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Top Science and Technology Award given to Hwang Woo-suk revoked after 22 years… recovery of the 300 million KRW prize money will be difficult The ‘Republic of Korea Highest Scientist and Technologist Award’ conferred on former Seoul National University professor Hwang Woo-suk, who sparked public outrage with ‘fabrication of stem cell papers’, has been revoked. The government also canceled his award in 2020, but when the court nullified the disposition citing procedural defects, it went through the institutional process again. However, recovering the 300 million KRW prize money Hwang received appears legally difficult, so the contr...

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“If youth lending is loosened, only home prices will rise” vs “Regulations have cut off the housing ladder”… Clash at a real estate finance forum
“If loan limits are determined solely by income and assets, even young people with repayment capacity find it hard to buy a home. Expansion of policy loans is needed.”“(If loan limits are increased) it only raises the prices of homes that young people need to buy, and in the end the gains go to sellers and developers.”At the ‘Public Hearing on Real Estate Finance Policy’ convened by the Financial Services Commission at Bank Hall in Jung-gu, Seoul, on the 15th, debates for and against issue...

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President Lee, Samsung Electronics·SK hynix leveraged ETFs “Promptly devise supplementary measures”…“Also speed up the stock-price suppression prevention law”
On the 15th, President Lee Jae Myung instructed the financial authorities to “promptly and effectively draw up supplementary measures” regarding the Samsung Electronics·SK hynix single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which have been identified as a factor amplifying volatility in the domestic stock market. He also said, “Normalizing and advancing the capital market is a very important national policy,” and urged, “For the stock-price suppression prevention law as well, secure coo...

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50 billion ‘Hope’ vs ‘Spider-Man’ vs Nolan's ‘Odyssey’···A scorching three-way showdown at the summer box office
The summer box office is buzzing ahead of back-to-back tentpole releases. Kicking off with director Na Hong-jin's new film <Hope>, which opened on the 15th, Marvel's <Spider-Man: Brand New Day> (Spider-Man 4, opening on the 29th) and Christopher Nolan's <Odyssey> (opening August 5) are queued up. Competition to secure premium formats such as IMAX is also fierce.Whether <Hope> will, true to its title, become the Korean film industry’s ‘hope’ is a matter of exception...

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Police dismiss the ‘first case under the offense of distorting the law’ involving Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae···non-referral disposition
The police determined there was no suspicion against Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae and Justice Park Young-jae, who had been reported as the ‘first case’ under the offense of distorting the law, and issued a non-referral disposition.According to Kyunghyang Shinmun reporting compiled on the 15th, the Anti-Corruption Investigation Team of the Major Crime Investigation Unit at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on the 2nd issued dismissal dispositions in the criminal complaints alleging the offens...

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“If electricity for the ‘mega project’ is procured from fossil fuels, the 2035 greenhouse gas target cannot be achieved”
An analysis has found that if the electricity required for the government’s semiconductor and artificial intelligence (AI) industry promotion policy, the ‘three mega projects’, is sourced mainly from fossil fuels, up to about 680 million t of greenhouse gases could be emitted additionally by 2040. In that case, the point at which the power sector’s 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) is achieved could be delayed by up to 14 years.In its report released on the 15th, titled ‘24.7 GW ...

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Extending a statute of limitations without the debtor knowing is not allowed... Full abolition of the special exception for service by public notice
The Ministry of Justice and the Financial Services Commission announced on the 15th that they will push to abolish the special exception that allows service by public notice in payment order proceedings, so that financial institutions cannot mechanically extend the statute of limitations on claims without the debtor knowing.The payment order (demand) procedure is a simplified dispute resolution process initiated when a creditor applies for a payment order. Through this procedure, a creditor ...

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UNESCO World Heritage Committee “Address the full history of the Sado Mine” issues another recommendation to Japan···Government “reflects our position”
After reviewing Japan’s implementation report on the Sado Mine, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee recommended to “comprehensively address the entire history.” It pointed this out because, after the Sado Mine was inscribed on the World Cultural Heritage list in 2024, Japan failed to follow the Committee’s recommendation to present the history of the forced mobilization of Koreans at the site. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated, “We view this as reflecting our consistent position.”Acc...

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Yoo Si-min “The delay in prosecutorial reform is because President Lee does not want the separation of investigation and indictment… it will end in failure”
On the 15th, author Yoo Si-min said, “The reason prosecutorial reform has not been achieved for over a year is because President Lee Jae Myung does not want a complete separation of investigation and indictment.”On the YouTube channel <Maebul Show> that day, Yoo said, “People who are convinced that President Lee does not want it are now actively defending, even in the media public sphere, leaving investigative authority with the prosecution under the name of supplementary investigative...

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Hair tie worn by football star Haaland is produced by a Chuncheon-area company··· interest in ‘KKNEKKI’ product surges
Attention is growing after it became known that the hair tie worn by Norway national team forward Erling Haaland, who starred at the 2026 World Cup in North and Central America, is a product made by a company based in Chuncheon, Gangwon.According to Chuncheon City and others on the 15th, the hair tie Haaland wore in every match during the World Cup is a product called ‘Kknekki(KKNEKKI)’, manufactured by Duji, a company located in the Namsan Industrial Complex in Chuncheon.The product is ch...

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“Go into Baengnokdam to drink water?” All sorts of illegal acts on Hallasan
On Hallasan in Jeju, illegal hiking continues as people freely go in and out of restricted areas rather than using designated trails.According to materials released by Jeju Provincial Council member Park Ji-eun (Democratic Party of Korea) at the 3rd meeting of the Culture, Tourism and Sports Committee during a provisional session on the 15th, detections of unauthorized entry into non-trail areas within Hallasan National Park rose from 30 cases in 2023 to 53 in 2025, an increase of 77%.Pa...

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