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Ador CEO denies allegations, accuses Hybe of mistreating NewJeans
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Medical reform committee kicks off despite boycott from doctors
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10-man S. Korea lose to Indonesia to miss out on Paris Olympic football qualification
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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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Over 9,000 hotline calls made by stalking victims in 2023
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Monthly users on local streaming platforms outpace Netflix, Disney+
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[Hello India] Hyundai Motor vows to boost 'clean mobility' in India
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Seoul to promote luxurious side of the city
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Peru officials detect rough location of missing helicopter carrying 8 Koreans
The Peruvian air force has detected with satellite signals the rough location of a missing local helicopter carrying 14 people, including eight South Koreans, a South Korean diplomat in Lima said Thursday.The helicopter was located between the cities of Mazuco and Cusco in southeastern Peru at a latitude of 13 degrees and 27 minutes south and a longitude of 71 degrees and seven minutes west, Kim
June 8, 2012
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Fines set for watching DMB while driving
The government plans to impose fines for watching in-car TVs while driving after a deadly accident two months ago. The penalty is likely to range from 30,000 won ($26) up to 70,000 won, official said Thursday. The proposal was approved during an economic policy meeting presided over by President Lee Myung-bak. It will add new clauses to the traffic law, including imposing a 15-point penalty for watching digital multimedia broadcasting. A driver’s license is canceled if a driver gets 121 points i
June 7, 2012
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Seoul English camps recruit students
Seoul City Government said on Thursday its three English immersion camps will aim to recruit 4,192 elementary and middle school students during the summer vacation. The city’s Pungnap, Suyu and Gwanak camps will provide 14 vacation programs starting July 22.The students will stay at dormitories during the 10 to 13-day camps, which are themed “Olympics Story, English in Sports” in celebration of the 2012 London Olympics.The participating children will have an opportunity to learn English from nat
June 7, 2012
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Toxic gas leak at polysilicon factory poisons 42 in Yeosu
YEOSU (Yonhap News) ― A gas leak accident occurred Thursday afternoon at a polysilicon factory based in Yeosu, a port city 455 kilometers south of Seoul, poisoning more than 40 workers, fire authorities said.A total of 42 affected employees of Hankook Silicon Co. were taken to several nearby hospitals, with 41 of them experiencing bouts of nausea, the fire authorities said, but no casualties were reported.The company had been conducting test operations after it built an additional factory in the
June 7, 2012
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Toxic gas leak at polysilicon factory poisons 42
A gas leak accident occurred Thursday afternoon at a polysilicon factory based in Yeosu, a port city 455 kilometers south of Seoul, poisoning more than 40 workers, fire authorities said.A total of 42 affected employees of Hankook Silicon Co. were taken to several nearby hospitals, with 41 of them experiencing bouts of nausea, the fire authorities said, but no casualties were reported.The company h
June 7, 2012
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Korea to slap fines for watching TV while driving
South Korea plans to impose fines ranging from 30,000 won ($25.6) to 70,000 won on drivers caught watching a dashboard-mounted television while driving, officials said Thursday. Officials laid out the plan at an economic policy meeting presided over by President Lee Myung-bak earlier in the day. The current law prohibits drivers from watching television while driving, but there is no penalty.The p
June 7, 2012
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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