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102 storiesActress Jun Won-ju, 87, says she gifted half her assets to prevent inheritance dispute
Actress Jun Won-ju, 87, said she gifted half of her assets to her two sons and their wives in advance so they would not fight over her estate, speaking on MBC’s “PD수첩” episode “2026 Inheritance War: Time of the Family Left Behind,” which ai…
Survey: 41% of Korean nurses faced rights violations; 76% took no action
A Korean Nurses Association survey of 2,105 nurses at medical institutions found 41.0% experienced human rights violations in the past year, most often verbal abuse, according to Newsis and Yonhap. Of those affected, 76.4% took no action, a…
Putin backs proposal for digital library of Russia’s ethnic languages
President Vladimir Putin has supported a proposal to create a single digital library of the languages of the peoples of Russia, according to the state outlets RIA Novosti and TASS. RIA Novosti reported the support on 5 October, and TASS sai…
South Korea state housing guarantee firm dismisses employee over YouTube use and fortune-telling side job
The Korea Housing & Urban Guarantee Corporation (HUG) dismissed an employee for neglect of duty after an audit found he spent working hours on YouTube and ran a paid fortune-telling consultation business, according to data a ruling-party la…
Genesis launches first hybrid GV80 in Korea, starting at 7,680만원
Genesis launched the GV80 Hybrid, its first hybrid model, in Korea on Oct. 6 at 7,680만원 based on the 5% individual consumption tax. The company said the 2.5-litre turbo hybrid produces a combined 352 PS, about 16% more than the GV80 2.5 tur…
Tesla leads Korea's imported car sales for eighth month as EV share tops half
Tesla sold 12,372 imported passenger cars in South Korea in September, its eighth consecutive month in first place among import brands, according to Korea Automobile Importers and Distributors Association (KAIDA) data. Total imported passen…
Busan’s ‘Bukkangi’ shark confirmed as endangered heuksangeo, a 3-meter female
The National Institute of Fisheries Science said on Oct. 6 that the shark nicknamed Bukkangi, which has stayed in an artificial channel at Busan North Port’s waterfront park since Sept. 18, is a heuksangeo, a species classified as Endangere…
Macron convenes emergency meeting over French student protests
French President Emmanuel Macron convened an emergency meeting with ministers on the evening of 6 October over nationwide student protests, with Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu and education minister Édouard Geffroy taking part. The protes…
South Korea's two-person households to top 30% next year for first time
South Korea's two-person households are projected to make up 30.2% of all households next year, passing 30% for the first time since the estimates began in 2000 and exceeding the combined share of three- and four-person households. One-pers…
Tesla nears 100,000 Korea imports as BYD passes 20,000
Imported passenger car registrations in South Korea rose 6.3% year on year in September to 34,904 units, with year-to-date registrations up 24.1% to 279,729, according to the Korea Automobile Importers and Distributors Association (KAIDA). …
Putin and Sobyanin open Moscow electric battery cluster with two gigafactories
President Vladimir Putin, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Rosatom head Alexei Likhachev took part in opening the Moscow electric battery cluster in the Technopolis Moscow special economic zone on Tuesday, ahead of Moscow Industry Day. Offi…
France suspends lycée lessons as high-school protests hit 1,800 schools
Protests by high-school students in France on Tuesday affected around 1,800 lycées, according to RIA Novosti, while AFP, cited by TASS, reported that classes were suspended in nearly 900 senior schools — about a quarter of the country's tot…
France suspends lycée classes as high school protests enter third week
High school student protests in France reached their largest scale on 6 October, in their third week, with demonstrations nationwide and clashes with police in Lyon, Strasbourg and Rennes, RBC reported. A student union counted 450,000 parti…
Three Korean business dailies publish daily fortune columns dated Oct 5
Maeil Business, Chosun Ilbo and Korea Economic Daily each published a daily fortune column dated October 5, 2026, the 25th day of the eighth lunar month. Chosun Ilbo's feature, carried since 2017 and written by Han So-pyeong of Geumo Sanban…
France student protests: Interior Ministry counts 250,000, organizers claim 450,000
Schoolchildren and students protested across France on Tuesday, with the Interior Ministry counting more than 250,000 participants nationally and 56,000 in Paris, while TASS reported nearly 260,000 overall. Organizers put the turnout much h…
Putin says Russia to meet most battery demand by 2030
President Vladimir Putin said Russia will be able to cover most of its domestic demand for batteries by 2030, speaking at the opening of the first complex in a battery production cluster in Moscow, according to Kommersant. He called for a r…
Gwangju shop pulls menu name seen as disparaging May 18 uprising
A bar-restaurant in Dongmyeong-dong, Dong-gu, Gwangju, sold a tteokgalbi dish topped with ketchup under the name “피떡갈비”, a term used in some online far-right communities to mock or belittle the May 18 Democratic Uprising. After a social med…
Request Made in Ingushetia to Check Family That Left Sick Child in Moscow
A request has been made in Ingushetia to check a family that left a sick child in Moscow, according to RIA Novosti and TASS. Both state news agencies reported the request but did not say who made it or provide the child’s condition.
Busan opens first ‘Maeum Jeomppang’ hub for isolated residents
Busan city opened the first “Maeum Jeomppang”, a community support space, at Banyeo Jonghap Social Welfare Center in Haeundae-gu’s Banyeo 2-dong on Oct 6, with a ceremony at 4 p.m. Visitors can have a simple meal such as ramen, check their …
Anseong expands youth safe-return taxi pilot citywide, adds grade 2 students
Anseong, in Gyeonggi Province, expanded its youth safe-return taxi programme from Oct 6 to cover the whole city and to include high school second- and third-year students, after starting the pilot on Oct 1. Students pay the 1,500-won city b…