The Ministry of Strategy and Finance announced on Monday that it will end a cut in the individual consumption tax that has been in place for the past three years안전놀이터. This comes just a day after the National Tax Service announced on July 7 that it would lower the tax base (taxable base) for domestic cars starting in July to reduce the burden on consumers. The government had previously lowered the vehicle tax, which is 5 percent of the ex-factory price of a passenger car, by 70 percent to 1.5 percent from March to June as the economy sharply froze...

Moderator : Anchor Na Kyung-cheol, Anchor Yoo DawonContributor : Prof. Lee Jung-hwan, Hanyang University School of Economics and Finance The text below may differ from the actual broadcast, so please check the broadcast for more accurate information. Please specify [YTN Good Morning Waitien] when quoting. ◇Anchor> You've been talking about the minimum wage, and there's a third meeting today, but some people are saying that the minimum wage should be raised to 12,000 won. The other side is saying that the self-employed will reduce employment, so there are conflicting arguments. Where is this background? Lee Jeong-hwan> I think it's because...

According to the Gyeonggi-do Fire and Disaster Management Center, the accident occurred when a 9-meter-long upward escalator that was operating at Exit 2 of Suinsaek Station ran backwards. Three subway passengers were hospitalized in the incident. Eleven other people were treated and sent home with relatively minor injuries. No one was seriously injured, including broken bones, but many people who were rushing to work or school had to be shaken up by the accident. The subway station, department stores, shopping malls, and apartment complexes are densely populated, and the escalator was packed with passengers at the time of the accident....

Japanese conveyor belt sushi chain Sushiro has filed a ¥67 million ($627 million) lawsuit for damages against a boy who videotaped himself licking a soy sauce bottle at one of its stores in January, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported토토사이트. According to the report, the chain operator said in a complaint filed in March that the boy's behavior "brought the hygiene management of each store into question and caused many customers to feel uncomfortable and disgusted. The impact is serious and we cannot ignore the problem." The sushi chain said it is taking measures to prevent similar inconveniences, such as installing acrylic...

New York stocks rose on Monday (Sept. 9). On the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 33,833.61, up 168.59 points, or 0.50%, from the previous trading day. The S&P 500 added 26.41 points, or 0.62%, to 4293.93, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite closed up 133.63 points, or 1.02%, to 13,238.52. Tech stocks were in focus today as markets awaited the FOMC meeting. The bullish momentum in tech stocks was maintained in the absence of materials ahead of next week's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. In particular, analysts remained positive on tech giant Amazon....

A giant catfish measuring 3 meters in length has been caught in Italy, breaking the current world record. Alessandro Biancardi, 44, a member of the European professional fishing team Madcat, single-handedly caught a giant catfish measuring 285 centimeters in length in the Po River in Italy on March 31, according to Reuters on the 6th (local time). According to published photos안전놀이터, the catfish's mouth is larger than a human face. Its body is also larger than most adults. Biancardi released the catfish after measuring its length, so its weight was not disclosed. "I was fishing like any other day," Biancardi...

As Typhoon Mawar, a Category 2 storm that hit Guam, slipped south of Japan, Typhoon Kuchol, a Category 3 storm, formed. The name was submitted by the Federated States of Micronesia and refers to "turmeric," a type of spice. The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) forecast on June 6 that Typhoon Kuchol was centered at 1490 kilometers east of Manila, Philippines, as of 9 p.m. that day. The typhoon, which is currently moving northwestward, will continue to move northwestward until it reaches a point about 1,000 kilometers southeast of Okinawa, Japan, or far east of the Philippines on the 9th. By...

Kim Ki-hyun of the People's Power and Lee Jae-myung of the안전놀이터 Democratic Party of Korea will meet with the Ambassador of Japan to Korea and the Ambassador of China to Korea on Monday. Kim will meet with Japanese Ambassador Koichi Aiboshi at the National Assembly at 3 p.m. that day. Kim is expected to reaffirm the government's commitment to trilateral cooperation with the U.S., China and Japan and call for bilateral cooperation in the economic and security fields. He is also expected to address the discharge of contaminated water from Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant. The meeting was reportedly requested...

How would you feel if you got a speeding ticket for going 142 km/h when the maximum speed limit is 110 km/h? KBS Jeju doggedly followed the story of a taxi driver in Jeju who received such a speeding notice, and found that there was an error in the police enforcement process. ■ A 142km speeding ticket when 110km is the maximum speed? Mr. Seo drives his large taxi. In March, Mr. Seo received an outrageous speeding ticket. He was facing a 60-day license suspension for going 142km on a road in Haenam, South Jeolla Province, when the maximum speed...

Mr. Kang Sung-koo, who is known as the "Confectioner King" for selling old-fashioned sweets in the northern market of Iksan, Jeollabuk-do, strongly criticized a vendor in a traditional market in Yeongyang-gun, North Gyeongsangbuk-do, who was recently accused of using the "catch one" tactic. "It's a typical foolish, hustling business," he said. Mr. Kang posted on his Instagram on the 7th and said, "Don't lose your initial focus. Lawyers, doctors, judges, prosecutors, and confectioners are number one," he said. "Even if you don't have any left, even if you lose money, you have to sell them so that customers will come...