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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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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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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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Wife to stand trial for allegedly raping husband
A 40-year-old woman has been indicted on charges of forcing her husband to have sex with her, prosecutors said Tuesday. It marks the first time that a wife has been charged with marital rape. The Supreme Court recognized spousal rape as a crime in May 2013. The Seoul Central Prosecutors' Office investigating the case alleges that the wife, only identified by her surname Shim, locked her husband, surnamed Kim, inside their house for 29 hours and forced him to have sex with her. Shim allegedly com
Oct. 27, 2015
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Prosecutors quiz K-1 fighter Choi over alleged fraud
Prosecutors said Monday they were questioning a South Korean mixed martial arts fighter over an alleged fraud.Choi Hong-man showed up at the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutor's Office on Monday evening, six days after a court issued a warrant to arrest him, prosecutors said.Choi had refused to comply with prosecutors' repeated demands that he appear for questioning over the allegation that he did not pay back HK$710,000 (US$91,600) to an acquaintance of his.Prosecutors said Choi borrowed the mon
Oct. 26, 2015
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KBS nominates head of affiliate as its new president
South Korea's largest public broadcaster KBS said Monday that it has nominated the head of an affiliate as its new president.The KBS board of directors said it plans to ask President Park Geun-hye to appoint Ko Dae-young as the new head of the broadcaster as early as Tuesday. South Korea's broadcasting law stipulates the president's right to appoint the chief of KBS.Ko, 60, is subject to a parliamentary confirmation hearing, though the National Assembly does not have the power to block Ko's appo
Oct. 26, 2015
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Smoking leading cause of stroke: study
Smoking is the greatest contributing factor to ischemic strokes among young men, a recent medical study showed Monday. The research team, led by neurology professor Bae Hee-joon of Seoul National University, found that smoking plays the largest role in causing strokes for men aged 65 and younger, while high blood pressure was the main cause behind the fatal disease for those older than 65. The team studied the habits and medical records of 4,743 stroke patients, both men and women, aged 18-90 wh
Oct. 26, 2015
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Seoul City to unveil new brand Wednesday
Seoul City will unveil its new brand, suggested and picked by citizens and visitors, on Wednesday.The Seoul Metropolitan Government had revealed three finalists to replace the current brand “Hi-Seoul.” They are “I.SEOUL.U” to emphasize harmony, “seouling” to show the city’s dynamic nature and “SEOULMATE” to represent the city’s friendliness, the city officials explained.The final brand will be picked by weighing 50 percent of early voting, 25 percent of an on-site poll by a council of 1,000 cit
Oct. 26, 2015
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‘Secret team’ claims worsen textbook clash
Opposition lawmakers staged an overnight standoff with Education Ministry staff outside the government office that deals with the publication of school history textbooks Sunday, alleging that the staff have been secretly working on state-authored textbooks under direct orders from the presidential office.Lawmakers of the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy visited the National Institute for International Education late Sunday on an anonymous tip-off that the ministry was operatin
Oct. 26, 2015
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South Korea to investigate flavored cigarettes for potential harm
South Korea’s health authorities said Monday they plan to conduct research on cigarettes with flavor capsules, which are becoming increasingly popular with Korean smokers, to determine if they contain harmful substances. Smokers can crush the flavor capsules embedded in cigarette filters to add flavor, primarily menthol, to the smoke they inhale. During the first three months of the year, some 1.05 billion cigarettes were sold in Korea. “We still don’t know a lot about these cigarettes and wh
Oct. 26, 2015
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Seoul to make medical treatment costs public for foreign visitors
To help prevent foreign patients from being overcharged at medical institutions in South Korea, Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon on Monday announced that all medical costs for treatments at 50 clinics endorsed by the city government will soon be made public. The plan was announced as part of the city’s ambitious project to attract at least 400,000 foreign patients annually by 2018. The city government also plans to establish a special website for foreign patients, recommending government-certified m
Oct. 26, 2015
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Gov't moving to ban small cigarette packs
The government said Sunday it is moving to ban small cigarette packs from being sold in the market as part of an effort to discourage smoking.The health ministry said it plans to revise the National Health Promotion Act that will prevent the sales and advertisement of packs with less than the standard 20 cigarettes.Usually a pack has 20 cigarettes, but recently there have been smaller packs coming out in the market with 14 and sometimes 10 cigarettes. British American Tobacco launched Dunhill Ex
Oct. 25, 2015
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Suspected bird flu cases discovered at duck farms in South Jeolla region
Birds that may have been infected with avian influenza (AI) have been discovered at duck farms in the South Jeolla region, the government said Sunday.According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, duck farms in Yeongam and Naju in the southwestern part of the country may have contracted the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).It said the AI antigens of the H5N8 strain were discovered in birds that were to be shipped to the market."Under standard operating procedure, a res
Oct. 25, 2015
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Tackling teen smartphone addiction in South Korea
MUJU, North Jeolla Province -- Located in the rural part of Muju, North Jeolla Province, the Internet Dream Village at first glimpse looks like another humble house in the countryside, surrounded by a large number of apple trees and pink garden cosmos flowers. But the property is in fact South Korea’s only state-run institution for teenagers addicted to the Internet and smartphones. Once inside, everyone must hand over their phones to the authorities. There is no Wi-Fi service. What’s waiting f
Oct. 25, 2015
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Child care centers to go on strike over budget debacle
A major association of private child care centers said it would shut down temporarily this week to protest over the government’s decision to cut its budget for child care. Upon the decision by the Korea Educare Association, parents, particularly those of double-income families, struggled to find places that can look after their kids during the shutdown. “Even though I haven’t heard anything from the child care center that my kids attend, I am thinking about taking a few days off or asking my p
Oct. 25, 2015
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Death toll of MERS reaches 37 in Korea
A South Korean patient of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome died Sunday, officials said, raising the nation's death toll from the outbreak to 37.The 152nd patient, who died at 1:52 a.m., was dealing with the aftereffects of MERS after testing negative earlier. It marked the first death of a MERS patient since July 10.It also marked the first case of death caused in the aftermath of MERS after a patient tested negative for the disease.Officials said the patient got a lung transplant to help after
Oct. 25, 2015
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Korea, Laos mark 20 years of diplomatic ties with seminar
Marking 20 years of diplomatic relations between Korea and Laos, the Korea-Laos Friendship Association hosted a seminar Friday in Seoul to share Korean culture to Lao students studying here as part of efforts to bolster bilateral ties and mutual understanding. The two-hour seminar, sponsored by the Korea Foundation, was held at Seoul Mapo Garden Hotel in central Seoul from 4 p.m., with 220 people in attendance. (From left) Korea Foundation auditor Lee Jong-chil, former Korea National Park Servic
Oct. 24, 2015
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U.N. rapporteur urges Korea to prevent chemical accidents
A United Nations special investigator on Friday expressed concerns over the Korean government’s insufficient measures that have left a huge burden on Korean industrial accident victims to prove the causality between their diseases and work conditions by themselves. Baskut Tuncak (Yonhap)Baskut Tuncak, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights and hazardous substances and wastes, released a preliminary report after investigating a toxic humidifier tragedy and the deaths of Samsung Electronics
Oct. 24, 2015
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U.N. rapporteur concerned over burden of proof on industrial accident victims
The U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and hazardous substances expressed concerns Friday over South Korean victims having to prove their suffering from hazardous substances at workplaces. Baskut Tuncak has been in Seoul since Oct. 12 at the invitation of the South Korean government to monitor and assess steps taken by the government to protect people from hazardous substances and wastes."During the course of my visit, I have observed the unjust burden placed on hundreds of victims by the l
Oct. 23, 2015
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Korea to deport Nigerian fleeing Boko Haram
A Nigerian man, who smuggled himself into South Korea to take shelter from his country’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram, faces deportation as an appeals court overturned its initial ruling Thursday. The court ruled against the Nigerian, who illegally entered the country by sea last year and applied for refugee status upon his arrival citing attacks and threats from the terrorist group in his home country. While the refugee application was in process, he filed a lawsuit to cancel the deportat
Oct. 23, 2015
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[Reporter’s Column] Getting it so wrong in fighting low birthrate
Last month, there was a news article with the story of a young university graduate who landed a coveted internship position at a state-run company, only to find out her main task was to do school assignments for her boss’s daughter. She would volunteer to do late-night shifts to make PowerPoint presentations and other school projects for her boss’s grown child. In this era with a critically low fertility rate and record-high youth unemployment, we constantly hear about how the children of those
Oct. 22, 2015
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Textbook feud debates global benchmarks
In emphasizing the necessity for state-led history education, Education Minister Hwang Woo-yea told local university chiefs Tuesday that “countries suffering from social conflict such as Turkey and Greece use state-authored textbooks.”The Park Geun-hye administration, which has recently repossessed the publishing rights for secondary education history textbooks from local publishers, has also emphasized the importance of “learning a unified version of history to dissolve disputes in the society.
Oct. 22, 2015
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Korea confirms new bird flu case
South Korea confirmed a new case of bird flu on Thursday, bringing the total to eight over the last one-month period.The Ministry for Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said ducks at a poultry farm in Yeongam, 384 kilometers south of Seoul, tested positive for the H5N8 strain of avian influenza.All 27,000 ducks were culled on Monday as a precautionary measure, after some birds showed signs of being sick before they were to be shipped out, it said."The farm has been under quarantine ever since w
Oct. 22, 2015