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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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Samsung chief bolsters ties with Germany’s Zeiss
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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KT launches new mobile plans for foreign residents
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N. Korea, China discuss ways to resume nuclear talks: Beijing
China's top negotiator on the North Korean nuclear issue, Wu Dawei, has been holding talks with his North Korean counterpart in Pyongyang on restarting the six-party talks aimed at ending the North's nuclear weapons program, the Chinese foreign ministry said Wednesday. Wu arrived in Pyongyang on Monday, the North's state media said in a one-line report, without giving details of his itinerary.China's foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters during a regular press briefing that Wu has b
March 19, 2014
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Your personal data, sold in China for a cent
(Result obtained by typing in reporter's younger brother's registration number) First page of 'South Korean identity search' pageA Chinese website showed that Koreans’ personal information has been sold through a Chinese website at 1 cent per identity. A Facebook user came forward with a set of captured pictures of a Chinese website, saying, “Our information has been sold at 1 cent (6 won).” The pictures showed lists of South Korean names and resident registration numbers being shared among Inte
March 19, 2014
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Future is now for Canadian craft beer in Korea
Beer needs no ambassador, it might be said, but in South Korea the Canadian Embassy is helping inch open the market for quality craft beer at grocery stores, restaurants and bars.Canadian beefsteaks and the country’s thirst-quenching suds will slowly be made more widely available with the conclusion of nine years of free trade talks. So, spirits were pretty high at the second annual Canadian beer and cider tasting event at a hotel in southern Seoul on Wednesday.Canadian micro-brewers Brasseurs d
March 16, 2014
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N. Ireland peace model for Korea?
Irish officials and experts are sharing their experience in the Northern Ireland peace process with their South Korean counterparts in a bid to help ratchet down tensions on the most militarized border in the world, Ireland’s top diplomat here said. “Previously in my career I was directly involved in the Northern Ireland peace process and so am keen to contribute in this area during my posting in Seoul,” Irish Ambassador to Korea Aingeal O’Donoghue said in an interview with The Korea Herald in S
March 16, 2014
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Envoy awards Heineken as best Dutch company in Korea
Dutch Ambassador to South Korea Paul Menkveld presented the Hamel Trade Award to Heineken Korea Inc., dubbing the iconic European brewer the best-performing business from the Netherlands in South Korea.The ambassador presented the award to the multinational beer company’s local division head, country manager Jan Arie Smit, during a gala dinner for the Dutch business community on Wednesday. The trophy is handed out once every two years and is named after Hendrick Hamel, the seafaring Dutchman who
March 16, 2014
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German state finance minister pitches $1.4b in bonds
The finance minister of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia pitched $1.4 billion in treasury bonds, as well as ways Seoul can completely eliminate tax evasion, during his visit in Seoul on Thursday. Finance Minister Norbert Walter-Borjans of North Rhine-Westphalia talked up investing in the state’s recent issuance of over a billion dollars in bonds, as well as creating people-friendly tax payment procedures to completely eradicate tax evasion. Walter-Borjans was on a whirlwind four-day, t
March 16, 2014
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Photo exhibition on ‘dark’ chapter of Azerbaijani history
Ramzi Teymurov, Azerbaijani charge d’affaires to South Korea, inaugurated a photo exhibition at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies on Wednesday that portrays a tragic period in Azerbaijan’s history as an independent nation.The photo exhibition, entitled “Azerbaijani Realties,” depicts the mass killing of 613 people, including 65 children, near the small town of Khojaly on the night of Feb. 25 and 26, 1992, during the Nagorno-Karabakh War with neighboring Armenia. The incident became known as t
March 16, 2014
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Envoys praise Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid
The ambassadors of both Iraq and the United Kingdom expressed pride in Iraqi-born British architect and Pritzker Prize winner Zaha Hadid, during an opening reception for the new Dongdaemun Plaza in Seoul on Tuesday.The new design plaza is poised for its official public opening March 21 ― more than seven years after the plans were first floated. Hadid came to Seoul to take part in a reception celebrating the new addition to the city’s mecca for 24-hour shopping. Joining her were foreign envoys, V
March 16, 2014
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Korea mulls sending aircraft for Malaysia jet search
South Korea is considering dispatching two military aircraft to assist with ongoing international search efforts for the missing Malaysia airplane, a military source said Friday, amid deepening mystery surrounding the jet's fate.Seoul is reviewing a plan to send the P-3C Orion patrol aircraft and C-130 military transport airplane to find the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared somewhere over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam last week."The South Korean military has participated in t
March 14, 2014
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Over 1,300 Japanese scholars protest review of 1993 apology
More than 1,300 Japanese academics have joined a protest against Tokyo’s move to review and alter its 1993 apology for its military’s wartime mobilization of sex slaves, a news report said Thursday. Hirofumi Hayashi, a politics professor at Kanto Gakuin University, and 14 other scholars have launched a signature-collecting drive against retaining and developing the statement by then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono, the Tokyo Shimbun reported. The apology, along with a 1995 statement by former
March 13, 2014
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Korean, Japanese officials hold fence-mending talks
Vice foreign ministers of Korea and Japan held talks on Wednesday in Seoul in an apparent attempt to mend the two countries’ relations frayed by the Shinzo Abe government’s increasingly hawkish policies on historical and territorial issues. Cho Tae-yong and Akitaka Saiki were expected to have discussed bilateral ties and the situation on the peninsula, possibly including Japan’s wartime sex slavery and other historical issues. The meeting marks the first high-level dialogue since Abe’s visit to
March 12, 2014
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China welcomes Japan's help in search for missing Malaysian jet
China on Wednesday welcomed the decision by Japan to send military aircraft to help locate a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner, with multinational search operations still having found no trace of the jet carrying 239 people days after it vanished.The Japanese government is set to dispatch four military aircraft to join the widening search operations to find the Boeing 777 plane, which disappeared from radar early Saturday while en route to Beijing.Asked about the Japanese government's decision,
March 12, 2014
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Seoul, Tokyo fail to make progress in strained relations
South Korea and Japan held vice ministerial level talks on Wednesday to discuss their strained relations, but not much progress was made despite hopes for a diplomatic thaw, a government official here said.In the meeting between South Korea's newly named Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yong and his Japanese counterpart Akitaka Saiki, the officials only reiterated their previous stances, the foreign affairs official said.The Seoul-Tokyo high-level talks, the first of their kind since Japanese Prime
March 12, 2014
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U.N. panel says ties with N. Korea's Air Koryo breach arms embargo
Doing business with North Korea's flag carrier, Air Koryo, could violate U.N.-led sanctions, according to U.N. report issued Tuesday. An eight-member expert panel with the U.N. Security Council said the airliner, as well as all airports and airfields in the nation, are actually run by the Air Force through its Civil Aviation Bureau. Accordingly, U.N. member states "should be aware that providing financial transactions, technical training, advice, services or assistance related to the provi
March 12, 2014
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Obama to bestow medals on 'overlooked' Korean War veterans
The sacrifice of U.S. soldiers in the Korean War and two other major conflicts decades ago will be highlighted once again by the White House next week, when President Barack Obama bestows top medals on two dozen Army veterans. Obama plans to award them the Medal of Honor "for their conspicuous gallantry" in an unusually massive White House ceremony on Tuesday, followed by a Pentagon induction event the following day. The 24 recipients include nine Korean War veterans, eight who served in the
March 12, 2014
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Japan says no plan to revise wartime sex-slave apology
TOKYO (AFP) ― Japan has no plan to revise a landmark 1993 apology over wartime sex slavery, the government‘s top spokesman said Monday, despite a controversial review of the statement which has sparked a backlash at home and abroad.The landmark apology, known as the Kono statement, acknowledged official complicity in the coercion of women from across Asia into a system of wartime brothels, an issue that draws particular resentment in neighboring South Korea.South Korean President Park Geun-hye h
March 10, 2014
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Sudanese foreign minister to visit Seoul
After more than a decade since their last meeting, South Korean and Sudanese diplomatic officials sat down for their fourth bilateral consultations in Seoul on Wednesday with the aim of forming two-way ties. The last time the two nations held such bilateral talks was 11 years ago in 2003.The Sudanese side was led by Abdel Mahmood Abdel Haleem, director general of bilateral and regional relations at the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the previous Sudanese ambassador to the United Nation
March 9, 2014
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Malaysia to take part in medical trade show at Coex
Korean society is aging rapidly, making family-centered health care a big issue for many South Korean baby boomers.The effects of this phenomenon on the local medical industry is bound to make its annual trade show more important than ever. Six Malaysian health care equipment providers are looking to expand commercial ties between South Korea and the Southeast Asian nation. Malaysia is the leading supplier of medical gloves, with a market share of about 50 percent in more than 180 countries. It
March 9, 2014
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Aussie volleyball star named goodwill ambassador
The Australian Embassy here honored professional volleyball player Thomas Edgar with the designation of goodwill ambassador for his role in promoting friendly bilateral ties on Monday.Australian Ambassador to South Korea William Paterson named the 24-year-old star athlete a goodwill ambassador in a small ceremony at the chancery’s Australia Center in downtown Seoul.Edgar joined the LIG Greaters in South Korea during the 2012-2013 V-League season. He previously played for the Italian Serie A2 clu
March 9, 2014
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Polish Embassy brings cultural collaboration in exhibition
The Polish ambassador here hosted foreign envoys and art enthusiasts at the opening of an art exhibition that featured two Polish painters who participated in three-week residencies in South Korea.“Both artists visited Korea and became fascinated with Korean culture and its natural surroundings,” said Polish Ambassador to South Korea Krzysztof Majka during the exhibition’s opening reception at Samsung Raemian Gallery in Seoul on Tuesday.The artists were hosted by Mosan Art Museum in Boryeong Cit
March 9, 2014