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South Korea’s Justice Minister Jeong Seong-ho said on the 13th that prosecutors must fulfill their core duties and correct past “deferred indictment” decisions that harmed victims. He framed this as a step to ensure accountability within the prosecutorial system. In a post on Facebook, he stated that the Ministry

Chilean architect Smiljan Radić, 60, has been named the 2024 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize foundation announced on the 12th. The award is considered the architecture world’s most prestigious honor, often described as the field’s equivalent of a Nobel Prize. Radić will receive a $100,

On the first day of enforcement of South Korea’s new crime of law distortion, the country’s top judge became the first high-profile figure to be the target of a formal complaint. Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae (조희대) was named in a police report filed on the 12th by attorney

South Korea’s main opposition party stepped into a new approach to national planning on March 13, with a Democratic Party lawmaker proposing a complete relocation of the capital through a new administrative framework. Jang Cheol-min, a representative for Daejeon’s Dong-gu, announced a plan to bind Daejeon, Sejong, and

The Special Investigation Committee for Truth-Finding and Preventing Recurrence of the Itaewon disaster, known as the 10·29 Itaewon disaster special committee, said on Thursday that it will press charges against former President Yoon Suk-yeol for failing to attend a hearing. The decision was announced by committee chair Song Gi-chun

South Korea’s Hanseo Yes24 Cultural Foundation has released Indonesian author Lat Kumala’s novel Cigaret Girl as the seventh title in its Southeast Asian Modern Literature Series. The launch was held March 13 at the Korea Press Center’s Korea-ASEAN Center lounge in Seoul. The author described the book

Religious leaders across South Korea gathered on the 13th to issue a joint declaration aimed at expanding a culture that respects life and restoring public morale. The Korea Association of Religious Leaders, a nonprofit foundation, announced plans to carry these aims into nationwide campaigns. The declaration was issued by representatives

South Korea’s Ministry of SMEs and Startups says it is activating a broad, cross-minister emergency response to the Middle East crisis as it threatens raw material supplies and rising oil prices, with a focus on preventing broader damage to small businesses and regional industries. The ministry held two urgent

Adobe, the U.S. software giant best known for Photoshop and Acrobat, reported a strong start to its fiscal year despite industry chatter about a “SaaSpocalypse.” For the quarter ended February, the company said revenue rose 12% year over year to $6.4 billion, the highest first-quarter figure in its

A South Korean government task force on prosecutorial reform says it will hold a second public discussion on March 16 to decide whether to abolish or maintain the so-called supplementary investigations in the prosecutorial system. The group also noted that it submitted two reform bills—one creating a Major Crime