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92 people evacuated as fire breaks out in public bathhouseSocial affairsFeb 4, 2023More than 90 people evacuated Saturday morning as a fire broke out at a public bathhouse in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, according to local media reports. The fire started at 8:07 a.m. from the bathhouse, which uses the second, third and the fourth floor of a six-story building. The fire was put out in around an hour, but smoke billowed into other facilities of the building. Of 92 people who evacuated the scene, three people who inhaled smoke were taken to nearby hospital, including a
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Hunter sentenced 1 year, 4 months imprisonment for manslaughterSocial affairsFeb 3, 2023An appellate court on Thursday upheld a prison term for a hunter who shot and killed a taxi driver, mistaking the victim for a boar. The 73-year-old professional hunter was sentenced to one year and four months in prison for murder by occupational negligence at an appellate trial in the second criminal appellate division of Seoul Western District Court on Thursday, reducing the sentence by four months from the lower court’s ruling. The shooting took place around 8 p.m. on April 29 during a
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S. Korea, US stage aerial drills with stealth fightersDefenseFeb 3, 2023South Korea and the US on Friday staged another military air exercise over the west coast of South Korea by mobilizing their stealth fighters, just two days after US strategic bombers flew to the Korean Peninsula for combined aerial drills. The air combat exercise involved F-22 and F-35B advanced stealth fighters and F-16CM fighting aircraft of the US Air Force and South Korean Air Force’s F-35A stealth fighter jets, according to South Korea’s Air Force. “The combined exercise