Friday, March 27
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A former manager for singer Hong Seo-beom and his wife Jo Gap-kyung, now pregnant, has sparked outrage by publicly demanding a settlement from a wedding company president. She accuses him of failing to provide child support and wages amid personal turmoil.Public Confrontation on Social MediaOn March 27, an online community…
Authorities conducted a raid on HanKuk Rating & Data Service, South Korea’s largest corporate credit rating agency, on March 26 amid allegations of manipulating company credit scores for bribes.Secret Codes Exposed in Internal CommunicationsInvestigators uncovered evidence that executives…
Lee Geun-an, a former police inspector notorious as the ‘torture magician’ during South Korea’s 1980s military dictatorship, passed away on March 25 at age 88.Background and Rise in Public SecurityBorn in Incheon in 1938, Lee joined the police…
A fire erupted at a film manufacturing plant in Eumseong-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, on March 26, spreading to an adjacent mountain and prompting a full-scale emergency response.Incident OverviewThe blaze ignited around 8:13 p.m. at the facility in Geumwang-eup. Flames quickly…
A massive fire at a wind turbine in Yeongdeok, Gyeongbuk Province, South Korea, which claimed the lives of three workers, has been fully extinguished after nearly four days of intense firefighting efforts.Incident TimelineThe blaze erupted around 1:11 p.m. on March 23 in turbine No. 19 at the Yeongdeok Wind Farm…
South Korean high school seniors cram massive volumes of material for college entrance exams, yet many fail to produce even a single creative response in humanities subjects like Korean language and history.Memorization Over InnovationTake Song, a third-year student…
Parliament Passes Key Child Subsidy ExpansionChildren aged 8 and younger in South Korea will receive child care subsidies ranging from 400,000 to 520,000 won in a single lump-sum payment on April 24. This marks the first such payout…