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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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S. Korean children, teens grow taller, mature faster than before: study
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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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Army takes group action against Hybe for neglecting BTS
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Some junior doctors are returning: Health Ministry
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Ador CEO's request for exclusive right to terminate NewJeans' contract with Hybe refused in February
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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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Naver will consider company benefits in deciding on selling Line shares: CEO
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Woman dangling from power lines rescued by residents holding blanket
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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Defense ministry slams Catholic priest for remarks on N. Korea
The defense ministry lashed out at a Catholic priest Sunday for defending North Korea in its attacks against South Korea three years ago, saying his remarks were an affront to the military and the victims' families.Park Chang-sin, a senior Catholic priest, claimed during a sermon on Friday that North Korea should open fire if South Korea and the United States continue to hold joint military exercises near the South's western maritime border with the North, called the Northern Limit Line (NLL).He
Nov. 24, 2013
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Political parties at odds over Catholic mass calling for president's resignation
Rival political parties on Saturday wrangled over a special mass organized by the left-leaning Catholic Priests' Association for Justice that called for the resignation of President Park Geun-hye.The gathering held at the southwestern city of Gunsan demanded that Park take responsibility for the alleged intervention in last year's presidential race by the country's spy agency.The ruling Saenuri Party lashed out at the priests by pointing out that they are effectively rejecting the legitimacy of
Nov. 23, 2013
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Catholic priests hold mass to demand president's resignation
More than 400 people attended a special mass held by Catholic priests on Friday urging President Park Geun-hye to step down, just hours after the presidential office expressed displeasure at their move.Members of the left-leaning Catholic Priests' Association for Justice gathered in the southwestern city of Gunsan for the mass demanding Park take responsibility for the state agencies' alleged intervention in last year's presidential race to sway the election in her favor. "We can only conclude t
Nov. 22, 2013
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Korea sends another $20m to the Philippines
Seoul officials on Friday announced plans to send an additional $20 million in aid to the typhoon-ravaged Philippines.The assistance will come in the form of Official Development Assistance funds, to be dealt out across three years beginning in 2014.Specific schemes for the money’s use have not been set, but the Korea International Cooperation Agency, which handles aid programs to foreign countries, will use it for reconstruction work in the Southeast Asian nation. According to Seoul’s Foreign M
Nov. 22, 2013
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Korea, Laos to bolster resources cooperation
President Park Geun-hye held summit talks with visiting Lao President Choummaly Sayasone on Friday, where they agreed to expand development aid for wider Korean advancement into the natural-resource-abundant Southeast Asian country.This was the first visit by the president of Laos to South Korea since the two countries rekindled diplomatic ties in 1995. The relations, initially forged in 1974, were severed in 1975 upon Laos’ communization.The two leaders agreed that mutual cooperation would furt
Nov. 22, 2013
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N. Korea calls on China to return escapees
North Korea called on China Friday to return its citizens who were caught trying to flee to another country, and denounced South Korea and the United States for trying to lure and kidnap its people.The spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) said Pyongyang has urged the "related country" to reject anti-DPRK actions being pursued by Seoul and Washington, and return its citizens according to international law. DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of K
Nov. 22, 2013
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Seoul plans to send troops to typhoon-hit Philippines
The Seoul government seeks to send hundreds of troops to help the Philippines rebuild after the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan, one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit the archipelago state.At a security policy coordination meeting on Thursday, senior government officials made the decision to dispatch military engineering and medical personnel, which requires approval from the Cabinet and the National Assembly.On Wednesday night, the Philippines made the request for the troop dispatch via
Nov. 21, 2013
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[Newsmaker] Lists highlight record-keeping negligence
Korea’s inefficient record keeping system has come under the spotlight again with the discovery of decades-old documents at its embassy in Tokyo, which contain details of nearly 230,000 colonial-era Korean victims. In June, embassy officials discovered two dust-covered boxes containing lists of those killed after the March 1, 1919 independence movement, and the 1923 earthquake in Kanto, Japan. The lists, compiled in the 1950s, had been sitting in a backroom and only discovered during the process
Nov. 21, 2013
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Presidential official dismissed for accepting gift certificate
A presidential staffer has been removed from his post recently after he was found to have been entertained with golf and accepted a gift certificate from businesses, an official said Thursday.The ex-staffer, who had worked under the senior economic affairs secretary, was sent back to his original ministry about a month ago after the misconduct was uncovered during a routine disciplinary inspection, the official said on the condition of anonymity.The gift certificate was found in his desk drawer,
Nov. 21, 2013
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Prosecution finds more evidence of online NIS election activity
The prosecution announced Thursday that National Intelligence Service agents posted around 1.21 million tweets with the intention of swaying last year’s parliamentary and presidential elections.The additional findings are expected to intensify the on-going political clash over the state agencies’ suspected illegal electioneering in favor of then-ruling Saenuri Party candidate, President Park Geun-hye.A special investigation team of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said that all the
Nov. 21, 2013
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Saenuri race to challenge Seoul mayor heats up
The race within the ruling Saenuri Party to challenge incumbent Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon is heating up months ahead of next year’s election.Winning the Seoul mayoral election ― often called a “miniature presidential race” ― is considered the most crucial task in the local elections in June, when new mayors, governors, educational superintendents, and local council members across the country will be picked simultaneously.“As Seoul is the capital and less swayed by regionalism, the outcome of the
Nov. 20, 2013
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[Photo News] Warm hearted
Nov. 20, 2013
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Park’s insistence on welfare pick adds fuel to political feud
The already fraught relations between the ruling and opposition parties appear likely to deteriorate, with President Park Geun-hye expected to push through her appointments for prosecutor general and welfare minister.On Tuesday, the presidential office asked the National Assembly to provide confirmation hearing reports on Minister of Health and Welfare-nominee Moon Hyung-pyo and Prosecutor General-nominee Kim Jin-tae by Wednesday. If the reports are not sent to the presidential office by the req
Nov. 20, 2013
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‘North Korea appears at a level to build uranium-based bombs’
Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin said Wednesday that North Korea appears to have reached a technological level to build uranium-based atomic bombs, which threatens regional peace and stability.During a parliamentary interpellation session, the minister also said Pyongyang is thought to be currently “test-operating” its nuclear reactor in the Yongbyon complex rather than having resumed its full-scale operation.“We are keeping close tabs on North Korean movements to find out whether they would restar
Nov. 20, 2013
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Kim Jong-un ordered propaganda war against Park gov't: official
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was found to have ordered an intensified propaganda war against the Park Geun-hye administration last month in a possible policy shift, a South Korean government official said Wednesday.The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said South Korean authorities picked up intelligence that Kim ordered Kim Yang-gon, the head of United Front Department of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, to lash out at Park and her government.The United Front and its head
Nov. 20, 2013
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Seoul urges Japan's repentance after discovery of new victims lists
Japan should be fully aware of its misdeeds during its imperialistic period, South Korea's foreign ministry said Tuesday, following the discovery of fresh records on Korean victims during Japan's colonial rule. The South Korean Embassy in Japan recently found a few dozen lists containing the identities of South Koreans victimized in a nationwide independence movement in 1919 and in Japan's massacre of Koreans after the 1923 earthquake in Kanto, Japan. The new records, filed in the 1950s by t
Nov. 19, 2013
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2 S. Korean prisoners transferred home from China
Two convicted South Korean prisoners in China have recently been transferred to serve out their remaining sentences in their homeland under a prisoner transfer agreement between the two countries, officials said Tuesday. The two, aged 61 and 69, were sent from a prison in the northeast Chinese city of Shenyang to South Korea last week, according to officials at the Korean Consulate General in Shenyang.The prisoners, whose identities were withheld, have been serving time for drug-related crim
Nov. 19, 2013
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Korea unveils new lists of victims of colonial Japan
The Seoul government on Tuesday disclosed newly found lists of nearly 230,000 Korean victims of massacre and forced labor during Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule.The revelation shed new light on Japan’s past brutalities and is expected to spark further disputes between the two countries over Japanese apologies and compensation.The National Archives of Korea released the lists of those who were killed during the March 1 independence movement in 1919 and in an alleged massacre by the Japanese after a
Nov. 19, 2013
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Korea, Kyrgyzstan agree to boost energy ties, aid
President Park Geun-hye and visiting President Almazbek Atambaev of the Kyrgyz Republic held summit talks Tuesday and agreed to bolster bilateral exchanges in energy and trade, and support enhanced regional ties among Eurasian countries.Atambaev is the first Central Asian head of state to visit the Park administration, which is a boost for Seoul’s drive to implement a Eurasia initiative by creating a logistics chain from Busan to Europe through Central Asian countries, China and Russia, Cheong W
Nov. 19, 2013
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Saenuri’s Chung questioned over summit transcript leak
The ruling Saenuri Party’s Rep. Chung Moon-hun was questioned on Tuesday over his involvement in the alleged leak of the 2007 inter-Korean summit transcript. Chung was the first lawmaker to claim that late President Roh Moo-hyun conceded the Northern Limit Line, the de facto inter-Korean maritime border, to deceased North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. Chung’s claim, first made on Oct. 8, has led to the launch of three separate investigations by the prosecution. Chung will be questioned on whether h
Nov. 19, 2013