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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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Probe of first lady on Dior bag allegations set to begin
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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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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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Suu Kyi seeks investment on European tour
BERN(AFP) ― Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi made a call for international investment on the first day of a landmark European tour Thursday, but cut short her engagements in the Swiss capital due to exhaustion.The opposition leader, on her first visit to Europe in 24 years, apologized after vomiting during a press conference in Bern, saying she was “totally exhausted” from travelling.“I am not used to the time difference,” she told reporters after holding talks with Swiss Foreign Minister
June 15, 2012
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Mother devoting herself for saving her daughter
Sharmila Collins, 43, has cradled her eldest daughter only once since her birth.Collins’ nine-year-old daughter, Sohana, suffers from a rare skin disease called Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa, or RDEB.“I can’t do anything to protect her; it’s heartbreaking,” Collins said.At the slightest touch, her daughter’s skin can break out into third-degree burns with blisters, peeling and red wounds. In addition, RDEB can also lead to maliginant skin cancer. Nine-year-old Sohana cannot have a n
June 15, 2012
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First Canadian judge ever guilty of murder
A jury of 12 in Quebec City Thursday found a 77-year-old retired Quebec provincial judge guilty of the first-degree murder of his wife.The verdict against Jacques Delisle, 77, came after three days of deliberations about the shooting death of 71-year-old Marie-Nicole Rainville in November 2009, The (Montreal) Gazette reported.The murder conviction is thought to be the first ever for a Canadian ju
June 15, 2012
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Falling ice puts hole in roof
A Washington state man said he does not know the origins of the giant ice chunk that crashed though his roof and into his home.Sam Edmon of Edgewood said he was in bed at 11 p.m. June 4 when he heard a noise that sounded like an explosion, The Seattle Post Intelligencer reported Thursday.Edmon said he investigated the next morning and found a hole in his roof surrounded by chunks of ice.The homeow
June 15, 2012
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Cardinal Cheong to hold farewell Mass on Friday
Cardinal Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, who is retiring from his post as head of the Seoul Archdiocese, will hold a Mass Friday at the Myeongdong Cathedral to express his gratitude to Korean Catholics for their support over the years.“It would have been impossible without your prayers and love to work as the archbishop of Seoul for the last 14 years. I would like to express my gratitude,” said Cheong, 81, in a hand-written letter released last week. The retiring archbishop will move to the Catholic Un
June 14, 2012
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U.S. drone ‘kills three militants’ in Pakistan
A U.S. drone attack killed at least three militants early Thursday in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region, known as a hotbed of Taliban and al-Qaida militants, security officials said.The drone fired two missiles on a building in the central market of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials said.“A U.S. drone fired two missiles on the first floor of a shop in the main market and at least three militants were killed,” a senior official told AFP.T
June 14, 2012
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Indian navy ships on first China visit in 6 years
BEIJING (AP) ― Ships from the Indian navy are visiting China for the first time in six years as the nations seek to build trust on the high seas.Four ships led by the guided missile destroyer Rana and carrying 1,400 sailors pulled up at Shanghai’s cruise ship dock on Wednesday. Their five-day goodwill visit will include ship tours, band concerts and other friendly exchanges with Chinese naval forces.Both countries are spending heavily on their militaries, especially their navies, as they seek gr
June 14, 2012
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U.S., India see progress with nuclear power deal
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The United States and India sought Wednesday to dispel doubts over their relationship as a U.S. company signed a deal on nuclear power, long a source of disappointment between the countries.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who once called U.S. affection for India an “affair of the heart,” said that the world’s two largest democracies had entered a “new and more mature phase” in their partnership.“With respect to affairs of the heart, they usually have ups and downs, but tha
June 14, 2012
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Syria violence kills 11, two car bombs reported: NGO
BEIRUT (AFP) -- Nine civilians and two rebels were killed early Thursday in violence across Syria, while car bombs exploded in the northwest city of Idlib and the capital Damascus, monitors reported. The car bomb in Idlib city targeted a military checkpoint, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that a number of soldiers were killed or wounded in the blast. No further details were immediately available.In Damascus, a car bomb exploded early morning in a suburb that houses a popula
June 14, 2012
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Cameron set for tough day at press inquiry
LONDON (AFP) ― Prime Minister David Cameron faces an uncomfortable appearance before Britain’s press-ethics inquiry on Thursday, with the spotlight set be shone on his links to Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.Cameron’s testimony is scheduled to take up a full six-and-a-half-hour day of the televised inquiry at London’s Royal Courts of Justice, and is likely to focus on his relationships with former Murdoch high-fliers Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson.Brooks, a friend of the Camerons and former edit
June 14, 2012
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U.N. environment summit opens, but prospects grim
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) ― Twenty years after the first Earth Summit, a renewed bid to rally the world behind a common environmental blueprint opened Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro against a backdrop of discord and economic gloom.Kicking off the so-called Rio+20 summit, Dilma Rousseff, president of host nation Brazil, called on “all countries of the world to commit” to reaching an accord that addresses the most pressing environmental and social woes.The U.N. conference, which marks the 20th anniversary
June 14, 2012
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Australia to create world’s largest set of marine parks
SYDNEY (AFP) ― Australia on Thursday announced plans to create the world’s largest network of marine parks to protect ocean life, with limits placed on fishing and oil and gas exploration off the coast.The new reserves would cover 3.1 million square kilometers, or more than one-third of Australian waters, taking in significant breeding and feeding grounds.The announcement, after years of planning and consultation, came ahead of the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development next week in Brazil, wh
June 14, 2012
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Birthday party turns into riot
At least five patrol cars backed by taser cops were sent to suppress 40 teenagers who went on a rampage at a birthday party in Essex, England, on Friday.Those who were in the riot torched a balcony, beat the neighbors’ doors and threatened to kill each other.Sue Sutheran, who was at the party with her daughter, said it started when she found that her purse was stolen and confronted them. “I told them no one was leaving until everyone’s been searched. That’s when they started kicking off,” she sa
June 14, 2012
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U.S. town Oks $20 fines for swearing in public
Residents in a town outside Boston voted Monday night to make the foul-mouthed pay fines for swearing in public.At a town meeting, residents voted 183-50 to approve a proposal from the police chief to impose a $20 fine on public profanity.Officials insist the proposal was not intended to censor casual or private conversations, but instead to crack down on loud, profanity-laden language used by tee
June 14, 2012
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Nodding off for a while, two months passed
A 15-year-old girl missed her high school exams because she had fallen in sleep for two months. Stacey Comerford in England nodded off in April, and then it was June when she woke up.“I’ve missed nine exams and my birthday in November,” Comerford said. She was predicted to get A’s in the nine eaxams in last November. The reason for her deep slumber is that Stacey suffers from Kleine Levin Syndrom, also known as Sleeping Beauty Syndrom. Stacey’s mother, Bernie Richard, said that her daughter is
June 14, 2012
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Police: Killings came after job rejection
Police in Japan suspect a man may have fatally stabbed two people because an acquaintance refused to give him a job, sources told The Yomiuri Shimbun.Kyozo Isohi, 36, was arrested Sunday in Osaka in the fatal stabbings of two people he told police he did not know.The Yomiuri Shimbun said Isohi had visited an acquaintance in Osaka to ask for a job.Police, who are to analyze Isohi‘s psychological state at the time of the killings, suspect his failure to get the job might have prompted the attacks.
June 14, 2012
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75% of Japan's NW Pacific whale hunt unsold: official
TOKYO (AFP)--Three-quarters of the tons of meat from Japan's controversial whale hunt last year was not sold, despite repeated attempts to auction it, officials said on Wednesday.The Institute of Cetacean Research, a quasi-public body that organises the country's whaling, said around 75 percent of roughly 1,200 tons of minke, Bryde's and sei meat from the deep-sea mission did not find buyers.It is
June 13, 2012
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Bulldozers dig for victims of Afghan earthquakes
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP)--Bulldozers dug through tons of rocks and dirt on Wednesday in hopes of recovering 71 victims of a landslide that occurred after two earthquakes struck in northern Afghanistan earlier this week.Two bodies have been recovered so far and 69 other people are feared dead--entombed in the rubble in Baghlan province's Burka district, Mahmood Haqmal, the spokesman for the province
June 13, 2012
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'Forced abortion' picture causes uproar in China
BEIJING (AFP)--Graphic images posted online showing the bloody corpse of a baby whose mother was allegedly forced to terminate her pregnancy at seven months have caused an uproar in China.Rights groups say authorities in north China's Shaanxi province forced Feng Jianmei to abort her pregnancy on June 2 because she was unable to pay a 40,000 yuan ($6,270) fine for exceeding China's "one-child" pop
June 13, 2012
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Founder of Indonesia’s Salim Group dies at 97
JAKARTA (AFP) ― Liem Sioe Liong, who used his ties to former dictator Suharto to build a small peanut oil business into leading Indonesian conglomerate Salim Group, has died aged 97, his company said Tuesday.The Chinese-born tycoon, whose Indonesian name was Soedono Salim and whose group is now one of Asia’s biggest businesses, passed away in Singapore on Sunday, said a statement from Indofood, one of his companies.“The Soedono Salim that we know personally is a visionary, simple, humble, tenaci
June 13, 2012