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10-man S. Korea lose to Indonesia to miss out on Paris Olympic football qualification
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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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First-ever meeting of president, opposition chief set to finally happen
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NewJeans' singles, Japanese debut to proceed as planned, despite Hybe-Ador feud
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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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Experts raise concerns about Japan putting pressure on Naver over Line
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Samsung mobile chief, Google device head meet in Seoul
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Ship linked to NK arms shipments to Russia is moored in China: State Dept.
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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
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South Korean man arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of illegal protest
Amid mass protests in Hong Kong objecting to a controversial extradition law, a South Korean man in his 20s was arrested for allegedly participating in an illegal protest, South Korean authorities said Sunday.This is the first time a South Korean national has been arrested since pro-democracy demonstrations began in the semiautonomous region in June.According to South Korea’s Consulate General in Hong Kong, Hong Kong police are interrogating the man, who was arrested at around 2 a.m. Sunda
Aug. 4, 2019
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Police to focus on areas with large foreign populations in safety push
Police are expanding efforts to improve safety in neighborhoods with large foreign-born populations.The Korean National Police Agency rolled out additional plans for improving safety in areas with large number of non-citizens on Sunday, including a data analytics project using cellphone data. The announcement follows an earlier move on March 17, when the agency said it would apply crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) to 19 districts with high populations of non-citizens, includi
Aug. 4, 2019
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Korean victim of Japan’s WWII sex slavery dies, survivor number down to 20
A Korean woman who was forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers during World War II died Sunday.The Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan said Sunday the woman had died earlier in the morning. The funeral will be held in private as per her and her family’s wishes. She is the fifth surviving South Korean sex slavery victim to die this year. This brings to 20 the number of former sex slaves registered with the government. Gender Equality Minis
Aug. 4, 2019
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Repeat sex offender sentenced to life for rape, murder of neighbor
A 41-year-old man surnamed Kang was sentenced to life in prison for rape and murder of a neighborhood woman.The Supreme Court on Sunday confirmed the life sentence and 200 hours of sex offender treatment program given by lower courts.Kang was arrested in May last year for forcibly taking a 59-year-old woman he met in an elevator to his home, then sexually assaulting and strangling her to death.“The defendant previously served over 10 years in prison for three different sex offenses. In vie
Aug. 4, 2019
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Adopted Koreans return for international conference
Over 550 international adoptees and family members attended the International Korean Adoptee Association’s 15th anniversary gathering last week at Lotte Hotel Seoul. The first official IKAA Gathering in Seoul was held in 2004 following IKAA’s establishment that same year. However, the gathering itself has earlier foundations, with the International Gathering of the First Generation of Korean Adoptees held in Washington in 1999. This year, three generations of adult Korean adoptees fr
Aug. 4, 2019
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Typhoon Francisco forecast to pass through Korean peninsula
Typhoon Francisco, the season's eighth typhoon, is forecast to land on South Korea's southern coast on Tuesday night, the weather agency said Sunday. The typhoon was moving northwest at a speed of 25 kilometers per hour from about 1,310 kilometers east-southeast of Kagoshima, Japan, as of 9 a.m., the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said.Francisco was classified as "small" with a central pressure of 990 hectopascals (hPa). The maximum sustained wind speed near its center was 8
Aug. 4, 2019
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Teenager poisoned by toxic gas unconscious for six days
A teenager has been unconscious for six days after she inhaled toxic gas at a restroom in a fish market in Busan.According to local police on Saturday, the 18-year-old was found unconscious around 3 a.m. Monday in the bathroom of the fish market near Gwangan Beach in Busan. She was discovered by her friend, who was waiting for her outside the restroom. “She had not come out for 20 minutes,” the friend told police. “I also almost passed out twice and vomited a lot because
Aug. 4, 2019
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[Newsmaker] 72-year-old man dies from self-immolation in apparent protest of Japan's trade curbs
A 72-year-old South Korean man died on Saturday three days after setting himself on fire in Seoul, police said, in apparent protest against Japan's trade curbs against Korea.The man, whose identity was withheld, set himself ablaze near the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in the heart of Seoul on Thursday morning. He died at 5:41 p.m. on Saturday while being treated at a hospital, police said. Police found a bag that appears to belong to the man near the location of his self-immolation. The
Aug. 4, 2019
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S. Koreans censure Japan's Abe for expanded trade curbs
Thousands of South Korean demonstrators staged a rally on Saturday for the third straight weekly demonstration to censure Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for expanding trade curbs against Seoul, demanding Abe apologize for Tokyo's wartime forced labor."Apologize!" shouted the protesters in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, waving banners reading "Censure the Abe regime" and "Apologize for wartime forced labor." Japan, which tightened exports of key material
Aug. 4, 2019
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Teen missing for 10 days found alive on Cheongju mountain
A teenage girl reported missing 10 days ago has been found alive, local authorities said Friday. A senior military officer taking part in the search with police and rescue workers found Cho Eunnuri on a mountain in Cheongju, 140 kilometers south of Seoul, around 2:40 p.m. Police said Cho, who was found with the help of a search dog, was fully conscious when discovered by the rescue team. The 14-year-old was then taken to a nearby hospital. Doctors at the hospital said Cho's condition was b
Aug. 2, 2019
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S. Koreans slam Japan’s ‘whitelist’ decision, vow all-out boycott
South Korean citizens and civic groups on Friday lashed out at Japan’s decision to remove their country from a “whitelist” of countries with preferential trading status and called on the Korean government to take stern action against it. An association of 682 progressive civic groups, including the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, called Japan’s move an “attack” on Korea’s economy and a threat to peace at a press conference held in front of t
Aug. 2, 2019
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Police investigate assault of Uzbek migrant
The police said Friday that they have launched an investigation into an assault case amid growing public outrage as a video went viral showing a migrant from Uzbekistan being beaten by a Korean manager at a farm. In the video, which was posted on social media, the supervisor verbally and physical assaulted the foreigner, who was asking for gloves at the farm. “Get on with your work before I kill you,” the Korean shouted, which was filmed by a Uzbek student studying in here. &ld
Aug. 2, 2019
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[Newsmaker] S. Korea cancels licenses for 10 elite high schools
South Korea pushed ahead Friday to cancel the licenses of 10 "autonomous private high schools" despite strong protests from the elite institutions and parents. Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae gave consent to regional education offices' decision to deprive eight schools in Seoul and one in Busan of their special status as they failed to pass recent performance assessments, the ministry said. They will turned into regular schools next year. One school in Seoul applied for such conversion
Aug. 2, 2019
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[Eye Plus] Ganghwado, an island of history and beauty
South Korea’s fifth-biggest island, Ganghwado, off the coast of Incheon is a place steeped in history.Its strategic location has made it a vital military outpost for centuries, and it was the site of numerous battles from the Three Kingdoms period to the 20th century. During the Goryeo Kingdom, which lasted from early 10th to 14th century, Ganghwado was briefly the location of the country’s capital during an invasion by the Mongolian dynasty of Yuan that held power in China in the 13
Aug. 2, 2019
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[News Focus] Sejong residents much younger than Seoulites
SEJONG -- It is now seven years since the launch of Sejong Special Autonomous City in July 2012.The centrally located city borders Daejeon to the south, Gongju to the west, Cheonan to the north and Cheongju to the east. It is also relatively close to the southern provinces of North Jeolla and North Gyeongsang.As of June 2019, its population came to 327,643 with the number of households reaching 129,937.As the fastest-growing city in South Korea, Sejong is actively attracting people from neighbor
Aug. 1, 2019