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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Dialogue hopes fade as doctors pick hard-liner as new head
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Korea enters full election mode
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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[Kim Seong-kon] The April 2024 election will decide our future
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Seoul’s bus union prepares for strike
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[Hello India] Corporate Korea sees new growth drivers in India
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Grandma’s Roundtable eases life challenges for 7 lucky grandkids
MINNEAPOLIS ― She’s a therapist and career coach, cheerleader and wise woman, secret keeper and borscht pusher.Mostly, 85-year-old Gretta Freeman of Golden Valley, Minnesota, is chief executive officer of perhaps the most endearingly run support group in the Midwest, and likely beyond. Unfortunately for us, membership is closed.For 18 years, Freeman has guided her seven grandchildren, now grown, through myriad life passages and challenges. She has done this through her Grandma’s Roundtable, a pe
CultureNov. 5, 2014
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Call him ‘Biilzbub’: Man gets creative with bones of dead animals
PITTSBURGH ― They crawl and they feed on rotting flesh and sinew, appearing to pulsate as they strip the skull and thorax of a small rodent. The sight of them might give a chill or turn a stomach, but it is simply nature at work.The grubs of dermestid (or skin, hide or carrion) beetles are scavengers that feed on the carcasses of the deceased and are commonly found on roadkill or, more grimly, on abandoned corpses.But in a 208-liter aquarium tank on the coffee table of a Pittsburgh apartment, th
CultureNov. 5, 2014
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Homeless ‘urban travelers’ are vexing to tourist-dependent cities
SANTA BARBARA, California ― Joe McCabe sits on a wooden bench and calls out to two men strolling up State Street, “Have any spare change? I’m actually a traveler.”The men continue walking, and McCabe grumbles a homophobic slur that they don’t hear.McCabe gets up from the park bench and saunters down State Street in the opposite direction. At the corner, he stretches his right arm out to a woman wearing short shorts and high heels. She grimaces and looks at her friends questioningly as she maneuv
CultureNov. 5, 2014
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Babies are more important than work: GM CEO
GM Korea president and CEO Sergio Rocha has reportedly been encouraging female colleagues to take the time to better balance their work and families by telling pregnant workers that their babies are more important than their work. “GM Korea issues pink ID cards to pregnant women, who are excluded from nightshift as well as other excessive duties,” he told several female reporters invited to the GM Korea 4th Women’s Conference held on Wednesday in Seoul. Under the theme of “Growing Together,” fem
PeopleNov. 5, 2014
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Forensic experts to conduct additional autopsy on late singer's body
State forensic experts will perform an autopsy on tissue removed from late rock singer Shin Hae-chul's small intestine to determine whether medical negligence led to his death, police said Wednesday. The Seoul Songpa Police Station said it has sent the tissue submitted from the Asan Medical Center to the National Forensic Service for an additional autopsy. The 46-year-old rock singer was pronounced dead at the general hospital in southern Seoul a week ago after being transferred from another
PerformanceNov. 5, 2014
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Online resources plentiful for getting tips on expat life
A reader writes that she plans to give up her apartment, store her belongings and live and travel outside the U.S. for a year. “Can you recommend resources on this subject?” Answer: There’s enough information on this to fill a book, and a quick search using such terms as “expat” and “extended travel” will turn up several of them.The biggest issue is where to start. Here’s what Karen McCann says: “I often tell people that a journey of a thousand steps begins with an online search.”She knows well
Expat LivingNov. 4, 2014
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Daegu expats invited to date in aid of kids
Daegu’s Time to Give, a volunteering association run by expats in the city, is running “Daegu’s Time to Date,” a speed-dating event to raise money for gifts for underprivileged children.Prospective romantics will be given a scorecard and two minutes per partner to win them over with wit, charm or just old-fashioned good looks.A spot prize will be given to the person with the best ― or worst ― pickup line."The night is always a lot of fun and generates awareness for the expats who are newer to th
Expat LivingNov. 4, 2014
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Seoul clothing swap to run Saturday
Seoul International Baptist Church in Haebangchon will host a Seoul Swap on Saturday.The event is a trading drive where people can exchange clothes and other items.Participants are invited to swap women’s, men’s, infants’ and children’s clothes, shoes and accessories, household goods and appliances, and DVDs, books and similar items.There is a suggested donation of 5,000 won per family to help pay for the cost of snacks and the use of the church facilities.Donated items that are left over at the
Expat LivingNov. 4, 2014
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Writer to explore ‘land of extremes’ in talk
Seoul writer Andrew Salmon will talk about penning the “Modern Korea” title in the Hodder & Stoughton/McGraw-Hill series “All That Matters” and the contrasts he highlights in it.While explaining why he chose the theme of a “land of extremes” to meet the challenge of examining the two Koreas in just 150 pages, he promises to raise some quirky questions: What do Joseon kings, North Korean Kims and chaebol chairmen have in common? Were the 1990s to South Korea what the 1960s were to the Western wor
Expat LivingNov. 4, 2014
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St. Andrew’s Ball to run in Seoul
The St. Andrew’s Society of Seoul is putting on its annual St. Andrew’s Ball at the Grand Hyatt Hotel on Nov. 29.Tickets for the black-tie dinner dance and breakfast event are 150,000 won, or 1.3 million won for a table of 10. There will be dance practices held at the British Embassy on Nov. 5, 12, 18 and 26. Those wishing to take part in the practices should contact Vonda Roddick at st.andrew.seoul@gmail.com in advance to obtain security clearance.For more information, visit the St. Andrew’s So
Expat LivingNov. 4, 2014
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Song Hae to be awarded Order of Cultural Merit
The Korean government said Tuesday Song Hae, the host of the country’s longest-running TV show, “KBS Nationwide Singing Contest,” will be awarded the silver crown of the Order of Cultural Merit on Nov. 17.The Order of Cultural Merit is awarded to those who have achieved an outstanding performance and greatly contributed to Korea’s media and art scene.The 87-year-old TV personality has hosted the show for 26 years since 1988. He is known for his eloquence in emceeing and witty comments, which hav
PeopleNov. 4, 2014
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Design ideas with a twist
Using 3-D printing technology, Dutch design studio Minale-Maeda has designed a set of plastic connectors that make it possible to assemble your own wooden furniture. Without using any tools, the connectors can be used to join wooden legs and a wooden tabletop to make a functional table. The design studio has gone a step further by disclosing the blueprint for the connector so that anyone can make one with a 3-D printer. A 3-D-printed connector for the wooden legs of a table by Minale-MaedaThe t
Arts & DesignNov. 4, 2014
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Revisiting Korea’s modern literature
The era of modern literature in Korea began in 1894 when the government launched sweeping reforms which called for establishing public schools, writing in Hangul, the Korean alphabet, instead of Chinese characters and opening the door to foreign literary works.A special exhibition is underway in Seoul to offer an overview of modern Korean literature, which brewed in a tumultuous period characterized by the fall of the monarchy at the end of the Joseon era (1392-1910), the rise of Japanese imperi
BooksNov. 4, 2014
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Sesame Street marks 45th birthday
NEW YORK (AP) ― You don’t get to be the longest-running children’s show in U.S. TV history by doing the same thing over and over. So even though parents who grew up watching “Sesame Street” can still see old favorites like Big Bird, things on the street have changed since the show debuted 45 years ago on Nov. 10, 1969. Cookie Monster now exercises self-control and sometimes eats fruits and vegetables. Millions of kids watch the show on phones and computers instead of TV. And there’s less time sp
TelevisionNov. 4, 2014
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MC Mong tops music charts with sixth album
MC Mong. (IS Entertainment Group)The embattled South Korean hip-hop artist MC Mong, who was once mired in controversy over draft evasion, topped major local music charts with his latest track for the second straight day. As of Tuesday morning, the single “Did you miss me?” off his sixth full-length album “Miss Me or Diss Me,” took the No. 1 spot on all 10 online real-time music charts including Naver Music, MelOn, Daum and Mnet after its release on Monday. The 13-track album comes five years aft
Nov. 4, 2014
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You Hee-yeol to release first Toy album in 7 years
You Hee-yeol. (Antenna Music)Antenna Music CEO and famed singer-songwriter-pianist You Hee-yeol will be dropping a new album as part of his one-man project, Toy, on Nov. 18, according to an announcement by Antenna Music on Tuesday. The duo-band-turned-solo act Toy first debuted in 1994 and featured the ballad vocal styles of You and Yoon Jeong-oh. After parting ways in 1996, You has been the sole member of Toy, which has released six full-length albums to date. Toy’s upcoming seventh studio albu
Nov. 4, 2014
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JYP celebrating 20 years with anniversary show
Park Jin-young. (JYP Entertainment)Iconic K-pop producer and solo artist Park Jin-young will be hosting a special anniversary concert to commemorate two decades in the music industry. Teaming up with Milk Music, Park will be putting on a one-and-half-hour-long show on Nov. 8 at Seoul Olympic Park’s Olympic Hall, performing 42 No. 1 singles his since debuting 20 years ago. Now one of the K-pop industry’s best-known producers as head of talent agency JYP Entertainment, Park made his singing debut
Nov. 4, 2014
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Swift pulls music from streaming service Spotify
NEW YORK (AP) ― Spotify stopped streaming Taylor Swift’s music at her request Monday, setting up a business struggle between the leading purveyor of a new music distribution system and the industry’s most popular artist. The music streaming service sounded like a spurned boyfriend in a statement announcing the split. It said Swift’s management told it to pull the music late last week and it was done Monday, so all of her songs are no longer available to its 40 million users. “We were both young
PerformanceNov. 4, 2014
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Put people first, not their disabilities, says ITU accessibility chief
Andrea Saks has answered the phone for her deaf parents since she was 2. Her father, Andrew Saks, along with two other inventors, developed a telephone system that the deaf could use. Saks, 67, now oversees accessibility at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), and knows how important the "people" factor is in her work. Her official title is chairman of ITU-T Joint Coordination Activity of Accessibility and Human Factors of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau. In an inter
PeopleNov. 4, 2014
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Hospital denies malpractice in singer's death
A hospital that performed abdominal surgery on Shin Hae-chul, a famous pop singer, on Tuesday denied an autopsy result implying that medical negligence might have caused his death. On Monday, the Seoul branch of the National Forensic Service announced that a 0.3-centimeter-long hole was found in his pericardium during an autopsy, which might have resulted from the abdominal surgery. The 46-year-old rock singer was pronounced dead at the Asan Medical Center in southern Seoul a week ago after b
PerformanceNov. 4, 2014