The Ministry of Employment and Labor issued a fall-season fall-prevention alert and will run intensive inspections of roof repair and solar installation sites from Sept. 28 to Oct. 27.
The environment ministry, Sejong city and Korea District Heating Corp. agreed to recover waste heat and biogas from the Sejong Water Quality Restoration Center A.
The health ministry is opening pop-up and flagship retail spaces in three European cities to help small Korean cosmetics brands build distribution networks abroad.
The health ministry selected 120 clinics from 674 applicants for a three-year pilot that pays integrated fees for preventive care, chronic disease management and community care links.
The new body will examine whether the median-income benchmark used by 80 welfare programmes leaves gaps or overlaps, with the first deputy minister calling it an exercise in looking past ministry boundaries.
The Human Resources Development Service of Korea selected four universities for a 2027 program that lets vocational high school graduates earn four-year degrees without transferring from junior college.
South Korea's culture ministry says cumulative foreign arrivals passed 15 million in August for the first time, with card spending by tourists up 48.5 percent.
The food and drug safety ministry and two other departments released a YouTube shorts campaign on the proper use of the ADHD medicine, as regulators blocked 1,733 illegal online listings this year.
Yoon Ho-joong used a UN high-level meeting in New York to share Korea's social solidarity economy policies and signed cooperation agreements with Spain and Senegal.
The environment ministry will check whether facilities that pose a high risk to life and property have appointed electrical safety managers and kept up with regular inspections.
The Ministry of Employment and Labor is holding its 21st Middle-Aged Employment Emphasis Week from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2, with job fairs, career counseling and training tied to local industries.
The environment ministry said the high-altitude project, carried out with the World Bank and the European Union, marks the first megawatt-class solar installation in Tajikistan and a proving ground for Korean modules and storage systems.
The Ministry of the Interior and Safety is accepting applications until Nov. 10 for a competition recognizing civil servants who built and deployed their own AI-based disaster safety tools.
South Korea's culture ministry and Mexico's culture ministry agreed to widen cooperation beyond film and publishing to creative industries, the arts and joint production, with a working group to follow.
The government will abandon mandatory two-line standing campaigns in favor of promoting three core safety habits and improving facility conditions following public feedback.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare will begin a three-month regular verification survey for social security benefits in October, introducing artificial intelligence tools to reduce administrative burdens.
The Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment signed a pact with three other agencies to construct a specialized facility on the site of the 2017 geothermal research project that triggered the quake.
The Ministry of Employment and Labor announced a legislative preview for revised regulations that require job platforms to verify advertisements for falsehoods before publication and remove suspicious posts immediately.
The National Institute of Ecology confirmed that a transplanted group of endangered large needle flowers in Cheongsong County grew 2.5 times through natural reproduction over the past year.
The initiative aims to recover up to 15 tons of rare earth permanent magnets annually from scrapped electric and hybrid vehicles through a new domestic circulation system.
A safety survey found that 21 percent of household chemicals bought from overseas failed domestic standards, with failures concentrated in fragrances, paints and adhesives.
The Ministry of Employment and Labor intensified inspections across 7,079 workplaces to clear arrears before the holiday, citing the broader economic impact of wage defaults.