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Yoon's approval rating plunges to all-time low
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Bae Doo-na shares portraying Korean identity in Hollywood's 'Rebel Moon'
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S. Korea votes in favor of Palestinian bid for UN membership
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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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Yoon offers first one-on-one meeting with opposition leader next week
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France rejects opening Paris flight routes to T'way Air, deals blow to Korean Air merger
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Chinese man behind drug scam targeting teens nabbed in Cambodia
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Iran fires air defense batteries in provinces as sound of explosions heard near Isfahan
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[Graphic News] French bulldog most popular breed in US, Maltese most popular in Korea
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Seoul to tighten control of propofol, other drugs
The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced plans to tighten drug management and crack down on over-prescription by hospitals on Monday in the face of growing criticism of the government’s management of drug abuse. At the National Assembly, lawmakers accused the ministry of lax management of narcotics and psychotropic drugs such as propofol. A loophole in the country’s drug management system has left many people addicted to inappropriate drugs, said Rep. Ryu Ji-young of the ruling Saenuri Party
Oct. 15, 2012
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Suicide raises security questions
Police chief promises tightened security for government facilities after arson incidentPublic security authorities came under fire after a man snuck into the office and fell to his death Sunday.The police chief vowed on Monday to beef up security measures at government facilities. The Ministry of Public Administration and Security said it will install automatic recognition systems for all four gates of the government complex by the end of the year. “It is unavoidable for the police to be held ac
Oct. 15, 2012
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Skills, jobs and growth: Let’s tell the world about Korea’s success story
As the economic crisis continues to squeeze budgets worldwide, the severe lack of youth skills is more damaging than ever. The world’s youth population has never been larger, but one in eight young people is unemployed and over a quarter of them are trapped in jobs that keep them on or below the poverty line. What should we do to help these young people? South Korea’s experience over the past 40 years offers many lessons, as the 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, “Putting Education
Oct. 15, 2012
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More business schools accept GRE score
More than 1,000 business schools worldwide, including Harvard Business School and Stanford University, now accept results from the Graduate Record Examination for admission to their MBA programs, according to the test organizer.In the past, prospective MBA students were limited to submitting scores from the Graduate Management Admission Test, but now many of the world’s most renowned business schools accept GRE scores, according to the Educational Testing Service.Recent years have seen the GRE b
Oct. 15, 2012
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‘One in 12 young people in East Asia lack basic skills’
One in 12 young people in East Asia and the Pacific fail to complete primary school and lack basic skills for work, a report said on Monday.According to UNESCO’s 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, more than 28 million people aged 15 to 24 in the region have not completed primary school, highlighting the urgent need to invest in skills for young people.In East Asia and the Pacific, despite the rapid progress in terms of secondary education enrollment, 10 million teenagers are still
Oct. 15, 2012
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KAIST, DTU agree to run online dual degree programs
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Technical University of Denmark (DTU) signed agreements on Monday to establish cyber dual degree programs. The two research-oriented universities have pushed cooperation and exchanges through cyber learning tools.Under the two memorandums of understanding signed by their presidents, the undergraduate dual degree programs will apply to DTU’s digital media engineering courses and KAIST’s web science and technology course as early as next y
Oct. 15, 2012
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Educational leaders look to tech innovation
KAIST to present new smart learning framework at forum of research-oriented universitiesEducational leaders from 27 countries will gather in Seoul on Tuesday to discuss how to harness technological innovation to boost efficiency and quality of learning.Hosted by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, the nation’s leading research-oriented university, the International Presidential Forum on Global Research Universities will draw over 80 presidents and vice presidents from 56 scho
Oct. 15, 2012
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Independent counsel team to probe Lee scandal
Former judge Lee Kwang-bum and his special investigation team will launch an investigation this week into suspicions over a canceled plan to build President Lee Myung-bak’s retirement home. The investigation centering on his son and aides is expected to become a key battleground for the December presidential election and accelerate the president’s fall into lame-duck status. The probe will last 30 days, with a 15-day extension upon request. The progressive lawyer was appointed Oct, 5 after bein
Oct. 14, 2012
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N. Korea’s hunger situation worse than 1990s: report
Hunger situation in North Korea this year worsened from the 1990s despite considerable amount of international aid to the communist nation, a Washington-based food institute showed Saturday.The 2012 Global Hunger Index published by the International Food Policy Research Institute said hunger remains a serious problem worldwide, with alarming levels in some countries.North Korea’s hunger situation was at the “serious level,” the report said, with its GHI standing at 19 points, higher than that of
Oct. 14, 2012
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Aide to Park confesses to receiving kickbacks
Hong Sa-duk, a close aide to ruling party presidential candidate Park Geun-hye, confessed that he received illegal political funds from a businessman, during a recent questioning, prosecution sources said Saturday. Hong, a former co-chairman of Park’s primary campaign team and former six-term lawmaker, was summoned by prosecutors on Friday on suspicion of receiving kickbacks from the businessman, surnamed Jin, who is based in the southeastern region.During questioning on Friday, Hong said he rec
Oct. 14, 2012
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Korea, Africa to hold cooperation conference
Senior officials and business leaders of major African countries will gather in South Korea this week to discuss cooperation and joint business opportunities, the foreign ministry said Saturday. South Korea and the African Union will jointly hold the Korea Africa Economic Cooperation Conference in Seoul from Oct. 15-18, bringing 150 ministers and heads of 18 African nations and international organizations, the ministry said.“Africa is the last growth engine of the world economy, which has unlimi
Oct. 14, 2012
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Prosecutors seek chemical castration of 25-year-old child sex offender
Prosecutors said Sunday that they had asked a court to order chemical castration against a 25-year-old man for repeated sexual abuse of children.The man surnamed Chang was arrested earlier on charges of sexual abuse of four elementary school boys.He sexually abused the boys in June and July this year near their school in Dongdaemun in Seoul, according to the Seoul Northern District Prosecutors’ Office.Chemical castration refers to the process of using drugs to reduce sexual urges. In response to
Oct. 14, 2012
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Multilateral support key to green growth, Mexican minister says
Mexico expects the Global Green Growth Institute, a Korea-initiated multinational organization, to play a crucial role in facilitating international exchanges of technology, expertise and funds for environment-friendly development. Latin America’s second-largest economy has set comprehensive plans to cut carbon emissions, boost energy efficiency and increase the use of renewable energy resources. “To reach these objectives, Mexico will need international cooperation and funds,” Mexico’s Minister
Oct. 14, 2012
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Man sets fire to government office
A 61-year-old man on Sunday jumped from a government building in downtown Seoul after setting fire to an office room, police said. According to the police, the man, identified only by his family name Kim, entered the government main building in the Gwanghwamun district in the heart of Seoul at 1:30 p.m. and passed through the security line with a fake government ID card. He then went into a room o
Oct. 14, 2012
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Park's former aide confessed to receiving kickbacks: source
Hong Sa-duk, a close aide to ruling party presidential candidate Park Geun-hye, confessed that he received illegal political funds from a businessman, during a recent questioning, prosecution sources said Saturday. Hong, a former co-chairman of Park's primary campaign team and former six-term lawmaker, was summoned by prosecutors on Friday on suspicion of receiving kickbacks from the businessman,
Oct. 13, 2012
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Growing greens in the city
Urban farms promise to feed, teach and refresh stressed-out citizensWith beads of sweat dripping from their foreheads and the tips of their noses, groups of people work on a Saturday morning watering vegetables and crops, pulling out weeds and scattering organic fertilizer over fields. If it wasn’t for the wall of skyscrapers in the not-so-distant background, the scene could be mistaken for a typical farm field in the countryside. Yet, this is Nodeul Island in the Han River, right in the middle
Oct. 12, 2012
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Former Saenuri lawmaker summoned over illegal funding
Hong Sa-duk, a close aide to ruling party presidential candidate Park Geun-hye, appeared before prosecutors on Friday for questioning over allegations that he took illegal political funds.“I will sincerely respond to the questions,” the 69-year-old Hong told reporters before entering the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in southern Seoul around 9:45 a.m. Hong, a former co-chairman of Park’s primary campaign team and a former six-term lawmaker, is suspected of receiving a total of some 60 million won
Oct. 12, 2012
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Women use emoticons more when texting
Women are twice as likely as men to include emoticons -- graphic symbols to reflect moods or emotion -- in text messages, U.S. researchers say.Emoticons, graphic symbols that use punctuation marks and letters to represent facial expressions, help provide context to a person‘s texts and clarify a message that could otherwise possibly be misconstrued.Researchers at Rice University in Houston used s
Oct. 12, 2012
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Ban urged for Japan firms involved in forced labor
South Korea’s state arms procurement agency had dealings with Japanese firms accused of involvement in mobilizing Koreans for forced labor during the 1910-45 colonial rule, a lawmaker said Thursday, calling for barring such firms from military supply contracts.The Defense Acquisition Program Administration purchased 55 sets of binoculars worth 428 million won ($383,316) from Nikon, one of the companies of the Mitsubishi Group, in 2009, Rep. Kim Jae-yun of the main opposition United Democratic Pa
Oct. 11, 2012
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New international school opening on Jeju
Branksome Hall Asia, the second private international school in the Jeju Global Education City, will open next Monday, according to the Jeju Office of Education.The Branksome Hall Asia Jeju campus will have a 1,212-student limit for its 60 classes, where kindergarten to 3rd grade are co-ed, and 4th to 12th grade are split by gender. Some 300 students registered to attend school this year.The school finished construction in September and has finished recruiting 46 instructors from North America,
Oct. 11, 2012