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• Television

  

  Doctor who performed lipoma procedure on actress Han Ye-seul admits fault

  The doctor who performed a lipoma removal procedure on actress Han Ye-seul apologized for the botched operation in an interview uploaded to YouTube, Saturday.Dr. Lee Ji-hyun of the Cha Medical Center in Gangnam admitted to damaging skin from the inside while he was removing the lipoma.A lipoma is a noncancerous tumor of fat tissue beneath the skin. Han Ye-seul (Instagram)“It’s easier to remove the tumor if surgery is done right around the lipoma. But considering that she is an actress, I suggest

• Television

  

  Yoo Jae-suk aims for global market in upcoming Netflix series

  Netflix’s upcoming variety show “Busted!” starring comedian Yoo Jae-suk, is aiming at the global market. According to the popular global video-streaming platform, the show will feature seven celebrity sleuths tackling different mysteries in each episode. The star-studded cast of the show also includes EXO’s Sehun, Lee Kwang-soo, Kim Jong-min, Park Min-young, Ahn Jae-wook and Gugudan’s Kim Se-jeong. The first-ever Korean original variety program to be launched by Netflix, “Busted!” is expected to

• Culture

  

  Not leaving anything to chance

  Before tying the knot, check marital compatibility

• Film

  

  Kim Joo-hyuk’s energetic performance to be a factor in ‘Believer’

  It has been half a year since Kim Joo-hyuk passed away in a car crash, but the Korean actor’s character acting has left a lasting impression via his filmography.“Believer,” directed by Lee Hae-young, is a crime action film that will give the audience one of the last -- and supposedly the most impressive -- glimpse of his talents.“He is the most heated character, and it is impossible to know what his boiling point is. He makes the others nervous as he is impossible to predict,” said director Lee

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  Industry

  Korean Air chief apologizes, fires daughters over 'water rage'

  The head of the nation’s flag carrier Korean Air on Sunday apologized for causing public concerns over the escalating “water rage” scandal involving his youngest daughter, and vowed to dismiss his two children from their executive posts, effective immediately.“I would have Korean Air Senior Vice President Cho Hyun-min step down from all of her posts within Hanjin Group, as well as Cho Hyun-ah, president of KAL Hotel Network, resign as well,” said Chairman Cho in a written statement, released by

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  Politics

  Police raid blogger‘s office in opinion rigging probe

  The police raided a power blogger’s office Sunday as part of a probe into allegations that he and his colleagues illegally manipulated the popularity of certain online comments to attack the current government.　The blogger, surnamed Kim, was indicted last week for allegedly using a computer program that artificially ramps up the number of clicks on “agree” -- the South Korean search engine Naver’s equivalent of Facebook’s “like” -- for comments that were critical of President Moon Jae-in and his

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  Columnists

  Trade wars don’t faze this US-China investor

  The steadfast stock market of 2017 turned into a roller coaster this year by the time President Donald Trump tweeted, “When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win.” The rhetoric directed at China soon became Trump tariffs on imported aluminum and steel. China responded with duties on 128 products. Daily price fluctuations of publicly traded companies caught in the US-China crossfire are

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  Columnists

  Space: the new frontier of warfare

  Sitting at the controls of a Boeing space-flight simulator, “docking” the company’s planned “Starliner” craft with an imaginary space station, you begin to understand why the Pentagon is so focused on such advanced systems. Space is the new frontier of warfare. That was the theme of a “Space Symposium” here this week that gathered thousands of military and corporate experts from around the globe. A version of the Boeing simulator may someday be training the 21st-century version of fighter pilots

• Columnists

  Trump is not Nixon and North Korea is not China

  If you Google “Trump,” “Nixon” and “China,” you will find billions of pixels devoted to comparing the 37th president’s breakthrough with Beijing to the potential summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.　 The parallel is understandable. It took a committed anti-communist to open relations with Communist China. Perhaps it will take a president who threatened “fire and fury” to open ties to the leader he called “little rocket man.” In 1972 when Mao Zedong hosted President Richard Nixon in Beiji

• Columnists

  New threat to the US: the axis of autocracy

  It sounded like an echo of Sino-Soviet alliance of the 1950s and 1960s when China’s new defense minister, Wei Fenghe, said at a meeting in Moscow this month, “The Chinese side has come to show Americans the close ties between the armed forces of China and Russia.”　 A full-blown military alliance remains a long ways off, of course, and it is easy to dismiss Wei’s remarks as rhetorical posturing. But that would be a mistake, because Wei nonetheless captured an ominous feature of world politics tod

• Columnists

  After missile strike, will Trump or Putin be seen as the winner?

  The weather was gloriously sunny here in Moscow on Monday and Tuesday, as if to celebrate the release of tension over the possibility that Saturday’s US missile strike in Syria would lead to US-Russia fighting. Perhaps the most significant lesson of the strike is that the military de-confliction channels between Washington and Moscow still work.　Oblivious to recent tensions, crowds of tourists wandered around the Kremlin walls and St. Basil’s Cathedral on Red Square and the nearby mall inside th

• Editorial

  Genuine shift?

  NK announces suspension of nuclear, missile tests

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  North Korea

  Senior US diplomat calls NK's decision on tests, nuclear site "positive"

  INCHEON -- A senior US diplomat on Sunday called North Korea's recent announcement that it would stop nuclear and missile tests a "very positive" step and emphasized the need for close coordination with US allies in the run-up to the historic summits planned with the reclusive state.Susan Thornton, acting US assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, made the remarks upon arriving at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul. "I think that is very positive. Of course we

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  World

  Number of births outside marriage on rise in EU

  　The rate of births outside marriage is on the rise in all EU member states to a greater or lesser extent, with the highest one recorded in France (59.7 percent in 2016) and the lowest in Greece (9.4 percent), the statistical office of the European Union (Eurostat) said in a statement.　According to Eurostat, Bulgaria and Slovenia accounted for the ratio of out-of-home births with 58.6 percent, followed by Estonia (56.1percent). Sweden (54.9 percent), Denmark (54 percent), Portugal (52.8 percent)

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OPINION

• Columnists

  

  Trade wars don’t faze this US-China investor

  The steadfast stock market of 2017 turned into a roller coaster this year by the time President Donald Trump tweeted, “When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win.” The rhetoric directed at China soon became Trump tariffs on imported aluminum and steel. China responded with duties on 128 products. Daily price fluctuations of publicly traded companies caught in the US-China crossfire are

• Columnists

  

  Space: the new frontier of warfare

  Sitting at the controls of a Boeing space-flight simulator, “docking” the company’s planned “Starliner” craft with an imaginary space station, you begin to understand why the Pentagon is so focused on such advanced systems. Space is the new frontier of warfare. That was the theme of a “Space Symposium” here this week that gathered thousands of military and corporate experts from around the globe. A version of the Boeing simulator may someday be training the 21st-century version of fighter pilots

THE INVESTOR

• Industrials

  

  How Korean Air's Cho family smuggled their stuff: sources

  As Korean Air heiress Cho Hyun-min is facing public backlash for the so-called “water rage” incident, fresh allegations cropped up on April 20 that the family used to frequently smuggle personal goods into Korea.According to sources, the family members abused their status as an airliner operator to smuggle in all kinds of goods including clothes in bulk and furniture. They were brought in under the code name “KIP,” which is short for Korean Air VIP. “The goods were brought in thro

• Automobiles

  

  GM Korea union losing ground following due diligence

  GM Korea’s union may lose some ground following the release of interim results of a due diligence conducted on the carmaker showing it would be more lucrative to keep it afloat than to opt for liquidation. The report also said the firm could swing to the black from 2020 under normalizations plans committed by all concerned parties.Of course, this would be assuming that all concerned parties, including the US headquarters and shareholders like Korea Development Bank, do their part

• Mobile & Internet

  

  IFA 2018 to showcase smart appliances, AI solutions and mobility

  ROME -- This year’s IFA, Europe’s biggest exhibition of consumer electronics, will see smart and connected devices for home appliances as well as artificial intelligence-incorporated consumer electronics take center stage, including those from South Korean tech giants Samsung and LG.“While AI is a key for the connected world, I see Samsung and LG leading the market. Korean companies are building huge research centers overseas and from what I see so far, I think they are doing it i

• Industrials

  

  Past comes back to haunt Korean Air’s Cho family

  As public backlash builds over the misconduct of Korean Air's Cho, some of their past deeds are coming back to haunt them. News reports are now shedding light on events dating back to 2015 when the Fair Trade Commission zeroed in on Hanjin Group’s affiliate Cyber Sky for being too reliant on inter-subsidiary sales. The government steps in when more than 80 percent of a conglomerate unit’s sales come from other affiliates. Cyber Sky's shares -- all non-listed -- were consecutively

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  iKon vows to show its real life

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  Han Ye-seul's doctor admits fault

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  Yubin gives solo comeback update

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• Culture

  

  Artists duo fascinated by nomadism of island

• Industry

  

  Kayak targets Korea’s travel market with one-stop solution

• Music

  

  Woogie sets new trend by going off-trend

• Culture

  

  A transformation from model to shaman

PHOTO NEWS

• Culture

  

  Back to the Joseon era

  While time machines are the stuff of movies and fairy tales, it is possible to get a taste of what life was like in the Joseon era (1392-1910) at the Korean Folk Village in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, this spring.The living history museum is holding the “Welcome to Joseon” festival until June 24, under the pitch “Would you time travel to Joseon Dynasty with us?” vThe Korean Folk Village, which was once most commonly associated with school field trips, found a new lease of life in 2013 when it sta

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• Food

  

  Future food source evokes nostalgia for old days

• Food

  

  Diversity of Korean seaweed rice roll ‘gimbap’

• Culture

  

  Barbershop offers a cultural space for gentlemen

• Fashion

  

  77 student models strut down catwalk ‘cherry blossom way’

FEATURES

• Health

  

  Smoking cafes no longer oasis for ostracized smokers

  Local coffee shops to enforce smoking ban with upcoming revision to smoking law in Korea

• Industry

  

  Competition heats up in growth of health, beauty stores

  When South Korean versions of drugstores were first introduced here in the 2000s, it took time for people locally to grasp what they actually were.They sold makeup, over-the-counter medicine and even snacks, a product lineup that at first seemed random, with items people were used to buying separately in specialty stores -- pharmacies, department stores and convenience stores.It took little time for the concept of health and beauty stores, or H&B, to become common among consumers here, boosted b

• Automode

  

  Hyundai overtakes BMW in Europe, Kia sales also grow

  The number of cars South Korean auto giants Hyundai and Kia sold in Europe grew last month despite declining auto sales in the region, data showed Thursday.According to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, the number of newly registered cars in March fell 5.3 percent on-year, falling for the first time since 2014. Hyundai Motor, meanwhile, sold a total of 60,663 units, a 3.6 percent increase from the same month last year. Its sister company Kia Motors sold 56,725 units, a 4.8 perce

• Technology

  

  Raonsecure aims for US operation momentum with RSA presentation

  Raonsecure, a biometric technology solution provider to financial firms in South Korea, offered a theater presentation at RSA Conference 2018 in San Francisco, California, highlighting the “momentum for overseas business in America,” the company said Thursday. Raonsecure‘s presentation was made on Wednesday along with some 30 companies at the conference. Raonsecure was the only Korean company to be invited by US company Intel to give presentation.  (Raonsecure)The 30-minute session involved an o