#Hot Issues of the Week Moon Begins ASEAN Diplomacy with Seoul-Singapore Summit 2019-11-24 South Korean President Moon Jae-in met Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Seoul on Saturday, kick starting his diplomatic engagements ... Listen News
#Hot Issues of the Week S. Korean, US Defense Chiefs at Odds over GSOMIA, Defense Costs 2019-11-17 South Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo and U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper could not narrow gaps on the fate of the GSOMIA intelligence ... Listen News
#Hot Issues of the Week Whole Nation Keeps Quiet for College Entrance Exam 2019-11-17 Nearly 500-thousand people wishing to go to college next year sat for the annual College Scholastic Aptitude Test, or CSAT, on Thursday.High school ... Listen News
#Hot Issues of the Week Former Justice Minister Summoned for Questioning by Prosecution 2019-11-17 The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office summoned the former Justice Minister Cho Kuk for questioning that began at 9:35 a.m on Thursday.The ... Listen News
#Hot Issues of the Week Finance Minister Pledges 2.2 to 2.3% Growth in 2020 2019-11-17 Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki says the government aims to achieve an annual growth rate of above two-point-two percent next year.He held a news conference ... Listen News
#Hot Issues of the Week Leaders of S. Korea, Japan Meet in Bangkok Amid Frayed Ties over History, Trade 2019-11-10 President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN) Plus Three ... Listen News
#Hot Issues of the Week Seoul Adamant about Scrapping GSOMIA with Japan 2019-11-10 Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha says the government has no plans to reverse its decision to let the GSOMIA expire later this month.Madam Foreign ... Listen News
#Hot Issues of the Week S. Korea to Reduce Standing Army amid Population Decline 2019-11-10 Facing a dramatic demographic decline, South Korea will reduce the number of its troops by around 80-thousand in about two years to some 500-thousand.Finance ... Listen News
#Hot Issues of the Week Gov't to Abolish Elite High Schools to Level Playing Field 2019-11-10 The government has announced it will turn most of the nation’s elite high schools into regular schools by 2025The goal is to level the playing ... Listen News
#Hot Issues of the Week N. Korea Fires Two Short-range Projectiles 2019-11-03 South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff(JCS) said that North Korea fired two short-range projectiles from a western region toward the East Sea ... Listen News