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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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Govt. asks hospitals to mitigate impact of medical professors' absence
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S. Korea's working-age population to dip nearly 10m by 2044 amid low births
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S. Korea, China, Japan in talks to hold trilateral summit May 26-27: official
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Doggy patrol team on the move to protect their cities
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Sales of eco-friendly cars top 100,000 in Q1 in S. Korea
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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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Professor Jeong appointed as Yonsei University head
Jeong Kap-young, an economics professor at Yonsei University, has been appointed president of the university, the school said Thursday. The school board appointed Jeong as the 17th president after he received 86.6 percent of the vote from faculty members during the three-day meeting of professors that kicked off Nov. 28.Jeong was one of five presidential candidates selected early last month through interviews and a career examination by criteria such as research ethics and financial status. “I
Dec. 15, 2011
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Mother gets 7 yrs in prison for beating adoptive infant
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court on Thursday sentenced the adoptive mother of an infant to seven years in prison for frequently beating the baby girl, causing brain death.The 28-year-old mother, identified only by her surname Lee, was indicted in September on charges of habitually beating he
Dec. 15, 2011
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Gay conscientious objector gets Canada asylum
A gay man who avoided military service became the first South Korean to be granted asylum abroad on grounds of conscientious objection in 2009, a military human rights group belatedly announced on Thursday.According to the group, Canadian immigration officials granted asylum to Kim Kyung-hwan in 200
Dec. 15, 2011
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Sex slavery victims set up monument at 1,000th rally
An estimated 1,000 citizens gathered in front of the Japanese Embassy in downtown Seoul Wednesday, calling for the Japanese government’s apology and compensation for the wartime sex slaves during the Japanese colonial rules (1910-1945).The day was the 1,000th weekly Wednesday Protest, first held in 1992. Participants included five survivors of Japan’s sexual enslavement, activists, politicians, foreign residents and journalists. Protesters including Chung Mong-joon, former chairman of the ruling
Dec. 14, 2011
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Workers to get half of salary during forced non-paid leave
Labor Ministry plans to focus on creating youth jobs in 2012 Workers forced to take non-paid leave will receive up to half of their regular salary for a maximum of six months starting from the second half of next year, the government said Wednesday. The Ministry of Labor also said it aims to create some 71,000 new jobs for youth workers and provide cash incentives to companies which reduce working hours and hire more staff in 2012. “With low growth forecast for the domestic economy in 2012 and
Dec. 14, 2011
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Seoul’s carbon emissions to peak in 2020
Seoul’s greenhouse gas emissions will peak in 2020 but are expected to fall from 2030, a report showed Wednesday. The city’s greenhouse gas emissions have risen over the past 20 years from about 44 million tons a year in 1990 to an estimated 51 million tons in 2010, according the report by the Seoul Development Institute. In 2020 emissions are expected to reach about 54 million tons, then fall from 2030 as the city population decreases and energy efficiency improves. Energy consumption takes up
Dec. 14, 2011
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Park, L.A. mayor talk teamwork
Seoul and Los Angeles mayors met on Wednesday to discuss economic cooperation opportunities between their two cities.According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon met early Wednesday morning to discuss developments in investment and tourism.“As important as it is for mayors to meet, it is equally important for citizens to meet so there needs to be a plan for that to happen,” said Park“There needs to be cheap accommodation for Seoul
Dec. 14, 2011
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Korean nuclear reactor stops operation
A nuclear reactor in South Korea stopped operating Tuesday for unknown reasons, a state-run nuclear power plant operator said.The Unit-1 reactor with a capacity of 1-million kilowatt in Uljin, 330 kilometers southeast of Seoul, came to a standstill at around 8 p.m., according to the Korea Hydro & Nu
Dec. 13, 2011
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US soldier in S. Korea indicted on rape charge
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors said Tuesday that they have indicted a U.S. soldier on charges of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old South Korean girl and stealing her laptop.The 21-year-old private from a communications brigade of the 8th U.S. Army is accused of raping the girl in her rented
Dec. 13, 2011
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Seoul installs west coast CCTV to forecast snowfall
The Seoul Metropolitan Government has placed weather-observing video cameras along the nation’s western coast to help the capital brace for snowstorms, officials said Tuesday.According to the capital, five closed-circuit television cameras were installed to detect early warning signs and give officials adequate preparation time, after a major snowstorm paralyzed Seoul last year. The CCTV cameras were placed at two meteorological observatories in Munsan, Ganghwa and Incheon, and in Yeongheung-do
Dec. 13, 2011
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Union condemns request to promote FTA in schools
A document sent by the Education Ministry to local education offices encouraging them to promote the Korea-U.S. FTA in local schools has met a backlash from a progressive teacher’s union and prompted regional education offices to review whether they should comply. The 16 offices nationwide received an official document from the ministry Friday, asking them to promote the Korea-U.S. FTA on the websites of the regional education offices and schools by installing pop-ups and banners, according to t
Dec. 13, 2011
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Civic group blast new broadcasters
Cable channels fail to disclose programming guidelines even after openingA group of activists has filed a lawsuit with the prosecution against three new cable broadcasters for keeping the audience in the dark about their programming schedules even after they began broadcasting on Dec. 1. The three broadcasters are Channel A, TV Chosun and jTBC. They are run by the Dong-A Ilbo, the Chosun Ilbo and the JoongAng Ilbo, respectively, the nation’s three biggest conservative newspapers. MBN, run by Mae
Dec. 13, 2011
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Pigeon Corp. assault suspect found dead in apparent suicide
A member of a crime ring suspected of assaulting a former CEO of Pigeon Corp. was found dead on Tuesday at his house in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. The man, identified as his family name Oh, was reportedly found with his leather belt wrapped around his neck hanging from a shower head around 3 a.m. He was found by his wife. No death note or possible third-party activity has been found yet, said the police, who are assuming suicide. His wife has reportedly testified that Oh, who had been on the run
Dec. 13, 2011
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S. Korea to seek arrest warrant for Chinese captain over murder accusation
South Korea's Coast Guard said Tuesday they would seek an arrest warrant for the captain of a Chinese fishing boat on suspicion of killing a local Coast Guard officer during a raid operation on the vessel caught for illegal fishing.(Yonhap News)The officer, surnamed Lee, was killed Monday as h
Dec. 13, 2011
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Oldest Korean victim of Japan's wartime sexual slavery dies
The oldest Korean woman who was forced into sexual slavery in brothels run by Japan's military during World War II has died at the age of 94, a civic group supporting the aging survivors said Monday.Park Seo-woon died on Dec. 4 of old age in northeast China's Hunchun city in Jilin province, said an
Dec. 12, 2011
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Police chief may resign in protest of probe rights
The nation’s police chief plans to stake his police career on winning concessions in a government legislation, which the police see as severely limiting their investigative powers, a source said Monday. “I have said several times before that I will not become a person reluctant to give up my position,” Cho Hyun-oh, the commissioner general of the National Police Agency (NPS), told Yonhap News Agency. “If the Prime Minister Office’s final version of the legislation is confirmed and its content is
Dec. 12, 2011
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Seoul to regulate billboard lighting, indoor temperature
Store owners caught for excessive lighting on outdoor billboards and heating of their buildings will face fines of up to 3 million won ($2,622) starting later this week, as part of nationwide efforts to save energy during the winter season, the Seoul city government said Monday.The move came after the central government declared an emergency period for energy usage from Dec. 5 to the end of February next year. The electricity demand in winter was higher than in the middle of summer for the past
Dec. 12, 2011
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Tax dodgers shamed online
The capital on Monday revealed the names of thousands of tax dodgers online, including Joo Soo-do, former chairman of the multilevel marketing firm JU Group.The names of 4,645 individuals and corporate bodies were posted online for failing to pay at least 30 million won ($26,190) each in local taxes over the past two years.Available in PDF file format on Seoul Metropolitan Government’s homepage, the list contains 3,148 more names than last year, when the amount of unpaid taxes amounted to 100 mi
Dec. 12, 2011
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Teenagers chronically sleep deprived
Fast food consumption declines steadily after campus sales ban in 2007A majority of teenagers in Korea suffer from chronic sleep deprivation that could lead to drinking, smoking and suicidal tendencies, the state health agency said Monday. Also, the number of students regularly consuming junk food and soda is on a steady decline but is still substantial, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest assessment of teenagers’ lifestyle.The annual report claims that 74.
Dec. 12, 2011
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Design evoking 9/11 causes controversy
The design of a pair of residential towers to be built in Yongsan, Seoul has sparked international controversy by evoking the image of the World Trade Center attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Families of 9/11 victims were among those outraged at the design evoking the exploding WTC, and criticized Dutch architecture firm MVRDV and the architect, Daniel Libeskind, according to the New York Daily News and New York Post. Scheduled to be completed in 2015, the towers are connected by a “pixilated cloud” whi
Dec. 12, 2011