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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Korea enters full election mode
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Dialogue hopes fade as doctors pick hard-liner as new head
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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Seoul’s bus union prepares for strike
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Police round up 881 gangsters
Police have rounded up 881 members of organized crime groups, taking 175 of them into custody, officials said Sunday.According to the National Police Agency, the criminals were arrested between February and April 11. This came after another raid from late October to the end of the year resulted in the roundup of 1,060 gangsters, with 140 of them detained. The series of crackdowns began after a massive street brawl broke out in front of a funeral home in Incheon between rival gang members last ye
April 15, 2012
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Koreans switching back to traditional meat-free diet
When they eat out for a change on weekends, Son Yu-kyong and her husband take their 10-year-old daughter to vegan restaurants, the same way that families head to steakhouses and buffet chains on special occasions. For them, forgoing meat in favor of vegetarian fare has been a decade-old family tradition to stay healthy.“It used to be samgyeopsal and beef ribs when we ate out 10 years ago but not anymore,” the 41-year-old housewife said, as her family dined at a vegan restaurant in eastern Seoul
April 15, 2012
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Foreign workers given unsuitable jobs
Foreign migrant workers ill-informed of job description before coming to KoreaA human rights watchdog recently ruled that assigning an Indonesian Muslim to a job at a pork processing factory is an infringement of human rights. A similar case was reported to the Joint Committee with Migrants in Korea, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the human rights of foreign migrant workers, this time involving another Indonesian Muslim worker who was assigned to a dog-breeding farm. “He didn’
April 15, 2012
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Korea issues rabies alert after discovering infected dog
South Korea has issued a rabies alert after a dog tested positive for the potentially deadly disease, the country's farm ministry said Saturday.The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said a dog on a farm in Hwaseong some 55 km southwest of Seoul, tested positive for rabies. Local quarantine officials have been ordered to inoculate all domestic animals in the vicinity of the far
April 14, 2012
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Lawmakers-elect under probe for election law violations
Prosecutors are stepping up their investigations into election law violations after the general election Wednesday.Gwangju prosecutors said they would summon independent lawmaker-elect Park Joo-sun of a Gwangju constituency as one of his campaign aides allegedly paid a broker for gathering electoral voters. “We have enough evidence to prove the allegation. We will notify Park of summons as early as next week,” a prosecutor told a local daily Thursday. Prosecutors also raided campaign offices of
April 13, 2012
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Herald Media, SNUE sign cooperation MOU
Herald Media signed a memorandum of understanding with Seoul National University of Education on Thursday to cooperate in future joint projects to nurture globally minded individuals. Lee Young-man, Herald Media CEO and publisher, and Shin Hang-gyun, president of SNUE, signed the MOU at Herald Media in Seoul on Thursday. Under the memorandum, Herald Media and the university are to strengthen cooperation in student internships at Herald Media and its reporters’ lectures to university students, as
April 12, 2012
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Seoul to offer field trips to foreign visitors
The Seoul Metropolitan Government will provide field trips to foreign visitors to the capital to increase their understanding of Korean culture and promote the city, officials said Thursday. The city government plans to offer 1,000 foreign visitors this year a chance to experience Korean culture during their stay in the capital. The program was launched in 2008 to promote the city to foreign visitors. City officials say that this year the program is designed to publicize the 2012 Yeosu Expo from
April 12, 2012
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No bomb on Korean Air jetliner
TORONTO (AP) ― A spokeswoman for Korean Airlines says no bomb was found after authorities searched a Boeing 777 that was diverted to a Canadian military base after the airline’s U.S. call center received a bomb threat.Korean Air spokeswoman Penny Pfaelzer said Wednesday the 149 passengers are on their way to Vancouver, British Columbia’s airport where the plane will be refueled before heading to Seoul.Two U.S. F-15 fighter jets from Portland, Oregon, escorted the plane to Canada’s Comox air base
April 12, 2012
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Mongolian teachers to work in Korean schools
Mongolian teachers will teach South Korean students and help provincial communities improve their understanding of multicultural families under a teacher-exchange program.The Korean Education Ministry said Thursday that 20 teachers would be assigned to nine local elementary or middle schools with a concentration of multiethnic students including Mongolian children.They will spend two months from April 23 mostly at schools in Mongolian communities in Gangwon Province. They are to teach English or
April 12, 2012
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Police suspect Suwon killer had more victims
Suwon victim violently resisted attacker while awaiting rescue by policeA young woman claimed that a man similar to the killer in the brutal rape and murder in Suwon had attempted to kidnap her last year in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, police officials said Wednesday.The testimony by the 26 year old is leading investigators to believe that 42-year-old Wu Yuangchun’s vicious rape and murder of a young woman in Suwon was premeditated, and that there may have been other incidents.“I escaped from someo
April 12, 2012
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Missing student found dead
A female college student who went missing in Busan on April 4 was found dead Thursday in a riverside pond near her home. Moon Jeong-min leaving Haeundae library in Busan last Wednesday. (Yonhap News)There were no traces of injury or attack, the Busan Haeundae Police Station said. The body of 21-year-old Mun Jeong-min was discovered eight days after she disappeared while taking a walk at night. “He
April 12, 2012
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No bomb found on Korean Air jetliner
TORONTO (AP) -- A spokeswoman for Korean Air says no bomb was found after authorities searched a Boeing 777 that was diverted to a Canadian military base after the airline's U.S. call center received a bomb threat.Korean Air spokeswoman Penny Pfaelzer said Wednesday the 149 passengers are on their way to Vancouver, British Columbia's airport where the plane will be refueled before heading to Seoul
April 12, 2012
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Lawyer kills Korean husband, herself in U.S.
A lawyer in Georgia allegedly shot her Korean husband dead and fatally injured a woman before killing herself, according to local media Wednesday.The motive behind the shooting was not released yet, but local police said that the shooter’s husband had an affair with the unidentified female victim.Reports claimed that the suspect 44-year-old Sylvia Jean Junn, was an Asian immigrant attorney.Jun all
April 12, 2012
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Murder case reveals emergency line flaws
The recent murder in Suwon has brought the 112 emergency service under fire, as police failed to find a 28-year-old woman for 13 hours after she called for a help. She was brutally murdered on April 1 despite calling with a specific location hours earlier. The case has prompted an outpouring of criticism of the 112 emergency hotline’s tracking ability and lack of a detailed search manual. Under the current location information protection law, the 112 hotline is not allowed to track a caller’s lo
April 11, 2012
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Voters, young and old, seek change
Partisan fighting makes voters wonder whether parties are sincere about pledgesPolling booths throughout the nation saw a steady stream of voters, all hoping for a different kind of politician, despite Wednesday’s wet start.Voters were looking for character more than the same old campaign pledges.“Everyone wants someone who works hard and is capable but I think more than anything we need someone who has good intentions,” said 22-year-old Kim Min-young.“I don’t want change in a specific direction
April 11, 2012
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Election watchdog‘s Web site attacked before elections
The web site of the national election watchdog came under a cyber attack on the eve of Wednesday‘s general elections, watchdog officials said.The web site was hit by a so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack late Tuesday between 10:27 p.m. and 11:01 p.m., officials at the National Election Commission (NEC) said. A search engine on the Web site, which helps voters find their designated polling station, was also attacked between 11:02 p.m. and 11:20 p.m., they said.The NEC said it re
April 11, 2012
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Korean Air passenger jet diverted after bomb threat
A Korean Air passenger jet heading to Seoul made an emergency landing at a Canadian Air Force base after receiving a bomb threat, the country’s flag carrier said Wednesday. A Korean Air Boeing 777 rests on the runway of a Canadian Forces base in Comox on Vancouver Island on Tuesday. (Yonhap News)Its Boeing 777-200 was diverted at around 7:40 a.m. Korean time when the airline’s U.S. call center rec
April 11, 2012
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Man caught forcing homeless, disabled into slave labor
Authorities here arrested 11 people Tuesday on charges of trafficking more than 100 disabled and homeless people into forced labor in the past 20 years.According to the Korea Coast Guard, a 47-year-old man was arrested with his nephew, daughter, older brother and sister, and six other associates on charges of kidnapping, trafficking and embezzlement.Officials report that the man had set up a motel in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province, and lured the homeless and people with disabilities into their es
April 10, 2012
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Seoul City to implement food waste metering system in 2013
Seoul City said Tuesday residents will have to pay to throw away their food waste next year.According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, all residents in the capital’s 25 districts will be required to pay for the volume or weight of the food waste they throw away starting in January 2013.Currently only residents living in homes within 18 districts follow the food trash metering system, while the rest of the capital’s residents pay a flat rate. Residents living in apartments and villas pay a f
April 10, 2012
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86% of tots receive all suggested vaccinations
Some 86 percent of 3-year-olds across the country have been inoculated with all the state-recommended vaccinations, the nation’s disease control agency said on Monday.That proportion is short of the national target of 95 percent, it added.According to a report on the vaccination rate, compiled by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the first time, 86.3 percent of 3 year olds were found to have received all seven vaccines recommended to be given before they are 2 years old. T
April 10, 2012