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Yoon's approval rating plunges to all-time low
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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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S. Korea votes in favor of Palestinian bid for UN membership
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Russia's denial of entry of S. Korean national unrelated to bilateral ties: Seoul official
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Bae Doo-na shares portraying Korean identity in Hollywood's 'Rebel Moon'
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[From the Scene] Monks, Buddhists hail return of remains of Buddhas
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Medical schools granted enrollment quota flexibility for next year
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Korean art gets spotlight at Venice Biennale 2024
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Police uncover illegal gambling website made by teens, for teens
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Home of 3,000 miracles borne of personal tragedy
From outside, it looks no different from ordinary commercial buildings lining Seoul’s streets. A step inside and the impression is totally different. A tiny bakery caf at one corner of the lobby is staffed by persons with disabilities. A group of handicapped children gather around at another corner, bursting into laughter from time to time. Right in the middle stands a big, red donation box.A signboard on the wall says that this is a place for disabled children. Upstairs, there are play-therapy
Nov. 16, 2012
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Lack of rehab centers leaves disabled at risk
The number of patients with a physical handicap in Korea is sharply increasing but rehabilitation facilities to help them readjust to society are far short of covering the growing need, experts said. According to Rep. Lee Mok-hee of the Democratic United Party, the number of disabled registered with the government jumped from 1.45 million in 2003 to 2.52 million last year. However, there were only 18 rehabilitation hospitals for the disabled around the country as of 2010, mostly in Seoul and nei
Nov. 16, 2012
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Purme fundraising for ‘hospital of dreams’
The Purme Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to disability issues, is raising funds for the construction of a rehabilitation hospital that can accept up to 100 inpatients. The project is the centerpiece of Purme’s campaign since its establishment in 2004 to help disabled children who are often deprived of a chance at a better life due to the lack of adequate rehabilitation services. “Our data shows that nearly 15,000 children in Korea require hospitalized rehabilitation care. But th
Nov. 16, 2012
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Military lashed for poor medical services
The military’s medical treatment system is receiving public criticism following its latest blunder that led an enlisted man to lapse into a coma.Even though experts have called for improved medical services in the army, the Ministry of Defense continues to see accidents and deaths stemming from treatment mishaps occurring every year.Last Monday, Corporal Kim Yoo-seung with the Fifth Corps’ armored brigade was transferred to Asan Medical Center where he has been unconscious after belatedly being
Nov. 16, 2012
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Korea to join adoption convention
South Korea is pushing to join the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption designed to protect the human rights of children adopted overseas.The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced Friday it would establish systems in order to meet the Convention guidelines.The total number of Korean adoptees sent overseas has been estimated to be around 165,000. Many of them face difficulties including American adoptees deported to Korea for failing to obtain American citizenship.The ministry and the U.S
Nov. 16, 2012
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Ahn did not plagiarize: university
Seoul National University said Friday that independent presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo did not engage in plagiarism during his time as a graduate student at its medical school. “A preliminary probe found no grounds for us to further investigate allegations of plagiarism against five academic papers authored by Ahn,” a research ethics committee of the state-run university said in a press statement. “The case is therefore closed without a main investigation.” In a unanimous decision, the pane
Nov. 16, 2012
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Arrest warrant sought for man over sexual assault of teenager
Police in Gyeonggi Province have sought an arrest warrant for a 24-year-old man who used a stun gun on a teenager in order to sexually abuse her on Friday.The man, who is only identified with his surname Kim, brought the electric shock device from his home in the morning and searched for a target around the Gangnam area in southern Seoul.According to the Suwon Seobu Police Station, Kim was attracted to a woman who had drinks with her boyfriend and stalked them. As the couple went into a motel
Nov. 16, 2012
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Lee to visit Cambodia, UAE for regional summits
President Lee Myung-bak will visit Cambodia next week for a series of regional summits with the newly mandated U.S. president, Barack Obama, and other leaders about freer trade and other cooperation in the region, his office announced Thursday.The three-day visit to Phnom Penh starting Sunday is part of Lee’s two-nation trip that will also take him to the United Arab Emirates for talks expected to focus on increasing atomic power and other energy cooperation between the two countries.In Phnom Pe
Nov. 15, 2012
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[Newsmaker] Protesters defy eviction order
Tension is mounting in front of the iconic Deoksu Palace in central Seoul as rag-tag protesters vow to defy a government order to end their months-long decampment or face eviction by police. The Jung-gu district office delivered a notice Wednesday that it would ask police to break up their protest tents and impose fines unless they take them down voluntarily within 15 days.The roadside street beside the Joseon Dynasty palace’s main gate has been a symbolic epicenter for anti-government and labor
Nov. 15, 2012
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Korean women outlive men by 7 years: U.N.
The average Korean woman lives seven years longer than her male counterpart, according to report by the United Nations Population Fund.The State of World Population 2012 survey also showed that Korean women and men live the eighth and 26th longest in the world respectively. The average life span of Korean women is 84 years and that of Korean men is 77.3 years. According to the UNPF report, the world population surpassed 7 billion as of October last year and stands at around 7.1 billion.China ran
Nov. 15, 2012
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LIG chairman, sons indicted for fraud
Prosecutors on Thursday indicted LIG Group chairman Koo Cha-won and his two sons for inflicting damage on minor shareholders by fraudulently issuing commercial papers.Koo Bon-sang, his first son and the largest shareholder of the group, was arrested last month. He is vice chairman of LIG Nex1, the group’s defense arm.Koo Cha-won and his second son Bon-yeop, former vice president of LIG Construction, were charged without detention. The three issued commercial papers worth some 215 billion won inc
Nov. 15, 2012
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Arrest sought for prosecutor accused of bribery
The prosecution sought an arrest warrant Thursday for a senior prosecutor on charges of bribery in a case at the center of a feud with the police over investigative powers.The suspect, Kim Kwang-jun, allegedly received around 240 million won ($220,000) from con man Cho Hee-pal, the operator of a pyramid scheme, and 400 million won from Eugene Group, a construction-based conglomerate.The special investigation team said he faces bribery and other charges. He reportedly denied charges during the in
Nov. 15, 2012
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VANK to take on Apple, Google over Dokdo
Voluntary Agency Network of Korea, a nongovernmental cyber diplomatic organization, is organizing a protest movement to pressure Apple and Google to label Dokdo and the East Sea on their maps. Apple Inc. has recently decided to use both Korean, Japanese and Franco-English names for the nation’s easternmost islets in its new English map service running on the iOS 6 mobile operating software. An updated Google Maps has also replaced the name Dokdo with the islets’ Franco-English name ― the Liancou
Nov. 14, 2012
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Man gets 25-year prison term for raping niece
PYONGTAEK (Yonhap News) ― A 58-year-old man was sentenced to 25 years behind bars for raping his underage niece as well as impregnating her, a Suwon court said Wednesday, amid growing calls for tougher punishments for brutal sex crimes against minors. The Suwon District Court handed down the hefty prison term to the man, only identified by his surname Cheong, convicted of raping his niece on multiple occasions between September 2005 and July this year in his house in Pyongtaek, south of Seoul. T
Nov. 14, 2012
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Korea to seek faster, easier visa process for Chinese tourists
South Korea will seek to make the visa process for Chinese tourists faster and more convenient in an effort to tap into the neighboring nation’s booming overseas tourism market, a presidential committee reported Wednesday.The Presidential Council on National Competitiveness reported the measure to President Lee Myung-bak, saying Chinese tourists are expected to overtake their Japanese counterparts in the near future as the No. 1 visitors to South Korea.The number of Chinese visitors nearly tripl
Nov. 14, 2012
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Doha invites education leaders for collaboration
DOHA, Qatar ― More than 1,200 education leaders from 100 countries gathered in Doha on Tuesday for an international forum to discuss how to collaborate for future development in education. The resource-rich state has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars on developing an education system that will secure the country’s economic future when its natural resources run out.Marking its fourth year, the World Innovation Summit for Education has evolved into a major international gathering, brin
Nov. 14, 2012
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Teenager dies during abortion procedure
A senior in high school died of excessive bleeding while getting an abortion in her second trimester of pregnancy, police said Wednesday. The 17-year-old, only identified by her surname Lee, was rushed to a bigger hospital after her heart stopped beating but died of a massive hemorrhage caused by uterine perforation, a side effect that can occur during abortion procedures, according to the police.Lee was 23 weeks pregnant when she was undergoing the surgical abortion last Saturday.“The abortion
Nov. 14, 2012
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Convenience stores to start sales of first-aid products
A total of 11 over-the-counter drugs including fever reducers and painkillers will be sold at 24-hour convenience stores around the country starting Thursday, officials at the Ministry of Health and Welfare said. The selected items are classified as first-aid remedies and will not require a doctor’s prescription for purchase, they said. Aimed at offering easier access to the public, the drugs will be sold at 115,338 convenience stores and 1,907 local health care centers in rural areas that have
Nov. 14, 2012
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Korea’s launch of space rocket to be further delayed
Korea’s launch of space rocket to be further delayedSouth Korea’s planned launch of a space rocket will likely be further delayed, government officials said Wednesday, as the Russian replacement for a defective part in the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1) is not expected to arrive here until the end of the week.The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and its Launch Preparation Committee earlier said the launch of the KSLV-1 would take place before Nov. 24.The replacement of the de
Nov. 14, 2012
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’Socialite Kelly is honorary consul of Korea’
’Socialite Kelly is honorary consul of Korea’ Seoul officials on Wednesday confirmed that a U.S. woman in Tampa, Florida who is linked to the sudden resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus is an honorary consul of South Korea and she will be relieved from the symbolic post if she is found to be problematic. Harassment allegations by the Tampa socialite Jill Kelley led the FBI to uncover an extramarital affair between Petraeus, the former top commander in Iraq and Afghanistan who stepped down
Nov. 14, 2012