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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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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Ex-prosecutor in 'Me Too' case indicted without detention
Prosecutors said Wednesday they have indicted a former senior prosecutor without physical detention for unfairly disadvantaging his female junior colleague for raising sexual misconduct allegations against him.The special prosecution team in charge of the case said it charged Ahn Tae-geun with abuse of power.He has been under investigation since early this year after Seo Ji-hyeon, a district attorney, made a revelation via a television interview that Ahn groped her during a funeral dinner in 201
April 25, 2018
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Man found dead after being sucked into waste pipes
A man in his 30s was found dead after being sucked into an automated vacuum collection system while during a routine check, Namyangju Fire Department said Tuesday. The 38-year-old man, surnamed Cho, fell into the pipe that leads to the underground AVAC system in a residential area of Byulnae, Gyeonggi Province, at 3:25 p.m. Tuesday. Despite a neighbor’s immediate call for help, dispatched fire authorities reportedly found Cho’s body 100 meters from the entrance of the pipe after a two-hour searc
April 25, 2018
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Real change on campus elusive despite #MeToo movement
As the #MeToo movement continues to sweep across various industries in South Korea, efforts are under way to address sexual violence on college campuses, but signs for a tangible change remain elusive. Ewha Womans University recently called on its president to take procedures to expel a professor of arts and design, who is accused of sexually harassing and groping his students from 2005 to 2017. Students at Ewha posted memos on the door of the professor’s office, criticizing his acts and demandi
April 25, 2018
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City councilman booked for sexual harassment
An Incheon city councilman has been booked for sexually harassing a female employee of a social welfare foundation.Incheon Nambu Police Station said Wednesday that it has booked the suspect without detention.The councilman is accused of putting his arm around her waist during a corporate dinner at a live cafe in Incheon on Feb. 13. (123RF)Having no acquaintances with her, the suspect joined the foundation’s corporate dinner after his own corporate dinner as there was a friend of his in the group
April 25, 2018
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Korean rapper accused of ‘quasi-rape’
Rapper Jeong Sang-su, a former participant of Mnet’s music survival program “Show Me the Money,” is being investigated by police on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman, Ilsan Seobu Police Station said Wednesday. The 34-year-old rapper is accused of allegedly raping a woman, who was “too drunk to consent” at the victim’s house at dawn Sunday. The victim claimed to be too heavily intoxicated at the time to realize she had been sexually assaulted. Ilsan Seobu Police Station sent the case over
April 25, 2018
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Police expanding opinion rigging probe to pre-presidential election period
Police said Wednesday they are expanding the probe into the alleged massive rigging of Internet comments by a power blogger with ties to the ruling Democratic Party to find out if the scheme was carried out before and after last year's presidential election to influence public opinion.The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said they have carried out a search warrant against top Internet portal Naver to obtain 614 IDs used to deliberately jack up the number of online comments critical of President
April 25, 2018
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2-year jail term upheld for student bomber
A Seoul appellate court on Wednesday upheld a two-year jail sentence for a graduate student who attacked a professor with a homemade bomb last year.According to the judges of the Seoul High Court, the defendant, a mechanical engineering student at Yonsei University in Seoul, had spent more than two weeks making a bomb from a coffee tumbler in June last year. The crime “is far beyond what society can tolerate and deserves strict punishment,” the judges explained in their sentence.The graduate stu
April 25, 2018
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Korea's childbirths continue to decline in February
The number of newborns in South Korea dipped again in February, government data showed Wednesday, in the latest sign of the chronic low birthrate that has plagued the Asian country for more than a decade.About 27,500 babies were born in February, down 9.8 percent, from 32,100 tallied a year earlier, according to data from Statistics Korea.Monthly childbirths have decreased on-year every month since December 2015.Last year, the number of newborns dropped to a record low despite decadelong efforts
April 25, 2018
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Justice Ministry to reinvestigate sex crime charge against former vice justice minister
Former Vice Justice Minister Kim Hak-ui is likely to be reinvestigated on sex crime charges, of which he had been cleared in 2013, as the Justice Ministry views the previous decision as an apparent misjudgment. A special independent panel at the Ministry of Justice looking into past rulings recommended Tuesday a probe into Kim’s case in which he was accused of multiple charges, including rape, bribery and narcotics use. The committee, which was established by the Moon Jae-in administration in De
April 24, 2018
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Moon calls for means to introduce changes outlined in failed Constitution amendment
President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday ordered government ministries to draw up measures to implement changes outlined in his proposal for a constitutional amendment, as the plan to put the bill to a referendum on June 13 fell through. “The National Assembly has rendered it impossible to hold a referendum without once reviewing the Constitution amendment bill proposed by the president,” Moon said at Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting. Moon had planned to hold the referendum concurrently with the June 13 local
April 24, 2018
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Lawmaker’s aide probed for suspected DUI
A lawmaker’s aide is being probed on suspicion of drinking and driving a van with the unidentified legislator in the back seat, Bangbae police said Tuesday. According to the police, the 39-year-old aide, surnamed Shin, was pulled over by cops conducting a roadside sobriety test near Bangbae Elementary School in Seocho-gu, southern Seoul at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Police said that Shin was heavily intoxicated and had a blood alcohol content of 0.116 percent, which is subject to license cancellation.
April 24, 2018
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[Feature] Seoul neighborhoods become green energy leader
The Sipjaseong Village, a neighborhood of 46 households, in southeastern Seoul may look like many other neighborhoods in the area, but it is different in an important way. Since 2012, the villagers have come together to meet their own energy needs -- they installed solar panels on building rooftops, installed sealings for windows and doors to help houses retain heat and replaced light bulbs with light-emitting diode lights to reduce electricity consumption. Solar panels are installed on roofs in
April 24, 2018
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Police digging into suspects' finances in online opinion rigging probe
Police said Tuesday they are tracking down financial and accounting records of a publishing company run by the suspects in a massive rigging of Internet comments to find out if their expenses were covered by any dubious funds.The incident has sparked a fierce political dispute ahead of the June 13 local elections, as Rep. Kim Kyoung-soo of the ruling Democratic Party, a close aide to President Moon Jae-in, is known to have been in contact with a key suspect for years.Opposition parties have subm
April 24, 2018
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Korea reports first tick-borne disease death in 2018
A 62-year-old woman died from a tick-borne disease last week in the first such case in South Korea this year, health authorities said Tuesday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said the woman, who had been working at a livestock farm in Cheongyang, a town in the central province of South Chungcheong, was diagnosed with a severe fever and thrombocytopenia syndrome, or SFTS. She received treatment but died on Friday.SFTS is a new infectious disease reported in South Korea, Japan and China. South
April 24, 2018
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Over 100 new signposts to decorate Gangnam streets
Seoul City plans to renovate building signposts in Gangnam-gu, the district’s office said Monday. The project aims to tear down old and worn signposts and replace them with new ones that befit the identity of each shop and street, the office said. Some 179 signposts are part of the project, in streets including the Ilwon 1-dong area and Gaepo-ro 22-gil, home to the country’s sole Gugak (Korean traditional music) schools. The renovations on the street will thus be highlighting the theme of cultur
April 23, 2018
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1 in 3 Koreans feel office cafeterias unsafe: survey
About 1 out of 3 South Koreans are worried about dining in office cafeterias or restaurants, a survey showed Monday.According to the survey on perception of food safety from the Office for Government Policy Coordination, 35.3 percent of 967 respondents answered they were “worried” about eating at office cafeterias. The figure for restaurants came in at 33.9 percent. (Yonhap)As for imported food and “adulterated food” on sale near schools, about 40 percent of respondents answered similarly said
April 23, 2018
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Spouse visa extension granted for Pakistani father
The Seoul Administrative Court on Monday ruled in favor of a Pakistani father in a case concerning the right to an extended visa for foreign national parents with Korean-born children, even if the child lives in a foreign country. The Central Administrative Appeals Committee said Monday that it withdrew Seoul Immigration Office’s decision not to extend the man’s visa. It is said the man first arrived in Korea in 1996 and got married to a Korean woman as an undocumented foreign worker. In 2006, h
April 23, 2018
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Another Korean victim of Japan's wartime sexual slavery dies
Another elderly Korean victim of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery has died at age 97, a foundation that deals with the issue said Monday. The death of Choi Duk-nye puts the number of surviving victims at 28. This year alone, three other victims have passed away, including Ahn Jeom-soon, who died in late March.(Yonhap)The organization declined to give further details on Choi, saying a request has been made by the victim‘s family to keep things private. In 2017, eight Korean sexual slavery victims d
April 23, 2018
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Ewha Hospital withdraws application for highest medical facility status
A Seoul hospital responsible for the deaths of four newborns late last year said Monday that it has voluntarily withdrawn its application to be given the highest-ranking medical facility status.The infants died while being treated at the neonatal intensive care unit of Ewha Womans University Medical Center in Mokdong, Seoul. Forensic results confirmed that their deaths were all caused by a type of bacteria that can be fatal to immunocompromised patients. The neonatal intensive care unit of Ewha
April 23, 2018
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Seoul to remove plastic umbrella sleeves from metro, state offices
Seoul Metropolitan Government will stop providing plastic umbrella sleeves at subway stations and government offices, starting next month. Seoul said Monday that starting on May 1, plastic umbrella sleeves, which have been provided at the entrance of buildings on rainy days, will be replaced by umbrella dryers or carpets that can absorb water.Used plastic umbrella sleeves are littered on the ground near the entrance of a building. (Yonhap)This move comes as an attempt to cut down on the use of p
April 23, 2018