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K-pop group's manager dismissed for setting up spycam in theater dressing room
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Contentious grain bill put directly to plenary meeting for vote
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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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Yoon's approval rating plunges to all-time low
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Trilateral talks acknowledge ‘serious’ slumps of won, yen
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[Today’s K-pop] BTS pop-up event to come to Seoul
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[Graphic News] More Koreans say they plan long-distance trips this year
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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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U.S. soldiers caught for alleged sexual harassment
Three U.S. soldiers have been caught for alleged sexual harassment of a South Korean woman on a subway train and three others are being sought for their involvement, police said Sunday. The half-dozen American soldiers, whose identities have been withheld, are accused of harassing a 20-year-old South Korean woman around 9:16 p.m. on Saturday on a train on the subway line No. 1.Police said the soldiers danced to loud music on the train, and the woman asked them to be quiet. The soldiers then star
Feb. 3, 2013
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Students’ physical fitness deteriorates as they grow older
Korean children’s physical fitness level deteriorates as they grow older, as they spend more time studying and less on outdoor activities, a survey showed. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education released Sunday the result of its physical ability tests with 840,000 students in 2012. The data showed that just eight percent of fifth and sixth grade elementary school students belonged in the lowest fourth and fifth levels in the five-level scale, while 13.9 percent of middle school students and
Feb. 3, 2013
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Korean ‘temple cuisine’ feeds body and soul
A centuries-old tradition of Buddhist cuisine, with strict bars on foods linked to lust or anger, is enjoying a revival in South Korea, one of Asia’s most high-stress societies.“Temple food,” as it is generally known, is moving out of the temples and monasteries and into mainstream restaurant culture, attracting a loyal following for its deceptive simplicity and health-giving properties.Among its most skillful practitioners ― and ardent promoters ― is a 54-year-old monk, Jeokmun, who has devoted
Feb. 3, 2013
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U.S. soldiers caught for alleged sexual harassment: police
Three U.S. soldiers have been caught for alleged sexual harassment of a South Korean woman on a subway train and three others are being sought for their involvement, police said Sunday.The half-dozen American soldiers, whose identities have been withheld, are accused of harassing a 20-year-old South Korean woman around 9:16 p.m. on Saturday on a train on the subway line No. 1.Police said the soldiers danced to loud music on the train, and the woman asked them to be quiet. The soldiers then start
Feb. 3, 2013
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Korean tourist allegedly drugged, raped in India
NEW DELHI (AFP) ― A South Korean student holidaying on her own in India was allegedly drugged and raped by the son of a hotel owner as she visited a tiger reserve in central India, police said on Friday.The 23-year-old college student has filed a police case saying she was raped on January 14 after returning to the hotel from a safari at the Bandhavgarh National Park in Madhya Pradesh state.“The incident happened last month but she said she did not have the courage to report it right away. She a
Feb. 3, 2013
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Korean gets life term for drug offense in Philippines
A South Korean man received life imprisonment from a Filipino local court for selling drugs in Manila, foreign ministry officials here said Friday.The 52-year-old Korean, surnamed Kim, was found guilty in December 2012 by the Regional Trial Court in Manila for violating a law on drugs after he allegedly tried to sell 10 capsules of ecstasy at a restaurant in the city in 2009, according to the ministry. Along with the life imprisonment, the court also levied a fine of 500,000 pesos ($12,293) on h
Feb. 1, 2013
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More than 1,100 seek asylum in S. Korea
More than 1,100 foreigners sought refuge in Korea last year but a majority of them were still awaiting a decision on their status, data showed on Friday.According to the Ministry of Justice, a total of 1,143 people applied for asylum in the country in 2012, up nearly 13 percent from 1,010 a year agoThe number of asylum seekers stood at 148 in 2004, but jumped nearly sevenfold in the past six years, passing the 1,000 mark in 2011. The ministry said that since 1993 when Korea joined the United Nat
Feb. 1, 2013
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Ruling on SK chief signals social shift toward fairer economy
Unlike other criminals, many owners of chaebol found guilty at courts used to avoid prison terms or receive lighter punishments. Emphasizing their contribution to the Korean economy and the negative impact that their imprisonment would cause were often cited in court during the course of requesting judicial leniency toward the tycoons.It worked for many years, but a court’s landmark ruling against SK chairman Chey Tae-won on Thursday broke the long tradition of such leniency and demonstrated tha
Feb. 1, 2013
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Ex-pitcher Kang given prison term
The Seoul Central District Court sentenced former baseball player Kang Byung-kyu to one and half years in prison on Friday for fraud.Kang, a former pitcher for the Doosan Bears in Korea’s pro baseball league, was accused of borrowing more than 300 million won from his friends in 2008 without paying them back.The Seoul court also sentenced Kang to one year in prison with a stay of execution for three years for violence and making threats against actor Lee Byung-hun in a separate case filed in 200
Feb. 1, 2013
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Korean women top plastic surgery ratio
Women in Korea received the most plastic surgery operations per head of population, British media reported. According to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, 13 cosmetic surgery operations per 1,000 people were done in 2011, indicating one in 77 people had undergone cosmetic surgery procedures. One in five women aged 19-49 living in cities reported to have gone under the knife. The most popular operation among Korean women was double-eyelid surgery, which makes eyes bigger an
Feb. 1, 2013
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Police to crack down on ‘brash’ graduation celebrations
The National Police Agency said Friday that it will crack down on excessively violent celebrations among students graduating from elementary, middle and high school.The NPA announced in the recent statement that it plans to conduct an intensive preventive education to deter brash celebrations, while closely monitoring 1,360 schools it has deemed susceptible to such violence.Anyone who has taken part in such activities, no matter how small, will be punished. “(Police will) only hand out warnings
Feb. 1, 2013
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Asian students discuss climate change, development
Asian college students kicked off an eight-day forum in Seoul on Thursday to share ideas on economic development, climate change and cultural exchange for future regional cooperation.The ASEAN-Korea Frontier Forum, scheduled to run until Feb. 7, gathered over 90 students from 11 Asian countries, including Singapore, Malaysia and Cambodia. It is hosted by the Asia Exchange Association affiliated to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. “This year, 93 students from across Asia have joined the
Feb. 1, 2013
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SK chairman given four years in prison
A lower court sentenced SK chairman Chey Tae-won to four years in prison on Thursday for embezzling corporate funds for stock investment. The 53-year-old tycoon was put in prison immediately following the verdict by the Seoul Central District Court. Separately, a Seoul higher court also gave a two-and-a-half-year prison term to Lee Kuk-chul, chairman of SLS Group, on the same day on several charges including bribing a former vice culture minister and other high-ranking government officials. Lee’
Jan. 31, 2013
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Chadwick nurtures global talent
The recent selection of Songdo as the location for the secretariat of the United Nation’s Green Climate Fund is good news ― not only for the Korean government, but also for international schools in the free economic zone, said Jeff Mercer, headmaster of Chadwick International.“We’re very thrilled about the GCF, which will be coming to Songdo very soon. We’re very optimistic. It will be very meaningful for us to raise the ratio of international students,” he said in an interview with The Korea He
Jan. 31, 2013
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Alternative school for immigrants to host first graduation
The Seoul Dasom school announced that it would host a ceremony next week for its first three graduates. Established in March 2012, it is first and only alternative school in Seoul designed to support children from multicultural families who have immigrated.The immigrant students are those who were born and raised in a different country but moved to Korea in their preteens. They include children of international spouses and migrant workers. The public alternative school currently teaches Korean,
Jan. 31, 2013
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Former U.C. Merced chief named president of KAIST
Korea’s top science university will have the former chief of the University of California Merced in the U.S. as its new president, school officials said Thursday.The board of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology held a meeting and elected Kang Sung-mo, also known as Steve Kang, as the new president, according to the officials. The 68-year-old Kang, an electrical engineering scientist who has earned a global reputation in the field of electronic circuits and systems, was appoint
Jan. 31, 2013
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‘Goose father’ arrested for prostitution
A 41-year-old man living alone in Korea to support his wife and children abroad was arrested for charges of prostitution with a minor on Thursday. According to the Saha Police Station in Busan, the man lured a 16-year-old girl he met online to a motel where he had sex with her on Jan. 16. He paid her 100,000 won ($92). The man is a so-called “Goose Father,” a term used in Korea to describe men separated from their children and wives, usually because the family goes abroad for education.Police f
Jan. 31, 2013
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SK Group chairman sentenced to 4 yrs in prison for embezzlement
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won was sentenced to fours years in prison on Thursday for embezzling a massive amount of company funds for personal stock investments.The 53-year-old disgraced tycoon was imprisoned immediately after the Seoul Central District Court handed down the ruling.Chey was found guilty of embezzling 49.7 billion won (US$44.5million) from two SK Group affiliates and funneling the funds into a firm headed by a former executive at SK's telecommunications unit for investments in s
Jan. 31, 2013
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Runaway teen lies about kidnapping
A runaway teenager lied about being kidnapped to avoid getting in trouble with her mother, according to police. The 18-year-old surnamed Kim, who had left home 8 months ago, called her mother early on Monday morning to tell her that she was locked in a room in Busan, South Gyeonsang Province. “I’m on the third floor of a red brick four-story building in Moradong, Busan. There are three rooms in the hallway,” said Kim to her mother on the phone.Some 80 police officers searched Moradong area build
Jan. 31, 2013
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Naju rapist receives life imprisonment
A district court on Thursday sentenced a 24-year-old man to life in prison for kidnapping and raping an eight-year-old girl in the southern city of Naju.The defendant, only identified by his surname Koh, was found guilty of abducting the sleeping elementary school first-grader from her home and brutally raping her before trying to kill her in August in Naju, 350 kilometers south of Seoul.The Gwangju District Court also ordered that Koh be subject to hormonal treatment that suppresses sexual impu
Jan. 31, 2013