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Yoon apologizes for first lady Dior bag scandal, calls push for special probe ‘political’
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Girl hanging on bridge, police trying to rescue her both fall off; rescued immediately
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Korea forecast to overtake Taiwan in chip production by 2032: report
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[K-pop’s dilemma] Can K-pop break free from ‘fandom’ model?
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YouTuber fatally stabbed on livestream by another YouTuber in Busan
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No plan to let doctors with foreign licenses practice here anytime soon: PM
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Yoon rebuffs opposition's call for special probe into wife
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Stray Kids hit with racism in Met Gala photo line
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[News Analysis] Yoon's first 2 years marked by intense confrontations, lack of leadership
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Yoon apologizes for wife's 'unwise conduct'
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Teens beat girl to death for ‘badmouthing’
Police detained nine teenagers Wednesday for killing a 17-year-old girl and burying the body in a park.Police in Ilsan, on the outskirts of Seoul, said the runaway boys and girls beat the victim with blunt weapons on April 5 for badmouthing them. Two of them, however, felt guilty and later turned themselves in.Police will seek arrest warrants for the five suspects who are believed to have led in c
April 18, 2012
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Woman kills husband for assaulting daughter
A woman was arrested Tuesday for killing her husband who had sexually assaulted their disabled daughter. Their two other children were booked for assisting in the murder. Police in Seongnam said the 48-year-old woman and her son and daughter suffocated the man last Wednesday after biding his hands and feet with ropes and put tape on his mouth. They acted after the 48-year-old drunk father sexually
April 17, 2012
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Woman kills husband for assaulting daughter
A woman was arrested for killing her husband who sexually assaulted their daughter with disability. Their two children were booked for assisting the murder. <한글기사> 부인, 자녀와 합세, 남편 묶고 질식사 시켜성남 중원경찰서는 17일 딸을 폭행한다는 이유 로 자녀들과 함께 남편을 질식사 시킨 혐의(폭행치사 등)로 이모(48ㆍ여)씨를 구속 했다.또 어머니를 도운 자녀 2명을 같은혐의로 불구속 입건했다.경찰에 따르면 이씨는 지난 11일 밤 10시께 성남시 중원구 자신의 집에서 남편( 48)이 술을 마시고 뇌병변 장애를 앓고있는 딸(26)을 폭행하자 자녀들과 합세, 남편 의 손과 발을
April 17, 2012
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Kwak gets heavier punishment
Seoul education chief Kwak No-hyun, already convicted of buying out a rival candidate in the 2010 election, received a heavier sentence of one-year in prison in his appeals trial on Tuesday.The Seoul High Court upheld the lower court’s conviction of Kwak for election law violation and sentenced him to one year in prison, stating that the earlier fine of 30 million won was too weak for his offense. He said he would challenge the ruling and continue his legal fight into the Supreme Court and proba
April 17, 2012
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Jeju Healthcare Town to offer premium service
The construction of a complex to host high-quality medical facilities and attract foreign patients from around the world kicked off in Jeju on Tuesday.According to the Jeju Free International City Development Center, the 1.5 square-kilometer Jeju Healthcare Town project to be completed by 2014 will cater to both leisure and medical needs with top-quality services.“If the Healthcare Town project is successful, the nation’s medical industry is expected to become a growth engine and the Jeju econom
April 17, 2012
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KAIST student ‘worried for future’ kills self
A senior at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology was found dead after apparently jumping to his death Thursday. The death sent shock waves through the nation’s top science university, which saw a string of suicides last year.A fellow student found the body of the 22-year-old man, whose name was withheld, on the lawn in the dormitory complex at 5:40 a.m. Police suspect he jumped from the 15th floor of the building. The student left a suicide note inside his room, in which he rep
April 17, 2012
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14-year-old bullying victim found dead
Middle school student jumps to death after being bullied to join gangA middle school student was found dead after being bullied in Yeongju, North Gyeongsang Province on Monday. The death, an apparent suicide, comes just two months after the government unveiled a package of preventive measures when a string of school violence suicides shocked the nation. It also undermined President Lee Myung-bak’s visit to Yeoju Middle School in Gyeonggi Province on the same day to praise the school as an examp
April 17, 2012
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Korean society ambivalent about foreign labor
Calls for more migrant workers clash with concerns on economic impactIn the wee hours of a freezing day in January, hundreds of people, mostly middle-aged men, were lining up in front of a branch office of the Employment and Labor Ministry in Uijeongbu north of Seoul.Some of them had stayed in a makeshift tent for three days to keep their place in the line.The people, who run small manufacturing companies, were waiting to receive permits to employ a limited number of foreign workers in their fa
April 17, 2012
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Measures toughened on illicit workers
Law enforcement officers chasing illegal foreign workers has become more common across the country this year.Immigration authorities are strengthening efforts to reduce the number of illicit migrant laborers, which was estimated to exceed 167,000 as of the end of 2011.The proportion of illegal workers in the total expatriate workforce increased from 24 percent in 2010 to 29 percent last year.Officials at the Korea Immigration Service, an agency affiliated with the Justice Ministry, are concerned
April 17, 2012
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Appellate court sentences Seoul's education chief to prison
A Seoul appellate court on Tuesday sentenced the city's education chief Kwak No-hyun to a one-year prison term for bribing a rival candidate to drop out of the 2010 election, saying the 30 million won (US$26,337) fine given to him by a lower court was too light.The Seoul High Court, however, has deferred the prison sentence until the Supreme Court rules on the case, meaning Kwak can continue to se
April 17, 2012
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KAIST student commits suicide
A senior at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology was found dead after apparently jumping to his death Thursday. The death sent shock waves through the nation’s top science university, which saw a string of suicides last year.A fellow student found the body of the 22-year-old man, whose name was withheld, on the lawn in the dormitory complex at 5:40 a.m. Police suspect he jumped f
April 17, 2012
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Kim Ki-yong nominated as police chief
The National Police Agency’s No. 2 Kim Ki-yong, 55, has been nominated as the new commissioner general, police said on Monday.Kim will replace Cho Hyun-oh, who offered to resign on April 9 in responsibility for lax police response to a high-profile rape and murder case earlier this month.The police commission held a meeting in the afternoon and picked Kim as the single nominee to be recommended for appointment by President Lee Myung-bak. Kim joined the police after passing the state administrati
April 16, 2012
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Green exports jump 5-fold
Korea’s exports of eco-friendly products and technologies have increased fivefold over the past three years, data showed Monday. According to data from the state-run Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute, exports by the local environmental industry totaled 322 billion won ($283 million) in 2011. It represents a 522 percent increase from 2008, when the export amount stood at 51.8 billion won, the institute said. In one of the major overseas green deals clenched by local firms, Halla
April 16, 2012
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Seoul City, subway operator feud over fares
Line operator complains of deficit; municipality threatens to revoke licenseThe Seoul city government and the operator of Subway Line 9 are at odds over the latter’s unilateral decision to raise fares by 500 won, a 47 percent hike from the current 1,050 won.The government has threatened to penalize the subway operator should it enforce the plan.The fued erupted on Saturday when Seoul Metro Line9, the operator of the 25.5-kilometer section linking Gimpo and southern Seoul, announced that it would
April 16, 2012
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Medical Korea conference to kick off today
A conference intended to spur patient referrals from abroad and international exchanges of medical technology will be held at the COEX Grand Ballroom in Seoul from Tuesday through Thursday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Monday that it would host the Medical Korea 2012 Third Global Healthcare & Medical Tourism Conference to better meet the increasing demand for global exchange and referrals of knowledge and patients. According to ministry officials, seven seminar sessions will take plac
April 16, 2012
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Seoul doubles budget for overseas training of civil servants
Seoul Metropolitan Government is sending more officials overseas under the mayor’s pledge to expand overseas training of civil servantsOfficials said Monday that the city government plans to send about 780 officials abroad for the maximum two weeks of training from May to December, this year. Last year, 350 officials were dispatched to overseas training courses.The budget for overseas trainings of up to two weeks increased 52 percent from last year’s 1.3 billion won to 2.7 billion won to 2.7 bil
April 16, 2012
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Comedian Kim blasted for derogatory “prostitute” remarks
Korean comedian Kim Gu-Ra has found himself facing criticism after an audio file containing his comments degrading comfort women on an Internet broadcast program was disclosed Monday.In the audio file which lasts around thirty seconds, Kim compares comfort women to the eighty or so prostitutes who resisted an indiscriminate police crackdown in January 2002. It is understood that two buses were shared by the women as transport to a silent vigil, which was held in front of the National Human Right
April 16, 2012
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Korea finds 17th century map showing Sea of Korea
South Korea has found a 17th century nautical chart made by a British explorer marking the expanse of water between Korea and Japan as the Sea of Korea.The chart drawn by Sir Robert Dudley in 1646 was revealed just a week ahead of a general assembly meeting of the International Hydrographic Organization scheduled for April 23 through 27 in Monaco, which may possibly change the name of the waters currently named the Sea of Japan.South Korea wants the IHO to concurrently call the waters the East S
April 15, 2012
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Korea imported no oil, gas from its foreign fields
South Korea has imported no oil or natural gas from any of the overseas fields it controls, despite having poured a total of 16 trillion won ($14.1 billion) to secure these assets, the country’s audit and inspection agency said Saturday.The Board of Audit and Inspection announced, after reviewing the status of 17 overseas crude and gas production operations up till July 2011, that the country imported no fossil fuel resources from any of these fields. It said that of the 17, only two located in
April 15, 2012
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Police arrest suspect in air gun incident
Police on Saturday arrested a man suspected of vandalizing dozens of windows by shooting them with an air gun. They are now looking for his accomplice. Police said they are questioning a suspect whose vehicle matches the description of one seen fleeing the scene of the latest vandalism.Police found a black Sonata in an apartment parking lot in the northern district of Seongbuk. After checking the license plate, officers found that the vehicle was a rental car that it did not belong to any tenant
April 15, 2012