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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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[Eye Interview] 'If you live to 100, you might as well be happy,' says 88-year-old bestselling essayist
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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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Govt. asks hospitals to mitigate impact of medical professors' absence
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S. Korea, China, Japan in talks to hold trilateral summit May 26-27: official
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Korean city to host Asia Bird Fair next year
A regional get-together of Asian birdwatchers and bird conservation bodies will take place around a river in South Korea's southeastern city of Ulsan in February next year, the Ulsan metropolitan government said Thursday.The executive committee has designated the city's Taehwa River, South Korea's biggest habitat for migratory crows, as the venue of the 2017 Asia Bird Fair over Malaysia.When Victor Yu, the committees co-leader, visited Ulsan in December, he was quoted as saying the South Korean
April 14, 2016
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Touching toes sexually indecent: Court
Seoul High Court on Wednesday gave 2 1/2 years in prison to a man who video-recorded and touched a woman asleep at a coffee shop.The accused 28-year-old man, surnamed Kim, had on multiple occasions secretly taken videos of women in public spaces, including inside toilets. He was caught and handed over to authorities in August 2015 while videotaping and touching the toes of a woman who had fallen deeply asleep at a coffee shop in Incheon. (123RF)While Kim admitted to all other charges regarding t
April 14, 2016
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Voter turnout in parliamentary elections hovers below 60 pct
Just less than 60 percent of South Korean voters cast their ballots to elect new lawmakers, the national election watchdog said Thursday.More than 24.4 million out of over 42.1 million, or 58. percent, went to 13,837 polling stations across the country to elect a new 300-member National Assembly on Wednesday, said the National Election Commission (NEC).The official voter turnout is higher than the previous general elections in 2012 when 54.2 percent was recorded, the NEC said. It also marks the
April 14, 2016
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UAE woman tested negative for MERS in South Korea
A United Arab Emirates woman who was suspected to have been infected with Middle East respiratory syndrome has tested negative for the virus in South Korea on Wednesday, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. According to the KCDC, the woman arrived in Korea on April 8, and visited the emergency unit of the Kangbuk Samsung Hospital in central Seoul on Wednesday at 2 a.m. after experiencing high fever. The medical staff reported the patient to the KCDC as a suspected case of M
April 13, 2016
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Voters go to polls with hopes of improved politics
More than 24 million of 42.1 million eligible voters headed out to pick the country’s 20th National Assembly at some 14,000 voting stations across the nation Wednesday.Worried that bad weather in the morning may influence voter turnout, public officials drove cars attached with speakers around communities to air announcements from the National Election Commissions to encourage voting. “To remind them to vote, which takes less than a minute, we are airing announcements to people on the streets,”
April 13, 2016
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Animals signify compassion, altruism in Korean folklore
When Kim Eun-ji was a child, her favorite part of the day was to have her mother read her “Gyeonwu and Jiknyeo,” a Korean folk tale about two lovers who were forced to live on opposite sides of the Milky Way. Their love had angered the heavenly king, as Jiknyeo, whose job was to weave clothes, and Gyeonwu, a cowherd, only wanted to spend time with each other and neglected their duties. “But of course, they were allowed to reunite once a year,” the 28-year-old office worker said. “A flock of magp
April 13, 2016
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Toxic disinfectant-maker switched company status: reports
The manufacturer of toxic humidifier disinfectant Oxy Ssak Ssak was found to have established a new corporate body, allegedly to evade criminal and civil responsibility for the deaths of at least 92 product users, sources said Wednesday.(Yonhap)According to legal sources, Reckitt Benckiser changed its organization type from “corporation” to “limited liability company” in December 2011, when public anger peaked after the government confirmed the toxicity of Oxy Ssak Ssak and ordered the product w
April 13, 2016
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Voter turnout 46.5% at 3 p.m.
Voter turnout in South Korea’s parliamentary election stood at 46.5 percent as of 3 p.m., 10 hours after polls opened Friday, according to the National Election Commission.The turnout includes early and overseas voting. (Yonhap)In the last general election, the voter turnout recorded 41.9 percent as of 3 p.m. The country saw the highest voter turnout in South Jeolla Province at 54.1 percent, while Daegu recorded the lowest turnout of 42.6 percent. Seoul’s turnout was 46.8 percent. Some 42.1 mil
April 13, 2016
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Arsonist gets 2 yrs for burning down ex-company
A man was sentenced to two years in jail on Wednesday for setting his workplace ablaze in the belief that his boss was intentionally avoiding him to not pay him.According to the Seoul High Court, the 37-year-old was working at a sofa manufacturing company in Gyeonggi Province when he decided to quit his job following a dispute between him and a coworker. He naturally requested the boss pay him for the work he had done so far, but was enraged when the boss, after saying he would first make other
April 13, 2016
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Magnitude-2.1 quake hits southern city in S. Korea
A 2.1-magnitude earthquake struck areas near South Korea's southern city of Gimcheon on Wednesday, the weather agency said. The quake was recorded at 5:28 a.m. some 28 kilometers southwest of Gimcheon, North Gyeongsang Province, located in the lower center of South Korea, the Korea Meteorological Administration said."No damage is expected from the tremor," the weather agency said. (Yonhap)
April 13, 2016
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UAE national suspected of having MERS
A female United Arab Emirates national is undergoing tests in Korea for Middle East respiratory syndrome, a local daily reported Wednesday, but she left the hospital for a few hours after reporting her symptoms. The woman, whose identity remains withheld, arrived in Korea on Friday, and on Wednesday at 2 a.m. she reported to Kangbuk Samsung Hospital in Seoul with a severe fever.(123rf)The medical staff identified her as possibly having MERS, however, before preliminary test results could come o
April 13, 2016
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For adoptees, DNA is game changer for finding roots
After living more than 50 years in denial of her Korean heritage, Katherine Kim had only one thing on her bucket list: to have a photo of her Korean mother.Adopted by a white American couple in California in 1961, Kim said she knows she had a better life in the U.S. than she would have had as a biracial child in Korea. But that didn't stop her from wanting to make peace with the first three and a half years of her life, which were spent here with her single mother and then at an orphanage."I fee
April 13, 2016
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[Graphic News] Seoul’s above 60 population soars: report
Seoul is aging rapidly, with the city’s population of those aged 60 and above expected to reach over 3 million by 2030, a report by McKinsey Global Institute showed Tuesday.The report said Seoul will be the eighth city in the world with the largest population in their 60s. In South Korea’s capital, this demographic group will make up 31 percent of the total population, showed the report. As of the end of 2015, 1.84 million of 10.02 million citizens in Seoul were aged 60 and over, or 18 percent o
April 12, 2016
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Premature births on rise in Korea
The proportion of newborns who need critical medical care, including premature babies, has been rising in South Korea since 2010, while general fertility rate has been going down in the country, a study showed Tuesday.According to the report released by the Health Insurance Policy Research Institute in the National Health Insurance Corporation, the number of newborns decreased in Korea from 425,786 in 2010 to 402,516 in 2014. However, the proportion of newborns who needed critical medical attent
April 12, 2016
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Celebrity campaigning gets mixed reactions
Well-known faces such as hallyu star Lee Young-ae and veteran singer Tae Jin-ah joined last-minute campaign efforts this week for Wednesday’s general election, drawing mixed reactions from voters.On Monday, actress Lee Young-ae, known for her role in the famous TV drama “Dae Jang Geum,” took part in ruling Saenuri Party’s Rep. Chung Jin-seok’s canvassing in South Chungcheong Province. Rep. Chung is an uncle of Lee’s husband, Chung Ho-young.Actress Lee Young-ae joins a campaign in support of ruli
April 12, 2016
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[HERALD INTERVIEW] 'Industries of the future require endeavors across disciplines'
Research institutes should provide opportunities to complement traditional department-based structures with multidisciplinary institutes to better tackle societal challenges amid the rapid growth of new-generation industries and various global challenges, said a president of one of France’s most prestigious science-oriented public institution. Jacques Biot, the president of Ecole Polytechnique“Mathematics and computer sciences tend to fertilize every other area, as research becomes increasingly
April 12, 2016
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[HERALD INTERVIEW] 'State's role crucial for ecosystem of innovative entrepreneurship
The government’s support plays a crucial role in building an innovative entrepreneurship ecosystem in the science technology industry, said a head of Israel’s leading college and an expert in psychophysiology of sleep disorders.“The government’s support is essential to transforming the discovery driven from the basic science research into practically applied products, and thereby, boosting the innovative entrepreneurship,” Peretz Lavie, president of Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Isr
April 12, 2016
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S. Korea, U.S. to hold strategic dialogue on N.K. denuclearization
South Korea and the United States will hold high-level strategic dialogue in Seoul next week to discuss ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation over North Korea's denuclearization and other security issues, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.Cho Tae-yong, deputy chief of South Korea's presidential National Security Office, will hold the second bilateral talks with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken here on Wednesday. The first strategic dialogue was held in February after Presidents Par
April 12, 2016
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Memorial observed to pay tribute to late Canadian missionary
Former Prime Minister Chung Un-chan, Canadian Ambassador to South Korea Eric Walsh and other participants paid tribute to a late Canadian missionary and medical doctor on Tuesday to mark the centennial of his coming to Korea.They placed flowers and burned incense in front of the grave of Frank William Scofield, who was part of Korea's independence movement against Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule, at the National Cemetery in Seoul. This year also marked the 46th anniversary of his death.Scofield --
April 12, 2016
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FM Yun warns of further N.K. defections
Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se warned Tuesday that last week's mass defection of North Korean workers from China may not be the last if Pyongyang continues to build its nuclear arsenal.Yun's remark comes four days after Seoul announced the arrival of 13 North Korean employees from a Pyongyang-run restaurant in China. It is rare for North Koreans to defect in such a large group."This appears to be an example indicating that such incidents may continue if the North Korean regime continues to make t
April 12, 2016