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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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S. Korea to change graphic warnings on cigarette packs in December
South Korea will change the graphic warnings on cigarette packs in December, the health ministry said Monday, in the latest move to curb smoking.In 2016, South Korea required tobacco companies to put the pictorial warnings on the upper part of both sides of cigarette packs to help reduce smoking. The photos are required to cover more than 30 percent of both sides of a packet. This photo provided by the Ministry of Health and Welfare shows a pictorial warning for tobacco packs on tooth discolorat
May 14, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Selective justice? Koreans file petition after female suspect gets arrested for leaking nude photo
More than 270,000 South Koreans have signed an online petition asking for the fair investigation of online and digital sexual violence cases, regardless of the perpetrators' gender, after a female suspect was arrested for secretly taking a photo of her male colleague while he was posing nude for university students, and then distributing it online without the victim’s consent. Those who signed the petition say that while the authorities’ treatment of the case has been just and ideal, the way th
May 13, 2018
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Fear of hidden cameras spreads on campuses amid leaks
Leaks of private photos and videos on South Korea’s college campuses are fueling fears of hidden cameras.A female model who leaked photos of a male model posing nude for a drawing class at Hongik University in Seoul was arrested Saturday. She took photos of the man without his knowledge and posted the images on an online community on May 1, sparking nationwide controversy.Another case went viral Friday after a Korea Aerospace University student “mistakenly” uploaded a sex video to a Kakao Talk g
May 13, 2018
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Test-operations of standby generators to be banned when air quality is bad
The Seoul Metropolitan Government is set to ban test operations of emergency power systems on days when warnings for bad air quality are issued. Namsan Seoul Tower in central Seoul is surrounded by thick air pollution. (Yonhap)Under current regulations, emergency power systems need to be tested once a week for at least three minutes for maintenance purposes. The test-runs, however, produce pollutants, including particulate matter and nitrogen oxides.The city’s announcement to shut down the test
May 13, 2018
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[Photo News] Run up to the 123rd floor of Lotte World Tower
The 2018 Lotte World Tower International Sky Run wrapped up on Sunday morning.A total of some 1,500 vertical runners and citizens ran up from the Arena square on the bottom floor to the 123rd floor of South Korea’s tallest building, in Songpa-gu, Seoul. Twenty-four professional vertical runners -- 12 men and 12 women -- participated in the elite competition. Piotr Lobodzinski from Poland and Suzy Walsham from Australia came in first, at 15 minutes 53 seconds and 18 minutes 45 seconds, respective
May 13, 2018
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Man gets 25-year sentence for beating woman to death
A local court has sentenced a man to 25 years in prison on the charge of beating a woman to death after she refused to have sex with him. The suspect, 36, had reportedly attempted to rape the victim, who he had met at a karaoke room in Dongducheon, Gyeonggi Province. When she resisted, he had violently beaten her, leading to her death. He turned himself in to police the next morning.The Uijeongbu District Court said Sunday the man’s inhuman act is inexcusable under any circumstance. Uijeongbu Di
May 13, 2018
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Police to refer attacker of opposition lawmaker to prosecution this week
Police will send the findings of an investigation into a man arrested on charges of attacking an opposition lawmaker to the prosecution this week with a recommendation for his indictment, officials said Sunday.The 31-year-old man, identified only by his surname Kim, punched Rep. Kim Sung-tae, floor leader of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, in the face in front of the National Assembly building in Seoul on May 5 after approaching the lawmaker as if he were asking for a handshake.The lawm
May 13, 2018
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PM inspects hull of Sewol ferry, promises thorough search
Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon vowed “all-out” efforts to search for the remains of those who are still missing from the sinking of the Sewol ferry four years ago during his inspection of its hull Saturday. The prime minister traveled to the southwestern port of Mokpo where the hull of the ill-fated ferry is placed for search and inspection. Two days ago, the 6,800-ton vessel, which had been lying on its side since being salvaged in 2017, was lifted to an upright position as search workers try to se
May 12, 2018
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EAAFP celebrates World Migratory Bird Day
The East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership celebrated the World Migratory Bird Day in Seoul, to raise global awareness on the need for international cooperation to conserve migratory birds worldwide, the organization said Friday.Under the theme, “unifying our voices for conservation,” the EAAFP has started to promote a campaign to spread its message to a broader audience by collaborating with major migratory bird corridors worldwide, including the African-Eurasian flyway, the East Asian-Aust
May 11, 2018
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Police seek arrest warrant for model who leaked nude photo
Police on Friday requested a court warrant to arrest a female model suspected of having secretly taken a photo of her male colleague, while he was posing nude for a drawing class, and then distributing it online without his consent. The suspect, only identified by her surname Ahn, was arrested without a warrant Thursday. She was initially considered a witness, but later was investigated as a key suspect after it was revealed she deliberately threw away one of the two cellphones she had used, acc
May 11, 2018
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University student shares sex video in group chat ‘by mistake’
A Korea Aerospace University student is being probed for sharing a sex video with the whole group of Aviation Operation majors via the country’s dominant chat app Kakao Talk, authorities said Friday. According to the university, the 21-second video was uploaded on Tuesday onto a group chat that had 276 students and clearly showed the man and woman’s faces. The video went viral through the school’s online community, where students can post anonymously. (Korea Aerospace University-YouTube)Univers
May 11, 2018
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Ex-ranking prosecutor gets 4 years jail in retrial
A Seoul appellate court on Friday finalized a four-year prison term for a former high-ranking prosecutor charged with corruption and bribery, after the top court ordered a retrial on some of his charges. Jin Kyung-joon, an former senior official at the prosecution and the Ministry of Justice, was indicted in 2016 for receiving 950 million won ($889,000) in stocks and cash from his college friend, Kim Jung-ju, founder of major online game publisher Nexon, from 2005 to 2014. The 51-year-old was al
May 11, 2018
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Supreme Court upholds prison term for doctor in rock singer's death
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a one-year prison term for a doctor accused of negligent homicide and other charges in the death of popular rock singer Shin Hae-chul. Shin died in October 2014 after the doctor, identified only by surname Kang, performed laparoscopic surgery on him to downsize his stomach. An investigation found that Shin died of complications related to pericardial perforation suffered during the surgery. Kang was indicted on charges of negligent homicide in connection with t
May 11, 2018
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Police to seek arrest warrant for model in nude photo leak
Police said Friday they will seek an arrest warrant for a female model suspected of leaking a photo of her male colleague posing nude during a drawing class at a university. The Seoul Mapo Police Station said that the suspect, a 25-year-old only identified by her family name, Ahn, could destroy evidence or flee. She has been in police custody since Thursday evening. The suspect faces possible charges of using a device to take obscene photographs in violation of laws regarding sex crimes, police
May 11, 2018
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Female model suspected of leaking nude photo of male colleague
Police said Thursday that a female model was suspected of having secretly taken photos of her male colleague who was working as a nude model for a fine art class at Hongik University and leaking them to an Internet community site.Police have been investigating the leak of a photo showing the male model in the nude since last Friday as what appeared to be a person attending the class allegedly uploaded it to the website. Hongik University (Yonhap)Police said that they are investigating one of fou
May 10, 2018
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SUNY Korea establishes development advisory committee
The State University of New York Korea established a development advisory committee to make improvements as a leading institution in the age of the “fourth industrial revolution,” the school said Thursday. The 13-member Development Advisory Committee led by former Health and Welfare Minister Lim Chae-min, aims to lay the groundwork for SUNY Korea to become the first US university in Korea to lead in innovative education for Asia, the school said. Participants pose at the opening ceremony of SUN
May 10, 2018
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[Graphic News] Over 9,000 victims suffered from past governments' blacklists of artists
Nearly 9,300 artists or groups were unjustly excluded from state support or even illegally inspected under the past two conservative administrations for political reasons, a civilian-government fact-finding committee said. After an about 10-month probe into nine kinds of blacklists of artists by authorities under President Lee Myung-bak and his successor President Park Geun-hye from 2008 to 2016, the committee tasked with looking into the blacklists said that 8,931 individuals and 342 groups we
May 10, 2018
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Sewol ferry set upright for further search of victims
The Sewol ferry at the southwestern port of Mokpo was moved from its side to an upright position Thursday to facilitate the search for the remains of victims still missing. The Sewol Investigation Commission and Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries, which took on the task, announced they completed making the 6,825-ton ferry stand at 94.5 degrees at 12:10 p.m. It took 190 minutes for the 10,000-ton crane used for the mission to set the ferry upright.(Yonhap)After the ferry reached the target angle on T
May 10, 2018
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Late police chief’s memo unveils who disobeyed military junta
A police chief who was tortured to death after refusing to open fire at demonstrators during the 1980 pro-democracy movement in Gwangju wrote shortly afterward of his dismay at not doing more, it has been revealed. Ahn Byung-ha’s wife (right) and an official from May 18 Archives unveil Ahn’s handwritten memo to reporters on Thursday in Gwangju. Bak Se-hwan/The Korea HeradIn a note revealed to the public for the first time Thursday, 30 years after his death, Ahn Byung-ha wrote he was “very sorry
May 10, 2018
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Police execute arrest warrant to quiz Druking
Police obtained arrest warrants to interrogate on Thursday a blogger at the center of an online opinion rigging scandal as he has been refusing to be questioned.Kim Dong-won, known by his online alias “Druking,” was detained and indicted last month for allegedly using software in January to jack up the number of “likes” for two internet comments critical of the Moon Jae-in administration on news stories carried by internet portal Naver.After being interrogated twice on April 17 and 19 at the Seo
May 10, 2018