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Another elementary school teacher has died in an apparent suicide after reportedly suffering from malicious complaints from parents, police in the central city of Daejeon said Friday, the latest in a recent string of such deaths nationwide over difficulties in dealing with students and parents.
Seoul districts battered by month's worth of rain in one day
King Sejong statue to go up in Uzbek capital Posted : 2021-07-16 10:03 A King Sejong statue in central Seoul / Korea Times file A statue of King Sejong, the inventor of the Korean alphabet, Hanguel, will go up in Uzbekistan's capital as part of a cultural exchange between two local districts. The office of Seocho Ward in southern Seoul said Thursday it signed a memorandum of understanding with the office of Mirabad district in central Tashkent on promoting ties between the two regions. In celebration of the agreement, the two districts will each construct a statue of a historical figure fr...
Posted : 2021-04-06 11:38 Updated : 2021-04-06 16:09 The ruling Democratic Party's Seoul mayoral candidate Park Young-sun, right, heads to Noryangjin Fish Market in Seoul's Dongjak District in the early morning of April 6 in a public transit bus. Courtesy of Park Young-sun's election camp On the eve of the April 7 Seoul and Busan mayoral by-elections, rival parties scrambled to make final appeals to voters in the country's two biggest cities Tuesday. Voting for the two mayoral seats and 19 other regional public posts is set to begin at 6 a.m. and last till 8 p.m. on Wednesday at 3,459 polli...
news S. Korea hit by cold wave, heavy snow, strong winds (ATTN: UPDATES with latest details in paras 1-4, 8-14; CHANGES headline; ADDS photos) SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea came under the grip of the season's harshest weather Thursday as a cold wave combined with heavy snow and strong winds brought traffic to a crawl and grounded planes and vessels. At 7 a.m., the temperature in Seoul dropped to minus 16.1 C, with a wind chill of minus 25.3 C, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration. Snowfall was heaviest in the southern Seocho Ward, which received 13.7 centimeters of sno...