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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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Hopes rise for possible Gaza truce deal
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Ex-pro baseball player who killed debtor appeals sentence
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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Presidential candidates continue rallying camps
Major presidential candidates are set to finalize the lineup of their campaign teams this week as they strive to secure figures influential and popular enough to win over voters outside of their traditional support bases. Rep. Moon Jae-in of the main opposition Democratic United Party on Wednesday appointed a number of celebrity artists and civic activists to his camp.Rep. Park Geun-hye of the ruling Saenuri Party took the day off for last-minute deliberation in deciding her election committee c
Oct. 3, 2012
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Park gains on Ahn, passes Moon
The presidential race tightened after the Chuseok holidays as the ruling Saenuri Party’s nominee Park Geun-hye boosted her approval rating, closing the gap with Ahn Cheol-soo, who struggled to quell controversy over tax dodging and plagiarism allegations.According to a poll conducted on Monday by Media Research and the Chosun Ilbo, Park gained on Ahn in a two-way matchup to within the margin of error, with 44.7 percent to 47.4 percent.A week before Chuseok, the right-wing candidate had lost mome
Oct. 2, 2012
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Giant of newspapers took stand for press freedom
It is perhaps fitting that the man largely responsible for reviving the fortunes of the U.S.’ most iconic newspaper should pass away at a time of such uncertainty over the future of the medium itself.Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, the former publisher and chairman of the New York Times who died on Saturday aged 86, appreciated that the financial realities of business applied even in the idealistic world of journalism. Upon taking the helm of the title in 1963, Sulzberger, whose grandfather had purchase
Oct. 2, 2012
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Parliamentary audit both boon, challenge to candidates
With the Chuseok holiday behind them, the three leading presidential candidates braced for the parliamentary audit of the government, a key political event coming up later this week, while scrambling to find star figures to fill key posts in their teams. The trio ― Park Geun-hye of the Saenuri Party, Moon Jae-in of the Democratic United Party and independent Ahn Cheol-soo ― all got back on the campaign trail Tuesday, with a bunch of new polls suggesting a tighter race. Park, the conservative Sae
Oct. 2, 2012
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S. Korea presses Japan on wartime sexual slavery at U.N.
Kim Sung-hwan, Foreign Minister of Korea, addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Friday. (AP-Yonhap)In a thinly-veiled swipe at Japan, South Korea's top diplomat urged the world to make utmost efforts to end "wartime sexual violence" and exhorted any offender to face "the dark side of its history and rectify past wrongdoings." Addressing the U.N.
Sept. 29, 2012
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Libya attackers linked to Al-Qaeda: U.S.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The U.S. intelligence community said Friday that a deadly assault on a US consulate in Libya was a planned attack linked to Al-Qaeda but it stressed that "many unanswered questions" remained."It remains unclear if any group or person exercised overall command and control of the attack, and if extremist group leaders directed their members to participate," Shawn Turner, spokesman
Sept. 29, 2012
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Ahn faces new ethics questions
Additional suspicions were raised about independent presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo on Friday that could seriously damage his upright image that has gained him the support of young and liberal voters.Local TV media and newspapers reported that the rookie politician dodged tax-paying duties, took credit for research work that was not his own and received a high salary even after he left the management of his computer virus developer Ahn Lab.Fresh allegations were raised a day after Ahn made
Sept. 28, 2012
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DUP’s Park Jie-won indicted on bribery
Prosecutors on Friday indicted without arrest the main opposition Democratic United Party’s floor leader Rep. Park Jie-won on charges of receiving 80 million won ($71,000) from two savings banks between 2008 and 2011.The Central Investigation Department of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office said Park is suspected of receiving 20 million won of illegal political funds from Im Seok, president of Solomon Saving Bank, around March 2008. Park is also suspected to have received around 30 million won each
Sept. 28, 2012
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Candidates get tactical on Moon-Ahn alliance
As the presidential race picks up speed, the war of nerves over the potential alliance between presidential candidates Moon Jae-in of the Democratic United Party and independent Ahn Cheol-soo is escalating.Both Moon and Ahn, for the time being, are focused on securing the upper hand in the would-be alliance. The aides of the ruling Saenuri Party’s presidential candidate Rep. Park Geun-hye, on the other hand, are stepping up their vilification of the opposition.Various methods are being weighed f
Sept. 28, 2012
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Seoul ups pressure on Japan over Dokdo, colonial atrocities
Japan has double standard over Dokdo and Senkaku islands: KimSeoul has ratcheted up pressure on Japan to give up its claim over Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo and properly recognize its colonial atrocities during the U.N. General Assembly in New York this week.Korea’s Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan on Thursday reiterated Seoul’s concern over Tokyo’s unapologetic stance during his meeting with Japan’s Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba on the sidelines of the assembly.“We delivered our stance o
Sept. 28, 2012
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DUP floor leader indicted without detention on bribery charges
Rep. Park Jie-won, the floor leader of the main opposition Democratic United Party (DUP), was indicted without detention on Friday on suspicion of accepting illegal campaign funds from two troubled savings banks, prosecutors said.Park, who served as a chief of staff under the late former President Kim Dae-jung, is suspected of receiving a combined total of 80 million won (US$72,000) from the heads
Sept. 28, 2012
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Ahn apologizes for wife’s tax-dodging
Ahn Cheol-soo apologized for tax-dodging by his wife related to a real estate contract in an effort to contain a burgeoning scandal at odds with his pledges to tackle tax evasion. The presidential candidate nevertheless came to face the public’s growing suspicion that some other financial irregularity allegations against him may also be true.A local online newspaper reported on Wednesday that Kim Mi-kyung, Ahn’s wife and a medical professor at Seoul National University, misrepresented the purcha
Sept. 27, 2012
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Officials from all parties in N. Korea nuclear talks meet
DALIAN, China (Yonhap News) ― Senior officials from the six nations involving in stalled talks on North Korea’s nuclear program gathered Thursday at an annual security conference here, where long-standing tensions over the North’s nuclear ambition are likely to top the agenda, a diplomatic source said. The Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue drew government officials and civilian experts from South Korea, North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia to this eastern Chinese port city o
Sept. 27, 2012
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N. Korea sharply increases training flights of fighter jets
North Korea’s air force has sharply increased training flights of its fighter jets since July, with the number of sorties reaching as many as 100 a day, a government source said Thursday.The move is uncommon because North Korean pilots usually focus on ground training in summer.The communist nation is also showing signs of large-scale artillery exercises along its west coast, and activity of small submarines has also increased, the source said.These moves could be part of the North’s attempt to
Sept. 27, 2012
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Korea to send peacekeeping troops to South Sudan
South Korea’s National Assembly on Thursday authorized sending about 300 military personnel to South Sudan on a peacekeeping mission that will last until the end of 2013, officials said. Since last year, South Korea has taken steps to join the U.N. Mission in South Sudan, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the newly independent African nation. The Korean peacekeeping unit, consisting mostly of engineers and some medics, will be dispatched to South Sudan at the end of this year or early next year,
Sept. 27, 2012
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Japan set for tougher territorial stance
Security hawk Abe likely to retake power with tough foreign policy pledgesJapan is expected to take on a tougher stance in its long-festering territorial rows with South Korea and China as a hawkish leader of its main opposition party is seen likely to take its premiership in elections expected within months.Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday returned to the helm of the Liberal Democratic Party, pledging to make Japan a “strong nation” ― remarks highlighting his conservative, national
Sept. 27, 2012
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Ahn apologizes for wife's alleged tax evasion in apartment
Independent presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo apologized Thursday over allegations his wife evaded paying around 10 million won (US$8,940) in taxes by under-reporting the price of an apartment she bought in 2001.The apology came one day after local media reported allegations that Ahn's wife, Kim Mi-kyung, did not report the correct price of an apartment she bought in southeastern Seoul by at le
Sept. 27, 2012
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Police assign officers to protect independent presidential candidate Ahn
Police said Thursday they have assigned a security detail of about 10 officers to independent presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo, the same level of protection given to candidates of major political parties.The National Police Agency said the bodyguards were sent on assignment Wednesday after two weeks of specialized training and will guard the candidate around the clock until the Dec. 19 polls.T
Sept. 27, 2012
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Liberal presidential candidates call for extending voting hours on election day
South Korea's liberal presidential candidates on Wednesday called for extending the voting hours for the Dec. 19 election day so more people can cast their ballots to pick the country's new leader.The main opposition Democratic United Party (DUP) had forwarded a revision bill that would allow people to vote from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., compared to the present closing time for polls set at 6 p.m.In a com
Sept. 26, 2012
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Lee stresses military as crucial bedrock of security
President Lee Myung-bak on Wednesday underscored the need for robust military and defense reforms as the crucial “bedrock” to cope with the changing security environment in the region that is plagued by a series of intensifying territorial rows.“Although Northeast Asia has risen as a center of world politics and economy in the 21st century, the security environment has been more fluid and unstable,” he said during a ceremony to mark the Oct. 1 Armed Forces Day at the Gyeryongdae military headqua
Sept. 26, 2012