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K-pop group's manager dismissed for setting up spycam in theater dressing room
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Contentious grain bill put directly to plenary meeting for vote
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Why is Apple Pay struggling to get purchase in Korea?
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Will tug-of-war between doctors, government end soon?
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Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GDP by nearly a fifth
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Trilateral talks acknowledge ‘serious’ slumps of won, yen
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[Today’s K-pop] BTS pop-up event to come to Seoul
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[Graphic News] More Koreans say they plan long-distance trips this year
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Yoon's approval rating plunges to all-time low
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Fed: Elevated inflation will likely delay rate cuts this year
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Survivor could see runway through hole in plane’s tail
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― Police officers threw utility knives up to crew members inside the burning wreckage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 so they could cut away passengers’ seat belts. Passengers jumped down emergency slides, escaping the smoke. One walked through a hole where a rear bathroom had been. Amid the chaos, some urged fellow passengers to keep calm, even as flames tore through the Boeing 777’s fuselage.As investigators try to determine what caused the crash of Flight 214 that killed two
July 8, 2013
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Girl given stem cell windpipe dies
A 2-year-old girl who was the youngest person ever to receive a bioengineered organ transplant died on Saturday, surgeons at an Illinois hospital in the United States said. Hannah Warren was born without a windpipe ― an extremely rare condition. She inspired many Koreans when local broadcaster MBC aired a story about her life after her groundbreaking surgery conducted on April 9. The girl, who was born to a Canadian father Darryl Warren and Korean mother Lee Young-mi, died from complications of
July 8, 2013
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Ex-intelligence chief denies charges in NIS election scandal
The former head of South Korea's main spy agency accused of meddling in last year's presidential election denied all charges against him through his attorney in a Seoul court on Monday.Won Sei-hoon served as the National Intelligence Service (NIS) chief under former President Lee Myung-bak until early this year.He was indicted on charges of ordering an online smear campaign against opposition candidates in an aim to sway public opinion in favor of the ruling party prior to the Dec. 19 election.T
July 8, 2013
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90% of Seoulites exposed to passive smoking everyday
Nearly 91 percent of citizens in Seoul are exposed to second-hand smoking everyday with their daily exposure time averaging 13 minutes, a poll showed Monday.According to the survey of 1,000 citizens aged 19 years or older, 90.8 percent experienced passive smoking every day at the end of last year, down by 1.6 percentage points from four years earlier. They were exposed to second-hand smoking 1.4 times per day for 13 minutes on average.While their involuntary exposure came more frequently in outd
July 8, 2013
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Ex-KHNP head detained for taking kickbacks
Kim Jong-shin, former chief of the state-run Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co., was put behind bars Sunday on charges of taking 100 million won in bribes from one of the company’s contractors.Busan District Court on the day issued an arrest warrant for Kim.While Kim resigned a year ago before his term expired amid simmering criticism over power outages, the prosecution recently expanded its investigation into irregularities involving a parts supplier to KHNP’s nuclear plants.Operations had been
July 7, 2013
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Asiana jet crash-lands in San Francisco
Asiana Airlines’ passenger plane carrying 307 people crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday (local time), killing at least two people, who were Chinese girls, and injuring about 180 others on board, officials in Seoul said.The cause of the accident was not immediately known. The U.S. government said it is looking into what caused the accident. President Barack Obama received a report on the accident shortly after it happened, according to the White House. He ordered his
July 7, 2013
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Facebook’s Sandberg scheduled to be on crashed flight
Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said on her Facebook that she was originally booked for the Asiana Airlines flight that crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport on Sunday.“My family, colleagues Debbie Frost, Charlton Gholson and Kelly Hoffman and I were originally going to take the Asiana flight that just crash-landed,” said Sandberg on her Facebook page. The social networking giant’s COO said she switched to a United Airlines flight in order to collect mileage for
July 7, 2013
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Support extended for Jeju English education project
The government said it will extend by six years its support for an ambitious project to transform the country’s southernmost island of Jeju into a global English education hub. During a committee meeting for Jeju Special Self-Governing Province Friday, the central government decided to continue its support for the project to create a global English education town on the resort island until 2021. It was supposed to be completed by 2015.In 2008, the government launched the eight-year project with
July 7, 2013
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Korea suspends bidding for fighter jet program
South Korea has temporarily suspended bidding for its next-generation fighter jet project, mainly due to none of the contenders meeting the preset budget limit, the state arms procurer said Friday.South Korea is pushing to buy 60 fighter jets to replace its aging fleet of F-4 and F-5 jets starting from 2017. Vying for the project are Boeing’s F-15 Silent Eagle; Lockheed Martin’s F-35 stealth jet; and the Eurofighter Tranche 3 Typhoon from the European Aerospace Defense and Space Company. The Def
July 7, 2013
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Seoul councilors push to dismiss Sejong Center chief
Seoul City councilors are pushing for the dismissal of Sejong Center CEO Bagh Inbae, a close associate of Mayor Park Won-soon, for mismanagement and feuds with staff. It is the first attempt by city representatives to remove a chief of the public performing arts center in its 35-year history. Bagh was appointed by the mayor in January last year. He has been under pressure to resign for causing discordance with the art team, increasing the budget deficit and disregarding the budget enforcement pr
July 7, 2013
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Seoul to provide disaster alerts on Twitter
Seoul City and Twitter Korea are working together to establish an online disaster information system using the city’s various accounts on the micro-blog service. Twitter Lifeline will provide real-time alerts, guidance and up-to-date news and information to citizens during an emergency, and people can also post notifications of their whereabouts and status through their smartphones, the city said. The two sides signed an agreement for the project on Wednesday.It will help authorities’ response a
July 7, 2013
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Energy-saving drive misses the mark
On a recent sizzling afternoon, several shops in Myeong-dong, downtown Seoul, kept their doors open, beckoning passers-by with cool air. The government has banned the practice with a threat of penalties, but it apparently fails to pay off. Many merchants would rather pay fines than lose sales.“Our sales drop over 50 percent when the doors are shut,” said Kim Ji-eun, a saleswoman at a boutique in the shopping district. “We’d choose to pay millions of won than see less profit.”Customers do not see
July 7, 2013
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Chinese mourn Asiana jet crash deaths
Chinese citizens mourned the deaths of two teenage girls killed after a South Korean-owned passenger jet crashed at San Francisco airport Sunday as survivors recounted harrowing details of their tragic flight.Chinese nationals made up 141 of the 291 passengers aboard the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 which burst into flames after it landed short of the runway, injuring 182.The two dead were Chinese girls born in 1996 and 1997, state broadcaster CCTV said.As of Sunday afternoon the Chinese consulate
July 7, 2013
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Asiana apologizes over jet crash accident
Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea's No. 2 flag carrier, apologized Sunday over a crash landing of its passenger jet in the U.S., which killed at least two people and injured dozens of others.An Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul crashed and caught fire on the runway while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday. The Boeing 777 plane, which departed from Incheon International Airport west of Seoul, was carrying 291 passengers and 16 crew members, according to the airline.Seventy
July 7, 2013
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Facebook’s Sandberg came close to be onboard crashed Asiana flight
Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said on her Facebook that she was originally booked for the Asiana Airlines flight that crash landed in San Francisco International Airport on Sunday.“My family, colleagues Debbie Frost, Charlton Gholson and Kelly Hoffman and I were originally going to take the Asiana flight that just crash-landed,” said Sandberg on her Facebook page. The social networking giant’s COO said she switched to a United Airlines flight in order to collect mileage for
July 7, 2013
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[Photo News] Asiana crash in real time via Samsung Exec David Eun
Real-time photographs of wrecked Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 which crash landed at San Francisco airport earlier Saturday, U.S. time, started popping up in social networking services, many showing smokes and flames going up in the air.Most significant of the SNS updates was the photograph posted by Samasung executive David Eun on his Twitter showing the passengers evacuating from the flaming plane.Eun posted that he is “OK,” and others also “seemed fine.” Other witnesses at the scene posted pictu
July 7, 2013
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Conglomerate owners, family members pocket W469b in dividends
Owners of South Korean conglomerates and their family members have pocketed a total of 469 billion won (US$411 million) in dividends over the past five years from affiliates owned by them, industry data showed on Sunday.Family-owned conglomerates, or chaebol, have been under fire in the country for their practice of granting profitable contracts to their affiliates owned by heads' children or relatives in a bid to avoid paying gift taxes on future transfers of wealth.Previously, laws did not reg
July 7, 2013
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Two dead victims in Asiana crash are Chinese nationals: official
South Korea's Transport Ministry said on Sunday that two dead victims in the Asiana crash are Chinese nationals. The Asiana Airlines passenger jet carrying 307 people crashed upon landing at San Francisco International Airport Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens of others on board.The Boeing 777 plane, which departed from Shanghai, China and stopped over at Incheon International Airport, was carrying 291 passengers and 16 crew members.
July 7, 2013
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S. Korean task force working with U.S. government in response to jet crash
South Korean government officials said Sunday they have formed a task force of diplomats and will also work with their U.S. counterparts in response to the crash of a South Korean passenger jet in San Francisco.The foreign ministry said its task force will be in contact with the South Korean consulate general in the U.S. city and other relevant local agencies to keep a tab on the developments after an Asiana Airlines Boeing jet crashed and caught fire as it landed at San Francisco International
July 7, 2013
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Two killed in Asiana jet crash at San Francisco airport
An Asiana Airlines passenger jet carrying 307 people crashed upon landing at San Francisco International Airport Saturday, killing two Chinese people and injuring dozens of others on board, officials said.The Boeing 777 plane, which departed from Shanghai, China and stopped over at Incheon International Airport west of Seoul, was carrying 291 passengers and 16 crew members, according to the airliner, which is South Korea's second largest."Everyone has been accounted for," San Francisco Mayor Ed
July 7, 2013