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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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Allegations surrounding BTS resurface, enraged fans demand apology
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Students with history of violence will be barred from becoming teachers
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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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Probe of first lady on Dior bag allegations set to begin
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Medical feud leaves hospitals in financial crisis
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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Chip up cycle won’t stay long: SK chief
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Allies step up defense coordination
South Korea and the U.S. stepped up their military coordination Friday to effectively fend off additional North Korean provocations, while attention was being drawn to whether they would apply their joint counter-provocation plan for the first time. Military vehicles move toward a training site in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province on Friday. (Yonhap)South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Adm. Choi Yun-hee and Combined Forces commander Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti have been sharing military intelligenc
Aug. 21, 2015
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Park visits key military base over N. Korea's threats
President Park Geun-hye visited a military base near Seoul Friday to check South Korea's military readiness, Cheong Wa Dae said Friday, after a recent exchange of shells between the two Koreas heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The surprise visit to the headquarters of Third Army in Yogin, Gyeonggi Province, came as North Korea threatened to take military action unless South Korea halts propaganda broadcasts along the heavily fortified border. Park is set to receive a briefing from t
Aug. 21, 2015
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Korea-U.S. nuclear cooperation deal meets all legal requirements: CRS
The U.S.-South Korean civil nuclear cooperation agreement meets all requirements in U.S. law, the Congressional Research Service said.The agreement, which was signed in June, meets "all the terms of the Atomic Energy Act, and therefore could enter into force after a 30-day consultation period and a review period of 60 days of continuous sessions unless Congress enacted a joint resolution of disapproval," the CRS said in a report on nuclear cooperation with foreign countries.The assessment adds t
Aug. 20, 2015
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Military chief orders powerful retaliation against N. Korean provocation
The military chief ordered front-line soldiers Tuesday to react with "powerful retaliation" to any recurrence of North Korean provocations at the border, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said."If the enemy provokes again, do not hesitate and retaliate resolutely and powerfully," Adm. Choi Yoon-hee, chairman of the JCS, told the commander of a military unit on the eastern border, according to the JCS.Choi visited the front-line unit earlier in the day to inspect its combat readiness posture in the wake
Aug. 18, 2015
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Defense ministry, spy agency to host anti-hacking contest
The Defense Ministry said Monday it will host a contest in October to pick the best anti-hacking experts as part of efforts to fight growing hacking threats in cyberspace.In the 2015 White Hat Contest, to be held in October, three final teams each will be picked from the adult and underage segments in a simulated cyberattack situation in which the contestants are tasked with blocking hacking attempts, the ministry said.The winners will be given prizes along with a financial award worth 72 millio
Aug. 17, 2015
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Park calls for military readiness against N. Korean provocations
President Park Geun-hye urged the military Monday to maintain its readiness amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula following a land mine attack blamed on North Korea.North Korea has threatened to carry out "indiscriminate strikes" on South Korea unless Seoul halts anti-Pyongyang broadcasts along their heavily fortified border that were restarted as a retaliation measure for the recent attack.South Korea's top military officer told the troops to sternly strike back against North Korea i
Aug. 17, 2015
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S. Korea, U.S. launch joint military drill amid N. Korean threat
South Korea and the United States launched a joint military exercise Monday amid North Korea's threat to retaliate with "the strongest military counteraction" against the drill.The Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise, the world's largest computerized military drill aimed at defending the South from a North Korean attack, kicked off earlier in the day in South Korea for a 12-day run.Employing nearly 80,000 South Korean and U.S. troops, the annual military exercise has been denounced by North Korea as
Aug. 17, 2015
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Seoul to expand border broadcasts across DMZ
Defense Minister Han Min-koo vowed Wednesday to scale up loudspeaker broadcasts in the Demilitarized Zone area and bolster psychological warfare against North Korea in retaliation for its suspected planting of land mines that inflicted serious injuries on South Korean troops last week. The South Korean military resumed its propaganda program after more than 11 years on Monday, after the Joint Chiefs of Staff determined that North Korean soldiers had crossed the border and buried the three land m
Aug. 12, 2015
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[REPORTER'S COLUMN] More soul-searching needed in wake of DMZ mine blasts
South Korea would be acting the way North Korea would have intended by directly taking staunch retaliation against last week’s land mine incident, Staff Sgt. Kim Jeong-won, one of the two bedridden frontline soldiers injured in the blast, said in a media interview earlier this week.An army soldier engages in a mission to detect minds near the inter-Korean border on Wednesday. (Yonhap)Indeed, what Seoul’s defense authorities have shown to the public in the wake of the Aug. 4 incident is a flurry
Aug. 12, 2015
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Defense minister vows further retaliation after N. Korea‘s mine attack
Defense Minister Han Min-koo Wednesday warned of further retaliative actions for North Korea's recent land mine attack in the demilitarized zone besides the propaganda war launched against the enemy. On Monday, the South Korean military launched its loudspeaker broadcasting campaign at the western border area, blasting out anti-Pyongyang messages and other instigating propaganda. This action was taken in retaliation against the North as Seoul blamed Pyongyang for the detonation of three mines
Aug. 12, 2015
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S. Korea, U.S. to launch joint artillery drills this month
South Korea and the United States will perform joint artillery firing drills this month to demonstrate their combat readiness against North Korea's provocations, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday. The South Korean and U.S. military will showcase their joint artillery power in four drill sessions this month, including one set for later in the day, the ministry said in statement. About 2,000 South Korean and U.S. troops from 47 military units will join the drills, which will feature South Kor
Aug. 12, 2015
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Computer vaccine firm serving Defense Ministry hacked: police
A software company providing computer vaccines to the Defense Ministry has been hacked, police said Wednesday. The computer of a worker at Hauri, a company that provides vaccine programs to computer servers at the National Defense Ministry, was found to have been hacked, an official from the National Police Agency said. "While probing a separate case, documents which seemed to have been leaked from Hauri were found," the official added. The leaked documents included a bid proposal for vaccin
Aug. 12, 2015
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Seoul goes on the offensive after N.K. mine blast in DMZ
Defense Minister Han Min-koo on Tuesday pledged to step up efforts to seize the upper hand in the Demilitarized Zone and take other punitive steps against North Korea over its perceived breach of borders and mine-planting activities. His remarks came one day after the Joint Chiefs of Staff announced that North Korean troops had recently crossed the border and planted the three land mines that inflicted serious injuries on two South Korean soldiers last week. In retaliation, the South Korean mili
Aug. 11, 2015
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S. Korea, Britain eye closer ties in defense industry
South Korea and Britain have agreed that they have great potential for partnerships in weapons development and trade, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. In their talks here this week, Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and his British counterpart Philip Hammond noted that two-way trade reached US$13.2 billion last year. "They shared the opinion that bilateral economic cooperation is diversifying and potential is great for defense industry cooperation," the ministry said. It did not elaborate on pla
Aug. 11, 2015
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British foreign minister hopes Iran deal will help resolve N.K. nuclear issue
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond expressed hope Monday that the recent nuclear deal involving Iran and six world powers will have a positive impact on stalled denuclearization talks with North Korea. Hammond, who arrived in Seoul earlier in the day, told reporters after a meeting with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se that the situation in North Korea was one of their topics of discussion. "Britain remains crucially interested in peace and stability in Asia and the situation
Aug. 10, 2015
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N. Korea's denuclearization remains top priority: U.S. official
North Korea's denuclearization remains a top priority for the United States despite Pyongyang's unwillingness to give up its nuclear weapons program, a senior U.S.official said Monday. "Denuclearization remains our top priority," Rose Gottemoeller, U.S. under secretary of state for arms control and international security, told reporters in a conference call from Tokyo. "We remain in close contact with other five party partners on our shared goal of the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula
Aug. 10, 2015
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S. Korea, Mongolia hold working-level defense talks
South Korea and Mongolia held working-level defense talks in Ulaanbaatar Monday to discuss regional security issues, including North Korea's nuclear weapons program, the Defense Ministry said. The ministry said that Yoon Soon-ku, the ministry's director general on international policy, met with his Mongolian counterpart, Zagdsuren Boldbaatar, in Mongolia's capital to discuss a follow-up to a meeting between their defense chiefs held in May last year and how to enhance defense cooperation. Yoon
Aug. 10, 2015
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Ex-major convicted of smuggling arms to Lebanon
A Seoul court Friday sentenced a former major who was part of an anti-espionage military body to 18 months in prison for smuggling strategic arms into Lebanon. Judge Lee Ki-lee of the Seoul Central District Court handed down the ruling, convicting the man, identified by his surname Lee, of smuggling about 47,000 M-16 and AK-47 magazines to Lebanese military supplies importers. Lee met the importers while dispatched to Lebanon as part of the Defense Security Command rom 2007 to 2008. After lea
Aug. 7, 2015
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193 labs affected by mistaken anthrax shipments, but no new case involving Korea
The number of laboratories affected by live anthrax shipments from the U.S. has risen to 193 in the U.S. and eight in foreign countries, but none of the newly added labs are in South Korea, the U.S. Defense Department said Thursday.Of the total, 87 were primary labs that received live anthrax spores directly from a Defense Department lab in Utah, while the other 106 labs are secondary labs that received samples from the primary labs, according to a Pentagon website on the issue.Affected by the m
Aug. 7, 2015
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Korea, U.S. probe Osan base over anthrax delivery
By Shin Hyon-hee South Korea and the U.S. carried out a joint on-site inspection at Osan Air Base on Thursday over the shipment of a potentially live anthrax sample which has kindled safety concerns and calls for an amendment of the agreement on the stationing of American troops here. In late May, 22 U.S. servicemen were identified as having possibly come into contact with the lethal bacteria “inadvertently” sent by a military laboratory in Utah to the base located in Gyeonggi Province. Though t
Aug. 6, 2015