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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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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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Konkuk University joins contest for app ideas
Konkuk University will partner with the government and private organizations to hold a contest for ideas for mobile applications, the school said Friday. The contest to be hosted by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning will seek creative ideas from undergraduates and graduates across the country with the goal of developing them into apps. Konkuk University, BCM Educational Group, Kakao Corp. and Hanbeot Patent & Law Firm have agreed to participate in the event as partners. The contes
Sept. 1, 2013
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Kim Bong-ryol appointed chief of arts university
Kim Bong-ryol, a Korea National University of Arts professor, was appointed the president of the school on Monday, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said. The inauguration ceremony will take place on Thursday. Kim will serve a four-year tenure. The 55-year-old Seoul National University graduate has been teaching at the KNUA since 1997. He is an authority on Korean architecture. Kim designed the presidential guesthouse, “Samcheongjang,” the Korean garden in Frankfurt as well as KNUA cam
Aug. 26, 2013
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Samsung chief off world's top 100 billionaire list
Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee, South Korea's richest person, has fallen off the list of the world's top 100 wealthiest people due to a slump in the group's key unit, Samsung Electronics Co., data showed on Monday.Lee's assets were estimated at US$10.2 billion and ranked 107th as of Friday, according to a daily ranking of the world's wealthiest people compiled by Bloomberg. The figure was down $1.2 billion from the end of last year.The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of
Aug. 26, 2013
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Hyun Jin-young to release first new track in 6 years
Hyun Jin-young, artist and producer of his own label “Made In H.J.Y.,” is coming out with a new track in October. The track titled, “Musang munyeom,” reportedly is a mix of electronic, hip-hop, and jazz sounds, and is the first song that Hyun has released in six years. Hyun recently participated in the recording of a program on CTS TV’s smartphone radio app and talked about how he experienced being homeless for a month, staying in Seoul Station for the making of his new track.He said that he wan
Aug. 23, 2013
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Seo Taiji, Lee Eun-sung secretly wed in June
Singer Seo Taiji tied the knot with actress Lee Eun-sung in a secret marriage ceremony almost three months ago, it was revealed Wednesday. Seo announced the news on his official website saying, “We recently gathered our family and held a meaningful wedding ceremony.” The couple reportedly invited a few of their closest friends for a housewarming party after the wedding on June 26 and “had a good time.” He also talked about married life so far, how there were many good aspects to being married a
Aug. 22, 2013
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Four U.S. female lawmakers to visit S. Korea
Four iconic female members of Congress will travel to South Korea early next month during a summer recess, congressional sources said Wednesday.They are Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Reps. Grace Meng (D-NY), and Terri Sewell (D-AL)."All of them are symbolic figures in the 113th Congress in terms of representing minority groups," a source said. "Also, they have a good understanding on Korea."Gillibrand is said to have potential to become a political star like Hil
Aug. 22, 2013
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Author Elmore Leonard dies
DETROIT (AP) ― Elmore Leonard, a former adman who later became one of America’s foremost crime writers, died Tuesday. He was 87. His researcher, Gregg Sutter, said Leonard died from complications from a stroke he suffered a few weeks ago. Leonard won an honorary National Book Award in 2012. His more than 40 novels were populated by pathetic schemers, clever con men and casual killers. Many of the novels ― notably “Out of Sight,” “Get Shorty” and “Be Cool” ― were made into films. Critics adored h
Aug. 21, 2013
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Richest U.S. Congressman worth at least $355 million
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Republican Darrell Issa of California was 2012’s richest member of Congress, worth at least $355 million, according to a ranking published Tuesday.The congressman, who made his fortune in car security systems, topped the annual list of the 50 wealthiest lawmakers published by The Hill newspaper, a trade publication about Washington politics.A large portion of Issa’s assets come from investment funds and properties valued in the millions. The rankings were based on financial di
Aug. 21, 2013
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Tongmyong Univ. to confer doctorate to Indian envoy
Indian Ambassador to South Korea Vishnu Prakash will receive an honorary Ph.D. in business administration from Tongmyong University on Thursday, the school in Busan said.It is uncommon for a foreign ambassador in Korea to get an honorary doctorate from a local university. Prakash is the first foreign envoy to receive such an honorary degree from Tongmyong.Prakash organized an Indian film festival in cooperation with the university and Busan City from April 26-28 as an event to commemorate the 40
Aug. 21, 2013
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U.N. chief’s childhood house in Chungju restored
The old house where U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon lived in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, has been restored. Born on June 13, 1944, he lived in the house for 20 years from 1950 to 1970. The municipal government of Chungju said Wednesday that it had completed the restoration work, which began in 2011 and cost 330 million won ($295,000). The owner of the house is said to have handed over the ownership readily to city authorities for its project to turn it into a memorable place. Ban att
Aug. 21, 2013
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Samsung chairman Lee hospitalized
Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee has been hospitalized for pneumonia, a group official said Wednesday. Lee, 71, was admitted to the Samsung Medical Center in Seoul a week ago, and is expected to be released from the hospital this weekend, the official said. The tycoon has a history of lung cancer, for which he underwent surgery in the United States about a decade ago.There have been rumors that Lee's health has been declining, although the business group has strongly denied the claim.Lee
Aug. 21, 2013
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First official photos of Prince George, taken by grandpa
LONDON (AFP) ― Prince William and his wife Catherine on Tuesday released the first official photographs of their baby son George ― and in a break with tradition they were taken by her father Michael Middleton.The intimate photographs were shot earlier this month in the garden of the Middletons’ family home in rural Bucklebury, west of London, and show the newborn prince lying peacefully in his mother’s arms.George, the third in line to the throne, is wrapped in a white blanket and is apparently
Aug. 20, 2013
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Man found dead in Olivia Newton-John’s Florida home
MIAMI, Florida (AFP) ― A man was found shot dead Monday in the Florida home of actress and singer Olivia Newton-John, police said.The actress and her husband, John Easterling, were not in the house when the incident happened, said police in Jupiter Inlet Colony, north of Palm Beach.A local newspaper called the incident a suicide but police refused to confirm this.The man was neither a resident nor a member of the family.The nearly 7,500-square-foot house, located on 35 acres by the coast, was bu
Aug. 20, 2013
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Kiwis start motorcycle ride through Korean Peninsula from Baekdusan
A group of motorcycle enthusiasts from New Zealand started a ride through the Korean Peninsula from North Korea. They launched the trip south in a ceremony held at Mount Baekdusan in North Korea, which straddles the border with China, on Monday, North Korean Central News Agency reported. The ceremony was attended by guides of the mountain and government officials, including Pak Kyong-il, chairman of North Korea-New Zealand Friendship Society. Gareth and Joanne Morgan entered North Korea from Kh
Aug. 20, 2013
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U.N. chief to visit S. Korea this week
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will pay a six-day visit to his home country here in order to attend a global rowing competition and meet with South Korea's president, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.The visit is scheduled from Aug. 22-27 during which Ban will take leave from the United Nations, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the six-day trip, Ban will attend the opening ceremony of the World Rowing Championships to be held in his home county of Chungju on Au
Aug. 20, 2013
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Wilson Center opens website on modern Korean history
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― A U.S. think tank has launched a special website on modern Korean history that features a rare collection of declassified documents from dozens of countries.The online Modern Korean History Portal was developed by the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.The institute has operated the History and Public Policy Program to find little-known episodes in inter-Korean, U.S.-Korean and North Korea-communist bloc relations, and analyze them.“The historical documents prese
Aug. 19, 2013
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PGA Tour’s Dustin Johnson to wed Paulina Gretzky
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― U.S. PGA Tour player Dustin Johnson and Paulina Gretzky ― daughter of Canadian ice hockey great Wayne Gretzky ― announced their engagement Sunday on Twitter.“Paulina Gretzky, she said yes!!!” Johnson tweeted, posting a picture of a diamond ring on his fiancee’s hand.Paulina Gretzky was in the gallery early this year at Kapalua, Hawaii, where Johnson won the US tour’s Tournament of Champions.Johnson, who has seven victories in his six years on the PGA Tour, paired up with Way
Aug. 19, 2013
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Obama plays golf with WB chief, Korean-American attorney
U.S President Barack Obama spent the last day of his weeklong summer vacation playing golf with two Korean-Americans ― World Bank president Jim Yong Kim and New York lawyer Eunu Chun. According to news reports Sunday, Obama hit the links Sunday with Kim, attorney and Obama fundraiser Chun, and aide Mike Brush at Martha’s Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown, Massachusetts.Attorney Chun, son of a Korean immigrant, grew up in the suburbs north of Chicago and graduated from Harvard University and Columb
Aug. 19, 2013
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Vietnamese director Minh to receive Kim DJ Nobel Peace Film Award
Dang Nhat Minh of Vietnam will receive the third Kim Dae-jung Nobel Peace Film Award, the Gwangju International Film Festival Organizing Committee said. Launched in 2011, the annual award is given in cooperation with the Kim Dae-jung Peace Center to encourage filmmakers to deal with human rights, peace, freedom and the value of nature.Minh has gained an international reputation as a director well versed in expressing social contradictions from the perspective of the poor or underprivileged throu
Aug. 19, 2013
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David C. Jones, ex-Joint Chiefs chair, dies
STERLING, Virginia (AP) ― David C. Jones, a retired Air Force general who helped set in motion a far-reaching reorganization of the U.S. military command while serving as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has died at 92.The general’s son, David Curtis Jones, said Wednesday that his father died Saturday at a military retirement community in Potomac Falls, Va. He had Parkinson’s disease. During the Korean War, he flew more than 300 B-29 bomber missions over North Korea and also flew aerial t
Aug. 18, 2013