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10-man S. Korea lose to Indonesia to miss out on Paris Olympic football qualification
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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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First-ever meeting of president, opposition chief set to finally happen
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NewJeans' singles, Japanese debut to proceed as planned, despite Hybe-Ador feud
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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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Experts raise concerns about Japan putting pressure on Naver over Line
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Samsung mobile chief, Google device head meet in Seoul
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Ship linked to NK arms shipments to Russia is moored in China: State Dept.
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Korean pleads not guilty over U.S. college shootings
A Korean-American former nursing student pleaded not guilty Monday to killing seven people in an execution-style shooting rampage at a religious college in California.One Goh, 43 -- who has refused to eat for several weeks -- is charged with seven counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder for the April 2 shooting at Oikos University, a small Christian school in Oakland.Law enforcement
May 1, 2012
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President’s‘political mentor’ Choi arrested in bribery case
Choi See-joong (Yonhap News)Former Korea Communications Commission Chairman Choi See-joong was arrested on Monday on charges of accepting bribes from a construction developer.Choi, 75, with close ties to President Lee Myung-bak is suspected of having received 800 million won ($700,000) from his long-time friend some five years ago in return for leveraging his influence in getting a complex constru
April 30, 2012
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Chinese fishermen held for injuring 4 patrol officials
The Korean Coast Guard seized a Chinese fishing vessel and arrested nine fishermen who attacked and injured four officials of the West Sea Fisheries Supervision Office on Monday.According to the coast guard, four Korean civil servants were attacked by Chinese fishermen when they attempted to board the Chinese vessel during a crackdown operation 75 kilometers off the coast of Hong-do in South Jeolla Province’s Heuksan County. The officials were airlifted to a hospital in the southwestern port cit
April 30, 2012
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18 Chinese booked for illegal university admission
Police in Gyeongggi Province have booked two Chinese brokers and 18 students for faking documents to enter Korean universities and are widening their investigation to find more such cases. The 20 people were booked without detention.The Chinese students, none of whom are qualified to attend university in Korea, paid 7 million won ($6,192) to 18 million won to each broker for a fake high school diploma and school reports, according to the police. A broker surnamed Gang received 7 million won from
April 30, 2012
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Korea to toughen rules on tobacco packaging in Dec.
From December, cigarette packages will be half-covered with warning signs of the health risk of smoking, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced Monday. According to the relevant law revision, the size of the warnings that tobacco producers will be obliged to attach to their product packages will increase from the current 30 percent to 50 percent. They also have to insert an anti-smoking hotline number ― 1544-9030. On low-tar products, the phrase, “Low-tar cigarettes are as harmful to healt
April 30, 2012
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Defense contractor caught swindling 24b won
Bluenier, a Korean company supplying components to the Air Force, has been found to have swindled about 24 billion won ($21 million) by manipulating the records of imports and exports and obtaining false tax invoices, the Board of Audit and Inspection said on Monday.The company collected certifications of import declaration worth about 17 billion won by exporting waste materials for down converters and importing them back to dodge import restrictions. A down converter is one of the main componen
April 30, 2012
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Lawmaker-elect Moon resigns from university
Lawmaker-elect Moon Dae-sung has resigned from the faculty at Dong-A University due to plagiarism.The former Olympic gold medalist in taekwondo left the ruling Saenuri Party on April 20 amid the scandal.Moon, who became a professor of taekwondo at the university in 2006, offered his resignation on Friday, according to the university in Busan. His doctoral thesis was confirmed to have been copied from another doctoral paper. (wone0102@heraldm.com)
April 30, 2012
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Korea aims to double foreign students by 2020
Plans include creation of online education portal, expansion of scholarshipsThe government plans to double the number of foreign students in domestic universities to 200,000 by 2020 by boosting the quality of higher education and improving recruitment policies. To meet the goal, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology will reinforce polices such as providing a one-stop online information center and expanding its scholarship programs for foreign students, officials said.The measure was
April 30, 2012
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Ex-vice minister grilled over bribes
The Supreme Prosecutors’ Office summoned on Monday former Vice Knowledge Economy Minister Park Young-joon for questioning on May 2 as part of its investigation into a bribery scandal involving a construction project named Picity.The prosecutors raided the house and office of a close associate of Park identified as Lee over the weekend in relation to the allegation.Prosecutors reportedly discovered dubious money exchanges between Park and Lee, and are looking for any connection with 1 billion won
April 30, 2012
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Korea outlines incentives for foreign hospitals in FEZs
The Ministry of Health and Welfare on Monday laid out a set of guidelines on the establishment of for-profit hospitals in free economic zones. The law, which will come into effect in December, is expected to pave the way for the establishment of foreign franchise hospitals to look after foreigners in need of “more sophisticated medical services.”The hospitals in the FEZ will be excluded from the state health insurance program, which will lead to higher medical fees than domestic institutions.Fra
April 30, 2012
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Korean to make commencement speech at U.S. university
A Korean student has been selected to make a spring commencement speech at Northern Michigan University on Saturday.Lee Young-jong, whose major is media production with a minor in art and design, worked for the Korean Broadcasting System and a cable company as an assistant producer for two years before coming to NMU.His commencement speech will mention the advantages of coming to the school, including personalized attention from faculty and staff, according to the university.(wone0102@heraldm.co
April 30, 2012
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Angry passer-by pushes suicidal man off bridge
Video footage of a frustrated pedestrian pushing a suicidal man off a bridge in China has emerged on YouTube and other websites.In the video, a person identified as Chen Fuchao sits on a bridge in Guangdong Province, contemplating suicide. Lai Jiansheng, a retired 66-year-old soldier marches up to Chen and reaches out, apparently for a handshake. However, when Chen grabs his hand, Lai shoves him off the 8-meter bridge and onto an emergency air cushion. Chen was hospitalized with wrist and back i
April 30, 2012
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4 Korean civil servants injured by Chinese fishermen
Four South Korean civil servants were injured in an attack by Chinese fishermen illegally operating off the coast of South Jeolla Province on Monday.According to the local authorities, four civil servants tasked with controlling illegal fishing activities were attacked while attempting to board a Chinese fishing boat 45 miles west of the sland of Hong-do in Heuksan County at about 2:15 a.m.The inj
April 30, 2012
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Seoul police chief to head Coast Guard
Seoul police chief Lee Kang-deok was named commissioner general of the Korea Coast Guard on Saturday. Lee has headed the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency since November last year. A close aide to President Lee Myung-bak, he was regarded the number one candidate for National Police Agency commissioner. But he was dropped in the wake of a scandal involving the government’s illicit surveillance of civilians.He formerly served as the presidential secretary of public safety and head of public order t
April 29, 2012
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Anti-corruption agency ups transparency efforts
The Korean government pledged to foreign businesses to step up efforts to eradicate corruption and improve the environment for their investment. At a conference with foreign business leaders on Friday, Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission Chairwoman Kim Young-ran said that the agency’s efforts have led to a number of improvements regarding problems experienced by foreigners and that the commission is pushing for further institutional changes aimed at increasing the transparency of Korean
April 29, 2012
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Court to decide on Choi’s arrest
Former KCC chairman’s heart surgery may delay detainmentThe court will decide on the arrest of former Korea Communications Commission chairman Choi See-joong on Monday, on charges of accepting bribes from a construction developer.The 75-year-old former broadcasting and telecom regulator with close ties to President Lee Myung-bak is suspected of having received 800 million won ($700,000) from his long-time friend some five years ago in return for leveraging his influence in getting a complex cons
April 29, 2012
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Police: Wife kills husband with frying pan
A Russian man died after being hit on the head with a frying pan by his wife, who was "driven by jealousy," a local investigation committee said Saturday.Police said the man, 50, was hospitalized in the Urals city of Orenburg with acute cerebral circulatory problems and died the next day, RIA Novosti reported."The woman said she was driven by jealousy and hit her husband with a frying pan during a
April 29, 2012
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Police use location tracing system in rescuing man from suicide
Police tracked the location of the phone of a man who attempted suicide and saved his life on Sunday. The man, who is in his 40s, drank pesticide at a fishing spot in Ansung, Gyeonggi province.Before the suicide attempt, the man made a phone call to his sister and said “I’m sorry.” The sister dialed 112, the state’s emergency hotline, to ask for help.Two officials from Ansung Provincial Police Age
April 29, 2012
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BAI blames KORAIL for sloppy high-speed trains
The Board of Audit and Inspection said Friday that the state-run bullet train operator used flawed bullet trains on its Seoul-Sancheon route despite being aware of the risks. The state auditory body also spotted sloppy maintenance of parts, repairs, human resources training and overall safety measures, which it said led to a spike in accidents. “The number of high-speed train accidents soared by 116 percent a year after the Korea Railroad Corp. began its KTX-Sancheon operation,” the BAI said in
April 27, 2012
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Unclear path for ‘East Sea’ name change
The International Hydrographic Conference wrapped up on Thursday without the adoption of “East Sea” as the name of the body of water between Korea and Japan. The International Hydrographic Organization will therefore continue to refer to the body of water as the Sea of Japan, as favored by the Japanese government. The government and civil society are expected to try and convince reluctant states over the next five years until the next meeting, observers said. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
April 27, 2012