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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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Samsung chip business back on track, logs W1.9tr operating profit in Q1
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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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Shinsegae faces showdown with investors over SSG.com's delayed IPO
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Hopes rise for possible Gaza truce deal
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Ex-pro baseball player who killed debtor appeals sentence
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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S. Korea to issue travel ban on Haiti amid intensifying gang violence
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Leaders of S. Korea, Angola agree to boost economic, trade cooperation
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Berlusconi under pressure as sex trial looms
MILAN (AFP) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's trial on charges of sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of power opens in Milan on Wednesday after a dramatic build-up that has dented his popularity.The billionaire tycoon is no stranger to the dock after years of investigations and trials linked to his business interests but this will be the first time that his tumultuous personal li
PoliticsApril 6, 2011
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Girl claims she did not brush her teeth for 10 years
The girl who hasn't brushed her teeth for 10 years appeared on the popular TV program "Martian Virus."Everyone has a special habit. However, sometimes they get so carried away as to shock others. “Martian Virus,” a popular TV program from tvN based in Seoul, introduces those with habits or characteristics that are grotesque, but those they are proud of nonetheless.The show is to introduce a girl w
Social AffairsApril 6, 2011
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Ruling party drawing up new reunification policy
South Korea’s conservative ruling party said Tuesday it will set up new policies that actively prepare for reunifying with North Korea, as the communist state suffers from deepening food shortages and political instability. Although it would not openly admit it, the conservative Lee Myung-bak government in Seoul has been increasing measures preparing for sudden collapse of the Kim Jong-il regime i
PoliticsApril 5, 2011
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Lawmakers shrink from softer campaign rules
Four lawmakers have retracted support for a proposed revision bill which would make it harder for law-breaking elected officials to lose their seats ― with others thought likely to follow. Last Friday, Grand National Party Rep. Kim Choong-whan, along with lawmakers from other parties, submitted a revision bill to raise the minimum requirements before elected officials could be stripped of their po
PoliticsApril 5, 2011
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President Lee pledges to share river development experience with Malaysia
President Lee Myung-bak said Tuesday that his government will share its experience of dredging and developing the country’s four main rivers with Malaysia ahead of summit talks with visiting Prime Minister Mohamed Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak later in the day.“The Malaysian prime minister said he wished to take a look at the four rivers being developed,” Lee said during an Arbor Day event in Yeoju, G
PoliticsApril 5, 2011
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Seoul to foster N.K. defectors as unification force
Four-month program to train 1,000 young people from N. KoreaSouth Korea will open a program aimed at training young North Korean defectors to be resourceful workers after the reunification of the two Koreas, a civic group here said Tuesday.The four-month program, funded by the government, will train 1,000 young North Koreans, who are either college seniors or graduates, on topics such as social in
North KoreaApril 5, 2011
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Ahn Chul-soo to lecture at SNU
Ahn Chul-soo, a chair professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, has accepted a teaching offer from Seoul National University, an AhnLab official said Tuesday. Ahn, 49, is the founder of computer vaccine developer AhnLab, one of Korea’s first-generation IT startups. Ahn Chul-sooThe state-run university had earlier made an unofficial offer to Ahn for the chief position now
Social AffairsApril 5, 2011
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Seoul, Yeonggwang, Jeju get electric vehicle support
The Ministry of Environment on Tuesday designated Seoul, Jeju and Yeonggwang in South Jeolla Province as “leading cities” in promoting the use of electric vehicles across the country. Local authorities will provide residents with 168 electric vehicles and 251 recharging facilities. Korea plans to put more than 1 million electric cars in use by 2020. In Seoul, where electric buses already operate a
Social AffairsApril 5, 2011
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Money increasingly fingered as reason for divorce
Money can’t buy you love but it often makes a relationship go sour.Couple.net, a matchmaking agency, said Tuesday that the number of divorces caused by financial problems has sharply increased in the past decade. In its survey of 4,405 couples divorced between 1990 and 2009, the number of people divorcing because of money problems marked 7.1 percent between 1990 and 1999, but jumped to 12.7 percen
Social AffairsApril 5, 2011
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'Minimal’ radioactive material may reach Korea
Radioactive materials from Japan might hit South Korea this week, state-run agencies said Monday. Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety and Korea Meteorological Administration said that winds containing radioactive materials from Fukushima nuclear plants might reach Korea by Thursday. “As high pressures develop around Japan, atmospheres in the height of 1-3 km may reach Korea through the East China Se
Social AffairsApril 5, 2011
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S. Korea to crack down on crimes by foreign gangs
Police to launch 5-month campaignSouth Korea said Monday it will crack down on foreigner gang crimes, which are on the rise as the number of non-Korean nationals increase each year in this traditionally homogeneous country.The National Police Agency said it will launch a five-month crackdown from Tuesday on foreign gangsters who are known to be expanding their influence in foreigner-populated area
Social AffairsApril 5, 2011
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S. Korean base in Afghanistan hit by rocket attack
A base for South Korea's aid workers and troops in Afghanistan was attacked with rockets earlier this week, an official at Seoul's foreign ministry said Monday. Two rounds of rocket-propelled grenades landed on a parade ground inside the base in Charika, a city in the northern Afghan province of Parwan, with two other rounds landing outside of the base, the ministry official said, asking not
Foreign AffairsApril 4, 2011
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Two U.S. soldiers sentenced to suspended prison terms for beating taxi driver
UIJEONGBU (Yonhap) -- A South Korean local court on Monday sentenced two soldiers of the U.S. Forces Korea to two-year suspended prison terms for beating a taxi driver last year. The American soldiers, identified only by their initials J and C, were charged with injuring a cab driver who had refused to take them to Camp Red Cloud in Uijeongbu, just north of Seoul, in June last year. The reaso
Social AffairsApril 4, 2011
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Seoul boosts ‘practical control’ over Dokdo
Construction of ocean research station to begin in April in waters near isletsFrom planting trees to building installations and selling bits of land to ordinary citizens, South Korea is eying several long-term plans aimed at strengthening its sovereignty to counter Japan’s repeated claims over its easternmost islets of Dokdo. Japan strengthened its claims the Dokdo islets in its revised textbooks
PoliticsApril 4, 2011
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Private chopper with two people aboard crashes north of Seoul
A private helicopter crashed in the low hills of Dongducheon, Gyeonggi Province, on Monday while transporting supplies for a steel power grid in the hills, the police said. The police are working to find the exact site and cause of the crash in the city located some 40 kilometers north of the capital of Seoul. They are also working to confirm the safety of a pilot and one other passenger ab
Social AffairsApril 4, 2011
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Lee’s office puts brakes on legal compliance bill
Cheong Wa Dae said Monday it will take some time before giving the green light to a new bill requiring listed companies to hire legal experts.The National Assembly last month passed a revised commercial bill that requires all listed businesses to employ lawyers or law professors of more than five years’ experience to monitor for potential legal problems in addition to the counsels they already hav
PoliticsApril 4, 2011
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Parties pick candidates in tight match areas
Parties confirmed several candidates for the April 27 parliamentary by-elections Monday.The ruling Grand National Party announced the selection of Kang Jae-sup, the party’s former leader, as its candidate to run in the Bundang-B constituency in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. Kang will compete against Sohn Hak-kyu, the chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party.“The party has decided, based on
PoliticsApril 4, 2011
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Lee replaces NIS deputy chiefs
President Lee Myung-bak has decided to replace two of the three deputy chiefs of the National Intelligence Service two months after the nation’s main spy agency’s failed attempt to steal information from a visiting Indonesian delegation caused diplomatic humiliation. Lee named Jeon Jae-man, diplomatic minister at the South Korean Embassy in Beijing, as the first deputy chief of the NIS, and Lee Jo
PoliticsApril 4, 2011
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GNP leader proposes forming inter-Korean body on natural disasters
The chief of the ruling Grand National Party proposed Monday that South and North Korea establish a joint body to conduct research together and share information on natural disasters on the peninsula.The suggestion from GNP leader Ahn Sang-soo came as the two Koreas launched civilian-level talks last week on a potential volcanic eruption at the North’s Mount Paekdu. The second round of volcano tal
PoliticsApril 4, 2011
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Six technologies set to change campuses
Electronic books will replace textbooks while medical students will practice surgical operations in an augmented reality, according to an international report that predicted the future campus in the next five years or less.The 2011 Horizon Report, published by the New Media Consortium, a non-profit group dedicated to exploring new technologies in learning, introduced six technologies likely to ent
Social AffairsApril 4, 2011