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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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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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[Weekender] How DDP emerged as an icon of Seoul
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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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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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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Students arrested for starting forest fire
(Yonhap News)Two students in Busan were arrested Sunday on charges of causing a forest fire, police said on Monday.According to the Busan Haeundae Police, a 15-year-old high school freshman, surnamed Yoon, attempted to burn his old test sheets with a friend. Police said Yoon did this as a “ceremony” to make a new resolution for his high school life, as his grades during his middle school years wer
Social AffairsMarch 29, 2011
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Divided Koreas hold their first-ever volcano talks
In a rare scene of cooperation, the two Koreas began a meeting of geology experts Tuesday to gauge the potential threat of a volcanic eruption at a mountain considered sacred by both sides.The meeting, which took place in this western South Korean border town of Munsan, came amid heightened concerns over natural disasters in the wake of a killer earthquake and ensuing tsunami that have driven neig
North KoreaMarch 29, 2011
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Traces of radioactive iodine detected in Seoul
Traces of radioactive iodine have been detected in Seoul and a few other areas of South Korea following the nuclear crisis in quake-stricken Japan, a state-run nuclear safety agency said Tuesday. The Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS) said that it started to analyze materials taken from the air in 12 places across the nation Monday and detected traces of radioactive iodine-131 in the at
Social AffairsMarch 29, 2011
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Activists to fly anti-N.K. balloons next month
Leftist groups to hold separate demonstration at Imjingak near borderSouth Korean activists said Monday they have asked the government to approve their plan to fly anti-North Korea propaganda balloons across the border ahead of the birthday of the communist state’s late founder. It is the first time for rightist groups here to officially notify the government of the propaganda activity that has lo
North KoreaMarch 28, 2011
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Seoul vows stern steps over Japan’s claims to Dokdo
South Korea will act sternly should Japan move to strengthen its claims to Seoul’s easternmost islets of Dokdo in its reviewed middle school textbooks, the Foreign Ministry here said Monday. Tokyo is currently conducting a review of its history, geography and other middle school textbooks, the result of which is expected to be unveiled this week. The renewed textbooks are believed to contain Japan
Foreign AffairsMarch 28, 2011
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Chung to remain on political stage
Former prime minister to keep job as head of shared growth panelFormer Prime Minister Chung Un-chan said Monday he will continue to lead a nongovernmental panel for mutual growth of small and large companies a week after writing to President Lee Myung-bak offering to quit. Chung’s decision comes after he, the ruling party’s coveted potential election candidate, received a “response” of some sort f
PoliticsMarch 28, 2011
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Hongik University to open campus in U.S.
Hongik University, one of the leading higher-educational institutes in arts, will establish a campus in California to give its students the opportunity to study abroad and open their eyes to the broader world, the school said Monday. The move follows the recently announced guidelines of the Education Ministry allowing establishment of overseas campuses of educational facilities.Hongik said they ch
Social AffairsMarch 28, 2011
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Korean classes added for migrant families
Children of migrant families will be given the chance to learn Korean through an after-school program, Seoul Metropolitan Government said Monday.Hoping to ease the children’s transition into the culture, officials have established the program in elementary schools in districts with a high ratio of foreigners.The program includes lessons on Korean culture in order to raise the effectiveness of lear
Social AffairsMarch 28, 2011
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Court receivership period to be shortened: official
The period of court receivership for bankrupt companies is to be reduced from several years to a minimum of six months, according to officials Monday.The Seoul District Court’s bankruptcy division will implement a “fast track” policy to reduce unnecessary downtime, allowing companies to return to the market sooner.Through the policy, the court hopes to put previously insolvent corporations into th
Social AffairsMarch 28, 2011
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Red Cross’ Japan aid exceeds W20b
The National Red Cross has collected a record 20 billion won to aid Japan’s quake victims, the highest sum ever raised here to help victims of a natural disaster.The organization said donations totaled 21.3 billion won ($19.1 million) as of Saturday, breaking the previous record of 19.3 billion won collected for the victims of Hurricane Katrina in the U.S. in 2005. The Katrina fund was collected o
Social AffairsMarch 28, 2011
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Korea tightens radiation surveillance
Move comes after officials detect radioactive traces from JapanThe Korean government has decided to tighten its monitoring of radiation levels after minuscule amounts of a radioactive material from Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant was detected here for the first time Sunday.“We will collect and test water and creature samples in 20 areas near Uleungdo, Dokdo, waters south of Jeju and other sou
Social AffairsMarch 28, 2011
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S. Korea to discuss countermeasures for Japan's textbook claims to Dokdo
South Korea plans to hold an inter-agency meeting Monday to discuss responses in case Japan renews its territorial claims to the South's easternmost islets of Dokdo in a series of new middle school textbooks, official said. The meeting of officials from the foreign ministry, the Prime Minister's Office and the education ministry will discuss bolstering Seoul's territorial control of the rocky
PoliticsMarch 28, 2011
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S. Korean teens' social skills among worst in world: report
South Korea's teenagers are among the worst in the world when it comes to getting along with others, a report showed Sunday, reflecting the country's educational emphasis on knowledge, not interaction.South Korean teens scored an average of 0.31 out of 1.0 for social interaction skills, ranking the country 35th out of 36 nations that took part in the survey, according to the report by the Korean E
Social AffairsMarch 28, 2011
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Russia permanently switches clocks to summer time
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia permanently switched its clocks to summer time on Sunday in a change backed by President Dmitry Medvedev, who has said people and even cows suffer stress from getting up at a different time.The move means that Moscow will be permanently four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) but experts said people suffer no ill effects from changing clocks and questioned the need for
InternationalMarch 27, 2011
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[Herald Interview] Smokers face uphill battle in Supreme Court
Will smokers be compensated for the cancer they develop after smoking cigarettes for decades without knowing its harms?Moreover, will the court find tobacco firms guilty of selling carcinogens without appropriate warnings?The answers now depend on the Supreme Court justices as six smokers and 25 of their relatives have filed a suit against KT&G, the tobacco manufacturer here, over the prevalence o
Social AffairsMarch 27, 2011
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More efforts needed to curb smoking
It is an 8.5 centimeter-long and 0.8 centimeter-thick dried herb stick wrapped in white paper, slim enough to fit between your second and third fingers. But it contains at least 250 harmful chemicals, more than 50 of which cause cancers of the mouth, head, lung, breast, bladder, stomach and other parts of the body. It is also linked to coronary heart disease and many other fatal disorders. It is s
Social AffairsMarch 27, 2011
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Korean teens lack social skills: report
Koreans came last in an international youth survey in terms of social skills, a state research institute reported Sunday.According to the National Youth Policy Institute, Korean teens on average ranked the lowest among 36 countries in terms of relationship orientation and social cooperation.The results were based on an analysis of a survey by the International Association for the Evaluation of Edu
Social AffairsMarch 27, 2011
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‘Gaeseong complex to promote N.K. reform, cut unification costs’
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― The South Korean-invested industrial complex in North Korea will eventually help promote economic and political reform in the reclusive communist state and reduce the unification cost for South Korea, a U.S. congressional report said.The Congressional Research Service report dated March 17 that was written by specialists Dick Nanto and Mark Manyin dismissed concerns over
North KoreaMarch 27, 2011
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Nuclear reactor breakdowns cost S. Korea 333 billion won
Nuclear reactor breakdowns in South Korea have cost the country 333 billion won ($299 million) over the past 10 years, a report by a state-run atomic power company showed Sunday.In the report to the National Assembly, the Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. said there were 89 malfunctions that caused reactors to go off-line temporarily from 2001 onwards.The country currently operates 21 reactors that
Social AffairsMarch 27, 2011
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‘Kim Jong-il dreamed of stoning’
GNP Rep. Chung Mong-joon reveals chat between his late father and N.K. leaderKim Jong-il has had nightmares at times in which his people threw stones at him, Rep. Chung Mong-joon of the ruling Grand National Party said Sunday, citing his father’s private conversations with the North Korean leader.His remarks indicated that Kim was aware of the growing discontent among his people, who have long suf
PoliticsMarch 27, 2011