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[Herald Interview] 'Korea, don't repeat Hong Kong's mistakes on foreign caregivers' Fifty-one years ago, during Hong Kong's "golden era" of social reform, then-Gov. Murray MacLehose established a framework to bring in low-wage foreign workers for domestic and care work.
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Rights commission rules abuse of foreign seasonal workers as human trafficking. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea ruled Tuesday that numerous types of illegal abuse inflicted on a group of seasonal workers from the Philippines last year amount to human trafficking.
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Olafur Eliasson's new installation gives 'sense of presence' through standing still. Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson unveiled his new work “Breathing earth sphere” on Friday in Sinan county in South Jeolla Province, South Korea, as part of the county’s public art project.
N. Korea warns of 'retaliatory response' over S. Korea-US-Japan's ...
10 hours ago · North Korea warned Tuesday that trilateral security cooperation among South Korea, the United States, and Japan would prompt more "retaliatory responses," days after the leaders of the three nations decided to establish a secretariat to bolster three-way cooperation. The North's official Korean Central News Agency carried the message in a commentary after President Yoon Suk Yeol, US President ...
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[Hello Hangeul] Ministry to oversee Korean language education worldwide. South Korea needs a “control tower” to oversee and better manage the operation of education institutes as well as a system for Korean language learning, Education Minister Lee Ju-ho told The Korea Herald, vowing to speed up efforts to integrate state capacity …
Yoon says S. Korea's relations with US, China not about choosing …
1 day ago · President Yoon Suk Yeol said South Korea's relations with the United States and China are not about choosing sides, pledging to working closely with both great powers amid Donald Trump's imminent return to the White House, according to interviews published Monday. Yoon expressed hope for constructive relations between Washington and Beijing in a written interview with Brazilian newspapers ...
Seoul told US of Ukraine’s possible long-range weapon use: …
6 hours ago · President Yoon Suk Yeol's office confirmed it was notified of Ukraine's plan to use US-made long-range supersonic ballistic missiles to strike Russia's Kursk region before US President Joe Biden's authorization. Asked if there was any coordination before Biden's announcement Sunday, a senior official of South Korea's presidential office told reporters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday th...
[Graphic News] S. Korea’s COVID-19 hospitalizations surge in July
The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in South Korea saw a significant rise last month, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. Hospitalizations increased from 63 in the fourth week of June to 91 in the first week of July, 145 in the second week and 225 in the third week. This surge comes despite the country lowering its COVID-19 …
S. Korea, US, Japan unveil secretariat establishment, decry NK …
3 days ago · The leaders of South Korea, the United States and Japan announced the establishment of a secretariat for trilateral cooperation and condemned North Korea and Russia's decision to "dangerously expand" Moscow's war in Ukraine as they met on the margins of a multilateral summit in Peru. President Yoon Suk Yeol, US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba issued a joint ...