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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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Hopes rise for possible Gaza truce deal
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Ex-pro baseball player who killed debtor appeals sentence
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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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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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Commuters in capital area spend 1 1/2 hours daily on road: data
South Korean workers in the capital spend an average of 1 1/2 hours commuting daily, data showed Wednesday.According to big data analysis conducted by the nation’s No. 2 mobile carrier KT, the average daily commuting time in Seoul, its surrounding Gyeonggi Province and the western city of Incheon, was 89.4 minutes.The study, conducted in April, was based on an analysis of Long-Term Evolution signals of some 420,000 subscribers to the company‘s high-speed internet connection services who are aged
June 21, 2017
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23 people booked for unauthorized French pigments in macarons
South Korea's food safety watchdog said Wednesday it has busted seven people suspected of illegally importing edible pigments sold at a French store, in a case that also involved 16 other people who allegedly made and distributed macarons containing the pigments.The Food and Drug Safety Ministry booked them on charges of violating a law on import food safety and a law on food hygiene, and referred the case to the prosecution with the recommendation of an indictment without physical detention.Thi
June 21, 2017
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No. of foreign residents in Korea more than doubles in decade
The number of foreign residents in South Korea has more than doubled over the past decade, with Vietnamese nationals accounting for the largest portion after China as of last year, government data showed Wednesday. The number of non-Korean citizens totaled 2.05 million as of end-December 2016, up from 910,000 tallied in 2006, according to a report by the Ministry of Justice. Job-seeking foreigners attending a recruitment exposition in Seoul on April 28, 2017. (Yonhap)Their portion accounted for
June 21, 2017
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Ducklings trapped in building reunited with mother
A man has helped a group of ducklings trapped in a building reunite with their mother, after he accidentally stumbled upon the cheeky flock.Aaron Brown was passing by a building in Daegu Science College when he heard the baby birds crying out for help. He began to trip over himself, trying not to step on the ducklings who were spread out, causing havoc and running up and down a staircase into various rooms. Though he had no way of knowing, Brown had a hunch their mother would come back to find t
June 21, 2017
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Court rejects arrest warrant for Chung Yoo-ra
A South Korean court again on Tuesday rejected an arrest warrant for the daughter of Choi Soon-sil, who is at the center of the corruption scandal that led to former President Park Geun-hye’s downfall. "It is hard to acknowledge the reason, necessity and appropriateness for her arrest at the current stage (of the investigation),” the Seoul Central District Court said, citing a lack of evidence.Chung Yoo-ra (Yonhap)It was a second attempt by the prosecution to arrest her. The same court rejected
June 20, 2017
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Mother of babies in freezer feared losing boyfriend
The mother who put the dead bodies of her two babies in a freezer did so out of fear she would lose her boyfriend if he found out about her pregnancies and childbirths, police said Tuesday. The 34-year-old suspect, surnamed Kim, was arrested Saturday for infanticide and abandoning of the corpses. According to police, Kim confessed to hiding the corpses in the freezer because her cohabiting boyfriend was not the father of the babies. (Yonhap)Police tentatively concluded there was a remote possi
June 20, 2017
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1 in 9 female migrant workers subject to sexual abuse: report
One in 9 female migrant workers in the manufacturing sector in South Korea experience sexual abuse, a report showed Tuesday. According to a survey by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea on 385 female migrants, 11.7 percent of the women said they had been sexually harassed or assaulted by their coworkers or managers while working in Korea. In the poll, which allowed multiple responses, they said they had been exposed to vulgar jokes, forced to pour drinks for coworkers at office meals,
June 20, 2017
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Nearly half of Korean workers pay no income tax: report
Nearly half of South Korean workers pay no income tax, a report said Tuesday, amid heated debates on a tax hike to secure funds for President Moon Jae-in's job creation pledges.Some 46.5 percent of 17 million wage earners in the country were exempted from paying income tax in 2015, according to the report by the state-run Korea Institute of Public Finance.The number has jumped from 32.2 percent in 2013 as the government changed its income tax deduction programs in 2014, which gave higher deducti
June 20, 2017
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Ministry wraps up first part of search for Sewol victims
The first stage of the search of the ferry Sewol wrapped up Tuesday with five passengers remaining unaccounted for. During the 63-day search of the ferry’s wreckage, which was brought onshore on April 9, the remains of four of nine unaccounted for passengers were identified. During the first stage, about 120 search operators sifted manually through bags of mud retrieved from the third to fifth decks of the ferry, where cabins are located.Workers sort through sand and mud from the wreckage of the
June 20, 2017
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Heat wave to continue, 58 taken ill so far
South Korea’s weather agency issued another heat warning for most parts of the peninsula Tuesday, as midday highs continued to soar to 32-34 degrees Celsius, the agency said. A total of 58 heat-related illnesses were reported across the country as of Monday, according to the Ministry of Public Safety and Security.Heat shimmers from the surface of a road in Yeouido, Seoul. (Yonhap)The Korea Meteorological Administration issued heat wave alerts for Seoul, the Jeolla and Chungcheong provinces and o
June 20, 2017
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Factory farming aggravates Korea’s bird flu outbreaks: OECD report
The poor breeding conditions at poultry farms in South Korea may have accelerated the spread of the bird flu virus, said a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. According to the report titled “OECD Producer Incentives in Livestock Disease Management: Korea Case Study,” battery cage-facilities at poultry farms and stockbreeding farmhouses have made worse the bird flu damage and fast spread of a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu in recent decades. Such facilities,
June 20, 2017
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Ralliers to be banned from encircling US Embassy
Police will ban anti-American protesters from surrounding the US Embassy in downtown Seoul during their rally planned this weekend against a US-led deployment of an anti-missile system, a local civic group said Tuesday.The group said it has been asked by police not to stage any protest rally against the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense deployment in the rear of the US government building. A group of protesters urge the government to withdraw the deployment of the US Terminal High Altitude Ar
June 20, 2017
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Court to decide on arrest warrant for daughter of ex-president's friend
A Seoul court will decide as early as late Tuesday whether to issue an arrest warrant for the daughter of former President Park Geun-hye's longtime friend at the center of a massive corruption scandal that removed Park from office.The Seoul Central District Court said it began a hearing on Chung Yoo-ra, the daughter of Choi Soon-sil, to decide on the issuance of a writ in relation to her suspected involvement in an influence-peddling scandal for which her mother and Park are standing trial.Chung
June 20, 2017
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Premature deliveries double in 16 years due to late marriages: survey
South Korea's premature birthrate has nearly doubled in the past 16 years, a survey showed Tuesday, with a growing number of women getting married late and experiencing difficulties having babies.The rate of premature delivery within less than 37 weeks of pregnancy rose to 6.44 percent between 2013 and 2014 from 3.31 percent between 1997 and 1998, according to the research of 2.1 million birth registrations filed with Statistics Korea done by professor Im Dal-oh of Kongju National University and
June 20, 2017
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Foreign ministry seeks to hire some 400 more workers: sources
South Korea's foreign ministry is seeking to hire around 400 new employees as part of its efforts to ease the mounting workload and provide better consular services, government sources said Tuesday.In a recently submitted request for staff increase, the ministry demanded a total of 218 more employees. This is around a 10 percent increase compared to its incumbent staff of 2,200, according to the sources. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Yonhap)Separately, the ministry is seeking to hire around 180 n
June 20, 2017
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Daughter of Park's friend tried to get Maltese citizenship: prosecutors
The daughter of former President Park Geun-hye's friend roiled in an influence-peddling scandal attempted to get citizenship in Malta, the prosecution said Monday, fresh evidence that could give the court grounds for her arrest warrantChung Yoo-ra, the daughter of Choi Soon-sil, tried to apply for citizenship in the Mediterranean island country while she was detained in Denmark on suspected illegal stay, according to the prosecution. The file photo, taken on June 13, 2017, captures Chung Yoo-ra
June 20, 2017
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Prosecutors drop charges against ex-Seoul Phil chief
Prosecutors on Monday cleared a former president of the city-run orchestra of sexual harassment and verbal abuse charges, putting an end to a scandal that plagued the classical music foundation for the last few years. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office dropped the charges against Park Hyun-jung, who was accused of repeated sexual and verbal assaults on her staff at the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, citing a lack of evidence. This file photo, dated April 19, 2016, shows former Seoul
June 20, 2017
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Judges to self-investigate 'judicial blacklist'
A group representing judges nationwide decided to look into the Supreme Court’s alleged blacklisting of judges deemed critical of the nation’s judicial leadership, the group said Monday. The 100-member association’s decision came three months after the top court’s chief Justice Yang Sung-tae ordered a “self-investigation” into the suspicion that his organization systemically discriminated against liberal-minded judges. The top court’s chief Justice Yang Sung-tae (Yonhap)Last month, the audit te
June 19, 2017
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Seoul taxi drivers to wear uniforms from this fall
Seoul's taxi companies will be obliged to have their drivers wear uniforms, starting this fall, under the metropolitan government's effort to boost the city's image among visitors, municipal officials said Monday.The Seoul metropolitan government and labor and management of the city's 255 taxi companies have recently reached an agreement to reintroduce the driver uniform after the system was abolished in November 2011 in favor of a free dress code, said the officials. Uniform candidates for the
June 19, 2017
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[News Focus] Fallen Park shows little emotion in court
A barrage of camera flashes greet Park Geun-hye as she steps out of the back of a detention center escort van. Wearing her inmate number, 503, on her left chest and handcuffs, the former president is escorted by two prison guards into the courthouse in southern Seoul. Inside the courtroom, Park quietly walks toward the dock and sits beside her attorney. As she does so, some people in the audience stand up in an apparent show of respect, despite security guards’ gestures not to. This much-repeate
June 19, 2017