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South Korean central ministry overseeing public administration, local governments, population-decline policy, police affairs and public-sector cybersecurity.
South Korea will move the Financial Services Commission and its Financial Intelligence Unit, 420 staff in all, to Sejong in the second half of 2027. Critics say distance will slow crisis response, but the evidence so far is one October meeting and a survey of another agency.
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Gyeonggi Province's council passed a 525.4 billion won supplementary budget on the 12th, taking its 2026 total to 42.2053 trillion won. Governor Choo Mi-ae says the problem is next year, and the council is pushing for a local tax overhaul.
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Korean business owners aged 60 or older rose by 184,226 in the year to August, more than the country's 133,382 net gain in all operators, tax data show. Every age group under 60 shrank, so the count now rests on people past retirement age, many of them working because their pensions fall short.
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Korea's interior ministry named 92 population-declining areas and will move its 1 trillion won yearly fund from facilities toward housing and care. More of it will follow areas that show population gains, so the redraw changes which municipalities get money as well as what that money buys.
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South Korea closes its prosecution service on October 2 and widens the role of a 140,000-strong police force run by its third acting chief since December 2024. Its new checks are reviews by its own officers; the National Police Commission's control powers are still unbuilt.
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The FSC relocation plan reaches Cabinet this week. The agency trades address for institutional survival, while supervised firms in the capital region absorb the access cost on an unpublished timeline.
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