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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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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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S. Korea lowers COVID-19 warning level, lifts last-remaining antivirus mandates
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Yoon & Yang LLC opens second Vietnam office in Hanoi
Yoon & Yang LLC, a South Korea-based international law firm, has opened its second Vietnamese office in Hanoi, following the first in Ho Chi Minh City last year, the law firm said Thursday. The Hanoi office is expected to act as a stepping stone for the firm’s expansion in the Southeast Asian legal market, it added. “We aim to offer professional advisory services customized to each Southeast Asian country, and the opening of the Hanoi office will be the momentum to expand the firm’s legal servic
Aug. 11, 2017
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Remains of 33 forced Korean workers during WW2 returned from Japan
The remains of dozens of Koreans who died in Japan after being forced to work there during World War II have recently been returned home, according to a civic group Thursday.The remains of 33 identified Koreans arrived on Sunday at Gimpo International Airport, from Kokuhei Temple in Higashimurayama, northern Tokyo, where they had been enshrined, the National Commemorative Committee for the Repatriation of Victims of Forced Laborers said during a press conference at a restaurant in central Seoul.
Aug. 10, 2017
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Police seek arrest warrant for drugmaker head over alleged abuse of chauffeurs
Police on Thursday requested a warrant to arrest the chief of a major drugmaker over alleged verbal harassment of his chauffeurs and illegal use of pills.Rhee Jang-han, chairman of Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical Corp., is accused of hurling swear words at four of his private car drivers and offering his business partners erectile dysfunction pills as gifts without obtaining prescriptions. Rhee Jang-han (C), surrounded by reporters, enters a police building in central Seoul to face questioning ov
Aug. 10, 2017
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Mother who killed newborns caught after 4 years
A 35-year-old woman who had killed and deserted the bodies of her two newborns was caught four years after she committed the crimes, South Gyeongsang Provincial Police Agency said Thursday. The woman, whose identity was withheld, is accused of strangling her own child after giving birth to it inside the bathroom cubicle of a sauna in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, in June 2013. She allegedly abandoned the body in an outdoor area within the vicinity. The woman is also accused of an identica
Aug. 10, 2017
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Man who raped stepdaughter and her friends on the run
The police are hunting for the man who allegedly raped his stepdaughter and her friends after injecting with an unidentified substance.According to the Busan district police, Thursday, the man had allegedly tricked the high school students into thinking that the drug will help them shed weight.The stepdaughter told the police that the man took her to a motel room around the end of 2015 after offering to take her to a massage parlor. She was sexually assaulted. In early 2016, the man once again t
Aug. 10, 2017
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Seoul buses to carry sex slave statues in memory of victims
Downtown buses in Seoul will carry teenage girl statues symbolizing former sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II to mark the 72nd anniversary of National Liberation Day on Aug. 15, art activists said Thursday. Starting from next week till the end of September, five buses will have seats that feature a light-weight copy of the 1.5 meter-tall bronze statue of a barefoot girl seated on a chair, created and erected in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul in 2011 by artists Kim Woon-
Aug. 10, 2017
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McDonald's hamburger found with excessive bacteria: consumer watchdog
CHEONGJU -- A hamburger from McDonald's was found to have an excessive level of a bacteria known to cause food poisoning, a local consumer agency said Thursday, as the US fast-food giant is facing troubles here with a series of complaints filed over its patties.After conducting a survey on the sanitary conditions of 38 hamburgers sold at five local convenience stores and six fast-food franchises, the Korea Consumer Agency said one burger from McDonald's contained three times the standard level o
Aug. 10, 2017
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Intl. musicians come together for Korean unification prayer song
A group of celebrated Korean and international musicians will release a project song praying for the reunification of the Korean Peninsula, according to a record label Thursday.The song titled "Korean Dream" to be released on Liberation Day - Aug. 15 - involves Korea's Jung Dong-ha and Voisper, Korean-Australian singer Dami Im, American singers Peabo Bryson and Lauren Evans, and the Philippines' Sabrina and Zendee Rose Tenerefe, One K Media said. This composite photo shows a group of internatio
Aug. 10, 2017
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Duo briefly detained for filming music video in US military base
A South Korean hip-hop duo were arrested and released by US military police in central Seoul after they shot a music video for their new album without permission from the authorities, local police said Thursday. Mighty Mouth, a male duet made up of rappers Shorry J and Sangchu, was apprehended by the US military police of the 8th Army late Wednesday, according to the Yonsan Police Station. A photo of Mighty Mouth, provided by YMC Entertainment, filed on Sept. 17, 2012. (Yonhap)Two other staff m
Aug. 10, 2017
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High court frees former prosecutor indicted for bribery
A former prosecutor serving a prison term for bribery was freed Thursday as a Seoul appellate court cleared him of some of charges and handed down a suspended sentence. The Seoul High Court overturned a lower court's ruling on Kim Hyung-joon, who was put behind bars for 2 1/2 years, and sentenced him to one-year imprisonment suspended for two years. Prosecutors had sought a seven-year prison term for Kim. The appeals court also reduced Kim's forfeiture from 27 million won ($23,700) to 9.98 milli
Aug. 10, 2017
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Seoul city govt. tests soil, water near US base for contamination
The Seoul city government conducted its own survey on soil and water near the US base in the central part of the capital for possible contamination with toxic chemicals on Wednesday, amid growing calls for the disclosure of pollution levels in the area. Officials from the Seoul Metropolitan Government visited the outer areas of the US military base in Yongsan to examine the soil and groundwater, according to the city government.They selected six spots outside the fenced-off military camps to ext
Aug. 9, 2017
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Korean top diplomat meets with chief of UN Environment Programme
Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha discussed ways to improve South Korea's collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme during her meeting with the chief of the UN group on Wednesday, her ministry said. Kang called on UNEP Executive-General Erik Solheim to pay more interest to helping resolve trans-boundary air pollution in Northeast Asia, including the fine dust problem, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. She also committed South Korea's efforts to implement the Paris Agreement o
Aug. 9, 2017
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‘Drone voyeur’ arrested for filming naked bathers in Jeju
A man in his 30s faces voyeurism charges for filming women at an open-air bath near Gwakji Gwamul Beach in Jeju Island.The police made the discovery early last month when one of the victims reported a drone floating near the open-air bath where people take a dip in the nude. (Yonhap)There have been 14 cases of “drone voyeur” filming reported to the police so far, all of which happened in 2017. The voyeur drones have been spotted infringing on private spaces, including a changing room and a pool
Aug. 9, 2017
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Rumors of Aug. 14 holiday false, say officials
Rumors of a state plan to temporarily designate Aug. 14 as a holiday is false, according to government officials. Being the day before the National Liberation Day, which falls on Tuesday, if Monday was made a temporary holiday that would yield a four-day weekend. Social media users have been abuzz with wishful predictions of an extra vacation. (The Korea Herald)The previous Park Geun-hye administration had sometimes given out extra days off to boost lackluster consumer sentiments and to attract
Aug. 9, 2017
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Govt. begins running aid fund for humidifier disinfectant victims
The government said Wednesday it has started to run a relief fund for victims of a toxic humidifier disinfectant, as part of its compensation measure after the scandal resulted in some 70 deaths amid intense public scrutiny. The Ministry of Environment said its committee handling the management of the relief fund decided to charge 18 firms that had produced the deadly product a total of 125 billion won ($110 million) to share the expenses for the relief fund. The move comes after the parliament
Aug. 9, 2017
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Head of Gangnam district office to face trial for slandering Moon
Prosecutors said Wednesday it indicted the head of Seoul's Gangnam District Office without detention on charges of slandering President Moon Jae-in when he was a presidential candidate earlier this year. Shin Yeon-hee, a member of the conservative Liberty Korea Party, is accused of illegal electioneering and defaming Moon by spreading false information about him via mobile messenger Kakao Talk on more than 200 occasions from December last year to March, according to the Seoul Central District Pr
Aug. 9, 2017
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Policeman who had sex with teenager given 18-month suspended sentence
The Busan District Court on Wednesday handed down a suspended jail term of 1 1/2 years to a police officer who had sex with a female high school student he was supposed to offer guidance to.The 34-year-old was a policeman dispatched to a school to help tackle school violence. He was charged with violation of the Children’s Welfare Law for groping and having a sexual relationship with a student he was assigned to help.The defendant had argued the sex was consensual, but the Busan court ruled agai
Aug. 9, 2017
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Korean Education Center opens new branch in Atlanta
The Korean Education Center, a Ministry of Education-affiliated agency in charge of teaching Korean to overseas Koreans and foreigners, will open its 42nd offshore branch in Atlanta in the US state of Georgia this week, the ministry said Wednesday.South Korea opened the first Korean Education Center in Japan in 1963, and there are currently 41 Korean Education Centers in operation in 18 countries worldwide.In the United States, the center opened in Washington, DC and Los Angeles, both in 1980, a
Aug. 9, 2017
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Chief prosecutor apologizes for past wrongdoings
South Korea’s top prosecutor apologized Tuesday for the prosecution’s failure to abide by the law and protect human rights in investigating political cases in the past, vowing to make the law enforcement body politically neutral and transparent. At the press briefing held at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, Prosecutor-General Moon Moo-il issued the apology for prosecutors’ past wrongdoings for the first time as an incumbent chief prosecutor and laid out plans to reform the prosecution. “I apolog
Aug. 8, 2017
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Heat wave claims six lives so far
At least six people have died and over 2 million livestock were killed due to the heat wave sweeping South Korea this summer, the government said Tuesday. Electrics fans are in full motion inside a pig farm in the southern city of Ulsan on Tuesday, as a heat wave continues to engulf Korea. (Yonhap)According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a total of 1,284 people have fallen ill due to heat-related illnesses as of Tuesday, while six have lost their lives.A woman in her 60
Aug. 8, 2017