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Yoon apologizes for first lady Dior bag scandal, calls push for special probe ‘political’
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Korea forecast to overtake Taiwan in chip production by 2032: report
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Girl hanging on bridge, police trying to rescue her both fall off; rescued immediately
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[K-pop’s dilemma] Can K-pop break free from ‘fandom’ model?
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YouTuber fatally stabbed on livestream by another YouTuber in Busan
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Yoon rebuffs opposition's call for special probe into wife
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No plan to let doctors with foreign licenses practice here anytime soon: PM
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Stray Kids hit with racism in Met Gala photo line
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[News Analysis] Yoon's first 2 years marked by intense confrontations, lack of leadership
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Yoon apologizes for wife's 'unwise conduct'
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ASEAN-Korea Center sends trade mission to Thailand
Southeast Asia and Korea promoted the local home furnishings sector by dispatching a trade mission to Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday and Thursday.Organized in cooperation with Thailand’s Department of International Trade Promotion and the ASEAN-Korea Center, the two-day trade mission aimed to strengthen trade and business networks between Korea and Thailand.The trade trip included representatives from major Korean furniture companies, hoping to drum up business opportunities by conducting market r
March 17, 2013
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Canada gives a taste of future craft beer imports
The Canadian Embassy may soon provide your palate a welcome respite from the customary Korean quaffs of Cass, OB and Hite.Canada’s foreign ministry is leveraging its diplomatic muscle behind something truly worthwhile: bringing quality beers to Korea. Lovers of Canadian beer, and curious local and expatriate palates thirsting for something beyond the local grog, got a taste of what could soon be available at local bars at a beer and cider tasting event at the Palace Hotel in southern Seoul, Wedn
March 17, 2013
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Japan PM hopes to meet China, S. Korea heads to ease ties
TOKYO (AFP) -- Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday he hoped to meet the Chinese and South Korean leaders soon to improve relations strained by separate territorial rows.But his ruling party also pledged the same day to push for changes to Japan's pacifist constitution -- a move likely to stir unease in both the countries, which were among victims of Tokyo's 20th century militarism."I am in the same generation as the two new leaders," Abe told an annual convention of his Liberal Democra
March 17, 2013
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Korea revs up campaign to join Arctic Council
South Korea will hold an international conference early next week to discuss policy issues for environment-friendly development of the Arctic, an official said Friday, as part of its latest push to join the Arctic Council. The Monday conference will bring together South Korean Second Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul; ambassadors from Sweden, Denmark and Norway; and experts, including David Hik, a professor at the University of Alberta, the foreign ministry official said. Entitled “Arctic Resear
March 15, 2013
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Korea, China fault Japan on sex slavery at U.N.
GENEVA (AFP) ― South Korea and China on Thursday told the U.N.’s top human rights forum that Japan must face up to its World War II-era sexual enslavement of women from across occupied Asia, but Tokyo insisted it had already taken responsibility.“Japan must accept legal responsibility and take appropriate measures,” South Korea’s ambassador Choi Seok-young told the U.N. Human Rights Council.Chinese counterpart Liu Zhenmin also challenged Tokyo on the issue.“China urges Japan to apologize for the
March 15, 2013
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John Kerry to visit Seoul next month
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to South Korea next month as part of his Northeast Asia tour, his department announced Thursday.It will mark his first trip to the region since he took office in February. Following the G-8 meetings in London from April 10-11, Kerry plans to visit South Korea, Japan and China, according to department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland."The secretary will meet with counterparts and discuss the full range of bilateral, multilateral and regional issues as we
March 15, 2013
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Atomic energy sticking point for Park, Obama
Differences between Korea and the U.S. over a decades-old nuclear energy pact are casting a shadow over the first talks between Presidents Park Geun-hye and Barack Obama scheduled for early May.Park plans to visit Washington in her first trip as president which is expected to focus on their joint response to a North Korea-fueled security crisis. The two leaders will also discuss how to share costs for 28,500 U.S. troops stationed here, the transfer of wartime operational control slated for 2015
March 14, 2013
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Norway provides $8 million for GGGI’s work in Ethiopia
Norway signed an agreement with the Global Green Growth Institute on Thursday to provide $8 million to support environmentally friendly development in Ethiopia. Under the deal, the GGGI will lead research and help with policy planning in the African country. Norway is a founding member and donor partner of the GGGI, which was set up by the Korean government in 2010 and became an international organization in October. The Seoul-based institute envisages a “think and act tank” that brings together
March 14, 2013
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[Graphic News] Process begins for choosing next pope
Cardinals entered the conclave to choose the successor to Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Tuesday evening.The 115 voting cardinals, who are forbidden from contact with the outside world during the conclave, must arrive at a two-thirds majority to select the next pope. While the conclave has no set time limit, earlier reports had speculated that the process would be finished before the end of the month, in time for Easter.Observers have been unable to identify any clear favorite despite speculatio
March 12, 2013
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Top diplomats of Korea, U.S. likely to hold talks this month
Top diplomats of South Korea and the United States are expected to hold their first bilateral talks as early as this month, a senior Seoul official said Tuesday, as North Korea ramps up tensions with its increasingly menacing language.Ahead of a planned summit set for early May between President Park Geun-hye and U.S. President Barack Obama, officials from the allies are in the midst of arranging a schedule and agenda for talks between Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and U.S. Secretary of State Jo
March 12, 2013
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Korea eyes East Asia public diplomacy
South Korea seeks to enhance public diplomacy efforts with China and Japan this year to help defuse regional tensions and find long-term solutions to territorial and historical issues, a Seoul envoy told The Korea Herald.The three countries agreed to launch a trilateral public diplomacy forum during a summit in Beijing last May. The plan proposed by former President Lee Myung-bak has made little progress amid rising political tensions among the three neighbors. “We are seeking to hold the public
March 11, 2013
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Holocaust memorial museum opens in Busan
A multicultural couple living in Busan opened a cultural center and museum focused on Israel and the Jewish people for the first time in Busan on March 4.Jay and Keum Kronish opened The Busan Israel House, an Israeli-Jewish culture center and Holocaust memorial museum, with help from the Israeli Embassy in Korea and the personal encouragement of Israeli Ambassador to Korea Tuvia Israeli. The Busan Israel House focuses on the Holocaust in which some six million Jews were killed during World War 2
March 10, 2013
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Bulgarian envoy pitches for investment at seminar
The Bulgarian Embassy’s commercial office here, partnering with a slew of groups including The Financial Times and the European Union, organized a two-day seminar on investing in Bulgaria at the Lotte Hotel, Wednesday and Thursday.Bulgarian Ambassador to Korea Petar Andonov and Borislav Stefanov, executive director of Invest Bulgaria Agency, delivered keynote speeches on the opening day.“Bulgaria has made substantial progress in creating a favorable investment climate,” organizers said in a pres
March 10, 2013
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Franco-German friendship celebrates ‘digital peace’
Information technology and globalization have certainly caused problems ― the loss of privacy like never before, cyber crime, even terrorism come to mind.But the centripetal force of globalization and information technology might also offer a potential for cross-cultural and international collaboration. They could create the possibility for peace.The French and German Embassies in Korea are celebrating IT’s potential for peace with an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Franco-G
March 10, 2013
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Literary group marks 30th meet-up, hosts three writers
The Seoul Literary Society, a group of Korean literature enthusiasts organized by the Swedish Embassy in Korea, celebrated its 30th session with three of Korea’s literary luminaries: Kim Yeon-su, Kim In-sook and Pyun Hye-young.“There is this great treasure in this country called ‘Korean literature’ and, because of the inability of many of us to read what is written firsthand, there was a need for a mechanism to make Korean literature more readily available to the foreign community,” said Swedish
March 10, 2013
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Korea, Denmark team up for Arctic oil El Dorado
Receding Arctic ice has opened up a speculative oil El Dorado that has got the world’s eight Arctic Council nations ― Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States ― scrambling over conflicting territorial claims in a 21st century land run.That has pulled Korea and Denmark together in an unlikely partnership to develop oil, natural gas and mineral resources in the Arctic in their so-called “global green growth alliance,” the first economic partnership of its ki
March 10, 2013
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[Graphic News] Carry-on rules eased for American flights
Small pocketknives are to be allowed onboard U.S. flights for the first time since their prohibition after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, following an announcement by the Transportation Security Administration on Tuesday.The new rules, to come into effect on April 25, will allow passengers to carry non-fixed blades of less than 6 cm in length and 1.3 cm in width. Happily for sports enthusiasts, golf clubs, ski poles, hockey sticks and baseball bats will also be permitted. Attracting its f
March 7, 2013
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[Graphic News] Cardinals congregate to select date for conclave
The majority of the cardinals who are to select the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church held their first pre-conclave meeting in Rome on Monday, having being summoned the previous Friday by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals.Of the 117 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope, 107 attended the meeting on the future of the church and when to hold the conclave to select the pontiff. While the date for the conclave is yet to be set, the cardinals reportedly hope to co
March 5, 2013
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Japanese music conductor visits N. Korea
A famous Japanese music conductor visited North Korea, the country’s state-run television said Monday, in what appears to be the North’s efforts to widen non-political ties with the outside world despite mounting tensions over its nuclear test last month.The (North) Korean Central TV reported that Michiyoshi Inoue, the music conductor of Japan’s Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, and his delegation toured the People’s Theater in Pyongyang on Sunday.Inoue previously visited the communist country in Oct
March 4, 2013
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Ex-sex slaves sue Japanese rock band
A group of elderly South Koreans forced by Japan into sexual slavery during World War II sued a Japanese rock band Monday for their song that named such former slaves as prostitutes.The right-wing band made an extremely anti-South Korean music video in which the band named the former sex slaves, euphemistically called “comfort women,” as prostitutes and called for their death. A CD of the music and a printout of its words translated into Korean were delivered to a shelter for former sex slaves i
March 4, 2013