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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, China, Japan in talks to hold trilateral summit May 26-27: official
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S. Korea's working-age population to dip nearly 10m by 2044 amid low births
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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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[Herald Interview] Director of 'Goodbye Earth' aimed to ask how we would face apocalypse
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More college students to enjoy national scholarship
An increased number of college students from low-income families will be eligible for state scholarships as the government sets aside a larger amount of its budget to help reduce college tuition fees, the Education Ministry said Sunday.Last September, the government announced its plan to increase tuition support in next years’ budget to 1.5 trillion won ($1.3 billion) from the previous level of around 300 billion won, following up on its earlier pledge to cut tuition fees by 21 percent for stude
Dec. 4, 2011
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Illegal Chinese fishing boats face heavier fines
Prosecutors said Sunday they will levy heavier fines on Chinese boats caught illegally fishing in Korea’s exclusive economic zone. The Supreme Public Prosecutors Office said it has ordered prosecutors to raise the amount of security collateral for captured ships which trespassed the Korean EEZ from up to 70 million won ($62,000) to 100 million won beginning this month. Those caught transferring fish to other ships will face a fine of up to 70 million won, while breaching fishing zones and the nu
Dec. 4, 2011
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Police expand probe into election cyber attack
Police are expanding their investigation into the cyber attack on the national election committee during a pivotal poll for Seoul mayor, as suspicions persist that the four arrested were acting on someone else’s behalf. They were tracing bank accounts and phone records of the former assistant of Grand National Party Rep. Choi Ku-shik, identified by the surname Gong. Gong was among the four arrested on Saturday. According to the National Police Agency’s cyber investigation unit, which is leading
Dec. 4, 2011
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Korean dogfighting ring busted in Philippines
MANILA (AFP) ― Pillipine police have arrested six Koreans suspected of running a massive, high-tech dogfighting operation where matches in the outskirts of Manila were shown online to overseas bettors, police said Saturday.About 240 pitbulls were confiscated in the raid late Friday from a secluded compound where the dogs were kept and the matches held, the local police intelligence chief said.“They had an arena enclosed with mirrors. They had videocams, computers and they would show live fights
Dec. 4, 2011
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Northern Seoul mountains at severe risk of landslides
Villages near Mount Bukhan and Mount Bulam in northern Seoul are vulnerable to landslides, recent research has found, sparking fears of a repeat of July’s fatal landslides in the south of the capital. According to the study released by Konkuk University’s Earth Information Engineering Lab on Sunday, the yearly sediment yields from erosion, which are directly linked to landslides, are projected to increase up to 28 percent by 2080 in Seoul and surrounding Gyeonggi Province. Mount Bukhan and Mount
Dec. 4, 2011
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Prosecutors to indict SLS chairman
Prosecutors plan to indict SLS Group chairman Lee Kuk-chul on Monday on several charges including bribing a former vice culture minister and other high-ranking government officials. According to the Seoul Central Prosecutors’ Office on Sunday, they plan to hand the 73-day-old case to judicial officials after first summoning Lee on suspicions of bribing former vice culture minister Shin Jae-min.Prosecutors decided to indict the corporate chief on Monday, as the custody time limit expires the same
Dec. 4, 2011
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Anti-FTA protesters vow to continue
Major plazas and boulevards in downtown Seoul were closed off over the weekend as police sought to block the assembly of protestors against the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. But the organizers of the rallies vowed to continue their protests every evening until the government responds to their demands for the pact to be withdrawn or renegotiated. On Sunday, police placed scores of officers at the Gwanghwamun and Seoul plazas in central Seoul and parked dozens of buses to block people from gath
Dec. 4, 2011
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Judges to call for FTA task force
Some 170 judges nationwide are planning to urge the Supreme Court to establish a task force to study whether the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement is unbalanced and infringes on the rights of Koreans. The team will be aimed at drawing up guidelines for possible renegotiation with the U.S., which President Lee Myung-bak promised ahead of the pact’s ratification on Nov. 22. According to media reports, Judge Kim Ha-neul of the Incheon District Court has started writing a petition to file with the Chi
Dec. 4, 2011
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Korean dogfighting racket busted in Philippines
MANILA (AFP) - Police have arrested six South Koreans suspected of running a massive, high-tech dogfighting operation where matches in the Philippines were shown online to overseas bettors, police said Saturday.About 240 pitbulls were confiscated in the raid late Friday from a secluded compound wher
Dec. 4, 2011
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Judges to propose study into potential unfairness of U.S. FTA
Some 170 judges joined hands Friday to press the Supreme Court to launch a study into whether the free trade agreement with the U.S. is skewed in favor of Americans.The rare move came amid mushrooming public discontent over parliamentary approval last week of the trade pact. The deal, first signed i
Dec. 2, 2011
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Judges discuss their own freedom of speech
Chief Justice Yang Sung-bae met with the country’s top judges on Friday and discussed the mounting criticism against the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement within the judiciary.Attending chief judges of High Courts and District Courts are said to have discussed the developments surrounding the Korea-U.S. FTA and reviewed the situation related to the view that the judiciary should analyze the pact from a legal point of view. In the meeting, Yang did not directly criticize judges who have made their
Dec. 2, 2011
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Former President Roh in critical condition
Former President Roh Tae-woo is surviving on bottled oxygen as his lungs are failing, sources said.According to officials at Seoul National University Hospital, the 79-year-old has been hospitalized for nearly 70 days since Sept. 27 with symptoms of pneumonia and asthma. His symptoms have worsened and medical treatment has had little effect, they said, adding that they do not plan to administer additional treatment. A local daily reported that it was the first time in the past five years the for
Dec. 2, 2011
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Committee suggests ban on sex offenders from welfare work
A governmental advisory committee suggested Friday that sex offenders should be prohibited from working for social welfare organizations and facilities. The proposal comes in the wake of high-profile sex crimes committed by teachers against disabled students at a special education institution from 2000 to 2005. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Friday that the special committee on strengthening the transparency of welfare institutions and human rights finalized recommendations to strengthe
Dec. 2, 2011
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Foreign population in Seoul on the rise
The number of foreigners residing in Seoul has risen since the beginning of this year due mainly to the increased number of marriage immigrants and the city’s overall convenient circumstances, the government data showed Friday.According to the statistics by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, 285,618 foreign nationals were living in the South Korean capital at the end of the third quarter, up 4.1 and 1.36 percent from the end of the first and second quarters, respectively.Compared to the end of l
Dec. 2, 2011
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Crematory workers caught for robbing gold from the dead
Six crematory workers have been arrested on suspicion of stealing gold from the teeth of bodies after cremation, police said Thursday.One of the suspects, identified only by his surname Lee, allegedly sold the precious metal he illegally collected from the bottom of braziers of a Seoul crematory he
Dec. 1, 2011
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Busan partnership for effective development cooperation
The following article is an excerpt from the outcome document of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan from Nov. 29-Dec. 1. ― Ed.1. We, heads of state, ministers and representatives of developing and developed countries, heads of multilateral and bilateral institutions, representatives of different types of public, civil society, private, parliamentary, local and regional organizations meeting here in Busan, Republic of Korea, recognize that we are united by a new partnership
Dec. 1, 2011
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Somali pirates free hijacked ship, detain Korean crew
Somali pirates have released a chemical tanker they hijacked seven months ago, but are still detaining four South Korean crew members in an apparent attempt to win the release of five pirates awaiting trial in South Korea, an official said Thursday.“The MT Gemini itself was released at 3 a.m. yesterday (local time), following negotiations with the Singaporean ship owner,” an official at Seoul’s foreign ministry told reporters on condition of anonymity.“It appears that the pirates took the four S
Dec. 1, 2011
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Amount of snowfall in Korea forecast to halve by 2080s: report
As global warming continues to take a toll, the amount of snowfall on the Korean Peninsula is forecast to more than halve in 70 years from the current levels, a group of researchers forecast Thursday.The average volume of snowfall near the Han River, which runs through Seoul, reached 48.4 centimeters annually in the 2000s, but the figure will likely drop to around 30 cm in the 2040s before further diving to the 13.9-18.6 cm level in the 2080s, a research group from Konkuk University said in its
Dec. 1, 2011
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Prosecutors question SK Group vice chairman in embezzlement case
Public prosecutors investigating alleged embezzlement at SK Group summoned the group’s vice chairman Chey Jae-won on Thursday.Chey is the younger brother of SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won, who is also under investigation. Prosecutors are said to be considering summoning Chey Tae-won at a later date.The younger Chey is suspected of having taken a direct hand in embezzling a part of the 280 billion won ($254 million) SK Group firms invested in the financial firm Benex Investment. Benex Investment
Dec. 1, 2011
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Global aid partnership forged
BUSAN ― Donor and recipient countries, and representatives from international organizations, civil society and the private sector on Thursday agreed on a new global partnership for better development cooperation.More than 3,000 delegates from 160 countries, international organizations, civic groups and private sector officials attended the three-day Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in the South Korean city, seeking better ways to broaden global partnership in annual development aid.T
Dec. 1, 2011