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166 storiesSouth Korean dailies run 'Today's Fortune' horoscope columns for October 9 and 10
Chosun Ilbo, Maeil Business, Korea Economic Daily and Dong-A Ilbo published their daily 'Today's Fortune' horoscope columns for October 9 and October 10, 2026. The columns give readings by zodiac animal and, in Chosun Ilbo and Dong-A Ilbo, …
Osaka hospital disciplines nurse over unauthorised patient videos on social media
An Osaka hospital said on October 15 that it had disciplined a staff member over unauthorised filming of patients and social-media posts. Nippon TV identified the employee as a nurse who filmed patients repeatedly while on duty in July; the…
Harry and Meghan visit Nottingham charities in first joint outing since UK return
Prince Harry and Meghan visited three Nottingham charities on Thursday in their first joint public appearances since returning to Britain. The couple's stops included the Community Recording Studio, Himmah Hub and Epic Partners.
Mother questions police response after four-year-old found dead in Jeju
A four-year-old girl and her father, in his 40s, were found dead in a parked rental car in Seogwipo on October 12. The child's mother said she had repeatedly asked police to check her daughter's safety; police said they had not identified s…
Seoul district-office employee dies after fall; police investigate circumstances
An employee in his 30s died after a fall at Seoul's Dongdaemun district office on October 14. He was taken to a nearby hospital, and police are investigating the circumstances of his death.
Seoul Grand Park to show red panda twins Maru and Marong from Oct 14
Seoul Grand Park said on Oct 9 that it will put red panda twins Maru (마루) and Marong (마롱) on public display from Oct 14, describing them as the first red pandas it has successfully bred, a first for South Korea. The male and female cubs wer…
South Korea re-designates 92 population decline regions, adds Busan Geumjeong, Dongducheon and Tongyeong
South Korea's Ministry of the Interior and Safety re-designated 92 cities, counties and districts as population decline regions on Oct. 7, up from 89 in the first designation five years earlier. Busan's Geumjeong-gu, Gyeonggi's Dongducheon …
Busan’s ‘Bukkangi’ shark confirmed as endangered heuksangeo, a 3-meter female
The National Institute of Fisheries Science said on Oct. 6 that the shark nicknamed Bukkangi, which has stayed in an artificial channel at Busan North Port’s waterfront park since Sept. 18, is a heuksangeo, a species classified as Endangere…
KCTU to vote Oct 7 on return to social dialogue; council ready to talk
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (민주노총) will hold its 85th temporary delegate conference at 1 p.m. on Oct 7 at KINTEX in Goyang to vote on joining the Economic, Social and Labor Council (경사노위), which would end a 27-year absence from…
Indian police detain CJP founder before New Delhi voter-roll protest
Indian police detained Abijito Dipuke (アビジート・ディプケ), founder of Gokiburi Jinminto (ゴキブリ人民党, CJP), on October 10 before a planned New Delhi protest over alleged voter-roll irregularities. Japanese reports gave differing estimates of the numbe…
Busan shark Bukkangi crosses net, returns to waterway; rescue paused
The shark nicknamed Bukkangi, believed to be a dusky shark about 3 m long, crossed a large net and returned to the artificial waterway at Busan's Bukhang Chinsu Park around noon on Oct 3, a day after a second attempt to guide it to open sea…
Busan shark ‘Bukkangi’ draws 1 million visitors as rescue efforts stall
Cumulative visitors to Bukhang waterfront park in Dong-gu, Busan reached 1,015,800 as of 6 pm on Oct 5, 18 days after a shark nicknamed “Bukkangi” was first found in its artificial waterway, according to city figures cited by Newsis, Yonhap…
Koumi mayor found dead after mushroom-picking trip in Nagano
Hiroshi Kurosawa (黒澤弘), the 71-year-old mayor of Koumi in Nagano Prefecture, was found collapsed in woodland on October 9 after going mushroom picking alone. His death was confirmed after he was taken to hospital, and police are investigati…
Police use tear gas in Paris as students protest school funding
Police fired tear gas at a barricaded Paris high school and at demonstrators at Place de la Bastille on October 8 as protests over school funding continued across France. The Education Ministry said 375 schools were fully or partly closed, …
Obituary: Son Jeong-yeong, father-in-law of YTN team chief Kim Young-soo, dies
Son Jeong-yeong, the father-in-law of Kim Young-soo, head of the current affairs production team at YTN's news production bureau, died on Oct 5, according to obituary notices carried by Yonhap, Kyunghyang Shinmun and Hankook Ilbo. Kyunghyan…
Former South Korean Constitutional Court justice Song In-jun (송인준) dies at 82
Former Constitutional Court justice Song In-jun (송인준) died at a Seoul hospital at about 21:30 on October 7, his family said. He was 82 and served on the court from 2000 to 2006.
National Sports Festival athletes save man in cardiac arrest at Jeju table tennis hall
Three members of the Daejeon team for the National Sports Festival performed CPR on a man in his 60s who collapsed in cardiac arrest at a table tennis hall in Hallim-eup, Jeju City, at about 10 a.m. on October 8, according to the Jeju Fire …
Actress Jun Won-ju, 87, says she gifted half her assets to prevent inheritance dispute
Actress Jun Won-ju, 87, said she gifted half of her assets to her two sons and their wives in advance so they would not fight over her estate, speaking on MBC’s “PD수첩” episode “2026 Inheritance War: Time of the Family Left Behind,” which ai…
Madrid pensioner whose eviction sparked Spain housing protests dies at 87
Maricarmen Abascal, an 87-year-old Madrid tenant whose eviction set off mass protests over housing costs across Spain, has died, Russian outlets reported, citing the Madrid tenants' union. She died in a Madrid hospital after being evicted i…
Japan karoshi white paper: record 1,082 work-related mental disorder cases recognised
Japan's cabinet on October 9 approved the 2026 White Paper on Measures to Prevent Karoshi, which reports that 1,082 cases of mental disorders were recognised as work-related injuries in fiscal 2025, a record for the seventh consecutive year…