[Best Brand] SPEP nurtures global talent through tailored training

SPEP, a global education firm, offers customized training and human resource management consultations that help clients strengthen their global capabilities. The company offers tailored training solutions that go beyond language training, ranging from communications skills and business etiquette to education that helps clients develop an understanding of foreign cultures. The solutions are developed at SPEP’s R&D Center, which is the focal point of SPEP’s global education kno

June 27, 2022

[Best Brand] Seoul Cyber University provides enhanced remote learning experience

Seoul Cyber University provides a diverse virtual learning experience for its students. The university recently launched a new production system to provide online lectures of better quality. The new virtual experience system records lectures from multiple perspectives, allowing students to watch clips from all angles on their mobile devices. According to the university, the system is especially efficient for cosmetics lessons. It plans to use the system for more classes. Seoul Cyber Univers

June 27, 2022

Police search for family of three missing on South Jeolla island

A large-scale police search is underway for a family of three that went mysteriously missing on a remote island last month. Ten-year-old Cho Yu-na and her parents in their 30s went missing in Wando, South Jeolla Province, from May 31 after they entered the island in a silver-colored Audi sedan two days earlier. The family stayed at a guesthouse near a beach on the island after arriving, but cell phone signals of Cho and her mother were last found at a location near the guesthouse at around 1 a

June 27, 2022

Industry minister to visit Czech Republic, Poland for nuclear energy sales

South Korea's Industry Minister Lee Chang-yang will visit the Czech Republic and Poland this week to support local firms in winning contracts for building new power plants there, his office said Monday. Lee is scheduled to make a two-day trip to the Czech Republic from Tuesday before flying to Poland for another two-day stay, as the two European nations are undergoing a process to construct new nuclear power plants to ensure their own energy security and to achieve carbon neutrality goals,

June 27, 2022

New COVID-19 cases drop below 3,500 as omicron slows

South Korea's new coronavirus cases fell below 3,500 on Monday as the COVID-19 pandemic is in retreat and fewer tests were conducted over the weekend. The country added 3,429 new COVID-19 infections, including 114 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 18,329,448, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. Monday's tally is down 109 cases from a week ago and 2,704 from four weeks ago. Daily COVID-19 cases have declined at a steady pace to stay below 10,000 sinc

June 27, 2022

BTS-at-arms: What military service means to S. Korean men

BTS going on a hiatus was expected. Like many other male celebrities in South Korea, the band members must fulfill their mandatory two-year military service, with the oldest, Jin, obliged to enlist by the end of this year. It is a fate many K-pop boy bands have faced before. In a country where military duty is compulsory for all able-bodied men, failure to serve can have consequences ranging from mild awkwardness when the topic comes up in conversation to a drag on job prospects, or in some

June 27, 2022

Woori Bank under probe for irregular foreign currency transactions: sources

South Korea's financial regulator has launched a probe into Woori Bank for its alleged involvement in irregular foreign currency transactions worth billions of won, industry sources said Monday. The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) carried out a spot inspection into one of the bank's branches last week after the bank found in a recent internal audit that foreign currency deals that go beyond conventional practices have been conducted there, according to the sources. The deals in que

June 27, 2022

Founder of elite private high school dies at 95

Choi Myung-jae, the founder of a renowned elite private high school in South Korea, died Sunday at age 95, people closed to him said. Choi is known for establishing the Korean Minjok Leadership Academy (KMLA), also known as Minsago, a highly selective co-educational boarding school in the eastern rural county of Heongseong, Gangwon Province, in 1996, with an aspiration to "nurture future global leaders." Prior to founding Minsago, Choi had already made a name as a successful busine

June 26, 2022

SNU research team busted for blatant plagiarism

  A research team under Seoul National University admitted to submitting a plagiarized paper at an international conference after accusations spread online. The team, led by professor Yoon Sung-roh from the prestigious Seoul National University, submitted a paper at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition held earlier this week in New Orleans. Yoon was the head of the Presidential Committee on the Fourth Industrial Revolution during the Moon Jae-in administration. The

June 26, 2022

Seoul records highest-ever morning low for June

Seoul recorded the highest-ever morning low for June on Sunday, with temperatures hitting 24.8 C or higher, the state weather agency said. The figure, recorded at 2:34 a.m., broke the previous record of 24 degrees set on June 19, 1997, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration. The city of Incheon, 40 kilometers west of Seoul, also recorded the highest morning low in 117 years with 23.5 C at 1:55 a.m. The city's previous record high morning low was 22.8 C in 1904. Other cities ac

June 26, 2022

New infections below 7,000 for 2nd day as omicron slows

South Korea's new coronavirus cases remained below 7,000 for the second consecutive day Sunday as the omicron variant is slowing down. The country added 6,246 new COVID-19 infections, including 135 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 18,326,019, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. Sunday's tally is down from Friday's 7,227 and Saturday's 6,790. The daily caseload has been on the decline and stayed below 10,000 since June 10, after hitting mo

June 26, 2022

[Photo News] Remembering fallen heroes

Prime Minister Han Duck-soo delivers a speech during a commemorative ceremony to mark the 72nd anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War in Seoul on Saturday. About 1,500 participants including senior government and military officials, veterans and citizens took part in the event, which was held under the slogan of “Freedom preserved, Peace to protect.”

June 25, 2022

New COVID-19 cases drop below 7,000 amid slowdown in omicron spread

South Korea's new COVID-19 cases dropped below 7,000 on Saturday, marking a moderate downtrend amid the easing omicron wave. The country added 6,790 new COVID-19 infections, including 85 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 18,319,773, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. The KDCA reported 18 more deaths from COVID-19, raising the death toll to 24,516. The fatality rate stood at 0.13 percent. The number of critically ill patients came to 50, down from Friday's

June 25, 2022

Top Coast Guard brass offer resignation over civil servant slain by NK troops

Coast Guard Commissioner Gen. Jeong Bong-hoon and eight top officers offered their resignations on Friday over the Coast Guard’s involvement in the developments that followed the death of a South Korean fisheries official in 2020. Jeong and eight chief superintendent generals and senior superintendent generals felt “keen responsibility” in their handling of the aftermath of the incident, according to the Coast Guard. The fisheries official, Lee Dae-jun, was killed by North K

June 24, 2022

Monkeypox patient passed airport’s health screening without being checked

South Korea’s first confirmed monkeypox patient, who entered the country from Germany, was found to have proceeded unchecked through Incheon Airport’s health inspection, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. The KDCA said the monkeypox patient reported at the airport’s lobby after having passed the airport’s screening Tuesday. When entering the country, the patient’s symptoms were a low-grade fever of 37 degrees Celsius, sore throat, fati

June 24, 2022

[Newsmaker] Approval of South Korea’s 1st homegrown vaccine likely next week

South Korea is inching closer to approving its first homegrown vaccine with expectations that the government’s official announcement could come as early as next week. According to pharmaceutical industry sources Friday, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has been considering the review process for SK Bioscience’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate GBP510 since the company submitted a request for the approval of its biologics license application under the name “SKYCovione” in

June 24, 2022

Yoon says revision of 52-hour work week not yet official

President Yoon Suk-yeol said Friday that a revision to the 52-hour legal work week has not been officially decided by the government yet. Labor Minister Lee Jeong-sik told reporters a day earlier that the government will consider revising the 52-hour work week system in a way that will allow employers and workers to flexibly spread the hours over a period of a month. "The deputy prime minister apparently collected the suggestions of people from private research associations and such and tol

June 24, 2022

New COVID-19 cases below 8,000 for 2nd day amid easing omicron spread

South Korea's new COVID-19 cases came below 8,000 for the second consecutive day Friday, marking a moderate downtrend amid the slowing omicron wave. The country added 7,227 new COVID-19 infections, including 111 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 18,312,993, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said. Friday's tally is down from 7,497 the previous day and Wednesday's 8,992. Daily infection numbers have declined at a steady clip to stay below 10,000 since June 10, after h

June 24, 2022

[Interactive] How should we dispose of old medicines?

June 23, 2022

[Newsmaker] What are arsonists thinking?

Just before 11 a.m. on June 9, a 53-year-old man surnamed Chon walked into a five-story building in Daegu, about 300 kilometers south of Seoul, holding two plastic bottles.   His destination was the office of a lawyer who shared the office space with several others on the second floor of the building. There, he took out a backpacking knife and wielded it at the lawyers and paralegals he encountered. Two men were stabbed.  Chon then set the office on fire, with flammable liquid

June 23, 2022