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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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Korean battery makers heave sigh of relief over 2-year IRA reprieve
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Over 80,000 millionaires, 20 billionaires in Seoul: report
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Indonesia’s KF-21 fighter jet deal cut back -- what’s next?
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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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Young Korean doctors seek plan B: cosmetic dermatology or overseas
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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
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Police nab traditional tonic maker after snake outbreak
More than a dozen snakes that appeared in Sinwol-dong in southwestern Seoul escaped from a traditional health-supplement shop, it was revealed Thursday.Since June 29, 17 snakes have appeared in an area of Sinwol-dong undergoing redevelopment. With the sightings being concentrated in an area with a radius of 200 meters, the police raided a health-supplement shop in the area on Wednesday. According to the police, the unidentified owner of the shop illegally captured 23 snakes and brought them back
Aug. 2, 2012
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Under the knife too young
More teens get plastic surgery in pursuit of beautyPlastic surgeon Na Min-hwa gets more teenage patients in July and August than at any other time of the year. “The number of teen patients increases especially during the summer and winter vacations,” said Na who runs YEROM Plastic Clinic in Gangnam, Seoul. “Most of them go under the knife for aesthetic reasons rather than medical.”The patients getting younger at this time of the year is not a trend confined to Na’s clinic. More and more teenager
Aug. 2, 2012
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Student gets 12-year sentence for murdering his girlfriend
An appellate court in Seoul on Thursday upheld a 12-year prison term for a college student charged with killing his girlfriend in anger at her texting with another man.The student, surnamed Lee, was convicted of strangling his girlfriend to death during an argument that occurred last November when he saw her sending a KakaoTalk message to another man, according to court officials. KakaoTalk is a p
Aug. 2, 2012
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30 nabbed for selling, using meth
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 Metrop
Aug. 2, 2012
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Line No. 2 Gangnam Station most used in Seoul: data
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., whi
Aug. 2, 2012
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Heat wave set to drag on
A scorching heat wave is continuing to roast Seoul and most parts of the country, with no end in sight. A heat wave warning was issued for the capital and most other cities on Wednesday, as the mercury rose closer to 35 degrees Celsius in Seoul, the hottest this season. It was the first time that the city received such a warning for high temperatures since the national weather agency began issuing them in 2008. A high pressure system, which settled in the peninsula last month, is blamed for the
Aug. 1, 2012
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Korea to tighten rules on international marriage brokers
South Korea will intensify background checks on locals wanting to tie the knot with foreign spouses through marriage brokers as a related revision is set to come into force this week, the women’s affairs ministry said Wednesday.Under the revised law, Korean citizens who received 10 years in jail or a heavier sentence over the recent 10 years must provide their criminal records to their would-be spouses.The scope of criminal records subject to report is currently limited to such offenses as sexua
Aug. 1, 2012
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Report warns of devastating climate change impact
South Korea will see 40 percent more heavy rains by the end of this century if it continues to increase greenhouse gas emissions at the current rate, a report showed Wednesday.A constant growth in emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide is expected to bring torrential rains of at least 80 millimeters per day on an average of 4.4 days each year after 2100, according to the report by the National Institute of Meteorological Research (NIMR) under the state weather agency.That number is
Aug. 1, 2012
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Acid victim gets stem cell surgery
A group of local doctors on Wednesday injected grown stem cells into a severely-burnt Malaysian woman to repair her skin. In an extremely rare procedure, doctors extracted, cultivated and then injected adult stem cells into the woman to treat intractable burn scars, experts said.Doctors with JK Plastic Surgery Center in Seoul said the surgery on 19-year-old Hui-Linn was successful. The women’s body was scarred after her father Lim Teik Swee splashed acid on her mother and her while they were sle
Aug. 1, 2012
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Seoul under first ever heat wave warning
A child cools off under the waterfall at a swimming pool in Seoul Wednesday. Earlier in the day, the state weather agency issued a heat wave warning for Seoul.(Yonhap News)The state weather agency issued a heat wave warning for Seoul on Wednesday in response to predictions that the mercury will rise to a record high of 35 degrees Celsius in the afternoon.The warning, which is issued when temperatu
Aug. 1, 2012
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Chairman of suspended savings bank gets 12-year prison term
A Seoul court sentenced the chairman of a now-suspended savings bank to 12 years in prison on Tuesday for extending more than 200 billion won ($177 million) in illegal loans.Shin Hyun-kyu, chairman of the Tomato Savings Bank, was charged last year with dereliction of duty, for incurring huge losses to the troubled bank through illegal loans.The bank's operation was suspended by the nation's top fi
July 31, 2012
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U.N. team visits N.K. over flood
ANJU, North Korea (AP) ― U.N. staff visited storm-pounded counties in North Korea on Tuesday, after two days of heavy rain submerged buildings, cut off power, flooded rice paddies and forced people and their livestock to climb onto rooftops for safety.The rain Sunday and Monday followed downpours earlier this month that killed nearly 90 people and left more than 60,000 homeless, officials said. The floods also come on the heels of a severe drought, fueling renewed food worries about a country th
July 31, 2012
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U.S. criticizes N.K. over religion
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) -- The U.S. government said Monday that North Korea‘s continued crackdown on religious freedom is “deplorable,” but it sidestepped a question on the possibility of change under Pyongyang’s new leadership.“North Korea continues to be on our countries of particular concern list. The situation is really deplorable,” Suzan Johnson Cook, ambassador at large for religious freedom at the State Department, said at a press briefing on the update of its International Religious Fre
July 31, 2012
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Chinese fugitive gets prison term
A Seoul court has sentenced a Chinese fugitive wanted for murder in his home country to 10 months in prison for falsifying his identity to seek naturalized South Korean citizenship, court officials here said Tuesday.The 30-year-old man, known by the surname of Liang in China, entered South Korea in May 2006 using a fake passport after being put on the wanted list for killing a man after an argument in Changan, China, court records showed.He was naturalized as a South Korean citizen surnamed Kim
July 31, 2012
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Prison term confirmed for ex-baseball official
The top court has confirmed a seven-year prison term for a prominent former baseball official for embezzling a massive amount of funds from a school foundation that he managed, court officials said Tuesday.You Young-koo, a former commissioner of the Korea Baseball Organization, was convicted of embezzling nearly 80 billion won ($70.4 million) from the Myongji Educational Foundation while working as board chairman of the foundation.The foundation operates Myongji University in Seoul along with an
July 31, 2012
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Myanmar’s top diplomat to visit this week
Myanmar’s foreign minister will visit South Korea this week as the two nations seek to improve ties after the Southeast Asian country’s emergence from international isolation with sweeping democratic reforms, officials said Tuesday. Wunna Maung Lwin will arrive in Seoul on Thursday for a four-day visit and hold talks with South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan on Friday, ministry spokesman Cho Tai-young said. The ministers “plan to discuss ways to promote bilateral cooperation in the fields
July 31, 2012
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Korea aims to attract more foreign scientists
The government announced Tuesday that it will open a one-stop information center to help foreign researchers settle here. The plan is part of efforts to enhance the country’s basic science research by attracting more highly qualified scientists from abroad, according to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.The one-stop center will be established at the Institute for Basic Science in Daejeon. At the center, specially designated personnel will provide all necessary assistance, from ho
July 31, 2012
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E-cigarettes subject to tobacco rules
The government is seeking to reclassify electronic cigarettes so that they come under the same regulations as regular cigarettes. The move is expected before the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control general congress scheduled to take place in Seoul in November. The Ministry of Strategy and Finance on Tuesday gave advance notice of the revision to the Tobacco Business Act, which would redefine cigarettes as products made entirely or partly of leaf tobacco that is in
July 31, 2012