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Ador CEO denies allegations, accuses Hybe of mistreating NewJeans
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Medical reform committee kicks off despite boycott from doctors
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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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Over 9,000 hotline calls made by stalking victims in 2023
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Monthly users on local streaming platforms outpace Netflix, Disney+
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[Hello India] Hyundai Motor vows to boost 'clean mobility' in India
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Seoul to promote luxurious side of the city
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Cabinet approves May 6 holiday
The government on Thursday approved May 6 as an extra holiday to create a four-day weekend. The temporary holiday will follow May 5, Children’s Day.The decision came after a request from the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry that cited it as a way to boost tourism and domestic consumer demand.YonhapThis is the 58th extra holiday designated by the South Korean government. The Cabinet, in a meeting presided by President Park Geun-hye, said all toll fees will be exempted on highways nationwide
April 28, 2016
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Seoul reiterates removal of comfort woman statue is not part of Dec. deal
South Korea reiterated Thursday that the removal of a statue symbolizing the victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery was not part of last year's landmark deal to settle the issue of the colonial-era wrongdoing. The statue, which civic groups erected in 2011 in front of the Japanese Embassy in central Seoul, has been at the center of a historical debate between the two countries with a senior Japanese official arguing that its removal was part of the deal."There was no promise whatsoever in t
April 28, 2016
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Second Zika case confirmed in Korea
South Korea’s health authorities confirmed the nation’s second Zika virus case on Wednesday night, identifying the patient as a 20-year-old man who lives in Nowon-gu, Seoul. According to the Health Ministry, the patient visited the Philippines from April 10-14, where infected mosquitoes bit him. He was asymptomatic until April 20, when he developed mild, cold-like symptoms including fever. He visited a local clinic in Seoul that day, but his doctor did not see him as a potential Zika virus patie
April 28, 2016
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Korea, U.S. repatriate remains of fallen soldiers from Korean War
Two United Nations flag-draped caskets were placed into an Army hearse one by one as columns of uniformed servicemen and honor guards solemnly looked on in a ceremony Thursday to repatriate the remains of South Korean and United States soldiers who were killed during the 1950-53 Korean War and excavated more than 60 years later.In the one-hour ceremony held inside the U.S. Forces Korea's Yongsan garrison in central Seoul, South Korea delivered the remains of two fallen U.S. soldiers to their hom
April 28, 2016
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Japanese activist additionally indicted over defaming Korean sex slavery victims
A Japanese right-wing activist was additionally indicted on charges of defaming former South Korean sex slavery victims, Seoul prosecutors said Thursday.Nobuyuki Suzuki, member of an ultra-right Japanese party, is suspected of sending a parcel containing a small defaced statue of a girl and a wooden post to a facility that help former sex slaves and a civic organization that supports the victims in May 2015, the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office probing the case said.The defaced 12-cent
April 28, 2016
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Stepfather arrested for beating high schooler
A stepfather who habitually beat his stepdaughter in the name of discipline was given 16 months in prison on Thursday. The 36-year-old beat the high schooler with iron bars, claiming he had only meant to discipline her for not studying enough or for sleeping in. (123RF)The Daegu court decided that the man’s use of violence went over acceptable boundaries of discipline and threatened the girl’s psychological development.While he was sentenced to 18 months in the original trial, however, the app
April 28, 2016
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Gov't designates May. 6 as temporary holiday
The government decided Thursday to designate a temporary holiday next week in an effort to boost domestic consumption that is critical for economic growth.The decision to designate May. 6 a temporary holiday was reached at the Cabinet meeting chaired by President Park Geun-hye.This would allow people to take four days off in a row next week as South Korea celebrates Children's Day on Thursday.The government said highway tolls across the country will be exempted and major palaces and other touris
April 28, 2016
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Korea ranks 10th in world in sports doping cases in ‘14: report
South Korea ranked 10th in the world in sports doping cases in 2014, an international report showed Thursday.In its 2014 Anti-Doping Rule Violations Report, the World Anti-Doping Agency said there were 43 South Korean athletes who tested positive for banned substances in 2014. It said 36 were from bodybuilding, three from swimming and one each from weightlifting, wrestling, golf and para-archery.The WADA said there were 1,693 anti-doping violations overall by athletes and athlete support personn
April 28, 2016
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Korea in the ’50s through a U.S. soldier’s eyes①
Photos of 1950s Korea taken by a former U.S soldier have been made available online by an American student Brendan Donley, whose great-uncle served in the U.S. Army after the 1950-1953 Korean War. Donley’s great-uncle, at the age of 18, made the trip from Chicago to Seattle, and then across the Pacific to Korea’s southeastern port town, Busan. There he worked to help rebuild the war-ravaged country for approximately two years. The rustic scenes captured through his camera lens during this period
April 28, 2016
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[Graphic News] Korea moves to tackle drug offenses
The South Korean government is moving to clamp down on the illegal trade of drugs particularly through the Internet and social networking services.The government released on Tuesday a set of measures to root out narcotics offenses, such as by analyzing X-ray results of express cargo items in real time. A comprehensive portal system will be established for customs officials to share information simultaneously. An agent and a detection dog will be stationed at international airports and harbors. A
April 27, 2016
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Three arrested for aiding Vietnamese women illegally enter Korea
Three Korean men were arrested Wednesday for assisting in the illegal entry of five Vietnamese women to Korea under the pretense of medical tourism. All of the women’s whereabouts are currently unaccounted for.Daegu police said that the men were responsible for bringing in young Vietnamese women in their early 20s for a brokering fee of 1.5 million won ($1,300) per head. (123RF)The men recruited the women from Vietnam, helped them obtain a fake hospital registration form and handled their visa
April 27, 2016
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Minjoo pushes for hearing on humidifier disinfectant case
The main opposition party on Wednesday announced that it would push to hold a parliamentary hearing on the toxic humidifier disinfectant case and introduce a bill aimed at offering financial support for victims.“The National Assembly should come up with its own measures to strengthen regulation on corporate misdeeds and unethical behaviors,” The Minjoo Party of Korea’s chairman Kim Chong-in said. “We urge other parties to join efforts to protect public safety,” he said. The decision comes in lig
April 27, 2016
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Training offered to migrant workers to avoid work accidents
UIJEONGBU – One Sunday afternoon last month, a support center for foreign workers in Uijeongbu, some 20 kilometers north of Seoul, was filled with some 50 migrant workers who had travelled there from factory-concentrated cities in Northern Gyeonggi Province. The foreign workers from nearly 10 Southeast Asian countries had gathered to attend a 30-minute lecture aimed at raising awareness on preventing work accidents by the state-run Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency.The program began wi
April 27, 2016
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Korea to restrict visa extension for foreigners not paying taxes
South Korean government said Wednesday that it would run a six-month pilot project to restrict foreign residents who fail to pay local taxes from extending residency visas. The Justice Ministry and Home Affairs Ministry have partnered to share foreign residents’ tax information and collect unpaid taxes totaling 74 billion won ($64 million) as of April. According to the Immigration Act, the government can revoke or change the visa status of foreigners who violate local laws. The government will r
April 27, 2016
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[FEATURE] Hard knock lives of Koreans born to U.S. soldiers
More than 50 years after her American solider father left South Korea, Jang Yeon-hee still longs to meet the parent who she has never known. “Whenever I take the subway I see a lot of foreign tourists en route to Incheon International Airport,” Jang said in an interview with The Korea Herald. “When I see such visitors I’d break down in tears. There are so many people coming in and out of this country, and yet the person who gave me my life left before I was even born and never bothered to visit
April 27, 2016
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Bird’s nest halts train for nearly an hour
The mugunghwa train that was traveling from North Jeolla Province’s Imsil-gun to Iksan-gun on Wednesday morning had to stop for about 50 minutes due to a cut in electricity supply. The cause behind the glitch was later found out to be a short circuit caused by a magpie nest built on an electricity line. (Yonhap)The incident took place around 7:20 a.m., causing delays for around 30 passengers who were mostly university students and workers setting out for the day. Korea Railroad Corporation, the
April 27, 2016
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8,000 Chinese tourists to visit Korea to taste ‘samgyetang’
A group of 8,000 employees from a Chinese company will visit South Korea next month to taste Korean traditional ginseng chicken soup, the Seoul city government said Wednesday.The largest signal tour group from Chinese health care company Joymain Science & Technology will arrive in Seoul on May 5 and May 10 in two groups on an employee incentive trip, and have a "samgyetang" dinner in central Seoul on May 6 and May 10 respectively, the Seoul Metropolitan Government said. The city government will
April 27, 2016
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'Family month’ to cost extra W390,000
Koreans will spend an average of 390,000 won ($340) extra in the month of May, a time fondly referred to as “Family month” due to its many state-designated holidays related to parents, children and teachers. Job Korea and Albamon, two major online platforms that provide information for job seekers, combined forces to run a survey targeting 2,981 people. (123RF)According to the survey results, the most financially burdensome day in May was Parents’ Day on May 8, followed distantly by Teachers’ D
April 27, 2016
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Korea to welcome Japanese tourists during Golden Week
About 83,000 Japanese are expected to visit South Korea during the Golden Week holiday, and the local hospitality scene and retailers are ready to welcome them, the state tourism agency here said Wednesday.The number of Japanese expected to visit South Korea during Golden Week, a combination of public holidays that lasts from April 25 to May 6, is up 3.1 percent from a year earlier, the Korea Tourism Organization said.The number of Japanese travelers grew 2.5 percent on-year in March, the first
April 27, 2016
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Hundreds of Chinese fishing boats catching crabs near tense inter-Korean border
A large number of Chinese fishing boats are catching crabs in waters near the Yellow Sea border between South and North Korea, the Korea Coast Guard said Wednesday, as crab season is in full swing until next month.According to the coast guard, an average of 200 Chinese fishing boats have been catching crabs every day in waters close to the Northern Limit Line, the de-facto sea border between the two Koreas.Some of them often cross into South Korean waters in search of abundant fish stocks, regul
April 27, 2016