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People will be allowed to shop at discount stores and large supermarkets every Sunday, as the government will scrap regulations forcing them to close on the second and fourth Sundays of every month.
Seoul’s southern district of Seocho has started providing one million won ($745) in longevity cash bonuses to its 99-year-old residents, the district office said Thursday. Starting this year, adults aged 99, or born in 1925, with their residential registration in Seocho-gu, for at least one year, are eligible to receive the cash gift to commemorate their long lives. Additionally, this particular district office...
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...
Plans to have J-Hope of BTS host a military cooking competition have been canceled on orders of the defense minister. Speaking at the National Assembly on Tuesday, Minister of National Defense Shin Won-sik confirmed that he canceled the plans to have J-Hope host the International Military Cooking Competition. "I think that it is only right that (a person) carries out the military duties just like any other soldi...
The Defense Minister of South Korea has issued orders to cancel the arrangement of having BTS' J-Hope as the host for an international military cooking competition.