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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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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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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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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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[Weekender] How DDP emerged as an icon of Seoul
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Katy Perry the new queen of Twitter
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) ― Pop star Katy Perry has overtaken Justin Bieber as the most followed person on Twitter.The latest figures Monday showed 46,534,966 followers for the singer best known for hit songs such as “Teenage Dream,” “California Gurls,” and “I Kissed a Girl.”That overtook the number of followers of the Canadian teen star, at 46,510,838.Shea Bennett of the “All Twitter” news blog noticed the change at the top on Sunday and said Perry was now likely to be the first to get to 50 million.
Nov. 5, 2013
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Ex-comfort woman donates W20m to history hall project
Kim Bok-deuk, Korea’s oldest surviving former “comfort woman,” donated 20 million won ($18,800) Monday to a civic group’s project to set up a comfort women history hall.The 95-year-old gave the money she has saved from contributions by the local government and people from all walks of life to an advocacy group seeking to build the hall.Kim is one of about 200,000 women taken by Japan to provide sex to its soldiers during World War II, when Korea was its colony.The donation ceremony took place at
Nov. 4, 2013
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Ulleung unveils Dokdo jurisdiction monument
A local government has set up a monument to confirm its jurisdiction of the Dokdo islets.The office of Ulleung County in North Gyeongsang Province unveiled the monument commemorating Korean Imperial Order No. 41 on Monday, which placed the easternmost Korean islets under its jurisdiction. Japan disputes Korean sovereignty over Dokdo, claiming the islets in the East Sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan as its territory.The unveiling took place on at the county office on Ulleungdo Island nea
Nov. 4, 2013
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Tutu, Annan and Bono attend memorial service for Dutch prince
THE HAGUE (AFP) ― Desmond Tutu, Kofi Annan and Bono attended a private ceremony on Saturday in memory of Dutch Prince Friso, who died in August after failing to recover from a skiing accident, local media reported. The ceremony took place in the Oude Kerk church in Delft, where the prince in April 2004 married Mabel Wisse Smit in defiance of parliament, a union which cost him his claim to the throne.Others among the 900 or so guests at the memorial included Prince Haakon of Norway and Mark Rutte
Nov. 4, 2013
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Del Potro robbed of rosary blessed by pope
PARIS (AFP) ― Argentine tennis player Juan Martin Del Potro has revealed that he was robbed at a Paris railway station with thieves making off with a cherished rosary blessed by Pope Francis.Del Potro was checking in at Gare de Nord in the French capital when he stopped to sign an autograph.As he placed his bag on the floor, the thieves made off with his possessions which also included his passport and cash.“I was doing the check-in to ride on the train and then I was asked for an autograph. I t
Nov. 4, 2013
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Korean War Memorial in D.C. recreated online
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― The most iconic place to commemorate the Korean War in the U.S. capital has gone electronic, enabling people anywhere to experience it anytime.A Pentagon team dedicated to honoring all veterans of the 1950-53 war on Friday unveiled the Korean War Veterans Memorial Virtual Walking Tour at a website, http://koreanwar60.com/kwm“Korean War veterans and individuals who want to learn more about the Korean War can now access a wealth of information, including videos, electron
Nov. 3, 2013
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Campaign has new names for Tripitaka Koreana in tight race
In an ongoing online project to change the English name of the Tripitaka Koreana, two suggested names ― Goryeo Daejanggyeong and Palman Daejanggyeong ― are in a close race. The Organizing Committee of the 2013 Tripitaka Koreana Festival launched an online appeal to rename the UNESCO Memory of the World Register as pronounced in Korean on Oct. 14 and is gathering comments on the new names until Dec. 31. The appeal asks visitors to choose or comment on one of two suggested English names, Goryeo D
Nov. 3, 2013
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Swedish firm says will bombard Pyongyang with underwear
Heads-up, Pyongyang: Lingerie is headed your way.The North Korean capital on Thursday was selected by popular online demand as a target for a Swedish clothing brand’s campaign to “love-bomb” places with 450 pairs of underwear.Bjorn Borg recently held “Bjorn Borg Says JA! to Weapons of Mass Seduction,” event that had people from around the world nominating locations that need “love and seduction,” on which the company will drop its products.Pyongyang came in first with 27,162 votes, while Chalmer
Nov. 1, 2013
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Seoul Zoo retires sea lion presentation
Seoul Zoo has ended all its animal events after retiring a California sea lion, Bangwuli, from presentation to visitors ― the last animal show it ran.The zoo said Thursday that it closed the Bangwuli presentation late last month to treat the male sea lion because he looked distracted and had difficulty digesting fodder.The Bangwuli show was the last animal event at the zoo after it released Jedori, a Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, into the sea off Jejudo Island on July 18. Jedori had a stunt s
Oct. 31, 2013
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Samsung’s Lee tops President Park on Forbes’ powerful people list
Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee has been ranked 41st by Forbes on its list of the world’s most powerful people of this year. President Park Geun-hye was placed at No. 52, 11 notches below the business mogul. The economic magazine ranked top 72 power brokers ― 1 for every 100 million people on Earth ― and released the annual list along with their snapshots on Wednesday. Lee and Park were among 13 newcomers. Park was also one of only nine women who made the cut. The title of the world’s m
Oct. 31, 2013
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Court chief sees no limit in punishing Japanese sex slavery
President of the Constitutional Court Park Han-chul has criticized the Japanese government sharply for denying the historical fact that its military had forced women into sexual slavery during World War II.His remarks came in a special lecture he gave at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Tuesday.Park is the first president of the Constitutional Court of Korea to have given a lecture at the school.In the lecture, titled the “State’s duty to protect women from human rights violation,
Oct. 30, 2013
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KBS chief elected president of regional broadcasters’ union
Gil Hwan-young, president and CEO of state-run broadcaster KBS, was elected the 14th president of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, KBS said Tuesday. Gil was elected in a unanimous vote at the organization’s general assembly in Hanoi, Vietnam. He will serve a three-year term until the end of 2016. “I will seek unity of our members and put efforts into leading the ever-changing broadcasting environment in the digital era,” Gil said during his acceptance speech. As president of the union, Gil w
Oct. 30, 2013
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Catholic Cardinal calls for dialogue on Christian unity
In the Protestant church alone, there are more than 345 denominations and no one knows the exact amount of religions on Earth. People with different beliefs have been indifferent or in conflict over religion for a long time, yet very little effort has been made to seek a solution.Amid global tension over religion, the Catholic Church has been taking steps towards reconciliation, seeking “deepened dialogue among different ideas.” Since the Second Vatican Council from 1962 till 1965, which address
Oct. 30, 2013
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Korean immigrant wins X Factor Australia
Im Dami, a Korean-born contestant, was crowned the winner of “X Factor Australia 2013,” a television reality music competition.According to Australian news media, the 24-year-old piano teacher outlasted Jai Waetford then Taylor Henderson to be named the winner in the season finale. She has become the first Asian-Australian immigrant to win the singing audition.“I don’t believe that I won. I want to win this for people like me who are dags and inspire them to dream big!” Dami said.Born in Seoul,
Oct. 29, 2013
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Seoul, Washington renew youth exchange program for 5 more years
South Korea and the United States agreed Tuesday to extend their youth internship exchange program for another five years, but with a reduction in the program’s quota due to weaker-than-expected interest.South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se signed the agreement with U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Sung Kim to extend the Work, English, Study and Travel (WEST) program, according to the Seoul ministry.The WEST program was first signed in 2008 for a five-year run as part of the two allies’ frie
Oct. 29, 2013
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Nobel-winning chemist hails power of computing
Arieh Warshel, co-winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry, hailed the power of computing in revolutionizing science and opening a new horizon for human knowledge.“When I first started using computer simulations (during the 1960s), there was no such computer program so I to design one,” Arieh Warshel, professor of chemistry at University of Southern California, said in a news conference in Seoul on Monday.Warshel is often referred as the “man who took chemistry into cyberspace” as he laid
Oct. 28, 2013
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‘Comfort woman’ memoir to have English, Chinese editions
The memoir of a Korean woman who was forced into sex slavery for Japanese soldiers during World War II will be published in English and Chinese.The Office of Education of South Gyeongsang Province said that it would publish the English and Chinese editions of the true life story of Kim Bok-deuk, 96, the oldest surviving former “comfort woman,” in mid-December.The office published a book of her testimony in Korean, titled “Don’t Forget Me,” in March, and released its Japanese translation in Augus
Oct. 28, 2013
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Pope’s Twitter account attracts 10m followers
VATICAN CITY (AFP) ― Pope Francis welcomed news on Sunday that his Twitter account @pontifex had attracted more than 10 million followers.“Dear Followers I understand there are now over 10 million of you! I thank you with all my heart and ask you to continue praying for me,” the pontiff tweeted early Sunday.Francis’s predecessor Pope Benedict XVI had opened the account on December 12, and interest in tweets from the pontiff surged after the Argentine pope was elected in March.People around the w
Oct. 28, 2013
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Aung San Suu Kyi collects Rome honorary citizenship
ROME (AFP) ― Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally became an honorary citizen of Rome Sunday, 19 years after the honour was awarded to her.The Nobel peace laureate was given the citizenship in 1994 but spent most of the past two decades under house arrest in Myanmar which meant she was unable to collect her award.Rome mayor Ignazio Marino said on his Twitter account that the city could “finally award it to a free woman.”At a ceremony at the town hall, a modest Suu Kyi denied that sh
Oct. 28, 2013
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Belgium’s shy king finds favor after 100 days on throne: polls
BRUSSELS (AFP) ― Belgium’s King Philippe, whose shy ways as crown prince worried the kingdom for many years, is winning over the public after 100 days on the throne, surveys showed this weekend.As Philippe prepares to mark his first 100 days as monarch on Monday, a survey saw him gain popularity even in Dutch-speaking Flanders in the north where sentiment is cooler towards the royal family than in the French-speaking south.A total 59 percent of Flemish people expressed confidence in the 53-year-
Oct. 28, 2013