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Korea enters full election mode
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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Lee Jong-sup resigns as envoy to Australia
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Yellow dust engulfs S. Korea, advisory alert issued
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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S. Korea to boost support for single-parent families
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Court upholds jail term for man who attempted to murder ex-girlfriend
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Kia EV9 wins world car of year
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Korea misses out on global bond index boost
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1m lose jobs for managerial reasons in 2011
Builders hit hardest; labor group cites relaxed rules on massive dismissalsMore than a million workers lost their jobs last year as a result of restructuring, layoffs or bankruptcy amid a sluggish domestic economy, government data showed Thursday. According to employment insurance statistics provided by the Labor Ministry, a total of 2.13 million workers exited the national employment insurance scheme due to involuntary termination of employment, accounting for nearly 40 percent of the total who
March 8, 2012
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Foreign law firms eye Korean market
As the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement effectuation nears, foreign law firms are seeking ways to penetrate the Korean market. Whether they will aggravate the trade balance in the field is questionable, but domestic firms are also gearing up to take measures against the “invasion.”According to the Ministry of Justice, seven U.S.-based law firms applied to gain licenses as advisers on foreign law Tuesday, the first day of applications. They are Paul Hastings, Ropes & Gray, Sheppard Mullin, Cleary
March 7, 2012
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CNK head added to Interpol wanted list
Prosecutors have placed Oh Deok-gyun, head of CNK International, on Interpol’s wanted list to get him back to Korea from Cameroon for questioning on the company’s stock rigging scandal, officials said.Despite the prosecution’s repeated requests to return home, Oh is still believed to be staying in Cameroon.He is under suspicion of intentionally leading the Foreign Ministry to publish an exaggerated press release about a diamond mine’s reserves for which the company won the mining rights. He is a
March 7, 2012
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Na’s husband to be summoned
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency will summon the husband of former ruling party lawmaker Na Kyung-won over allegations that he used his influence as a judge to ask a prosecutor to indict a netizen for posting slanderous remarks about Na on the internet in 2005.The allegations were first brought forward by SisaIN reporter Choo Chin-woo on the podcast “Naneun Ggomsuda.” In the podcast Choo alleged that Na’s husband Kim Jae-ho used his influence in the prosecution of the netizen. Following the
March 7, 2012
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Medical support set for undocumented migrants
The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced Wednesday it will provide medical aid to undocumented foreign workers in the capital, who are not entitled to social security and health care insurance. The city government plans to cover surgery costs and hospital charges up to 5 million won ($4,400) and provide interpretation and nursing services for up to a month depending on patients’ conditions, officials said. “We are focusing on uninsured foreign workers. We are going to visit districts such as
March 7, 2012
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Malaysians arrested for shopping spree on forged cards
Police said Wednesday they have arrested three Malaysians suspected of going on a lavish shopping spree on forged credit cards in South Korea‘s famous department stores and tax-free shops. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said the three, including a 41-year-old man identified by the initial of his name J, used forged credit cards to purchase 290 million won ($257,600) worth of designer handbags and watches as well as high-end IT gadgets like the iPad and Galaxy Note. They made three one-nigh
March 7, 2012
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Commission identifies Korean casualties of U.S. bombing of Tokyo
The government identified 95 Koreans who died during the bombing of Tokyo during World War Two, a prime ministerial commission said Tuesday. This is the first time Korean casualties of the attack have been identified.The incident refers to the carpet bombing of Tokyo made by the U.S. Air Force that began on March 9, 1945. About 2,400 metric tons of incendiary bombs were dropped on the Japanese capital during the raid, killing more than 100,000 people.According to Korean and Japanese research, be
March 6, 2012
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Ranking female civil servants increase fivefold since 2000
Women are taking a bigger role in devising and implementing national policies in South Korea as the number of mid-to-high level female public officials has increased fivefold over the past decade, data showed Tuesday.According to the data compiled by the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, 2,143 female officials were ranked at grade 5 or higher in the administrative branch in 2010, up from 420 in 2000. South Korea’s officialdom is classified in nine grades, with grade 1 being the hig
March 6, 2012
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Fukushima residents seek S. Korea resettlement
A Japanese pastor has visited South Korea seeking immigration for dozens of residents after their region was devastated by a nuclear disaster last year, an official said Tuesday.Pastor and civic activist Nagato Tsuboi from Fukushima visited the southwestern county of Jangsu last month, a county official told AFP on condition of anonymity.“He came with several South Korean estate developers and said he was looking to buy land at a place similar to Fukushima, like our county and Jeju,” he said. Je
March 6, 2012
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Korean investors sue Deutsche Bank
Investors claiming to have lost money as a result of the Deutsche Bank’s stock manipulations have filed a lawsuit against the bank and Korea Investment and Securities Co. According to the Seoul Central District Court on Tuesday, six investors brought a suit against the two institutions seeking 100 million won ($89,000), claiming that an equity linked securities investment program operated by Korea Investment and Securities made a loss due to Deutsche Bank’s stock manipulations. In the complaint,
March 6, 2012
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Seoul City to recruit more female leaders
Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon vowed to promote gender equality, as he announced a set of strategies to improve women’s lives on Tuesday. His announcement came two days before International Women’s Day on March 8 and as part of his election pledge to change the lives of women in areas such as employment, safety and health.To asses whether existing policies run counter to gender equality, the city established a gender equality committee last month. The 35-member committee of city officials, social wor
March 6, 2012
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Seoul education chief under pressure
Conservative teachers, parents demand Kwak’s resignation, probe on allegationsSeoul educational superintendent Kwak No-hyun is engulfed in feuds with conservative teachers, workers and parents’ groups over his alleged censorship of criticism against him and his favor of progressive teachers and workers. The conservatives have threatened to take legal steps against the Seoul education chief, who has just entered a fresh round in the legal battle over his corruption scandal. On Tuesday morning, Le
March 6, 2012
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Holy emissions! Churches save energy
Neon crosses atop churches have long been a feature in the night scenes across the country.It suddenly came to the mind of Yoo Mi-ho, a researcher of the Korean Church Institute for Ecology, last July that they might be symbolic of the civic movement for abolishing nuclear power through electricity saving and other means.“Most of the rooftop crosses, installed three or four decades ago, were illuminated with neon lights, which consume about the same amount of electricity as each household,” she
March 6, 2012
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Rethinking ‘inevitability’ of nuclear energy
Fukushima disaster heightens anti-atomic campaign; government unswayedIn his campaign for the by-election of Gangwon governor last year, Um Ki-young, the conservative ruling party candidate, pledged to attract a nuclear power plant to the province.He blasted his rival from the liberal main opposition party for being lukewarm on the idea, which he said would help vitalize the economy of the area.But Um, a former president of a major broadcasting company, was put on the defensive when a nuclear po
March 6, 2012
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Children more vulnerable to Internet addiction than adults
More children are addicted to the Internet than adults, and teenagers are the most likely age group to suffer Internet addiction, a government study found Monday.Children aged 5-9 are more addicted to the Internet, at 7.9 percent, than adults aged 20-49 who had an addiction rate of 6.8 percent, according to the study by the Public Administration Ministry and the National Information Society Agency. The addiction rate for children is higher than the average rate of 7.7 percent for all age groups.
March 5, 2012
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Three broadcasters stage joint strike
Demand CEOs resign to take responsibility for ‘censoring news’Unions at three leading broadcasters agreed Monday to stage a joint strike against what they claim is interference in reporting from politically biased management.This is the first time the three networks will carry out a simultaneous strike and their collective action is expected to have an impact on the April general elections. The union members from KBS, MBC and YTN held a launch ceremony of their walkout in central Seoul on Monday
March 5, 2012
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Health Ministry to open pharmaceutical grad schools
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Monday that it planned to open two graduate schools dedicated to the pharmaceuticals industry in September. The government has started looking for universities interested in hosting the schools, one in Seoul or its outskirts and another elsewhere in the country. The ministry plans to open the schools in September in time for the start of the second semester of the year. The Korea Health Industry Development Institute will hold a briefing for the interested
March 5, 2012
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Three broadcasters to stage joint strike
Demand CEOs resign to take responsibility for ‘censoring news’Unions at three leading broadcasters agreed Monday to stage a joint strike against what they claim is interference in reporting from politically biased management.This is the first time the three networks will carry out a simultaneous strike and their collective action is expected to have an impact on the April general elections. The union members from KBS, MBC and YTN held a launch ceremony of their walkout in central Seoul on Monday
March 5, 2012
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Children more vulnerable to Internet addiction than adults
More children are addicted to the Internet than adults, and teenagers are the most likely age group to suffer Internet addiction, a government study found Monday.Children aged 5-9 are more addicted to the Internet, at 7.9 percent, than adults aged 20-49 who had an addiction rate of 6.8 percent, according to the study by the Public Administration Ministry and the National Information Society Agency. The addiction rate for children is higher than the average rate of 7.7 percent for all age groups.
March 5, 2012
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2,800 school gang members under police monitoring
The police said Monday that the number of school gang members under their observation is 2,831. After weeks of profiling school gangs likely to cause school violence, the police drew up their list of school gangs nationwide. The list is categorized by two groups -― 129 school gangs which are currently under investigation or have been probed, and 36 groups with a high chance of committing school violence in the future, the police said. The police plans to break up groups they believe have contrib
March 5, 2012