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Foreign worker dies fleeing locked motel room via 8th-floor window in Busan

An Indonesian worker on a seafarer visa fell to his death and another suffered serious injuries, while police investigate the locked room and staffing agency.

2026.7.21

Former National Security Adviser Chung Eui-yong, right, and former National Intelligence Service (NIS) Director Suh Hoon speak to reporters after receiving suspended sentences at the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho District, southern Seoul, on Feb. 19. [YONHAP]

Ex-officials behind repatriation of North Korean fishermen handed suspended sentences

Former senior officials involved in a forced repatriation case involving North Korean fishermen during the Moon Jae-in administration received suspended sentences from a Seoul court on Wednesday.

2025.2.19

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Ko Young-hwan, special aide to South Korean Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho and a former North Korean diplomat, reads Kim's speech at the Korea Global Forum in Washington on Monday (local time). The forum was co-hosted by the ministry and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. [YONHAP]

Unification Minister urges China to protect defectors from North

South Korean Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho called on China to facilitate the relocation of North Korean defectors to a country of their choice and protect their human rights at a conference held in Washington on Monday (local time).

2023.11.7

Damage from wild riumors

After the discharge of the wastewater from Fukushima, Korean fishermen are expected to suffer massive damage from wild rumors and speculations.

2023.8.24

Pledging safety

Members of a fishermen federation bow down in a pledge to assure the safety of Korean fishery products at Busan Station Plaza on Monday.

2023.7.10

A South Korean Navy vessel patrols the area of the Northern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea in September 2020. The shoreline of North Korea's Hwanghae Province is visible in the distance. [YONHAP]

Two North Korean families defect across the NLL by boat

Two North Korea families that included children entered the South by sailing across the de facto inter-Korean maritime boundary in the Yellow Sea earlier this month, South Korean military authorities revealed Thursday.

2023.5.18

One of two North Korean fishermen who fled into the South via the eastern maritime boundary is forcibly repatriated back to the North at the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjom in November 2019. [UNIFICATION MINISTRY]

North Korean human rights foundation to finally launch

The Unification Ministry announced Monday that it will launch a committee to advise the minister on the establishment of a long-delayed foundation aimed at promoting human rights in North Korea.

2023.3.6

A young man harvests strawberries at a farm in Geochang County, South Gyeongsang on Feb. 2. [NEWS1]

Seniors turn to farming, fishing as means to earn post retirement

The number of farmers and fishermen is increasing fast in Korea as more seniors turn to the some of the oldest occupations after retirement.

2023.2.8

In a photograph released by the Unification Ministry in July, the first of the two North Korean fishermen to be repatriated via Panmunjom on Nov. 7, 2019 drags his feet as he is forced to return to the North. [UNIFICATION MINISTRY]

Moon's aide says repatriating fishermen was right move

A former Blue House official questioned Wednesday about the 2019 repatriation of two North Korean fishermen defended the government's decision as being in the "national interest."

2022.10.20

Noh Young-min, who served as the Blue House chief of staff from 2019 to 2020, answers questions at a parliamentary audit of the National Security Office at the National Assembly in Yeouido, southern Seoul on Nov. 4, 2020. [YONHAP]

Blue House bigwig questioned over 2019 repatriation of fishermen

Prosecutors on Wednesday summoned a former Blue House official for questioning over his role in the government's 2019 decision to repatriate two North Korean fishermen caught on the South Korean side of the East Sea.

2022.10.19