15 en Police have caught over one-thousand youths over the past six months during a crackdown on online gambling involving minors. According to the National Office of Investigation(NOI) on Thursday, it has apprehended two-thousand-925 people, including one-thousand-35 adolescents, for alleged involvement in ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:46:05 +0900 Domestic Medical professors at Yonsei University, affiliated with Severance Hospital, one of the "Big Five" general hospitals in Seoul, will be given the option to suspend outpatient consultations and surgeries next Tuesday and take one day off each week starting May. An emergency committee representing the ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:14:00 +0900 Domestic Medical professors who submitted letters of resignation last month will begin to leave hospitals from Thursday. The emergency committee of the Medical Professors Association of Korea, a coalition of professors from about 20 medical schools, reaffirmed on Tuesday that medical professors will leave from ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 25 Apr 2024 08:55:04 +0900 Domestic A former researcher of the Korea Tobacco and Ginseng Corporation(KT&G) has filed a massive civil suit against his former employer, claiming he was not compensated after having developed the world’s first e-cigarette technology.  Kwak Dae-geun submitted the suit to the Daejeon District Court on Wednesday, ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:25:13 +0900 Domestic The number of babies born in February fell over three percent on-year to plunge to an all-time low for the month. According to Statistics Korea on Wednesday, 19-thousand-362 babies were born in February, down three-point-three percent from a year earlier. It is the first time that the February tally ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:16:20 +0900 Domestic Four medical professors at Seoul National University(SNU) will leave hospitals next month in protest of the government's medical reform policies. Bang Jae-seung, head of an emergency committee representing SNU medical professors, said on Wednesday that the four professors who will step down from May 1 are ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:29:51 +0900 Domestic Medical professors at major hospitals nationwide will take a day off each week amid the protracted standoff between the government and doctors’ groups over the plan to increase the medical school admissions quota.  According to the medical community, major hospitals in the country, including Seoul ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:18:53 +0900 Domestic The Constitutional Court began reviewing on Tuesday whether the government’s goals stipulated in its policies on tackling climate change are sufficient to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or if they are not and thus violate the Constitution.  The top court held the hearing on four lawsuits submitted by ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:00:49 +0900 Domestic Two people who managed a repeater that changed overseas phone numbers used in voice phishing crimes into domestic mobile phone numbers starting with '010' have been arrested and handed over to the prosecution. The Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency's criminal task force announced Tuesday ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:24:28 +0900 Domestic Medical professors, who tendered their resignations last month in protest of the government’s plan to increase the medical school admissions quota, will hold an emergency meeting to discuss taking a day off each week.   The emergency committee of the Medical Professors Association of Korea, a coalition ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:21:03 +0900 Domestic Though medical school professors' resignation deadline of April 25 is fast approaching, the Ministry of Education says many of the resignations may not be processed without proper approval.   An official at the education ministry said during a regular press briefing on Monday that while some ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 22 Apr 2024 15:47:06 +0900 Domestic Fellow doctors, or doctors who are training in a subspecialty after completing a residency, are showing signs of returning to hospitals after initially leaving to join the collective action led by trainee doctors. According to the health ministry on Sunday, the percentage of fellow doctors signing ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 22 Apr 2024 09:06:55 +0900 Domestic Chiefs of medical schools across the nation have officially requested the government freeze the medical school admissions quota for next year at the current level. The Korean Association of Medical Colleges (KAMC), representing deans of medical schools nationwide, made the call on Sunday in a statement, ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sun, 21 Apr 2024 13:57:51 +0900 Domestic The number of civilian patients receiving medical treatment at military hospitals is on the rise amid the prolonged medical crisis with junior doctors' collective action over the government's plan to increase the medical school admissions quota. According to the Defense Ministry on Sunday, a ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sun, 21 Apr 2024 13:26:58 +0900 Domestic To mark Korea's Day of Persons with Disabilities, a group of demonstrators staged a die-in at a subway station in Seoul to protest discrimination against the disabled on Saturday. Some 100 members of disability organizations, including the Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination, staged the ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sat, 20 Apr 2024 14:14:19 +0900 Domestic The National Intelligence Service(NIS) says the individual who supplied the drugs used in a spiked drink scheme that occurred around a cram school area in Seoul last April has been arrested in Cambodia.  The spy agency said Friday that in collaboration with the prosecution and police as well as ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:38:07 +0900 Domestic The government has estimated that the amount of unpaid wages, which had posted a new high last year, surged more than 40 percent in the first quarter on-year.  According to the labor ministry on Thursday, the amount of back wages in the first three months of this year reached nearly 572 billion won, or ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:40:29 +0900 Domestic The annual reading rate among adults in South Korea plunged to a new record low of 43 percent last year. According to the culture ministry's 2023 survey results on Thursday, 43 percent of adults in the country had read in writing or via audio at least one book, an all-time low since 1994, when the ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:43:35 +0900 Domestic The percentage of seniors among the population in rural regions in South Korea surpassed 50 percent for the first time last year, due largely to an exodus of young people from such communities. According to Statistics Korea on Wednesday, as of last December, there were 999-thousand farming households, ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:40:24 +0900 Domestic The eastern coastal areas of Gangwon Province and the nation’s southern regions are set to continuously see high levels of fine dust on Thursday.  The National Institute of Environmental Research said Wednesday that fine dust levels are forecast to be “very bad” in Busan, Ulsan and South Gyeongsang ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:49:27 +0900 Domestic The Korean Medical Association(KMA) says the president is the one who can resolve the current medical vacuum left by trainee doctors who walked off the job in protest of the government’s plan to increase the medical school admissions quota. The KMA’s emergency committee unveiled the remark in a ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:19:40 +0900 Domestic The Korea Environment Corporation announced that a fine dust advisory has been issued for Seoul as of 3 p.m. on Wednesday.   The average hourly fine dust concentration in the capital area stood at 248 micrograms per square meter.   A fine dust advisory is issued when the hourly average of fine dust ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:06:02 +0900 Domestic Six out of ten foreigners residing in South Korea were found to be living in the capital region. According to a study by Statistics Korea on Wednesday, as of May last year, there were one-point-43 million foreigners aged 15 or older residing in the country. Twenty-seven percent were foreigners of Korean ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:44:00 +0900 Domestic A latest study has found that the number of women deferring or giving up on having children has increased in South Korea amid a widening difference regarding the possibility of career gap between women with and without children. According to a report by the state-run Korea Development Institute(KDI) on ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:35:05 +0900 Domestic About 80 percent of the 40 medical schools in the nation will resume classes this week after nearly two months on hiatus due to students’ protests against the government’s plan to increase the medical school admissions quota. According to data from the Education Ministry, 16 medical schools, including ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sun, 14 Apr 2024 12:39:27 +0900 Domestic Wildfires have been reported at seven regions around the country, after the government expanded the second-highest "vigilance" level on the national crisis alert scale for wildfires nationwide, except for the southernmost Jeju Island. According to the Korea Forest Service(KFS), as of 2:20 p.m. Saturday, ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sat, 13 Apr 2024 15:15:11 +0900 Domestic The Seoul High Court has acquitted Sejong University honorary professor Park Yu-ha who was put on trial for allegedly defaming victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery with her book “Comfort Women of the Empire." The high court issued the ruling on Friday, upholding the Supreme Court’s decision to ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:39:39 +0900 Domestic Over ten percent of foreigners in South Korea are forecast to be seniors about a decade from now amid the rapidly aging society. According to Statistics Korea's demographic projection between 2022 and 2042, the number of foreigners aged 65 or older, which by median estimate stood at 95-thousand in ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:07:47 +0900 Domestic The government plans to reduce the enrollment quota of universities to train teachers by more than ten percent, starting from next year, amid a decrease in the school-age population. The education ministry disclosed on Thursday a plan to reduce the quota by 12 percent for the nation’s ten teacher ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:57:47 +0900 Domestic The doctors’ community is expected to continue its calls for the government to go back to square one regarding the latter’s plans to increase the medical school admissions quota by two-thousand. The emergency committee of the Korean Medical Association(KMA) told KBS on Thursday that it plans to push ...

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