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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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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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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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Chip up cycle won’t stay long: SK chief
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Japan denies news of 'eight-day survivor'
Rescue workers search through debris in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture on Friday. AFP-Yonhap News OSAKA, Japan (AFP) - A man thought to have survived for eight days in the rubble of Japan's earthquake and tsunami zone was actually an evacuee who had returned to his house, a military spokesman said Saturday. Troops had found the man -- aged in his 20s, apparently in shock and unable to speak
March 19, 2011
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Taiwan reports 4.5-magnitude quake in morning
HONG KONG (Yonhap) -- Taiwan was struck by a 4.5-magnitude earthquake early Saturday, but no casualties or damage have reported, according to the Taiwanese government. The quake shook the northeastern county of Yilan at 5:56 a.m. with the epicenter located in coastal waters about 26 kilometers south of Yilan, Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau said. The tremor only lasted for 0.02 second, it
March 19, 2011
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Temperatures in fuel pool of No. 5 reactor falling: Kyodo
The temperatures in the spent fuel pool of the No. 5 reactor at the Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan, are falling, Kyodo News reported, citing Tokyo Electric Power Co. As of 9 a.m. today, the temperature had fallen to 67.6 degrees Celsius from 68.8 degrees four hours earlier, Kyodo said. (Bloomberg)
March 19, 2011
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Japan to restore power at four reactors on Saturday: agency
OSAKA, Japan (AFP) - Electricity is expected to be restored to four reactors at a stricken Japanese atomic plant on Saturday to power cooling systems, the nuclear and safety agency said.
March 19, 2011
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Libya announces cease-fire after UN vote
Libya declared an immediate cease-fire and promised to stop military operations Friday in a bid to fend off international military intervention after the U.N. authorized a no-fly zone and ``all necessary measures'' to prevent the regime from striking its own people. The announcement by Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa followed a fierce attack by Gadhafi's forces against Misrata, the last rebel-held
March 18, 2011
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Japan PM says country will overcome tragedy
Japan PM says country will 'overcome tragedy' OSAKA, Japan, (AFP) - Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Friday said "we will overcome this tragedy and recover" from the earthquake and tsunami and pledged that "we will once more rebuild Japan." He also said his government would take "firm control" of the crisis at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan sp
March 18, 2011
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Libyan forces attack last rebel-held western city
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- Moammar Gadhafi's forces are bombarding the last rebel-held western city as the international community discusses how to enforce a no-fly zone and protect the Libyan people. A doctor says at least six people were killed Friday when tanks moved into Misrata and opened fire. He says a hospital and a mosque were shelled. The doctor, who spoke on condition of anonymity beca
March 18, 2011
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Asylum seeker riots escalate in Australia
SYDNEY (AFP) ― Protests by angry asylum seekers escalated at an Australian detention centre with rioters setting fire to buildings and police responding with tear gas and bean-bag bullets, officials said Friday.A group of around 250-300 detainees on Christmas Island ran amok, hurling bricks and lighting fires late Thursday, forcing the Australian Federal Police to intervene, the Department of Immi
March 18, 2011
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Japan disaster dead, missing toll tops 16,600
TOKYO (AFP) ― The official number of dead and missing after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that flattened Japan’s northeast coast a week ago has topped 16,600, with 6,405 confirmed dead, police said Friday.The number of people unaccounted for following the March 11 twin disasters increased to 10,259, the National Police Agency said in its latest update.A total of 2,409 people were injured.
March 18, 2011
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Hope and defiance among tsunami victims
KESENNUMA, Japan (AFP) ― Less than a week after watching his home get swept away by the tsunami that tore into Japan’s northeast coast, Shiroyuchi Kumagai is ready to reclaim his plot of earth from the sea.“It’s my land. I’ve been here all my life,” the 83-year-old said as he surveyed the rubble of Kesennuma. “I want to rebuild.”Kumagai was born and raised in the village of Katahama, one of a seri
March 18, 2011
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No drop in Chernobyl cancer risk: US study
WASHINGTON, (AFP) - The risk of thyroid cancer among people who were exposed as children to the nuclear fallout at Chernobyl has not declined nearly 25 years after the disaster, said a study released Thursday in the United States.The National Institutes of Health-led study examined more than 12,500 people who were under 18 at the time of the Chernobyl accident on April 26, 1986, and who lived near
March 18, 2011
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Japan all-out to cool down nuclear plant
Helicopters drop water; operators race to restore power supply to cooling systemFuel rod cooling pool nearly empty, plant owner saysU.S. officials say No. 4 reactor also in troubleZAO, Japan (AP) ― Military helicopters dumped loads of seawater onto Japan’s stricken nuclear complex Thursday, turning to combat-style tactics while trying to cool overheated uranium fuel that may be on the verge of spe
March 18, 2011
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Yen falls after G7 agrees on joint currency action
TOKYO (AFP) - The yen fell sharply in Tokyo trade on Friday after the Group of Seven major economies agreed on joint market intervention to stabilize currencies following a huge earthquake in Japan.
March 18, 2011
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IAEA says Japan situation serious but stable
VIENNA (AP) _ The situation at Japan's tsunami-stricken nuclear plant is ``very serious,'' but at the moment does not appear to be deteriorating, a senior official of the U.N. atomic agency said Thursday.As emergency workers frantically worked to regain control of the dangerously overheated nuclear complex, Graham Andrew told reporters ``there had been no significant worsening'' over the past 24 h
March 18, 2011
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Heroic workers risk lives to avert meltdown
FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) ― They risk explosions, fire and an invisible enemy ― radiation that could kill quickly or decades later ― as they race to avert disaster inside a dark, overheated nuclear plant.The 180 emergency workers at Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi complex are emerging as public heroes in the wake of a disaster spawned by an earthquake and a tsunami.Dubbed by some as modern-day samu
March 17, 2011
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Bahrain curfew as uprising surges
Sunni leaders desperate to hold on to power, Shiites calling for end to dynastyMANAMA, Bahrain (AP) ― Soldiers and riot police in Bahrain overran a protesters’ camp, imposed a 12-hour curfew and choked off movement nationwide Wednesday. Witnesses described helicopters firing on homes in a hunt for Shiites and attacking doctors treating the wounded, while the government called the demonstrators “ou
March 17, 2011
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More governments advising citizens to leave Tokyo
TOKYO (AP) _ Australia, Britain and Germany advised their citizens in Japan to consider leaving Tokyo and earthquake-affected areas, joining a growing number of governments and businesses telling their people it may be safer elsewhere.The advisories came as the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in the northeast deepened in the wake of last week's earthquake and ensuing tsunami.Aus
March 17, 2011
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4 New York Times journalists missing in Libya
NEW YORK (AP) _ Four New York Times journalists covering the fighting in Libya were reported missing Wednesday, and the newspaper held out hope that they were alive and in the custody of the Libyan government.Editors last heard from the journalists on Tuesday as they were covering the retreat of rebels from the town of Ajdabiya, and Libyan officials told the newspaper they were trying to locate th
March 17, 2011
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4 New York Times journalists missing in Libya
NEW YORK (AP) _ Four New York Times journalists covering the fighting in Libya were reported missing Wednesday, and the newspaper held out hope that they were alive and in the custody of the Libyan government. Editors last heard from the journalists on Tuesday as they were covering the retreat of rebels from the town of Ajdabiya, and Libyan officials told the newspaper they were trying to loca
March 17, 2011
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Japan helicopters dump water on nuclear plant
TOKYO, March 17, 2011 (AFP) - Japanese military helicopters dumped water Thursday from huge buckets onto the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant in a bid to douse fuel rods, television images showed. A total of three twin-rotor CH-47 Chinooks of the Self-Defence Forces each emptied more than seven tonnes of water onto reactors three and four, according to public broadcaster NHK.
March 17, 2011