The recent establishment of foreigner-only serviced apartments in the public housing district in Seocho, southern Seoul, has caused controversy, as it comes at the expense of low-income Korean residents. Foreigner-only serviced residences with golf practice facilities will be built inside a public housing rental district in southern Seoul for low-income households. The serviced apartments capab...

Youth Community Union says 81% of cafes nationwide pay no allowances A former part-time coffee shop worker filed a complaint with the Ministry of Employment and Labor on Wednesday that the nation’s largest coffee shop franchise, Caffe Bene, had refused to pay him and his coworkers with weekly holiday allowances. If accepted, the complaint is expected to pave way for tens of thousands of youths ...

A 34-year-old prosecutor in Daejeon, some 150 kilometers south of Seoul, was found dead at his home in an apparent suicide on Wednesday, police said. The police investigating the case said that the prosecutor, surnamed Huh, strangled himself to death using a pair of rubber gloves in his kitchen. “When he did not come to the office without any notice, I visited his official residence and found h...

North Korea is independently developing a GPS jamming system effective over more than 100 kilometers, according to a government report on Tuesday. The report by the Ministry of National Defense said the North imported some 20 different kinds of communication and radar jamming instruments from the then Soviet Union. Submitted to the National Assembly’s Defense Committee, the report said the Nort...

The naming and shaming of 43 poorly managed universities by the Education Ministry on Monday has spawned confusion and concern among universities, with some decrying the label or expressing worries about next year’s freshmen recruitment. Several major universities in operation for more than 50 years were placed on the roster, causing shocks for their faculty members and students. Officials of W...

General hospitals and the government are at odds over discounted fees for a state-of-the-art method of gastric cancer surgery, with hospitals cancelling scheduled procedures because of reduced revenues. Concerns are mounting over whether cancer patients will be able to get the surgery that involves a minimum incision, bleeding, pain and complications. According to medical insiders and news repo...

The Education Ministry listed 43 poorly managed private colleges and universities Monday after a two-month inquiry by an expert panel as part of a drive to weed out uncompetitive schools and address the rising tuition issue. The 43 universities will be subject to restrictions in government assistance and of them, 17 schools will face restrictions in student loans on the basis of an inquiry that ...