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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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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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Over 60% of S. Koreans support W100m childbirth incentive: survey
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‘Inside Out 2’ adds four new emotions, explores teenage life
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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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371 foreigners nabbed in 2-month crackdown on gambling, phishing
The police said Thursday they had arrested a total of 708 foreigners in the past two months, with gambling and financial fraud being the most common crimes committed by foreigners residing in Korea. The head office of the National Police Agency. (Yonhap)The police arrested 371 foreign nationals, of whom 27 were physically detained, for involvement in gambling and phishing scams during the two-month crackdown that started in September. In most cases, foreigners gambled for fun with their friends
Nov. 5, 2015
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Prejudice makes refugee life tougher
With risks and challenges faced by refugees across the world having become one of the greatest global issues 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, the country’s own history and ways to go forward. The following is the fourth installment. ― Ed.In April, Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education announced that eight
Nov. 5, 2015
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Seoul to provide allowance for unemployed youth
Seoul City on Thursday announced plans to give a monthly allowance to unemployed youth as part of its efforts to better bridge them to the labor market. Seoul Metropolitan Government said that it would offer 500,000 won ($440) a month starting from next year for unemployed young people aged between 19 and 29 who are in the low-income bracket. The city will provide the subsidy to 3,000 individuals on a trial basis for up to six months and expand the number to 15,000 over the next five years. A to
Nov. 5, 2015
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Poor medical facilities behind high death rate of disabled children in South Korea
Physically disabled children aged 1-9 in Korea were 38 times more likely to die than their nondisabled peers in 2012, partly because of inadequate number of medical institutions specializing in patients with special needs, a government study showed. According to the study released by the Health Ministry and the National Rehabilitation Center this week, disabled children had a mortality rate of 580 per 100,000 children in 2012, while the mortality rate of nondisabled children was dramatically low
Nov. 5, 2015
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Witness in Itaewon murder case testifies
A Korean-American who was cleared of killing a South Korean college student nearly two decades ago in the Itaewon murder case testified Wednesday that he saw murder suspect Arthur John Patterson stabbing the victim with a knife. Edward Lee, 36, who stood trial as a murder suspect 18 years ago, appeared at Seoul Central District Court as a witness this time in a reopened trial with Patterson as the new suspect.(Yonhap)The court opened a fresh investigation into the murder in which college student
Nov. 4, 2015
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Seoul requests more funding for ancient fortress project
Seoul Metropolitan City on Wednesday said it has requested a budget increase from the central government for its project to register the Pungnap Earthen Fortress in Songpa-gu, eastern Seoul, on the UNESCO World Heritage list.Seoul says that in order to finish relocating and offering compensation to residents at the site of the early-Baekje royal castle by the target year 2020, the annual state budget of 35 billion won ($31 million) should be increased to at least 70 billion won. Seoul City has b
Nov. 4, 2015
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Agency unveils first authors for state textbooks
The government on Wednesday revealed two of the authors for the planned state-issued history textbooks, along with a timeline for the books’ completion, but said it “might make public” the rest of the authors “if the situation allows.”The state-run National Institute of Korean History announced the guidelines of the history textbooks for middle and high school, as a follow-up to the final decision by the Education Ministry on Tuesday to retake sole publishing rights for secondary school history
Nov. 4, 2015
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Seoul sticks to its guns on new logo
“I will Seoul you,” “I will Incheon you.” A flood of mockery and parodies hit social media when Seoul City decided on its new slogan “I.Seoul.U” late last month. On Oct. 28, “I.Seoul.U” was picked as the capital’s new logo by a public vote, beating two other candidates -- “Seouling” and “Seoulmate.” The new slogan will replace “Hi Seoul,” which has been used for 13 years. Seoul City Mayor Park Won-soon (center) and guests hold up a placard with the city’s new brand, “I.SEOUL.U,” at a ceremony h
Nov. 4, 2015
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Seoul City, Beijing join hands against air pollution
Seoul City and Beijing vowed to strengthen cooperation to combat environment challenges, especially air pollution, as part of their efforts to protect public health, officials said Wednesday. Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon and his counterpart Wang Anshun agreed to launch a joint environment team that will share their environment measures, technology and information in a bid to improve air quality. “The two cities are a ‘communal breathing community.’ The cooperative study on air pollution based on th
Nov. 4, 2015
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Victim’s mother in ‘Itaewon murder’ calls for heavy punishment
The mother of a South Korean victim in the Itaewon murder case nearly two decades ago took the witness stand and asked the court to heavily punish her son’s murderer at the court hearing on Thursday. “Judges and prosecutors, please slap our son’s murderer with the heaviest punishment for our son who unfairly died,” Lee Bok-soo, 73, who lost her son in 1997, said in the courtroom at Seoul Central District Court. Victim's mother, Lee Bok-soo (Yonhap)The remark came after the court opened a fresh
Nov. 4, 2015
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Number of temporary workers rises as more elderly people join workforce
The number of temporary workers in South Korea rose in August from a year earlier as more elderly people joined the workforce, government data showed Wednesday. The economic active population report by Statistics Korea showed the number of temporary workers rising by 194,000 on-year to a little more than 6.27 million in the cited month. The total accounted for 32.5 percent of all salaried workers, or a 0.1 percentage point gain from a year earlier. The number of hourly, contingent and non-stan
Nov. 4, 2015
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Ex-South Korean football coach Hiddink to visit North Korea
Former South Korea football coach Guus Hiddink will visit North Korea this week to open a futsal stadium, officials said Wednesday. According to Guus Hiddink Foundation, the Dutchman will travel to Pyongyang on Thursday for a three-day trip to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for his "Dream Field," a futsal stadium for visually impaired players. Futsal is a type of football played mainly indoors with five players a side and a smaller ball. Hiddink is also scheduled to meet with North Korean
Nov. 4, 2015
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Guidelines issued on sex discrimination in hiring
The South Korean government said Tuesday that it would send major companies guidelines on how to prevent sexual discrimination in the hiring processes in response to criticism over the lack of efforts to monitor and discipline workplaces against such violations. The Ministry of Employment and Labor said it would introduce a set of discrimination rules to 2,186 conglomerates and 82 major franchises to encourage them to root out sexual discrimination in the hiring process and at workplaces. While
Nov. 3, 2015
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Korea confirms state textbook plan
Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn announced Tuesday that South Korea would officially reinstate government-issued history textbooks for secondary education from 2017, saying that the current system had failed after four years of implementation.“It is realistically impossible to author a correct history textbook under the current system. It is the government’s conclusion that the privately-authored system has failed,” Hwang said during a joint press conference with Education Minister Hwang Woo-yea at
Nov. 3, 2015
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Korean adoptees struggle for records access
When Annie Kim was 15, she was convinced that popular Korean actress Lee Young-ae was her birth mother after watching the famous TV drama series “Dae Jang Geum.” The Korean adoptee would gaze at photographs of the actress, secretly hoping to meet her one day. Born in 1988 and adopted by a U.S. couple at age 1, Kim arrived in South Korea last year in hopes of finding her birth parents. Kim finally began her search in Korea as an adult, but the process was far from easy. A visit to the Korea Ado
Nov. 3, 2015
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U.S. historian calls state textbook unworkable
A prominent U.S. expert on Korean history bashed the Seoul government’s plan to reinstate government-issued history textbooks, raising concerns that President Park Geun-hye is attempting to unify viewpoints on history.Calling the plan “unworkable, retrograde and stupid,” Bruce Cumings, a University of Chicago professor specializing in modern Korean and international history, said it was a reminder of her father, who ruled the country with an iron fist in the 1960s and ’70s. He said the plan also
Nov. 3, 2015
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3 soldiers under investigation over comrade's apparent suicide
Three soldiers have been detained in an investigation into the apparent suicide of their junior comrade last week, military officials said Tuesday. The incident took place last Thursday at around 5 a.m., when the private first class moved about 100 meters away from a guard post near the western border with North Korea, where he and his fellow soldier were on patrol duty. The 20-year-old was killed at the scene as a grenade he was holding went off soon after he moved away from the guard post.
Nov. 3, 2015
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Korea confirms state textbook plan, says private publication failed
Prime Minster Hwang Kyo-ahn announced Tuesday that South Korea would officially reinstate government-issued history textbooks for secondary education, saying that the current private publication system had failed after four years into implementation.Prime Minster Hwang Kyo-ahn (Yonhap)“It is realistically impossible to author a correct history textbook under the current system. It is the government’s conclusion that the privately-authored system has failed,” Hwang said during a briefing at the S
Nov. 3, 2015
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Court dismisses request to change English name in passport
A court Tuesday rejected a complaint demanding the modification of an English name in a person's passport citing possible degradation of reliability in South Korean identification. The plaintiff, whose identity was withheld, filed a suit against the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which rejected her request to change her English name to "Jeong," instead of "Jung." "Since I have long been using 'Jeong' to spell my name in and outside South Korea, I have to prove every time I stay abroad that I am
Nov. 3, 2015
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Watchdog urges state plan for workplace human rights
South Korea’s human rights commission said Monday that it plans to recommend the government to set rules on business management to avert human rights abuses at workplaces.The National Human Rights Commission of Korea will reveal its recommendations to the government at the upcoming forum, titled “Human Rights Management Forum,” on Friday and collect opinions from civil society, businesses and the public. (Yonhap)The commission will ask the government to draft a National Action Plan in accordanc
Nov. 2, 2015