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ArticleAs births rise, par­ents still struggle to get day­care spots

A 35-year-old father of two, ages 2 and 4, has waited 18 months for a place for his younger child at a pub­lic day­care cen­ter in Gwangjingu, Seoul. “My child is No. 285 on the wait­ing list. Most of the par­ents wait­ing for places have chil­dren...

ArticleJOHN FRANKL EMBODIES NEXT STAGE OF YONSEI’S INTERNATIONALIZATION

ArticleUkraine energy cease­fire Vinyl record sales surge

US Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump made a sur­prise announce­ment of an energy cease­fire between Rus­sia and Ukraine on Sunday that he said was “effect­ive imme­di­ately,” but Ukrain­ian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was still wait­ing to see details...

ArticleAUDIT IN PROGRESS

Bank of Korea Gov. Shin Hyun-song speaks dur­ing a National Assembly audit of the cent­ral bank in Seoul on Monday. Shin issued an apo­logy over the BOK’s response to the recent intro­duc­tion of single-stock lever­aged exchange-traded funds,...

ArticleChung denies alli­ance strains

Uni­fic­a­tion Min­is­ter Chung Dong-young on Monday rejec­ted claims of grow­ing strains in the South Korea-US alli­ance and urged news out­lets to exer­cise cau­tion when report­ing on rela­tions with Wash­ing­ton and North Korea. North Korea...

ArticlePrivate uni­versity fund­ing

South Korea’s Edu­ca­tion Min­istry has selec­ted 33 private uni­versit­ies and col­leges for a five-year ini­ti­at­ive worth 600 bil­lion won ($450 mil­lion) to strengthen their com­pet­it­ive­ness in spe­cial­ized fields, includ­ing...