In the process of selecting a contractor for Songdo Severance Hospital, the ordering party has repeatedly acted in ways that appear to lower the threshold for large companies while blocking mid-sized construction firms from winning contract…
Yamato Transport said that unauthorized access to its online payment service, the "Kuroneko Postpaid Service," leaked customer information for approximately 5.31 million users. Several local media outlets, including Asahi and Yomiuri, repor…
Police referred four people, including former People Power Party lawmaker Yoo Seung-min and Lee In-jae, president of Incheon National University, to the prosecution on charges of obstruction of business over suspicions that his daughter, Yo…
The Fair Trade Commission has begun procedures to impose fines on 17 wedding service providers that failed to properly display prices and penalty standards. They were found to have omitted prices for optional items on their websites or cont…
Nine FBI employees who were fired for participating in the investigation into President Donald Trump's unlawful retention of classified documents have filed a lawsuit, calling their dismissal political retaliation and demanding reinstatemen…
At the Seoul Metropolitan Government audit on the 15th, allegations were raised that a senior Seoul Housing & Urban Development Corporation (SH) official may have received kickbacks in the process of selecting a Hangang Bus shipbuilder. The…
The Public Procurement Service has pre-announced a revision to the special conditions that clarifies the requirements for extending the contract period under the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) for commercial software, while strengthening uni…
Police have launched a forced investigation into Cha Seok-ho, mayor of Haman County in South Gyeongsang Province, who is suspected of involvement in recruiting members for the People Power Party while serving as a civil servant. The anti-co…
The National Election Commission special counsel team raided 10 locations, including the Busan, South Gyeongsang and North Gyeongsang election commissions, launching an investigation into allegations of exclusive favoritism in election supp…
Allegations have arisen that the company operated by the parents of A I-jjing (13), a member of the group A2O LITE launched by Lee Su-man, has withheld wages from its employees. A I-jjing's mother has acknowledged responsibility and apologi…
The Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency's Metropolitan Investigation Unit announced on the 15th that it had arrested 16 members of an illegal private lending organization that charged interest rates of up to 20,000% per year and, when victim…
Bae Jun-yeong, a People Power Party lawmaker on the National Assembly Committee on Fiscal Economy and Planning, criticized the OKA's relocation to Sejong and the consolidation of Incheon public institutions as "plunder" and demanded that th…
Saemaul Geumgo confirmed that personal information of over 400 customers was leaked due to a hacking attack and reported it to financial authorities. The Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives announced the breach on the 13th. T…
Choo Mi-ae, Governor of Gyeonggi Province, faced intense criticism from lawmakers of both parties during her first National Assembly audit on the 13th, over central political remarks, the fiscal emergency declaration, a 1.2 billion-won offi…
Tensions between the ruling and opposition parties over the re-nomination of a Supreme Court justice candidate and discussions on adjusting the jurisdiction of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) emerged as …
