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US girding for possibility of N. Korea taking most provocative military actions in decade near election: NBC
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[Weekender] 'Blood doesn't make family, love does'
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Arrest warrant issued for embattled popera star Kim Ho-joong
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Austin to attend trilateral talks with South Korean, Japanese counterparts in Singapore: Pentagon
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Test finds kids' accessories from AliExpress, Shein to be tainted with toxic chemicals
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NewJeans' new album sells over 800,000 on release day
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S. Korea completes development of L-SAM defense system
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70% of part-timers positive toward robots at businesses
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S. Korea, Japan, China to hold 1st summit in 4 1/2 years to discuss cooperation
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Humble sundae gets haute makeover at Lee Buk Bang
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Opposition lawmaker to be summoned as bribery suspect
A prominent opposition lawmaker known for his political ties to ousted President Park Geun-hye will face prosecutors' investigations on charges of bribery, prosecution officials said Saturday.Rep. Hong Moon-jong of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party will be summoned to the Seoul Central Prosecutors' Office as a criminal suspect next week at the earliest to be questioned about allegations that he accepted about 2 billion won ($1.85 million) in illegal funds through his private education foun
March 3, 2018
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Gov't will not seize savings from health insurance defaulters
The government will not be allowed to seize the savings of people who have failed to pay their national health insurance, starting later this year, the health ministry said Saturday. Under a revision to relevant rules, assets that can be taken over will not include savings of less than 1.5 million won ($1,350). The amount is deemed the minimum necessary to maintain a person's livelihood, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said.National Health Insurance Service (Yonhap) The revision was passe
March 3, 2018
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Four S. Korean workers die at construction site for skyscrapers in Busan
Four South Korean workers died at a construction site for a landmark apartment complex in Busan on Friday after a temporary structure carrying three of them plunged. YonhapThe three construction workers were working on the exterior of an 85-story apartment building when scaffolding supporting the workers fell to the ground at 1:50 p.m., according to firefighting authorities and POSCO E&C, the builder of the complex. The structure fell from the 55th floor, some 200 meters above the ground.One mor
March 2, 2018
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Prosecutor-turned-lawmaker to be investigated over sexual harassment case
An independent team of prosecutors is to investigate Rep. Choi Gyo-il, a prosecutor-turned-lawmaker who has been accused of blocking an internal probe into a sexual harassment case involving prosecutors while he was working for the Justice Ministry back in 2010. The high-profile case, made public by female prosecutor Seo Ji-hyun in January when she disclosed the sexual harassment she experienced in 2010 in a television news program, has ignited the #MeToo movement in Korea. Many other women, es
March 2, 2018
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Ex-president Lee files suit against prosecution
Former President Lee Myung-bak filed an administrative lawsuit against the prosecution over its use of presidential office documents in the investigation into corruption allegations involving him.During a raid of DAS, an auto parts manufacturer owned by Lee’s brother, in late January, prosecutors seized documents from Lee’s presidential office found in the basement storage. The prosecution has been looking into allegations that DAS ran slush funds for the former president. As the presidential fi
March 2, 2018
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Female rape victim’s IQ becomes issue in police probe
Police have dropped alleged rape charges against two men in their 20s at a district in South Gyeongsang Province late February. Their decision to do so, however, has caused controversy in the disabled community as the victim is an intellectually disabled teen girl. After realizing that his 16-year-old daughter was pregnant from the alleged rape, the victim’s father reported the heinous crime to police in November last year, according to Geoje police officers Friday. The father said that the two
March 2, 2018
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Man detained for burning bar in Busan
Busan Dongnae Police Station arrested a male suspect in his 60s on charges of setting a bar on fire Friday. The arson suspect reportedly broke into the bar after smashing the window with a brick and set it on fire with a lighter, causing financial damage worth 20 million won ($18,400) at 10:40 p.m. on Feb. 25, according to police. (Yonhap)He is also accused of threatening the female owner of the bar with a weapon the day before the crime.Police believe that the suspect burned the place out of an
March 2, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Govt. seeks to take Ko Un’s poetry out of textbooks amid sexual misconduct allegations
The government has begun to take steps to remove works by world-renowned South Korean poet Ko Un from school textbooks amid growing sexual misconduct allegations, multiple industry sources said Friday. The Ministry of Education sent an official letter earlier in the day to the Korea Authorized & Approved Textbooks, in which it requested the association to ask its member publishers if they have plans to delete any of the content in the textbook that belongs to a person of “public controversy.” Th
March 2, 2018
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Installation of comfort women statue in front of university thwarted
The installation of a “comfort women” statue in front of a university in Seoul was thwarted right before the unveiling ceremony on Thursday, as the university and students protested its installation.Seoul’s Mapo District Council planned to place a comfort women statue in front of Hongik University on the 99th anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement of 1919, but they failed after students and faculty members from the school stopped the forklift truck carrying the statue from proceeding f
March 2, 2018
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[Weekender] Korea faces possible new danger: earthquakes
Following a 4.8-magnitude earthquake detected near the coastal city of Pohang last month, experts are again voicing concerns that the Korean Peninsula may no longer be safe from strong shock waves.The earthquake was an aftershock of the 5.4-magnitude earthquake that occurred in the same city in November last year. While no lives were lost in the November earthquake, some 1,500 residents in the area were left homeless. The quake is creating concerns as experts have repeatedly predicted the likeli
March 2, 2018
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[Herald Interview] Despite urgency, quest to unearth active faults face hurdles
For centuries, Korea has been a quake-free zone, but recent events have caused that to change. Of the 10 earthquakes in South Korea that registered 5.0 or higher on the Richter scale in its four decades of state measurement, half occurred after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake off the coast of Japan.The record 9.1-magnitude undersea quake, a subsequent seismic sea wave or tsunami and aftershocks have claimed over 15,000 lives in Japan. However, it also had an impact on tectonic activities in countries
March 2, 2018
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[From the scene] Aftershocks stir up worries at schools as new semester starts
POHANG, North Gyeongsang Province -- On the afternoon of Nov. 15, 2017, Lee Sun-mi was in class at Heunghae Middle School in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, when the building began to sway. At around 2:05 p.m. that day, a 5.4 magnitude-earthquake, South Korea’s second-strongest earthquake in decades, rattled the southeastern port city. There were no quake-related deaths but over ##1,500## residents were left homeless, forced to take shelter at a local gymnasium. Since then, fear has become pa
March 2, 2018
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Military preps probe on 1980 Gwangju incident under special law
Korea's defense ministry said Friday it will launch a task force on implementing a special law on finding the truth behind the military's deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Gwangju in 1980.The National Assembly passed the legislation earlier this week, which calls for the creation of an independent fact-finding committee as many people here want to know who was responsible for the use of military force against civilians protesting against the junta of Chun Doo-hwan.The Gwangju upris
March 2, 2018
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KF to provide renewed online Korean studies classes to foreign students
The Korea Foundation, the state-run public diplomacy agency, said Friday it will launch the third phase of the Global e-School, in which local universities provide online Korean studies courses to their foreign counterparts. The foundation started the real-time video education program in 2011 in order to help make up for a shortage of teaching staff at foreign universities amid surging demand from students majoring in Korean studies there. This year, nine universities in the country will join th
March 2, 2018
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International students get top honors at Korea, Sookmyung universities
Chinese student Wang Ping became the first international student to graduate with top honors at Korea University on Saturday.And Mango Jane Angar did the same at her college, becoming the first foreign student to graduate from Sookmyung Women’s University at the top of her class.Wang had been a fan of Korean dramas since an early age. She came to Korea to study in 2012, took language courses at Dongguk University and entered Korea University in 2014. Although her academic passion was strong, Wan
March 1, 2018
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Prostitution website operator nabbed
Police said Thursday that they have arrested a man who ran a prostitution website using an overseas server on charges of arranging sex trade and distributing pornographic material.According to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s cybersecurity division, the man, identified only by his surname Choi, earned a total of 280 million won ($257,740) by arranging some 14,000 cases of prostitution through his website from July 2013 to January last year.Choi arranged prostitution for men who contacted h
March 1, 2018
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Foreign worker receives 20 years for killing co-worker
The Daegu High Court sentenced a foreign worker to 20 years in prison for killing his co-worker.The suspect was accused of murdering the victim by striking his head multiple times with a weapon and drowning him on Feb. 10, 2017.Although he was given a 14-year imprisonment at a lower court, the appellate court ruled 20 years in prison Thursday. (Yonhap)The suspect had been punished for misconduct at work due to his violent behaviors toward the victim. It is believed that he committed the crime ou
March 1, 2018
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Jeju National University students call for apology from faculty over sexual misconduct
A student body at Jeju National University is calling on the faculty to issue a formal apology on behalf of two professors who had allegedly committed sexual misconduct against female students.One professor, 53, is under criminal scrutiny by the local prosecutors’ office over his sexual misdeeds involving two students on Feb. 14. Another professor, 45, was arrested for reportedly touching a student’s body in his car on Dec. 26. (YouTube)Students of the state university formed a committee on the
March 1, 2018
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[Newsmaker] How #MeToo movement is pushing for revision of South Korea’s defamation law
In the wake of the global #MeToo movement, currently one of the most talked about issues here, South Korea’s controversial defamation law has been also brought into the spotlight. A number of lawmakers and political parties recently announced that they would push for a revision of the law, which does not acknowledge truth as defense against defamation charges. Women’s activists and some lawmakers criticized the defamation law as one of the biggest challenges that sexual violence victims here
March 1, 2018
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Rallies, ceremonies held around Seoul to mark March 1 Movement
Tens of thousands of conservative civic groups gathered near Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square on Thursday afternoon and marched during a rally to mark the 99th anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement of 1919. While they commemorated the 1919 movement that declared independence against the Japanese colonizers, anti-government rallies, dubbed “Taegeukgi rallies,” mostly chanted calls for a strong South Korea-US alliance, a pre-emptive strike against North Korea and the immediate release of impe
March 1, 2018