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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Over 60% of S. Koreans support W100m childbirth incentive: survey
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‘Inside Out 2’ adds four new emotions, explores teenage life
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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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Korea introduces carbon tracking
Nation becomes third after U.S., Japan to run systemKorea has developed and put into operation its own system tracking how much carbon dioxide a country emits.With the greenhouse gas monitoring system up and running, Korea has become the third country after the United States and Japan to track how m
Aug. 21, 2011
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Children demand vote in education elections
A total of 72 school students from across the country gathered for a forum in Seoul last week and demanded the government grant students aged 13 and older voting rights in the election of educational superintendents. They also requested that relevant ministries standardize educational programs for e
Aug. 21, 2011
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Ballet becomes a dance to embrace life
Elegant piano tunes echo through a ballet studio in Gwacheon, a southern Seoul suburb, on a Sunday afternoon. Besides the pitter-patter of raindrops that occasionally beats through the classical piece, the air is still, the atmosphere almost solemn. Fourteen white ballet flats bend and flex as a gro
Aug. 21, 2011
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Korea to be Greenpeace’s 41st outpost
Group to open Korean office soon to focus on nuclear power, maritime environmentThe main issues in Korea in the last 10 years have been peace, environment and energy. Greenpeace’s announcement in June that it would open a Korean office looks set to stir these issues further.Greenpeace started in Van
Aug. 19, 2011
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Ewha Univ. cancels Paju campus plan
Ewha Womans University, the nation’s most prestigious women’s school, on Friday scrapped its plan to build a campus on the site of a former U.S. military camp in Paju, north of Seoul, citing price issues. The price of the campus site, owned by the Ministry of Defense, has gone up to a level that the
Aug. 19, 2011
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Widow of shipping firm chief embezzles company fund
Prosecutors indicted the widow of the deceased chairman of an off-shore shipping company for embezzlement.According to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, the 47-year-old woman surnamed Kim colluded with her husband’s secretary in misappropriating 100 billion won ($92.4 million) between
Aug. 19, 2011
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Woman abandons her four infants
(Yonhap News)A 38-year-old woman has been booked for abandoning her four newborn babies in Namhae, South Gyeongsang Province, local police said.The mother admitted that she deserted four babies including a 4-day-old boy she gave birth to last month. She was seen on closed-circuit camera leaving her
Aug. 19, 2011
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Notorious jail breaker attempts suicide in prison
Shin Chang-won, who stunned the nation with his jailbreak in 1997 and more than two years on the run, was in critical condition after attempting suicide in his prison cell on Thursday, prison officials said.The 44-year-old convict attempted suicide via strangulation using a rubber glove in his solit
Aug. 18, 2011
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KMA to upgrade weather forecast system
The Korea Meteorological Administration will upgrade the weather radar network to enhance its forecast accuracy by 70 percent, the state weather agency announced Thursday. In a press conference to mark a two-year-anniversary of the inauguration of Ken Crawford, vice administrator of KMA, the No. 2 o
Aug. 18, 2011
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Korean, Indonesian education ministries sign tech MOU
The Indonesian education ministry and its South Korean counterpart agreed to cooperate in the establishment of a technologically advanced classroom, said the education ministry here on Thursday.The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology signed a memorandum of understanding with Indonesia’s Mi
Aug. 18, 2011
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Civic groups take legal action against mayor
Petition filed to recall Seoul mayor for pushing ahead with vote on free school meals With six days left before Seoul’s first-ever referendum on free school lunches, opponents of the vote have taken legal measures against Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon. The Aug. 24 plebiscite on free school meal progra
Aug. 18, 2011
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Posthumous honor for ex-WHO chief Lee Jong-wook
The late former Director-General of the World Health Organization Lee Jong-wook received a posthumous honorary doctorate on Wednesday from Seoul National University for his contributions to the development of public health.“Lee made a tremendous contribution to the development of public health and m
Aug. 18, 2011
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Notorious jail breaker attempts suicide in prison
Shin Chang-won, who stunned the nation with his jailbreak in 1997 and more than two years of life on the run, was in critical condition after attempting suicide in his prison cell on Thursday, prison officials said.The 44-year-old convict attempted suicide via strangulation using a rubber glove in h
Aug. 18, 2011
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Students decreasing amid low birthrate
The number of students in the school system decreased between 2010 and 2011, highlighting the government’s futile efforts to tackle the low birthrate here, said the education ministry on Wednesday.According to data by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the Korean Educational Devel
Aug. 17, 2011
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Hanjin chief wasn’t abroad during labor strife: data
Cho Nam-ho, chairman of Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co., was in Korea for two weeks in July when calls were mounting for him to settle months-long labor strife at his firm, contrary to previous claims by his company. According to Cho’s immigration data submitted to the National Assembly a
Aug. 17, 2011
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‘N.K. military receives most aid’
North Korean government, administrative, military and related industry officials receive priority in food rations, according to media sources in the country, as a U.N. aid agency claims ordinary citizens are given less than a third of the recommended nutritional diet.North Koreans were only given 20
Aug. 17, 2011
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Revised GRE introduced in Korea
The U.S. Education and Testing Services has made the biggest change in its GRE general test in 60 years. Officials of the Korean branch of ETS said that the agency has advanced the test technologically with emphasis on real-world applications.The GRE general test is the most widely adopted test for
Aug. 17, 2011
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Ministry to scrap medical internships
As early as 2014, the one-year internship program for medical school graduates will be scrapped and replaced with strengthened residency training, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Wednesday. A ministry committee for medical reform found the internship system ineffective and time-consuming for
Aug. 17, 2011
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Samsung told to improve worker safety
Labor Ministry calls on firm to give better protection to workers from hazardsSamsung Electronics Co. has been asked by local authorities to take costly measures to better protect its workers, after a series of leukemia-related deaths in its semiconductor manufacturing lines. The Labor Ministry said
Aug. 17, 2011
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Mayor signs agreement with East African organization
An East African intergovernmental organization has signed an agreement with the mayor of Seoul aimed at increasing mutual cooperation in e-government technology and other areas of interest.According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government on Wednesday, Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon signed a memorandum of unde
Aug. 17, 2011