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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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[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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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Orangutan gets testicle back to right position after unprecedented surgery: zoo
Jill, an orangutan at the Kansas City Zoo, cares for her new baby Pendami. Zoo workers went to unprecedented lengths and earned the trust of Jill so they could monitor her pregnancy including performing ultrasound on her. (MCT)A baby Bornean orangutan at a South Korean zoo underwent surgery last month to lace up one of his testicles where it should be after it had been found abnormally stuck insid
June 3, 2011
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Man poses as woman in Internet prostitution con
Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency arrested a 29-year-old man for swindling by posing as a woman in order to lure prostitute seekers.The convict, identified by his surname Yoon, allegedly approached some 340 men via online dating websites for false sex trafficking. The tempted victims sent him a total amount of $60,000.Yoon had posted photos of random women from the Internet, and then suggested “she
June 3, 2011
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Army soldier commits suicide at frontline unit
An Army private shot himself dead with his assault rifle early this week while on duty at a frontline unit, the latest in a recent string of deaths of conscripts, officials said Thursday. The private, identified only by his surname Choi, was found dead with a bullet in his head in the pre-dawn hours of Monday outside a military post near Hwacheon, 118 kilometers northeast of Seoul, according to th
June 2, 2011
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Four dead in apparent Internet suicide pact
Two young men and two women were found dead in a car Thursday in an apparent Internet-based group suicide, Korean police said.Police said the four, including a 25-year-old woman identified only as Park, left suicide notes in their bags in the car parked next to a river in Seongju, 210 kilometers southeast of Seoul.They apparently inhaled toxic fumes after burning coal briquettes inside the vehicle
June 2, 2011
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Seoul City plans probe on U.S. bases in capital
The Seoul Metropolitan Government will launch its own inspection into environmental contamination near U.S. military bases in the city, officials said Thursday.In a meeting of senior officials, the city decided to carry out a special investigation into the underground water in the areas adjacent to U.S. camps from June 6 to the end of the month. A total of 12 U.S. military camps are based in Seoul
June 2, 2011
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No confirmation buried chemicals removed
U.S. says it has found no official records of orders given to remove materials yetA U.S. Army commander told South Korean officials on Thursday that there was no confirmation that chemicals were removed from Camp Carroll, contrary to earlier statements that herbicides were disposed offsite.Earlier in the month, Lt. Gen. John D. Johnson, commander of the Eighth U.S. Army and head of the Joint Inves
June 2, 2011
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Ex-FSS chief faces probe in savings bank scandal
The prosecution plans to summon for questioning a former chief of the nation’s financial watchdog in a widening investigation into corruption at Busan Mutual Savings Bank. Kim Jong-chang, who was until March this year governor of the Financial Supervisory Service, is suspected of exerting his influence to help the lender survive regulatory inspections. Kim Jong-changThe FSS is the nation’s top fi
June 1, 2011
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Somali pirates appeal sentences in S. Korea
BUSAN (Yonhap News) ― Two of the four Somali pirates convicted last week of maritime robbery and hijacking a South Korean-owned freighter have lodged an appeal against the court decision, their attorneys said Wednesday.The Busan District Court on Friday sentenced Mahomed Arai, 21, to life in prison for shooting Seok Hae-kyun, the captain of the ship, the Samho Jewelry, and seven other charges, inc
June 1, 2011
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Radar, water analysis to hunt defoliant
Ministry to begin health survey of residents living near U.S. baseSouth Korean and U.S. officials agreed to use ground-penetrating radars, and underground water analysis within a southern U.S. army base to help verify whether a toxic defoliant was buried there nearly three decades ago, officials said Wednesday.The results of their meeting Wednesday were announced during a briefing at Camp Carroll
June 1, 2011
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Man smashes cars to show hatred for rich
Police are investigating a 29-year-old man who smashed luxury cars in Daejeon to show his contempt for the rich.The man, identified by his surname Cho, smashed windows and mirrors of some 15 expensive domestic and imported vehicles in an underground parking lot. Before doing so, he beat a Chinese student without provocation. “Imported cars are pie in the sky for poor people. I hate the rich,” he t
June 1, 2011
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Prosecutors say Busan savings bank used slush funds for lobbying
Prosecutors said Tuesday they secured evidence that a scandal-ridden savings bank has used slush funds to lobby ranking government officials and influential politicians to prevent financial regulators from ousting the bank due to illegal loans and other irregularities. The bank raised the slush funds by offering illegal loans worth trillions of won to more than 100 special purpose companies esta
May 31, 2011
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Teams begin on-site probe of U.S. base
Controversy over when U.S. sprayed defoliants in Korea continuesA Korea-U.S. probe team on Tuesday began taking soil samples just outside Camp Carroll, a U.S. base in Waegwan, North Gyeongsang Province where a considerable amount of Agent Orange was allegedly buried in 1978.A separate investigation team also kicked off its first basic onsite inspection at the now-defunct Camp Mercer in Bucheon, Gy
May 31, 2011
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C40 to discuss Seoul’s green traffic policy
Seoul will be presented as a role-model in environment-friendly traffic policy during the fourth C40 Cities Climate Conference in Brazil, officials said Tuesday.During the three-day event, which begins Tuesday in Sao Paolo, Seoul officials will introduce the capital’s traffic policy, including the adoption of compressed natural gas buses and the bus rapid transit system. Officials said the organiz
May 31, 2011
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Tobacco firms may have to put toxin level labels on packs
The Ministry of Health and Welfare is considering forcing cigarette companies to label toxic chemicals and their quantities on cigarette packets, news reports said Tuesday.If implemented, it would be the nation’s strongest-ever antismoking warning on cigarette packaging. A family walks past a no-smoking sign, warning smokers that starting this June, those caught smoking at Seoul, Gwanghwamun and C
May 31, 2011
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Family, household norms changing rapidly
Experts say diverse lifestyles reflect changes in socio-economic environmentLee, a 65-year-old woman who lives in an apartment near the Han River in Seoul, has recently been troubled with the small dog her daughter leaves with her on weekdays.Her married daughter, 33, began keeping the dog a few months ago and felt sorry leaving it at home alone while she and her husband were at work. So she asked
May 31, 2011
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A man arrested for sexual assault charges after teen kicks him in the crotch
A 42-year-old man was arrested on sexual assault charges last Monday after he called 119 when a girl kicked him in the crotch. According to police, Kim followed the 17-year-old girl on the bright afternoon at around 2 p.m. on May 23 in a Busan neighborhood and grabbed her from behind and threatened her with a knife. The girl shook herself off by kicking him in the crotch and reported it to the pol
May 31, 2011
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Legendary gangster accused of blackmailing
Former gang leader Cho Yang-eunPolice are investigating allegations that former gang leader Cho Yang-eun blackmailed a singer to compensate his acquaintance for loss from his stock investment. Police said the notorious gangster, 60, intimidated the singer in August 2009, and threatened to chop the man’s leg off and bury it unless he paid back 1.7 billion won.Cho denied the charges, though he admit
May 31, 2011
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Football player found dead in apparent suicide
Chung suspected of rigging matchA former professional football player on the list of suspects in a recent match-rigging scandal was found dead in a Seoul hotel Monday.According to police, Chung Jung-kwan, a former midfielder for Jeonbuk Hyundai in the K-League, hanged himself from the ceiling of a Gangnam Princess Hotel room.He left a four-page note in which he said: “I feel ashamed to be a part o
May 30, 2011
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U.S. Army sprayed defoliant over DMZ in 1955: ex-soldier
Military forms joint team to investigate Camp Mercer siteA former South Korean soldier testified for the first time Monday that from its aircraft, the U.S. military sprayed a defoliant over the Demilitarized Zone in 1955 ― more than a decade earlier than news media recently reported.News reports have said that the U.S. military had sprayed Agent Orange south of the buffer zone dividing the two Kor
May 30, 2011
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President lauds Navy commandos for rescuing freighter from pirates
President Lee Myung-bak praised a contingent of Navy commandos as “heroes” of South Korea on Monday, lauding their daring raid in January to free a seized freighter from Somali pirates.The Cheonghae unit of naval commandos returned home Friday after completing a six-month anti-piracy mission in waters near Somalia that included a successful Jan. 21 operation to rescue the 21-member crew of the Sou
May 30, 2011