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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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S. Korean children, teens grow taller, mature faster than before: study
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[Graphic News] Number of coffee franchises in S. Korea rises 13%
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Army takes group action against Hybe for neglecting BTS
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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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Some junior doctors are returning: Health Ministry
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[Robert J. Fouser] AI changes rationale for learning languages
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Ador CEO's request for exclusive right to terminate NewJeans' contract with Hybe refused in February
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Woman dangling from power lines rescued by residents holding blanket
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Lawyers bring history textbook row to court
A group of lawyers filed an appeal to the Constitutional Court on Tuesday over the government's move to reintroduce state-authored history textbooks for secondary school students.The Lawyers for a Democratic Society claim that the government's decision to publish national textbooks violates the Constitution, which stipulates autonomy in education.A little more than a month ago, the government announced it would revise the current textbook publication system so that middle and high school student
Dec. 22, 2015
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Facebook most popular social media tool in Korea: poll
Facebook is the most popular social networking service in South Korea this year, a poll showed Tuesday, outpacing other global and local platforms.According to a survey by market researcher DMC Media on 780 SNS users aged between 19 and 59, 59.8 percent picked Facebook as their most-used SNS.KakaoStory, a photo-sharing service operated by Kakao Corp., followed with 17.1 percent. Kakao is the operator of KakaoTalk, a free mobile messenger that has 35 million local users in the country of 50 milli
Dec. 22, 2015
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Cancer patient survival rate hits 69.4% in 2013: data
The survival rate of cancer patients reached 69.4 percent in 2013, with the total number of people being treated dipping slightly from the year before, government data showed Tuesday.The Ministry of Health and Welfare report showed that from 2009 to 2013, two out of three people diagnosed with cancer lived more than five years, up 15.6 percentage points from 53.8 percent tallied for the 2001-2005 period.The survival rate for stomach cancer reached 73.1 percent, with numbers for colorectal and pr
Dec. 22, 2015
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Korea to intensify passenger pre-screening prior to flying
South Korea said Tuesday it will ban potential terrorists or other dangerous passengers from boarding any plane bound for the Asian country at the point of departure.The Ministry of Justice said it will analyze passenger information before airlines issue boarding passes to restrict inappropriate ones, such as terrorists, from flying into South Korea.The move will take effect in January. South Korea is also pushing for an anti-terrorism bill following the deadly attacks in Paris that killed more
Dec. 22, 2015
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'Dokdo School' opens in Shanghai
A school dedicated to teaching the history of South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo has opened in Shanghai, a South Korean professor leading the program said Tuesday.The so-called "Dokdo School" is aimed at raising awareness of the rocky outcroppings in the East Sea, the subject of a territorial dispute with Japan.Seo Kyoung-duk, a professor at Seoul's Sungshin Women's University, said he set up the school in Shanghai following one in New York as part of efforts to expand education about Dok
Dec. 22, 2015
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Moderate earthquake hits southwestern Korea
A magnitude-3.5 quake jolted South Korea's southwest on Tuesday, officials said, but there were no immediate reports of damage.The predawn quake hit Iksan, some 250 kilometers south of Seoul, and was also felt in Seoul and the second-largest city of Busan, according to the Gwangju Regional Meteorological Administration."The house windows shook hard for seven to 10 seconds and I heard banging sounds," a 58-year-old resident in Iksan told Yonhap News Agency, requesting not to be named.It was the s
Dec. 22, 2015
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[Profile] Kang Eun-hee, Gender Equality and Family Ministry
Rep. Kang Eun-hee of the ruling Saenuri Party, a former IT businesswoman, has been appointed as the new Gender Equality and Family Minister.A graduate of Kyungpook University’s physics education program, Kang worked as a school teacher before founding her IT venture Winitech in Daegu in 2000. Prior to winning a National Assembly seat in 2012 as a proportional representative, the 51-year-old served as the chairwoman of the Korea IT Business Women’s Association and deputy floor leader for the Saen
Dec. 21, 2015
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Postnatal care center sued for TB infection in South Korea
Choi Young-doo, a father of two children, received an abrupt phone call from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in August. He was told that his second child, born in June, may have been exposed to tuberculosis while staying at a Seoul-based postpartum center for the first two weeks of his life. “It was just really absurd,” Choi told The Korea Herald. “I thought no one ever got TB in our country anymore.” Choi is one of 150 parents whose newborns were exposed to the virus by a n
Dec. 21, 2015
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Korea to increase public sector part-time jobs
The South Korean government Monday mapped out a plan to expand its part-time work scheme in the public sector by 2018, which would increase the public workforce by more than 1 percent. Under the plan, it will offer government-backed part-time jobs for women in a bid to help them return to work after childbirth and boost the country’s low birthrate. The Ministry of Employment and Labor, along with relevant ministries, announced these and other plans in a meeting.Unlike part-time jobs generated by
Dec. 21, 2015
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Multiple choice testing can ‘smother creativity’
On Nov. 12, over 600,000 Korean students took the college entrance exam, known here as the “Suneung” and widely referred to as “the most important test of their lives.” But Lee Won-key, the vice president of Seoul National University of Education, said the exam papers comprised of multiple-choice questions represents what is wrong with the English education in Korea. The multiple-choice questions restrict the students’ thinking to prearranged options, depriving them of a chance to think creative
Dec. 21, 2015
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Korea limits tuition fee hikes
The Education Ministry on Sunday announced that it has capped college tuition hikes for next year at 1.7 percent, down from 2.4 percent this year.It marked the fourth straight fall of the maximum tuition increase rate. Ministry officials said the rate took into consideration recent inflation rates. The tuition increase cap is restricted by law to 1.5 times the average inflation rate of the previous three years. The average inflation rate for 2013-2015 marked 1.1 percent. The government is planni
Dec. 21, 2015
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California schools to teach about Japan’s WWII sex slavery
Students who attend public high schools in California in the U.S. will learn about Japan’s sex slavery during World War II starting 2017, according to Japanese daily Sankei Shimbun and the California Department of Education. A public document released online by the CDE on Dec. 17 stipulated that “students can learn about the on-the-ground realities of fighting on the Pacific front by learning about ... the intense brutality of fighting due to racialized understandings that Japanese had toward A
Dec. 21, 2015
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Police sent to Manila over murder case
Seoul police dispatched a group of investigators to the Philippines to join a probe into the murder of a Korean for the first time amid growing security concerns for Korean citizens in the country, officials said Monday. A 57-year-old man surnamed Cho was shot dead by four strangers who broke into his house early Sunday in Malvar, Batangas. The suspects ran away after stealing money and valuables, Manila authorities said. The Korean National Police Agency said it sent three police officers and o
Dec. 21, 2015
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Korea to dispatch police to Philippines for Korean national's murder case
Police said Monday they will send four officials to the Philippines to investigate a recent shooting death of a South Korean man, the first move to probe into overseas crimes targeting Korean nationals.A 57-year-old South Korean, identified only by his surname Cho, was shot to death by four unidentified armed assailants on Sunday at his house in Batangas, some 100km south of Manila, according to the police.Cho, who had been engaged in the construction business in the Philippines for about two de
Dec. 21, 2015
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Asia Culture Center holds free tours for visitors
Asia's largest cultural center in the southwestern city of Gwangju said Monday it has scheduled three tours daily to introduce its vast space to visitors.The Asia Culture Center opened last month in a government project to nurture Gwangju as the cultural center of Asia.ACC said it runs tours at 1 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. daily to guide visitors through the old South Jeolla provincial office remodeled for the center.Among the areas available to visit is the Library Park, which is a combination
Dec. 21, 2015
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S. Koreans outlive N. Koreans by 12 years
South Koreans on average outlive North Koreans by some 12 years, partly because North Korea’s high infant mortality rate is about seven times higher than the South’s, according to South Korean government data. Data released by Statistics Korea placed this year’s life expectancy rate for South Koreans at 78.2 years for men and 85 years for women. In comparison, the rate for North Korean men was 66 years and 72.7 years for women. The infant mortality rate, one of the biggest reasons behind the li
Dec. 20, 2015
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Does Cheong Wa Dae fear the people?
On the afternoon of Nov. 14, Cheong Wa Dae and its surrounding areas were empty, quiet and serene, blockaded by police buses. The scene was in stark contrast to the violent clashes between protesters and riot police less than 2 kilometers away.The eerie comparison appeared to illustrate the growing distance between the president and the public in a country where the openness of Cheongwadae-ro 1 is a microcosm of the history of democratization. Some blamed the police for stoking violence by block
Dec. 20, 2015
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Third anti-government rally turns playful
On Saturday afternoon, Gwanghwamun Square, which was shut down by police bus barricades to stop protesters a month ago, turned into a playground for antigovernment demonstrators blowing horns and shaking tambourines.Under a “noisy” and “uproarious” theme, an estimated crowd of 2,500 gathered in the square in central Seoul to signify their opposition to the sedition charge leveled against an umbrella union leader and the government’s push for controversial labor, trade and education polices. The
Dec. 20, 2015
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Ex-Joint Chiefs of Staff chief indicted for bribery
Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Choi Yoon-hee has been indicted over suspicions of bribery, state investigators said Sunday, in the latest in a series of corruption cases exposed in the country's defense industry. Choi is believed to have ordered his subordinates to write a favorable performance evaluation of an untested AW159 Wildcat, which the Navy adopted in 2013, an official with the country's anti-corruption task force said. Investigators believe Choi had a special relationship with
Dec. 20, 2015
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Thai ‘con woman’ arrested in Korea, sent back to Bangkok
A Thai woman accused of swindling more than 50 women out of thousands of baht with promises of well-paid jobs at massage spas overseas was arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Friday night after being deported from South Korea.Police then received court permission for an initial period of detention.Methiya Jaenprachakorn, 25, who was wanted under an arrest warrant issued by the Criminal Court, reportedly confessed to police that she and some friends were duped in the same manner in 2012 - so she
Dec. 20, 2015