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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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[Weekender] How DDP emerged as an icon of Seoul
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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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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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[Music in drama] An ode to childhood trauma
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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'The Roundup: Punishment' becomes fastest 2024 film to top 2 mln admissions
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New head of doctors' association vows war in case of disadvantage to medical professors
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Naturalized scholar from Japan launches Dokdo website
A naturalized South Korean professor from Japan launched a website on Monday to fight Tokyo’s renewed claims to South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo, a research institute said.Yuji Hosaka, a naturalized Korean and head of the Dokdo Research Institute of Sejong University, opened the website (www.dokdoandeastasia.com) in three languages ― Korean, Japanese and English.A fact sheet provided on the website includes an official document released in 1877 by the Meiji government in Japan, which de
Feb. 24, 2014
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Danish prime minister to visit Korea next week
Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt will visit South Korea next week for summit talks with President Park Geun-hye about increasing cooperation in green growth, trade and investment and other areas, the presidential office said Monday.Thorning-Schmidt will arrive in South Korea on March 5 for a four-day official visit. Accompanying her will be a 68-member economic delegation, which will be Denmark’s largest-ever and seek business cooperation with South Korean firms.The Danish leader is
Feb. 24, 2014
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Korea summons Japan envoy
South Korea’s Foreign Ministry called in a senior Japanese diplomat on Sunday and filed a strong protest after Tokyo sent a central government official to a local event aimed at bolstering the country’s claims to the South’s easternmost islets of Dokdo.Lee Sang-deok, director-general in charge of Northeast Asia affairs at the foreign ministry, filed the protest after summoning Hisashi Michigami, a senior minister at Japan’s Embassy in Seoul, the ministry said. Lee also conveyed a verbal note tha
Feb. 23, 2014
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Profile of Laos on the rise
Ties between Laos and South Korea have been riding on an unprecedented high ever since Laotian President Choummaly Sayasone’s historic visit to South Korea in November 2013 that generated a slew of bilateral agreements. Sayasone made a three-day trip to South Korea on Nov. 21, 2013, that included summit talks with President Park Geun-hye on Nov. 22 on ways to expand economic, political and cultural cooperation and exchanges. “A wide range of issues has been discussed including political affairs,
Feb. 23, 2014
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Envoy describes Czech experience in N.K. in 1950s
Czech Ambassador to South Korea Jaroslav Olsa Jr. delivered a speech on Korean-Czech relations during a monthly lecture series, the first this year organized by the Asia Society Korea Center, at the ASEAN-Korea Center in Seoul on Tuesday. Olsa focused his talk on Czechoslovak-North Korean ties during the 1950s.Czechoslovakia, as a member of the communist Warsaw Pact along with the Soviet Union and China, supported North Korea in the Korean War, which lasted for three years from 1950. Throughout
Feb. 23, 2014
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Freed KOTRA chief celebrated on Libya’s Revolution Day
Only hours after Jo Dae-shik, deputy minister for planning and coordination at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a former ambassador to Libya, was called to an emergency meeting in the early morning of Jan. 20, he was on a plane bound for Tripoli to secure the release of a senior Korean government official kidnapped in Libya.Days later, Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency chief Han Seok-woo was freed.Jo and Libyan Charge d’Affaires Farhat Abdussalam had a lot to celebrate on the third anni
Feb. 23, 2014
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ECCK elects new vice president
The European Chamber of Commerce in Korea elected a new vice president to its seven-member executive board at the group’s annual general meeting in Seoul on Thursday.The newly elected vice president is Steve Duckworth of the United Kingdom. He is the managing director of Environmental Resources Management Korea, a branch of a global provider of environmental, health, safety and risk consulting services. He has 27 years of professional experience in environment, health and safety, and is a charte
Feb. 23, 2014
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Ambassador congratulates Mongolian students for 10 years of effective organizing
Mongolian Ambassador to South Korea Baasanjav Ganbold inaugurated a sports competition organized by a Mongolian student group, to celebrate its 10-year mark at Sahmyook University in Nowon-gu, Seoul, on Feb. 16.The Mongolian Student Association in Korea (CMOX) organized the competition as a way of thanking a slew of local organizations, including the Mongolian Embassy here, that have supported the group over the years.Some 60 Mongolian students celebrated the association’s 10th anniversary with
Feb. 23, 2014
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Dominican Republic pitches new investments
A delegation from the Dominican Republic’s Export and Investment Center (CEI-RD) arrived here last Sunday for a weeklong visit to meet with government officials and companies, as well as for an investment seminar at the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency in Seoul on Wednesday.The Dominican Republic has led the Caribbean in foreign direct investment for years. The country received about $2 billion in foreign investment last year. Some 45 percent of FDI in the Caribbean is destined for the is
Feb. 23, 2014
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Seoul urges Japan to stop attempts to whitewash wartime sexual slavery
South Korea called on Japan Friday to stop any attempts to whitewash its sexual enslavement of South Korean women during World War II after a Tokyo official suggested a plan to withdraw the country’s previous apology for the atrocity.Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga indicated in a parliamentary meeting on Thursday a plan to reexamine South Korean victims’ previous testimony used to draw up the so-called Kono statement.The statement was issued in 1993 by then-Chief Cabinet Secretary
Feb. 21, 2014
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FA-50 sales to Philippines make headway
Negotiations for the sale of FA-50 light fighter aircraft to the Philippines have made headway, raising possibility for a formal deal as early as next month, a local source said Friday.The source at the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), who declined to be identified, said a negotiating team has been dispatched to Manila to work out details related to the export deal, which could be worth $422 million.“Details cannot be released at present, but understanding has been reached on many issues that c
Feb. 21, 2014
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China urges Obama to cancel meeting with Dalai Lama
China on Friday called for U.S. President Barack Obama to cancel a scheduled meeting with exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.Obama is scheduled to meet the Dalai Lama, who says he seeks meaningful autonomy for Tibet, not independence, on Friday in Washington. China labels him as a political exile who engages in separatist movements."By arranging a meeting between the president and the Dalai Lama, the U.S. side will grossly interfere in the internal affairs of China," China's foreign
Feb. 21, 2014
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Seoul, Tokyo hold first talks since Yasukuni visit
Senior diplomats of Seoul and Tokyo on Tuesday held the first bilateral talks since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s December trip to a controversial war shrine that further strained the two countries’ ties.The meeting took place here between Lee Sang-deok, new director-general for Northeast Asian affairs at South Korea’s Foreign Ministry, and Junichi Ihara, director general for Asian and Oceanian affairs at the Japanese Foreign Ministry. The two diplomats were expected to focus on ways to r
Feb. 18, 2014
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Abu Dhabi crown prince to visit Korea next week
General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, crown prince of Abu Dhabi and deputy supreme commander of the UAE Armed Forces, will visit Korea next week to discuss issues of mutual concern, a diplomatic source said Tuesday.The crown prince’s visit to Seoul is a part of his official East Asia trip that will start in Japan on Feb. 25, according to the source.During his two-day visit to Korea, he is scheduled to meet with President Park Geun-hye and Prime Minister Chung Hong-won to discuss ways to b
Feb. 18, 2014
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China offers condolences to S. Koreans killed in Sinai bombing
China expressed condolences Tuesday to the three South Koreans who were killed in a suspected terror attack in Egypt's Sinai.At least four people, including three South Koreans and the Egyptian bus driver, were killed in the bombing attack on a bus filled with South Korean churchgoers in the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday."We are saddened by the tragic event," China's foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters during a daily press briefing."We express condolences to the victims and sinc
Feb. 18, 2014
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S. Korea, Japan hold talks amid tensions
Japan's point man on Northeast Asia met with his South Korean counterpart on Tuesday in an apparent bid to improve ties frayed over territorial and history-related issues, Seoul officials said.The meeting between Junichi Ihara, the director general of the Japanese foreign ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and his South Korean opposite number, Lee Sang-dek, came amid heightened tensions sparked by Japan's recent string of nationalist remarks and actions.It marks the first direct-gener
Feb. 18, 2014
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Al-Qaeda-linked group claims bomb attack: report
Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis reportedly claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a tourist bus on the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday that killed three Koreans and an Egyptian driver and injured 14 others. The explosion took place at about 9:20 p.m., Korean time, in a border town of Taba as 35 people including two Egyptian assistants were crossing into Israel.The attack came amid growing Islamist insurgency since the July ouster of President Mohammed Morsi.Army Radio and othe
Feb. 17, 2014
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Africa museum exploitation not isolated case: diplomats
African diplomats here reacted with shock and disappointment to news of the appalling treatment of artists and performers working at the African Museum of Original Art, relating stories of their own with officials there.Eight performers from Burkina Faso and four sculptors from Zimbabwe met with museum officials on Thursday to negotiate wages and working conditions, just three days after it was exposed that, since they arrived in 2012, they had been receiving half the legal minimum wage, were li
Feb. 16, 2014
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Southeast Asia, Korea discuss impact of regional bloc
Diplomats of South Korea and Southeast Asian nations, as well as a coterie of experts and researchers, convened in Seoul on Tuesday to discuss what a European Union-style ASEAN trade bloc will mean for South Korea when it officially comes into force in 2015. The day-long seminar on the ASEAN Economic Community from the perspective of South Korea opened with speeches by ASEAN-Korea Centre Secretary General Chung Hae-moon and Malaysian Ambassador to South Korea Dato Rohana Ramli, who is chair of A
Feb. 16, 2014
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Nonprofit donates W10m for multicultural families
United Filipinos Korea (UFILKOR), an umbrella organization organized at the initiative of the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines to support Korean-Filipino families, received 10 million won for 100 multicultural families in Seoul on Feb. 8.UFILKOR President Grace Tadili accepted the donation from the United Peace Federation, an organization affiliated with the late Rev. Moon Sun-myung’s Unification Church, during a special event organized by the Philippine Embassy for the benefit of mult
Feb. 16, 2014