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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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Korea launches 'K-travel bus' for foreign visitors
An inter-city bus connecting major tourist attractions in South Korea will start operating this week for the convenience of foreign travelers, the culture ministry said Monday.The service, named K-travel Bus, will exclusively serve foreigners who want to travel outside the capital city starting from Friday, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said.Passengers will tour around the nation for two days for US$170, a trip that includes transportation, lodging, an English-speaking guide and ad
March 21, 2016
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Korea, Japan to hold talks over 'comfort women' deal
South Korea and Japan will hold working-level talks this week to follow up on last year's agreement to settle their dispute over Tokyo's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said Monday.The meeting will be held in Tokyo on Tuesday, led by Chung Byung-won, director-general of the ministry's Northeast Asian affairs bureau, and Kimihiro Ishikane, director-general of the Japanese foreign ministry's Asian and Oceanian affairs bureau, the ministry said in a press releas
March 21, 2016
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7 in 10 women see marriage as burden to career: survey
The majority of South Korean women view marriage as a hindrance to their careers, in stark contrast to men, a survey showed Monday. According to the poll by recruitment site Saramin on 1,401 married and unmarried workers, 71.8 percent of women said that tying the knot had a harmful impact on their career, while 75.9 percent of men saw marriage as a boost to their working lives. YonhapMost of the female respondents (76.5 percent) cited housework and child rearing as the major factors, followed by
March 21, 2016
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[HERALD INTERVIEW] Sharing experience, wisdom with female migrants
When Do Thanh Quy gave birth to her first child 17 years ago in South Korea, she was made to eat “miyeokguk” by her Korean in-laws. The Korean seaweed soup is traditionally served on birthdays and to women who have just given birth. The Vietnamese-born worker married her Korean husband in 1998, after spending four years as a factory worker. “I couldn’t bear the smell of the soup, especially just a few hours after delivery,” Do said in an interview with The Korea Herald. After spending more than
March 21, 2016
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Migrants mark UN anti-racism day
South Korea’s migrant worker and refugee advocacy groups called for an end to racial discrimination in central Seoul on Monday, marking the U.N.-designated day to combat racial discrimination. In a press conference held at Gwanghwamun Square in the morning, some 30 civic organizations, including the nation’s first migrant workers’ union, groups of public interest lawyers and labor rights activists, gathered to shed light on the plight of migrant workers here. The groups accused the government
March 21, 2016
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Novelist Han Kang remains calm at sudden rise
South Korean novelist Han Kang was not too buoyant despite her nomination for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize and all the public attention the news has created in her home country.She rose to fame in South Korea after the prize's organizer announced on its website earlier this month that Han's "The Vegetarian," translated by Deborah Smith, was among the 13 books contending for the 2016 prize. She has become the first Korean nominee for the prize. "I'm really calm. I'm going to keep writi
March 21, 2016
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Gyeongbok Palace pavilion to open to public from April to October
A pavilion in Gyeongbok Palace in the heart of Seoul will open to the public from April 1 to Oct. 31, the Cultural Heritage Administration said Monday.Gyeonghoeru, or the "pavilion of joyous meeting," which has normally been off-limits, is considered the largest pavilion structure built during the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910).Visitors will be allowed access to the pavilion, designated National Treasure No. 224, three times per weekday and four times per day on weekends. A maximum of 80 people will
March 21, 2016
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Park says N. Korea trying to stage reckless provocations
President Park Geun-hye called on officials on Monday to maintain thorough preparations to cope with any possible provocations from North Korea, saying Pyongyang is trying to stage reckless provocations."Now is a very crucial time for the future of the Korean Peninsula," Park said in a meeting with her top aides at Cheong Wa Dae, South Korea's presidential office.North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said his country will conduct "a nuclear warhead explosion test and test-fire several kinds of bal
March 21, 2016
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South Korea and the United States kicked off their first high-level talks
Monday dealing exclusively with implementing new sanctions on North Korea.The meeting brought together senior officials from both sides to exchange views on ways to enforce a recent string of sanctions imposed on the North over its nuclear test in January and long-range rocket launch last month.Kim Hong-kyun, South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, sat down with Daniel Fried, the State Department's coordinator for sanctions policy, at the Foreign Min
March 21, 2016
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Number of full-time housewives falls, more elderly women join workforce
The number of full-time housewives is on the decline, notably as women in their 50s and 60s join the workforce to help with household income, state statistics showed Monday.A breakdown of the country's economically active population by Statistics Korea put the number of full-time housewives last year at 7.08 million, down 0.8 percent from the previous year. It marked the second consecutive year of decline, following a 2.1-percent drop in 2014. According to the statistics agency, the number appea
March 21, 2016
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Human-versus-computer showdown revives Go popularity
The historic five-round showdown between South Korean Go master Lee Se-dol and Google's artificial intelligence (AI) program AlphaGo ended last Tuesday with a lot of buzz.While people still talk about the greatness of humanity and the future of AI, the South Korean Go community is happy regardless of the final result because the human-versus-computer tournament delivered a big gift: boosting public interest in Go. "This is the first time in history that Go has earned this much attention," said P
March 21, 2016
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Asylum seekers trapped in long refugee process
With the risks and challenges faced by refugees around the world having become one of the biggest global issues of today, the status and conditions of asylum seekers in South Korea have also been highlighted. The Korea Herald is publishing a series of articles shedding light on refugees in Korea, their hardships, the systematic fallout and ways to go forward. This is the ninth installment. – Ed.For Milene (not her real name), a 25-year-old asylum seeker from a small country in West Africa, life
March 20, 2016
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Among separated family members, more dead than alive
More than half of South Koreans with relatives in North Korea have died since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, official data showed Sunday, highlighting the growing urgency to hold reunions of the separated family members.As of the end of February, 65,922 out of 130,838, or 50.4 percent, of South Koreans who applied for reunions with their North Korean family members had died, according to the data compiled by the Ministry of Unification and the Korean Red Cross.It is the first time the number
March 20, 2016
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7 of 10 new jobless people are in late 20s
A growing number of college graduates in South Korea remain jobless through their late 20s, attributing to the record high youth unemployment rate last month, data showed Sunday.Out of 114,000 people who had stayed jobless for more than four weeks in February, 80,000, or 70.2 percent, were aged between 25 and 29, according to data by Korea Statistics.The jobless rate among those in their late 20s was 11.9 percent last month, adding 2.8 percentage points from a year earlier. The unemployment rate
March 20, 2016
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Constitutional Court chief urges more review options
Constitutional Court President Park Han-chul on Friday expressed his belief that South Korea needs to introduce a system of abstract judicial review, which would enable assessment of the constitutionality of legislation even when a specific case has not been raised.“Problems are worsening each day due to consuming debates and conflicts in our society. I believe that we need to introduce abstract judicial review to solve this,” Park said during a debate held in Seoul. South Korea currently only a
March 18, 2016
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Park's visits Hyundai Motor assembly plant
President Park Geun-hye on Friday toured an assembly plant of Hyundai Motor Co., a symbolic visit that underscored her commitment to technological advance amid public interest in artificial intelligence.Cheong Wa Dae, South Korea's presidential office, did not immediately provide Park's comments during the trip to the plant in Asan, about 100 kilometers south of Seoul. Asan plant -- which has an annual capacity of about 300,000 units -- is one of the most advanced smart factories in the country.
March 18, 2016
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Park calls on police to thwart any terrorist attempts
President Park Geun-hye called on the police Friday to thwart any possible terrorist attempts by North Korea amid rising tension on the Korean Peninsula.South Korea believes that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered officials to concentrate on building capabilities for terror attacks and cyberattacks against the South.Tensions have spiked on the peninsula over North Korea's fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6 and long-range rocket launch on Feb. 7."I hope that the police will deal effectively w
March 18, 2016
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State launches probe into 19 missing children
The South Korean government said Friday it had launched a probe into the safety of 19 children who have not been registered for school this year with their whereabouts unknown.Since earlier this year, the government has surveyed the enrollment status of schoolchildren who were supposed to enter elementary and middle schools this year nationwide, as part of its fortified measures against child abuse. A survey of long-term absentee students is separately underway. Of nearly 7,600 children who wer
March 18, 2016
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Gov't to expand youth internship program
The government will create 50,000 new internship positions annually for young adults as part of its package of measures to boost youth employment, Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn said Friday."The government will increase the number of beneficiaries (of the youth internship program) from the current 35,000 to 50,000 starting this year," Hwang said during his visit to a local factory in Gwangju, a small city on the outskirts of Seoul.The program gives unemployed youths between 15 and 34 years of age
March 18, 2016
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Police officer gets suspended jail term for leaking documents
A local appeals court on Friday released a police officer, accused of leaking presidential documents, after handing down a suspended jail term.The Seoul High Court sentenced the police inspector, identified only by his surname Han, to a year in prison suspended for one year for copying documents he found in an office and leaking them to another police officer, who was later found dead in an apparent suicide.A lower court had sentenced Han to a year in prison.While finding the 46-year-old guilty
March 18, 2016