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- S. Korean pension fund for military and government employees approaching depletion
- Rapidly rising deficits in the military and government employees’ pension financial balances are leading to predictions that by 2028, pension fund premiums from 100 subscribers ...
- Dec.8,2019 13:18 KST
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- [Photo] Oriental stork to be released near Miho Stream starting 2022
- The city of Cheongju, in North Chungcheong Province, has announced that it will release Oriental stork near Miho Stream, a Geum River tributary, starting in 2022. The area near ...
- Dec.5,2019 16:38 KST
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- [Photo] Over 36% of Mt. Halla’s fir trees withered away in past 20 years
- Among the pine trees on Mt. Halla, Jeju Island’s highest peak, roughly a third of them have died within the last 20 years. According to Jeju’s World Heritage Office, 36.43% of t...
- Dec.4,2019 17:14 KST
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- Students of gifted schools applying for medical college to be required to return stipends and scholarships
- Seoul Science High School (SSHS), a gifted school intended to nurture talented scientific minds, plans to demand the return of education stipends and scholarship funds and revok...
- Dec.3,2019 17:43 KST
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- [Photo] S. Korean air force produces first female squadron leaders
- South Korea’s military, which marked its 70th anniversary this year, has produced its first female flight squadron leaders. Squadron leaders in the South Korean air force are re...
- Dec.3,2019 17:31 KST
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- [Photo] Park Geun-hye returns to detention center after 2.5 months in hospital for shoulder surgery
- After being hospitalized for a shoulder surgery, former President Park Geun-hye was returned to incarceration at Seoul Detention Center on Dec 3. Park was admitted to Seoul St. ...
- Dec.3,2019 17:26 KST
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- Irregular workers still unprotected 1 year after Kim Yong-gyun’s industrial accident
- Nearly one full year after the accident that claimed the life of Kim Yong-gyun, an irregular worker employed by a subcontracting business for Korea Western Power, nine out of 10...
- Dec.2,2019 17:47 KST
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- [Photo] 416 vehicles fined for violating new emissions regulation
- On Dec. 1, the Seoul Metropolitan Government began enforcing its restrictions on aging vehicles operating within the boundaries of the old city wall from 6 am to 9 pm in an effo...
- Dec.2,2019 17:24 KST
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- [News analysis] Plans for Korea’s lunar orbiter were unrealistic and poorly conceived from the start
- Four years after South Korea started preparing to put a probe into lunar orbit, the project’s basic plan has yet to be finalized, and now the orbiter project has run into opposi...
- Dec.1,2019 14:09 KST
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- Korean orbiter project in danger of being scrapped altogether due to frequent revisions
- Ever since the South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) announced this past September that it would be changing the orbit of a planned lunar orbiter from circular to elli...
- Dec.1,2019 14:04 KST