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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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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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Audit agency to launch probe into 4 rivers project
The state-run audit agency said Wednesday that it will launch another probe into a development project involving four rivers, following President Moon Jae-in’s order last month. It will be the Board of Audit and Inspection’s fourth inspection of the 22 trillion won ($19.6 billion) project, which was conceived and pushed by former President Lee Myung-bak. The BAI said the decision was based on “the necessity of an inspection as raised by the public and media and the consideration of the yearly in
June 14, 2017
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Koreans enjoy touring more than one city at once while traveling abroad: data
South Koreans enjoy moving to multiple cities rather than staying in one place while traveling abroad, data by a travel research engine showed Wednesday.The ratio of South Korean tourists searching more than one city while booking international flight tickets was 17.6 percent for the first five months this year, according to the figures released by Skyscanner, a travel fare aggregator website owned by China's biggest travel company Ctrip. The comparable number was 9.4 percent in 2015. This file
June 14, 2017
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Parcel bomber influenced by St. Petersburg terror: police
The suspect arrested over Tuesday’s parcel bomb attack at Yonsei University has admitted to plotting the blast, taking a cue from a subway terror attack in St. Petersburg, police said Wednesday. He said he made the explosive by himself. Seodaemun Police Station arrested the 25-year-old engineering graduate student near the university campus in Seoul late on Tuesday night, about 12 hours after the bomb went off, causing minor burns to the professor who opened it.(Yonhap)Investigators said the sus
June 14, 2017
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Nigerian national arrested for smuggling meth via mail
Police said Wednesday they have arrested a Nigerian man for smuggling large amounts of methamphetamines into the country through international mail from China. The Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency has detained a 46-year-old man, whose name was withheld, for illegally sneaking in 605 grams of the drug, worth some 2 billion won ($1.77 million), on two occasions last week. Each parcel was delivered via international express mail. Methamphetamine (Yonhap)The amount is large enough for about 20,000
June 14, 2017
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Top court turns down retrial request of ex-ranking prosecutor
South Korea's top court dismissed Wednesday a request for a retrial from a former ranking prosecutor convicted of bribery. The Supreme Court rejected the call to review its ruling made in April for Kim Kwang-joon, a former Seoul High Prosecutors' Office prosecutor sentenced to a seven-year term for taking large amounts of kickbacks from a swindler and businessman in return for favors. (Yonhap)The 56-year-old was convicted by the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in 2013 of receiving a
June 14, 2017
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[Graphic News] Number of multiple births in S. Korea rises
The number of twins, triplets and other multiple births in South Korea has tripled over the past 20 years, in contrast with declining total births every year, recent data shows. According to Statistics Korea, multiple births in the country numbered 16,166 in 2015, or 3.7 percent of all babies born in the same year. The number is 70 percent higher than in 1995, but the proportion as a total of all babies has nearly tripled over the same period.The number of multiples born marked 10,692 babies, or
June 13, 2017
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High-rise painter dies after man cuts safety rope
Police plan to seek an arrest warrant for a man who allegedly cut a safety rope anchored to the top of a high-rise building to keep the dangling painter from falling, police said Tuesday. The worker fell to his death.(123RF)The incident occurred Thursday at around 8 a.m. at a 15-story apartment building in Yangsan, South Gyeongsang Province, while workers, hanging on harnesses, were painting the building. Yangsan Police nabbed the suspect, a 41-year-old resident, on Monday. According to their in
June 13, 2017
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[Profile] Professor, former activist tapped as gender equality minister
Chung Hyun-back, the nominee for gender equality minister, is a history professor and women’s rights activist who has devoted her career to tackling gender inequality and labor disparity. Chung, 64, served as a co-head of the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, a liberal civic group, from 2010-2016. She also headed the Korean Women’s Association United from 2002-2007.Chung Hyun-back, the nominee for gender equality ministerCheong Wa Dae expressed hopes for the nominee to take a lead
June 13, 2017
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Sex crimes more than doubled over past decade
The number of reported sex crimes in 2015 has more than doubled over the past decade, according to a new governmental report, triggering calls for enhanced measures to prevent them. While other felonies -- arson, robbery and murder -- saw a decline during the period, sex crimes soared by 117.6 percent from 14,277 in 2006 to 31,063 in 2015, according to the 2016 White Paper on Crime published by Institute of Justice. The total number of offenses increased by 10.5 percent from 1,829,211 in 2006
June 13, 2017
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Parcel bomber arrested
Police said Tuesday that a graduate student had been arrested on suspicion of a parcel bomb attack that injured a college professor earlier in the morning.The suspect is a 25-year-old graduate school student who also studies engineering at the same university, according to the police.An unidentified parcel bomb exploded at Seoul’s Yonsei University on Tuesday, causing injury to the professor who opened the parcel. Police said it appeared to be a nail bomb similar to that used in a recent terror
June 13, 2017
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Justice Minister nominee signals drastic reforms
The justice minister nominee on Monday signaled bold steps to reform law enforcement. “There is now a social consensus that the Justice Ministry doesn’t have to be filled by excellent prosecutors,” Ahn Kyong-whan told reporters near his residence in southern Seoul. Ahn Kyong-whan, the justice minister nominee (Yonhap)A former head of the nation’s human rights watchdog with no ties to the established powers, Ahn has been nominated by President Moon Jae-in with a mission to reform the prosecution.
June 12, 2017
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Air pollution causes 14,000 additional deaths a year in Korea: report
About 14,000 people are dying prematurely every year in South Korea as a result of air pollution, a medical professor said Monday, citing a report by the US-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.Cheong Hae-kwan, a professor at the Medical College of Seoul's Sungkyunkwan University, said during a seminar that the number of premature deaths in South Korea caused by air pollution was tallied at 13,703 in 2013 in the IHME report.This May 2017 file photo shows people looking at the landsc
June 12, 2017
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Unfair contracts prevalent in cultural art sector: survey
Unfair contracts and practices are posing a grave threat to the livelihood of cultural artists operating in Seoul, a survey conducted by the metropolitan government said Monday.In the poll of 315 cartoonists and webtoon writers and 519 illustrators from last December to February this year, four of five illustrators, or 79 percent, and 37 percent of cartoonists and webtoon writers said they were forced to sign unfair contracts.Among the unfair contracts signed by illustrators, demand for excessiv
June 12, 2017
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Korean-American picked as new astronaut for NASA
A Korean-American was picked by the US space agency as a new astronaut, the US Embassy in Seoul announced Monday. Jonny Kim was one of 12 new astronaut candidates chosen from among 18,000 applicants for the class of 2017 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, it said.Jonny Kim (US Embassy in Korea)Kim trained as a Navy SEAL and earned a medical degree from Harvard Medical School. NASA introduced its new astronaut candidates Wednesday at Johnson Space Center in Houston, the US. The
June 12, 2017
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Education minister nominee stresses equal opportunity
Education Minister nominee Kim Sang-gon on Monday stressed equal opportunities for students, signaling a liberal turn in the nation’s education policy. “I will do my best to improve the welfare of children in the education sector, where no individual will be treated differently, in line with the Moon Jae-in administration’s philosophy of ‘one’s child is everyone’s child,’ Kim said in a press release Monday. It was his first public message since being tapped as the nation’s education chief and de
June 12, 2017
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Cause of massive blackout remains unknown
The exact cause behind a massive blackout that affected some 190,000 households in southwestern districts in Seoul and Gwangmyeong on Sunday remains unclear, the state-run electricity provider said Monday.With the investigation to determine the cause underway, the Korea Electric Power Corp. said the latest power failure appears to be from problems in the switchgear of the Yeongseo Substation located in Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi Province.Diners at a restaurant eat in the dark after a power failure at
June 12, 2017
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Gov't to consider lowering denture costs for elderly from 2018: ministry
The government said Monday it will consider lowering the financial burden of senior citizens getting dentures and dental implants starting next year to meet President Moon Jae-in's campaign pledge.Those aged over 65 are currently required to pay half of the costs for dentures and dental implants. (Yonhap)The 50 percent cost, however, still poses a serious financial burden to seniors who are not economically active, an official of the Ministry of Health and Welfare said, adding the ministry will
June 12, 2017
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Unstable job security leads to more hypertension for female nonregular workers: survey
Female temporary employees are 1.4 times more susceptible to hypertension than regular female workers due to stress from unstable job security, a survey showed Monday.The survey of 5,338 people by professor Park Sang-min of Seoul National University, however, found no difference in the ratio of hypertension contraction between regular and nonregular male workers. Temporary workers stage a rally at the Gwanghwamun Plaza in downtown Seoul on May 11, 2017, to demand job security and a pay raise. (Y
June 12, 2017
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6 in 10 jobseekers willing to settle for temporary work: poll
Nearly 6 in 10 South Korean jobseekers are willing to work for even low-paying, temporary jobs, a poll showed Monday, pointing to the grim reality facing local job hunters.The leading online job search portal JobKorea said its survey of 1,368 jobseekers showed that 57.7 percent have intentions to work even as irregular employees.Nearly 61 percent of surveyed women answered they want to have nonregular jobs, with the comparable figure coming to 39.4 percent.Nearly 45 percent replied they want tem
June 12, 2017
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Prosecution to question daughter of Park's friend
Prosecutors were set to question the daughter of former President Park Geun-hye's longtime friend Monday as part of a probe into a massive influence-peddling scandal that led to Park's removal from office. Chung Yoo-ra has been summoned to appear at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in the morning, the prosecution said.This file photo shows Chung Yoo-ra, the daughter of former President Park Geun-hye`s longtime friend Choi Soon-sil, surrounded by reporters on June 9, 2017. (Yonhap)
June 12, 2017