When people think about the homeless, most come up with the image of middle-aged or older men with fuzzy hair and untidy clothing who lost their jobs and were separated from their families.
Police have booked five suspects as part of an investigation into a massive house rental scam that caused at least 17 billion won ($13.3 million) in losses to tenants, police officials said Monday.
Korea is an outlier when it comes to the mask mandate and people s tendency to wear face masks, says Sharon Lewin, director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. “I ve been travelling to a lot of countries and Korea is an outlier on masks. I d be very interested to know if it is making a big difference to your numbers (of infections),” the Australian infectious disease specialist said in an interview with The Korea Times, Wednesday, during the 2022 World Bio Summit held in Seoul.