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Contentious grain bill put directly to plenary meeting for vote
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Yoon's approval rating plunges to all-time low
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Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GDP by nearly a fifth
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Trilateral talks acknowledge ‘serious’ slumps of won, yen
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North Korea removes streetlights along cross-border roads with South
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Russia's denial of entry of S. Korean national unrelated to bilateral ties: Seoul official
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S. Korea votes in favor of Palestinian bid for UN membership
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Bae Doo-na shares portraying Korean identity in Hollywood's 'Rebel Moon'
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[From the Scene] Monks, Buddhists hail return of remains of Buddhas
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Medical schools granted enrollment quota flexibility for next year
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Former education spokesman faces arrest
South Korean prosecutors have requested a preliminary arrest warrant for a former spokesman of the Education Ministry on suspicion of receiving kickbacks from a local college, officials said Thursday.Kim, 48, is believed to have received money and favors worth 60 million won ($51,000) from chairman Lee Jung-hak of Sohae College in Gusan, North Jeolla Province, according to the Jeonju District Prosecutor’s Office. Lee has been investigated for allegedly embezzling some 14.6 billion won in school
Oct. 1, 2015
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Resort island Jeju picked for 2016 Northeast Asia culture city
South Korea's resort island of Jeju has been chosen as the city that will take initiatives to boost cultural exchanges with Japan and China next year, the Culture Ministry said Thursday.The move is part of an ongoing joint cultural project in which the three Northeast Asian countries each designate a "culture city"every year to represent them through a variety of festivals and symposiums.The trilateral project was launched in 2012 after a culture ministers' meeting with the aim to boost cultural
Oct. 1, 2015
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Seven in 10 victims of ferry sinking file for gov't compensation
The government has finished the first phase of the compensation claims process for victims of last year's tragic ferry sinking, with about seven out of every 10 victims and survivors filing for damages, the government said Thursday.As of Wednesday, bereaved families of 208 victims out of the 304 killed in the tragic accident have filed for government compensation that is expected to reach 470 million won ($397,799) for each victim, according to the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries.Also, 140 out
Oct. 1, 2015
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Youth employment fund draws 1.92b won in donation
A youth employment fund proposed by President Park Geun-hye drew 1.92 billion won (US$1.62 million) from about 50,000 people in the first five days after its creation on Sept. 21, the presidential office said Wednesday. Park proposed to establish a private fund that helps create jobs for young people to supplement state programs as youth unemployment has become a serious social problem in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Park donated 20 million won and promised to give 3.2 million won, or 20 perce
Sept. 30, 2015
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Ministry to enhance crackdown on discrimination against pregnant workers
The Employment and Labor Ministry said Wednesday that it will fortify its crackdown on businesses giving unfair treatment to pregnant workers or those on parental leave by sharing relevant information with the Welfare Ministry.The Labor Ministry will receive health insurance data on pregnancies and childbirths from the Health and Welfare Ministry to use them in managing and checking businesses that wrongfully dismiss such employees or refuse to grant parental leave.The information sharing betwee
Sept. 30, 2015
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General hospitals to report child abuse cases
Medical staff and workers at general hospitals and welfare facilities for children will start to receive education on reporting cases of child abuse, the Seoul government said Wednesday.The Ministry of Health and Welfare said that a revised Child Welfare Act has been endorsed by the Cabinet to obligate all such medical and welfare facilities to educate their employees on relevant regulations and other procedures in cases of child abuse.A facility that fails to meet the requirement will be penali
Sept. 30, 2015
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Blood reserves for type B, AB, strongest
The blood reserves for type B and AB were the strongest in the country with type O being the least well-stocked, the Korean Red Cross said Tuesday.Based on the statistics gathered by the Red Cross over the past three years of blood reserves from donors, it was shown that type B had enough reserves to last 7.7 days as of August this year.It was followed by type AB with 6.6 days, A with 5.4 days and O with 4.2 days.The number of days refer to the period that the blood reserves can supply medical f
Sept. 30, 2015
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Bridging cultures, one classroom at a time
Moroccan student Amine Ammor regularly visits Korean schools once a week. Every time he explains the exotic Moroccan culture to teenage students, he sees the eyes of the students beaming with anticipation and curiosity. “At the end of the class, students give me sweet notes saying that they wish to visit Morocco someday or that they want study English better,” said the 25-year-old. Studying computer science and film at a Korean university, Ammor initially started his volunteering to raise the un
Sept. 30, 2015
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Gov't to step up measures to arrest AI spread
The government will ramp up efforts to monitor local poultry farms and the distribution network of ducks and chickens to prevent the further spread of avian influenza, officials said Wednesday.A total of seven AI outbreaks have been reported nationwide since Sept. 18, when ducks at two poultry farms, about 400 kilometers south of Seoul, tested positive for a virulent strain of bird flu.The farm ministry said a day after the Chuseok holiday that nationwide decontamination is under way with inspec
Sept. 30, 2015
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Foreigners to promote Korean culture online
Some 80 foreigners living in South Korea will act as online reporters to promote the country's culture, as part of a government program aimed at supporting multinational families, a Seoul foundation said Wednesday.The foreign residents, including foreign women who are married to South Korean men and foreign students, will have a ceremony Saturday to mark the completion of the five-month-long program, Multi Culture Network Hope Kids Ltd. said in a press release. The program was arranged by the Mi
Sept. 30, 2015
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CD display at Cheongju craft biennale sets world record
A giant display made of old CDs at the ongoing international craft biennale in the central South Korean city of Cheongju has set a Guinness World Record, organizers of the event said Wednesday.Nearly 490,000 CDs were collected from nine countries including South Korea, Japan, China and the U.S. between April and August to create a facade that covers three sides of the old tobacco processing plant in the city in North Chungcheong Province, the organizing committee of the Cheongju International Cr
Sept. 30, 2015
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Sexism still prevalent in Korean media industry
Sexism is still prevalent in both TV and print journalism in South Korea, according to a number of studies released by a local think tank. According to the studies, which monitored a total of nine TV channels and their daily news shows from Aug. 1-8, male hosts were four times more likely to open the shows by delivering the first news segment of the programs compared to their female counterparts. Also, male anchors in general were significantly older -- on average by 10 to 20 years -- than fem
Sept. 29, 2015
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Cost of Seoul travel surges
Daily travel expenses for visitors to Seoul have surged over the last year, making it one of the most expensive cities to travel in the world, a lawmaker’s report showed Tuesday. According to Rep. Park Dae-chul of the ruling Saenuri Party, the daily travel cost for foreigners visiting Seoul recorded $438 this year, ranking it as the 13th highest in the world and third in Asia. The cost includeS $310 for accommodation and $128 for food expenses. Korea Tourism Organization officials welcome Chine
Sept. 29, 2015
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S. Korean victim of Seattle bus crash dies
A South Korean exchange student died four days after being injured in a collision between a charter bus and a sightseeing tour vehicle in the U.S. city of Seattle, a Seoul official said Tuesday.The 20-year-old female died early Tuesday morning, South Korea time, raising the death toll to five in the accident that occurred on Aurora Bridge Thursday, the official said.The other four victims were students from Austria, Indonesia, Japan and China, respectively.More than 50 people were injured, inclu
Sept. 29, 2015
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Child abuse claims 12 lives, over 5,000 victims in H1: report
Child abuse claimed 12 lives and more than 5,000 victims in the first half of this year, with the full-year death toll expected to surpass that of last year, a report showed Tuesday.The report by the National Child Protection Agency showed that eight out of 10 cases of child abuse were perpetuated by parents and other close family members.The first-half death toll from child abuse is 70 percent of the 17 deaths reported for 2014.Of the 9,471 suspected cases of abuse, 5,432 were confirmed to have
Sept. 29, 2015
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20 S. Koreans injured in boat collision in Thailand
Twenty South Korean tourists were injured when their boat collided with another one in a floating market near Bangkok, officials said Saturday.The accident occurred at the Amphawa Floating Market around 7:30 p.m. Friday, when an oncoming vessel hit and went on top of the boat carrying 31 South Koreans and several other foreigners, according to officials at the South Korean Embassy in Bangkok and Seoul's Foreign Ministry.A 26-year-old South Korean woman, identified only by her last name Jeong, fr
Sept. 26, 2015
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San Francisco has heart
In the good news department, San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to install a memorial in honor of the “comfort women,” who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. The passage of the highly contested resolution was a remarkable feat, and living proof that San Francisco has heart. Lee Yong-soo (in hanbok) sits in the San Francisco Board of Supervisors chamber, where a memorial to the “comfort women” was approved unanimously Tuesday.Th
Sept. 24, 2015
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Debate brews over decriminalization of sex trade
Jang Se-hee was just 23-years-old when she started working as a sex worker. Her father had just passed away after being hospitalized for seven years. “The medical bills were just enormous,” the 40-year-old said. “My siblings were too young, and my father had divorced my mother. I was the de-facto breadwinner of the family.” Jang was one of some 1,000 South Korean sex workers who gathered in central Seoul on Wednesday asking for the abolishment of the controversial anti-prostitution law, which ha
Sept. 24, 2015
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Why elderly women are more vulnerable to colorectal cancer
Women in or post-menopause are the most vulnerable to colorectal cancer among the Korean population, while the number of female patients who develop the disease is on rise nationwide, a hospital report showed. According to the report released by the Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, colorectal cancer was the most common cancer among Korean women aged 65 or older this year. For women in all age groups, it was the third most common cancer, following breast and thyroid cancer. According to
Sept. 24, 2015
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‘Ministry fails to rein in kindergarten tuition hike’
The South Korean government has failed to take appropriate measures to suppress the billowing tuition for English kindergartens, despite its pledge to reduce the increasing costs for private education, an opposition lawmaker said Thursday.The Education Ministry rolled out sweeping measures to reduce the country’s private education spending in December, which included inducing private education institutions -- including kindergartens -- to cut their fees.“I’ve found that the ministry didn’t do so
Sept. 24, 2015