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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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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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[Newsmaker] FBI hacks iPhone, drops case
The FBI has unlocked the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers, officials said Monday, ending a heated legal standoff with Apple that had pitted U.S. authorities against Silicon Valley.Apple, backed by a broad coalition of technology giants like Google and Facebook, was fiercely opposed to assisting the U.S. government in unlocking the iPhone on grounds it would have wide-reaching implications on digital security and privacy.This Feb. 23, 2016, file photo shows a New York police off
World BusinessMarch 29, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Lydia Ko takes 11th LPGA Tour title
Lydia Ko won the Kia Classic on Sunday at Aviara, reaffirming her position as the top player in the world heading into the first major championship of the season.Ko birdied the final three holes for her third straight 5-under 67 and a four-stroke victory over second-ranked Park In-bee.“I just kind of peeked at the leaderboard and saw In-bee was making a lot of birdies -- In-bee doing her In-bee things,” Ko said. “I knew that I needed to focus up until the last moment and fortunately I made some
More SportsMarch 28, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Sanders trounces Clinton in three US states
Bernie Sanders made a clean sweep of Democratic election contests in Alaska, Hawaii and Washington, although he barely dented the formidable lead enjoyed by frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the battle for the party's presidential nomination.US news networks showed Sanders winning by wide margins Saturday's caucus votes in all three western states. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally at Safeco Field in Seattle on March 25, 2016. (AFP-Yonhap)In Washington -- the bi
World NewsMarch 27, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Brussels suicide brothers abandoned crime for jihad
Long before blowing himself up in a crowd of innocent people, leaving behind a desperate will on his computer, suicide bomber Ibrahim El Bakraoui and his brother Khalid lived the lives of the classic Brussels hoodlum.Carjackings, robberies and shoot-outs with police were just some of the convictions collected by the brothers who took part in the deadly train and airport attacks in Brussels.Baby-faced Ibrahim, 30, one of two suicide bombers at the airport, had been handed a nine-year sentence in
InternationalMarch 24, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Obama visit fuels hopes for change in Cuba
President Barack Obama’s visit to Cuba was heavy on symbolism and light on immediate results, but the aftershocks have the ability to shift Cuba’s future, analysts said Tuesday.“The most important effect of the whole visit in my view is the ‘I can hardly believe my eyes’ factor that it is happening,” said Paul Webster Hare, who teaches international relations at Boston University. Back-dropped by a monument depicting Cuba`s revolution hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara, U.S. President Barack Obama (seco
World NewsMarch 23, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Obama trip aims to set new era in Cuba ties
Stepping into history, President Barack Obama opened an extraordinary visit to Cuba on Sunday, eager to push decades of acrimony deeper into the past and forge irreversible ties with America‘s former adversary. ``This is a historic visit and a historic opportunity,’‘ Obama said as he greeted staff of the new U.S. Embassy in Havana.Air Force One touched down on a rainy, overcast day in the Cuban capital. The president was joined by wife Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha in the first vi
World NewsMarch 21, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Landmarks go dark for 10th Earth Hour
From Sydney‘s Opera House to New York’s Empire State Building and Paris‘s Eiffel tower, landmarks worldwide dimmed their lights Saturday for the 10th edition of the Earth Hour campaign against climate change.Millions of people from 178 countries and territories were expected to take part in WWF’s Earth Hour this year, organizers said, with monuments and buildings such as Berlin‘s Brandenburg Gate plunging into darkness for 60 minutes from 8:30 pm local time.The annual event kicked off in Sydney,
World NewsMarch 20, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Chey Tae-won back in SK boardroom
Without drama, SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won won his way back into the boardroom of the group’s holding firm SK Holdings on Friday, a key outcome of the “Super Friday” glut of shareholders meetings in Korea. More than 300 companies, including 10 SK companies, seven LG units and four Lotte affiliates, held their annual congress of shareholders on the day.As in previous years, shareholder debate or a vote battle to turn down a presented agenda item was a rare sight. SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won
March 18, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Senior Saenuri members leave amid growing intraparty feud
A factional battle continued to engulf the ruling Saenuri Party on Friday over the candidate nomination for the April general election, with senior lawmakers defecting from the party in protest.Reps. Ahn Sang-soo and Cho Hae-jin said in the morning that they would leave the Saenuri Party to run as independents. They follow in the footsteps of Rep. Chin Young, former health minister, who left Thursday. Third-term lawmaker Rep. Joo Ho-young also indicated he is contemplating leaving. Most of those
PoliticsMarch 18, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Merrick Garland, Obama's moderate Supreme Court pick
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Merrick Garland, a centrist judge with a long and distinguished career in the halls of justice, is perhaps President Barack Obama’s best chance at persuading his Republican foes who control the Senate to confirm his Supreme Court nominee.Federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland (center), receives applause from President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden as he is introduced as Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court during an announcement at the White House in Washing
World NewsMarch 17, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Minjoo chief unfazed by party pressure
Since taking his post in January, the main opposition party’s interim leader Kim Chong-in has been doing something that his predecessors have avoided in the past: driving out the elderly power brokers and outspoken liberal fightersFirst on Kim’s list was Rep. Moon hee-Sang, who had chaired the New Politics Alliance for Democracy, the predecessor to the Minjoo Party of Korea, from 2013 to 2014. Kim forced him to withdraw his bid to run for the April general election. Moon accepted the decision, t
PoliticsMarch 16, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Bumpy road to boardroom for SK chairman Chey
SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won faces a bumpy road for his return to the boardroom of the holding company SK Holdings, with some shareholders and civic groups strongly opposing the move.According to local news reports, the fund management division of the National Pension Service, the nation’s largest investor, will convene an investment committee meeting Wednesday to discuss a voting decision on the SK chief’s return to the board of directors. The public pension fund is the second biggest shareho
IndustryMarch 15, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Korea hopes for ISA-fueled investment boost
The Korean version of tax-efficient savings account, which benchmarked a U.K. scheme, went on sale Monday as the government hopes it will boost household wealth amid a rise in floating money prompted by low interest rates and uncertainties in the investment market.A total of 33 financial companies, including banks, securities firms and insurers, have begun introducing their first tax-exempt Individual Savings Account, or ISA, which allows customers to hold a wide range of retail investment vehic
March 14, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Lee Se-dol proves human intuition still powerful in Go
Korean Go master Lee Se-dol has proved human intuition can still surpass the ever-evolving artificial intelligence technology, with his first victory against Google’s AI program AlphaGo. “This single win is so valuable and I would never exchange this with anything in the world,” Lee said after the victory on Sunday in Seoul. Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, the AlphaGo developer, also offered his respect to Lee’s victory. He said, “We are very happy about Lee’s victory. This is why we came here
TechnologyMarch 13, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Lula charged in money laundering probe
SAO PAULO (AFP) -- Brazilian state prosecutors on Wednesday filed money laundering charges against ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a dramatic twist to an anti-corruption battle threatening to bring down the government.The indictment against the hugely influential leftist leader alleges that he hid ownership of a luxury triplex apartment at a seaside resort in Sao Paulo state, a source in the Sao Paulo prosecutor‘s Office said.“He is accused of hiding property in relation to the triplex
World NewsMarch 10, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Saenuri’s nomination fight turns ugly
A former presidential aide’s derogatory comment about the ruling party’s leader sent ripples through the political community Wednesday, intensifying factional infighting over the party’s nominations for the April general elections. In a taped telephone conversation leaked to local media on Tuesday, Rep. Yoon Sang-hyun of the Saenuri Party, who had served as a presidential adviser on political affairs in 2015, said that he would “eliminate” his party leader Rep. Kim Moo-sung to block his attemp
NationalMarch 9, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Nancy, most ardent guardian of Reagan legacy
Nancy Reagan, the devoted wife and trusted confidante to late president Ronald Reagan who after his death became the most ardent guardian of his political legacy, died Sunday. She was 94.The former first lady passed away at her home in Los Angeles from congestive heart failure, her spokeswoman Joanne Drake said.In this file photo, Nancy Reagan gestures as she looks at photographs during a photo opportunity at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California on March 17, 2010. (U
World NewsMarch 7, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Opposition chiefs at odds over election blueprints
The ongoing dispute on opposition unity has shown that the two opposition party leaders -- Kim Chong-in of The Minjoo Party of Korea and Rep. Ahn Cheol-soo of the People’s Party -- have distinctly different election strategies. Kim, a 75-year-old veteran politician who was scouted as relief pitcher for the feud-ridden party, has made it clear that he is ready to accept anything if only to achieve a significant number of parliamentary seats in the imminent April general elections.Ahn, on the oth
PoliticsMarch 6, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Spaceman back from record year flight
Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth on Wednesday after an unprecedented year in space for NASA, landing in barren Kazakhstan with a Russian cosmonaut who shared his whole space station journey.Their Soyuz capsule parachuted onto the central Asian steppes and ended a science-rich mission at the International Space Station that began last March and was deemed a steppingstone to Mars. International Space Station crew member Scott Kelly of the U.S. shows a victory sign after landing near the tow
World NewsMarch 2, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Coupang to log record loss for 2015
South Korea’s top e-commerce operator Coupang is expected to have logged a record-high loss in 2015, according to Coupang and industry analysts, fueling partial concerns over its aggressive spending.A recent report by Hana Investment Securities forecast that Coupang would log an operating loss of about 400 billion won ($320 million) for 2015, up by 299 percent from a loss of 121.5 billion in 2014.Though its sales are expected to have hiked by more than 400 percent last year from 348.5 billion wo
IndustryMarch 1, 2016