President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday nominated Kim Hong-il, the incumbent chief of the Anticorruption and Civil Rights Commission, as the head of the Korea Communications Commission, a broadcasting watchdog. Kim, who joined the prosecution in 1982, was Yoon s boss in the early 2010s when the two worked at the Supreme Prosecutors Office. He quit his job at the prosecution in 2013. He has been leading the anticorrupti.
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South Korea’s special investigation unit on drug crimes on Wednesday said it had caught a record-high of 22,393 people suspected of drug offenses from January to October this year. The figure is nearly a 50 percent increase, or up 7,211, from last year’s tally of 15,182, reflecting the troubling trend of rapidly growing drug use here. People in their teens and 20s made up the largest number, accounting fo.
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The government s decision to extend health insurance coverage for rehabilitation expenses of individuals who have an addiction to illegal drugs has provoked a heated debate in online communities. The decision was made based on the belief that drug addiction is an illness that can be cured, but critics raise questions over the appropriateness of the treatment costs for criminals to be covered by state insurance.