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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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Samsung chief bolsters ties with Germany’s Zeiss
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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[Grace Kao] Hybe vs. Ador: Inspiration, imitation and plagiarism
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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Nine dead in Japan tunnel collapse
The weekend collapse of a highway tunnel about 50 miles west of Tokyo killed nine people, authorities said early Monday.Kyodo News reported police confirmed there were nine bodies in three vehicles trapped in the 2 1/2-mile-long Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi prefecture.The Japanese broadcaster NHK reported emergency officials found five bodies in a van, the body of a man in a refrigerated truck and three other bodies in a car.NHK said there were about 30 vehicles in the tunne
Dec. 3, 2012
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[Newsmaker] Sailors freed from 19-month Somali ordeal
Four South Korean sailors who were captured by Somali pirates are returning to their families, ending nearly two miserable years under constant threats and fear of death.They were freed on Saturday after ransom talks between the Singapore-based owner of the MT Gemini and the pirates made a breakthrough. They are expected to arrive in Kenya on Monday on the South Korean navy vessel that operates in Somali waters as part of a multinational anti-piracy campaign. The four will go through a quick med
Dec. 2, 2012
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Only daughter raises fathers’ sense of gender equality
Daughters raise the social awareness of their fathers, especially if they are the only child, according to the Korean Women’s Development Institute, a leading research institute for gender policy, on Sunday.A KWDI report that surveyed 1,800 parents of elementary, middle, and high school students in July showed that fathers who have an only daughter scored the highest average points of 76.76 in a gender equality index.The average score is two points higher than that of mothers of at least two dau
Dec. 2, 2012
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4 Korean sailors freed by Somali pirates after 19 months
Four South Korean sailors have been set free more than 19 months after they were seized by Somali pirates, after paying an unspecified amount of ransom, a Seoul official said Saturday.The four South Koreans were kidnapped by Somali pirates on April 30, 2011 aboard the MT Gemini, a tanker operated by Singapore-based Glory Ship Management, along with 21 non-Korean sailors. The ship was en route from Kenya to Malaysia at that time.Seven months later, the pirates freed the vessel, but broke an agree
Dec. 1, 2012
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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