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10-man S. Korea lose to Indonesia to miss out on Paris Olympic football qualification
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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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First-ever meeting of president, opposition chief set to finally happen
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NewJeans' singles, Japanese debut to proceed as planned, despite Hybe-Ador feud
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Experts raise concerns about Japan putting pressure on Naver over Line
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Samsung mobile chief, Google device head meet in Seoul
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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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Ship linked to NK arms shipments to Russia is moored in China: State Dept.
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Parliament passes series of economic bills
The National Assembly passed nearly 100 bills on Tuesday, the final day of an extraordinary session, including one calling for restrictions on transactions between subsidiaries of conglomerates, or chaebol.The revision to the anti-monopoly and fair trade act, one of the 98 bills approved, bans chaebol from unfairly favoring their subsidiaries in awarding contracts. It is part of an "economic democratization" campaign being pushed by President Park Geun-hye's government to curb conglomerates' abu
July 2, 2013
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[Newsmaker] Beijing blames Syrians for Xinjiang carnage
Uneasy calm settled on the streets of the provincial capital city of Urumqi in the western Chinese territory of Xinjiang as paramilitary police and dozens of armored vehicles entered the region Saturday. Chinese President Xi Jinping ramped up rhetoric against separatists among Xinjiang’s Muslim Uighur minority and ordered tighter security, following at least two outbreaks of violence that claimed the lives of 35 people.Perpetrated by knife-wielding motorcycle gangs, several bloody incidents occu
July 2, 2013
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NIS, NLL fiasco eclipses Park’s policy drive
As President Park Geun-hye approaches six months in office, the high drama over the National Intelligence Service’s political interference and the Roh Moo-hyun administration’s controversial stance on the sea border with North Korea threatens to overshadow her economic policy drive.Fierce political rough-and-tumble is expected this month with the launch of a special probe into the NIS’ online smear campaign, and the disclosure of the original transcript of the 2007 inter-Korean summit talks.Whil
July 2, 2013
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Parties agree to disclose full original summit transcript
The National Assembly decided Tuesday to request the perusal and disclosure of the original version of a 2007 inter-Korean summit transcript containing late President Roh Moo-hyun’s controversial remarks on the West Sea boundary with North Korea.The ruling Saenuri Party and the main opposition Democratic Party agreed they will request the National Archives of Korea to let them access the minutes, original transcript, voice recording and all other relevant documents to get to the bottom of the sp
July 2, 2013
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Controversy deepens over summit transcript disclosure
Tensions between the ruling and main opposition parties escalated Monday as the two sides argued over whether to disclose the original version of a summit transcript containing late South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun's controversial remarks on the disputed Yellow Sea border with North Korea.Last week, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) disclosed its copy of the transcript amid the ruling Saenuri Party's claims that Roh had tried to scrap the western sea border, called the Northern Limit Li
July 1, 2013
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Park calls for expansion in China
BEIJING ― President Park Geun-hye returned from her four-day state visit to China on Sunday, bringing home a stronger partnership forged with Chinese President Xi Jinping, with reaffirmed security and political cooperation on North Korea and the region.Park also earned China’s support for two key initiatives ― the trust-building process for the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia’s peace cooperative mechanism ― as well as for a stronger push to conclude the Korea-China free trade agreement.Winni
June 30, 2013
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Pro-Roh lawmaker stakes political life on truth of NLL remarks
Moon Jae-in, an opposition party lawmaker and former chief secretary to late President Roh Moo-hyun, vowed Sunday to leave politics if Roh’s controversial remark on the inter-Korean sea border during the 2007 inter-Korean summit is proven to be true.“The confusion and the division in the public opinion should be ended through disclosing the records (kept) in the National Archives of Korea,” Rep. Moon Jae-in of the main opposition Democratic Party said in a statement. “If (the claim over) the rem
June 30, 2013
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Japan estranged as S. Korea and China improve ties
Japan appears further estranged from South Korea and China after the latter agreed last week to deepen their cooperation for peninsular denuclearization and strategic partnership in the economy, security and other areas.Ahead of the upper-house elections later this month, nationalist Japanese politicians including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have enraged Seoul and Beijing with their recent remarks and behavior that failed to atone for the country’s wartime atrocities.Becoming the first South Korea
June 30, 2013
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Park speaks Chinese for 4 minutes in university speech
President Park Geun-hye delivered a speech in both Korean and Chinese at Tsinghua University on Saturday, speaking Chinese for 20 percent of the 20-minute speech.The South Korean president kicked off her friendship address in Chinese with a saying from the ancient classic Guanzi, and then delivered the main thesis in Korean before she again spoke in Chinese to bid her wishes in front of more than 400 people including Liu Yandong, the Chinese Vice Premier.Before Park embarked on her four-day vis
June 30, 2013
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Park stretches lead at US Women's Open
World number one Park In-Bee was the only player to break par in the third round of the US Women's Open on Saturday, stretching her lead to four strokes over compatriot I.K. Kim.Park, seeking a slice of LPGA history as she chases a third major title in as many major championships this season, birdied the 18th hole at Sebonack Golf Club to cap a one-under par 71 that gave her a 10-under total of 206."I'm just going to try to do the same thing that I did for the last three days," Park said of her
June 30, 2013
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Park offers to repatriate 360 sets of remains of Chinese troops killed in Korean War
South Korean President Park Geun-hye offered Saturday to return hundreds of sets of remains of Chinese troops killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, her spokeswoman said, in a symbolic gesture of friendship toward a former battlefield foe.Park made the offer during a meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong at Beijing's Tsinghua University right before delivering a speech at the alma mater of Chinese President Xi Jinping, presidential spokeswoman Kim Haing told reporters.Kim made the announcemen
June 30, 2013
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South Korea stops anti-North leaflet launch
South Korean police on Saturday stopped a planned launch of anti-Pyongyang leaflets following a threat of violent retaliation by the North.A group of defectors from North Korea and US human rights activists had said they would use gas-filled balloons to drop 200,000 leaflets critical of Pyongyang over the tense border.But a contingent of plain-clothed policemen prevented the activists from unloading the pamphlets and other materials for the launch from a pickup truck at Imjingak, a tourist site
June 29, 2013
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Park calls for relations of 'trust' with China
President Park Geun-hye delivered a friendship address at the alma mater of Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday, calling for the two neighbors to build relations of "trust" based on the big strides they have made in just 20 years of diplomatic ties.Park began the 20-minute speech before students and faculty members at Tsinghua University in Beijing with about five minutes of greetings and opening remarks in the Chinese language, including an ancient Chinese maxim about the importance of edu
June 29, 2013
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Saenuri proposes joint declaration over NLL
The Saenuri Party proposed Friday adopting a joint declaration with the opposition to demonstrate their will to safeguard the Northern Limit Line as a territorial boundary.The main opposition Democratic Party dismissed the proposal by ruling party chief Rep. Hwang Woo-yea. Political strife has been escalating since the National Intelligence Service on Monday revealed the transcript of a 2007 inter-Korean summit. Saenuri accused former President Roh Moo-hyun of having renounced the NLL during the
June 28, 2013
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Ex-lawmaker cleared of defamation charge in BBK case
The nation's top court on Friday acquitted a former lawmaker and popular online show co-host of charges that he slandered eight state prosecutors who investigated an alleged investment scam involving former President Lee Myung-bak.Lee was at the center of a case widely known as the "BBK scandal" named after a firm set up by him and his convicted former business partner, Kim Kyoung-joon, in 2000. The scandal broke at the height of the 2007 presidential race when the Korean-American businessman cl
June 28, 2013
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Parliament extends collection of fines from former leaders
The National Assembly approved the so-called Chun Doo-hwan act that will give authorities more leverage in collecting fines from public officials including former presidents.The measures, introduced by revising the Act on Special Cases Concerning Forfeiture for Offenses by Public Officials, extend the statute of limitation for collecting fines from government officials from three to 10 years, and allow the authorities to confiscate assets held under borrowed names.The revision was approved with
June 27, 2013
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Envoy says Snowden may have options other than Ecuador
A high school dropout-turned-NSA techno whiz kid leaks details of a super-secret government program for mass surveillance on innocent Americans. Then he goes on the lam. Edward Snowden’s story could have been ripped out of the pages of a pulp fiction spy thriller.It was believed he was heading to Ecuador, the only place he officially applied for political asylum.Things changed on Monday. He missed his connecting flight out of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport to Havana, Cuba.A diplomat here with clo
June 27, 2013
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Park, Xi vow closer cooperation on N. Korea denuclearization
President Park Geun-hye and Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday affirmed intolerance toward North Korea’s nuclear programs and vowed to closely cooperate for denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.The two leaders also agreed to bolster bilateral ties with diverse security dialogue including a high-level communication channel, and speed up free-trade negotiations and mutually beneficial economic exchanges, in a joint communiqu released after their first summit talks. Park arrived in Beijing i
June 27, 2013
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DP urges Park to apologize for Saenuri’s ‘spy agency ties’
The main opposition Democratic Party on Thursday urged President Park Geun-hye to apologize over allegations that her ruling Saenuri Party had received the transcript of the 2007 inter-Korean summit from the National Intelligence Agency last year while it was still classified. “(Park) should apologize to the public as soon as she returns (from China) for the Saenuri Party’s political maneuvers during the presidential election,” DP Chairman Rep. Kim Han-gil said during a general meeting of party
June 27, 2013
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Parliament passes bill against ex-president
The National Assembly on Thursday passed a bill aimed at collecting billions of won in fines from a former president who was found to have accumulated large amounts of wealth illegally. The amendment bill calls for extending the statute of limitations on forfeiting and imposing fines on public officials' illegal wealth from three years to 10. Under the revised law, former President Chun Doo-hwan will be required to pay the remainder of his fines by October 2020, not October this year. Chun
June 27, 2013