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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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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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S. Korea lowers COVID-19 warning level, lifts last-remaining antivirus mandates
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Ex-vice minister booked on rape charges
A disgraced former vice justice minister has been booked without physical detention on charges of raping several women during a lavish party organized by a local construction contractor, police said Thursday.Wrapping up a four-month investigation into a massive illegal lobbying scandal, the National Police Agency (NPA) also referred the 52-year-old contractor named Yoon Jung-cheon and 16 others to the prosecution, recommending that they be indicted on multiple charges including rape and drug use
July 18, 2013
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All six bodies now 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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Gov't probe team on Asiana crash returns
South Korea's government team sent to investigate the Asiana jet crash returned home on Wednesday and vowed continued efforts to reveal the cause of the deadly accident.Six officials from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport have been in San Francisco since July 7 participating in a joint investigation with the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Asiana Flight 214. Three Chinese teens died and over 180 people were injured after the passenger jet crash landed at San
July 17, 2013
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Canadian foreign service strike worries students
A strike by Canadian foreign service workers is delaying visa processing, worrying students scheduled to go to the country for the fall semester. The Canadian Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers, which represents some 1,350 non-executive employees of the Foreign Ministry, has been on strike over salary issues since last month. Employees at 12 Canadian embassies and consulates, including those in Seoul, London and Manila, have indefinitely vacated their jobs, disrupting some serv
July 17, 2013
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Mayor apologizes for reservoir deaths
Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon apologized Wednesday for a deadly accident at a water supply reservoir and vowed to carry out a thorough investigation into alleged violation of safety protocol.“I feel responsible and offer my apology for failing to protect citizens’ lives and safety,” he said during a visit to the construction site where seven workers were swept away in a flood Monday. Two were confirmed dead as of Wednesday afternoon.He said the city government would thoroughly investigate the incide
July 17, 2013
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Panel scales down Park’s new pension scheme
President Park Geun-hye’s ambitious drive to expand welfare benefits to the elderly was forced to retreat on Wednesday in the face of budgetary pressure. An advisory panel assigned to seek consensus on the new plan said it had agreed to cut the scale of the pension scheme substantially from the campaign pledges Park made late last year. Wrapping up its four-month discussion, the panel said it would exclude the richest 20 to 30 percent of elderly citizens, scrapping Park’s original plan to offer
July 17, 2013
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Free semester for students to pursue talents, dreams
Korea has no shortage of rags-to-riches stories, many of which are about rural students coming to Seoul, going to prestigious universities and becoming a doctor or lawyer. But now we have more diverse ways toward success. One can have as many chances as one wants to enjoy life through various careers. The free semester is a system to help students pursue their dreams, develop a career path and grow into the creative, competent talent of the future.Ireland, Britain and Denmark have carried out a
July 17, 2013
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College students upset by misuse of tuition
Students across the country are up in arms after recent reports that hundreds of billions of won in college tuition was subsidizing the pensions of employees at some of the country’s most expensive private universities.The Korea Association of Student Council, which represents some 100 student bodies, held a demonstration outside the Education Ministry last week, demanding full reimbursement of the money. The demonstration came after a special audit by the ministry revealed recently that dozens
July 17, 2013
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‘Fictional’ nightclub abuse video meant as ‘work of art’: crew member
A third man claiming to have been involved in a video appearing to show a Korean woman being harassed by a group of Western men has said the footage was staged. The video, which has caused outrage online worldwide in recent days, appears to show a number of men sexually harassing and insulting an intoxicated Korean woman. The men are shown cursing at the woman, filming her chest and legs and forcing her own finger up her nose and into her mouth.A Korean film studies graduate told The Korea Heral
July 17, 2013
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Professor reprimanded for berating foreign students
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 17, 2013
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Prosecutors find more cases of Younghoon admissions fraud
The prosecution on Tuesday indicted nine officials from a popular international middle school in Seoul on charges of fabricating grades to grant admission to certain students in return for receiving bribes from their parents.The Seoul Northern District Prosecutors’ Office said it has indicted Kim Ha-joo, chairman of the board of Younghoon International Middle School, and the chief administrator identified only by his surname Yim. The two were indicted with physical detention, prosecutors said.Th
July 16, 2013
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[Graphic News] Employees’ declining working hours
According to a recent survey conducted by Job Korea, an online job portal, working hours per day for Korean workers averaged 9 hours and 26 minutes, a decrease of about 40 minutes from the 10 hours and 6 minutes found in a similar poll in 2008.
July 16, 2013
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Ignorance blamed for reservoir deaths
A deadly accident at a water facility construction site in Seoul on Monday sparked criticism about the lax enforcement of safety protocol. One worker was killed and six others went missing after the Hangang River suddenly flooded the underground water distribution reservoir in Noryangjin located near the river.The workers were replacing old water pipes in the 48-meter-long tunnel.Construction managers came under fire for failing to evacuate the workers while heavy rain hit the city. “After I got
July 16, 2013
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Hankook Ilbo chairman ignores summons
Chang Jae-ku, chairman of the Hankook Ilbo, a Korean-language newspaper, did not respond to the prosecution’s summons for questioning on Tuesday.The prosecution summoned Chang over allegations that he used the company’s money for personal use and inflicted huge financial losses on the media group. But the chairman requested a delay in the summons until the end of July, saying he needed more time to collect the required documents.The labor union filed a lawsuit against Chang in April, alleging th
July 16, 2013
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N. Korea presumed to be behind Cheong Wa Dae hacking: officials
North Korea was most likely behind the cyber attacks carried out between June 25 and July 1 this year on the websites of Cheong Wa Dae and the Office of Government Policy Coordination as well as multiple newspaper companies, the government said on Tuesday.“North Korean IP addresses were found and the hacking methods, such as the same malware found in the past North Korean cyber attacks, are the same,” said Chun Kil-soo, the director of Internet Incident Response at the Korea Internet and Securit
July 16, 2013
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Video of expats abusing Korean woman ‘staged’
An online video showing a Korean woman apparently being harassed by a group of Western men in a nightclub was staged, two men who say they acted in the video have claimed. The video, which has caused outrage online in recent days and appeared in Korean and foreign media including the Washington Post webpage, appears to show a number of men sexually and verbally harassing an intoxicated Korean woman. The men are shown cursing at the woman, filming her chest and forcing her own finger up her nose
July 16, 2013
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Prosecution raids ex-president's house over unpaid fines
State prosecutors on Tuesday raided the residence of former President Chun Doo-hwan as part of their move to collect a massive amount of unpaid fines levied on him for amassing large sums of secret funds during his presidency in the 1980s.Chun was ordered by a court in 1997 to return to the state coffers the 220 billion won (US$195 million) he was found to have illegally accumulated during his term. But he refused to make the payment, saying he was almost penniless.He has so far paid only a quar
July 16, 2013
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One worker killed, six others missing in flooding during underground work
One worker was killed and six other workers are missing after being swept away by swift currents on Monday while removing old water pipes inside a water distribution reservoir near the Han River, police said. Cho Ryong-geun, 57, who was killed in the incident, is known to be Chinese. Work to rescue the six others -- including three workers also believed to be Chinese -- is currently underway. Water from the rain-swollen Han River, which flows through the center of Seoul, rushed into the nearby 4
July 16, 2013
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Conglomerates to invest to control toxic leaks
Nine conglomerates have pledged to invest 2.8 trillion won ($2.4 billion) by 2015 in industries to prevent toxic leaks as part of joint measures to prevent environmental disasters at factories, the government said Friday.Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and others will be injecting the funds to improve old facilities, enhance safety installations and build up toxic gas monitoring systems. All industries will be required to adopt the leak detection and repair system, which currently only appli
July 15, 2013
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‘Yoon’s sexual assault investigation nears end’
South Korean diplomats in Washington expect the local police to conclude a sexual abuse investigation into former presidential spokesperson Yoon Chang-jung as early as this month, a report said Monday. Yoon is alleged to have inappropriately touched a South Korean embassy intern at a local bar and later to have called her to his hotel room during President Park Geun-hye’s visit to the U.S. in May. He was initially accused of misdemeanor sexual abuse.South Korean Embassy officials told Yonhap New
July 15, 2013