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February 9, 2016 North Korea

Park, Obama, Abe to cooperate for strong sanctions on N. Korea

President Park Geun-hye and her U.S. and Japanese counterparts agreed Tuesday to cooperate to ensure that the U.N. Security Council can adopt a resolution for strong sanctions on North Korea for its ...

Iran snubs Doha proposal, won‘t freeze oil output

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran appeared Wednesday to back a plan laid out by four influential oil producers to cap their crude output if others do the same, though it offered no indication that it has any plan...

February 18, 2016
World News
S. Korean FM embarks on trip to push for N.K. sanctions

South Korea‘s foreign minister on Tuesday embarked on a five-day trip to the headquarters of the United Nations and Germany to drum up international support to punish North Korea for its latest nucle...

February 9, 2016
North Korea
N. Korea‘s satellite achieves orbit: Defense Ministry

North Koreans gather at the Kim Il-sung Square to celebrate a satellite launch held on Monday. (AP/Yonhap) The satellite North Korea launched into space earlier this week has achieved orbit, but whe...

February 9, 2016
North Korea
N. Korean satellite ‘tumbling in orbit’: U.S. reports

WASHINGTON -- The North Korean satellite put into orbit after a widely condemned rocket launch over the weekend is not functioning properly, U.S. reports said Monday. Both CNN and CBS cited unidenti...

February 9, 2016
Defense
U.S. hopes to deploy THAAD in S. Korea ‘as quickly as possible’

WASHINGTON -- The United States hopes to deploy the THAAD missile defense system to South Korea “as quickly as possible” and the two countries will begin formal discussions on the matter “in the next...

February 9, 2016
Defense
Chaebol under fire for humiliating waitress’ looks on Instagram

Shinsegae Group vice chairman Chung Yong-jin has come under fire for an Instagram post that appeared to poke fun at a waitress. Chung is the eldest son of Lee Myung-hee, chairman of South Korea’s se...

February 1, 2016
Industry
Top 3 places to avoid during Christmas in Seoul

With Christmas just around the corner, people are wondering where and how to spend some quality holiday time with their loved ones. Some of you may get some ideas from Korean dramas in which couples...

December 14, 2015
Travel
Psy’s new MV is 100% going to go viral

A captured image from Psy's "Daddy" music video. (The Korea Herald) Psy released music videos for his long-waited seventh album “Chiljip Psy-da,” and we think this is going to go viral worldwide, an...

November 30, 2015
Music
Footage of Paris terror attacks at restaurants revealed (video)

A collection of CCTV footage showing diners diving for cover as an Islamic State jihadist sprayed the cafe with bullets last week was revealed by British newspaper the Daily Mail on Thursday. The vi...

November 19, 2015
World News
Eight militants killed in Paris attacks: investigation source

Police officers secure the area near La Belle Equipe, rue de Charonne, at the site of an attack on Paris on November 14, 2015 after a series of gun attacks occurred across Paris as well as explosions...

November 14, 2015
World News
France mourns, seeks clues those behind attack

PARIS (AP) _ Thousands of French troops deployed around Paris on Sunday and tourist sites stood shuttered in one of the most visited cities on Earth, while investigators questioned relatives of a sus...

November 14, 2015
World News
Superstitions and cheering squads on ‘Suneung’ day

More than 630,000 South Korean 18-year-olds began the “Suneung” college entrance exam at over 1,000 exam sites Thursday morning. Korea’s education fever is most evident on exam day, with mothers pra...

November 12, 2015
Social affairs
AmorePacific in controversy over ‘inappropriate job interview question’

South Korean cosmetics giant AmorePacific Group has been embroiled in a controversy over political questions asked during job interviews. An anonymous interviewee, who recently failed the final inte...

November 2, 2015
Industry
Seoul’s new slogan ridiculed

“I.SEOUL.YOU” This is the new slogan the Seoul city government chose, after debating between “Seoulmate” and “SEOULing.” The government officials, and people who voted for the new slogan, probably ...

October 29, 2015
Social affairs

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