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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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Allegations surrounding BTS resurface, enraged fans demand apology
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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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Probe of first lady on Dior bag allegations set to begin
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Medical feud leaves hospitals in financial crisis
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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Chip up cycle won’t stay long: SK chief
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[KH Explains] Can tech firms' AI alliances take on Nvidia?
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With Indonesia unable to pay full share, what’s next for KF-21 fighter project?
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Father gets suspended term for beating daughter with bamboo stick, physical workouts
A Seoul appellate court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling and sentenced the father of a teenage girl to a suspended prison term for beating her with a bamboo stick and forcing her to do long physical workouts.The father, identified as Choi, 48, was indicted last year on charges of harsh treat
Social AffairsNov. 9, 2011
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Senior actor found dead in apparent suicide
A senior South Korean actor was found dead in his small rented room on Tuesday of an apparent suicide, police said.Kim Choo-ryun, a 64-year-old actor who had his heyday in the 1970s, was found hanging in his studio in Gimhae, 449 kilometers southeast of Seoul, the police said.He seemed to have kille
Social AffairsNov. 8, 2011
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Cheonggyecheon teems with hazardous bacteria
A popular stream running through downtown Seoul, which is visited by millions of people annually, has been severely polluted by bacteria, a report by the city government showed Tuesday.According to the report, submitted to Seoul council member Jang Hwan-jin of the Democratic Party, parts of the Cheonggyecheon stream contain as many as 53 times the legal limit of colon bacillus. The standard for the number of bacteria for a body of water suitable for swimming is 1,000 per 100 milliliters.The stud
Social AffairsNov. 8, 2011
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S. Korean diplomat in Japan returns home to prepare for elections
A senior South Korean diplomat in Japan has resigned only nine months after taking office, citing preparations to run for next year’s parliamentary elections, an official said Tuesday.Kim Seok-ki, the consul general in Osaka, recently submitted his resignation to the presidential office and returned home on Monday, the Foreign Ministry official said.Kim has reportedly cited his plan to run in the parliamentary elections scheduled next April.The move comes nine months after the former police chie
Foreign AffairsNov. 8, 2011
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Park shifts focus from growth to employment
A growing sense of deprivation among people in their 20-40s, which saw them vote en masse for a nonpartisan contender in the Oct. 26 Seoul mayoral by-election, has pushed the presidential front-runner of the conservative ruling party to shift focus on economic policy from growth to employment.“From now on, the employment rate should be the main indicator for economic policies,” said Rep. Park Geun-hye of the Grand National Party at a seminar on ways to build a “Korean-style” welfare model last w
PoliticsNov. 8, 2011
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Maximum penalty for match-fixing rises to W50m
The government on Tuesday toughened punishments for match fixing in local professionals sports, in light of a major match-rigging scandal that shook the nation’s top division football league earlier this year.During a Cabinet meeting held at Cheong Wa Dae, the government passed a bill on revising the national sports promotion law, which governs sales of Sports Toto, the only licensed sports lottery in South Korea.Under the change, players or coaches who receive or demand bribes in attempts to fi
Social AffairsNov. 8, 2011
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Foreign wife a voice for multicultural families
First Mongolian native employed by central government ministryJeong Su-rim is an exceptional housewife, mother and public servant who still finds time to pursue further education. The 36-year-old mother cares for her two sons, who are nine and 11-years-old, while working a nine-to-six job at the Ministry of Gender Equality & Family, in the Multicultural Family Division.At night Jeong also attends graduate school courses at Seoul Women’s University to get her master’s in social welfare.Jeong migh
Social AffairsNov. 8, 2011
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Generational fault line divides Korean society
Voters in their 20-40s, bound by anger and angst, changing political landscapeThey have made it a tacit rule not to argue or even talk about politics for years.Lee, a 36-year-old researcher on information industry, and his father-in-law surnamed Yoo, 60, remain poles apart in their political views. Lee has advocated liberal policies and values pursued by President Roh Moo-hyun while Yoo, a retired printer, has been a staunch supporter of the conservative Grand National Party.“Soon after our mar
PoliticsNov. 8, 2011
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N. Korea growing more sensitive to foreigners’ travel
North Korea is becoming stricter on foreigners’ travel in the country, apparently sensitive to the impact of outside news on the recent death of Libya’s longtime dictator, a U.S.-funded radio station said Tuesday. Not wanting outsiders to bring in recent news on Libya, the North Korean regime is asking foreign officials and businessmen not to leave Pyongyang without approval, Radio Free Asia reported, quoting people in Pyongyang. Former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was killed by revolutionary f
North KoreaNov. 8, 2011
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Seoul City to offer rent-free offices to foreign entrepreneurs
The Seoul city government is offering rent-free offices for six months to foreign entrepreneurs here in Korea, officials said Tuesday. The four incubation facilities for foreign business startups will provide basic office equipment, internet support and business management resources. Three offices, each 5.75 square meters, are located in the Global Business Support Center in Gangnam COEX, and a 25.9-square-meter office is in the new Seoul International Finance Center in Yeouido. The city will se
Social AffairsNov. 8, 2011
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Another N. Korean defector found on raft in West Sea
Another North Korean man defected to South Korea on Oct. 30, using a makeshift raft to cross the tense western maritime border, government sources said Tuesday.A naval patrol ship spotted him some 13 kilometers away from Yeonpyeong Island at around 3:10 a.m. ― about 10 minutes before they found a group of 21 North Koreans on a wooden boat some 41 kilometers west of Daecheong Island.The two cases are the latest in a series of defections by those who have risked their lives to escape poverty and s
North KoreaNov. 8, 2011
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Prosecutors raid SK offices
Prosecutors on Tuesday raided the head office of SK Group, widening their investigation into suspicions surrounding catastrophic financial investments made by its chairman Chey Tae-won. Investigators from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office descended upon the group’s headquarters in central Seoul early in the morning to search for evidence. The raid concurrently took place in 10 places, including the office of SK Holdings, the group’s de facto holding company controlled by the group’s
Social AffairsNov. 8, 2011
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Seoul resumes medical aid to N.K. via U.N.
South gives first government-level assistance since deadly attacks last yearSouth Korea plans to resume medical aid to North Korea by taking part in a U.N. aid program, a Seoul official said Tuesday, in the newest sign of easing tensions between the two rival countries. It will be the first government-level assistance to North Korea since its deadly shelling on a border island in November last year. The Seoul government has approved of executing $6.94 million to the World Health Organization, wh
North KoreaNov. 8, 2011
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Korea, Vietnam discuss atomic power plant deal
President Lee Myung-bak and visiting Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang discussed during their summit talks Tuesday bilateral cooperation including a project to build nuclear power plants in Ninh Thuan, southwestern Vietnam. Vietnam plans to build a 10-unit atomic power station in Ninh Thuan in 2014. Korea is seeking to build the fifth and sixth units. “The two sides closely observed Korea’s proposal on the use of Korean technology for nuclear power plant development in Vietnam, human resource
Foreign AffairsNov. 8, 2011
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GNP to seek new faces for general election
The Grand National Party needs to replace its senior lawmakers with political rookies who can appeal to young voters to win in next April’s general election, the party’s policy think tank said.The Youido Institute analyzed the party’s crushing defeat in last month’s Seoul mayoral by-election and suggested new strategies to win the hearts of voters in their 20s and 30s, according to officials Tuesday.The absentee voting results, which were delivered to the National Election Commission prior to th
PoliticsNov. 8, 2011
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USFK denies gang presence in its personnel
The U.S. Forces Korea on Tuesday denied that there is gang presence in its personnel stationed here.Its denial came after an October report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed that members from 53 gangs have been enlisted in U.S. installations around the world, including those in South Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Germany and Japan. “We have checked with the Korean national police, (the U.S. military) Central Investigation Department and the FBI,” a USFK media relations officer told rep
DefenseNov. 8, 2011
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N. Korea’s nuke tests were two too many: CTBTO chief
North Korea stands out as the only country to have conducted a nuclear test in the 21st century, pushing it into further isolation from the rest of the world, the head of an agency tasked with monitoring the main nuclear-test-ban treaty said Tuesday.“Each test is creating a problem for the DPRK and this is the choice of the DPRK,” said Tibor Toth, executive secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO). DPRK is the acronym of North Kor
North KoreaNov. 8, 2011
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Lee meets new Seoul mayor amid tension over trade pact with U.S.
President Lee Myung-bak had his first face-to-face encounter with new Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, a day after Park voiced his opposition to Lee's push to get the free trade agreement with the United States to pass through parliament. (Yonhap News)Park, who was elected
PoliticsNov. 8, 2011
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SKorea approves WHO medicines shipment to NKorea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) _ South Korea has lifted its block on donating medicine to North Korea via the World Health Organization, amid signs of easing tension between the countries.South Korea previously had donated to a WHO program to send medicine and medical supplies to the North, but asked the o
North KoreaNov. 8, 2011
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N. Korean man defects to South on raft: source
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Yonhap) -- A North Korean man crossed the maritime border into South Korea on a raft late last month, the same day that 21 other North Koreans were found drifting aboard a boat off the South's west coast, a government source said Tuesday."One North Korean man was discovered by our Nav
North KoreaNov. 8, 2011