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[Herald Review] ‘One Line’ tries to discuss money, but falls short
The new bank scam thriller “One Line” traces a very specific type of crime that emerged around 2005. By then, Korea’s economy had recovered to a certain extent from the 1997 Asian financial crisis, but an uneasiness foreshadowed the soon-to-come global crisis of 2007. Locally, it was a period when the gap between the rich and poor widened and solidified, stirring up anger among those with less. It was during this time that a group of scammers began to “rob” banks, according to director Yang Kyun
Film March 21, 2017
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Murder suspect killed in mysterious car crash
A man recently accused of being a suspect in the murder of an 84-year-old man and his grandson in Yangju, northeast of Seoul, has died in a car crash, the police said Monday.According to police reports, the 30-year-old suspect surnamed Seo was summoned for questioning and while driving there, crashed into another vehicle. He was taken to hospital, but was pronounced dead eight hours later. (Yonhap)Seo’s death poses a challenge to the investigation team, as he was considered a prime suspect in t
Social Affairs March 6, 2017
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[Kim Myong-sik] The most desirable of three possibilities
Quite eerily, a notion that struck me upon hearing the news of Kim Jong-un’s suspected killing of his half brother Kim Jong-nam was whether evils can be measured and compared. The young dictator’s alleged orders to poison his international vagrant sibling to remove a potential rival to power will go down in history as the crime of the year or decade, putting its perpetrator at the top rank in the scale of evil, if there is such thing. Then my liberal thoughts are directed to a source of great co
Viewpoints March 1, 2017
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[Cass R. Sunstein] What impeachment meant to the founders
In light of the recent White House controversies, it is inevitable that some people are starting to wonder whether, at any point, President Donald Trump might be impeachable. The best way to answer that question is to bracket controversies about any particular president and to ask: What, exactly, does the Constitution say about impeachment?As we shall see, Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, was altogether wrong to proclaim that the president cannot be impeached unless he has broken the law
Viewpoints Feb. 19, 2017
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[Editorial] Time tight
The Constitutional Court appears unlikely to rule on President Park Geun-hye’s impeachment this month as the last hearing has apparently been scheduled for Feb. 22. Still, the eight justices of the court stand the chance of reaching their decision before acting Chief Justice Lee Jung-mi is set to retire on Mar. 13. The court on Tuesday accepted eight of the 17 witnesses Park’s lawyers had asked for and decided to hold hearings until Feb. 22.It usually takes Constitutional Court justices about tw
Editorial Feb. 9, 2017
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Top court holds 11th hearing amid uncertainties over impeachment timeline
The Constitutional Court on Tuesday opened the 11th hearing of President Park Geun-hye's impeachment trial as uncertainties persisted over when and how the ruling will be delivered.Two witnesses were scheduled to testify to help the justices determine the legitimacy of Park's impeachment. The third witness Kim Ki-choon, a former presidential chief of staff seen as a key witness in the trial, submitted a statement to the court Monday to indicate his planned absence. He cited health issues.Jeong H
Social Affairs Feb. 7, 2017
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Philippines vows no whitewash in South Korean’s murder
MANILA, (AFP) -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s office vowed on Sunday there would be no cover-up or whitewash in the investigation into a South Korean’s murder by police.The kidnapping and killing of the businessmen has fuelled fears about widespread abuse by officers as they prosecute Duterte’s deadly anti-drug war.The businessman disappeared from his home in Angeles City north of Manila last October.Police from a special anti-drug unit abducted him under the guise of a raid on illega
International Jan. 22, 2017
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[Other View] Obama’s clemency for Manning sets back justice
Chelsea Manning may be getting out of prison in a few months, but the effects of President Barack Obama’s commutation of her sentence will last far longer. In this case, Obama made a serious error of judgment. Proponents of clemency for Manning, the former US Army intelligence analyst convicted in 2013 of leaking classified material, make plenty of reasonable arguments: Her 35-year sentence was far longer than that of most other leakers; in spilling national security documents, she felt she was
Editorial Jan. 22, 2017
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Films to look forward to in 2017
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hollywood might still be patting itself on the back for its 2016 films, but there‘s a lot to look forward to in film this year -- in all genres. Here are some films to put on your radar for the year. “John Wick: Chapter 2” (Feb. 10), “The Fate of the Furious” (April 14) Two franchises, both unlikely, both silly and both endlessly watchable get new installments this year. Keanu Reeves is back as the vengeful hit man John Wick in the sequel to the 2014 sleeper hit. And the Fast
Film Jan. 13, 2017
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South Korean cinema leads nominees at Asian Film Awards
HONG KONG (AP) -- Korean cinema has fared well in the nominations for the Asian Film Awards.Director Park Chan Wook‘s erotic period drama, “The Handmaiden,” received six nominations, including Moon So-ri for best supporting actress. Five nominations went to the zombie film, “Train to Busan,” including Ma Dong-seok for best supporting actor.Chinese director Feng Xiao Gang’s social justice drama “I Am Not Madame Bovary” also received five nominations including best film, best director and best act
Film Jan. 13, 2017
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Key witness refuses to testify about Park-Choi ties in impeachment trial
President Park Geun-hye’s bodyguard remained quiet on key issues surrounding Park’s relationship to her close confidante Choi Soon-sil and her alleged negligence of duty over the Sewol ferry disaster during the impeachment trial on Thursday, citing national security and a confidentiality clause.During the fourth hearing of the trial, the Constitutional Court dismissed the stated reasons as unjustifiable, warning that his refusal could be seen as an attempt to conceal something fishy. Lee Young-s
Politics Jan. 12, 2017
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[Other view] Questions for Jeff Sessions
The questions raised by President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, center not on his ideology but on his priorities.One of the most conservative members of the Senate, representing one of the nation’s most conservative states, Sessions can be expected to be faithful to conservative orthodoxy. The issue is how he will choose to deploy the vast resources of the department known as the world’s largest law firm, with more than 10,000 lawyers. Three po
Viewpoints Jan. 11, 2017
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Prosecutors raid homes of former, current presidential officials
Prosecutors on Wednesday raided the homes of four former and current presidential aides as they accelerated a probe into the influence-peddling scandal surrounding a close friend of President Park Geun-hye.The homes of Ahn Bong-geun and Lee Jae-man, who served as presidential secretaries for public relations and administrative affairs, respectively, were included on the raid list, according to the prosecution. Their work logs and cell phones were confiscated in the process. The two are among Par
Social Affairs Nov. 9, 2016
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Man convicted of sexual assault after Australian victim’s campaign
Airdre Mattner, an Australian woman who was allegedly drugged, abducted and raped during a night out in Seoul last year, won a months-long fight to bring her offender to justice in what some call a rare victory.One of her offenders, a 37-year-old Nigerian man illegally residing in Korea, was sentenced to two years and six months in jail on charges of quasi indecent act by compulsion and negligent injury, among other offenses, Tuesday. “The evidence sufficiently shows that the defendant sexually
Social Affairs Nov. 3, 2016
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75 and loving it: Wonder Woman has complicated place in pop culture
This is an unparalleled time for women in American history.The polls are predicting the first female president. Narrowing the wage gap has become part of legislative agendas. Activists are battling against sexual assault and for abortion rights with a fervor not seen in decades and the glass ceiling is looking more fragile every day.It is also the 75th anniversary of Wonder Woman.Coincidence? Perhaps not.The creation of Dr. William Moulton Marston, a psychologist with broad-minded views on sexua
Culture Oct. 31, 2016
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Ministry eyes ‘intelligent’ electronic tags to deter crimes
The Justice Ministry plans to outfit criminals with “intelligent” electronic anklets to monitor them in real time and deter future crimes as part of a pilot program beginning in 2018, it said Tuesday. The Intelligent Electronic Monitoring System will track wearers and collect more data about them, which ministry officials said will be used to anticipate and deter repeat crimes. South Korea requires sexual abusers, kidnappers, murderers and other criminals to wear electronic devices that track th
Social Affairs Oct. 25, 2016
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More foreigners indicted for crimes in Korea
The number of crimes committed by non-Koreans in South Korea is on the rise, police said Thursday. The National Police Agency said the number of reported crimes committed by foreign nationals was 25,570 cases in the first half of this year. That figure translates into more than 4,200 criminal cases per month.Criminal charges filed against foreign nationals jumped nearly 44 percent to 38,355 last year compared to 26,663 in 2013, due mostly to an increase in cases of assault and traffic offenses.
Social Affairs Oct. 20, 2016
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[David Scheffer] Nuremberg’s lesson, 70 years later
NUREMBERG, Germany — Seventy years ago, an international military tribunal here rendered judgment against 22 senior Nazi defendants for the most systematic global assault on national sovereignty and civilians in the history of humankind. Courtroom 600 in the Palace of Justice seized the world’s attention with the tribunal’s bold scrutiny of military, political, media and business leaders who never imagined — until far too late — that they would stand trial for the crimes of the Nazi era. The fou
Viewpoints Oct. 9, 2016
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Repeat sex attackers on the rise
Eight out of every 100 convicted sex attackers in Korea last year had a previous conviction of a sex crime, data showed Tuesday. According to the Justice Ministry data released by Rep. Kim Jin-tae of the ruling Saenuri Party, reoffending by sex offenders has been on a steady and alarming rise over the past five years. The proportion of repeat offenders among all sex crime convicts rose from 3.3 percent to 8 percent in 2015, registering a 2.4-fold rise. Last year, 2,775 out of a total of 34,688 s
Social Affairs Oct. 4, 2016
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ICC sentences jihadist to 9 years in jail for attacks on Timbuktu UNESCO site
THE HAGUE (AFP) -- War crimes judges jailed a Malian jihadist Tuesday for nine years for demolishing Timbuktu’s fabled shrines, a landmark ruling seen as a warning that destroying mankind’s heritage will not go unpunished.In the first such case to focus on cultural destruction as a war crime, the International Criminal Court found Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi guilty of directing attacks on the UNESCO world heritage site during the jihadist takeover of northern Mali in 2012.Mahdi “supervised the destru
Culture Sept. 28, 2016
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