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Ador CEO denies allegations, accuses Hybe of mistreating NewJeans
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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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Nicaragua shuts down Seoul embassy
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Medical reform committee kicks off despite boycott from doctors
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Hybe's multilabel system tested amid conflict with Ador
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SNU profs to suspend treatment for one day
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Rocket engine expert, ex-NASA exec to lead Korea's new space agency
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Over-50s, men, single-person households take up majority of those filing for bankruptcy
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SK hynix pledges W20tr to ramp up DRAM production at home
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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
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Civic groups step up criticism of Samsung over deadly chemical leak
Civic groups and politicians on Wednesday stepped up criticism of Samsung Electronics over a toxic chemical leak at one of its semiconductor lines that killed one worker and injured four others. The workers were from a subcontractor.Approximately two to 10 liters of hydrofluoric acid leaked in the incident that took place on Sunday.According to the Industrial Safety and Health Law, business operators that deal with toxic chemicals are legally responsible for safety matters.“The accident occurred
Jan. 30, 2013
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Samsung to be fined over lax response to gas leak
Samsung Electronics Co. will be fined up to 1 million won ($923) for belatedly reporting last week's fatal hydrofluoric acid gas leak at its chip plant that killed one worker and injured four others, police said Wednesday. Police said they plan to impose the fine on Samsung and its subcontractor, named STI Service, for violating the Toxic Chemicals Control Act that stipulates the firms to notify the authorities promptly when such an incident breaks out. Up to 10 liters of diluted hydrofluor
Jan. 30, 2013
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New email-hacking phishing spreading
A new form of phishing crime, stealing a victim’s accredited certificates by hacking into email accounts, has been spreading, the police reported.Phishing is a compound word of “private data” and “fishing” and was first reported in Korea in 2004. Scammers have been refining fraud techniques to steal personal data over the last 8 years and a variety of tricks like voice-phishing and smishing, one by text message, have hit many unsuspecting users.“Offenders of the new phishing fraud break into vic
Jan. 30, 2013
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College president arrested in money-for-student scheme
Officials from a college in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, were accused of misappropriating school funds and state subsides and bribing high school teachers to increase its enrollment, prosecutors said. The Daegu District Public Prosecutors’ Office said it has charged the president and six high-ranking officials of Pohang College Friday with embezzlement, bribery, fraud and other offenses.They were suspected of falsely increasing the number of students to secure more government subsidies.Its
Jan. 29, 2013
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Drug offenders increase in 2012
The number of drug offenders in 2012 came to 9,225, up by 0.9 percent from a year earlier according to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office.Of them, 359 were foreign nationals, a 38.6 percent increase from 2011.The total number of drug offenders had been on the decrease since 2009 but 2012 saw an upturn, according to the data.The authorities confiscated a total of 50.1 kilograms of illegal drugs last year, down from the previous year’s 110.9 kilograms. But the weight of drugs smuggled into the countr
Jan. 29, 2013
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[Newsmaker] Samsung under fire for clumsy response
Samsung Electronics came under fire for its clumsy response to a toxic gas leak in its semiconductor line, which killed one subcontract worker and injured four others on Monday.The world’s largest technology company was accused of failing to take proper safety measures and even attempting to conceal the incident to minimize damage to its reputation.The plant is located less than 4 kilometers from Dongtan New Town in Hwaseong City and Suwon City, where 1.3 million residents live in both areas. T
Jan. 29, 2013
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Female doctorate holders have lower incomes: survey
Female doctorate degree holders earn less than their male counterparts, due mainly to a larger number of women majoring in lower-paying fields such as human studies and natural science, a survey showed Tuesday.According to the survey of 2,638 men and 1,089 women who got their Ph.D. in South Korea for the academic year in 2012, the rate of men with doctorates who earn more than 50 million won ($45,913) per year came to 63.2 percent, nearly double that of women, which came to 36.2 percent.But 28.6
Jan. 29, 2013
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Recommendations of rights watchdog often neglected
Some 30 percent of policy recommendations issued by the human rights commission have been partly or wholly rejected, the watchdog said Tuesday, raising questions over the efficacy of its role.The National Human Rights Commission said it has made a total of 2,768 recommendations to government agencies and private entities since its establishment in 2001 until last year upon receiving petitions, and some 68.7 percent have been accepted so far.By type, government organizations, including the police
Jan. 29, 2013
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OECD urges Korea to increase grants to poor nations
Members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on Tuesday recommended that South Korea increase the size of grants it offers as development aid to nations with high levels of poverty and debt. The recommendation by the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee, which groups donor nations in the northern hemisphere, was a result of the first “peer review” of South Korea’s development aid policies since the committee endorsed Seoul as its 24th member in 2009. Wrapping up the ei
Jan. 29, 2013
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Asia’s gambling apartheid via foreigner-only access
The casino industry is booming across Asia, offering anyone looking for high-stakes action a wide choice of venues, from high-tech South Korea to the Himalayan nation of Nepal and communist Vietnam.Anyone, that is, except South Koreans, Nepalese or Vietnamese.For conservative Asian countries, the financial pros and social cons of casino gambling pose something of a dilemma ― one that several have chosen to resolve by adopting a foreigner-only access policy.The upsides are obvious in a region whe
Jan. 29, 2013
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Korea to honor Japanese-born scholar for Dokdo research
South Korea has decided to give a state medal to a Japanese-born scholar who is one of the vocal critics of Japan’s claim to the South’s easternmost islets of Dokdo, an official said Tuesday. Yuji Hosaka, a naturalized Korean and head of the Dokdo Research Institute of Sejong University in Seoul, has been credited with having helped South Korea increase awareness of its sovereign control of Dokdo worldwide, the Foreign Ministry official said. “The government decided to award a state medal to Pro
Jan. 29, 2013
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Korea awards medal to ex-U.S. Sen. Lieberman
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― The South Korean government bestowed a medal Monday on former U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman in recognition of his works for the alliance between the two nations.He received the Gwanghwa Medal, South Korea’s highest order of diplomatic service merit, in a ceremony held at the official residence of the South Korean Ambassador to the U.S. Choi Young-jin, according to the embassy.Lieberman retired from more than two decades of service at the Senate early this month.He was ini
Jan. 29, 2013
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Probe launched into Samsung chip plant gas leak
Police said Tuesday they have launched a probe into the cause of a fatal hydrofluoric acid gas leak that killed one worker and injured four others at the main plant of the world's largest memory chip maker Samsung Electronics Co. Up to 10 liters of hydrofluoric acid, an acute poison that can damage lungs and bones and even affect the nervous system, leaked from one of the pipes at the Samsung plant in Hwaseong, 60 kilometers south of Seoul, on Sunday, officers said.The leak occurred around 1:30
Jan. 29, 2013