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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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[Eye Interview] 'If you live to 100, you might as well be happy,' says 88-year-old bestselling essayist
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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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Missing S. Korean traveler in Paris found safe after 2 weeks
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NLCS Jeju to offer full scholarships to poor
North London Collegiate School Jeju, the first international school to open in the Jeju Global Education City, will offer full scholarships to students from low-income families with outstanding academic performances. The scholarships will cover full tuition and boarding fees until graduation, school officials said Thursday. The NLCS also offered a campus tour and admission information session for prospective students and their families to learn about campus life and conditions for admission ahea
Dec. 8, 2011
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English teachers arrested for forgery are U.S. ex-convicts
Four Korean-Americans, including one former gang member with a violent criminal history in the U.S., were arrested by police on Wednesday on suspicion of falsifying their academic credentials.According to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on Thursday, five were arrested after being caught smoking marijuana together, and further investigation found that one was wanted for drug trafficking.All of the arrested were found to be teaching English in the capital, including in Gangnam-gu, an area pri
Dec. 8, 2011
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Korea draws up disaster prevention plans
The Prime Minister’s Office announced Thursday comprehensive plans for managing natural disasters in response to climate change.The Prime Minister’s Office also said that the budget for disaster-prevention measures for 2011 has been increased by 21 percent from this year to about 5 trillion won ($4.4 billion).Including funds to be generated from regional authorities, 6.7 trillion won will be spent on related projects.Under the mid-term plans, which were drawn up by a government-private sector ta
Dec. 8, 2011
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‘Time for S. Korea to act on emissions cut target’
Korea needs to act now, if it wants to achieve its carbon emissions reduction target and seize opportunities in the green energy sector, a climate guru said Thursday. Environmentalist Tim Flannery said Korea’s target of a 30 percent cut in greenhouse emissions by 2020 from business as usual projections is of a similar scale to his native Australia. Canberra’s goal is to keep carbon dioxide output below 5 percent of the 2000 level by 2020, which translates into a reduction of 30 percent from the
Dec. 8, 2011
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Police quiz 2 more lawmakers' aides over NEC hacking
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Yonhap) -- Police said Thursday that they have questioned aides to two more conservative lawmakers about a cyber attack that temporarily paralyzed the Web site of the national election watchdog in October.The National Police Agency said it had an overnight interrogation of a former se
Dec. 8, 2011
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Second iCJD case reported in Korea
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the country’s second case of iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Thursday.The first was reported Nov. 29, after the patient had died.Authorities said that the disease is not ordinarily transmittable through and assured that the public w
Dec. 8, 2011
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Arrest warrant sought for lawyer suspected of bribing prosecutor
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors said Thursday they have applied for an arrest warrant for a private practice lawyer suspected of bribing a prosecutor in return for her influence.Busan prosecutors, who are handling the case, said they requested the local court there issue the warrant for the 49
Dec. 8, 2011
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Arrest warrant issued for ex-prosecutor in lobbying scandal
A regional court issued an arrest warrant on Wednesday for a former female prosecutor mired in a corruption scandal. The Busan District Court approved prosecutors' request to issue the warrant to prolong their custody of the 36-year-old surnamed Lee, who allegedly received a luxury sedan
Dec. 7, 2011
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Young defectors struggle to learn
A 17-year-old boy who defected here from North Korea last year always wears his shoes indoors ― he never knows when he might have to run away. Still suffering from the psychological trauma of his escape from the North, the boy, whose name is being withheld for his safety, failed to adapt to his first school here, being treated as an outcast by his South Korean classmates. He recently transferred to another school in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, a city located near the border with North Korea.He is o
Dec. 7, 2011
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SK vice chairman summoned again over embezzlement charges
SK Group‘s vice chairman was called back for questioning by prosecutors Wednesday on suspicions he embezzled nearly 100 billion won ($88.7 million) of the group’s funds in collusion with his elder brother.Chey Jae-won reappeared at the central prosecutors‘ office in southern Seoul at around 10 a.m., for his second interrogation over the embezzlement charges. It came less than a week after he underwent 16 hours of intensive interrogation on Friday.“I came here to sincerely answer questions (that
Dec. 7, 2011
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Second women‘s university launches ROTC unit
A Seoul women’s university will launch a unit of female cadets for an officer-training program this week, becoming only the second local women-only college to do so, the Army said Wednesday.The Army said Sungshin Women‘s University will have the launching ceremony for its Reserved Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program Thursday. The Army has picked 30 cadets from the school.Sungshin joins Sookmyung Women’s University, also based in Seoul, as the only female-only schools to run the ROTC program. S
Dec. 7, 2011
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NO2 pollution in Seoul above national limits
Seoul has consistently exceeded the national limits on toxic air pollutants for a decade, according to research released Wednesday.The report by the Seoul Development Institute said that the amount of nitrogen dioxide in Seoul exceeded the national limit from 2000 to 2009.Nitrogen dioxide is a toxic pollutant which can cause respiratory problems and other health problems including bronchitis, pneumonia and asthma.The institute found that air near high-traffic areas, mainly roads, was between 49
Dec. 7, 2011
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Seoul to increase ‘foreign correspondents’
Seoul plans to increase the number of information gatherers it has in developed countries, officials announced Wednesday.Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to expand the number of “foreign correspondents” in the U.S. and euro zone.The capital already has 145 correspondents in 80 cities in 33 countries who gather and send information on the cities’ policies. The program began in 2008 and has since provided Seoul with information that it could possibly implement into its own policy.The city said
Dec. 7, 2011
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Speaker’s aide questioned over DDoS attack
Police on Tuesday questioned an aide of Rep. Park Hee-tae, the National Assembly speaker and a ruling party member, as part of their investigation into the election-day cyber attack against the national election watchdog. The aide, identified by his surname Kim, is one of five people who had drinks with a main suspect ―- a staffer to Grand National Party Rep. Choi Ku-shik -― the night before the attack.“We questioned, as witnesses, all five who had drinks with Gong on the eve of the Oct. 26 by-e
Dec. 6, 2011
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Prosecutors to summon SK chairman this week over embezzlement suspicion
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to summon this week the chairman of SK Group, the third-largest industrial conglomerate in South Korea, on suspicion that he embezzled nearly 100 billion won ($88.4 million) of group funds in collusion with his younger brother.The summons
Dec. 6, 2011
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Korea to reward informants in crime profits crackdown
The Cabinet endorsed a bill Tuesday to reward those who help authorities confiscate assets that have been illegally acquired.The current law stipulates that the authorities may confiscate profits earned by offenders from specific “serious crimes,” such as influence peddling, organized crime and sex trafficking, in order to eradicate economic incentives for such crimes and to prevent the resources from being used for other criminal activities.Under the revision, the government approved a clause t
Dec. 6, 2011
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November was warmest on record
South Korea had unusually warm autumn weather this year, as the average November temperature hit the highest level on record, due mainly to warmer sea currents approaching the coastlines, the weather agency said Tuesday. The average temperature for November reached 11 C, the highest figure since the agency began compiling data in 1973, the Korea Meteorological Administration said. The November weather was also milder than a year earlier, when the average temperature was 7.1 C. The average temper
Dec. 6, 2011
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More students see self-made success beyond reach
More than half of Korean college students believe it is difficult, if not impossible, for them to achieve success in life through their own efforts alone, a recent survey showed.In the survey of 423 students, conducted by Albamon, a job portal website, 58 percent of respondents said self-made success is hard or impossible to accomplish in Korean society.About 40 percent cited luck as a key factor for success, while 26.5 percent and 16.1 percent replied effort and ability are needed to succeed. N
Dec. 6, 2011
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S. Korean workers most vulnerable to unemployment risk in OECD bloc
Korean workers turned out to be most vulnerable to an economic crisis compared with their counterparts in other OECD countries, due to the country’s extraordinarily low levels of unemployment benefits, a report showed Tuesday.Local labor authorities provided unemployed workers with financial aid worth about 30.4 percent of their previous full-time wages for one year upon being laid off as of 2009, according to the OECD report titled “Employment Outlook 2011.”The level of unemployment benefits la
Dec. 6, 2011
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Koreans still struggle to find satisfaction
Efforts needed to transform national achievements into individual happinessDuring a major forum on international aid in Busan last week, participants from around the world heaped praise on Korea for becoming the first country to transform from an aid recipient to a donor.“Korea is symbolic,” said Brian Atwood, chair of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee. “It is a successful country. It is proof that it can happen.”In his speech at the opening ceremony of the Fourth High-Level Forum on A
Dec. 6, 2011