Police on Tuesday requested an arrest warrant for Kim Young-hwan, governor of the central province of North Chungcheong, on bribery charges. The Chungbuk Provincial Police Agency applied for the warrant on charges of violating the antigraft law.
According to a regional economic report released by the Ministry of Data and Statistics on Friday, national exports rose 3.6 percent on year in 2025, with outbound shipments increasing in 12 cities and provinces and decreasing in five.
Police arrested a man who said he killed his mother and thought that God would revive her, officers said on Wednesday. Police said the man attacked his mother multiple times with a hammer and a knife while she was sleeping.
Police found the body of a woman 44 days after she went missing in Cheongju, North Chungcheong, after her former partner confessed to killing her and led officers to a waste-processing site in Eumseong County on Thursday.
North Chungcheong hopes to have 20,000 international students in the province by 2027, raising its original goal of 10,000 students after surpassing that mark this year.
Prosecutors are seeking an arrest warrant for the head of a special education facility in North Chungcheong who is accused of repeatedly raping a woman with an intellectual disability over the course of a year.
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake struck near Okcheon County, North Chungcheong, shortly before noon on Wednesday, the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said.
As North Chungcheong’s agricultural work force shrinks at an alarming rate, a new labor force has emerged from the city: homemakers and retirees who are trading idle hours for fieldwork and modest pay.
Police have entered their fourth day of searching for a man suspected of stalking and fatally stabbing a woman in Daegu before fleeing the scene.
Hana Financial Group signed an agreement with Korea’s financial regulator, the North Chungcheong government and the province’s education office to launch financial education programs for youth and scam awareness campaigns for vulnerable groups.
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