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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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[Weekender] How DDP emerged as an icon of Seoul
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Doctor group's incoming head renews call for govt. to scrap medical school quota hike for dialogue
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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[Music in drama] An ode to childhood trauma
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'The Roundup: Punishment' becomes fastest 2024 film to top 2 mln admissions
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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Korea, U.S., Japan agree to convene nuke envoys’ talks
The leaders of South Korea, the U.S. and Japan agreed Wednesday to have their chief negotiators on the North’s nuclear weapons program convene at an early date, boosting expectations for the resumption of the long-stalled six-nation talks. At their trilateral meeting on the margins of the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, they reaffirmed that the six-party talks should ensure “substantive progress” in dismantling Pyongyang’s nuclear programs in a “complete, verifiable and irreversible” manne
March 26, 2014
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Australian premier to visit
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will make a state visit to Korea from April 8-9 to hold talks with President Park Geun-hye and to sign a free-trade agreement between the two countries, Cheong Wa Dae said Tuesday.The upcoming trip marks Abbott’s first official visit to Korea since he took office in September last year. The two leaders will hold talks on April 8 to discuss a wide range of issues including political, business and cultural cooperation. The two held their first summit in Octobe
March 25, 2014
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U.S. describes 'comfort women' as Japan's systematic enslavement of women
The United States has called the "comfort women program" Japan's systematic enslavement of women for sexual purposes, according to a U.S. government report.The description was included in a final report to the U.S. Congress by the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group in 2007.In 2000, Samuel Berger, then National Security Adviser to President Bill Clinton, directed agencies to locate records held by the U.S. government relating to war crimes committed
March 25, 2014
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S. Korea joins U.N. resolution on N. Korea's human rights
South Korea has joined hands with Japan and the European Union in drafting a resolution on North Korea's human rights situation, calling on the United Nations to refer the case to an "appropriate" international justice mechanism, officials here said Tuesday.The resolution led by Japan and the EU was presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council on Sunday, with member states working on details for possible revisions.It condemned the communist country "in the strongest terms" for its "systematic, wid
March 25, 2014
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Park discusses economic cooperation with Dutch P.M.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye met bilaterally with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday and discussed ways to expand economic cooperation and exchanges between the two countries, her office said.The meeting took place in The Hague on the sidelines of a global leaders' summit on anti-nuclear terrorism opening later Monday for a two-day run. South Korea hosted the biennial Nuclear Security Summit in 2012 that was initiated by U.S. President Barack Oba
March 23, 2014
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Abe summit puts Park’s ‘principled’ diplomacy to test
President Park Geun-hye faces a major test to her “principled” diplomacy at an upcoming summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who still refuses to repent for the country’s imperial past and sticks to his hawkish security stance. The two leaders are scheduled to join U.S. President Barack Obama in The Hague on Tuesday for a three-way summit on the sidelines of a nuclear security conference. It will mark the first formal contact between Park and Abe since their inaugurations about a year
March 23, 2014
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‘Saemaul Movement tool for U.N. hunger initiative’
This is the third installment in a series interviews with chiefs of United Nations offices in Korea. ― Ed.Feeling empty and lost, university student Lim Hyoung-joon started backpacking around the world in 1990 in search of inspiration for a worthy life. After roaming every corner of the globe from affluent metropolises of the U.S. to poverty-stricken streets in Bangladesh, he went to Malawi in 1994. Three days in the African country changed his life. With no other means of payment than traveler’
March 23, 2014
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Probe launched into Qingdao consul amid sex trade claims
The Foreign Ministry said Sunday it will dispatch a group of officials to the consulate-general in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao to look into allegations that a consul there failed to pay after having sex with prostitutes. In a complaint made Saturday by a former local hire, part of the mission’s budget is allegedly misused for unintended purposes, while the consul-general has been pocketing some of funds allotted for public events. The ministry said it will launch an investigation on the
March 23, 2014
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Korea-Indonesia cooperation moves beyond resources
The term “resource nationalism” was splashed across headlines around the world to describe Indonesia in recent weeks, the stories including dire predictions that the Southeast Asian country could scare off vital foreign direct investment.Despite such admonishments, measures in Jakarta ostensibly to slow down the export of oil, gas and minerals do not appear to crimp trade and investment ties between Indonesia and Asia’s fourth-largest economy ― both trillion-dollar-plus nations.Proof could be se
March 23, 2014
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Envoy presses for investment in post-revolution Tunisia
Tunisia celebrated its 58th year of independence from colonial rule and marked the popular demonstrations that swept the North African nation in 2011, toppling the 34-year-long regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, in a reception in Seoul on Thursday.“On March 20, 1956, Tunisia retrieved its sovereignty and began the arduous mission of setting up the foundations of its modern republic,” said Tunisian Ambassador to South Korea Mohamed Ali Nafti. “On Jan. 14, 2011, the Tunisian people usher
March 23, 2014
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Panamanian envoy awards CEO meritorious plaque
Panamanian Ambassador to South Korea Aram Cisneros awarded KSS Shipping Services CEO Yoon Chang-hee with a meritorious plaque of appreciation, recognizing the company’s role in helping to strengthen commercial ties between South Korea and Panama. KSS helped to strengthen commercial ties, buoying the local community of sea transporters by adding four new vessels last year registered under the Panamanian flag of convenience.“While many shipping companies struggled last year during a time of global
March 23, 2014
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Korea, Russia discuss railway, logistics projects
Deputy foreign ministers of South Korea and Russia met on Tuesday for bilateral consultations on topics including railway and logistics projects that involve North Korea, according to an official at the Russian Embassy in Seoul on Wednesday.1st Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Tai-young and Deputy Minister for Political Affairs Lee Kyung-soo sat down with Igor V. Morgulov, Russian deputy minister of foreign affairs, for talks along with Russian Ambassador to South Korea Konstantin Vnukov.Lee
March 23, 2014
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Envoys briefed on risks from intelligence failure in Korea
North Korea is the country one might think of first during a discussion about intelligence and the risks of a possible intelligence failure, but what are the risks from intelligence missteps right here in South Korea?About three dozen researchers, executives and foreign envoys of countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa attended a luncheon lecture on the risks associated with intelligence failure during the Asia Society Korea Center’s March luncheon lecture at the ASEAN-Korea Centre in
March 23, 2014
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Japan's Abe plots warmer ties with S. Korea ahead of summit
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe indicated Sunday that he wanted Tokyo and Seoul to put wartime enmities behind them ahead of his first meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-Hye.Relations between the two countries are at their lowest ebb in years, mired in emotive issues linked to Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule and a territorial dispute, as well as Japan's use of "comfort women" in wartime brothels.Abe left Tokyo's Haneda airport for a three-day visit to the Netherlands to attend a Nucl
March 23, 2014
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U.S. says trilateral summit with S. Korea, Japan will show its security commitment to Asia
WASHINGTON -- The White House said Friday next week's trilateral summit meeting between the U.S., South Korea and Japan is of great significance in that it will demonstrateWashington's unswerving security commitment to Northeast Asia.National Security Adviser Susan Rice emphasized that the Obama administration stays focused on its policy of re-balancing toward Asia."After a period of tension, we will bring together two of our closest allies, the Republic of Korea and Japan, in a trilateral meeti
March 22, 2014
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S. Korea, U.S., Japan to hold three-way summit in Hague
South Korea, the U.S. and Japan will hold a three-way summit on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, Netherlands, next week, Seoul officials confirmed Friday.The summit will mark the first time for South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to sit down for official talks, which Park had previously rejected amid escalating historical and territorial feuds.Observers say that Washington might have played a central role in persuading Park to jo
March 21, 2014
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Park, China's Xi to hold talks during nuclear summit in The Hague
South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold bilateral talks on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague next week, China's foreign ministry said Thursday. China's foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei made the announcement during a regular press briefing. Xi will also hold bilateral talks with U.S. President Barack Obama as well as the leaders of Britain, Finland and Kazakhstan, Hong said, without elaborating. It will be Park and Xi's second sum
March 20, 2014
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N. Korea, China discuss ways to resume nuclear talks: Beijing
China's top negotiator on the North Korean nuclear issue, Wu Dawei, has been holding talks with his North Korean counterpart in Pyongyang on restarting the six-party talks aimed at ending the North's nuclear weapons program, the Chinese foreign ministry said Wednesday. Wu arrived in Pyongyang on Monday, the North's state media said in a one-line report, without giving details of his itinerary.China's foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters during a regular press briefing that Wu has b
March 19, 2014
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Your personal data, sold in China for a cent
(Result obtained by typing in reporter's younger brother's registration number) First page of 'South Korean identity search' pageA Chinese website showed that Koreans’ personal information has been sold through a Chinese website at 1 cent per identity. A Facebook user came forward with a set of captured pictures of a Chinese website, saying, “Our information has been sold at 1 cent (6 won).” The pictures showed lists of South Korean names and resident registration numbers being shared among Inte
March 19, 2014
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Future is now for Canadian craft beer in Korea
Beer needs no ambassador, it might be said, but in South Korea the Canadian Embassy is helping inch open the market for quality craft beer at grocery stores, restaurants and bars.Canadian beefsteaks and the country’s thirst-quenching suds will slowly be made more widely available with the conclusion of nine years of free trade talks. So, spirits were pretty high at the second annual Canadian beer and cider tasting event at a hotel in southern Seoul on Wednesday.Canadian micro-brewers Brasseurs d
March 16, 2014