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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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[Weekender] How DDP emerged as an icon of Seoul
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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Doctor group's incoming head renews call for govt. to scrap medical school quota hike for dialogue
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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[Music in drama] An ode to childhood trauma
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'The Roundup: Punishment' becomes fastest 2024 film to top 2 mln admissions
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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New head of doctors' association vows war in case of disadvantage to medical professors
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Korean man sends his cut-off pinky to Japanese embassy
An unemployed South Korean man has been booked for investigation after he cut off part of his left pinky and sent it to the Japanese embassy in protest of Tokyo's territorial claim to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo, police said Wednesday.The 47-year-old, identified by his family name Choi
Social AffairsNov. 9, 2011
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Farmers hold sit-in protest at GNP lawmakers’ offices
Farmers staged sit-in protests at five regional offices of lawmakers of the Grand National Party on Wednesday, demanding the conservative ruling party drop its move to ratify the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.Protesters had occupied offices of three more GNP legislators, including Rep. Lee Sang-deuk, the older brother of President Lee Myung-bak, but they dispersed in the afternoon after they conveyed their demand to the lawmakers’ aides.“The protests are to denounce the GNP, which is moving to
Social AffairsNov. 9, 2011
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Walk for awareness
A walk to help people put themselves in disaster victims’ shoes is to be held in a Seoul park this Saturday. The 10 kilometer walk at Seoul Land Park has been organized as part of Mannam’s Global Awareness Campaign. “Although we cannot do a lot in terms of funding due to the nature of our organization, Mannam members want to provide moral support and raise awareness,” a Mannam spokesperson said. “We aim to encourage Korea to wake up and reach out, across borders and cultural constraints, to aid
Nov. 9, 2011
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Making Kimchi for Charity
Volunteers from Seoul Global Center are to help make kimchi for charity on Thursday. The event organized by The Korea National Foodbank will be held in the square in front of the Korea Stock Exchange Building near Yeouido Subway Station. The kimchi produced will go to help provide food to the less fortunate this winter. Seoul Global Center volunteers are to help out with preparing and packaging of the kimchi from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. A short musical performance called “Bibap” will be held before
Nov. 9, 2011
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Raising funds through folk music
A folk music night is to raise cash to mark Remembrance Day at a Seoul bar.Proceeds from the fund-raiser at Roofers in Itaewon will be split between Korean, Commonwealth and U.S. charities to support war veterans and orphans. Dutch singer ‘Sterre will perform a folk and jazz set followed by L.A. vocalist Thomas Shim, then folk rockers The Dirty 30s. The gig night is to start at 9 p.m. with a cover charge of 5,000 won.The money raised will be split between U.S. charity, the National Military Fami
Nov. 9, 2011
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Chance to train youth guides
Expats are being asked to help Korean kids become better tour guides by joining them on a museum visit. Organizers of the training program from the International Exchange and Culture Promotion Institute are seeking expats to attend a trip to explore museums in the Bukchon area of Seoul on Saturday Nov. 26 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Around 100 participants are sought to visit the Asian Art Museum to make a Korean traditional snack, the Gahoe Museum to create a Korean folk painting and Seoul Museum
Nov. 9, 2011
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Movember taches grow charity cash in Korea
Hundreds of men are going unshaven across Korea this November to raise charity cash through the moustache. The Movember men’s cancer awareness campaign has spurred men from Seoul to Jeju to make like Sam Elliott as colleagues, drinking buddies and sports teams emulate the horseshoe-tached movie cowboy and set down their razors for four weeks. The international initiative was started by a group of men betting on their hair-sprouting prowess in Melbourne, Australia, and has convinced more than 1 m
Nov. 9, 2011
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International schools becoming alternative to early study abroad
International schools in Korea are hitting the spotlight as a competitive alternative to early study abroad. The schools have lower limits on Korean student enrollment than foreign schools in Korea, but their high fees have led to criticism that they provide an elite education that ordinary people cannot afford.Parents are attracted by schools that offer the same international curriculum as provided overseas but do not require them to live apart from their children. Study abroad has declined in
Social AffairsNov. 9, 2011
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U.S. budget cuts could affect Seoul’s fighter buy
Lockheed Martin says will seek solutions to keep price of its jet affordableAs the U.S. government considers reducing its budget for its next-generation fighter jet program, concerns have been raised over Seoul’s planned purchase of new combat aircraft.As part of its deficit reduction plan, Washington seeks to curtail its defense budget by around $450 billion over the next decade. It reportedly plans to make savings by scaling down or delaying its project to secure new fighter jets, namely F-35
DefenseNov. 9, 2011
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NGO helps through English education, human rights campaigning
This is part one in a two-part series about how PSCORE helps North Korean defectors. Read next week’s Sharing page for a look into the lives of defectors in South Korea. Outside of the Korean Peninsula -- and often within it -- North Korea receives little attention aside from the provocative, sometimes deadly behavior of its government and military. Less thought of are the oppressed people within North Korea and their troubles often remain overlooked even if they make the dangerous journey out.
Nov. 9, 2011
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South’s groups blast ministry’s N.K. aid monitoring request
Aid groups have criticized the Unification Ministry’s request that they monitor how their aid is being distributed in North Korea, saying it hampers their humanitarian efforts.The ministry has asked the aid groups to gain consent from the North to monitor activities as part of its efforts to enhance “transparency” in the distribution process and prevent the aid being passed to the North’s military.The groups have submitted to the ministry photos or video clips that show their aid has reached the
PoliticsNov. 9, 2011
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Morning rush hour adjusted for college test
The morning rush hour and public transportation schedule will be adjusted Thursday for the annual state-run examination for college admission.The College Scholastic Ability Test, a key decider of college entrance, will take place throughout the nation on Thursday.Government offices and companies with over 50 employees advised their employees on Wednesday to come to work one hour late to alleviate traffic for students heading to test sites, government officials said.And more subways trains and bu
Social AffairsNov. 9, 2011
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SK chairman faces embezzlement charges
State prosecutors said on Wednesday they had found enough circumstantial evidence to accuse SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won of embezzling at least 99.2 billion won ($88.8 million) in company funds to make up for the losses from his investment in futures. The prosecution is looking into materials confiscated from its raid a day earlier on five SK affiliates ― SK C&C, SK Holdings, SK Gas Co., SK Telecom and SK E&S ― as a prelude to summoning of suspects including Chey and his younger brother Jae-wo
Social AffairsNov. 9, 2011
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Hong to visit Cheong Wa Dae for reform talks
The ruling Grand National Party’s chairman Rep. Hong Joon-pyo seeks to meet with President Lee Myung-bak to suggest reforms to Cheong Wa Dae.“I shall talk directly with the president to discuss measures to innovate the administration,” said Rep. Hong in the party’s key officials’ meeting on Wednesday.“If the government-ruling party consensus is a priority in achieving reforms, that is what I intend to focus on.”Hong also pledged to open ears to all reform plans suggested from within the party an
PoliticsNov. 9, 2011
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Park foregoes formalities
Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon will forego the traditional inauguration ceremonies, opting to make his pledge online, city official said Wednesday.According to a Seoul Metropolitan Government source, Park will hold his inauguration in his office and broadcast it live for an hour next Wednesday.“The Seoul city hall homepage will be revamped to feature the inauguration in a live streaming broadcast,” said the city official, who declined to give his name.“The inauguration preparations are being made to
Social AffairsNov. 9, 2011
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College admission in N.K. as tough as in South
North Korean students undergo grueling preparations and tough competition to enter prestigious universities just like those in South Korea, according to North Korea experts and defectors.Around this time, students in the North have a hectic schedule in preparation for a set of college entrance exams, just as South Korean students do, they said.Children in the communist state enter four years of elementary school at around eight and then six years of middle-high school, after which they decide wh
North KoreaNov. 9, 2011
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N.K. preparing to impact S. Korean elections
Seoul intensifies watch on pro-North websites, voting of overseas residentsElated by former civic activist and lawyer Park Won-soon’s recent election as Seoul mayor, North Korea is gearing up its offensive to influence the upcoming high-profile elections in South Korea through IT technology and refined tactics, observers in Seoul say. The communist North Korea, which is technically still at war with the South, has for years tried to wield influence over the presidential and parliamentary electi
North KoreaNov. 9, 2011
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Breakthrough may be in sight on FTA impasse
DP faces calls from within to compromiseProspects brightened for an end to parliamentary deadlock over the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement Wednesday, after the main opposition Democratic Party faced growing calls from within the party to drop its demand for the deal’s renegotiation. About half of the DP’s 87 lawmakers were reported to be supporting a concession plan, which calls on party leaders to back off from their initial demand that a set of Investor-State Dispute settlement clauses be dele
PoliticsNov. 9, 2011
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Education minister says will unveil 5 percent tuition cut plan
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Yonhap) -- The government is consulting with an association of university presidents about ways to curb expensive tuition costs and will soon unveil a plan to cut fees by 5 percent on average next year, the education minister said Wednesday. South Korean universities are under public
PoliticsNov. 9, 2011
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Hanjin Heavy reaches tentative settlement of labor dispute over layoffs
BUSAN, Nov. 9 (Yonhap) -- Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction hammered out a tentative agreement with its unionized workers on Wednesday to end an 11-month-long labor dispute sparked by the shipmaker's massive layoffs. The provisional deal calls for the shipmaker to reinstate within one year 94 f
Social AffairsNov. 9, 2011