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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Korea enters full election mode
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Dialogue hopes fade as doctors pick hard-liner as new head
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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[Kim Seong-kon] The April 2024 election will decide our future
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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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South Korea’s top 10 conglomerates cut philanthropy
South Korea’s top 10 conglomerates reduced the amount they gave in charitable donations, despite posting solid profit gains in recent years, the country’s financial watchdog said Tuesday.According to the Financial Supervisory Service, total donations made by the large family-owned businesses reached
Aug. 31, 2011
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Senior prosecutor resigns over adultery
A senior prosecutor in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, offered to resign Wednesday after his affair with a housewife was revealed, the Yonhap news agency reported.(Yonhap News)The two were found together by the woman’s husband at a restaurant at 5 a.m. the previous day.The prosecutor reportedly
Social AffairsAug. 31, 2011
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Lawmaker accused of sexist remarks survives expulsion vote
A South Korean lawmaker accused of making sexist remarks retained his seat as a motion to oust him was voted down in the National Assembly on Wednesday, sparking criticism that legislators are too soft on wrongdoings committed by fellow lawmakers. Rep. Kang Yong-seokRep. Kang Yong-seok, 42, came und
PoliticsAug. 31, 2011
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Woman arrested for pretending to be pregnant
A 30-year-old woman was booked without detention on Wednesday after she pretended to be pregnant to steal household goods, the police said.The woman surnamed Lee left a mall in Daegu without paying for 900,000 won ($880) worth of household items. When a security guard stopped her, Lee said that she
Social AffairsAug. 31, 2011
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S. Korea to call for boycott of tours to N. Korean mountain resort
South Korea will ask the United States, China and Japan to prevent their citizens from visiting a troubled mountain resort in North Korea, a Seoul official said Tuesday.The move comes as the isolated communist country is seeking to attract foreign tourists to Mount Kumgang as part of its attempts to
North KoreaAug. 30, 2011
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Court says Seoul‘s inaction over former ‘comfort women’ unconstitutional
A top South Korean court said Tuesday that it is unconstitutional for the government to make no tangible effort to settle disputes with Japan over its refusal to compensate Korean women mobilized as sex slaves during its 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.The Constitutional Court ruled in
Social AffairsAug. 30, 2011
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Prosecutors to summon Kwak’s wife, confidants
The prosecution will summon the wife of Seoul’s education chief for questioning Wednesday, on allegations that her husband bought a rival candidate out of race in last year’s election, officials said Tuesday.It will also subpoena two confidants of Kwak No-hyun, superintendent of Seoul Metropolitan O
Social AffairsAug. 30, 2011
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Profiles of minister designates
Yu Woo-ikUnification MinisterYu Woo-ik, 61, former ambassador to China, mapped out several of President Lee Myung-bak’s major policies. He was the first chief of staff under the Lee administration in 2008. Yu is said to have designed the grand canal plan, which later became the controversial four-ri
PoliticsAug. 30, 2011
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Yu Woo-ik named unification minister
By Kim So-hyunPresident Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday named his first chief-of-staff and architect of the controversial “Grand Canal” pledge Yu Woo-ik as the new unification minister, confirming what had been expected ever since Yu left his 16-month service as ambassador to China four months ago.Lee also
PoliticsAug. 30, 2011
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Lee names confidant as unification minister designate
Bureaucrat, historian named successors to ministers with parliamentary seatsPresident Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday named his first chief-of-staff and architect of the controversial “Grand Canal” pledge Yu Woo-ik as the new unification minister, confirming what had been expected ever since Yu left his 16
PoliticsAug. 30, 2011
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Prosecutors set to summon Kwak
Seoul education chief uspected of bribing former election rivalSeoul’s education chief Kwak No-hyun may face subpoena as early as Wednesday in an intensifying probe into allegations that he bought a rival candidate out of race during last year’s election, sources at the prosecution said Tuesday. The
Social AffairsAug. 30, 2011
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Lee to replace at least 4 ministers
President Lee Myung-bak is expected to name on Wednesday successors to ministers of health, unification, gender equality and perhaps culture, as three of the incumbents plan to run in the general elections seven months away. Ministers Lee Jae-oh of special affairs, Chung Byoung-gug of culture and Ch
PoliticsAug. 30, 2011
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Seoul calls for Tokyo to ‘look squarely at its past’
South Korea on Tuesday urged Japan’s new government to “look squarely at its past,” setting a brusque tone following reinforced Japanese moves to lay claim to the South’s easternmost islets of Dokdo. Japan’s parliament approved former finance minister Yoshihiko Noda as the new prime minister earlier
Foreign AffairsAug. 30, 2011
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EU delegation to visit N.K. next month
An EU delegation will visit North Korea next month, a U.S.-funded radio station reported Tuesday, confirming the annual visit which had been cancelled last year after the North’s provocations on Seoul. The European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with the Korean Peninsula, led by Christian Ehl
North KoreaAug. 30, 2011
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Savings bank lobbyist to weigh on elections
Parties stirred uneasily as the prosecution continued its interrogation of Park Tae-gyu, the key lobbyist involved in the Busan Savings Bank.Park’s case, together with that of Seoul Educational Superintendent Kwak No-hyun’s bribery allegations, is shaking up the political landscape ahead of the upco
PoliticsAug. 30, 2011
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Gas pipeline to provide breakthrough in inter-Korean ties: GNP chief
Lee sought Russian pipeline project since taking office: GNP chiefThe purported project for Russia to pipe Siberian natural gas through North Korean territory into South Korea will help the two Koreas thaw the months-long ice and move on to a new chapter in ties, the leader of Seoul’s ruling party s
Foreign AffairsAug. 30, 2011
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Samsung, SNU top patient survey on health checkups
Samsung Medical Center and Seoul National University Hospital Healthcare System Gangnam Center in southern Seoul were selected as the best hospitals for medical checkups in a Korea Consumer Agency survey. The agency said Tuesday that in a poll of 450 consumers, both Samsung and SNU hospitals scored
Social AffairsAug. 30, 2011
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Standoff escalates over Jeju naval base
Court accepts government petition to prohibit obstruction of constructionCalls are mounting for a referendum on the ongoing construction of a Jeju Island naval base just one week after Seoul City’s failed vote on free school meals, which saw the mayor’s resignation,Ever since the Defense Ministry na
Social AffairsAug. 30, 2011
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Children start learning English by age 4: report
Children in and around Seoul start learning to speak English at an average age of 3.7 years, the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education said. Its latest survey of 1,200 elementary school first- and second-graders in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province, found that 92.7 percent received their first-ever
Social AffairsAug. 30, 2011
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Judiciary pendulum set for conservative swing
The Aug. 18 announcement of the nominee for new Supreme Court chief justice came as a surprise to most reporters and judiciary members, who had been closely watching the selection process for the past weeks.Former Justice Yang Sung-tae was not considered to be on the shortlist, as he went on a trip
Social AffairsAug. 30, 2011