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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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[Grace Kao] Hybe vs. Ador: Inspiration, imitation and plagiarism
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Samsung chief bolsters ties with Germany’s Zeiss
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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China outpaces Korea in smaller OLED shipments for 1st time
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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Korea expands travel warning in Kenya
Korea has imposed a travel warning on an expanded area in Kenya amid growing safety risks from terror attacks and crimes, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.In a press release, the ministry said that it has additionally designated some areas in Kenya bordering Somalia as subject to its "red" travel warning. A red alert is the third-highest of a four-tier travel warning system under which people are advised either not to travel to or to leave the country where the warning is imposed.A red alert
June 29, 2016
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Mother of dead toddler charged for negligence
The mother of a 3-year-old toddler who died from being thrown against a wall was booked for violation of children’s welfare law on Wednesday. Gangwon Province Chuncheon Police said she is accused of conniving in the cohabiting man’s abuse against her son. Jeong (Yonhap)The 23-year-old mother surnamed Noh came to live with the 33-year-old surnamed Jeong on May 17, after meeting him over a chatting application. While Noh worked at night, Jeong stayed at home and looked after the child. He was tak
June 29, 2016
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'Legal loophole behind rise in underage prostitution’
The number of prostitution involving minors abruptly rose in the recent five years, according to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family data, with a lawmaker pointing to apparent loopholes in the criminal law as an indirect cause, Wednesday.The ministry’s data on sexual misdemeanors targeting underage children showed an increase in the number of court cases from 14 in 2011 to 258 in 2014. (Yonhap)The total number of reported victims came to 566 over the cited period, among which 48 percent
June 29, 2016
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Korea, Japan fail to reach fisheries agreement
Bilateral talks between Korea and Japan to renew their fisheries agreement have fallen through, a failure that will keep the countries' fishing boats out of each other's exclusive waters for the time being, the Seoul government said Wednesday.Starting at the beginning of next month, Korean fishing ships will be prohibited from entering Japan's exclusive economic zone, with their Japanese counterparts also kept away from the Korean EEZ, according to the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries.Those curr
June 29, 2016
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Seoul City to run tourist bus between DDP, Olympic Park
The Seoul city government will open a new tour bus route that will cover the eastern part of the capital, officials said on Wednesday. Set to launch on Friday, the latest Seoul City Tour Bus will run between Dongdaemun Design Plaza in eastern Seoul and Olympic Park in the southeastern part of the city with a total of 10 stops.With the new route, foreign visitors will be able to stop by the rising shopping venues and landmarks in the eastern half of the city such as DDP, Seoul Forest, downtown Ko
June 29, 2016
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Sales at department stores, outlets dip in May
Korea's major department stores and discount chains saw their sales decrease in May from a year earlier due to reduced holidays, government data showed Wednesday.The combined sales of three department stores -- Hyundai, Lotte and Shinsegae -- fell 2.7 percent on-year last month, while those of major discount stores E-Mart, Lotte Mart and Home Plus retreated 6.3 percent, according to the data compiled by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. A large shopping mall on the northern outskirts o
June 29, 2016
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Lotte Duty Free expands main branch in downtown Seoul
Lotte Duty Free, Korea's largest duty-free operator, said Wednesday it has expanded its main branch in downtown Seoul, as part of efforts to make up for a sales shortfall from its other outlet in downtown Seoul which closed upon its license expiration. The main branch in Lotte Department Store in Myeongdong renovated the food court on the 12th floor into duty-free space to accommodate more cosmetic and perfume brands and reopened last week. Lotte Duty Free said it aims to raise 2.78 trillion won
June 29, 2016
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[Graphic News] Koreans most sleep deprived in Asia-Pacific
South Koreans get the least sleep among those in Asia-Pacific, according to a healthy living index by life insurance group AIA.The study showed that Koreans on average slept 6.3 hours per night, which was less than the Asia-Pacific average of 6.9 hours. However, Koreans actually want to sleep 7.5 hours every night. Also, 74 percent of Koreans were dissatisfied with their weight and they on average wanted to lose 7.2 kilograms. A relatively high proportion of Koreans, 31 percent, was also skippin
June 28, 2016
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Korean city eyes bidding for int'l coffee body headquarters
The Korean city of Yongin has been pushing ahead with a project to bid for the headquarters of the main intergovernmental body for coffee, the Yongin municipal government said Tuesday.The municipality, just south of Seoul, said it will coordinate with agriculture and foreign ministries and the Gyeonggi provincial government over its plan to put the secretariat of the International Coffee Organization in an industrial complex that the city is set to complete by May next year.Set up in 1963 under
June 28, 2016
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Prosecutors confirm death of Korea's most notorious conman
Prosecutors confirmed Tuesday that the mastermind behind the country's largest-ever fraud case died in 2011, wrapping up their two-year-long investigation.The Daegu District Prosecutors' Office said Cho Hee-pal died of an acute myocardial infarction in Weihai, China in December 2011, confirming the police's announcement made earlier in 2012. He fled to the neighboring country in 2008 when an investigation was launched.He is suspected of orchestrating a 5 trillion won ($4.2 billion) fraud scheme,
June 28, 2016
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Ministry plans drug vending machines
The South Korean government said Tuesday that it will propose a revision bill to the current pharmaceutical law, in order to enhance the availability of medicine and first-aid medical supplies to citizens.The Ministry of Health and Welfare said they are preparing to propose the revision by Aug. 28. If the bill passes, pharmacists will be allowed to install medicine vending machines in front of their pharmacies.The Pharmaceutical Affairs Act states in Article 50 that an owner or a seller who runs
June 28, 2016
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'How to be a good father': Ministry publishes parenting guide for men
As part of its efforts to encourage young fathers to actively participate in child care and eventually boost the nation’s low fertility rate, the South Korean government has come up with a parenting guidebook for fathers-to-be.The booklet, which looks like a notepad, consists of practical tips for men during and after their partners’ pregnancies, including what to bring to the delivery room, how to take care of children up to the age of 5 and things like how the sound of rubbing plastic bags can
June 28, 2016
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Campaigners, experts blast use of police water cannons
Foreign and local experts from human rights organizations and academia addressed on Tuesday the danger of the use of water cannons by South Korean police at street rallies and called for better protection of human rights in keeping the public order. An association of human rights organizations investigating the use of police force in last year’s antigovernment rallies held a symposium in Seoul, bringing together a former German judge, a British campaigner and Korean activists and scholars.The ev
June 28, 2016
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Seoul ranks 3rd in int'l meeting cities last year
Seoul played host to 494 international meetings in 2015, ranking third in the list of international meeting cities worldwide, the Seoul metropolitan government said Tuesday, citing a report by a Brussels-based research institute.The 2015 international meetings statistics report, compiled by the Union of International Associations, showed that the Korean capital clinched record-high results, up two notches from the previous year.It also achieved the goal of becoming the world's third-ranked city
June 28, 2016
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22 men arrested five years after gang rape
Twenty-two men have been arrested or face investigation for the gang rape of two girls five years ago, the police said Tuesday. According to the Seoul Dobong Police, the men are accused of attacking two middle school students in September 2011, when they were high school students. (Yonhap)The accused reportedly discovered the underage victims drinking alcohol and threatened to report them to school authorities. According to police, a few days after the encounter, a group of 10 suspects summoned
June 28, 2016
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Sulfuric acid leaks, injures 6 construction workers in Ulsan
About a thousand liters of sulfuric acid leaked from the construction site of a smelter factory in the country's industrial city of Ulsan Tuesday, injuring six workers, firefighters said.The incident took place at around 9:15 a.m. at a factory owned by Korea Zinc Inc., the country's largest zinc smelter, some 414 kilometers southeast of Seoul.The chemical at some 70 percent concentration leaked as six workers were disassembling pipes for maintenance. All six are suffering from burns, with three
June 28, 2016
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Female employment rate inches up in 2015
Korean women's employment rate edges up 0.4 percentage point last year to represent a rising female economic participation trend in the country, government data showed Tuesday.The employment rate of South Korean women reached 49.9 percent in 2015, up from 49.5 percent a year earlier, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea. That of men, meanwhile, fell to 71.1 percent from 71.4 percent over the cited period.As a result, the gap between men and women narrowed to 21.2 percentage points
June 28, 2016
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Korea lags behind Japan in senior employment rate
The employment rate of Koreans in their late 50s and early 60s is far lower than that of its neighbor Japan due to a lack of policy measures to help them find jobs, a report said Tuesday.As of 2015, the employment rate for Koreans aged 55 to 59 came to 70.6 percent, compared with 83.4 percent for Japan, according to the report by Hyundai Research Institute.The rate for Korean citizens aged 60 to 64 stood at 59.4 percent, also lower than Japan's 62.2 percent. However, the figure for those aged 65
June 28, 2016
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National pension covers some 4 mln people monthly
Korea's state pension program provides coverage to approximately 4 million people monthly, with the number of recipients and pension payments growing steadily, data showed Tuesday.The state pension program was introduced in 1988 to guarantee income for the elderly after retirement and to provide coverage for disabilities and surviving family members.According to the data by the National Pension Service, 3.98 million senior Koreans receive a combined payment of 1.4 trillion won ($1.19 billion) pe
June 28, 2016
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Korea's int'l air passenger traffic grows 4.4% in May
Korea's air passenger traffic continued to rise at a steady pace in May on strong increases in both international and domestic passengers, government data showed Tuesday.International passengers to and from the country climbed 4.4 percent on-year to 5.68 million, according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.Domestic air passenger traffic gained 5.3 percent from the same month last year to 2.73 million. The increase in international passengers was partly attributed to a rise in
June 28, 2016