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The Ministry of the Interior and Safety will bring six domestic cloud providers together in Seoul on Oct. 12 so that government bodies preparing to move to private clouds can compare services in one place.
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The National Forensic Service has confirmed 1,000 family relationships through genetic testing since the system began in 2004, extending its reach to people with intellectual disabilities and dementia.
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The third Severe Disability Produce Fair brought 105 production facilities to Yangjae-dong, where public institutions face a 1.1 percent mandatory purchase quota.
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Facilities must disclose how residents' meal-ingredient fees are spent, and small homes will be linked to regional food-service support centers under guidelines issued Tuesday.
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The environment and agriculture ministries will expand wild-bird surveillance and poultry-farm controls after early counts showed a sharp rise in ducks at key wintering sites and more than double the overseas detections of the virus.
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The ministry said it will issue correction orders and can suspend operations or levy fines of up to 5 million won against nursing hospitals that ignore their legal obligation to undergo accreditation inspections.
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The Ministry of Health and Welfare is pursuing a revision of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act enforcement rules that would bar pharmacy names and advertising from implying warehouse-style retailing or steep drug discounts.
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The culture ministry and its partners will bring 700 experts to Gyeongju on Oct. 8-9 to turn last year's APEC cultural declaration into concrete international cooperation.
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The culture ministry and the Korea Paralympic Committee will send 357 athletes and officials to the six-region Games starting Oct. 18, with 36 sport liaisons dispatched to cover medical and safety gaps left by the dispersed venues.
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A cabinet-approved revision to the disaster and safety management law lets holders of related qualifications skip parts or all of the first-stage certified disaster manager exam, with detailed rules to follow in a presidential decree.
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The interior ministry said Tuesday that a bill approved at a Cabinet meeting would require a full survey of state property every five years and annual analysis of how local governments manage it.
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South Korea will raise the maximum reward for tip-offs on fraudulent claims under the wage-claim guarantee system to 200 million won from 100 million won starting in 2027.
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The health ministry reported a roadmap to the Cabinet on Tuesday that would combine AI and robots with home and facility care, automate more than half of routine welfare administration by 2028 and connect welfare services to applications in one click by 2029.
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A six-year inspection of roughly 40,000 retailers found about 1.2 percent in violation of pharmacy law, with over-pack sales clustering in the past two years.
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The 14th government-wide public data and AI startup competition drew a record 7,440 teams, with the 10 survivors advancing to November's final round.
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The interior ministry will hold a citizen memorial open to all on Oct. 24 and a formal fourth-anniversary ceremony at Gwanghwamun on Oct. 29, with attendance by advance online application.
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The interior and culture ministries will award special grants to 13 local governments chosen in a new regional tourism competition, with applications due Oct. 20.
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The culture ministry selected eight individuals and two organizations for its 2026 Hangul development awards, to be presented at the 580th Hangul Day ceremony on Oct. 9.
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Vice Minister Kim Dae-hyun will visit venues and athlete facilities in Nagoya and Aichi Prefecture from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1.
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Thirteen local governments will share special grants tied to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's regional tourism innovation competition.
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The environment ministry cut the variable rate on its energy-efficiency policy loans to 2 percent from 2.5 percent, a move it expects to save borrowers about 5 billion won a year in interest.
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The environment ministry will test a third-party selection process for environmental impact assessment contractors.
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The labor ministry and four workers' rights foundations held the fifth edition of a campaign calling migrant workers by their names rather than by nicknames, with local groups in Ansan issuing a joint declaration.
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South Korea's national bicycle statistics show more paths, more insured riders and fewer crashes, but a rising death toll and a sharp drop in public bike rentals.
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The Human Resources Development Service of Korea and the Korea Housing Finance Corp. will share internal-control and AI audit techniques under an agreement signed in Busan.
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The interior ministry's local government training institute brought deputy heads of city, county and district governments to Sejong for a workshop on the national agenda and resident-centred local autonomy.
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The food and drug safety ministry issued revised guidance on GLP-1 obesity treatments, adding dosing rules for adolescents and new warnings for pregnant and breastfeeding patients.
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The government awarded four medals, two industrial decorations, six presidential citations and 11 prime ministerial citations, with the top honor going to a Hilton Gyeongju executive.
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The environment ministry will hold a technical demonstration of a standardized plug-and-charge system for electric vehicles, testing compatibility across six EV models and three public fast chargers ahead of a pilot run at 30 chargers in October.
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The Ministry of Employment and Labor convened its 49 regional office chiefs on Wednesday to press them to implement new investigation powers before the revised Criminal Procedure Act takes effect Oct. 2.
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