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Yoon’s jailed mother-in-law excluded from latest parole list
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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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[Pressure points] Leggings in public: Fashion statement or social faux pas?
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Nicaragua shuts down Seoul embassy
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Rocket engine expert, ex-NASA exec to lead Korea's new space agency
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SK hynix pledges W20tr to ramp up DRAM production at home
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SNU profs to suspend treatment for one day
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Hybe's multilabel system tested amid conflict with Ador
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Over-50s, men, single-person households take up majority of those filing for bankruptcy
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[Graphic News] 34% of Korean adolescents have thought about suicide: poll
Nearly 34 percent of South Korean adolescents have thought about killing themselves because of academic pressure, a recent survey showed. The grim finding came in the National Youth Policy Institute’s survey of 9,060 elementary, middle and high school students conducted from June-August last year. According to the results, 33.8 percent of students polled said they had considered taking their own lives over the previous year. The biggest reason was pressure they felt over academic achie
Aug. 7, 2019
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Some air purifiers fall short of claimed performance: ministry
Some air purifiers sold here, both foreign and local brands, fall short of the output promised by manufacturers, the government said Wednesday. A total of 35 models of air purifiers and 50 models of anti-particulate pollution facial masks met the criteria for safety, according to an inspection jointly conducted by the Ministry of Environment and relevant agencies. Five purifier models, however, fell short of results the manufacturers promised, such as on their capabilities to remove
Aug. 7, 2019
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Prosecution to issue warrants in foreign languages
The prosecution will use warrants translated into foreign languages when apprehending or arresting foreign suspects as part of efforts to better protect their human rights in investigations and court proceedings, it said Wednesday. The apprehension, arrest and search warrants, as well as some 60 major criminal charges, will be translated into 15 languages and distributed to prosecutors’ offices across the country, according to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office.The translated vers
Aug. 7, 2019
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Activists hold rally against Japan's wartime sex slavery amid trade spat
A group of activists in Seoul, protesting against Japan's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, held a weekly rally Wednesday, expressing hope that it would be their last one.More than 1,000 people gathered in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, where a girl statue is located to symbolize those who were forced to serve as sex slaves for Japanese troops during World War II, according to an organizing civic group. The victims are widely called "comfort women." Local activists,
Aug. 7, 2019
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Police track far-right online community post plotting President Moon assassination
Police are tracking an online community post plotting the assassination of President Moon Jae-in.Seoul Gangbuk Police Station said Wednesday they are trying to identify the user behind a post published on far-right website Ilbe on Saturday.In the post, an unidentified member claims to have illegally obtain a gun with the intention to assassinate the president, alongside a photo of a handgun, two pistol magazines and cartridges. Beneath that photo is a digitally manipulated photo of Moon in priso
Aug. 7, 2019
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Lawmaker pushes bill to strip convicted doctors of licenses
Ruling Democratic Party Rep. Kwon Chil-seung proposed Tuesday a bill prohibiting doctors convicted of violent crimes from practicing medicine. If it passes, physicians who have committed murder, burglary, sexual assault, drug offenses or human trafficking will be banned from practicing medicine.The proposed bill asks to revoke the licenses of medical professionals found guilty of such crimes and grant patients access to information about medical professionals with criminal records. Kwo
Aug. 7, 2019
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Fire in Anseong put out after injuring 11
A fire at a box factory in Anseong, Gyeonggi Province, was extinguished early Wednesday, 12 hours after it broke out, injuring two firefighters and nine others. According to the Gyeonggi-do Fire Department, the fire started around 1:15 p.m. Tuesday at the two-story manufacturing building with a single underground floor. It was completely put out around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. Authorities said the fire was started by an explosion inside the fuel tank located on the basement floor. The fire departmen
Aug. 7, 2019
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Taxi driver suspended for 30 days for cheating foreign passenger
A Seoul court has sentenced a taxi driver to a 30-day suspension for attempting to deceive a foreign passenger into paying extra charges, court officials said Wednesday.The taxi driver, whose identity was withheld, was booked in March last year on charges of asking his passenger, a visitor from overseas, to pay an extra charge of 20-percent after he intentionally pushed an out-of-city trip button on the fare meter, though the trip occurred within Seoul. The driver launched a lawsuit after Seoul'
Aug. 7, 2019
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Ministry to process all illegal waste within the year
The Ministry of Environment announced its plan Tuesday to process all waste across the country that has been illegally dumped, neglected and exported within this year, three years earlier than initially scheduled. As of the end of July the ministry had completed treatment of 45.7 percent, or 550,000 tons, of the illegal waste and plans to process the remaining 650,000 tons within the year, according to the ministry.The illegal waste around the country is composed of 859,000 tons of waste that ha
Aug. 6, 2019
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‘No Japan’ flags in Seoul streets taken down in face of public outrage
The Jung-gu district office in Seoul took down its “No Japan” flags from the streets following a firestorm of public criticism on the internet.The move came after the embattled office on Tuesday had pushed ahead with putting up the placards on streets in the crowded downtown district, ignoring the widespread condemnation and ridicule from South Koreans.In announcing a reversal of the decision, Seo Yang-ho, head of the Jung-gu office, said on social media, “We intended to fight
Aug. 6, 2019
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[Newsmaker] Korean victims of WWII atomic bombings remembered in ceremony
On the 74th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, a ceremony in South Gyeongsang Province remembered the tens of thousands of Koreans who lost their lives in the foreign cities after being taken there against their will.Over 200,000 people were killed by the two atomic bombs that were dropped Aug. 6 and 9, respectively, in 1945. Most of the victims were Japanese civilians, but some of the dead and injured were Koreans who had been drafted for forced labor and other forms of exploit
Aug. 6, 2019
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[Newsmaker] Presbyterian court rules against father-to-son leadership transfer at megachurch
The court of the Presbyterian Church of Korea ruled early Tuesday that a megachurch pastor’s succession to the post previously held by his father was invalid, in what is seen as a warning about the widespread practice of hereditary leadership in Korean churches.Rev. Kim Sam-hwan, the founder of Myungsung Church in southeastern Seoul, which has a membership of 100,000, named his eldest son, Rev. Kim Ha-na, as his successor in 2017, giving him control over the church’s massive finances
Aug. 6, 2019
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Typhoon Francisco to land at Busan-Geoje area Tuesday night: weather agency
South Korea's weather forecasters on Tuesday revised the expected route of Typhoon Francisco, the eighth of the season, saying the small-scale typhoon will land on the country's southern coast between Busan and nearby Geoje Island late at night.The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said Francisco is forecast to make landfall in the Busan-Geoje region between 9 p.m. and midnight Tuesday before weakening to a tropical storm near Andong, a North Gyeongsang Province city, 268 kilometers sout
Aug. 6, 2019
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[News Focus] More than 10,000 centenarians reside in Seoul metropolitan area
SEJONG -- The population of South Korea increased by less than 1.2 percent over the past five years from 51.25 million in July 2014 to 51.84 million in July 2019, amid the record-low birthrates.According to the Ministry of Interior and Safety, the number of Koreans increased by only 595,000 over the five-year period. This indicates a growth of less than 10,000 a month on average.Apart from the rapid reduction of newborns and those aged under 15, the working population aged between 15 and 64 has
Aug. 5, 2019
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[Newsmaker] Typhoon Francisco to hit Korea on Tuesday afternoon
Typhoon Francisco, the season’s eighth typhoon, will hit Korea from Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday, with heavy rains expected across the country, the weather agency said Monday.The typhoon was moving northwest at a speed of 24 kilometers per hour from about 390 km east of Kagoshima, Japan, as of 3 p.m. Monday. It is expected to land on the country’s south coast between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration.Francisco is expected
Aug. 5, 2019
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1 in 4 students, new graduates studying for civil service exam
One in 4 university students and new graduates in South Korea are preparing to take the state-run civil service exams mostly for job security, a survey showed Monday. In a poll of 1,022 university students and those who graduated earlier this year by local job portals Job Korea and Albamon, 24.7 percent of the respondents said they were preparing to sit for the state exams. Nearly 60 percent of those surveyed said they were willing to prepare for the civil service exam. Only 15.7 percent s
Aug. 5, 2019
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Police place travel ban on official involved in Ronaldo saga
Seoul police said Monday they have put a travel ban on an official involved in a controversy surrounding football star Cristiano Ronaldo's absence in a recent exhibition match.An official with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency told reporters that one person has been banned from leaving the country, while two others from the K League, the national governing body of professional football, have been questioned. Police declined to identify the person under the travel ban. Ronaldo was conspicuous
Aug. 5, 2019
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Japan issues travel advice for citizens traveling to S. Korea
Japan on Sunday asked its nationals traveling to South Korea to exercise caution, citing anti-Japanese protests in South Korea.Japan's foreign ministry also advised its nationals not to get involved in any trouble by staying away from protest sites.The advice came after bilateral relations plunged to their lowest levels in recent decades over a trade row stemming from Japan's wartime use of Koreans as forced labor during its 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. Last week, Japan's Cabin
Aug. 5, 2019
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Credit demanded for search dog who found missing girl on Cheongju mountain
Calls are mounting for an official commendation for a military service dog who played a key role in finding a missing 14-year-old on Friday in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province.The 7-year-old Dalgwan found the missing child at around 2:40 p.m. Friday on a mountain where she had first been reported missing 10 days prior on July 23.“Dalgwan made gestures at me during a search around the area that day, and there I found the child, about 3 meters away,” said senior military officer Pa
Aug. 4, 2019
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Japanese tweets with ‘I like Korea’ hashtag offer message of goodwill
Despite the worsening diplomatic and economic relationship between Korea and Japan, some from the two countries continue to promote goodwill-based ties via social media.Thousands of tweets from Japanese users have been posted with a hashtag written in Korean meaning “I like Korea” on Twitter, much to the surprise of Korean users of the site, who have expressed gratitude for the positive posts. Emoji resembling South Korean and Japanese flags, accompanied by heart and crying fac
Aug. 4, 2019