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log date: 2025-12-31 The Fair Trade Commission Korea is accepting anonymous tipoffs about illegal practices that force suppliers to lower their unit prices. Source :   https://www.ftc.go.kr/www/contents.do?key=337   According to the testimony from a Newstapa reporter who worked undercover at Coupang, the employer failed to provide its employees with legally manadated breaks. In addition, employees working in warehouses with indoor temperatures reaching up to 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) were denied access to water bottles, leading to dehydration and eventual death. Source :  https://newstapa.org/article/Qpvya   From a petition issued on 2024-7 for the Rocket Delivery worker death case "I am Geum-seok Jeong (정금석). My son, Seul-gi Jeong (정슬기), who worked as a Rocket Delivery person (driver) for Coupang for 14 months, passed away suddenly last May (2024). The cause of his death was suspected ventricular fibrillation and myocardial infarction. He died ...

log date: 2025-12-20 According to an article by Munhwa-ilbo reporter Jee-yeon Jeong, Peru's highest electoral authority JNE has decided not to implement the electronic voting system planned for the 2026 general election. Peru's highest electoral authority JNE decided to suspend the electronic voting system. Reported by Jee-yeon Jeong (정지연), Munhwa-ilbo Source : https://www.munhwa.com/article/11555572 In an official statement on the 19th (local time), The JNE stated, "The digital voting solution technology (STVD·Solución Tecnológica de Voto Digital) does not guarantee the stability, security, and reliability necessary for immediate application in the 2026 general election." Consequently, the system will not be used in the upcoming general election. The JNE's decision, which was made following an independent audit and evaluation of the electronic voting system, stems from the conclusion that the technology is not yet ready for elections in terms of security and reli...

log date: 2025-12-14 Cases of family-related hiring have been confirmed to be more numerous than previously reported. While only a small number of current and former employees were surveyed,  one in five  were family members. The NEC reportedly requested an investigation into the 11 individuals who were favorably hired and were to audit their employment to determine whether their appointments to be revoked. By Reporter Ye-seul Hyun for  Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) News source :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td_YQasDS8s May 2023, personnel corruption in the hiring of 11 high-ranking officials at the National Election Commission (NEC), including hereditary hiring practices, was revealed. Hereditary hiring refers to a situation where children are hired by a company while their parents are still employed there. This is a serious misconduct and a social problem and it is a crime that should never occur in the public sector. This form of nepotism allows parents to ...

log date: 2025-10-5 Overview of the case:  Based on press releases distributed by the  Ministry of Interior and Safety  and South Korean media reports, on September 26, 2025 at 20:15, a fire broke out in the server room on the fifth floor of the Daejeon headquarters of the  National Information Resources Service  (NIRS ) in South Korea, and was reportedly extinguished after 21 hours. On October 20, 2022, as the head of NIRS at the time, Kang Dong-seok announced on KTV (Korea Policy Broadcasting) that the NIRS was prepared to recover within three hours in the event of a system failure due to a fire or other disaster. However, instead of Lee Jae-yong who is the current head of NIRS and didn't even make an official appearance yet, Minister of the Interior and Safety Yoon Ho-joong announced after the incident of September 26 that recovery would take considerable time because the government 's backup system was not operational. Immediately after Yoon's announcem...