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Korea enters full election mode
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Lee Jong-sup resigns as envoy to Australia
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Yellow dust engulfs S. Korea, advisory alert issued
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S. Korea to boost support for single-parent families
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Court upholds jail term for man who attempted to murder ex-girlfriend
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Kia EV9 wins world car of year
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Korea misses out on global bond index boost
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Gender Ministry signs MOU with Philippines on safer marriages
The Korean Gender Ministry signed an agreement Tuesday with the Philippine government to ensure safer international marriages for both spouses.The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said it signed a memorandum of understanding with the Commission on Filipinos Overseas, which upholds the interests of Filipino emigrants, to ensure safer international marriages.The government hopes to accommodate the rising number of marriages between Korean men and Filipina women by offering education and voca
March 12, 2012
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100 days on, people still line up to pay tribute to POSCO founder
On Sunday afternoon, two women braved the piercing cold and visited a white tent at Seoul National Cemetery. They paid tribute to the late Park Tae-joon, the founder of POSCO who brought the nation’s manufacturing industry to a level unprecedented at the time. They stood in front his tombstone for a while and offered incense. “I don’t know about him well. But I know he is a rare person, who really stood out for the country,” said Kim Su-jeong, a resident from nearby Bangbae-dong. Kim and her mot
March 12, 2012
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Chung-Ang Univ. fights discrimination
Students at Chung-Ang University can now report misconduct discrimination at its human rights office, officials announced Monday. As the nation’s first university to adopt such an office, the school hopes that the Chung-Ang University Human Rights Center will help to better handle students’ grievances involving discrimination.The center will be an expansion of the existing Center for Gender Equality, which already handles issues of sexual harassment and rape.The office will deal with racial and
March 12, 2012
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Korea reports first suspected case of Avian Influenza
A suspected case of avian influenza (AI) was reported for the first time in South Korea in nearly 10 months with test results of a more detailed examination due later in the day, the government said Monday.A suspected case was filed Sunday by a poultry farm in South Chungcheong Province where about
March 12, 2012
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Construction on Jeju naval base continues
Construction on the Jeju Island naval base continued through its first weekend alongside protests from activists and local residents.Contractors blasted more natural rock until Saturday, following through on demolition to clear the way for the construction.Officials ceased blasting on Sunday, citing poor weather conditions, but continued other construction.“We will start again next week,” said a Navy public affairs official.Saturday’s blasting was met by some 300 protestors from Gangjeong Villag
March 11, 2012
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Police summon Samsung worker for tailing CJ chief
Police have questioned an employee of Samsung C&T Corp. for allegedly conducting an illegal surveillance on the chief of CJ Group, amid a growing feud over the family inheritance fight over Samsung, South Korea’s biggest conglomerate, officials said Saturday. The summons came as CJ Group sued the 42-year-old Samsung employee, identified only by his surname Kim, for suspicions of following its chairman Lee Jae-hyun late last month after the chairman’s father filed an inheritance suit against the
March 11, 2012
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Police to question judge over influence-peddling
Police are preparing to summon an incumbent judge to verify whether he pressured a prosecutor to indict a netizen who slandered his wife. They have already conducted written questioning of two prosecutors. The case came to light when prosecutor Park Eun-jeong of Incheon District Prosecutors’ Office Bucheon Division claimed to her superiors last month that Judge Kim Jae-ho called her in 2006 and asked her to indict a blogger who posted a slew of articles criticizing Kim’s wife, Na Kyung-won. The
March 11, 2012
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Police seek separate licensing for motorcycle use
Drivers may need a separate license to get behind the handlebars of a motorcycle, police officials said Sunday.The National Police Agency is looking to create a separate license for motorcycles with engines bigger than 50 cc.Car drivers can ride motorcycles with engine displacements smaller than 125 cc without any additional education or testing.Police officials have begun revising traffic laws and hope to pass the revision through the National Assembly by September, taking effect next year.The
March 11, 2012
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Hyundai Motor allegedly bribed 8 ex-liberal lawmakers in 2006
Prosecutors have secured testimony that Hyundai Motor Group bribed eight former lawmakers of then ruling liberal party in 2006 while its chairman was on trial over bribery charges, according to prosecution sources Saturday.The special investigation team delving into the savings bank scandal said Kim Dong-jin, a former Hyundai Motor vice chairman, told investigators he bribed then lawmakers of the Uri Party, a ruling party of late President Roh Moo-hyun, in late 2006.Kim, 62, said he gave 10 mill
March 11, 2012
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Fistfight breaks out at Chicago Symphony Orchestra
It was an unusual backdrop for a fistfight: Maestro Riccardo Muti was nearly through the second movement of Brahms Symphony No. 2 at the normally staid Chicago Symphony Orchestra when two patrons got into a fistfight.Concert-goers at Orchestra Hall were all the more stunned Thursday because the two
March 11, 2012
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300 nude bicyclists hit Peru streets in protest
About 300 nude bicyclists have ridden through the Peruvian capital of Lima to call attention to safety conditions and demand measures protecting cyclists.Event organizer Octavio Zegarra says the protesters took to their bicycles nude Saturday to show that ``this is our body. With this we go out in t
March 11, 2012
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Facebook 'friend' offer exposes man's other wife
Facebook's automatic efforts to connect users through “friends” they may know recently led two women in the U.S. state of Washington to find out they were married to the same man, at the same time.That led to the man, corrections officer Alan L. O'Neill, being slapped with bigamy charges.According t
March 11, 2012
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Comfort woman seeks Assembly seat with DUP
One of the surviving victims of sexual slavery by Japanese military during World War II is seeking a proportional representation seat with the main opposition Democratic United Party.Lee Yong-su, 84, said she wanted to become a proportional representative through the April 11 parliamentary elections so that she can demand an official apology and compensation from the Japanese government as a lawmaker. “Japan hasn’t changed its stance a bit on the issue for the last 20-30 years. I want to make su
March 9, 2012
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Navy, lawmaker sue over ‘pirate base’ jibe
The controversy that arose from a would-be politician’s Twitter comment has taken a legal turn with the Navy on Friday filing a complaint with the prosecutors’ office. On Thursday, Unified Progressive Party’s proportional representative candidate Kim Ji-yoon, 28, posted a photograph of herself holding up a tablet PC showing a slogan reading “(I) Oppose Jeju pirate base. Let’s protect Gangjeong.” Gangjeong is the name of the village where the naval base is being built in Jeju Island. The remark i
March 9, 2012
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Commander of special forces disciplined in sex scandal
The commanding general of the country's top special forces unit has been relieved of his duties for allegedly having inappropriate relations with a subordinate, Army officials said Friday. Brig. Gen. Choi Ik-bong, commander of the Special Warfare Command, also recently expressed his intention to
March 9, 2012
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Police to question husband of ex-lawmaker over influence-peddling suspicion
Seoul police said Friday they will question an incumbent court judge, also the husband of former ruling party lawmaker and mayoral candidate Na Kyung-won, next week over allegations that he used his influence for prosecutors' indictment of a blogger who uploaded online postings critical of his wife.
March 9, 2012
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Electronic ID bill sleeps in parliament
A bill to replace resident registration cards with microchips containing personal information is unlikely to pass parliament within this term, officials said Thursday.According to the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, the revision for the Resident Registration Act has yet to be placed before the National Assembly’s judicial committee. Considering that the present National Assembly has effectively ceased to sit in preparation for the April 11 general elections, it is unlikely that t
March 8, 2012
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Buddhist leader visits disgraced scientist Hwang
Ven. Jaseung, leader of the nation’s largest Buddhist order of Jogye, visited stem cell researcher, Hwang Woo-suk on Wednesday to encourage his little known, but ongoing study of dog cloning.It is the first time a Buddhist leader paid an official visit to Hwang since the former Seoul National University professor shunned the media spotlight after it was revealed in 2005 that some data in his trailblazing research on cloning human embryo stem cells had been manipulated. According to the report, J
March 8, 2012
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Comfort women vow to help Congolese rape victims
A group of Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery during World War II pledged on Thursday to help Congolese women suffering because of sexual abuse and rape, if they receive financial compensation from Japan for its wartime atrocities against them.“I decided to help those who were treated much worse than me. If I get the compensation, I hope the people helping me fight for compensation as well as an apology from Tokyo will send it to the Congolese women,” said Kim Bok-dong at a press c
March 8, 2012
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U.S. soldier caught smuggling drugs
Prosecutors here have indicted a U.S. soldier without detention for bringing synthetic marijuana into the country, prosecutors said Thursday.According to Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, the U.S. Eighth Army sergeant first class was caught trying to ship in AM-2201, a synthetic cannabinoid.The soldier, whose name was not disclosed, had ordered 50 grams of the drug online and shipped it into the country.“I brought it in so I could use it,” said the soldier as quoted by prosecutors.Offi
March 8, 2012