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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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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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KT launches new mobile plans for foreign residents
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Envoy notes similar pasts of Bulgaria, Korea
The Bulgarian Ambassador here underscored a cultural triumph that the southeast European nation shares with South Korea during a reception in Seoul on Monday to celebrate Bulgaria’s Liberation Day.Bulgarian Ambassador Petar Andonov, pointed out at an event to mark the 136th anniversary of Bulgaria’s liberation from five centuries of Ottoman rule that both countries had invented alphabets ― Korea developed Hangeul and Bulgaria the Cyrillic alphabet.On March 3, 1878, a peace treaty was signed betw
March 9, 2014
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Embassy brings taste of Ecuador to Seoul
Seoulites can experience authentic Ecuadorian cuisine throughout the month for the first time ever thanks to a special promotional drive by the Ecuadorian Embassy here.The embassy’s commercial office has organized a special program focusing particular attention on the South American country’s shrimp products, at the Orangerie Dining Salon at the Millennium Seoul Hilton Hotel until March 31.Ecuadorian chef Ruth Maria Moreno was flown in to Seoul to prepare a menu of traditional Ecuadorian food ad
March 9, 2014
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Korea, Kenya open business forum to upgrade trade ties
Kenya and South Korea launched the first-ever organization dedicated to upgrading commercial ties between the East African nation and Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Key South Korean business leaders met with Kenyan Ambassador Ngovi Kitau in a launch ceremony in southern Seoul on Feb. 27The Kenya-Korea Economic Forum will include 17 South Korean business leaders, such as Shinn Tae-yong, chairman of Korea Importers Association (KOIMA), and Chung Kun-mo, a member of Kenya’s National Economic and So
March 9, 2014
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Uruguayan Ambassador Legnani encourages women to aim high
“Every woman has to fight. She has to fight for her future, and her future does not have to be to take care of the house,” said Uruguayan Ambassador to South Korea Alba Florio Legnani in an interview with The Korea Herald on Wednesday, days before International Women’s Day was celebrated around the world.Legnani is one of just seven female ambassadors out of the 100-plus heads of diplomatic missions here. She is also the senior envoy of an informal caucus of women ambassadors working in South Ko
March 9, 2014
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U.S. congressmen urge reunions of divided Korean-American families
Four U.S. congressmen submitted a resolution to a House committee calling for the reunion of Koreans in the United States with their long-lost families in North Korea, according to the Library of Congress. The measure was sponsored by Rep. Charles Rangel, Howard Coble, John Conyers and Samuel Johnson, all Korean War veterans. "The division on the Korean Peninsula separated more than 10,000,000 Korean family members, including some who are now citizens of the United States," said the resoluti
March 8, 2014
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Malaysia, Vietnam mount search for airliner carrying 239 people
Malaysia and Vietnam launched searches on Saturday for a Malaysia Airlines flight that lost contact with traffic controllers, as fears mounted over the fate of the 239 people aboard.Vietnamese state media said citing a Navy official that the Kuala Lumpur-Beijing bound Flight MH370 had crashed into the sea, some 240 kilometers off the coast of Vietnam's Tho Chu Island.Vietnamese authorities said contact with Flight MH370 was lost near the country's airspace, but its exact location remained a myst
March 8, 2014
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Virginia legislature approves bill on ‘East Sea’ name
WASHINGTON (Yonhap) ― Virginia legislators wrapped up all legislative procedures in both chambers on the “East Sea” bill Wednesday, passing the onus to Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe.Last month, the House and Senate approved bills that require all public schools to name the body of water between Korea and Japan as the East Sea as well as the Sea of Japan. Koreans view the name Sea of Japan, which is still better known worldwide, as a relic of Japan’s imperialistic past, including the colonizati
March 6, 2014
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U.S. envoy denounces Japan's wartime sex slavery as 'grave human rights violation'
The U.S. ambassador to Seoul said Thursday Japan's sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II is "a grave human rights violation," expressing hope for Tokyo to take steps to ease the pains of victims. Sung Kim made the remarks at a forum hosted by the Kwanhun Club, a senior journalists' association, in Seoul, echoing Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se's criticism the previous day in Geneva of Japan's attempts to deny its wartime atrocities."Yes, I agree (with Yun)," Kim said. "The comfort
March 6, 2014
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Yun presses Japan over sex slavery at U.N.
Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se urged Tokyo to take steps to resolve its mobilization of sex slaves at a U.N. session on Wednesday, denouncing a recent series of revisionist moves and remarks by Japanese officials and politicians. It was the first time a top South Korean diplomat raised the issue and criticized Japan by name at the U.N., reflecting Seoul’s toughened stance in line with Tokyo’s accelerating swing to the right. In his keynote speech at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Yun sa
March 5, 2014
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[Graphic News] Singapore is world’s costliest city: survey
Singapore replaced Tokyo as the world‘s most expensive city due to its soaring costs of cars and utilities as well as a strong currency, according to the 2014 Worldwide Cost of Living survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit.Despite Abenomics driving consumer confidence and price inflation, a weaker yen has pushed the Japanese capital to sixth place. Seoul ranked 17th in the survey, which examined prices across 160 products and services in 140 cities.(Source: Economist Intelligence Unit)
March 5, 2014
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U.S. wants Korea, Japan to jointly seek ‘healing’ over history: Russel
WASHINGTON (Yonhap) ― The United States hopes that South Korea and Japan will make a concerted effort to promote the “healing” of the legacy from their shared history, especially in the 20th century, a key U.S. government official on Asia said Tuesday.“They are both dealing with the legacy of very, very sensitive and very difficult issues, historical issues from the 20th century.These legacy issues can’t be solved by any one party alone,” Daniel Russel, the assistant secretary of state for East
March 5, 2014
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Minister to raise N.K. human rights, sex slavery at U.N.
Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se plans to ratchet up pressure on Japan over its wartime enslavement of women and call for global efforts for better human rights conditions in North Korea at a U.N. session on Wednesday, officials said Tuesday. Yun departed for Geneva early Tuesday morning for a U.N. Human Rights Council session scheduled for March 3-28. He will be the first South Korean top diplomat to attend the meeting since 2006, and the first ever to raise the sex slavery issue there. His three-
March 4, 2014
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Minister to raise N.K. human rights, sex slavery at U.N.
Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se plans to ratchet up pressure on Japan over its wartime enslavement of women and call for global efforts for better human rights conditions in North Korea at a U.N. session on Wednesday, officials said Tuesday. Yun departed for Geneva early Tuesday morning for a U.N. Human Rights Council session scheduled for March 3-28. He will be the first South Korean top diplomat to attend the meeting since 2006, and the first ever to raise the sex slavery issue there. His three-
March 4, 2014
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Tokyo official’s sex slaves remark angers Korea
A senior Japanese government official touched off another wave of criticism from South Korea by suggesting that all the historical facts about Japan’s sexual enslavement of women during World War II might have been fabricated. Yoshitaka Sakurada, senior vice minister of education, made the controversial remark at a rally of about 500 nationalists who called for the Japanese government to reevaluate the Kono statement. “I am a person who does not like lies, fooling others or fabricating the truth
March 4, 2014
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Former U.N. climate chief to head GGGI
The Global Green Growth Institute on Monday tapped as its new director general Yvo de Boer, former executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Seoul-based organization said. He will replace Howard Bamsey, who plans to return to his native Australia after a one-year stint. De Boer, currently the global chairman of climate change and sustainability services at KPMG International, one of the world’s largest accounting and consulting networks, is due to begin his four
March 3, 2014
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UNHCR ups efforts to protect N.K. defectors
This is the second installment in a new series featuring the growing number of United Nations offices in Korea. ― Ed. With a steady influx of North Korean defectors into the South, the U.N. High Commission for Refugees is ramping up diplomatic efforts and public campaigns to ensure their safe passage and preclude any repatriation, its Seoul chief said. Calls have been growing for multinational bodies to take bolder steps to protect North Koreans in the face of dire living conditions, rampant hum
March 2, 2014
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East Sea a thorny diplomatic issue
An obvious task of any foreign service officer is to avoid controversy but, sometimes that is easier said than done, as even the map used on a foreign embassy’s web site in South Korea can stir passions. The Justice Party, a small progressive political party here, found that 16 out of 17 foreign embassies with maps on their websites displayed neutral or Japanese friendly place names ― “Liancourt Rocks” and “Sea of Japan” ― for designations that South Korea insists are the Dokdo Islets and East S
March 2, 2014
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Korea, Southeast Asia discuss improving regional ties
Southeast Asia includes 600 million people of different ethnicities, cultures, languages, religions ― and disparate income levels. But despite these differences, the region is marked by widespread peace and economic development. The challenge now is how to take it to the next level. High-level national and regional leaders from Southeast Asia and South Korea convened on Wednesday in Seoul to review decades of forward-looking regional building, 25 years of ties between Seoul and ASEAN and the pat
March 2, 2014
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Indonesian envoy hosts CICI alumni reception
Indonesian Ambassador to South Korea John Prasetio hosted a reception for the Corea Image and Communication Institute celebrating “graduates” of past sessions and the start of the 17th session of the group’s CQ Forum at his residence in Yeouido on Tuesday. CQ has some 300 members from various countries, including several foreign envoys. Many of them have completed one session or more of the group’s forums. “I admire what CICI is trying to do by assembling the international community in Korea. Th
March 2, 2014
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Envoys collaborate to host translator Kevin O’Rourke
The ambassadors of Sweden and Ireland jointly hosted Kevin O’Rourke, a perennial expatriate and translator of thousands of Korean poems, in the Seoul Literary Society’s first reception of the year held at the Irish ambassador’s residence in Seongbuk-dong, Seoul, Wednesday. O’Rourke, a Columban missionary, spoke before a packed house of expatriates, foreign envoys and local VIPs. He talked at length about Korean literature, literati and the social transformation of this country, during the 33rd g
March 2, 2014