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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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Ex-aide quizzed over land deal for Lee's retirement home
Special prosecutors summoned a former close aide to President Lee Myung-bak for questioning Saturday over alleged irregularities on a deal to purchase land for Lee's now-scrapped retirement home project.Kim Paik-joon, a former senior secretary to the president for administrative affairs, denied any involvement in the controversial project in which critics say taxpayer money was used, as he appeared before prosecutors. "I was not involved," the 72-year-old Kim responded to a reporter who asked ab
Nov. 3, 2012
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Ex-presidential security chief grilled on Lee retirement home
The special counsel team investigating suspicions surrounding President Lee Myung-bak’s now-scrapped retirement home plan questioned Lee’s former security chief on Friday. Kim In-jong, who was until October last year the head of the Presidential Security Service, is a key figure involved in the scandal, which centers around the joint purchase of land by his office and Lee’s son to build the president’s retirement home and security facilities. He is suspected of inflicting state losses by making
Nov. 2, 2012
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Choi elected as vice chief of UNHCR exec committee
Choi Seok-young, former vice trade minister and ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, was elected Thursday as vice chair of the executive committee of the agency’s refuge unit, the Foreign Ministry said. Choi, a representative of South Korea’s permanent mission to the United Nations in the Swiss city, will serve the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees’ top decision-making body until September. He will then take over as chairman for a one-year term according to custom.The 87-country committee authori
Nov. 2, 2012
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Chinese man to stand trial over extradition
A Chinese man currently jailed for attacking the Japanese Embassy in Seoul earlier this year will stand trial to decide if he will be extradited to Japan, officials here said Friday.In accordance with an extradition treaty with Tokyo, Seoul's Justice Ministry requested a local court to make a decision on whether to hand over the 38-year-old man surnamed Liu to Japan, after his release from a Seoul prison next Tuesday, the officials said. Liu received a 10-month term for hurling Molotov cocktails
Nov. 2, 2012
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Number of foreign tourists likely to top 10 million
The annual number of foreign tourists to South Korea is likely to exceed 10 million this month thanks to increased Chinese and Japanese visitors, a state-run tourism company said Friday. According to the Korea National Tourism Organization (KNTO), the number of travelers who visited the country reached 8.44 million in the January-September period, up 19 percent from the same period last year. The company forecast the figure will surpass the 10 million mark between Nov. 20 and 22, citing more for
Nov. 2, 2012
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Calls for comprehensive dementia service mounting
A tragic story of an elderly man who killed his wife with Alzheimer’s disease brought fresh attention to the need to improve care services and social assistance for dementia patients. The police arrested Tuesday the 78-year-old man who strangled his wife, apparently under huge psychological and physical strain from taking care of his wife for the last two years. The man, identified only by his surname Lee, had been looking after his wife full-time, but killed her on Oct. 19, as he couldn’t deal
Nov. 1, 2012
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Korea-U.S. time gap to widen with end of summer hours
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― The Seoul-Washington time difference will widen to 14 hours starting next week with the end of the daylight savings time in the United States, officials said Wednesday.On March 11, the U.S. advanced clocks by a hour in an effort to save energy by making evenings have more daylight and mornings less. The measure led to a 13-hour time gap between South Korea and Washington, New York and other eastern areas in the United States.The U.S. will adjust clocks backward as of 2
Nov. 1, 2012
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P.M. calls for efforts for disabled people’s rights
South Korean Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik Thursday called on the international community to strengthen cooperation to promote human rights of the disabled and build a disability-inclusive society. “In order to protect and ensure the inherent dignity and fundamental human rights of people with disabilities, we need to engage every level of society from governments to businesses to persons with disabilities themselves,” Kim said in his address during the opening ceremony of the High-level Inter-go
Nov. 1, 2012
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UNDP conference seeks better social protection
A global conference on how to build a social protection system that cares for the most vulnerable and improves welfare around the world opened in Seoul on Thursday as the world economy is grappling with the 2007-08 economic crisis. The two-day conference of the International Policy Dialogue: Mitigating Vulnerabilities and Promoting Sustainable Growth is hosted by South Korea’s foreign ministry and the United Nations Development Program.“The recent global economic and financial crisis confirmed t
Nov. 1, 2012
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Campaign heats up for Seoul education chief
Overshadowed by the presidential campaign, another heated race is under way for the top post of education in Seoul. The by-election for the superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education is to be held simultaneously with the Dec. 19 presidential election.Although political parties cannot directly be involved in the election of a superintendent, but candidates for both president and superintendent are forming coalitions in order to boost their chances of winning in next month’s elec
Nov. 1, 2012
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Gangnam to create Korean Wave street
Lined by luxury boutiques, trendy bars and high-rise buildings, Gangnam in southern Seoul is the richest district and one of the most popular youth hangouts in the country. It recently gained international fame thanks to rapper Psy’s hit “Gangnam Style” which has been at No. 2 on the Billboard’s main chart for six weeks and viewed by hundreds of millions worldwide on YouTube. The district office is seeking to turn the popularity into a tourist boom with a plan to adorn one of its streets with mo
Nov. 1, 2012
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Man gets two years in prison for assaulting his daughter
A man accused of repeatedly assaulting his 13-year-old daughter was convicted on Thursday.The Gwangju District Court sentenced the man, identified only by his surname Kim, to two years behind the bar for habitual use of violence. In March, Kim was indicted on suspicion of attacking and injuring his daughter over 14 times at his apartment in Gwangju, about 320 kilometers from Seoul. At that time, the daughter had a cast on her leg after a car accident and was allegedly reproached by her father fo
Nov. 1, 2012
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Korea aims to become medical hub
The government on Wednesday unveiled a set of plans to promote medical tourism with the aim to attract 1 million foreign patients per year by 2020. In the “global health care promotion scheme” the government pledged to support marketing campaigns, ease immigration and investment rules and improve transport, accommodation, consulting and other services for international patients.It also includes measures to help domestic medical service providers expand overseas.The Ministry of Health and Welfare
Oct. 31, 2012
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Defense Ministry promotes generals, senior officers
The Defense Ministry promoted nearly 120 colonel- and general-grade officers Wednesday in a routine shake-up that also affected the chief of the Capital Defense Command and the deputy chiefs of the Army and the Navy.Five Army major generals were promoted to lieutenant generals, including Lt. Gen. Shin won-sik, who was also appointed to head the Capital Defense Command, and Lt. Gen. Hwang In-moo, who was named the deputy Army chief of staff, the ministry said.In the Navy, Vice Admiral Sohn Jung-m
Oct. 31, 2012
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Seoul to bring home remains of wartime forced laborers
The South Korean government will disclose the list of the remains of about 4,500 unidentified Koreans, who were forced into overseas labor and died in foreign lands during Japan’s colonial rule, as part of efforts to bring them home, a committee dealing with the matter said Wednesday.The Commission on Verification and Support for the Victims of Forced Mobilization under Japanese Colonialism in Korea, a subcommittee of the Prime Minister’s Office, said they will make the list public for the first
Oct. 31, 2012
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Daeungjeon of Naejangsa, burned out
Fire broke out at Naejang Temple in North Jeolla Province on Wednesday morning.The entire part of Daeungjeon, one statue, an iron bell and three pictures are entirely lost. 165 square meter of the near mountain, Naejangsan also took fire. Even so, no one was injured since all the people in the temple were sleeping far away from the spot. The fire in Daewoongjeon was discovered at about 2 a.m. by an officer of the temple who got an emergent call from security company. The fire was brought under c
Oct. 31, 2012
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Three teenage girls die after fall from building
Three teenage girls who were allegedly distressed over family affairs and other issues died on Tuesday in what appears to be a joint suicide.According to police, two 17-year-olds and a 19-year-old were found dead on top of a shopping complex in Gwangan-dong in Busan. Their belongings were found at the rooftop of a nearby apartment building, along with three bottles of soju.“I heard some noise so I went up to the rooftop with a security guard, but the door was locked. All of a sudden I heard a ‘t
Oct. 31, 2012
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Two killed, nine injured in shipyard blast
A gas explosion at a shipyard here in the southwestern part of the country killed at least two and injured nine on Wednesday, local police said.The explosion, whose cause has not yet been determined, occurred at 8:09 a.m. at the shipyard inside the Daebul Industrial Complex in Yeongam, about 400 kilometers south of Seoul, police added.They said two unidentified workers were killed and nine others sustained injuries. Rescue workers said a dozen workers were inside a ship for block assembly work a
Oct. 31, 2012
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Greenland, Jeju break ground for medical tourism site
SEOGWIPO, Jeju -- China’s Greenland Group broke ground with the Jeju Free International City Development Center to construct a healthcare town on Tuesday.Greenland’s 778,000-square-meter site will consist of condominiums, a mall, a restaurant serving mainly healthy dishes and a medical research and development center. They aim to complete the construction by 2015.The state-run Chinese real-estate enterprise signed an agreement with Jeju Center, part of Korea’s Ministry of Land, Transport and Mar
Oct. 30, 2012
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‘Green efforts make Seoul more competitive’
Seoul City’s investment in environment-friendly projects will improve its competitiveness and growth potential, Roland Busch, CEO of Siemens’ Infrastructure & Cities Sector, said. The leading expert in infrastructure and urban development urged the capital to further promote citizens and businesses’ engagement to make its green efforts more effective and sustainable.Megacities around the world are competing to attract capital, companies and talented workers. In order to draw them, the government
Oct. 30, 2012