The owner family of Samsung Group is set to complete the payment of roughly 12 trillion won ($8 billion) in inheritance taxes on assets left by the late Chairman Lee Kun-hee later this month, industry sources said on Sunday.
Korean volleyball legend Kim Yeon-koung has become a co-owner of the U.S. volleyball team LOVB San Francisco.
A dog owner who failed to keep two aggressive dogs on leashes, leading to multiple dog-bite incidents, was sentenced to four years in prison. The ruling was finalized by the Supreme Court on Dec. 24 last year, according to legal sources on Tuesday.
A man who stole hundreds of bottles of alcohol over several months from a restaurant in Daegu was caught by the restaurant owner after a late-night stakeout. The man reportedly told police that he did it “because he was hungry.”
The Ministry of SMEs and Startups said Monday that it would extend the eligibility criteria for its electricity fee subsidy for small business owners, effective from the same day.
A man suspected of killing the owner of a popular restaurant on Jeju Island as a favor for an acquaintance of the dead owner was found to have broken into the owner’s house after installing a hidden camera outside to figure out the door passcode.
Gwangjang Market in Jongno District, central Seoul, has only few customers on Thursday. The Covid-19 pandemic, which started exactly two years ago in Korea, has taken a toll on small businesses.
A notice on social distancing rules is posted at the Gyeongdong Market in Dongdaemun District, central Seoul, Wednesday.
A small barbecue restaurant in Yongdap-dong, eastern Seoul has racked up 100 million won ($85,000) of debt since the pandemic started.
Small businesses have been devastated by the pandemic, so much so that even some of the classics — much beloved, decades-old mainstays — have been forced to close.
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