is alleged to have kept the bodies of two 1-day-old infants in a freezer at her apartment, instead of infanticide charges amid growing criticism that punishment for the crime is too light. Criminals convicted of infanticide face up to 10 years in jail, far lighter than murder. A lineal ascendant who kill...

Unnamed South Korean is believed to have committed the acts in two separate incidents - both one day after they were born.

The founding of the Republic of Korea in August 1948 brought the U.S. occupation of southern Korea to an end. As U.S. military administrators left, the new State Department-run American Mission in Korea (AMIK) was organized.

The recent arrest of a mother accused of killing her two newborns and keeping their bodies in a freezer at home is reigniting a years-long debate over the need to enact a law allowing women to give birth anonymously in cases of unwanted pregnancy.