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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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Samsung chief bolsters ties with Germany’s Zeiss
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KT launches new mobile plans for foreign residents
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Nurse accused of fracturing newborn’s skull; more than 200,000 sign petition urging punishment
Public rage is escalating after a newborn baby suffered brain and skull injuries owing to alleged violence at a hospital.As of 2 p.m. Tuesday, 203,880 South Koreans had signed an online petition requesting a proper investigation and punishment of the person responsible for the infant’s injury. The petition was filed by the baby’s father on Oct. 24 at the website of presidential office Cheong Wa Dae. The presidential office is required to respond to petitions that receive more than 20
Nov. 19, 2019
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[News Focus] Women increasingly outnumber men in Korea
SEJONG -- The number of women was found to have overtaken that of men in South Korea more than four years ago, a demographic database held by the government showed.According to the Ministry of Interior and Safety, the changeover took place on June 2015, when the number of men per 100 women fell to 99.9 -- or by 25.7153 million male Koreans to 25.7157 million female Koreans.It was the first time the gender ratio had dropped below 100 since the nation began compiling the relevant figures.The ratio
Nov. 19, 2019
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2 dead, 1 injured in apparent suicide pact in Gapyeong
Five people were found inside a rented lodging in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province, Tuesday, with two dead and one seriously injured among them. When officers from the Gapyeong Police Station arrived at the two-story accommodations around 1:40 a.m., a woman in her 20s and a man in his 30s were found dead inside a room on the first floor. Notes of apology addressed to their families, believed to be written by the two deceased, were found in the room. The police believe the two died of gas intoxication
Nov. 19, 2019
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1 dead, 11 missing in ship fire in waters off Jeju Island
One person was confirmed dead and 11 others remained unaccounted for after a ship caught fire in waters west of South Korea's southern resort island of Jeju on Tuesday, the Coast Guard said.A fire broke out on the 29-ton fishing boat at around 7:09 a.m. in waters some 76 kilometers west of a small island that is located near Jeju Island, according to the maritime police.Rescue workers found one of the crew members at a location 7.4 km south of the accident site. The 60-year-old Korean surnamed K
Nov. 19, 2019
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Bus union in Seoul satellite city goes on strike
Union workers of a bus company in Goyang, west of Seoul, went on strike Tuesday after wage talks with management broke down. Myungsung Transportation's more than 270 buses on 20 lines, including one linking Seoul and the satellite city in Gyeonggi Province, stopped operation. The union and management failed to narrow their differences in an arbitration session presided over by the local labor authorities Monday and an additional meeting between the two sides earlier Tuesday. The union declared t
Nov. 19, 2019
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S. Korea issues cold wave alert for Seoul, central regions
South Korea issued a cold wave alert for Seoul and parts of central and eastern regions, effective from late Monday, the weather agency said.The cold wave watch will be applied to the capital city and the surrounding Gyeonggi Province, the administrative city of Sejong and central Chungcheong Province, as well as Gangwon Province in the east, as of 11 p.m., the Korea Meteorological Administration said. A cold wave notice is announced when the lowest temperature in the morning is forec
Nov. 18, 2019
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Roads becoming unsafe for senior citizens in S. Korea
As senior citizens increasingly make up a higher proportion of the population, roads here are becoming ever more dangerous for older people.Around 7 p.m. on Sunday, an 82-year-old man was hit consecutively by a taxi and a sedan making a right turn at an intersection in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province. He was taken to a hospital, but died within an hour. The police investigation showed the man was jaywalking when the first collision occurred. Last month, an 82-year-old on a bicycle was crushe
Nov. 18, 2019
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Prosecutors indict ex-Justice Minister Cho’s brother
On Monday, prosecutors indicted former Justice Minister Cho Kuk’s brother, Cho Kwon, accused of filing fraudulent lawsuits against a school foundation run by his family and of accepting money from job applicants in exchange for teaching positions at the school. Cho Kwon, who has been in custody since Oct. 31, is now the third member of the Cho family, after Cho Kuk’s wife and his cousin’s son, to face corruption charges. Cho has reportedly turned down ever
Nov. 18, 2019
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[Newsmaker] Korean man accused of murdering Vietnamese wife
A Korean man in his 50s was apprehended for allegedly murdering his Vietnamese wife, a woman 25 years his junior, the police said Monday. The Yangju Police Station said they are investigating a 55-year-old man on suspicion of murdering his 30-year-old Vietnamese wife at around 5:30 a.m. Saturday at his home, putting her body in the trunk of his car and dumping it in his hometown of Wanju, North Jeolla Province. The man, who was apprehended at around 1 p.m. on Sunday, reportedly admitted to
Nov. 18, 2019
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6 in 10 Koreans support hike in electricity prices to curb fine dust: survey
Nearly 6 in 10 Koreans are in favor of suspending coal-fired power plants to reduce particulate pollution from autumn through spring, even if it is accompanied by a hike in electricity rates, a survey showed Sunday. According to the poll of 2,000 Korean adults by a national anti-fine dust body, 78.3 percent of the respondents approved of enforcing a seasonal dust management system between December and March, when Korea typically sees high levels of PM 2.5 -- -- ultrafine particles smaller than 2
Nov. 17, 2019
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Police bust 10,000 drunk drivers in 50-day crackdown
More than 10,000 people were caught driving under the influence of alcohol during a 50-day nationwide crackdown on reckless driving, the National Police Agency said Sunday. During the clampdown between Sep. 9 and Oct. 28, 11,275 people were caught for dangerous driving acts, including 10,593 drunk drivers and 662 reckless drivers. Among those caught, 13 have been arrested with detention, including a driver who had his license revoked in the past for DUI but was again caught at the wheel wi
Nov. 17, 2019
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[Newsmaker] Lawyer who faked 184 refugee applications gets suspended sentence
A South Korean lawyer who illegally helped foreign nationals apply for refugee status was give a one year jail term, suspended for two years, the court said Sunday.The Seoul Central District Court ordered the 46-year-old attorney, surnamed Kang, for violating the Immigration Control Act on Wednesday. The court also gave the law firm to which Kang was affiliated a 5 million won ($4,280) fine for illegally employing a foreign national without a visa for Chinese interpretation work.Between October
Nov. 17, 2019
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Railway workers to go on general strike next week
South Korean railway workers will launch a general strike next week to demand higher pay and more workforce, the railway workers' union said Sunday. The Korean Railway Workers' Union said its unionized workers will enter an industrial action for an indefinite period starting Wednesday, demanding the addition of 4,000 workers and an increase of 4 percent in basic salary. If the railway union enters a general strike as planned next week, it will stage an indefinite industrial action for the first
Nov. 17, 2019
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S. Korea ranks among top OECD member countries in treatment of cancer: data
South Korea ranks as one of the leading members among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in the treatment of cancer, medical data showed Sunday.The 2019 Health at a Glance report released by the Paris-based organization said Asia's fourth-largest economy had the highest five-year survival rate for colorectal, rectal and stomach cancers in the 32 member states checked, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, which examined the data, said. The cancer survival rate, which is a ke
Nov. 17, 2019
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[Newsmaker] Court orders consulate to rethink visa denial for K-pop singer
The Seoul High Court on Friday upheld a Supreme Court decision in favor of Korean American Steve Seung Jun Yoo, also known as Yoo Seung-jun, requiring the South Korean Consulate in Los Angeles to reconsider its 2017 decision to deny the former K-pop singer an F-4 residency visa. With the exception of a brief visit, the Korean-born singer and actor has been banned from his birth country since 2002, when he became a naturalized US citizen and evaded his mandatory military duty in Korea. Korea&rs
Nov. 15, 2019
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Police: Lee Chun-jae is behind all Hwaseong murders
SUWON -- Police said Friday they have reached a provisional conclusion that all 10 of the Hwaseong serial murders were committed by the same man.Lee Chun-jae, who is serving life imprisonment for a similar murder, admitted in October his involvement in 10 crimes linked to the serial murder case after DNA tests identified him as the key suspect in at least five cases.Ten women were killed in the rural village of Hwaseong, south of Seoul, between 1986 and 1991 in the country's worst serial murder
Nov. 15, 2019
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S. Korea to conduct anti-fine dust exercise Friday
The South Korean government will conduct an anti-fine dust exercise this week in an effort to minimize damage from the air pollution, officials said Thursday. The exercise, slated for Friday, will involve the presidential office, a few ministries and 17 major city and provincial governments to test policy measures to cope with the fine dust air pollution which tends to be worse from December to March. "The exercise is aimed at comprehensi
Nov. 14, 2019
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Joint probe launched into weapons lab explosion in Daejeon
Authorities are investigating an explosion at a state-run weapons development facility in Daejeon that killed one and injured six others on Wednesday.The Daejeon Metropolitan Police Agency said Thursday that it has set up an on-site probe team with the fire agency, the National Forensic Service and other investigative agencies, to identify the cause of the chemical explosion at the Agency of Defense Development. The explosion occurred around 4 p.m. on Wednesday inside the rocket fuel lab l
Nov. 14, 2019
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[News Focus] Meager birthrate expected to undermine Korea’s GDP
SEJONG -- The number of South Koreans aged 14 or under accounted for only 12.5 percent of the total population as of October 2019, according to the Ministry of Interior and Safety.The demographic database held by the ministry includes classification into three groups -- those aged up to 14, those aged 15-64 (called the working-age population) and those aged 65 or over (the senior population).The data showed that the percentage of the youngest generation has continued to fall over the past decade
Nov. 14, 2019
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[Newsmaker] Koreans sit for national college entrance exam
Nearly half a million people sat for the annual state-administered college entrance exam Thursday, with the number of test-takers marking an all-time low. The College Scholastic Aptitude Test, locally known as Suneung, began at 1,185 exam venues across the country at 8:40 a.m. and ended at 5:40 p.m. A total of 482,348 people had sat for the exam for academic year 2020 as of 2:20 p.m. A total of 548,734 people applied to take the nine-hour back-to-back exams, down 46,190 from the
Nov. 14, 2019