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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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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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With Indonesia unable to pay full share, what’s next for KF-21 fighter project?
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[KH Explains] Can tech firms' AI alliances take on Nvidia?
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Local filmmakers criticize ‘The Roundup: Punishment’ monopoly of screens
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Police seek arrest warrant for med student who killed girlfriend
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[Grace Kao, Meera Choi] Has money displaced romance on dates?
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Will China's self-sufficient dream in HBM come true?
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Police crack down on cigarette littering
The Ministry of Public Administration and Security and the National Policy Agency announced Monday that they had conducted a crackdown on throwing cigarette butts away while driving in July, and found 1,990 illegal cases.The policy agency said it imposed a penalty of 30,000 won on each case and that fines would rise to 50,000 won from Sep 1.The number of reports by citizens reached 836 and the citizens who provided information were given 5,000-10,000 won.A ministry official said the authority wi
Aug. 6, 2012
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KEPCO posts power electricity alert
South Korea’s state-run power company issued a power shortage alert Monday to reflect a surge in electricity consumption caused by high temperatures.The measure by Korea Electric Power Corp. comes after the weather service issued nationwide heatwave warnings earlier in the day, with power consumption expected to reach a record high. (Yonhap) <관련 한글 기사>한전, 전력경보 ‘주의’로 격상!전력거래소는 6일 오전 11시 5분 전력경보를 ‘주의’로 상향 발령했다.전력경보 주의가 내려진 것은 지난해 9.15 정전 사태 이후 처음이다전력경보 ‘주의’는 예비전력 300만㎾ 미만 200만㎾ 이상인 상태가 10분 이상 지속하거
Aug. 6, 2012
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S. Korean student wins international linguistics tournament
A South Korean high school student won the top place in a globally-recognized language competition for the first time, a local academic association said Sunday.Kim Hong-soon, a 17-year-old from the Korean Minjok Leadership Academy, scored the gold medal in the individual round of the 10th International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) held in Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia between July 30 and Aug. 3, according to the Linguistic Society of Korea.It is the first time a Korean has ranked first i
Aug. 6, 2012
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U.S. congressional aides visit Seoul
A group of aides to United States Congress members will visit South Korea this week as part of the two countries’ efforts to boost exchange and cooperation, trip organizers said Saturday.Eight secretaries of U.S. Congress members including Sen. Richard Lugar, Sen. Jon Kyl and Rep. Steve King arrived in Seoul on Sunday for a seven-day visit at the invitation of the Korea Foundation, according to foundation officials.During the visit, the delegation plans to meet with government officials here and
Aug. 5, 2012
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SNU to support 332 foreign students
Seoul National University will offer scholarships and benefits to foreign students in an effort to foster Korea-friendly human resources, the school said Sunday. Some 332 undergraduate and graduate students have been selected and will study at the university from the second semester starting in September, it said. Of them, 73 are undergraduates, 188 graduates, and 71 doctoral students. They are mostly from developing nations including Vietnam, China and Mongolia, with Chinese taking up the most
Aug. 5, 2012
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Seoul to set new rules on textbooks’ political neutrality
The Education Ministry said on Sunday that it would devise a set of guidelines on the political neutrality of textbooks.The ministry’s move comes after controversy arose over literary works by an opposition politician that appear in middle-school textbooks.A team of private experts and education officials will start researching by the end of this month on ways to improve the current textbook-screening system. It aims to formulate guidelines based on which the state-run textbook review board will
Aug. 5, 2012
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Heat wave death toll rises to 10
Scorching weather leaves more than 500 others in hospitalCasualties and damage are rising in Korea as a record heat wave continues to roast the country for the second week. According to health authorities, the “dangerously high temperatures” this summer ―- with day highs rising beyond 35 degrees Celsius ― are blamed for at least 10 deaths so far. More than 500 have been rushed to the hospital for heat-related illness. The scorching heat is having a devastating impact on farming, fisheries and ag
Aug. 5, 2012
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Seoul sees record stretch of ‘tropical nights’
The capital city of South Korea has experienced the most consecutive "tropical nights" since 2000, the state weather agency said Saturday.The so-called tropical night phenomenon is defined by nighttime lows staying above 25 degrees Celsius, with nighttime being from 6 p.m. to 9 a.m. It often happens when monsoon season ends, which falls in July in general for the country. The overnight low in Seou
Aug. 4, 2012
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Ob-gyn arrested for disposing of patient’s body
Seoul police on Friday arrested an obstetrician-gynecologist on charges that he killed a patient and disposed of her body.The suspect, a 45-year-old man identified by his surname Kim, is accused of accidentally killing a 30-year-old female patient Lee on Tuesday while trying to anesthetize her, telling her it was a "nutritional supplement." He said he had injected her with midazolam, a drug that induces sedation.Police said Kim then discarded the corpse at a parking lot near the Han River. His w
Aug. 3, 2012
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Nexon cleared in information leak case
The prosecution on Friday cleared Nexon, an online game company, of responsibility for the leak of private information of its 13.2 million members last November.The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said it has decided not to indict company chief executive Seo Min and security officials for allegedly mishandling user data due to the lack of evidence.“It is hard to find any loose management of personal information, and Nexon had taken security measures when the incident occurred,” the pr
Aug. 3, 2012
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Kang, key Roh supporter, dies of brain tumor
Kang Keum-won, Changshin Textiles chairman and a close associate and supporter of late former President Roh Moo-hyun, died late Thursday.The 60-year-old self-made businessman had been fighting against a brain tumor. Kang, a graduate of Hanyang University’s textile engineering program, founded Changshin Textiles in 1975 and relocated the company to Busan five years later, establishing the basis of his fortune. Kang had been a long-time supporter of Roh, beginning with campaign donations in 1998 w
Aug. 3, 2012
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Seoul prepares for international forum to curb smoking
About 1,000 world health experts and policy makers from 170 countries will gather in Seoul in November to discuss transnational collaboration in curbing smoking rates and tackling illnesses that stem from tobacco consumption.The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Friday that the 5th Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control will be held at COEX in southern Seoul from Nov. 12-17.“The conference will put Korea among the leading countries of
Aug. 3, 2012
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Human rights panel to probe its own chief
The National Human Rights Commission on Friday said it has started an internal investigation into allegations that its commissioner Hyun Byung-chul has the abused rights of disabled people. The probe is expected to influence President Lee Myung-bak’s plan to reappoint him for a second term despite fierce opposition from political and civic circles as well as some commission officials. A committee under the NHRC on Thursday decided to investigate him following a petition filed by Rep. Chung Ha-na
Aug. 3, 2012
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Looking good takes a lethal turn in Korea
Concerns rise over side effects of bimaxillary operation With the rising populary of bimaxillary operations in Korea, side effects of the double jaw surgery, including parasthesia and asymmetry, are increasingly reported.According to Korea Consumer Agency, the agency received 121 damage cases from 2010 to June this year. The numbers are quickly increasing as the agency took 44 cases this year until June, almost as many as the 48 in all of 2011.The reason for such phenomena is that many celebriti
Aug. 3, 2012
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Nexon cleared of charge after leaking data on 13 million users
Nexon, which has been suspected of leaking personal information of its 13 million customers, was not indicted because of a lack of evidence, according to the announcement by Seoul Central Prosecutor’s Office on Friday.The prosecutor’s office said that the three accused including Seo Min, the CEO of Nexon Korea, are cleared of the charge that the company lost the personal information of 13 million users of its massively multiplayer online role-playing game “Maple Story” as a result of hacking att
Aug. 3, 2012
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Gangnam Station most used subway station
Seoul’s Gangnam Station on Line 2 is the most heavily used subway station in the capital city, data showed Thursday.An average of 130,745 people per day used the station in southern Seoul during the first half of this year. The next most popular was Seoul Station on Line 1, at the center of the capital, with 105,000 users, followed by Jamsil Station on Line 2 in southeastern Seoul, with 97,000 users, according to the data compiled by the Seoul Metro and Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corp., wh
Aug. 2, 2012
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30 nabbed for selling, using drugs
Police said Thursday they have arrested 20 people and booked 10 others without physical detention on charges of selling and using illegal narcotics. The suspects, including a 51-year-old habitual user, identified only by his surname Ye, allegedly circulated, sold, and used a total of 12 grams of methamphetamines worth 40 million won ($35,000) between December and June, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency.In order to avoid the police crackdown, the suspects concealed the methampheta
Aug. 2, 2012
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Record high air passengers for vacation season
The Korea Immigration Service said Thursday that the number of inbound and outbound air passengers through Incheon International Airport hit a record high of 3.2 million in July.The figure shows an eight percent increase from the year earlier when 2.9 million people passed through the airport.The immigration office cited the vacation season as the reason behind. Around 60,000 passengers departed between July 23 and 29 to their destinations from the airport, up from 47,000 during the same days la
Aug. 2, 2012
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Koreas in diplomatic war with Japan on East Sea
NEW YORK (Yonhap News) ― The two Koreas have informally teamed up against Japan in a war of diplomacy in the United Nations on the naming of the waters near them, sources said Wednesday. The 10th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names open earlier this week at the U.N. headquarters here, setting the stage for experts from around the world to discuss key issues relating to the handling of place names.International organizations formally call the waters between the
Aug. 2, 2012
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Street trees up for adoption
Seoul Metropolitan Government will put its street trees up for adoption, offering citizens a chance to look after the plants that line them, officials said Thursday. The “Adopt-a-Tree” project will launch in September with about 8,600 trees. It will be expanded to all 284,000 of its trees next year, the officials said. The trees will be allotted to institutions only, such as schools and companies, but not to individuals. Interested institutions should send in an application, officials said, alth
Aug. 2, 2012