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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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[Weekender] How DDP emerged as an icon of Seoul
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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Doctor group's incoming head renews call for govt. to scrap medical school quota hike for dialogue
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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[Music in drama] An ode to childhood trauma
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'The Roundup: Punishment' becomes fastest 2024 film to top 2 mln admissions
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Hanjin Heavy union endorses agreement
A prolonged labor dispute at Hanjin Heavy shipyard finally came to an end on Thursday, after workers approved a deal reached a day earlier between union leaders and the management. In a unanimous decision, unionized workers of Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co. approved the compromise deal, which calls for the company to rehire 94 laid-off workers within a year. Following the endorsement, labor activist and former Hanjin worker Kim Jin-suk came down from a giant tower crane at the compan
Nov. 10, 2011
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More than 690,000 students take college entrance exam
More than 690,000 high school students and graduates took the state-administered annual college entrance exam on Thursday, a crucial test seen as a deciding factor in an applicant’s choice of college and subsequent career.The number of test takers dropped 2.6 percent from last year to 693,634, of which about three-quarters were high school students and 22 percent were graduates, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said. The test were administered at 1,207 centers nationwide.The sta
Nov. 10, 2011
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Test takers undergo stressful rite of passage
College entrance exam weighs on students, parents, even exam writersPark Jae-heung, a senior at Shinjang High School in Hanam, Gyeonggi Province, was hospitalized with acute pancreatitis three days before she took the state-administered college entrance exam on Thursday. Though she suffered from pain and a high fever after surgery, she made up her mind to take the exam which could play a decisive role in what university she attends and career she pursues.This year, over 690,000 students took the
Nov. 10, 2011
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Dozens of sex offenders found working illegally at youth facilities
Police have uncovered dozens of convicted sex offenders working at schools and other educational facilities for minors in violation of a law banning their employment at such places, officials said Thursday.Under the law, those convicted of sex crimes and sentenced to a minimum punishment of a fine a
Nov. 10, 2011
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Korean man sends his cut-off pinky to Japanese embassy
An unemployed South Korean man has been booked for investigation after he cut off part of his left pinky and sent it to the Japanese embassy in protest of Tokyo's territorial claim to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo, police said Wednesday.The 47-year-old, identified by his family name Choi
Nov. 9, 2011
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Farmers hold sit-in protest at GNP lawmakers’ offices
Farmers staged sit-in protests at five regional offices of lawmakers of the Grand National Party on Wednesday, demanding the conservative ruling party drop its move to ratify the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.Protesters had occupied offices of three more GNP legislators, including Rep. Lee Sang-deuk, the older brother of President Lee Myung-bak, but they dispersed in the afternoon after they conveyed their demand to the lawmakers’ aides.“The protests are to denounce the GNP, which is moving to
Nov. 9, 2011
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International schools becoming alternative to early study abroad
International schools in Korea are hitting the spotlight as a competitive alternative to early study abroad. The schools have lower limits on Korean student enrollment than foreign schools in Korea, but their high fees have led to criticism that they provide an elite education that ordinary people cannot afford.Parents are attracted by schools that offer the same international curriculum as provided overseas but do not require them to live apart from their children. Study abroad has declined in
Nov. 9, 2011
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Morning rush hour adjusted for college test
The morning rush hour and public transportation schedule will be adjusted Thursday for the annual state-run examination for college admission.The College Scholastic Ability Test, a key decider of college entrance, will take place throughout the nation on Thursday.Government offices and companies with over 50 employees advised their employees on Wednesday to come to work one hour late to alleviate traffic for students heading to test sites, government officials said.And more subways trains and bu
Nov. 9, 2011
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SK chairman faces embezzlement charges
State prosecutors said on Wednesday they had found enough circumstantial evidence to accuse SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won of embezzling at least 99.2 billion won ($88.8 million) in company funds to make up for the losses from his investment in futures. The prosecution is looking into materials confiscated from its raid a day earlier on five SK affiliates ― SK C&C, SK Holdings, SK Gas Co., SK Telecom and SK E&S ― as a prelude to summoning of suspects including Chey and his younger brother Jae-wo
Nov. 9, 2011
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Park foregoes formalities
Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon will forego the traditional inauguration ceremonies, opting to make his pledge online, city official said Wednesday.According to a Seoul Metropolitan Government source, Park will hold his inauguration in his office and broadcast it live for an hour next Wednesday.“The Seoul city hall homepage will be revamped to feature the inauguration in a live streaming broadcast,” said the city official, who declined to give his name.“The inauguration preparations are being made to
Nov. 9, 2011
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Hanjin Heavy reaches tentative settlement of labor dispute over layoffs
BUSAN, Nov. 9 (Yonhap) -- Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction hammered out a tentative agreement with its unionized workers on Wednesday to end an 11-month-long labor dispute sparked by the shipmaker's massive layoffs. The provisional deal calls for the shipmaker to reinstate within one year 94 f
Nov. 9, 2011
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Father gets suspended term for beating daughter with bamboo stick, physical workouts
A Seoul appellate court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling and sentenced the father of a teenage girl to a suspended prison term for beating her with a bamboo stick and forcing her to do long physical workouts.The father, identified as Choi, 48, was indicted last year on charges of harsh treat
Nov. 9, 2011
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Senior actor found dead in apparent suicide
A senior South Korean actor was found dead in his small rented room on Tuesday of an apparent suicide, police said.Kim Choo-ryun, a 64-year-old actor who had his heyday in the 1970s, was found hanging in his studio in Gimhae, 449 kilometers southeast of Seoul, the police said.He seemed to have kille
Nov. 8, 2011
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Cheonggyecheon teems with hazardous bacteria
A popular stream running through downtown Seoul, which is visited by millions of people annually, has been severely polluted by bacteria, a report by the city government showed Tuesday.According to the report, submitted to Seoul council member Jang Hwan-jin of the Democratic Party, parts of the Cheonggyecheon stream contain as many as 53 times the legal limit of colon bacillus. The standard for the number of bacteria for a body of water suitable for swimming is 1,000 per 100 milliliters.The stud
Nov. 8, 2011
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Maximum penalty for match-fixing rises to W50m
The government on Tuesday toughened punishments for match fixing in local professionals sports, in light of a major match-rigging scandal that shook the nation’s top division football league earlier this year.During a Cabinet meeting held at Cheong Wa Dae, the government passed a bill on revising the national sports promotion law, which governs sales of Sports Toto, the only licensed sports lottery in South Korea.Under the change, players or coaches who receive or demand bribes in attempts to fi
Nov. 8, 2011
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Foreign wife a voice for multicultural families
First Mongolian native employed by central government ministryJeong Su-rim is an exceptional housewife, mother and public servant who still finds time to pursue further education. The 36-year-old mother cares for her two sons, who are nine and 11-years-old, while working a nine-to-six job at the Ministry of Gender Equality & Family, in the Multicultural Family Division.At night Jeong also attends graduate school courses at Seoul Women’s University to get her master’s in social welfare.Jeong migh
Nov. 8, 2011
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Seoul City to offer rent-free offices to foreign entrepreneurs
The Seoul city government is offering rent-free offices for six months to foreign entrepreneurs here in Korea, officials said Tuesday. The four incubation facilities for foreign business startups will provide basic office equipment, internet support and business management resources. Three offices, each 5.75 square meters, are located in the Global Business Support Center in Gangnam COEX, and a 25.9-square-meter office is in the new Seoul International Finance Center in Yeouido. The city will se
Nov. 8, 2011
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Prosecutors raid SK offices
Prosecutors on Tuesday raided the head office of SK Group, widening their investigation into suspicions surrounding catastrophic financial investments made by its chairman Chey Tae-won. Investigators from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office descended upon the group’s headquarters in central Seoul early in the morning to search for evidence. The raid concurrently took place in 10 places, including the office of SK Holdings, the group’s de facto holding company controlled by the group’s
Nov. 8, 2011
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Gang members infiltrated U.S. forces in S. Korea: FBI
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Yonhap) -- American gang members have signed up for the U.S. military forces stationed in South Korea, a recent U.S. gang assessment report showed Monday, posing possible criminal threats to local law enforcement. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in the October report th
Nov. 8, 2011
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Three S. Korean men kidnapped in Philippines: official
Three South Korean businessmen who have been missing on a southern island in the Philippines since late last month have been confirmed as kidnapped by unidentified gunmen, a foreign ministry official in Seoul said Monday. The three Korean miners have been missing since Oct. 21 on the Philippine island of Mindanao and local police recently confirmed that they are held by gunmen, the official said on the condition of anonymity. The gunmen have demanded a ransom for the Korean miners, the official
Nov. 7, 2011