SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Ever since South Korea became the first Asian country to introduce the Refugee Act in 2012, there has been an increasing number of refugees settling in the country. Now, public opinion remains split on whether to lower the social hurdles for accepting refugees or implement stricter requirements for recognizing asylum seekers as [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Public interest members of a presidential panel on social dialogue on Tuesday issued written advice calling for increasing quotas at local medical schools starting in 2022. In the controversial recommendation, Seoul National University professor Kim Yoon and five other public interest members of the Economic, Social & Labor Council’s [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea is on the cusp of a potential second wave of mass new coronavirus infections, a debate is brewing over whether and to whom the government needs to provide a second round of emergency handouts. After the country doled out its first COVID-19 response handouts in May, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — For Chang Seong-hwan, the fact that his wife became the victim of a murder eight years ago is still a deep emotional wound that cannot be healed with the passage of time. Attending a hearing on the death penalty arranged by the national human rights watchdog in May, Chang [...]