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Samsung under pressure after Intel's foundry spin-off: analysts
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Yoon leaves for Prague to cement nuclear energy push
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Heavy rain to fall nationwide over weekend, but warmer fall expected
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Seoul chastises predatory pricing claims over Czech nuclear export deal
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YouTuber under fire for consoling former singer accused of bullying
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NK newspaper 'unusually' silent on new missile tests: Seoul
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Samsung CEO introduces ‘bold growth’ as new target
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Bank of Korea eyes rate cut after US Fed's historic pivot
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3 suspects apprehended for selling celebrity deepfake porn: police
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Hyundai Motor officially becomes KT’s largest shareholder
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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
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Gang members infiltrated U.S. forces in S. Korea: FBI
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Yonhap) -- American gang members have signed up for the U.S. military forces stationed in South Korea, a recent U.S. gang assessment report showed Monday, posing possible criminal threats to local law enforcement. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in the October report th
Social AffairsNov. 8, 2011
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GNP primed to vote on Korea-U.S. FTA bill
The ruling Grand National Party on Monday renewed its resolve to vote on the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement with the key parliamentary plenary session scheduled for Thursday after weeks of political wrangling over the ratification bill.“The Korea-U.S. FTA is a matter of national interest and of paramount importance; we can no longer tolerate the opposition’s approach (to the FTA) out of partisan interests,” GNP spokesman Kim Ki-hyun said in a briefing after the party’s supreme council meeting M
PoliticsNov. 7, 2011
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‘N.K. defector shot dead while fleeing country’
A North Korean border guard recently shot and killed a defector while trying to escape near the border with China, an activist in Seoul said.The incident is seen as part of a crackdown on the increasing number of residents risking their lives to flee the impoverished state.Kim Yong-hwa, chairman of the North Korea Refugees Human Rights Association of Korea, said he saw a defector shot dead by a North Korean border guard shortly after he crossed the river border and stepped on Chinese soil. “I ac
North KoreaNov. 7, 2011
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U.N. forum discusses nuclear security
Nuclear experts and officials from around the world kicked off an annual United Nations forum on the southern resort island of Jeju Monday to highlight the importance of strengthening nuclear security, setting the stage for a global summit of the same theme to be hosted by South Korea next year.The Republic of Korea-U.N. Joint Conference on Disarmament and Non-proliferation Issues, now into its 10th year, comes as Seoul is preparing to host some 50 world leaders in March for the second Nuclear S
Foreign AffairsNov. 7, 2011
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Three S. Korean men kidnapped in Philippines: official
Three South Korean businessmen who have been missing on a southern island in the Philippines since late last month have been confirmed as kidnapped by unidentified gunmen, a foreign ministry official in Seoul said Monday. The three Korean miners have been missing since Oct. 21 on the Philippine island of Mindanao and local police recently confirmed that they are held by gunmen, the official said on the condition of anonymity. The gunmen have demanded a ransom for the Korean miners, the official
Social AffairsNov. 7, 2011
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Qatar Education City prepares for a future without oil
DOHA, Qatar ― Qatar invests heavily in education and science, hoping to change its social and economic basis from oil to knowledge.The Amir of the country, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, has so far put hundreds of millions of dollars into universities and research institutes. Sheikha Mozah, wife of the Amir and chairperson of the Qatar Foundation, said Qatar tried to be a “small laboratory which finds solutions for the rest of the world.” The country is a peninsula jutting into the Persian G
Social AffairsNov. 7, 2011