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There are also concerns that carers and domestic helpers might abandon their designated roles in search of better-paying jobs, potentially swelling South Korea’s population of half a million undocumented immigrant workers.
The consequences have been catastrophic. Across the nation, patients are being turned away from overstretched, understaffed A&Es, with some large hospitals suspending treatment for cardiac arrests and traumatic injuries. It’s a crisis compounded by a resurgence in Covid-19 cases, pushing the system to the brink.
In his speech on Liberation Day on August 15 marking the end of Japan’s 1910-1945 rule over Korea, Yoon emphasised the need to expose North Koreans to ideas of freedom by providing them with access to outside information.
The controversy erupted after Yoon, in a notable break from tradition, focused his address commemorating Korea’s 1945 liberation from Japanese colonial rule on the need to promote reunification with the North and address human rights abuses by Pyongyang – all but glossing over Tokyo’s responsibility for past misdeeds.
The death of a senior South Korean anti-corruption official who was investigating the alleged graft case of President Yoon Suk-yeol’s wife involving an expensive handbag has deepened the political crisis in the country.
Controversy in South Korea over key academic appointments has reopened old war wounds between Seoul and Tokyo, with officials facing allegations of legitimising Japan’s colonial rule to shore up security ties with Tokyo and Washington.
A list containing the names and identities of numerous South Korean undercover agents has been leaked to a suspected North Korean operative, sparking intense criticism over the apparent violation of discipline within Seoul’s military intelligence agency.
General Paul LaCamera, commander of US Forces Korea (USFK), on Wednesday stressed the 1953 mutual defence treaty between the allies did not specify a single adversary, adding that his troops were prepared to defend South Korea against “all threats”.