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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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Probe of first lady on Dior bag allegations set to begin
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Korean battery makers heave sigh of relief over 2-year IRA reprieve
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Indonesia’s KF-21 fighter jet deal cut back -- what’s next?
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Over 80,000 millionaires, 20 billionaires in Seoul: report
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[KH Explains] Can tech firms' AI alliances take on Nvidia?
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Police seek arrest warrant for med student who killed girlfriend
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Local filmmakers criticize ‘The Roundup: Punishment’ monopoly of screens
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Will China's self-sufficient dream in HBM come true?
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Reports on school violence surge
The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology announced Friday that it received more than 34,000 calls on its school violence hotline between January and July this year, skyrocketing from a total of 280 calls last year.The dramatic surge in school violence reports came after the government introduced in January a “117” hotline call center, which receives reports on school violence from students and parents and links them to support centers and the police.Seven months after its launch, a tota
Aug. 17, 2012
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Ruling party expels scandal-ridden lawmaker
The ruling Saenuri Party on Friday expelled Rep. Hyun Young-hee for her alleged involvement in a money-for-nomination scandal ahead of April’s general election.In a general meeting of the party’s lawmakers, all 120 present voted in favor of the expulsion, satisfying the requirement for the ouster of an incumbent legislator of at least two-thirds approval of Saenuri’s 149 parliamentary seat holders.The move strips Hyun of her party membership, but she can hold onto her proportional representative
Aug. 17, 2012
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Doubts cast on electronic anklets
An electronic anklet is disputing as sex offenders who have electronic anklets commits sexual crime again.The Seoul Northern District Court sentenced a 35-year-old kim, whose full name was withheld by authorities to 10 years in prison.Kim met a female as introducing himself as a TV program director to make a sexual relationship. However, as the woman denied, he tried to force her to take her into his car and used violence. Kim already put on electronic anklets as he committed the same kind of se
Aug. 17, 2012
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Student dead after Kakao Talk abuse
A 16-year-old student reportedly jumped off the 11th floor of an apartment building in Seoul on Tuesday after she was abused by a group of fellow students. The high-school student surnamed Kang had been suffering from depression over the past two months, and had been insulted and harassed on the messaging service Kakao Talk, according to her family.Her father told police that 16 students engaged in a group chat, and insulted her, calling her names such as “fat pig.”Her father said she had attemp
Aug. 17, 2012
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Anticorruption bill for officials
The country’s anti-corruption agency said Thursday it will toughen its crackdown on public officials involved in irregularities as part of efforts to root out corruption in the public sector and to regain people’s trust.Under the bill proposed by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, government officials caught accepting more than 1 million won ($883) in bribes will face punishment of up to three years in prison or fines of up to five times the kickbacks received. The rule will be app
Aug. 16, 2012
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Hanwha chairman jailed on embezzlement conviction
Hanwha Group chairman Kim Seung-youn was put into prison Thursday on conviction of embezzlement and other illegal financial activities. Seoul Western District Court sentenced him to four years in prison and fined 5.1 billion won ($4.5 million). In January 2011, Kim was indicted without detention on charges of illegally making Hanwha Group subsidiaries guarantee payment for the 320 billion won debt held by companies he was operating under borrowed names between 2004 and 2006, and then embezzling
Aug. 16, 2012
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Eco moms lead green revolution
Ha Ji-won, president of Eco Mom Korea, believes that moms will lead the way in turning Korea into a greener nation. “A real change will arrive when more moms realize what’s good for the Earth is good for their children, too,” she said in an interview with The Korea Herald.A leader of the self-proclaimed eco moms, Ha founded non-profit organization Eco Mom Korea three years ago, with the aim of cultivating a green lifestyle at home.“Our movement is not about sacrificing convenience for the sake o
Aug. 16, 2012
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Shopping with Earth in mind
Environmentally friendly consumerism becomes new trend among shoppersYang Seung-hyun considers herself an aspiring green consumer. Following home-making and childrearing tips from famous blogs and online communities run by fellow housewives and moms, she is now starting to embrace a greener lifestyle and consider the environmental impact of her spending. “In blogs and cyberspace at least, organically grown food and bio-degradable detergents are the new norms,” said the 36-year-old mother of two.
Aug. 16, 2012
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Lift Safety Expo to lay foundations for global growth
This year’s Korea Lift Safety Expo will lay the foundations for it becoming an international event, Kong Chang-seok, the president of Korea Elevator Safety Institute and the head of the Korea Lift Safety Expo 2012 organizing committee, said. Organized by the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, the four-day event kicks off on Oct. 23 at the COEX exhibition center in Seoul. “In order to compete with international expos specializing in elevator technologies, the scale of the event needs
Aug. 16, 2012
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Unification Church sends letter asking prayers for founder's recovery
Unification Church has sent copies of a letter from its leader to followers around the world confirming news on the grave illness of its founder Rev. Sun Myung Moon and asking them to pray for his recovery, the church said Thursday.Moon, 92, is being treated in an intensive-care unit at Seoul St. Mary's Hospital in southern Seoul for pneumonia, according to hospital officials.In the letter, Rev. H
Aug. 16, 2012
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Unification Church founder Rev. Moon in critical condition
Rev. Moon Sun-myung, founder of the controversial Unification Church, is in critical condition with breathing problems, doctors said Wednesday. He was taken into intensive care at the Catholic University’s St. Mary’s Hospital in Seoul on Monday. “I understand that he is in critical condition after being admitted to the pulmonology division at the hospital,” said the official, declining to be named.Moon founded the Unification Church in Korea in 1952 and has built it into a worldwide religious or
Aug. 15, 2012
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Prosecutors may ask Tokyo to extradite rightist activist
Prosecutors said Wednesday they are considering asking Japan to extradite a Japanese activist for investigation in a defamation suit filed against him after he set up a provocative wooden post next to a statue symbolizing victims of Tokyo’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II.A group of sexual slavery victims filed the suit against the conservative activist, known as Nobuyuki Suzuki, after he tied the wooden post with the phrase, “Dokdo is Japanese territory,” to the statue in
Aug. 15, 2012
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[Photo] Comfort women hold 1,035th protest
The 1,035th Wednesday Protest for the resolution of the Japanese military sexual slavery issue was held in front of the Japanese Embassy in downtown Seoul on Wednesday to mark Korea’s Liberation Day. Despite the heavy rainfall, many supporters joined the protest and called for the Japanese government to apologize for the wartime atrocities against Korean women. Kim Bok-dong, a victim of sexual slavery, said that Japan should make a formal apology and that the Korean government should pay more
Aug. 15, 2012
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Rock star-led swimming team reach Dokdo
A group of South Koreans, led by famous rock star Kim Jang-hoon, reached the country's easternmost islets of Dokdo on Wednesday after three days of relay swimming aimed at marking Korea's 1945 independence from Japanese colonial rule.Two members of the team arrived at Dokdo around 7:30 a.m., 48 and a half hours after the team departed the southeastern port of Jukbyeon, in a relay swimming project
Aug. 15, 2012
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CNN spotlights Korean singer's love of Dokdo
The U.S. cable news channel CNN carried a detailed report Tuesday on a South Korean singer's swimming journey to Dokdo, a set of islets in the East Sea at the center of a renewed diplomatic spat between Seoul and Tokyo.CNN described Kim Jang-hoon's three-day project as "swimming into the diplomatic row" over Dokdo between the neighboring nations.Along with dozens of college students and other ama
Aug. 15, 2012
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Prosecutors seek first court order for 'chemical castration' on pedophile
Prosecutors said Tuesday they have indicted a 30-year-old pedophile and requested the court to issue an order that he be subject to hormonal treatment that suppresses sexual impulses if he is convicted.The request marks the first time prosecutors have sought the measure since a bill passed in July of last year that allows hormonal treatment, or "chemical castration," for convicted child molesters
Aug. 14, 2012
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Police to indict U.S. soldiers without detention in handcuffing case
PYEONGTAEK, South Korea (Yonhap News) – South Korean police said Tuesday that they plan to indict seven U.S. soldiers without physical detention on charges of handcuffing three South Koreans.The seven soldiers are accused of forcefully putting handcuffs on three South Korean civilians in a dispute over a parking violation in a bustling area near a U.S. military base in Pyeongtaek, a provincial cit
Aug. 14, 2012
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Teens assault man, ‘copying’ video game
Five teenage members of a motorcycle gang assaulted a drunken man, apparently copying scenes from a violent video game, police said on Tuesday.They attacked the 31-year-old man, who was sitting on the curb of a road in Gwank-gu, southern Seoul, at around 4 a.m. on Sunday.Police believe they were trying to copy a scene from “Grand Theft Auto IV.”The computer game, rated over-18, features the main character wielding guns and escaping in stolen vehicles including motor bikes. The teens did not have
Aug. 14, 2012
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Drug trafficker gets death sentence in China
A South Korean man has been sentenced to death for drug trafficking in China, Seoul officials said Tuesday. The 51-year-old, identified only by his surname Shin, was convicted of smuggling 10.3 kilograms of methamphetamine into the northeastern city of Yanji and selling it, an official at the Foreign Ministry told reporters on customary condition of anonymity. He was arrested in 2009. Under Chinese law, trafficking of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine is punishable by death. In late May, a 53-
Aug. 14, 2012
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Korea counts the cost of cheap alcohol
Low price of soju costing Korea enormouslyBinge-drinking in Korea was once viewed as a relatively harmless deviation among the nation’s workaholics, but its burden on public money and social capital is starting to prompt action. The cost of premature death caused by alcohol exceeded 3 trillion won ($2.6 billion) in 2007 and is likely to have risen since. The government has been tightening the regulatory system. Drinking in public parks will be banned from next year. In Seoul, there are proposals
Aug. 14, 2012