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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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Pollutants found in drainage water from Yongsan Garrison
Seoul City pumps 2,000 tons of tainted water from around U.S. military basesPollutants remain in drainage water from a central Seoul U.S. military base, despite the capital pumping nearly 2,000 tons of contaminated water since 2001, city officials said on Tuesday.The discovery of pollutants is increasing concerns about waste disposal at U.S. bases, already heightened by concerns of possible Agent
June 7, 2011
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W5 bil. law suit filed against Hong Ra-hee
A gallery owner has filed a law suit worth 5 billion won against Samsung Foundation of Culture and Hong Ra-hee, director of Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, and wife of Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee.According to Seoul Central District Court, Hong Song-won, director of Gallery Seomi in Cheongdam-dong, Seoul, is accusing Hong Ra-hee and Samsung Foundation of Culture of only paying 25 billion
June 7, 2011
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Jogye order mends fences with ruling elite
Buddhist sect to seek religious independenceThe Jogye Order, Korea’s largest Buddhist sect, announced on Tuesday that it would “normalize” its relationship with the ruling Grand National Party after a six-month standoff over the government’s cut of state aid for temple stay programs.Ven. Jaseung, president of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, released an official statement at the Center for Kore
June 7, 2011
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Moon-gazing show to light up Hongdae
A Seoul show is to offer performance art inspired by and about the Moon on June 12. The Encyclopedia Show-Seoul’s latest performance in Hongdae is set to entertain and educate on the earth’s satellite. Poets, musicians, performance artists and visual artists are to take to the stage during the lunar event to run from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Stereo bar. Tickets cost 10,000 won and are limited to 70. G
June 7, 2011
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Military catches deserted soldier
A soldier was caught seven and a half hours after fleeing from his camp in Inje, Gangwon Province with a rifle on Tuesday. An army camp in Gangwon Province (Yonhap News)According to the military authorities, the deserter, a 22-year-old private surnamed Yoon, was found while sheltering himself at a crop field 2 kilometers away from where he had run away. He reportedly showed no signs of resistan
June 7, 2011
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[Herald Interview] ‘War on Agent Orange is still ongoing’
Vietnam War veteran stresses calm amid defoliant contamination allegationsTheir missions during the Vietnam War ended four decades ago, but they are still fighting a war ― an unexpected one against illnesses resulting from their exposure to Agent Orange, a senior member of a veterans’ group here said Monday.Pointing to the gray-haired members of the Korean Disabled Veterans’ Association for Agent
June 6, 2011
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[News Focus] Samhwa chief accused of political lobbying
Despite checkered history, not much known about Shin’s connectionsProsecutors are zeroing in on Shin Sam-kil, the arrested honorary chairman of Samhwa Mutual Savings Bank, as they deepen the probe into savings banks’ irregularities.Circumstantial evidence shows that Shin lobbied a number of politicians and senior government officials to save his troubled business, but very little is known about wh
June 6, 2011
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Railroad operations return to normal after accident
Railroad operations connecting Seoul and Busan returned to normal after train traffic was effectively halted for more than five hours when a piece of drilling equipment fell onto the tracks, the Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL) said Monday. Korail employees remove a drill from railroad tracks near Uiwang Station. The fallen drill caused delays on the Saemaeul and Mugunghwa lines, as well as subway li
June 6, 2011
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Fined cigarette droppers decline
Seoul City saw a rapid decrease in the number of fined cigarette droppers last year after starting a no-litter campaign in 2007, officials said Monday. The city collected about 6.2 billion won ($5.7 million) in fines from 176,069 litterbugs in 2010, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Government.The figure was the smallest since 2007 when the city launched a campaign against flicking cigarette but
June 6, 2011
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Foreigners living in S. Korea rise 1.5-fold in five years: report
The number of foreign residents in S.Korea rose 1.5-fold in five years to top 590,000 in 2010, a nationwide census showed Monday. The census, which is carried out by Statistics Korea every five years, also showed that there were 90 countries that had more than 30 nationals living in South Korea as of last year. Of the total, 50.8 percent, or 299,000, were from China, including people of Korean
June 6, 2011
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Stores biggest losers in Insa-dong war
Confrontation between city, street vendors may escalateNormally a street that contains a harmonious balance of both tranquility and bustling excitement, Insa-dong can leave you with a sense of what Korea might have been.But with the recent crackdown on street vendors, many foreigners are left wondering why the streets look like a warzone and stores are without customers.After deciding to create a
June 5, 2011
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2 tourists killed, dozens injured in bus accident
NAMHAE, South Korea, June 5 (Yonhap) -- A tourist bus drove off a road in this southeastern region of South Korea after clashing with passenger vehicles, killing two people and injuring 44 others, police said Sunday.The bus was returning from a tour to the nearby fishing village of Namhae, 495 kilometers southeast of Seoul, when its driver lost control and clashed with three passenger vehicles hea
June 5, 2011
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'Deadly E.coli strain detected in Korea in 2004'
A Korean woman was infected in 2004 with supposedly the same strain of E. coli bacteria that has killed 19 people and sickened about 1,600 in Europe, two Korean doctors said on Sunday.The 29-year-old patient was treated for what would be the first known case of the so-called EHEC 0104 infection, they said. The doctors -- Professors Bae Yoo-kyun at Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital and Ja
June 5, 2011
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Malaysian women launch 'The Obedient Wife Club'
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - A group of Malaysian Muslim women say they will fight divorce, domestic violence and other problems -- by appealing to wives to be more obedient, one of the organisers said Friday.Maznah Taufik said "The Obedient Wife Club" being launched Saturday is aimed at drawing women who will be taught how to please their husbands better to prevent them from straying or misbehaving."W
June 5, 2011
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Kumho Petro chief summoned again over slush fund scandal
Prosecutors again summoned the chairman of Kumho Petrochemical Co. for questioning on Saturday over allegations that he created big slush funds and made unfair profits by using internal information.Park Chan-koo, a younger brother of Park Sam-koo, chairman of the Asiana Group which owns South Korea's second largest carrier Asiana Airlines, is suspected of having raised tens of billions of won in s
June 4, 2011
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Prosecutors up in arms over plan to scrap key investigative unit
Prosecutors on Saturday are going all out to reject lawmakers' plans to abolish a key investigation unit of the state prosecution as part of their judicial reform efforts.A subpanel of the special legislative committee on judicial reform announced on Friday that it agreed to press ahead with its legislation plan to scrap the central investigation unit of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office despite str
June 4, 2011
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Arrested bank chief says he bribed former and current lawmakers
A ballooning illegal lobbying scandal involving failed savings banks has implicated politicians as well as senior financial officials. Prosecutors investigating Samhwa Mutual Savings Bank have secured statements from Sin Sam-gil, its arrested chairman, that he gave tens of millions of won in slush funds to a current and a former lawmaker, officials said Friday. They are now trying to determine whe
June 3, 2011
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Tougher rules on ex-officials’ hiring to curb cronyism
Senior public officials banned from private-sector jobs upon retirementThe government announced Friday new measures aimed at rooting out the deep-rooted practice of government and judicial officials placing their former colleagues in senior positions at private firms.The so-called “jeon-gwan-ye-u” practice, which means giving “honorable treatment to retired colleagues,” is widespread in Korea, esp
June 3, 2011
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Inside Korea’s CSI headquarters
Forensic agency boasts world-class science to catch the bad guys“Mondays are busy here. A lot of dead bodies from the weekend,” said Chung Hee-sun with a friendly smile, as we sat down for an interview in her office in western Seoul. Behind her, the motto “Science sheds light on the truth” hung on the wall. “My staff told me that we had a famous singer in for an autopsy over the weekend,” she cont
June 3, 2011
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Disgraced TV celebrity gets jail term for gambling
A disgraced South Korean television celebrity was slapped Friday with a court arrest to be jailed for eight months for repeatedly gambling abroad and refusing to return home in an attempt to elude investigation. Shin Jung-hwan, 36, rattled the South Korean entertainment industry when media reports said last August that he had gambled away hundreds of millions of won at a hotel casino in the P
June 3, 2011