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The labor ministry and four Chungcheong-region governments launched a cross-regional employment project focused on bio and mobility industries, backed by 4 billion won in central and local funds.
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South Korea and five Mekong countries adopted a joint declaration on water cooperation at a forum in Seoul on Thursday, the environment ministry said.
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The health ministry will train experienced local officials to coach 4,000 new integrated care staff as the program expands nationwide.
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The food and drug safety ministry and the Korea Rare and Essential Drugs Center held the second meeting of a public production and distribution network aimed at reviving domestic output of drugs at risk of shortage.
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The National Institute of Biological Resources will supply local governments with an AI-based wild boar detection program from November after a pilot on Mount Bukhan.
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South Korea's parliament passed 14 health ministry bills, including six that end application requirements for universal benefits and let officials file for welfare on behalf of people in crisis.
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The National Assembly passed revisions to the national pension and basic pension laws that extend credit for military service and childbearing and tighten rules for foreign nationals and overseas assets.
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South Korea's parliament approved amendments to the Occupational Safety and Health Act that create a new penalty on repeat accident sites and widen workers' authority to halt dangerous jobs.
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The state-run Human Resources Development Service of Korea has replaced email applications with online registration for EPS-EDU, a free Korean-language learning service for foreign workers on E-9 visas.
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The environment ministry selected the Korean endemic freshwater mussel, last recorded in the Han River in 1987, as its endangered species of the month.
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South Korea's health ministry will conduct a fourth round of administrative inspections in October, targeting two clinics suspected of patient inducement through illegal rebates and one large pharmacy suspected of illegal operation.
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South Korea's food and drug safety ministry said none of the 1,285 analysed reports of adverse reactions to cosmetics in 2025 were serious, with infant and toddler products accounting for the largest share.
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기후에너지환경부와 축산환경관리원이 10월 1일부터 30일까지 축산환경 분야 협업 우수사례를 공모한다. 총상금 700만 원.
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The culture ministry and the Arts Management Support Center will promote nationwide performances from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30, led by the Seoul International Performing Arts Festival and the Seoul Art Market.
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The environment ministry will distribute separation posters to local governments and link bin locations to online maps as part of a push to keep lithium batteries out of household waste.
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The guides walk small companies and researchers through the documents and regulatory requirements needed at each stage of developing drugs, medical devices and clinical statistics.
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The first of four forums will examine how national health data and statistics can be connected to shape evidence-based policy.
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The food and drug safety ministry will let makers of Class 2 devices such as hearing aids and dental implants file technical-document review and certification together, cutting a 40-day process to 25.
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The fourth Community Integrated Care Forum brought local governments, public health centers and researchers together to discuss how regional authorities should run and coordinate care services.
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The food and drug safety ministry appointed 94 outside and six in-house experts to a two-year term on the Food Sanitation Deliberation Committee, which will weigh food safety standards and policy.
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A senior welfare official visited a Kyung Hee University age-tech testing center and a senior housing complex to review how care robots and AI devices are being brought into everyday life.
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The environment ministry will replace mandatory on-site wind surveys with government modelling data from Oct. 1, cutting preparation time for onshore wind developers.
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The culture ministry and the 9th National Library Committee held their first regional listening session at the Gyeonggi Provincial Library, drawing about 120 library officials and association representatives.
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The guidance, issued Wednesday, sets out how developers of software that requires a clinician's diagnosis, instruction or supervision should apply for approval and what they must submit.
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The Chemical Safety Agency is distributing emergency response guides to 27 municipal disaster departments after the guide proved effective during a warehouse fire in Pyeongtaek in August.
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South Korea's interior ministry convened the first meeting of a legal consultative body of AI and data administration officers to coordinate artificial intelligence policy across government agencies.
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Companies with 300 or more employees reported 5.92 million workers this year, up 91,000 from a year earlier, with regular staff rising and subcontracted workers falling.
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The three-day seminar in Jeju brings together 600 officials from university job centers and the labor ministry to share job-matching programs for unemployed young people.
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The Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency reviewed progress on a corporate safety and health disclosure system set to launch next year, as its external ombudsman panel pressed for changes to make the system a practical tool for accident prevention.
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The environment ministry reported a grid innovation plan to the Cabinet that would free up connection rights in Honam from Oct. 1 and raise the grid's renewable hosting capacity to 171GW by 2030.
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