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Contentious grain bill put directly to plenary meeting for vote
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Yoon's approval rating plunges to all-time low
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Will tug-of-war between doctors, government end soon?
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Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GDP by nearly a fifth
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Trilateral talks acknowledge ‘serious’ slumps of won, yen
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[KH Explains] Hyundai's full hybrid edge to pay off amid slow transition to pure EVs
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North Korea removes streetlights along cross-border roads with South
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Russia's denial of entry of S. Korean national unrelated to bilateral ties: Seoul official
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Farming households dip below 1m for first time in 2023
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S. Korea votes in favor of Palestinian bid for UN membership
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KBS workers to end strike
The labor union and management at state-run broadcaster KBS on Wednesday reached a tentative agreement to end a 93-day strike. The union said its delegates will vote on the deal during a general meeting on Thursday. The workers began the walkout on March 6 demanding the resignation of its chief executive close to President Lee Myung-bak. The two sides agreed to establish a committee to ensure fair coverage of the December presidential election, the union said. It did not disclose other details.
June 6, 2012
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‘Eco-friendly golf’ a green innovation?
A government plan to give tax incentives to “environmentally friendly” golf courses has reignited a long-standing controversy over the sport, largely considered a luxury and environmental nuisance in Korea. The Environment Ministry announced last month that it is working on a set of criteria for “green” courses. It aims to finalize them in July and form the certification committee in the following month, so that the first such course could debut in the fourth quarter of the year. “We hope to see
June 6, 2012
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Opposition criticizes top court nominees as too conservative
Supreme Court insists diversity in background consideredThe four nominees for the Supreme Court face an uphill battle for parliamentary approval as opposition politicians and civic activists have derided them as a club of conservatives. Chief Justice Yang Sung-tae on Tuesday submitted to President Lee Myung-back the list of four candidates to replace incumbents retiring in July. The top court argued that the selections respected integrity, diversity and minority rights. “The four have gone under
June 6, 2012
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Rare butterfly to be reintroduced
An endangered species of butterfly is to be reintroduced to the wild Thursday, after a six-year effort by a private entomologist to rescue it from the brink of extinction. Lee Kang-woon, head of Holoce Ecosystem Conservation Research Institution, will release 20 pairs of red-spotted Apollo butterflies to one of their few known habitats, located in Samcheok, Gangwon Province. It will be the second batch of the rare butterflies, captive-bred by Lee, to be reintroduced to their natural habitat, fol
June 6, 2012
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Ex-police chief’s guard hurts reporter
Former police chief Cho Hyun-oh, currently at the center of a libel investigation, came under fire over excessive police protection during his questionings after a reporter was injured on Tuesday.As Cho was leaving the prosecutors’ office in southern Seoul on Tuesday, reporters swarmed around him and clashed with police officers who tried to fend them off, witnesses said.The police officers shoved and pushed off the reporters and made way for their former boss to get to his car.The car then sudd
June 6, 2012
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Azeris killed in deadliest clash with Armenia amid Clinton visit
This photo is not directly related to the story. (Yonhap Photo)Five Azeri soldiers were killed in a border clash with Armenian soldiers in the deadliest incident between the neighbors in four years as visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned of risks of a regional conflict.The servicemen were killed while repelling an attack by an Armenian “saboteur” squad in the western Qazax distr
June 6, 2012
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Four nominated as Supreme Court justices
Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang Sung-tae recommended on Tuesday four nominees as top justices for President Lee Myung-bak’s approval. They are Koh Young-han, vice minister of the National Court Administration; Kim Byeong-hwa, chief of the Incheon District Prosecutors’ Office; Kim Shin, chief of the Ulsan District Court; and Kim Chang-suk, president of Supreme Court Library of Korea. Yang picked them among the 13 recommended by the Supreme Court’s nomination committee last week.They are expected
June 5, 2012
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Doctors, pharmacists in tug-of-war over morning-after pills
Should emergency contraception require a doctor’s prescription? That question has doctors and pharmacists engaged in a tug-of-war over control of a market worth 6.2 billion won ($5.39 million) annually. Doctors insist that the distribution of emergency contraception, known as morning-after pills, should be done under doctor supervision for safety reasons. Pharmacists, however, claim that wider and easier access to the drugs will prevent unwanted pregnancies often leading to abortion.The dispute
June 5, 2012
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Virtual meetings link eco-tech firms with buyers
The Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute said Tuesday that it has started offering video conferencing services for local environmental technology firms to help them meet foreign buyers, without having to participate in overseas trade fairs. The state-run agency, which supports small to medium-sized eco firms from R&D to exports, started the program during a trade fair in Vietnam last month. In the Environment and Energy Tech Hanoi 2012, the country’s only international trade fai
June 5, 2012
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Mom charged for leaving baby on car top
A young mother was arrested in Phoenix Saturday after allegedly leaving her baby strapped in a car seat on the roof of her car and driving off, police said.(MCT)The 5-week-old baby was found in the car seat in the middle of a road about 1 a.m. by city fire department officials, who took the infant to a hospital, The Arizona Republic reported. The child was "perfectly OK," police Officer James Holm
June 5, 2012
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Mixed reactions to shorts in City Hall
The government and businesses have started their annual “Cool Biz” dress campaign. Bureaucrats show up without jackets to save energy during summer, while executives and office workers dress casually to enable air conditioners to be turned down. Seoul Metropolitan Government is going even further, allowing public servants to wear shorts and sandals to work in the most extreme form of the drive. The new dress code plan is attracting mixed reactions from citizens. “I totally agree with Seoul’s ide
June 4, 2012
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Korean poverty rate rises to 7% in 2010: report
About 7 percent of the population was living under or near the absolute poverty line in 2010, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Monday. The figure is a slight increase from 6.7 percent in 2006. More than two-thirds of them were jobless, and many lived on their own or suffered from chronic illnesses with expensive medical fees, the ministry said. The report showed that 3.2 percent, or 1.5 million people, were living under the poverty line ― set at 1.4 million won ($1,217) a month for a fami
June 4, 2012
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Crackdown on relocation of foreign workers
The Labor Ministry said Monday that it will clamp down on illegal job brokers who help foreign employment-permit holders change workplaces. “There have been some reports recently on illegal brokers who lure foreign workers away from their designated workplace into new, often illegal, jobs,” said Lee Tae-hee, director of the ministry’s Manpower Policy Bureau. No one other than officials at the ministry-run support centers are allowed to be involved in recruiting and hiring migrant workers under t
June 4, 2012
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Second SNU professor accused of fabricating stem cell research
Seoul National University said Monday that it has launched an investigation into allegations that another of its professors, Kang Kyung-sun at the College of Veterinary Medicine, fabricated parts of a stem cell research paper. Kang, who is a leading scientist in stem cell studies, is known as a mentor to scandal-ridden professor Kang Su-kyung, who is accused of manipulating information in 14 research papers published in international journals. According to the school, the probe came as a group o
June 4, 2012
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Seoul to offer support for single women living alone
The city of Seoul said Monday it will open an online forum to discuss the current needs of unmarried women living alone in Seoul in an effort to provide support for such single-female households, which make up more than 10 percent of the total number of households in the city."Most policies today are centered on assisting women from conventional family systems who give birth to and raise children,
June 4, 2012
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Daegu student, 8th in six months, commits suicide over alleged bullying
DAEGU (Yonhap News) ― A high-school student was found dead over the weekend in front of his apartment building here in an apparent suicide, police said Monday, in what would be the eighth such case in six months in the city of Daegu over school violence. A security guard found the 16-year-old student’s body on Saturday evening in front of the apartment building and reported it to police. Police have not found a suicide note but they suspect the student jumped to his death. Shortly before the app
June 4, 2012
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Daegu suffers 8th student suicide in 6 months over alleged school violence
A high-school student was found dead over the weekend in front of his apartment building here in an apparent suicide, police said Monday, in what would be the eighth such case in six months in the city of Daegu over school violence. A security guard found the 16-year-old student's body on Saturday evening in front of the apartment building and reported it to police. Police have not found a suicide
June 4, 2012
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Police probe into suspected drug death of teenager
MCTA teenage girl from Liverpool died after she became ill at a social club.Friends of Rose Farley, 15, claim that her drink was spiked with ecstasy.Rose collapsed in the early hours of Saturday in her home after celebrating at a friend’s birthday party at the Silvestrian Social Club.Police said a sixteen year-old was being questioned on charges of supplying controlled drugs at the club. Police ha
June 4, 2012
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IAEA to inspect Gori-1 nuclear power plant
The International Atomic Energy Agency is to inspect Korea’s oldest nuclear power plant Gori-1 in response to the growing public concerns over its safety following a shutdown of the plant earlier this year, officials said.The eight-member IAEA expert team will begin a week-long inspection on Monday in Busan at the request of the operator Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co., the company announced Sunday. The Gori-1 nuclear plant, which began operation in 1978 in the northern part of Busan, had comp
June 3, 2012
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IAEA to conduct inspection of Gori-1 blackout
ULSAN -- South Korea's oldest nuclear reactors at the Gori-1 nuclear plant will come under a special inspection from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) this week, the state-run Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) said Sunday. The KHNP said that the IAEA will conduct an expert mission on the Gori-1 reactors from June 4-11 to look into its blackout accident in February, adding the
June 3, 2012