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Korean Air flies relief to Japan

The airline sent bottled water on a cargo flight to evacuees in Kumamoto after the earthquake, providing emergency aid to displaced residents.

2026.8.3

Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki attends a G-20 meeting in Italy. [YONHAP]

Hong draws line in the sand, rejects upping extra budget

Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki put his foot down on stretching the supplementary budget while acknowledging the economic risks of the recent surge in Covid-19 cases.

2021.7.12

Keynes meets pork barrel in 4th relief package

Less than a month after its third relief package, the ruling Democratic Party is pushing a fourth, playing with fiscal fire as the national balance sheet is already much strained and the economy not yet back on track.

2021.2.7

Stores at Moran Market in Seongnam, Gyeonggi, are shut down on Tuesday as the government elevated the social distancing level to 2 amid the resurgence of Covid-19 infections. The traditional market was scheduled to open on Nov. 24, 29 and Dec. 9, but the plans were all canceled. [YONHAP]

PPP suggests slashing 'Korean New Deal' budget for 3rd round of relief grants

The main opposition party on Tuesday proposed slashing funding from President Moon Jae-in's Korean New Deal projects to pay for a third round of emergency relief grants as the country faces a resurgence of coronavirus infections — a plan that was...

2020.11.24

Gyeonggi Gov. Lee Jae-myung on the left and ruling party leader Lee Nak-yon. The two politicians disagreed over the distribution of the second round of emergency relief grants. [YONHAP]

Politics leads in this crisis as central bank out of ammo

The approach to the current economic crisis differs greatly from the approaches to earlier crises. Because the economic environment has changed so much since 1997 and 2008.

2020.9.10

Korea provides emergency relief items to Beirut

Korea's military unit based in Lebanon provided emergency relief items to the Middle Eastern country on Saturday to help recovery from a recent deadly explosion, Seoul's Defense Ministry said.

2020.8.9

Public officials improperly received Daegu grants

The Daegu city government confirmed Tuesday that about 2.5 billion won ($2.1 million) in emergency coronavirus relief funds meant for lower-income households had been improperly collected by some 3,900 public officials.

2020.6.9

2020.04.30 Cartoon

The Moon Jae-in administration wants the rich to not apply for the 1 million won ($820) emergency relief grants for each family of four.

2020.4.29

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