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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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Samsung chief bolsters ties with Germany’s Zeiss
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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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Temp workers at schools to go on strike
Some 50,000 temporary and contract school workers across the country excluding Seoul are set to go on a strike Wednesday, demanding a pay raise, more benefits and better job security.The union of non-regular employees working for meal services, English classes, administration assistance and extracurricular activities said its members approved a walkout in recent votes.Its chapter in Seoul will not join the action as they reached an agreement with the education authorities in July.The union has s
Nov. 10, 2013
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Regulator probing Kookmin Bank for suspected slush funds
The financial regulator is investigating Kookmin Bank, South Korea's major lender, on suspicion that its Tokyo branch has been involved in running secretive funds for the bank's management, regulatory sources said Sunday. The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has apparently found traces of evidence that the branch manager in Kookmin Bank, Tokyo, pocketed large sums of fees from approving loans off the books, FSS officials with knowledge on the matter said, asking not to be named. The FSS disco
Nov. 10, 2013
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Helping others is key to success in foreign land
Steven McKinney, chief of Seoul Global Center, is a self-professed jack-of-all-trades with had experience and training in a diverse range of fields.By training, he is a classical singer, but went on to spend several years in the retail industry after university. From there he moved on to the shoe-manufacturing business, where he spent more than a decade in executive posts. Even now, he runs his own consulting business, serves as the chief of the center of support of international residents in Se
Nov. 8, 2013
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War vet’s sons meet after 60 years
Two Canadian half-brothers, whose father died on the battlefield during the Korean War, were united in Seoul Thursday after six decades without knowing of each other’s existence.Andre Brisebois, 64, first found out about his brother Leo Demay, 60, in July when a Canadian media outlet reported on Demay, who works at the U.N. Memorial Cemetery in Busan, to mark the 60th anniversary of the armistice agreement.Ever since, they have been in contact through the Internet. Their first face-to-face meeti
Nov. 8, 2013
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Prosecutors raid public employees’ union
Prosecutors raided the headquarters of the Korean Government Employees’ Union in Ilsan, Gyeonggi Province, and seized the server of its website early Friday in the first step of an investigation into the union’s alleged interference in the presidential election last year. Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office has launched the probe last Monday after conservative civic group Young’s Liberty Union accused the union of allegedly conducting an illegal online election campaign in support of Dem
Nov. 8, 2013
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S. Korea to raise salaries of soldiers by 15 percent next year
The government plans to raise the salaries of soldiers by 15 percent next year as part of efforts to improve their overall welfare conditions, the finance ministry said Friday.According to the ministry, the government will hike the salaries of corporals to 134,600 won (US$126) a month next year from this year's 117,000 won.Salaries for private and private first class soldiers will also increase to 112,500 won and 121,700, respectively, from 97,800 won and 105,800 won, the ministry said. Sergeant
Nov. 8, 2013
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650,000 students take annual college entrance scholastic test
More than 650,000 students took the annual college entrance exam Thursday. Public offices and the stock market opened an hour later than usual, and airport runways closed temporarily for the nationwide test.This year, 650,747 high school students and graduates applied for the state-administered College Scholastic Ability Test, better known as the Suneung, according to the Ministry of Education. The number of test takers dropped by 17,775 from last year, due to a decline in the overall number of
Nov. 7, 2013
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Seoul pushes for global city network
Seoul and seven other cities agreed Thursday to form a global consultative body next year to push for sustainable socio-economic development.The annual Global Social Economy Forum in Seoul adopted a declaration pledging to cooperate on a range of projects for inclusive urban development, including social enterprises, micro-financing and cooperatives. Seoul will host the provisional secretariat of the envisioned global network and its inaugural conference next year.Representatives from cities inc
Nov. 7, 2013
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Former Moon aide guilty of election law violation
A famed poet was found partially guilty Thursday of election law violations in connection with his campaign for an opposition presidential candidate last year, despite a jury acquittal late last month.The Jeonju District Court convicted Ahn Do-hyun of slandering President Park Geun-hye, then ruling party candidate, but found him not guilty of spreading false rumors.He was sentenced to a suspended fine of 1 million won ($942), the minimum imposable sum for such transgressions, while both the pros
Nov. 7, 2013
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650,000 students take college entrance exam
More than 650,000 high school seniors and graduates in South Korea took the state-administered annual college entrance exam Thursday, the most crucial test of their academic careers seen as the deciding factor in their choice of college and future professions.A total of 650,747 people applied to take the nine-hour standardized College Scholastic Ability Test that was administered at 1,257 test centers across the country, the education ministry said.The exam, which consists mostly of multiple-cho
Nov. 7, 2013
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‘English proficiency in Korea unimproved’
Despite huge investment and educational zeal, the English language skills of Korea’s adults have not improved and have remained at a moderate level over the past six years, according to a global survey released on Tuesday.Korea is ranked 24th among 60 countries where English is not a native language, according to the English Proficiency Index compiled by Education First, an international education company based in Switzerland.Korea was below Asian neighbors like Malaysia (11th) and Singapore (12
Nov. 6, 2013
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[Graphic News] Regional patients head for big hospitals in Seoul
The portion of regional patients visiting five major hospitals in Seoul exceeded 60 percent last year, indicating a deepening imbalance in medical care nationwide.
Nov. 6, 2013
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Pension fund gets more assertive
Choi Kwang, the new chief of the National Pension Service, is committed to a drastic reform of investment strategy and governance of the world’s fourth-largest pension fund as it seeks to support payouts for Korea’s fast-aging population by improving profitability. Priority will be given to bolstering in-house fund management expertise and securing a bigger say in making decisions on its investment portfolio, the NPS chairman said in an interview with The Korea Herald. “It is my mission to lay t
Nov. 6, 2013
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Seoul City to expand welfare budget next year to 7 trillion won
Seoul City said Wednesday that it would expand its welfare budget to 6.9 trillion won ($6.5 billion) next year, a 2.8 percent rise from this year. The city submitted its budget plan for next year to the city council for approval. The overall budget is 24.5 trillion won, a 997 billion won increase from this year.Mayor Park Won-soon has promised to gradually increase the welfare budget to around 30 percent of the overall budget at the beginning of his term. He said that the increase was unavoidabl
Nov. 6, 2013
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KECO wins award for excellence in sustainable development
The state-run Korea Environment Corp. won the International Green Apple Environment Award for the second consecutive year, KECO officials said Wednesday. The company was announced as the bronze award winner in Asia by the London-based Green Organization, with an real-time online system that monitors air pollutants from smokestacks at industrial sites. Named CleanSYS, the program collects data from installations on smokestacks and sends it to its control center. The corporation launched the syste
Nov. 6, 2013
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‘Inspire students to become scientists’
It may be difficult and costly to invite Nobel Prize winners to a forum. But for Bengt Norden this is a half day’s work with just a few phone calls.The 68-year-old Swedish chemist invites scores of Nobel laureates to meet young college students every year in an annual symposium. The purpose is to change the mindset of youths who are becoming less interested in science and more keen on “profitable” careers.“We bring Nobel laureates and other eminent scientists together with students to show how i
Nov. 6, 2013
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Use online games in classroom learning
In 1990, the Internet was released to the world. In my country, the United States, we accessed the Internet using dial-up or our household phone line. At first it was adequate since about all you could do was check email and chat by texting in chat rooms. One country got it and declared that everyone would access the Internet via cable. That country was Korea. In comparison it would be like Lionel Messi playing soccer against a man who never got up. Dial-up was so slow you could click on a webpa
Nov. 6, 2013
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Chadwick to host info session
Chadwick International in Songdo is hosting information sessions and school tours for new applicants looking into admission for the 2014-2015 school year.Two information sessions will be held at its campus in Songdo, Incheon. The first session is slated for Nov. 14 for prospective students from pre-kindergarten to Grade 5, and the later is scheduled on Nov. 19 for Grade 6 to 11 students, the school announced.The school will also hold an open house for all grades on Dec. 7, inviting prospective s
Nov. 6, 2013
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Court extends Hanwha chairman's custody suspension
A Seoul court on Wednesday extended the suspension of imprisonment of disgraced Hanwha Group Chairman Kim Seung-youn by another four months, citing his poor health, court officials said.The custody suspension of Kim, who has been staying at a Seoul hospital after being temporarily released from prison in January, will be extended until Feb. 28, said the officials at the Seoul High Court.The 61-year-old tycoon, who is charged with embezzlement, will stand a retrial without physical detention, the
Nov. 6, 2013
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KT&G CEO booked on corruption charges
Police on Tuesday booked Min Young-jin, president and CEO of KT&G, the nation’s largest tobacco maker, and five other senior executives, on charges of breach of trust in connection with a real estate development project. They are suspected of overpaying a subcontractor hired last year, inflicting financial damage on their own company. The National Police Agency sent the case to the prosecution recommending indictment without detention.The contractor, identified by the initial N, was commissioned
Nov. 5, 2013