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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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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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S. Korea lowers COVID-19 warning level, lifts last-remaining antivirus mandates
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Four dead as heavy rain lashes central parts
Torrential rains pounded central parts of the country on Monday, leaving at least four people dead, disaster officials said. Heavy rain alerts were issued in Seoul as well as Gyeonggi and Gangwon provinces as more than 100 millimeters of rain soaked the areas.Some roads, river walks and bridges in Seoul were closed and a parking lot was fully flooded, damaging around 30 to 40 cars. Parts of the city received an average of 80 millimeters of rain with up to 145.5 millimeters in some districts.Road
July 22, 2013
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Boryeong Mud Festival attracts overseas tourists
The city of Boryeong, the host of the annual Boryeong Mud Festival, said Monday some foreign visitors were now booking their tickets and coming from overseas to participate in the event. Foreign visitors to the festival have generally been already residing in the country. “Jay from the United States saw an online ad for the festival and immediately booked a ticket to land in South Korea on Friday, the opening day of the festival,” said one of the interpreters at the event.Daecheon Beach, the ven
July 22, 2013
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Prosecution seizes insurance product of ex-president's wife
Prosecutors have seized an insurance product belonging to former President Chun Doo-hwan's wife as part of efforts to collect a massive fine he owes the state, sources at the prosecution said Monday. The move is part of intensifying efforts by the prosecution to find concealed assets of the former president, who was ordered by the top court in 1997 to return to the state coffers 220 billion won (US$196.8 million) that he was found to have accumulated during his military rule from 1980 to 1988.
July 22, 2013
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Lawyer unaware of any arrest warrant for Yoon Chang-jung
It remains unclear whether Yoon Chang-jung, a former South Korean presidential spokesman, will stand trial in the U.S. on charges of molesting an embassy intern, his attorney said Sunday.Kim Suk-han, a lawyer and partner with law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, D.C., dismissed a news report that U.S. law-enforcement authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Yoon. President Park Geun-hye fired Yoon, 56, while visiting the U.S. in early May as he was accused of sexually abus
July 22, 2013
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[Photo News] Flood victims
July 21, 2013
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[Newsmaker] Crooked lobbyist back in spotlight
Prosecutors said Sunday they indicted lobbyist-turned-businessman Choi Kyu-sun for embezzlement. The chief executive of UI Energy Corp., a resources developer, and Hyundai P&C, a maker of coating and paint products, is suspected of misappropriating about 41.6 billion won ($34.2 million) in funds from the two companies. He was not detained. Choi was at the center of a series of influence-peddling scandals in 2002 including one involving then President Kim Dae-jung’s third son Kim Hong-gul. He ser
July 21, 2013
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Korea to spend W10tr on drug development by 2017
The South Korean government will spend a combined 10 trillion won ($8.9 billion) on the project to develop 20 new drugs over the next five years in collaboration with private local drug makers, the Health Ministry said Sunday.The government will also form a fund of 500 billion won to help the local pharmaceutical companies expand their presence in the global drug market by acquiring promising overseas drug makers during the same period, the ministry said. The new drug development project aims to
July 21, 2013
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Police widen probe into boot camp deaths
The deaths of five students at a private seaside boot camp Thursday have ignited debate over lax safety and flawed operations of military-style boot camps for young people. Police were widening their probe into the accident in Taean, South Chungcheong Province, in which the high-school students drowned after they followed trainers’ orders to take off their life jackets and go into the sea. Police said only six out of 12 instructors had lifeguard licenses, and eight had sea sports licenses. Some
July 21, 2013
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U.S. police seeks arrest of Yoon Chang-jung: report
The Metropolitan Police Department of Washington D.C. has filed for an arrest warrant for former Cheong Wa Dae spokesman Yoon Chang-jung, a local news agency reported Sunday.Yoon is alleged to have sexually harassed a Korean-American intern hired by the Korean embassy in the U.S. as support staff for President Park Geun-hye’s visit in May.“It appears that the police department filed for an arrest warrant and the U.S. Attorney’s Office is reviewing the request,” an official at Korea’s Ministry of
July 21, 2013
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Teacher questioned on negligence charges over deaths of 5 students
Police questioned a high school teacher on Saturday on charges of negligence over the drowning deaths of his five students off the country's western beach, police officials said. The 49-year-old teacher, surnamed Kim, is suspected of negligence while overseeing nearly 200 students attending a summer camp in Taean Beach, about 150 kilometers south of Seoul, according to the officials. Bodies of the five students were found this week after they were swept away on Thursday by a strong current wh
July 21, 2013
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S. Korea's Incheon city named World Book Capital for 2015
South Korea's western port city of Incheon has been chosen to be the World Book Capital for 2015 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), city officials said Saturday.Incheon, just west of Seoul, assumed the title after the Selection Committee composed of experts representing the book industry and the U.N. agency met earlier this week in Paris, France.The city was chosen for the quality of its programs and the expected impact "on improving good integratio
July 20, 2013
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Firefighters caused death of Asiana crash victim: coroner
One of the victims of this month's Asiana Airlines jet crash in San Francisco survived impact but was killed on the tarmac when she was run over by an emergency vehicle, officials said Friday.Results of the autopsy on 16-year-old Chinese student Ye Mengyuan, one of three people killed in the July 6 disaster, had been keenly awaited after firefighters admitted a tarmac accident was possible.The girl, who was "alive at the time," died due to "multiple blunt injuries that are consistent with being
July 20, 2013
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Gwangju mayor accused of forgery in swimming championship bid
The city government of Gwangju allegedly forged a financial guarantee letter to host the FINA World Championships, according to the Culture Ministry on Friday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced that they would make an official against Gwangju Mayor Kang Un-tae for using the forged signatures of a former prime minister and culture minister in the letter submitted in a bid to host one of the biggest aquatic sports events in the world. “We found out the Metropolitan City of Gwan
July 19, 2013
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All 5 bodies recovered at Taean
The Taean Coast Guard on Friday said they have recovered all five bodies of students who had gone missing a day earlier at a seaside summer camp. They were found more than twelve hours after the first three bodies were recovered, the Coast Guard said. The students were found dead after they were swept away by a powerful rip tide along the country’s west coast. The students’ deaths sparked widespread criticism of the camp operator for its lack of safety measures. The five students, all in their s
July 19, 2013
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Gov't to require seat belt for all passengers from 2015
All passengers will be required to wear seat belts at all times starting in 2015, the government said Friday, as part of measures aimed at improving the country's road safety.Currently, only drivers and front seat passengers are required to wear seat belts with back seat passengers only required to fasten safety belts when on expressways.Starting from 2015, all passengers will be required to wear their seat belts on any type of road, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said in a p
July 19, 2013
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[Photo News] Final respects
July 18, 2013
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Former vice minister may face rape charges
Police on Thursday referred former Vice Justice Minister Kim Hak-ui and other key figures in a sex-for-favor scandal to the prosecution on multiple charges, including rape and drug use. The National Police Agency announced the result of its four-month investigation, recommending that prosecutors indict the 18 people involved. They were booked without physical detention.Investigators confirmed that Yoon Joong-cheon, a 52-year-old local construction contractor, provided some high-profile figures w
July 18, 2013
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Professor punished for calling foreign student ‘not human’
A Korean professor captured on video berating two Indonesian exchange students and calling one a “low animal” and “not human” has been reprimanded by his university.The disciplinary committee of Gyeongsang National University ruled on June 26 that Bae Myung-whan, a mechanical engineering professor at the university in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, had “undermined GNU’s reputation and demeaned himself as a professor” in his confrontation with Elvira Fidelia Tanjung and Merisha Hastarina. Lee
July 18, 2013
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All six bodies recovered from flooded construction site
Rescue workers have retrieved the bodies of all six workers who went missing at a flooded underground waterworks construction site in Seoul, firefighting authorities said Thursday.The authorities said they found bodies of one of the six missing workers early Wednesday and the remaining five late Wednesday night. Half of the six were South Koreans with the remainder Chinese.On Monday night, water from the swollen Han River swamped the construction site, killing one worker and leaving six others u
July 18, 2013
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U.N. to send $6m in emergency aid to N.K.
The United Nations has decided to provide North Korea with $6 million in emergency aid by the end of this year, a report said Thursday, in a bid to relieve fund shortages at U.N. agencies operating in the isolated country.The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs told the Washington-based Voice of America that U.N. bodies operating in the North will receive this aid through a pool of reserve funding known as the Central Emergency Response Fund.The CERF was established in 2006
July 18, 2013