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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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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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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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Court upholds jail term for man who attempted to murder ex-girlfriend
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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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Koreas one in TB fight
A North Korean man identified with a false name, Shin Jung-nam, first saw symptoms of tuberculosis (TB) in 1996. Living with the excruciating pain, he went through medical treatment time after time with the regular TB-fighting drugs. But no progress was made in more than 10 years, leaving him with no option but to embrace death. At that moment, he saw a miracle in the helping hands of the Eugene Bell Foundation, an Anyang, Gyeonggi Province-based charity organization. He sent his phlegm samples
Nov. 30, 2012
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‘Golden moment for two Koreas to cooperate on human issues’
South Korea needs to depoliticize the issue of medical support to the North and find a mechanism to work with people in the communist regime to save people from deadly diseases, a U.S. humanitarian expert said.“This is a golden moment. If Koreans, both North and South, can figure out a mechanism to address this issue now, whether it is through China or a third party, before ‘tongil’ (unification), life will be much better for Koreans in the future and (it will) save a lot of lives and money,” sa
Nov. 30, 2012
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Linton family has century-old history of service to Korea
The Linton family has a century-old history of contributions to Korean society, making it a household name in the country’s religious, educational and medical circles.The family’s ties with Korea date back to 1895 when Eugene Bell came here as a Southern Presbyterian missionary. Rev. Bell established a number of Christian churches and helped build educational institutions including Jeongmyeong School and Yeongheung High School in Gwangju and South Jeolla Province. He also helped establish Jaejoo
Nov. 30, 2012
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Han’s exit sets prosecution adrift
Prosecutor-General Han Sang-dae quit his job on Friday amid an internal turmoil at the powerful investigative body over reform directions. “I am resigning today as the prosecutor general,” Han said at a press conference at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in Seoul. “I bid farewell now, leaving the reform of the prosecution and all other pending tasks to whoever succeeds me.” President Lee Myung-bak accepted his resignation, the Presidential Office of Cheong Wa Dae said. Deputy Prosecutor-General
Nov. 30, 2012
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Schools get tough on violence: survey
Schools took stern measures against in-campus violence coupled with strengthened prevention efforts for the first half of this year, a survey showed Friday.The education ministry announced the results of its second nationwide survey conducted between August and October, following the first one earlier this year, involving the country’s 11,000 elementary, middle and high schools. The result of the same survey on students’ experience of violence was released last month.The online survey aimed to g
Nov. 30, 2012
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Immigration policy needs urgent attention: KF chief
With its population becoming more multicultural and aging rapidly, Korea should debate more vigorously ways to embrace immigrants and foster inclusive growth, Kim Woo-sang, president of the Korea Foundation, said Friday. As the number of foreign residents steadily grows, the mainstay of policy discourses has shifted from whether to accept migrants to how best to accommodate them, he told a forum on multiculturalism in Seoul.“Accommodation and integration of intercultural differences into nationa
Nov. 30, 2012
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Min appointed cyber piblic diplomcy envoy
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs appointed Min Byoung-chul, Konkuk University professor and founder of the Sunfull movement, as its cyber public diplomacy envoy.The Sunfull movement is a non-profit organization Min set up in 2007 in order to stop younger people from cyber-bullying and post positive comments. So far, there are over 4,000 students participating in the movement.The ministry said they appointed Min for his efforts to provide a healthy Internet culture, such as campaigning for writing
Nov. 30, 2012
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Korea seizes 2 Chinese boats over illegal fishing
Two Chinese fishing boats were seized near the southern island of Jeju on Thursday on suspicions of poaching in South Korean waters, maritime police said.The Jeju Coast Guard said it seized the two boats in waters some 78 kilometers northwest of the island at around 3:30 p.m. for violating South Korea's exclusive economic zones and fishing illegally.The sailors are also suspected of falsifying their daily logs, the police said. A crewman of one boat wrote it caught 570 kilograms for the day thou
Nov. 29, 2012
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Shinsegae raided in internal trading probe
Public prosecutors on Thursday searched a Seoul office of Shinsegae Group as part of their investigation into the retail conglomerate on suspicions of illegal internal trading among its affiliates. A team of investigators from Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office descended on the group’s Strategic Planning Office in Chungmuro, central Seoul, on Thursday morning, and confiscated accounting data and computer files. Executives, including group scion and vice chairman Chung Yong-jin, are accus
Nov. 29, 2012
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Early cold weather sees heater sales boom
Heaters are flying off the shelves as temperatures have dropped below zero in recent days.Yonhap News Agency reported that sales of heaters and electric pads at major local retail stores, including E-Mart and Lotte Mart, started to rise in November. Among the products, sales of heaters at E-Mart increased 582 percent on-year in the second week of November.The retail industry attributes the sales boom to the unusually early arrival of cold weather.According to the sales rankings at Danawa.com, a
Nov. 29, 2012
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New rules for refugees foreign spouses
South Korea plans to introduce major changes to its immigration policies including tightening criteria for spouse visas and easing rules on accepting refugees and professional talent. The Foreigner Policy Committee under the Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday approved the plans during a meeting. The revision would require Koreans inviting foreign spouses to the country to meet a certain income standard and prove that a place of residence has been secured. In addition, a level of Korean profici
Nov. 28, 2012
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Prosecution in grave crisis
The prosecution is sinking deeper into trouble, with a series of scandals damaging the public’s confidence in the integrity of law enforcement officials. To make matters worse, an embarrassing mobile text message blunder by a rank-and-file prosecutor has many questioning the sincerity of the prosecution’s self-reform efforts. Prosecutor-General Han Sang-dae is scheduled to announce Friday a set of measures to reform the prosecution, but few expect him to be able to salvage the beleaguered agency
Nov. 28, 2012
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Korea’s education system 2nd in the world
Korea’s education system is ranked 2nd out of the 40 countries with the best education systems, according to a global league table published by the Economist Intelligence Unit for London-based education firm Pearson.Korea is behind Finland, and followed by Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. The world’s economic powerhouses Germany and the United States are ranked 15th and 17th, respectively, showing that there is no direct economic correlation between high- and low-performing education systems, the
Nov. 28, 2012
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YFU Korea celebrates anniversary
The Youth for Understanding in Korea, nonprofit student-exchange organization, celebrated its 23rd anniversary on Tuesday with representatives from partnering countries and its member schools across the country. Founded in 1951, YFU is an international organization of 65 countries offering exchange programs for young students to learn the cultures and languages of different countries.Since its establishment in 1989, YFU Korea has played an integral role in building mutual understanding between K
Nov. 28, 2012
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Study: Supportive culture is critical to country’s education
British education company Pearson said Korea ranked second in global education rankings, which were based on international test results and evaluation of each country’s education system. Finland ranked No. 1.International test scores on math, science and literacy between 2006 and 2010 were analyzed. In order to evaluate the education system, the company measured each country’s ratio of the number of university students to the graduation rate. Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore ranked behind Korea. M
Nov. 28, 2012
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Dad admits killing 2 kids
A father pleaded guilty Tuesday to setting fire to his sport utility vehicle in downtown Los Angeles to kill his two children, Ashley, 11, and Alexander, 10.Dae Kwon Yun, 61, pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and agreed to serve two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, the Los Angeles Times reported. The deal allowed Yun to avoid the possibility of being executed.The Times said Yun appeared in court handcuffed and chained. He spoke softly through a Korean interprete
Nov. 28, 2012
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Second arrest warrant sought for prosecutor in sex scandal
Prosecutors requested a second warrant Tuesday to arrest an assistant prosecutor accused of having sex with a criminal suspect he was questioning, after their first request was rejected the day before.The prosecutors are seeking to charge him with bribery this time again, claiming the woman provided sex in return for favors.The Supreme Prosecutors' Office arrested the 30-year-old junior prosecutor surnamed Jeon without a warrant on Saturday for questioning into allegations he had sexual activity
Nov. 27, 2012
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Productive population in Seoul to fall 1 million by 2032
The economically active population in Seoul will decrease by more than 1 million in 20 years, according to statistics released by the city government on Tuesday.The data showed that the number of Seoul citizens aged 15 to 64, regarded as the economically active population, came to 7.6 million as of July, accounting for 77 percent of the city’s entire population.That figure, however, is forecast to drop to 6.6 million, or 65 percent of the total, as those aged 14 or younger decrease by 145,000, w
Nov. 27, 2012
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Korea seeks non-lethal whale research
Korea plans to conduct scientific research of whales through non-lethal methods, government officials said Tuesday. “After gathering opinions from various sides, the government is now in the process of finalizing its plan to study whales through non-lethal techniques, like many other countries such as Australia do,” an official at the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said. The government had initially sought to lift an all-out ban on whaling, which has been in place since 1
Nov. 27, 2012
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Five vie for Seoul education chief
Five candidates officially kicked off their campaign to become Seoul’s education chief on Tuesday in a race shaping up to be yet another conservative vs. liberal battle. The election to pick the superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education will be held on Dec. 19, simultaneously with the presidential vote, to fill the post vacated by liberal education reformer Kwak No-hyun. Kwak, a former law professor, was jailed in September, convicted of a charge that he bought a fellow candid
Nov. 27, 2012