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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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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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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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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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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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Foreign diplomats visit 2018 Olympics host city
Foreign diplomats here in Korea on Saturday visited Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province, the host city of the 2018 Winter Olympics, for a Korean cultural experience.About 80 envoys including ambassadors attended the Great Mountains Music Festival & School, a classical music concert, at the Music Tent in Alpensia Resort, Pyeongchang, on Saturday evening.Performers included the festival artistic director and violinist Chung Kyung-wha, pianists Son Yeol-eum and Kim Da-sol, and others.Then, they moved to
Aug. 4, 2013
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Peace concert held near DMZ
A pop concert to mark six decades since fighting stopped in the Korean War was held near the demilitarized zone on Saturday. Gyeonggi Province hosted the DMZ World Peace Concert on an outdoor stage specially built for the event at Imjingak, about 54 kilometers northwest of Seoul. The concert was broadcast live through YouTube. Kim Jang-hoon, a pop singer well known for holding concerts to promote Korea, directed the gig. BEAST, f(x), Girl’s Day, Ailee, K. Hunter and LUV took the stage. Actors Ah
Aug. 4, 2013
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Actor Park Yong-sik dies at 67
South Korean actor, Park Yong-sik, well-known for his uncanny resemblance to former president Chun Doo-hwan, died Friday at the age of 67.Park’s acquaintance told local media that he passed away at 7 a.m. while receiving treatment at Kyung Hee University Medical Center for sepsis-like symptoms. He fell ill after spending 20 days in Cambodia for a movie shoot.Park’s funeral will be held at Samsung Medical Center in Ilwon-dong, southern Seoul, and his coffin will be borne out Tuesday.Park debuted
Aug. 2, 2013
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First Korean astronaut to marry in U.S. on Aug. 2
Yi So-yeonYi So-yeon, the first South Korean in space, is to marry in the United States this month. The 35-year-old scientist’s bridegroom-to-be is an American eye doctor of Korean ancestry. Their wedding ceremony will be held in Long Beach, California, on Aug. 2, according to Korea Aerospace Research Institute in Daejeon.Yi currently resides in the States. She graduated from Gwangju Science High School in 1997 and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering at the Korea Adv
Aug. 1, 2013
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Ex-DUP spokeswoman files paternity suit against son of Full Gospel Church founder
Cha Young, 51, former spokeswoman of the then-Democratic United Party, has filed a paternity suit against Cho Hee-jun, 48, former chairman of the daily newspaper Kookmin Ilbo, claiming that she gave birth to his son.Cho is the eldest son of David Cho Yong-gi, 77, founder and pastor emeritus of the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul. According to local news media on Thursday, Cha filed the suit with the Seoul Family Court against Cho on Wednesday. In the suit, Cha asked the court to confirm that
Aug. 1, 2013
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SKEC honors elite English learners
The award ceremony for the second Seoul National University of Education-Korea Herald English Contest (SKEC) took place at the British ambassador’s residence in Seoul on Wednesday.A total of 15 students won the top prizes, in categories divided by age and the amount of time entrants spent living overseas. Among the winners are Park Ye-rin for the high-school level, Park Jae-young for the middle-school level and Park Hye-hyoun for the elementary-school level.Other awards including the second-high
Aug. 1, 2013
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Korean Americans reach out to White House, Congress
A group of Korean-American community leaders said Wednesday it will meet with White House officials and congressional leaders this week to get their voice heard on key policy issues.The Council of Korean Americans (CKA) is hosting an inaugural "Community+Congressional Leaders Event" in Washington, D.C., later in the day.It will feature panel discussions on South Korea-U.S. relations, immigration reform, the Affordable Care Act, and North Korea, CKA said.Among the participants are Reps. Ed Royce
Aug. 1, 2013
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Korean-born violinist’s stolen Stradivarius found in Britain
LONDON (AFP) ― British police said Tuesday they have recovered a rare Stradivarius violin worth 1.2 million pounds ($1.8 million) that was stolen from its owner in a London railway cafe in 2010.Thieves took the antique instrument, which was made in 1696, and two valuable bows from Korean-born violinist Kym Min-jin as she ate at London’s Euston station.It was recovered from a property in central England last week, police said, without giving further details. Three people were jailed in connection
July 31, 2013
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Comfort woman attends monument unveiling in U.S.
Kim Bok-dong, a 88-year-old Korean woman who was held as a sex slave by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, attended a ceremony to unveil a monument to the so-called comfort women in Glendale, California, Tuesday. According to the Los Angeles Times and Yonhap News on Tuesday, Glendale dropped unveiled a metal statue that is to become a lasting testament to the pain and suffering endured by an estimated 200,000 sex slaves from Korea, China, Indonesia and other occupied countries durin
July 31, 2013
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Ex-Tucson mayor tapped as Korea’s honorary consul
LOS ANGELES (Yonhap News) ― South Korea appointed former Tucson Mayor Bob Walkup Monday as honorary consul in the U.S. state of Arizona.The South Korean consul general in Los Angeles, Shin Yeon-sung, presented him with a certificate of appointment during a swearing-in ceremony at the office of U.S. Rep. Ron Barber in Tucson, Shin’s office said.As honorary consul, Walkup will work to protect overseas Korean nationals. He also will act as a liaison officer for the promotion of trade and investment
July 30, 2013
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Group sends books to overseas ethnic Koreans
A group of book lovers has mailed thousands of books to overseas ethnic Koreans. The Campaign Center of the Book Supplying for Overseas Koreans held a ceremony at its warehouse in Anseong, Gyeonggi Province, Tuesday, to mail 6,000 books to Kyrgyzstan, and 5,000 each to Massachusetts in the U.S., Manila in the Philippines and Singapore. The center plans to hold a book donation ceremony in Kyrgyzstan around Sept. 5. when they are expected to arrive. The ceremony was attended by Sohn Suck-woo, pres
July 30, 2013
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Angelina Jolie speaks out against rape in war
TOKYO (AP) ― Movie star and director Angelina Jolie urged a Japanese audience Monday to join her fight to stop sexual violence in war zones. Jolie said she hoped “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” her first film as writer and director, would inspire viewers to think about rape in war. In April, the Group of Eight leaders agreed to work to end rape and sexual violence in conflict and the United Nations Security Council adopted text urging sanctions against perpetrators of sexual violence during ar
July 30, 2013
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Kang named as head of Seigakuin University in Japan
Kang Sang-jung, a political scientist and writer, was named the president of Seigakuin University, the first time a Korean national has been named to head an institute of higher education in Japan. According to the university’s official website on Tuesday, the school board made the official decision on July 22 ― before the present office holder’s term expires. Kang will serve in the position for five years from April 2014. A 64-year-old scholar who has taught at Seigakuin since 2013, was born a
July 30, 2013
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Woo Kyung-sik elected president of Union International Speleology
Woo Kyung-sik, a member of the National Heritage Committee, was elected president of the International Union of Speleology at its 16th Congress in Brno, the Czech Republic, on Sunday, the Cultural Heritage Administration said Monday. With the election, the 57-year-old will lead the member organization of the International Council for Science for four years. The council is in a close relationship with the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which is the advisory body to the World Heri
July 29, 2013
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Pugilist Pacquiao says will consider running for president
MACAU (AFP) ― Philippine boxing great Manny Pacquiao is harboring thoughts of running for president in his beloved homeland when he finally hangs up his gloves, he revealed to AFP in an exclusive interview.Giving his strongest hint yet that he will push to the top of the political tree when he finally retires from the ring, the “Pacman” ― a hero and congressman in his home country ― admitted he had considered the presidency of the 95 million-strong nation.When pressed on whether he had thought a
July 29, 2013
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U.N. chief to visit S. Korea next week on home leave
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit South Korea next month while on home leave, a diplomatic source said Monday.Ban’s visit is scheduled for Aug. 22 and he will stay here for six days, the source said. During his visit, the 69-year-old secretary-general will be with his mother who lives in Chungju, Ban’s hometown located 147 kilometers southeast of Seoul, according to the source. Ban’s itinerary also includes attending the opening ceremony for an international boat game to be
July 29, 2013
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Mandela still ‘critical’ after operation
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) ― South Africa’s presidency said Sunday that Nelson Mandela was still critically ill in hospital but improving slightly, declining to comment on a report the anti-apartheid hero had undergone an operation.The former statesman underwent a “surgical procedure to unblock a dialysis tube” on Friday just before marking his seventh week at a Pretoria health facility, according to U.S. news network CBS.The operation was “minor,” the network reported.But presidential spokesman Mac Mah
July 29, 2013
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HUFS president Park’s book published in Japan
A research book by Park Chul, president of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, has been translated into Japanese and published in Japan, the university announced.Park, a prominent scholar of Spanish literature, first wrote in 1986 about Gregorio de Cespedes, a Spanish Jesuit priest, who was the first European on record to land on the Korean peninsula in 1593. He stayed in Korea for about a year. His book, published in both Spain and Korea, led to the establishment of the Cespedes Memorial Hall
July 28, 2013
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Sex research pioneer Virginia Johnson dies
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Virginia Johnson, who with her ex-husband and research partner William Masters blazed new trails in the study of human sexuality, has died at the age of 88, U.S. media reported.Saint Louis Public Radio said Thursday her death was confirmed by her son Scott Johnson and by a retirement home in the Missouri city where she lived. The cause of death was not disclosed.Born in the Midwestern state into a family with Mormon roots, Johnson met Masters, an obstetrician-gynecologist 10 y
July 26, 2013
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Monroe photos to be auctioned
LOS ANGELES, California (AFP) ― More than 3,700 photos of American pop icon Marilyn Monroe will be sold this weekend along with their copyrights, a Los Angeles auction house said Thursday.The photos ― plus negatives, slides and copyrights ― are part of a collection of more than 75,000 images taken by fashion photographer Milton Greene in the 1950s and 1960s.They will go on the block both at the auction house and online on Saturday.By pairing the images with their copyrights, buyers will be allow
July 26, 2013