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- Increasing number of high school students unable to pay tuition fees
- Around 5,700 high school students each year are unable to pay school expenses because of their family’s economic situation and other factors, a study shows. Average yearly expen...
- Oct.8,2019 18:02 KST
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- Seoul to enable public Wi-Fi citywide by 2022
- By 2022, free Wi-Fi will be available for people to use anywhere in the city of Seoul apart from its mountains. The city is planning to expand public Wi-Fi coverage from 31% of ...
- Oct.8,2019 17:50 KST
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- Moon’s approval ratings slip to 44.4%, lowest since inauguration
- The job approval rating for South Korean President Moon Jae-in has slipped to 44.4%, the lowest point since his inauguration as president. Support was largely split along ideolo...
- Oct.8,2019 17:47 KST
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- 60 N. Korean fisherman fall into ocean after boat collides with Japanese patrol ship
- Twenty North Korean fishermen who fell into the ocean when their fishing boat collided with a Japanese patrol ship have all been rescued.
“A North Korean fishing boat that h...
- Oct.8,2019 17:44 KST
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- [Photo] Samsung Electronics reports US$52 billion in sales for 3rd quarter of 2019
- Samsung Electronics has reported that its sales for the third quarter of 2019 amounted to 62 trillion won (US$51.95 billion), with operating profits totaling 7.7 trillion won (U...
- Oct.8,2019 17:41 KST
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- [Photo] Comfort woman exhibit reopens during Aichi Triennale on Oct. 8
- The “Statue of a Girl of Peace” exhibit that taken down during the 2019 Aichi Triennale reopened on Oct. 8. Japan’s public broadcaster NHK reported on Oct. 7 that the exhibition...
- Oct.8,2019 17:39 KST
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- [Photo] N. Korean fishing boat collides with Japanese patrol ship
- A North Korean fishing boat collided with a Japanese patrol ship near Japan’s Noto Peninsula on the morning of Oct. 7. After the collision, the North Korean boat’s crew members ...
- Oct.8,2019 17:37 KST
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- [Reporter’s notebook] What will happen with Cho Kuk’s prosecutorial reform?
- Despite expectations that the campaign to reform South Korea’s prosecutorial system would not get underway until after the prosecutors wrap up their investigation into Justice M...
- Oct.7,2019 17:44 KST
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- S. Korean ambassador to Tokyo comments on “grave situation” in relations with Japan
- During a parliamentary audit on Oct. 4, South Korean Ambassador to Tokyo Nam Gwan-pyo said that “South Korea-Japan relations are currently in a grave situation.”
“Anti-Korea...
- Oct.7,2019 17:41 KST
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- Absence of politics drives S. Koreans to take to the streets
- There are no signs of give-and-take in South Korean politics — it’s been replaced by a power struggle between angry supporters of the two sides. Liberal supporters of ...
- Oct.7,2019 17:38 KST
