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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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Allegations surrounding BTS resurface, enraged fans demand apology
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Students with history of violence will be barred from becoming teachers
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Medical feud leaves hospitals in financial crisis
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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Chip up cycle won’t stay long: SK chief
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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Speaker floats dual citizenship as solution to falling births
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Revised criminal law puts leash on prosecutors
New regulations will put in place stricter requirements for search warrants issued in criminal investigations to prevent personal and irrelevant information from being leaked by prosecutors, the Supreme Court said Thursday.Taking effect this year, the revised Criminal Procedure Law will include a new article pertaining to the seizure of electronic storage devices, designed to prevent irrelevant information from being seized by unrestrained prosecutors.According to the new provision, seizures of
Jan. 5, 2012
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Student rights blamed for bullying spike
Conservatives, progressives clash over controversial ordinance againThe recent school violence cases have sparked controversy again over the student rights ordinance passed in December, which bans corporal punishment and scraps some aspects of the student dress code.Conservative and progressive teachers have clashed over some issues in the ordinance applicable to all elementary and secondary schools in Seoul, including respect of students’ sexual orientation, pregnancy and childbirth, religion a
Jan. 5, 2012
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Pork beats beef in vitamin B1, non-saturated fat
‘Boiled or steamed pork better for health than fried or barbecued’Pork is one of the most consumed meats in Korea. According to the Korea Rural Economic Institute, Koreans consumed 1.37 million tons of pork last year, about 1.3 percent of the global pork consumption. The meat is used in many dishes popular here, from kimchi jjigae (kimchi stew), bossam (boiled pork eaten with kimchi) to samgyeopsal gui (grilled pork belly).Pork is known to contain 10 times as much vitamin B1 as beef. Vitamin B1
Jan. 5, 2012
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Elderly stroke patients suffer arrhythmia more
Stroke patients over 65 years old are likely to suffer arrhythmia, which could be critical, professor Kim Yong-jae of Ewha Womans University Medical Center said Tuesday. Kim and his team studied a total of 869 people who were hospitalized last year to treat cerebral infarction, caused by a disturbance in the blood vessels supplying blood to the brain. He found that 198 of them had arrhythmia, or an irregular heart beat. The older the patients were, the more likely they had the heart disorder, Ki
Jan. 5, 2012
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SK chairman indicted without detention on embezzlement charges
Prosecutors said Thursday they have indicted SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won on charges of embezzlement, but he will be allowed to stand trial without physical detention. The indictment came about a week after they arrested the group's vice chairman, Chey's younger brother Jae-won, over the same char
Jan. 5, 2012
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China: Bird flu death not from human-human spread
BEIJING (AP) _ The strain of H5H1 bird flu that killed a Chinese man cannot spread among people, a health agency said Monday, appealing for calm after the country's first reported case of the disease in humans in 18 months.Genetic analysis indicated the virus spread directly from poultry to the vict
Jan. 5, 2012
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Foreign language notices for civil defense drills
Non-Korean speakers will now be able to know what is going on when they hear air raid sirens in the middle of the day in Seoul. The Seoul Metro said Wednesday they would announce the civil defense and other drills for terrorism, subway accidents, blackouts and fires in multiple languages including English, Chinese and Japanese, so that foreigners in the capital will know what’s happening around them and what they should do. “The number of foreign visitors to Korea now reaches about 10 million (a
Jan. 4, 2012
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Hyundai, Kia to hire 1,400 to cut work hours
Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Motors Corp. plan to hire 1,400 new workers and invest about 360 billion won in facilities this year in order to abolish night shifts and reduce excessive working hours, the labor ministry said Wednesday. The nation’s largest and second largest carmakers will phase out their current two-shift production system until they will run two day shifts only starting from later this year. They plan to complete the transition by 2013. The decision came after their w
Jan. 4, 2012
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Korea checking suspected bird flu case
South Korea's agriculture ministry said Wednesday that it is checking on a suspected case of bird flu at a duck farm in the northern part of the country.The farm ministry said a large duck farm in Icheon, 80 kilometers north of Seoul, reported symptoms that may indicate the birds have been infected
Jan. 4, 2012
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Female lawmakers rise in number, expand legislative activities
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Yonhap) -- The rising number of female lawmakers has led to an expansion in their legislative activities, slowly introducing groundwork for gender equality at the male-dominated National Assembly, a government report showed on Wednesday.According to the report by the state-run Korean
Jan. 4, 2012
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Government invites foreign scientists
The Education and Science Ministry announced Wednesday they are inviting foreign scientists to take part in the research projects of local colleges, research centers and companies. The annual invitation program is offers them a chance to join local research projects. Foreign scientists and Korean scientists working overseas who have more than five years of experience or outstanding achievements are eligible to apply.The fields open for application are pure science, mechanical engineering, materi
Jan. 4, 2012
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Seoul police launch special anti-school violence squad
The police force in Seoul launched a special squad on Wednesday in a bid to root out school violence as a string of recent suicides by young bullied students drew attention to rampant violence in classrooms.The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency commissioned the “School Police,” a squad that will work jointly with the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, earlier in the day. The special team, composed of officers with backgrounds in adolescent education and psychology, will be dispatched to elem
Jan. 4, 2012
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Police row over call for chief’s resignation
Some urge unity in fighting for independent police investigation rightsThe nation’s police force is split on calls for their chief to resign after the lack of progress with prosecutors regarding the dispute over investigative authority.The National Police Agency is divided between those calling for Commissioner General Cho Hyun-oh to step down, and those calling for unity within the agency. The latter see a united front as important in fighting the controversial presidential decree, which mandat
Jan. 4, 2012
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Male officials with newborns may work shorter hours
Male civil servants with newborns may be given an hour off their work day to attend to their children in a move to raise the country’s low birthrate and time spent with family, government officials said Wednesday.According to the Ministry of Public Administration and Security’s 2012 plan, officials are discussing the feasibility of expanding the current measure which allows female civil servants with an infant an hour off their day to include fathers.The Seoul Metropolitan Government has also ru
Jan. 4, 2012
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Ministry seeks bill for disclosing cigarette toxins
The government is working on a bill that would require tobacco makers to disclose the harmful substances in their products in a bid to curb smoking.The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Wednesday that it also will come up with a roadmap for when and by how much to raise cigarette prices.Under the bill all tobacco makers would be required to notify consumers of the additives and other harmful substances contained in cigarettes. Currently, only major toxins such as tar and nicotine are listed on
Jan. 4, 2012
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Gov't to expand daily parental leave
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Yonhap) -- The government said Wednesday it will expand beneficiaries of its daily one-hour parental leave to include pregnant public servants and male officials who have a baby younger than one year old, as part of efforts to boost the country's birthrate.Currently, only female offic
Jan. 4, 2012
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Ex-aide of KCC chief under bribery probe
Prosecutors said Tuesday they have launched an investigation into allegations that a former aide to the communications watchdog’s head received massive bribes from an operator of a local education institution, who is also suspected of embezzlement.The probe was opened to verify the allegations that the aide, surnamed Jeong, received nearly 200 million won ($173,800) from Kim Hak-in, the chairman of the board for Korea Broadcasting and Art School, a college-level vocational school focused on broa
Jan. 4, 2012
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‘School violence policies ineffective’
Experts call for long-term measures involving the whole of societyMeasures to deal with school violence have mostly been ineffective and short-sighted, the head of an anti-bullying group has said. Recent school bullying-related suicides have attracted media attention and the government has once again proposed a set of measures and held a series of high-level and school-level meetings to devise new ways to prevent bullying. But Kim Gun-chan, director of the School Violence Prevention Center, a ci
Jan. 4, 2012
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Probe launched into bribery allegations surrounding communications watchdog head
Prosecutors said Tuesday they have launched an investigation into allegations that a former aide to the communications watchdog's head received massive bribes from an operator of a local education institution, who is also suspected of embezzlement.The probe was opened to verify the allegations that
Jan. 3, 2012
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Conflict reemerges over investigative authority
Police agency sends out guidelines limiting prosecutors’ influenceThe controversial presidential decree on the enforcement of the Criminal Procedure Act hit a roadblock on Monday, only two days after its implementation. On Monday, Suseong Police Station in Daegu refused to carry out directives from the city’s prosecutors’ office to conduct an internal investigation, becoming the first police station to do so.“With the decree going into effect, the prosecutors can direct investigations, but an in
Jan. 3, 2012