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THE PEOPLE Power Party announced a significant expansion of the annual medical school enrollment quota by more than 1,000 slots. The Korean government aims to put this decision into effect in 2025[1]. This proposal intends to tackle a looming shortage of physicians in the country and the sharp regio
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Kim Seo-young
2023.12.05 10:57
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THE RECENT raiding of news outlets under the influence of President Yoon Suk-yeol engendered controversy on the permissible boundaries of presidential authority on the media. Media officials are raising their voices for the freedom of speech which nonetheless could not stop the full investigation co
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The Annals Staff
2023.11.09 13:30
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A STABBING incident in Sillim-dong in July, 2023 created a domino effect of copycat crimes all over the nation that targeted many unspecified people. Affairs of bloodshed were followed by tributes to the innocent victims and the online murder threats that promised stabbing attacks, whether verifiabl
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The Annals Staff
2023.10.10 22:09
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ON JULY 18, the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (SMOE) confirmed the tragic passing of a 23-year-old first-grade schoolteacher who was found dead in Seoul Seo2 Elementary School. With repeated concerns regarding plummeting teachers’ rights, this incident spotlights the need for education ref
Society
Kim Seo-Yeong
2023.09.03 00:00
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DESPITE KOREA’S well-established baseball culture and successful domestic league, their recent performance in the World Baseball Classic (WBC) has raised concerns about their competitiveness on the global stage. The disappointment and doubt that followed their failure in the WBC have spotlighted the
Society
Kim Sang-yun
2023.06.08 00:45
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HOMOSEXUALITY IN Korea is recognized by law as an individual's sexual orientation, but same-sex marriage is not legislated. Homosexuality faces an extremely polarized social climate. According to research in 2021, whereas more than 80% of women in their twenties and thirties responded that they may
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The Annals Staff
2023.04.04 22:13
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AFTER LEGALIZING the import of Real Dolls, a full-body sex doll product, sex dolls are rampant in the market once more. The Korea Customs Service, which had previously banned the customs clearance of sex dolls notwithstanding the court rulings that canceled the suspension order, revised its regulati
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The Annals Staff
2023.03.07 21:54
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THE PROBLEM of climate change is an overarching one that becomes more pressing as time goes on. As such, calls for pioneering technologies to curb environmental pollution and reduce climate change are increasing. City Oil Field Inc., a South Korean environmental corporation, is now able to successfu
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The Annals Staff
2022.12.07 15:07
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ON SEPTEMBER 7, South Korea submitted its official bid for the 2030 World Expo to the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), an intergovernmental association that organizes World Expos[1]. Though the Expo’s venue will be announced in November, 2023, it would be a historic moment for South Korea
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Kim Sang-yun
2022.11.03 17:35
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“I HEARD that if you’re not 14 yet, you don’t go to prison, even for murder. Is that true? Awesome,” says a 13-year-old juvenile at court after murdering an elementary school student. Although this is a fictional line from the South Korean Netflix series Juvenile Justice, Korea has, in fact, recorde
Society
Kim Sang-yun
2022.10.05 15:30
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WITH THE inauguration of President Yoon Seok-yeol in May this year, the South Korean labor market has undergone significant changes. The Yoon administration is addressing the problem of low employment maintenance rates for senior workers by extending the retirement age from 60 to 65 and introducing
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The Annals Staff
2022.09.03 16:35
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THE RULING Democratic Party (DP), now replaced by the newly elected Yoon administration, managed to accomplish its last task at its final cabinet meeting on May 3: promulgating two bills on prosecution reform. The legislation is aimed at reducing the Korean Prosecution Service’s (KPS) power of inves
Society
Shin Soo-min
2022.06.10 00:29
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ON MARCH 4, a massive wildfire started in Uljin, North Gyeongsang Province in Korea and damaged 20,903 hectares of woodland, which equals more than a third of the size of Seoul[1]. After 213 hours of continuous firefighting, the fire was extinguished on March 13[1]. However, there still remains more
Society
Shin Soo-min
2022.05.06 22:16
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EVERY FIVE years in South Korea, the presidential election brings along a variety of political discourse and controversies. Despite being the 20th domestic presidential election, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the recent unfolding of events has been unprecedented. With two leading presi
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Shin Soo-min
2022.04.03 11:49
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A DISTURBING video of a horse falling head-first onto the ground with its leg tied with a wire was recently posted on the Internet. The short footage from a scene filmed for the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) drama The King of Tears, Lee Bang-won, greatly shocked viewers when they realized that th
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Shin Soo-min & The Annals Staff
2022.03.06 16:53
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SOUTH KOREA’s first domestically produced rocket took off on October 21 at 5 p.m. local time. The Korean Satellite Launch Vehicle (KSLV)-II was dubbed Nuri, which means “world” in Korean, signifying the possibility of expanding our “world” to space[1]. Nuri was unsuccessful in “reaching the space or
Society
Shin Soo-min
2021.12.06 01:40
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WITH THE lowered entry barrier for stock investment due to the emergence of new technologies such as smartphones, investing in stocks has become a supposedly profitable hobby even amongst Korean youth. Back in early September, 1.54 million Korean dong-hak ants[1] fell into a state of shock when the
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Shin Soo-min
2021.10.31 21:43
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THE PRESS Arbitration Law in South Korea has recently been put on the table for amendment, resulting in great controversy. Ranking 42nd in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index[1], the highest among Asian countries, South Korea protects “freedom of the press” to a substantial degree without suppression
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Shin Soo-min
2021.10.10 00:29
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THE JAPANESE government recently announced its plan to discharge more than one million tons of contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean. This immense amount of radioactive wastewater is from a nuclear accident that occurred at the Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011. The government has painted its deci
Society
Ahmad Qirrat
2021.06.06 00:28
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SOUTH KOREA had been praised for “successfully containing” the virus during the early stages of the pandemic. More recently, however, critics have painted a less rosy picture. While the United States had made plans to develop and purchase vaccines since April of last year, South Korea only began tal
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Park Joo-hyun
2021.03.07 18:19