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South Korea’s Health Ministry to expand health insurance coverage for rare cancer treatments (opens the original)
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SEOUL – Patients with rare or neglected cancers in Korea will face lower drug costs and gain greater access to treatment from Friday, as national health insurance coverage expands, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Wednesday. The expansion covers Retevmo for rare cancers caused by genetic alterations, Vyloy for unresectable advanced or metastatic stomach cancer, and a first-line combination of Padcev and Keytruda, two cancer drugs from different pharmaceutical companies, for urothelial can
Over half of toddlers in South Korea use smartphones before age two (opens the original)
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SEOUL – More than half of children under five began using smartphones before turning two, according to a government survey. The Mental Health Information and NCMH Data, or MIND, report released in January by the National Center for Mental Health’s Mental Health Research Institute surveyed the parents of 400 Korean children aged 2 to 5 about when their children began using smartphones. The largest share, 37.18 percent, said their children began using smartphones at 12 to 23 months old, while 13.8
School-age suicides in South Korea rise 65 per cent in 5 years (opens the original)
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SEOUL – The number of suicides among Korean schoolchildren reached its highest level on record in 2025, up 65 percent from 2020, government data showed Sunday. A total of 244 elementary, middle and high school students died by suicide in 2025, the highest number since records began, according to Education Ministry data obtained by Rep. Kim Moon-soo of the Democratic Party of Korea. They included six elementary school students, 92 middle school students and 146 high school students. The total ros
A former K-pop idol wanted a union. Nobody came forward (opens the original)
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SEOUL – Bang Min-su, better known as C.A.P. from his days in boy band Teen Top, met Democratic Party of Korea youth policy researcher Seo Min-seon last year, when she approached him with an idea to form Korea’s first labor union for K-pop idols. The 33-year-old former idol had already spoken publicly about labor and human rights issues in the K-pop industry. In September 2024, he testified at a National Assembly forum on the labor rights of child and teenage K-pop artists, raising concerns about
North Korea joins China, Russia in criticising Japan, deepening military ties (opens the original)
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SEOUL – Strategic cooperation between North Korea, China and Russia appears to be deepening: Recent reports speculate that Pyongyang and Moscow have increased military cooperation, as Pyongyang echoes its allies’ criticism of Japanese defense policies. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday claimed that Russia is preparing to bring in as many as 50,000 more North Korean troops to join its war against Ukraine. He also claimed that “North Korea’s weapons and combat experience are being
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