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Contentious grain bill put directly to plenary meeting for vote
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Yoon's approval rating plunges to all-time low
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Will tug-of-war between doctors, government end soon?
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Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GDP by nearly a fifth
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Trilateral talks acknowledge ‘serious’ slumps of won, yen
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[KH Explains] Hyundai's full hybrid edge to pay off amid slow transition to pure EVs
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North Korea removes streetlights along cross-border roads with South
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Russia's denial of entry of S. Korean national unrelated to bilateral ties: Seoul official
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S. Korea votes in favor of Palestinian bid for UN membership
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Farming households dip below 1m for first time in 2023
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Seoul offers W120b sweetener in landfill row
Seoul City promised massive infrastructure investment as an incentive for Incheon to allow the capital to continue to use landfills inside the port city.The two municipal governments signed an agreement Monday under which Seoul would inject 120.5 billion won ($95.5 million) by 2016 in improving a road and the environment surrounding the waste management facilities.Two outdoor garbage dumps in Incheon have served Seoul, one already full and the other to be closed in 2016.Seoul is asking Incheon t
Oct. 14, 2013
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U.S. universities make big bets on start-ups to find new Facebook
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Just before graduating from the University of Michigan, Calvin Schemanski began his start-up.With two classmates, he got free office space on campus and $7,500 in funding from the university’s student startup accelerator, TechArb. The project, a restaurant recommendation app called MyFab5 using a “favorites” formula, is now preparing a national launch.The project is among dozens at Michigan and thousands across the United States getting help from “incubators” at U.S. colleges
Oct. 14, 2013
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Nobel chemistry winner to visit Korea for forum
This year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry will come to Korea later this month, a Korea University official said on Monday.Professor Ariel Warshel of the University of Southern California is set to attend a forum, titled “Molecular Frontiers Symposium 2013,” in Seoul where he will give a lecture on Oct. 29.“High school students, Korea University students and professors will participate in the conference,” one school official said, adding that 1,000 people are expected to attend. Warshel
Oct. 14, 2013
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Military agency suffered 1,607 cyber attacks: lawmaker
The Military Manpower Administration of South Korea came under 1,607 cyber attacks in the past three years, a lawmaker said on Monday, citing a report from the agency to a parliamentary audit.The online attacks came from 36 countries, in addition to home-grown hacking attempts. The majority of attacks traced back to South Korean Internet addresses, followed by the United States and China. MMA stores and manages the vast database of those serving in the Korean military. The agency said it runs bu
Oct. 14, 2013
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Personal data provided to agencies skyrocketing
South Korea’s investigative agencies obtained a record 7.88 million personal records from telecom operators last year amid deepening worries over the security of personal data across the globe. The figure marked a sharp increase from 2011 when local authorities obtained 5.85 million personal records, according to the data provided by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. The amount of personal data given to the agencies has been growing steadily in recent years.Under the current law,
Oct. 14, 2013
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Korean college students set up startup in Silicon Valley
A tech startup established by college students will set up an office in Silicon Valley through a global incubating program, Yonsei University in Seoul said on Monday.The startup, named Newology, has grabbed the chance for generous support and expert mentoring from Plug & Play, a major global incubating program that had nurtured famous companies such as Paypal and Dropbox.Newology will move to the office in the Plug & Play Tech Center in Silicon Valley, the very heart of promising startups toutin
Oct. 14, 2013
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Prosecution vets seized Hyosung documents over alleged tax evasion
Prosecutors said Monday they were closely analyzing documents seized from the headquarters of Hyosung Group over suspicion that the country's 26th-largest conglomerate evaded a massive amount of taxes.The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office last week raided the company's headquarters in central Seoul to obtain computer hard drives and documents, including accounting books, after the country's tax agency had filed a charge against the group's chairman, Cho Suck-rai, 79, for allegedly leadi
Oct. 14, 2013
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Colonial Japan forced even young girls into hard labor: report
Colonial Japan forced hundreds of Korean girls into hard labor to produce its war supplies, a report showed Monday, adding to the grievances of Koreans against Japan's exploitation in war times that also include sexual enslavement.The average age of Korean females subjected to forced labor came to 16.46 years, according to the report on 1,039 cases of coerced labor on Korean women by Japan during its colonial rule from 1910-45. Among those drafted for factory jobs, the average age came out to b
Oct. 14, 2013
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Seoul City to step up support for N.K. defectors
Seoul City is pushing for measures to help North Korean defectors, including the establishment of a new support center and increased recruitment. The city said Thursday it would open Hana Plaza in January to provide consulting and support in employment, residence, education, legal affairs, mental health and other welfare issues. It will be established in unused space at the Gangnam branch of Seoul Medical Center. The site was provided by the city and funded by the central government.A cultural c
Oct. 13, 2013
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Nearly 6,000 husbands arrested for abusing wives last year
South Korea saw nearly 6,000 cases of husbands arrested for domestic violence in 2012, data showed Sunday. A total of 5,876 cases where husbands beat their wives or abused them in various ways took place last year, according to the data compiled by the National Assembly Research Service and presented by Rep. Kim Han-pyo of the ruling Saenuri Party.The 2012 tally is a reversal of the downward trend that lasted for nearly a decade, with 4,481 such cases in 2011, 9,117 in 2007 and 11,487 in 2004, t
Oct. 13, 2013
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Robotics students shoot for the future
High school life in Korea is imbued with difficulties, mostly stemming from the omnipresent social furor to garner admission letters from top colleges. Sacrificing sleep, a balanced life, and socializing is just a fact of life for many youths.But for students at the Seoul Robotics High School, robots have convinced them that going to college doesn’t have to dictate everything in their high school lives. Calling themselves “robot maniacs,” students cited the opportunity to develop themselves into
Oct. 11, 2013
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Trend is toward interaction, says leading robot developer
Robots will be the avant-garde industry of the century, embodying today’s two most in-demand features ― mobility and autonomy ― according to Oh Jun-ho, Korea’s top robotics scientist.“People now demand physical interaction in their everyday machines. Game systems like Wii therefore accrued much popularity… People also want independent thinking abilities in their things. Look at Google; you type in a few letters and the system answers by coming up with a list of potential items the user may be lo
Oct. 11, 2013
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Police look into hagwons over ‘possible’ U.S. SAT leaks
Police said Friday that they are looking into private institutions here over an alleged leak of questions for the U.S. college admission test.Seoul’s Suseo and Gangnam Police Station are currently searching a number of SAT hagwons registered in the district, following rumors that they obtained the SAT test questions illegally and gave them to their students before the test on Oct. 5. The police said they would launch an official investigation if they find sufficient evidence of a leak of exam qu
Oct. 11, 2013
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Justice Ministry to toughen marriage immigrant visa rules
The Ministry of Justice said Thursday it would tighten the marriage immigrant visa regulations as part of efforts to prevent international marriage fraud. The ministry will screen visa applicants’ elementary level of Korean language but will exempt them from the test if they are able to communicate with their spouses. It will also check the Korean spouse’s level of income and residence status to ensure stability. The ministry will limit an individual’s allowed number of marriage invitations to o
Oct. 11, 2013
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Ministry to set up African solar schools
The Ministry of Education and Samsung Electronics signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday to set up solar-powered classrooms in Africa as a part of an assistance program for children in rural communities there.Samsung Electronics will help the ministry to establish the solar-paneled schools that can generate their own electricity to power ICT infrastructure, such as electronic whiteboards and tablet PCs.Samsung has developed the portable classroom ― in a renovated shipping container ― tha
Oct. 11, 2013
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Singer Kim Heung-guk charged for DUI
South Korean singer Kim Heung-guk was booked without physical detention Friday for drunk driving.According to Gangnam Police Station, Kim was pulled over at 12:13 a.m. for driving under the influence of alcohol. Kim’s blood alcohol content level reportedly was 0.071 percent, which is enough to have his driver’s license suspended for 100 days.Kim admitted the charges and apologized to the public for the incident. A person close to the singer said that Kim wished to apologize especially to his dau
Oct. 11, 2013
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Hyosung Group, chairman’s home raided in tax probe
Prosecutors raided Hyosung Group and its chairman’s residence on Friday in a widening probe into the group and the owner family suspected of evading taxes for more than 15 years.Hyosung chairman Cho Suck-rai and the group’s senior executives are suspected of fabricating accounting records to dodge tax and amass slush funds overseas. Residences of the chairman’s three sons have also been raided, according to prosecutors at Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office.Investigators have confiscated
Oct. 11, 2013
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Shelter for S. Korea’s foreign workers in dire need of help
A Christian pastor who has been working nearly 30 years to help unprotected migrant workers said he is in dire need of support after a fire devastated his migrant workers’ shelter.The Global Sarang center in Garibong, southwestern Seoul, was partially destroyed when a fire broke out in the building’s entrance hall on Tuesday night, injuring at least 10 people and causing an estimated $186,000 worth of damage.Pastor Kim Hae-sung admitted he does not have insurance on the migrant center he has ope
Oct. 10, 2013
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277 fake test results found at reactors
The government said Thursday that it found a total of 277 falsified test certificates for parts and materials used in nuclear reactors currently in operation.About 100 officials from the state-run nuclear power plant operator, parts suppliers and certifiers have also been indicted on charges of forgery and corruption, the Office of Government Coordination said.The government has conducted a thorough investigation into a total of 22,712 certificates for parts and materials used for 20 reactors ov
Oct. 10, 2013
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Gender equality minister meets U.S. Rep. Honda, IMF head
Gender Equality Minister Cho Youn-sun met with Democrat Rep. Mike Honda in Washington on Wednesday to discuss issues involving Korean victims of Japan’s sex slavery during World War II. Cho expressed her gratitude on behalf of the Korean government to Rep. Honda for his years of dedicated work urging for the Japanese government’s apology and compensation for the wartime sex slaves.Cho is currently in the U.S. to attend a meeting at the United Nations on Saturday where she is expected to official
Oct. 10, 2013