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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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Ador CEO denies allegations, accuses Hybe of mistreating NewJeans
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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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Nicaragua shuts down Seoul embassy
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Hybe's multilabel system tested amid conflict with Ador
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Rocket engine expert, ex-NASA exec to lead Korea's new space agency
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SNU profs to suspend treatment for one day
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SK hynix pledges W20tr to ramp up DRAM production at home
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Over-50s, men, single-person households take up majority of those filing for bankruptcy
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Pianist Cho Seong-Jin named Berlin Philharmonic's artist-in-residence
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Koreas hold first meeting over wage dispute without progress
South and North Korea opened a meeting over wages for North Korean workers at the joint industrial park in Kaesong, but failed to narrow differences, a South Korean government official said Wednesday. The North unilaterally decided to raise wages by 5.18 percent to $74 per month starting in March for about 53,000 North Korean workers hired by South Korea's small-and medium-sized firms at the Kaesong Industrial Complex in the North's border city of the same name. On Tuesday, officials from the
April 8, 2015
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Regional security talks due amid Japan history setback
South Korea is bracing for a series of key diplomatic talks with Japan and the United States next week, with trilateral security cooperation at a crucial juncture, officials and experts here said Wednesday. The regional powers are seeking to arrange a vice ministerial meeting in Washington, a government source said. "The three countries are in consultations to hold vice minister-level talks next week," the source said. If held, South Korea will be represented by Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae-
April 8, 2015
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Japan stokes territorial tension
Japan again reasserted its sovereignty over the easternmost Korean islets of Dokdo in an annual diplomatic paper Tuesday, further stoking territorial tension that has dogged bilateral ties for decades. Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida reported the 2015 edition of the Diplomatic Bluebook to the Cabinet, which claims that the islets are its “inherent territory” based on history and international law. Seoul’s Foreign Ministry instantly protested the announcement, calling in Kenji Kanasugi, a
April 7, 2015
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Japan claims sovereignty over Dokdo in diplomatic document
Japan repeated its territorial claim Tuesday over Dokdo, a pair of outcroppings in the East Sea, in its annual foreign policy report, dealing yet another blow to the already-troubled ties with South Korea. In the 2015 Diplomatic Bluebook, the Shinzo Abe administration argued that Dokdo, effectively controlled by Seoul, is Japanese territory based on historical facts and international law. It came a day after Japan's education ministry irked South Koreans by unveiling the results of its regular
April 7, 2015
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Japan set to unveil diplomatic report containing Dokdo claim
Japan was set to release its controversial diplomatic report on Tuesday that will likely contain Tokyo's repeated claim to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo in what could be another setback in already-troubled bilateral ties, officials said. Japan plans to publish its 2015 Diplomatic Bluebook later in the day, in which Tokyo is widely expected to intensify its territorial claim to a set of rocky islets in the East Sea. In last year's report, Tokyo said the islets are "clearly an inhere
April 7, 2015
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Abe expected to mention sexual slavery issue during U.S. trip: U.S. lawmaker
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to mention the issue of the country's wartime sexual enslavement of women when he visits the United States later this month, a U.S. congressman said Monday. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) made the remark during a conference call with South Korean correspondents in Washington after traveling with Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi to South Korea and Japan, a trip that included a meeting with Abe. "We did not discuss that with the prime minister (Abe), but
April 7, 2015
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Japan steps up Dokdo claim in schoolbooks
Japan on Monday approved a batch of updated middle school textbooks carrying stronger claims than before to Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo, in another move that could dampen efforts to mend bilateral ties. The Korean government immediately lodged a protest, calling the decision a “provocation” against its sovereignty over its indigenous territory. Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yong summoned Ambassador Koro Bessho and delivered a written complaint. “The Japanese government has once again sta
April 6, 2015
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Experts denounce Abe gov't for politicizing school textbooks
South Korean experts Monday denounced the Japanese government for politically using school textbooks as it approved texts intensifying Japan's claim to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo. The Japanese education ministry approved 13 sorts of middle-school level textbooks containing Tokyo's claim that South Korea is illegally occupying Dokdo, three times more than the four that passed Tokyo's regular review in 2011. The move is seen here as the Abe administration's attempt to bolster its
April 6, 2015
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S. Korea protests Japan's Dokdo claim
South Korea on Tuesday protested Japan's foreign policy report that renewed Tokyo's claim to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo. In the 2015 Diplomatic Bluebook, released earlier in the day, the Shinzo Abe administration argued that the pair of outcroppings in the East Sea is Japanese territory based on historical facts and international law. It came a day after Japan's education ministry irked South Koreans by unveiling the results of its regular review of textbooks for middle school
April 6, 2015
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Turkmen president to visit S. Korea
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov will visit South Korea later this week for talks with President Park Geun-hye on enhancing ties in business and other areas, Park's office said Monday. The Turkmen leader is scheduled to arrive in the country Saturday and attend the opening ceremony of the 7th World Water Forum in the eastern city of Daegu the following day, Cheong Wa Dae said in a press release. During the four-day state visit, the two leaders are to hold summit talks next Monday an
April 6, 2015
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Lippert to return to podium
By Song Sang-hoU.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert has agreed to take to the podium again at a forum to be hosted by the same organization that held a seminar where he was attacked by a leftist extremist a month ago, its senior official and a source said Monday.Saenuri Party Rep. Chang Yoon-seok, who serves as chairman of the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation, recently met with the top U.S. envoy and requested him to give a lecture, the official said.“(Lippert) has, in pr
April 6, 2015
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No immediate signs of N.K. provocations: Seoul ministry
North Korea is showing no signs yet of any immediate ballistic missile launch, Seoul's defense ministry said Monday, amid growing concerns about the possibility of an additional provocation by the communist nation.On Friday, the North test-fired four short-range missiles presumed to be KN-02 ground-to-ship ones into the West Sea following the test-firing of a single projectile the previous day, according to Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff. "No concrete, specific signs have been detected as I've j
April 6, 2015
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S. Korean businessmen to visit Kaesong
A group of South Korean businessmen with factories in the Kaesong Industrial Complex will visit North Korea this week, with the two Koreas locking horns over Pyongyang's move to raise wages for its workers there, a Seoul ministry said Monday.They plan to cross the border on Tuesday morning for a one-day trip to hold an emergency meeting of the operating committee for the inter-Korean economic cooperation program, according to the unification ministry's spokesman Lim Byeong-cheol.Chung Ki-sup, wh
April 6, 2015
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S. Korea, China hope Japan to join volcano study in N. Korea
State-funded geological institutes of South Korea and China are hoping Japan will join their joint research of a dormant volcano in North Korea, a South Korean research institute said Monday, in what could be a rare bit of cooperation among the three nations on the Korean Peninsula's highest peak, Mt. Baekdu.Volcanologists from the three nations' geological institutes -- the Korean Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, the China Geological Survey and the Japan Geological Survey -- will
April 6, 2015
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Seoul keeping close tabs on Japan's school textbook review
South Korea is closely watching Japan's plans to unveil the results of its review of textbooks for middle school students as they are expected to contain Tokyo's repeated claim to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo, officials said Monday. Later in the day, Japan is set to make public the outcome of an examination of school textbooks that will likely include Tokyo's territorial claim to Dokdo, in what could be another source of tension between the two historical rivals. Japan has long de
April 6, 2015
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S. Korea, Japan to hold series of defense, foreign officials' meetings
Despite their frayed relations, South Korea and Japan are expected to hold a series of defense and foreign affairs officials' meetings bilaterally or trilaterally with the United States later this month, diplomatic sources said Sunday. Deputy minister-level officials from the three countries are scheduled to hold the annual Defense Trilateral Talks in Washington where they are expected to discuss ways to increase cooperation on missile defense, information sharing and other matters. The meetin
April 6, 2015
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KOICA bolsters rural development in Senegal
BELLY NAMARY/THIES, Senegal ― Nariel Sow, a 10-year-old resident of Belly Namary in Senegal’s northwest, had to walk around 3 kilometers several times a day to fetch water for her 14-member family due to a lack of wells in her own village.The daily routine, an obligation for girls in her rural community, posed a major hurdle for developing her knack for French and math at school. With a water tower built by the Korea International Cooperation Agency, she is now able to focus on her study, dreami
April 5, 2015
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KOICA strives to empower women in Ivory Coast
SEGUELA/ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast ― Women chatter away in twos and threes as they lean over their bedsides at the neatly arranged patient rooms in a provincial hospital in Seguela, some 592 kilometers northwest of Abidjan. Months before, most of the 25 patients entered the clinic feeling disgraced by their disease, obstetric fistula, and the resulting cold shoulder given by their family and community. Some were deserted by their husbands, and though the illness is treatable with a brief surgery, many
April 5, 2015
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Romanian exhibition illuminates communist life
A group of Romanian artists is displaying work that delves into life during and after communism, revealing a complex world of creativity and resistance. The “Pocket Revolutions: Romanian Contemporary Art” exhibition at the Korea Foundation Gallery from April 3-18 in Seoul celebrates the silver jubilee of relations this year and pays tribute to the communist legacies of Romania. Photographs, films, sculptures, books and paintings by eight artists reveal a complex reality of the country’s turbulen
April 5, 2015
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German firms glitter at Seoul Motor Show
The German Association of Automotive Industry (VDA) has showcased the latest technology and opened the doors for medium-sized suppliers at a pavilion at the 2015 Seoul Motor Show.With the import of foreign cars steadily rising in Korea, German cars, known for their world-class performance, design and safety, increased sales by 28 percent in 2014 with 143,300 vehicles. Imported car sales overall increased 14 percent in 2014. One in 7 cars sold in Korea last year were imported, with German brands
April 5, 2015