As Typhoon Khanun bears down on the Korean Peninsula, the Seoul city government made adjustments again to host thousands of World Scout Jamboree participants indoors Thursday. Seoul's municipal government said the venues for the scouts' programs Thursday were shifted to indoor locations such as Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Sangam Digital Media City and League of Legends Park, cancelling all outdoor activi.
Four teenagers allegedly involved in a group assault case of a foreign worker in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, were transferred to the prosecution and the court, police said Wednesday. Pocheon Police Station said it referred four teenagers to the prosecution and the juvenile department of the family court, respectively, on three charges, including joint principal offense and extortion on Tuesday. The teenagers are accu.
Two Vietnamese workers died Wednesday when a building under construction collapsed in Okseon-dong, Anseong, Gyeonggi Province, authorities said, crushing them. According to fire authorities, the uppermost floor of a nine-story shopping complex under construction collapsed onto the floor below at 11:49 a.m. Two men of Vietnamese nationality one in his 20s and one in his 30s were crushed between the eighth and to.
Only 12 percent of patients diagnosed with severe mental illness use government-provided mental health care services, data showed Tuesday. According to statistics released by the National Mental Health Center, the number of people registered at government-run mental health centers and who accessed services accounted for 12.1 percent of 651,813 patients diagnosed with severe mental illnesses as of the end of 2021. Sev.
An elementary school teacher who died in an apparent suicide last month was found to had difficulties dealing with a student who showed problematic behavior since the beginning of the first semester, in addition to an excessive workload, according to the results of a government inquiry released on Friday. A student had scratched a classmate's forehead with a pencil in the late teacher's classroom on July 12.