Senior doctors at Seoul’s Asan Medical Center are limiting their care of patients in a show of solidarity to doctors-in-training who walked out of hospitals earlier this year in protest of government plans to boost medical school seats. Cha Yun-kyung reports. At an emergency committee meeting of professors of medicine at the University of Ulsan, … Read more
In the U.K. A shift in leadership has been set in motion as the Labor Party secures a major victory over Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party. Song Yoo-jin reports. Conservative Party leader and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has conceded defeat in the general election. According to Sky News, Labour had already surpassed the … Read more
And Samsung Electronics has beaten market expectations by projecting remarkably higher operating profits for the second quarter of this year. The tech giant.. on Friday shared an estimated second quarter operating profit of 10-point-4 trillion Korean won or around 7-and-a-half-billion U.S. dollars marking an over 15-fold surge on year. The latest performance comes amid higher … Read more
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Good morning. It didn’t rain as much as expected overnight, moisture in the air is making it feel quite muggy under cloudy skies in the capital this morning. However, lingering monsoon rain in some areas should let up in the morning hours. Then mostly sunny skies will shine down with very strong UV rays, extreme … Read more
And finally to New York’s Coney Island and the annual 4th of July hot dog eating contest, where competitive eaters gorged on dozens of hot dogs. This year saw a new champion in the men’s category with Chicago’s Patrick Bertoletti chomping down on 58 hot dogs in 10 minutes to take home his first Mustard … Read more
This summer in Russia is proving to be one of the hottest seen in more than a century. Moscow broke its 1917 temperature record this week, and many cities across the country are sweltering in temperatures well above 35 degrees Celsius. According to the FOBOS weather centre, On Wednesday, the mercury rose to 32.7 degrees … Read more
Following Tuesday’s crowd crush at a Hindu religious event in India that left 121 people dead the Indian police said on Thursday that they had arrested six people in connection with the incident. A police report said that some 250,000 people gathered to listen to preacher Suraj Pal Singh, also known as ‘Bhole Baba’, while … Read more
French government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot, who is a candidate in the country’s snap parliamentary election, was attacked while campaigning in Paris as a growing number of candidates and activists are being targeted in the run-up to Sunday’s final round of elections. Thevenot was putting up election posters with members of her team in the southwest … Read more
The entire country is officially under the influence of the monsoon season, with heavy downpours and strong winds. How to remain safe during this one? Let’s turn to Professor Yoon Jin-ho. Welcome to the program. 1. Last year, we saw so many sporadic showers and downpours so often. Will we experience something similar again this … Read more
