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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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[Graphic News] 77% of young Koreans still financially dependent
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S. Korea calls on Japan to confront history amid Yasukuni Shrine visit
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Yoon’s jailed mother-in-law excluded from latest parole list
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Hybe and Min Hee-jin, CEO of Hybe sublabel Ador, lock horns
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[Pressure points] Leggings in public: Fashion statement or social faux pas?
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Yoo Jae-suk, Yoo Yeon-seok team up in 'Whenever Possible'
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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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Aging population to drive down Korea's housing prices from 2040: experts
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IOC officials to visit Korea to monitor Winter Games preparations
A team of International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials will visit South Korea this week to inspect preparations for the country's first Winter Games in two years' time, the event's organizers said Sunday.The IOC's Coordination Commission for PyeongChang 2018, headed by Gunilla Lindberg, will begin its three-day trip to Gangneung, Gangwon Province, some 230 kilometers east of Seoul, on Monday. It will be the delegation's sixth visit to South Korea.Gangneung, one of the sub-hosts of the 2018 Wi
March 13, 2016
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U.S. veteran's great-grandson says Korean War not over
Nearly seven decades ago, U.S. Marine Corps Col. Edward H. Forney helped evacuate about 98,000 Koreans during the Korean War. Now, one of his great-grandsons is here to continue that family history as a researcher studying the two Koreas and their relationship with the United States.Ben Forney, 29, recently began working at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, a private security think tank in Seoul, to assist in research mainly on North Korea and regional issues.Speaking in an interview with Y
March 13, 2016
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Uzbekistani woman nabbed for threatening Syrian with nude pic
South Korean police on Thursday caught an Uzbekistani con artist who allegedly swindled money out of a Syrian man with threats involving a nude picture of them together. The Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency requested an arrest warrant for the 28-year-old woman on charges of fraud.(Yonhap)The Uzbekistani woman, who met the 32-year-old Syrian man through a friend, allegedly blackmailed him from March to December last year, getting about 7 million won ($5,800) from him.The woman reportedly threat
March 11, 2016
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Ministry refutes legal loophole on regulating toxic detergent
Patients covered with masks wait to see doctor at a hospital in Seoul. (Yonhap)The Ministry of Environment on Friday refuted a report claiming a legislative flaw allowed the manufacturing and distribution of Oxy Reckitt Benckiser’s toxic air conditioner detergents.Oxy Reckitt Benckiser is the maker of one of the humidifier disinfectants blamed for the loss of 180 lives and lung damage to a thousand others. Its leading household brands include Oxy Ssak Ssak, Cherie and Powerclean.According to loc
March 11, 2016
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Most Koreans against hospitals admitting AIDS patients
More than 95 percent of South Koreans are against the Health Ministry‘s decision to bar geriatric hospitals from rejecting AIDS patients, the Korean Association of Geriatric Hospitals claimed Friday, citing their own research. The organization surveyed earlier this year a total of 5,627 South Koreans, including 674 family members of senior patients who needed geriatric care, as well as 996 health care workers in medical facilities that treat elderly inpatients. The research found that 95.9 per
March 11, 2016
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Korea confirms additional FMD outbreak
An additional outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has been confirmed in South Korea, rekindling concerns that the livestock disease may further spread widely, the government said Friday.Pigs at a swine farm in Nonsan in the central region of South Chungcheong Province tested positive for the highly contagious disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.The quarantine authorities have culled some 400 affected animals, and placed a tr
March 11, 2016
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Army serviceman attempts suicide in border area
A noncommissioned Army officer was seriously injured in a suspected suicide attempt near the heavily fortified border with North Korea on Friday, a military official said. The sergeant first class, whose identification was withheld, shot himself at around 10:00 a.m. at his place of duty in Yeoncheon, located midway along the Demilitarized Zone which separates the two Koreas, the official said. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, but his injury is not life-threatening, according to the offi
March 11, 2016
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Couple arrested for abusing 2-month-old daughter in South Korea
Police on Thursday arrested a couple in their 20s who are suspected of letting their 2-month-old daughter die by not taking her to the hospital after she suffered an injury at their home in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province. According to the police, the 22-year-old father is suspected of pushing the baby off the bed and leaving the injured child on the floor for more than 10 hours without getting her necessary medical attention. The infant died early Wednesday morning. Police said the father had also
March 10, 2016
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[Graphic News] Number of multicultural children reach more than 200,000
The number of multicultural children in South Korea has gone up more than eight fold from 2006 to 2015, showed a report released by the Gender Ministry and the Office for Government Policy Coordination. A multicultural child mainly refers to a child born in Korea to a Korean national and his or her foreign-born spouse. As of last year, more than 85 percent of all marriage migrants in Korea were women. The report showed that there are 208,000 individuals born to multicultural families living in
March 10, 2016
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Korea takes on labor disparity
The South Korean government mapped out its plans to curb labor market duality to build a fairer business ecosystem and toughen security at the country’s major airports in a policy meeting held Thursday. In the meeting chaired by Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, the Employment and Labor Ministry unveiled measures to root out business practices that disadvantage smaller employers and non-regular workers under the dual structure of the country’s labor market. (Yonhap)The plans are a mix of financial
March 10, 2016
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Job seekers cram for new TOEIC
Cho Hyeon-jeong, a final year college student in Seoul, spends a couple of hours daily studying for TOEIC, while working as an intern at a media company. Her goal is to get a score of over 900 out of 990 before May. “I would like to discard the TOEIC stress before the format changes. Even a little change to the test template will add more burden to job seekers like me, when having one or two questions wrong affects the overall score,” the 24-year-old said. The Educational Testing Service, which
March 10, 2016
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Seoul City to return crematorium remnants to bereaved families
Seoul City said Wednesday its city-run crematoriums will collect and return remnants from the incinerated remains of the deceased, such as melted gold teeth, upon the bereaved families’ requests.According to the civil law, remnants from the incinerated body at crematoriums belong to the bereaved families.But only a few families ask for the remnants since only a small amount of gold comes from the incineration, one of the city-run crematoriums Seung Hwa Won said. Other than gold, dentures on arti
March 10, 2016
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Calls grow to move up date of Arbor Day
President Park Geun-hye plants a tree at Cheong Wa Dae to celebrate Arbor Day in 2015. (Cheong Wa Dae)Due to constantly rising temperatures worldwide caused by global warming, South Korea’s local governments voiced concerns that National Arbor Day should be held earlier in a more suitable tree-planting season.Currently, Arbor Day falls on April 5, when nationwide tree-planting campaigns and events kick off.The Korea Forest Service, which has been hosting Arbor Day over the past 70 years, said ch
March 10, 2016
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Couple arrested for abusing 2-month-old daughter
Police on Thursday arrested a couple in their 20s who are suspected of letting their 2-month-old daughter die by not taking her to the hospital after she suffered an injury at their home in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province.According to the police, the 22-year-old father is suspected of pushing the baby off the bed and leaving the injured child on the floor for more than 10 hours without getting her necessary medical attention. The infant died early Wednesday morning. Police said the father had also in
March 10, 2016
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Korean swimming body chief to resign amid corruption scandal
The head of South Korea's top swimming governing body will submit his resignation this month following its executives' corruption scandals, a national swimming official said Thursday. According to the Korea Swimming Federation official, who asked not to be named, KSF President Lee Ki-heung said at a Tuesday meeting with executives from regional swimming federations that he will resign from his post.The 61-year-old also pushed to hold a board meeting and general assembly in Jeju on March 18 to di
March 10, 2016
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Nearly 1,400 pregnant women, families cancel trips on Zika virus fears
Nearly 1,400 pregnant women and their families in South Korea canceled their planned flights last month on growing fears over possible Zika virus infections and the number is expected to increase, the latest data showed Thursday.According to the data by major airline companies and the transportation ministry, 650 pregnant women and their families canceled their flights on Korean Air Lines Co. and 443 such customers decided against traveling overseas on Asiana Airlines Inc.When customers of Jeju
March 10, 2016
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Sexual slavery victim holds ‘Wednesday rally’ in front of Japan‘s Embassy in Washington
An elderly South Korean victim of Japan's wartime sexual slavery held a protest rally in front of Japan's Embassy in Washington on Wednesday, demanding Tokyo apologize and compensate her for her suffering.The 89-year-old victim, Kil Won-ok, attended the rally together with activists supporting her. It mirrored the 1,221st "Wednesday rally" that sexual slavery victims and activists have held in front of Japan's Embassy in Seoul weekly since 1992."It's difficult for human beings not to commit wron
March 10, 2016
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Young naturalized Koreans struggle to fit in
More than 30 percent of foreign-born South Koreans aged 15-24 are not in school and out of work, while for 58.3 percent of them, their parents had divorced before they moved to South Korea, a report released by the Gender Ministry showed Wednesday. “Foreign-born children” refers to young South Koreans who were born and grew up overseas and moved to Korea as minors, including children who were born to non-Korean citizens overseas and moved to Korea after one of their divorced parents -- usually t
March 9, 2016
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Prices soar at Seoul’s postnatal care centers
A mother is holding her newborn at a postnatal center in South Korea. (Yonhap)A two-week stay at a Seoul postnatal care center will cost an average of 3 million won ($2,500) for mothers, according to the city on Wednesday. A survey of 159 postpartum care centers in Seoul showed that the most expensive postnatal facility was located in Gangnam-gu, where mothers pay at least 600,000 won per night. The cheapest stay was available in Gangseo-gu, at 100,000 won per night.Postnatal care centers’ popul
March 9, 2016
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Amphibians in Seoul face increasing risks from bikes, pedestrians
More leisure facilities are being built near rivers and streams these days and while this benefits urban dwellers, another party is being exposed to higher risks -- more amphibians are being killed by cyclists and pedestrians, raising ecological concerns about their well-being. A bicyclist passes over the ecological corridor installed under a bike road at Yangjaecheon Stream in southern Seoul. (Lee Hyun-jeong/The Korea Herald)According to Chung-Ang University’s Green River Research Center, a la
March 9, 2016