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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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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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Samsung chip business back on track, logs W1.9tr operating profit in Q1
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Shinsegae faces showdown with investors over SSG.com's delayed IPO
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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Ex-pro baseball player who killed debtor appeals sentence
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Hopes rise for possible Gaza truce deal
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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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446 foreign scholarship students to graduate from Korean schools this month
A batch of 446 international students on scholarships invited by the government are set to graduate from 57 universities in South Korea this month, the Education Ministry said Wednesday.The students hailing from 107 countries are split up into 32 students in undergraduate courses and 414 in graduate courses.Asian students topped the list with 199, followed by European students with 93, African students with 87 and Central and South American students with 42.Since 1967, South Korea has implemente
Aug. 16, 2017
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South Koreans work second-longest hours in OECD for below average pay
South Korean office workers cross a road in rainy Seoul. (photo credit: Yonhap)South Koreans work the second-longest hours among member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development for wages below the average of 35 nations, data showed Wednesday. According to the annual OECD Employment Outlook 2017, employees here worked an average of 2,069 hours last year, compared to the OECD average of 1,764 hours. The figure includes part-time workers and those who work for part of the
Aug. 16, 2017
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Catholic priest cleared of pro-N. Korea charges over remarks about 2010 island shelling
Prosecutors cleared a Catholic priest of pro-North Korea charges Wednesday, nearly four years after he made remarks some accused of sympathizing with the communist nation's deadly shelling in 2010 of a South Korean island. Park Chang-shin, a senior priest at the diocese in the southwestern city of Jeonju, made the controversial remarks at an event in November 2013, saying it is natural for the North to shell the western border island of Yeonpyeong because the South and the US held military exerc
Aug. 16, 2017
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Seoul subway train makes 6 stops with door open
Passengers aboard a train on Subway Line No. 8 in Seoul on Tuesday had a hair-raising ride, with a malfunctioning door wide open for six stops. There were no casualties.According to Seoul Metro, the train left Bokjeong Station in Songpa district at around 1:15 p.m. The fourth door of the first car was not shut due to a substance that had blocked it from closing. Bokjeong Station (Yonhap)The train reached its final stop, Moran Station, with the door still open.Seoul Metro says a maintenance staf
Aug. 16, 2017
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Changwon teacher caught using spy camera at girls’ high school
A 40-year-old teacher who installed a spy camera inside a classroom at an all-girls high school was booked without detention in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, the Masan Dongbu Police Station said Wednesday. The man, whose identity was withheld by the police, had installed a video camera on the small basket containing chalks on his desk in the homeroom class he instructs, in June.The camera was bought with money from the school for support for teachers’ research. The secretly installed spy
Aug. 16, 2017
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More egg products contaminated with pesticides: govt.
The South Korean government said Wednesday that eggs from four more farms in the country have been found to be contaminated with harmful pesticides, escalating the health scare over tainted egg products here.Some eggs at a farm with 55,000 hens in Cheorwon, 80 kilometers north of Seoul, were found to contain the pesticide fipronil, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said. Fipronil, often used to kill fleas or mites, is banned from being used on chickens in South Korea.Eggs from
Aug. 16, 2017
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Ruling party, govt. decide to destroy all eggs from insecticide-tainted farms
The ruling Democratic Party and government agreed Wednesday to recall and destroy all egg products from local farms contaminated with any insecticide amid escalating food safety concerns here, party officials said.The agreement came two days after some eggs at a farm with 80,000 hens in Namyangju, east of Seoul, were found to contain the insecticide fipronil, triggering the inspection of all egg farms across the country.After a party-government policy coordination meeting, Prime Minister Lee Nak
Aug. 16, 2017
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Power outage stops amusement rides in midair
About 10 amusement rides at Lotte World in Seoul halted in midair Tuesday due to a temporary power outage caused by a lightning strike.According to the Korea Electric Power Corp., the power substation supplying electricity to Lotte World was hit by a bolt of lightning around 10:50 a.m., interrupting power supply to the theme park. "Giant Loop," featured in this photo, was one of the rides at Lotte World affected by the power outage Tuesday. (Lotte World official website)At the time of the incide
Aug. 15, 2017
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Thai man’s ‘Korean dream’ smashed on chicken farm
A Thai man recounted his nightmarish stay in Korea to a local wire service, Tuesday. According to Yonhap, the 29-year-old came to Korea in June eager to realize his ‘Korean dream’ after his relative hinted that one could make a fortune by working here.The man is to return to his native land with empty pockets, after two months of fruitless labor on the local chicken farms. (Yonhap)The journey has only benefited the brokers who connected him to the jobs, the man claimed.The man said he was initia
Aug. 15, 2017
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[FROM THE SCENE] Rallies intensify over THAAD deployment
Protesters are gathering at a rally at Seoul Square in central Seoul on Tuesday, to urge the withdrawal of the deployment of the THAAD missile defense system here. (photo credit: Yonhap)Massive rival rallies were held in rainy Seoul on Tuesday by proponents and opponents of a US-led anti-missile system’s deployment here. Thousands of protesters packed the streets near Seoul City Hall in a rally that started at 3:30 p.m., calling on the Moon administration to scrap the deployment of the Terminal
Aug. 15, 2017
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Heavy rain hits Seoul, Gyeonggi, Gangwon
Heavy rainfall with lighting and thunder hit many parts of the nation on Liberation Day, the Korea Meteorological Administration said.The KMA issued heavy rain warnings for Seoul, Incheon and North Gyeonggi Province at 12:30 p.m. Gangwon Province was also added to the list.(Yonhap)As of noon Tuesday, 91.5 millimeters of rain had poured down in Paju, while Incheon and Gimpo received 90.5 mm and 82 mm, respectively.The KMA said that up to 70 mm of rain will fall in Seoul, Gyeonggi, Gangwon and oth
Aug. 15, 2017
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Woman may face criminal charge for dancing naked in public
A 33-year-old woman who danced naked on the streets of Suwon could face a criminal charge.The case involving the suspect, whose identity was withheld by the police, is being reviewed by prosecutors for indictment for the charge of public lewdness.The woman danced naked for around 20 minutes in Ingye-dong, Suwon on July 18. The video capturing her dancing, violent and messy as if she were possessed, spread widely throughout Korea’s major online communities. (Screen grab from the video posted onli
Aug. 15, 2017
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Woman gets 16-year sentence for setting partner’s bed on fire
A 52-year-old woman has been sentenced to 16 years in prison on the charge of setting fire to a bed that her partner was sleeping on. On Oct. 22 last year, the woman, who was drunk at the time, sprayed an accelerant on her partner’s bed to set it on fire. (Yonhap)The partner, who suffered burns all over, was sent to the hospital for treatment, but died after 10 days. Upholding the lower court’s ruling, the Daegu High Court on Tuesday sentenced the woman to 16 years in prison for murder and arso
Aug. 15, 2017
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Incheon Bridge toll rates lowered to reduce burden for users
The toll for cars using the Incheon Bridge that services South Korea's main air transportation terminal has been lowered as of midnight, which will reduce the burden for users, the government said Tuesday.The transportation ministry said that the toll for regular passenger cars over the bridge has been reduced from 6,200 won ($5.40) to 5,500 won. For small city cars that generally pay lower tolls on highways, the rates have been set at 2,750 won, down from 3,100 won. Rates have also been lowered
Aug. 15, 2017
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Korea finds some egg products contaminated with pesticide
Some egg products in Korea have been contaminated with a potentially harmful pesticide, the government said Tuesday, amid a growing health scare in Europe over tainted egg products. Some eggs at a farm with 80,000 hens in Namyangju, east of Seoul, were found to contain the pesticide fipronil on Monday, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said. The ministry temporarily banned farms with more than 3,000 hens from producing eggs from Tuesday so it can carry out an inspection. (Yonha
Aug. 15, 2017
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Seoul court upholds police ban on activists' rally encircling embassies
A Seoul court on Monday backed a police ban on progressive activists' plan to circle the US and Japanese embassies in central Seoul as part of their Liberation Day rally. The Seoul Administrative Court turned down the injunction request from a coalition of civic groups seeking to suspend the police's decision not to allow their events slated for Tuesday. They had planned to form human chains around the embassies near Gwanghwamun Square in commemoration of the country's independence from the 1910
Aug. 15, 2017
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Fewer youths, more elderly and foreigners in 2030
Faced with a severe famine and struggling to recover from the 1950-1953 Korean War, South Korea’s government launched an initiative in the 1960s to keep the economy afloat and stem rapid population growth, urging people to have fewer babies and distributing birth control. Some 50 years on, the country faces the opposite problem, with one of the lowest fertility rates in the world and a graying population posing a threat to Asia’s fourth-largest economy. There is inherent uncertainty in populat
Aug. 14, 2017
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[Herald Interview] Korea should open door to immigrants, but with well-advised policy
Not accepting immigrants is no longer a choice for South Korea, as it faces a shrinking working population. But the country, a homogeneous society ethnically, linguistically and culturally for so long, must devise a well-advised policy in order not to follow the same path as Europe, which is struggling with social problems related to immigrants. “Accepting immigrants should no longer be confined to filling jobs in sectors facing labor shortages, nor to finding spouses for unmarried Koreans,” sai
Aug. 14, 2017
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Police chase suspected multi-ethnic group of thieves
Police said Monday that they are chasing a suspected multi-ethnic group of thieves for taking a bag filled with cash amounting to 360 million won ($316,000) at Seoul Station earlier this month. The suspects, consisting of six men and women, allegedly ran away with the bag at a restaurant located in Seoul Station on Aug. 2 at around 4:20 p.m., police said. Surveillance camera footage suggests the group includes some Hispanic-looking individuals. According to Namdaemun Police Station, the black ba
Aug. 14, 2017
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Seoul City to expand support for installation of solar panels at homes
Seoul City said Monday that it is considering to expand subsidies for households wishing to install solar panels at home, as part of its effort to fight greenhouse gas emissions and shift to greener energy sources. Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon said in a recent interview with a local paper that he will declare Seoul as a city of solar energy in 2018, in line with the central government‘s push to switch to renewable energy sources. Park said he is envisioning a city that is similar to a southwestern
Aug. 14, 2017