Amendment to Trade Union Act: Office Workers Support Employer Responsibility and Ban on Compensation Bombs

Amendment to Trade Union Act: Office Workers Support Employer Responsibility and Ban on Compensation Bombs

Last January, a press conference was held in front of the main gate of the Supreme Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul, raising the unfairness of claims for compensation for Hyundai Motor Company’s non-regular union members and urging a ban on compensation bombs. Reporter Kim Hye-yoon [email protected] A survey showed that 7 out of 10 office workers … Read more

President’s Office Responds to Democratic Party’s Resolution on Motion to Dismiss Prime Minister Han Deok-soo

President’s Office Responds to Democratic Party’s Resolution on Motion to Dismiss Prime Minister Han Deok-soo

President Yoon Seok-yeol is having a conversation while watching a reenactment of the Incheon Landing Operation at the 73rd Anniversary Incheon Landing Operation Victory Ceremony held on the 15th at the Nojeokbong Ship near Palmido, Jung-gu, Incheon. Presidential photojournalist group On the 17th, the President’s Office commented on the Democratic Party of Korea’s resolution to … Read more

Government Pilot Project: Foreign Domestic Workers and the Minimum Wage Debate

Government Pilot Project: Foreign Domestic Workers and the Minimum Wage Debate

Getty Image Bank ‘We don’t have time or interest!’ We prepared this for you who are busy with this life and don’t have time to watch the news. We included 5 questions about news that the news doesn’t tell you and news that you become more curious about the more you look at it. The … Read more

Incheon District Court Sentences Executives of Korean Confederation of Trade Unions for Forced Hiring

Incheon District Court Sentences Executives of Korean Confederation of Trade Unions for Forced Hiring

The Incheon Police Agency Metropolitan Investigation Unit is moving with a box containing confiscated items after completing a search and seizure at the Gyeongin headquarters office of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and Construction Workers’ Union in Bupyeong-gu, Incheon, on the morning of February 2. yunhap news Two executives of the Gyeongin headquarters of … Read more

The Bank of Korea Raises Concerns About Rising Housing Prices and Household Debt

The Bank of Korea Raises Concerns About Rising Housing Prices and Household Debt

On the 14th, a briefing session on the monetary and credit policy report is being held at the Bank of Korea in Jung-gu, Seoul. From the left, Lee Ju-yong, head of the Bank of Korea’s Trend Analysis Team, Bang Hong-ki, head of the Policy Planning Department, Assistant Vice Governor Lee Sang-hyung, Monetary Policy Director Hong … Read more

Joint Strike by National University Hospital Labor Unions for Improved Treatment of Nurses and Staff

Joint Strike by National University Hospital Labor Unions for Improved Treatment of Nurses and Staff

On May 12, 2021, the 50th anniversary of ‘International Nurses Day’, a nurse is calling for practical improvements in the treatment of nurses, such as legislating the number of patients per nurse, in front of the main building of Seoul National University Hospital in Jongno-gu, Seoul. Reporter Kim Hye-yoon [email protected] The labor unions of national … Read more

Challenges in Punishing Lewd Acts Against Women: The Issue of Public Indecency vs. Forcible Harassment

Challenges in Punishing Lewd Acts Against Women: The Issue of Public Indecency vs. Forcible Harassment

Getty Image Bank ☞Subscribe to the Hankyoreh newsletter H:730. Type ‘Hankyoreh h730’ in the search bar. There is criticism that investigative agencies are mechanically applying the charge of ‘public indecency’, which carries a lighter sentence, even in cases where lewd acts toward a specific woman actually constitute forcible molestation. Not only is the sentence for … Read more

Former Soldier Nominated as Minister of National Defense: Controversy Surrounding Shin Won-sik’s Military Service and Harsh Remarks

Former Soldier Nominated as Minister of National Defense: Controversy Surrounding Shin Won-sik’s Military Service and Harsh Remarks

Proportional representative of the People Power Party, a former soldier“Super evil Roh Moo-hyun” “Moon Jae-in is all”Colonel Park Jeong-hoon is a “third-rate politician” Candidate Shin Won-sik for Minister of National Defense expresses his thoughts at the briefing announcing the second cabinet reshuffle by Chief of Staff Kim Dae-ki held at the Presidential Office Building in … Read more

Kim Haeng Nominated as Second Minister of Gender Equality and Family: Plans for Ministry’s Abolition

Kim Haeng Nominated as Second Minister of Gender Equality and Family: Plans for Ministry’s Abolition

Kim Haeng, candidate for Minister of Gender Equality and Family, is expressing his thoughts at the briefing announcing the second cabinet reshuffle by Presidential Chief of Staff Kim Dae-ki held at the Presidential Office Building in Yongsan, Seoul on the 13th. yunhap news Kim Haeng (64), former emergency response member of the People Power Party, … Read more

Governor Kim Tae-heum and Provincial Assemblyman Kim Seon-tae Clash over Book Restrictions in South Chungcheong Province

Governor Kim Tae-heum and Provincial Assemblyman Kim Seon-tae Clash over Book Restrictions in South Chungcheong Province

The 347th extraordinary session of the South Chungcheong Provincial Council held on the 11th Governor Kim Tae-heum and Provincial Assemblyman Kim Seon-tae engage in a war of words South Chungcheong Province Governor Kim Tae-heum is announcing measures related to the discharge of contaminated water from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant at the South Chungcheong Provincial … Read more