Last year, Kim Jungun, a North Korean top leader, committed a series of attacks that are still having consequences today. To tackle these attacks, South Korea and the U.S. have discussed arranging THAAD in Korea to protect South Korea, but China has voiced strong objections. China has said that if T

According to Jongam Police Station, a 65-year-old taxi driver was arrested and charged on January 9. On January 3rd, a woman uploaded a video on the internet that showed her and her friends trying to hail a taxi around 3 a.m. The driver refused to drive the women to their destination saying that his

On January 20th, Inauguration Day for the USA, Donald John Trump was sworn in as the new president of the United States. He is the oldest president ever to be sworn in US history. He has promised Americans to make the US great. His campaign slogan was “Make America Great Again”, and among his campai

On January 7th, a tragedy occurred in Jongno. A lot of people mourned the horrific event of a hotel collapsing. Two construction crew workers became trapped under the rubble when the building suddenly collapsed. One deaf worker was found 19 hours later and another worker was rescued 39 hours after t

'Choi Soonsil Gate' a story that rock the Korean Pennisula as well as the world is filled with tales of corruption that implicate Choi Soonsil and her allies, so the National Assembly decided to hold a public hearing to straighten out the matter. At the first session of the hearing, which wa

The Ministry of Employment and Labor announced that E-land Park, a franchise company running Ashely, Nature Kitchen, and others, did not pay the equivalent of 8.372 billion won in wages to 44,460 part-time workers. In other words, an individual parttime worker was cheated out of 18.7 million won, or

On November 8, 2016, a new president of the U.S.A was elected. Because of Korea’s relationship with the U.S.A, whoever the American people vote for affects Koreans. The two main candidates were Hillary Clinton from the Democratic Party and Donald Trump from the Republican Party. Donald Trump was fav

Last 2011, the government announced PHMG, PGH, CMIT, and MIT to be the primary causes of lung ailments in patients who used sterilizers. However, because of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety’s patchwork regulatory system, everyday products containing those sterilizers were kept on store shelves.

Baek Namgi, a 69-year-old farmer, died at 1:58 p.m. on September 25th at Seoul National University Hospital. It was exactly 317 days after falling into a coma brought on by a water cannon blast to his head by police during a rally protesting the liberalization of rice imports on November 14, 2015. T

On September 12th, two days before Chuseok, internet communities were buzzing with people panicking and flustered. The posts were about the communication disruption to users of KakaoTalk due to the powerful earthquake on the Peninsula. The magnitude of the earthquake was 5.8, the biggest since measu

Early last September, tons of packages arrived at the first floor of the National Assembly Hall, all delivered in the name of Chuseok. However, next year’s Chuseok gift-giving practice will be almost impossible to see as the ‘Kim Young-ran Law’ was just went into effect starting September 28 of this

The average temperature on this past August was 34.5 degrees Celsius, an increase of about 3 degrees from last year (31 degrees Celsius). Until recently, home electrical charges were decided on a 6-category basis, and taxed accordingly. For example, the home that used under 100kWh was only charged 6

On Thursday July 28th, 2016, students at Ewha Women’s University started to demonstrate against the school. All arguments stemmed from the school’s ‘Future Life University‘, a college established for people in the labour force with highschool diplomas. Ewha Women’s University plans to establish two

August 15th has a lot of meaning for Koreans. It is the day Korea regained its independence from Imperial Japan in 1945. Koreans commemorate the day by displaying the Korean flag, called Taegeukgi. The day before Independence Day, on August 14th, Tiffany, a member of Girls Generation, a popular girl

At the moment, minimum wage is 6,030 won per hour, but from 2017 it will increase by 7.3% to 6,470 won. Some are arguing that this 7% is still too small to match the cost of living in Korea and that the percentage should equate to the economy situation. The opposition party has already said that the

THAAD is an acronym for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, the American system for defense against missiles. The system detects enemy missiles through the radar and then destroys them using defense missiles. THAAD was developed to bring down ballistic missiles before they reach their targets. THAD

Part of the Pacific Ocean, the South China Sea is a marginal sea encompassing an area stretching from the Singapore and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan, roughly 3,500,000 square kilometers. It is surrounded by six countries, namely China, Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, Brunei, and Malaysia. T

Democratic Republic of the CongoHuge Ebola Virus Outbreak On October 25th, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the number of the Ebola-infected has officially reached over 10,000 worldwide. The Ebola hemorrhagic fever is one of the most terrifying diseases connecte

CHINAConflict Leads to Failure of Antismoking Policy Contrary to many countries that are trying hard to reduce the smoking rates, China is having problems between the central government and the local government. China has intensified the antismoking policy in order to get rid of

THE UNITED KINGDOMJust Call 999 when You Need Help The UK has professional agents who receive the reports and deliver them to the police, fire department, or other emergency service departments rather than judging which department would best satisfy the needs of the reporter. 99