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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Korea enters full election mode
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Dialogue hopes fade as doctors pick hard-liner as new head
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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[Kim Seong-kon] The April 2024 election will decide our future
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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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Hydrofluoric acid gas leak kills one at Samsung chip plant
SUWON (Yonhap News) -- Highly poisonous hydrofluoric acid gas leaked at the main plant of the world's largest memory chipmaker Samsung Electronics Co., killing one worker and injuring four others, police said Monday.Some 2 to 10 liters of hydrofluoric acid, an acute poison that can damage lungs and bones and affect the nervous system, leaked from one of the pipes at the Samsung plant in Hwaseong, 60 kilometers south of Seoul, on Sunday, they said.The leaks affected five subcontracted workers who
Jan. 28, 2013
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Working mothers hire college students as ‘study-sitters’
Korean college students are rushing to grab a new type of part-time job called “study-sitter,” a phenomenon linked to the steady growth of working Korean mothers.Study-sitters -- a portmanteau of “study” and “babysitter” -- both babysit and help children with their homework.Korean working mothers are said to prefer female students for study-sitters for security reasons and because they can pay them less. “My client chose me as a study-sitter since I am a female student who lives near her apartm
Jan. 28, 2013
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Ads on online news sites crowded with provocative images
About 70 percent of ad images posted on Korean Internet news websites are “overly suggestive,” according to a consumer group study.The Korea Consumer Affairs Institute, a nonprofit organization, released the results of a study on Monday, based on 501 ads on online news media posted in May and June last year. The research showed that 205 of the 501 ads had photos, 69.9 percent of which included “lewd images.”Among the 174 ad photos considered lewd, 36.8 percent featured close-ups of specific body
Jan. 28, 2013
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Older male workers surpass younger people: data
South Korean male workers in their 60s or older outnumbered those in their 20s last year, data showed Monday, suggesting that the country's labor market is getting older amid chronically low birth rates and a rapidly aging population.According to the data by Statistics Korea, the number of male workers aged 60 or older came to about 1.8 million at the end of last year, up 6.3 percent from 1.69 million tallied a year earlier. The figure exceeded the 1.72 million male workers in their 20s last yea
Jan. 28, 2013
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Korea 4th-largest source for adoptees in U.S.
Korea sent the fourth largest number of adoptees to the United States in 2012 for the second consecutive year, even though the number has been on the decline since 2005.U.S. parents adopted 627 Korean babies or children, taking up 7.2 percent among the total of 8,668 international adoptees to the U.S., according to 2012 U.S. Annual Report on Intercountry Adoption released by the Department of State last Thursday. China sent 2,589 children, the largest number, to the U.S., followed by Ethiopia wi
Jan. 27, 2013
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CJ CheilJedang employees booked for giving kickbacks to doctors
Police have sought an arrest warrant for a CJ CheilJedang Corp company executive and booked 14 others for investigation on charges of giving kickbacks to doctors.The sales executive, 50, whose name is withheld, allegedly offered doctors kickbacks worth around 4.5 billion won ($4.2 million). The company officials are suspected of giving corporate credit cards to 266 doctors across the nation, according to the National Police Agency on Sunday. They purportedly offered the illegal kickbacks to the
Jan. 27, 2013
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Korea’s fertility rate edges up in 2012
South Korea’s fertility rate is expected to have risen slightly last year but is still far from a safe level, a government commission said Friday.According to the presidential commission on birth rate and aging society, the country’s fertility rate is believed to have risen to 1.3 children per woman in 2012.The fertility rate is the average number of children born to a woman during her lifetime. The rate needs to be at over 2.01 for the population to grow, but South Korea’s fertility rate has re
Jan. 25, 2013
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Murderer of two sisters receives death penalty
A South Korean court on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old man to death for killing his girlfriend and her sister.Kim Hong-il was arrested in September 2012, two months after stabbing his 27-year-old girlfriend and her 23-year-old sister to death in their home. Kim went to his girlfriend’s house after hearing that she wanted to end their relationship. He stabbed the woman and her sister multiple times over a period of five minutes. The Ulsan District Court in the southeastern industrial city sentenc
Jan. 25, 2013
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HUFS alumni to award two
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Alumni Association named its president Park Chul and Lotte Hotel CEO Song Yong-dok the winners of its “2013 Proud Alumni Award” on Thursday. The presentation ceremony will be held at the Seoul Grand Intercontinental Hotel on Jan. 28 at 6:30 p.m. (sjlee370@heraldcorp.com)
Jan. 25, 2013
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Two S. Koreans nabbed for illegally circulating US military trailer
Two South Korean men have been arrested on charges of illegally circulating on the local market a U.S. military trailer used for counter-terrorism missions, police here said Thursday. One of the suspects, surnamed Kim, is accused of selling the ZBV military trailer without government permission to another suspect who is an exporter of heavy equipment after purchasing it from a U.S. military arms dealer in June 2010, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said. The ZBV military trailer, equi
Jan. 24, 2013
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Actress questioned over alleged propofol abuse
Prosecutors summoned a TV actress Wednesday on suspicion of misusing propofol, a short-acting sedative and anesthetic.The actress is suspected of receiving propofol injections for non-medical purposes at dermatologists and cosmetic surgery clinics in southern Seoul, according to the Seoul District Prosecutors’ Office. The drug is blamed for the death of pop legend Michael Jackson. It is commonly dubbed “the milk injection” due to its color. Propofol is used as an anesthetic for cosmetic surgerie
Jan. 24, 2013
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Korea refutes Japan’s claim to East China Sea shelf
South Korea sent a diplomatic letter to a U.N. commission dismissing Japan’s opposition to Seoul’s claim that its naturally extended continental shelf stretches to the Okinawa Trough in the East China Sea, an official said Thursday. The move came less than two weeks after Japan presented its opinion to the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, insisting that Seoul and Tokyo need to define their boundaries through consultations and asked the CLCS not to review South Korea’s clai
Jan. 24, 2013
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Court acquits late dissident after 39 years
A Seoul court on Thursday overturned a conviction from 39 years ago of the late dissident Chang Chun-ha who fought the dictatorship of former President Park Chung-hee.Chang, a leading independence fighter and pro-democracy activist, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1974 for violation of the draconian Emergence Decree. The decree was declared unconstitutional and nullified in December 2010.Clearing him of charges, the Seoul Central District Court apologized to his son who demanded the retri
Jan. 24, 2013
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Virtual schooling bridges cultural gap
World peace, to many, is just an ideal, but Jung Eun-hee, founder and executive director of a New York-based International Virtual Schooling, believes that the world can be a better place in the future if promoting intercultural exchanges among young people around the world through internet and technological devices.Jung, 40, has designed and is currently operating an e-learning program called International Virtual Elementary/Secondary Classroom Activities, or IVECA for short, which enables stud
Jan. 24, 2013
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Suspect in 2007 missing couple’s case commits suicide
The suspect behind a 2007 case involving a missing couple committed suicide last year, police said Wednesday. According to Busan police, the 42-year-old suspect supposedly linked to the disappearance of Choi Nak-yul and his wife Jo Yeong-suk was found dead in an apparent suicide in Geoje city, South Gyeongsang Province. He was found on May 17, 2012, with a suicide note that said: “None of this would have happened if I kept my hands off the stocks.”The unnamed man was considered a prime suspect b
Jan. 24, 2013
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Teen stamps on friend’s face after burying him up to his neck
A teenage boy, who had allegedly buried his friend from the neck down in the ground and tortured him, was sentenced to one year in prison on Jan. 17, according to the Seoul Southern District Court. The 16-year-old boy used to harass his friend frequently. On Oct. 26, 2012, the bully called his friend to a mountain in Banghwa-dong, Gangseo-gu, Seoul. After beating up the victim, he dug a hole on the ground as big as the friend’s body with a shovel he brought with him. Another friend assisted him.
Jan. 24, 2013
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Space center guard caught after going AWOL
An Army private who deserted his post while guarding the Naro Space Center on Thursday was apprehended by a military search party, authorities said.The 21-year-old soldier identified only by his family name of Lee was caught around 1:52 p.m., four hours after he was reported absent without leave (AWOL) by his unit. The soldier belonged to the 31st division's headquarters company and was part of a guard duty detail searching for dangerous objects on Mt. Bongnae near the space center in Goheung, 4
Jan. 24, 2013
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Line 1 suspended after man jumps in front of train
Seoul subway line No. 1 was temporarily suspended Thursday, after an unidentified man jumped onto the tracks.The man appeared to have thrown himself in front of an incoming train that was headed to Cheongryangni. The incident took place at 7:27 a.m.Services bound to Incheon and Suwon were delayed until 8:15 a.m. due to the incident.“We do not know where this man came from. It took us some time to resume operations,” said an official from Korea’s state-run railway operator KORAIL.By Park Sui, Int
Jan. 24, 2013
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[Newsmaker] CJ suspected of bribing doctors
The police announced on Tuesday that 10 officials at CJ CheilJedang, a chaebol manufacturer of food and medicine, have allegedly given illegal kickbacks worth approximately 4.5 billion won ($4.2 million) to more than 200 doctors over two years from May 2000. The kickbacks were allegedly offered in exchange for prescribing its product and were the form of lending the company credit cards to doctors. Some of the doctors used the company credit cards to purchase furniture and other commodities for
Jan. 23, 2013
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Sex slavery monument planned in Singapore
Singapore is expected to be the first Asian country other than South Korea to have a monument built for Korean women forced into sexual slavery by Japanese troops during World War II, a Seoul civic group said Wednesday.The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery said it is pushing forward with setting up another “Peace Monument,” which would be a bronze statue of a young girl that symbolizes the Korean victims, euphemistically called “comfort women,” in the Southeast Asi
Jan. 23, 2013