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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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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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Seoul’s bus union prepares for strike
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Koreans top in digital literacy: OECD data
Young South Koreans learn the best from computers and the Internet according to a survey of 15 year-olds in 19 countries, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Monday. The OECD, which groups 34 of the world’s most advanced economies, tested the digital literacy of students in 16 member countries as well as Colombia and the Chinese cities of Hong Kong and Macao as part o
Social AffairsJune 29, 2011
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All textbooks to go digital by 2015
Ministry seeks to hold nationwide academic tests onlineThick textbooks weighing on students’ shoulders may disappear in four years. The government seeks to convert all paper textbooks into digital versions by 2015, the Education Ministry said Wednesday.Using smartphones, tablet PCs and smart televisions, school students of all ages will be able to view the content of existing textbooks, ministry o
Social AffairsJune 29, 2011
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15,000 military duty deferrers must retake physical exam
Some 15,000 men who have delayed their mandatory military service for the last several years will be notified to take another physical checkup next year under a 2007 law, the military recruitment agency said Wednesday. Under the military draft law, young men are to go through another checkup five years after taking the first one. Before the law was enacted in January 2007, men had taken only one c
DefenseJune 29, 2011
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Romania prosecution leads in independence
While prosecutors here are struggling against some lawmakers’ plans to end what they call politically biased investigations, in Romania, the prosecution’s authority is supreme.The European country’s prosecution has total authority to initiate and conduct an investigation and no one, not even the president or justice minister, can interfere with or comment on an ongoing case. Only prosecutors thems
Social AffairsJune 29, 2011
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S. Korea marks 9 years since West Sea clash
The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs on Wednesday held a ceremony marking the ninth anniversary of a naval skirmish between the two Koreas, which resulted in several casualties on both sides.Some 2,000 people, including top military officials and members of the bereaved families, attended the ceremony at the Navy’s Second Fleet Command in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province. Prime Minister Kim
DefenseJune 29, 2011
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Two Koreas hold talks as N.K. ups threats ‘No progress made over joint tours’
The two Koreas held a rare meeting over a stalled joint tourism project at the North’s mountain resort, but little was discussed due to North Korean officials’ careless attitude, Seoul officials said Wednesday.Twelve government officials and company representatives from Seoul returned to the South Korean side, crossing the heavily fortified border Wednesday afternoon after holding brief talks with
North KoreaJune 29, 2011
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GNP leader election in disarray
Party to hold emergency meeting after court says voting rules invalidThe Grand National Party is in a state of confusion after a court unexpectedly invalidated its revised rule on its chairperson election scheduled for next Monday.The Seoul Southern District Court upheld the claim that the party’s revised internal constitution was unlawful and suspended its legal effect on Tuesday.The GNP revised
PoliticsJune 29, 2011
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U.S. general urges preparation for collapse of N.K. regime
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― The incoming top American military commander in Korea said Tuesday that the United States and South Korea should prepare for the possibility of a regime collapse in North Korea.In his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing, Gen. James Thurman, the nominee to lead 28,000 U.S. forces in South Korea, raised doubts over the North’s heir apparent, Kim Jong-un, w
DefenseJune 29, 2011
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Heavy rain kills one, injures several more
One person died and several others are assumed injured after a landslide caused by rain that hit the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday.Scores of buildings were inundated by up to 170 millimeters of rain while traffic accidents have been reported in the center of the country. According to Seoul City authorities, a landslide took place near the Choansan Station construction site in Nowon-gu, northern Se
Social AffairsJune 29, 2011
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Universities face restructuring
Demographic shift adds urgency to the need for reformThis is the third and last installment of a three-part series looking into problems in Korea’s tertiary education ― Ed. Earlier this month, professors at Sunghwa College received 136,000 won as their salary and a text message that the rest would be wired once the institution collected tuition fees from students. The college, where about 1,200 st
Social AffairsJune 29, 2011
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Musicians sought for volunteer positions
Musically-minded volunteers are being sought to help teach orphans how to play a variety of instruments.The Camarata Music Company Outreach Volunteers is looking for more participants to help in its program to teach orphanage children how to play music, and about music in general. Helpers do not need to be an expert in an instrument, just able to play it and commit to teaching once or twice a week
June 29, 2011
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Volleyball fund-raiser to help Seoul’s homeless
A volleyball day along the Han River is to raise cash for homeless people in Seoul. Games will be played on Sunday, July 10 from 3-7 p.m. costing 15,000 won per player to enter. The event will be held on the river about a 10 minutes’ walk from Sincheon Station, near Jamsil.The event, organized by PLUR, is to generate funds to buy rice and other essentials for the soup kitchen supported by the grou
June 29, 2011
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Volunteers wanted for international youth festival
Voluntary participants are being sought for Korea’s only International Youth Festival. The 11th Yeosu International Youth Festival is to be held from July 25-31. The five day cultural exchange will see 350 youths from here and abroad join under the theme of “Youths Moving Islands Towards the Future.” Participants must be aged between 15 and 24. The event is being organized by the Seoul Youth Facto
June 29, 2011
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Volunteers join to clean Korea’s coastline
A beach cleanup saw native English teachers and Korean volunteers join together to help preserve the Busan coastline on Saturday. Four members of the Association for Teachers of English in Korea joined more than twenty Korean members of the Rainbow Volunteers to clean the rocky Igidae beach. ATEK plans to help with beach cleanups every second and fourth Saturday of the month for the entire summer,
June 29, 2011
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Island charity keeps raising cash in expat dad’s name
English teacher Nathan Furey only lived in Korea for four years, but in that short time the Canadian built a life and family here.He married his wife Hyo-Jung not long after arriving to teach on Jeju island in 2005, and the couple had two boys together.Though he quickly embraced life in Korea, he was not destined to be here long. On March 13, 2009, Nathan passed away suddenly, leaving his young fa
June 29, 2011
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Parents seek funds for lifesaving op
Little Hannah Warren waiting on groundbreaking windpipe transplant surgeryHannah Warren is approaching her first birthday, but her parents are yet to take her home from Seoul National University Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit. Hannah Warren was born with no windpipe and is waiting for a groundbreaking transplant to save her life by helping her to breathe on her own. She was born in Goyang
June 29, 2011
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Reader's Voice
On prostitution...Prostitution should not be legalized because it won’t protect prostitutes’ rights, but the rights of the owners of brothels. If you look at Germany, where prostitution is legalized, the lives of prostitutes have not changed after legalization. In order to gain full access to the workers’ rights, the prostitutes must state that they are prostitutes, and that record remains on thei
Social AffairsJune 29, 2011
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N.K. discharges water from border dam without warning
North Korea opened the floodgates of the Hwanggang Dam Monday night without warning, sending a wall of water across the border, Seoul sources said Wednesday. In September 2009, the North released about 40 million cubic meters of water from the dam into the Imjin River near the border. Water flow down from Chunchen Dam on Wednesday after officials opened floodgates in response to heavy rains that h
North KoreaJune 29, 2011
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S. Korea to selectively permit investors to visit N. Korea
The government will selectively allow South Korean business professionals to visit North Korea for checks on their past investments there, an official said Wednesday, amid a prolonged suspension of trade with the communist state following its deadly attack on a Southern naval ship last year.For business purposes, these individuals will also be allowed to meet their North Korean counterparts in a t
North KoreaJune 29, 2011
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Obama clears hurdle to FTAs with Korea, Colombia, Panama
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) -- U.S. President Barack Obama has reached a deal with congressional Republicans on the terms of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program, clearing a major obstacle to the ratification of bilateral trade pacts with Korea, Colombia and Panama, the White House announced Tuesday."As a result of extensive negotiations, we now have an agreement on the underlying terms for
PoliticsJune 29, 2011