15 en Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said South Korea and the United States will form a working group to address visa issues that triggered the mass detention of Korean workers in Georgia. Upon his return to Seoul from his trip to Washington on Friday, Cho told reporters during an impromptu briefing at the airport ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:12:21 +0900 Politics A confidential list of members on the National Assembly's mobile carrier security inspection task force was confirmed to have been compromised in a data breach, following recent hacking incidents at leading carriers SKT and KT. According to the office of ruling Democratic Party Rep. Kim Woo-young, ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:43:30 +0900 Economy The Seoul Metropolitan Council has approved the city government's second extra budget this year worth one-point-08 trillion won, or roughly 778-point-seven million U.S. dollars, following minor amendments. The city government's budget plan, which passed during Friday's plenary session, ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:40:33 +0900 Economy Heavy rain and strong wind will sweep across most of South Korea through Saturday.   Rainfall of 30 to 50 millimeters per hour is forecast overnight, with up to 150 millimeters possible in central and southwestern regions.  Southeastern areas are also expected to receive 30 to 80 millimeters, with ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:38:21 +0900 Science LG Energy Solution CEO Kim Dong-myung said Friday he was “relieved” that all detained Korean workers had returned safely and vowed to provide full support for their reintegration. Arriving at Incheon on a chartered Korean Air flight with 330 workers, Kim said the company would ensure that returnees ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:32:16 +0900 Politics Over half of the Korean workers detained at a Hyundai-LG battery plant site in Georgia had entered the United States under the visa waiver program ESTA. Parliamentary data submitted to Democratic Party lawmaker Han Jeong-ae showed that 170 of 317 detained Koreans were traveling on ESTA when U.S. authorities ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:10:57 +0900 Politics Democratic Party(DP) representatives on the National Assembly's Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee have announced they will launch the first party-government council under the Lee Jae Myung administration.   The DP lawmakers said on Friday they will hold a meeting with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:57:29 +0900 Culture Presidential Chief of Staff Kang Hoon-sik apologized on Friday for not being able to bring home more than 300 Koreans detained in Georgia sooner, while vowing to push for systemic visa reforms with Washington. Speaking at Incheon Airport, Kang said U.S. President Donald Trump had expressed a willingness to ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:33:05 +0900 Politics The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) on Friday showed signs of approaching the three-thousand-400 mark after setting an all-time closing high for the third consecutive day.  The KOSPI rose 51-point-34 points, or one-point-54 percent, Friday to close at a record high of ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:30:01 +0900 Politics Anchor: More than 300 South Korean workers who were detained last week in an immigration raid at a Hyundai battery plant construction site in the United States returned home on a chartered plane on Friday. With the recent raid, Hyundai Motor believes construction plans will be delayed by at least two to ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:01:59 +0900 Politics The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) on Friday surpassed the all-time closing high of three-thousand-344-point-20 set Thursday with its new record breaking numbers. The KOSPI rose 51-point-34 points, or one-point-54 percent, Friday to close at three-thousand-395-point-54, hitting a ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:49:40 +0900 Politics Foreign Minister Cho Hyun discussed the recent arrest and detention of South Korean nationals during an immigration raid in Georgia and measures to avoid a repeat of such an incident with U.S. senators from both sides of the political aisle. Seoul's foreign ministry revealed on Friday that Cho met with ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:49:04 +0900 Politics Anchor: South Korea and the United States reached a framework trade deal back in July, but it has yet to be signed due to differences on the fine print. As negotiations drag on, U.S. President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary is pressing Seoul to take the deal or face tariffs. Rosyn Park ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:40:28 +0900 Politics ​​A total of 316 South Korean workers who were released from a U.S. immigration detention facility after a one-week incarceration returned home on a chartered plane on Friday.  The Korean Air flight arrived at Incheon International Airport at 3:23 p.m. Friday after departing from Hartsfield-Jackson ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:33:17 +0900 Politics Heads of courts from across the country convened an extraordinary meeting on Friday to discuss the Lee Jae Myung administration and the ruling Democratic Party's(DP) push for contentious judicial reforms. Chun Dae-yup, the head the National Court Administration(NCA), and the court chiefs began the meeting ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:10:15 +0900 Politics The government has put forth a package of measures to reinforce a pan-government response to those deemed at risk of possibly taking their own lives as it aims to clear the country's status as the OECD member state with the highest suicide rate. Measures including the 2025 national suicide prevention ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:08:41 +0900 Politics The ruling Democratic Party(DP) has submitted a bill to the National Assembly that seeks to revise the Government Organization Act, which includes abolishing the prosecution and separating functions within the finance ministry. DP senior deputy floor leader Moon Jin-seog announced the move on Friday, ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:23:35 +0900 Politics South Korea's professional baseball league surpassed the 200 million mark in regular season attendance in its 44th season. According to the Korea Baseball Organization(KBO), the cumulative attendance tally as of Friday was 200-million-781. From its launch in 1982 through the 2024 season, the KBO attracted ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 13:03:34 +0900 Sports The presidential office has pledged to continue trade and tariff negotiations with the United States while placing top priority on national interests, after U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick ramped up pressure by saying there would be no flexibility. An official at the top office said on Friday that ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:45:25 +0900 International The government has announced it will provide an additional 25-thousand tons of rice amid a continued increase in rice prices.  The agriculture ministry said Friday that it will supply an additional 25-thousand tons of rice from its reserves to private companies on a loan basis in efforts to stabilize ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:53:12 +0900 Domestic South Korea and the United States plan to hold a tabletop military exercise next week on integrating their conventional and nuclear capabilities in efforts to deter North Korea’s nuclear threats. According to the South Korean military Friday, the Iron Mace exercise is scheduled to take place from Monday ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:42:48 +0900 Inter-Korea Supreme Court Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae said on Friday the top court is reviewing the matter of establishing a special court to handle cases related to former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law declaration. Cho made the comments to reporters as he arrived for work at the Supreme Court in southern ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:35:51 +0900 Politics The government has unveiled the eligibility criteria for its second round of consumption coupons, which will be issued starting September 22. In a joint press briefing of related ministries on Friday, the government announced that it will first exclude high-asset individuals based on property tax ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:26:13 +0900 Economy President Lee Jae Myung held his first phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday and agreed to deepen cooperation between the two nations. According to presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung, Macron congratulated Lee on his inauguration and said he hopes that bilateral friendship and ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:22:09 +0900 Politics A new KBS poll has shown a majority of South Koreans approve of President Lee Jae Myung's handling of state affairs. According to the survey of one thousand adults published Friday, 66 percent of the respondents said the president is doing well in his governance.  The survey, which was conducted from ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:30:34 +0900 Politics U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday that South Korea should either accept a bilateral trade deal struck in July, or pay tariffs, amid a deadlock in negotiations between the two countries on details of the deal.  Speaking to CNBC, Lutnick said South Korea did not sign the deal when ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:29:16 +0900 International Hyundai Motor Company CEO José Muñoz has said the U.S. immigration raid at a Hyundai battery plant construction site last week will likely delay construction plans by at least two to three months. Muñoz made the remarks to reporters in Detroit on Thursday, on the sidelines of an auto industry event, ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:45:01 +0900 Economy U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the South Korean who were detained by U.S. immigration authorities last week had the “wrong visas,” and that Hyundai Motor Group should have asked him for help to get the right visas for its workers. Lutnick made the remarks during an interview with Axios ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 08:27:17 +0900 International A total of 316 South Korean workers who were detained and released from a U.S. immigration detention facility headed home on a chartered plane Thursday. The Korean Air flight took off from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport at 11:38 a.m. local time carrying the South Koreans as well as 14 ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Sep 2025 07:58:36 +0900 International South Korea and the United States agreed to set up a working group to overhaul visa rules after last week’s mass detentions of Korean workers in Georgia. Foreign Minister Cho Hyun on Thursday said the group will move quickly to design a new category for short-term specialists dispatched to U.S. ...

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