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(공용)코리아헤럴드
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11 people injured in subway explosion: officials
Eleven people were injured Monday after an insulator exploded on a subway train in Gunpo, just south of Seoul, officials said.The explosion occurred around 6:56 p.m. as the train was entering Geumjeong station on Line 4, causing some of the train'swindows to break and wounding eleven people on the platform, police and fire officials said.The wounded were taken to a hospital, they added."It appears that the accident occurred as an insulator connecting the train to the electric supply equipment su
Social Affairs May 19, 2014
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KB Financial, Lotte, 3 others tender offers to buy LIG Insurance
Major banking group KB Financial Group Inc., retail giant Lotte Group, and three others offered their bids to buy LIG Insurance Co., a local non-life insurer which has been on the selling block since late last year, industry sources said Monday.LIG Group, a mid-sized conglomerate, has put up some 21 percent in the country's No. 5 non-life insurer to secure cash to compensate retail investors for losses incurred from its 2011 financial fraud scandal.The price tag for LIG Insurance ranges from 400
May 19, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Boko Haram ordeal keeps girl from school
BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) -- One of the teenagers who escaped from Islamic extremists who abducted more than 300 schoolgirls said Sunday the kidnapping was “too terrifying for words,” and she is scared to go back to school. Science student Sarah Lawan, 19, told the Associated Press that more of the girls could have escaped but that they were frightened by their captors' threats to shoot them. Lawan spoke in the Hausa language in a phone interview from Chibok, her home and the site of the mass abduct
World News May 11, 2014
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Germany awards professors for boosting culture, research ties
German Ambassador to South Korea Rolf Mafael presented two Korean professors with awards in Seoul on Thursday for their efforts in developing cooperation in scientific research and academic scholarship, and for facilitating the study of German language here in South Korea.Shin Yoo-chul, director of the Law Research Institute at Chungnam National University in Daejeon, and Kim Yoon-su, who served as president of Chonnam National University from 2008 to 2012, were each awarded an Order of Merit o
Foreign Affairs April 14, 2014
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Park offers broader exchanges with N. Korea
President Park Geun-hye on Friday proposed the establishment of inter-Korean cooperative offices and pledged to expand humanitarian, financial and infrastructure support for the North as part of measures to lay the foundation for an eventual reunification. In an address in the former East German city of Dresden, she laid out a three-point agenda to “break down the barriers” across the border.Just as citizens of the two Germanys were allowed to visit each other before unification, the two Koreas
Foreign Affairs March 28, 2014
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Hyundai hints at shift in focus to design
Hyundai Motor Group chairman Chung Mong-koo hinted during a site inspection trip to Europe this week that the auto giant would be shifting its focus from product quality to design.“We have been pouring all our resources into elevating driving performance. Now is the time for us to seek a new leap in car design,” he said. “Hyundai and Kia also have to nurture their own design identity, respectively.”Following his business trip to the group’s production facilities in Slovakia and the Czech Republi
Industry March 6, 2014
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Minister to raise N.K. human rights, sex slavery at U.N.
Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se plans to ratchet up pressure on Japan over its wartime enslavement of women and call for global efforts for better human rights conditions in North Korea at a U.N. session on Wednesday, officials said Tuesday. Yun departed for Geneva early Tuesday morning for a U.N. Human Rights Council session scheduled for March 3-28. He will be the first South Korean top diplomat to attend the meeting since 2006, and the first ever to raise the sex slavery issue there. His three-
Foreign Affairs March 4, 2014
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N. Korea test-fires four short-range missiles
North Korea test-fired four short-range missiles into the sea Thursday, Seoul's defense ministry said, in an apparent show of force to coincide with South Korea-US joint military exercises.A ministry spokesman told AFP the missiles, with an estimated range of 200 kilometers, were fired off the east coast of North Korea."Our military will maintain tight vigilance in preparation for additional launches or any military provocation from the North," the spokesman said.North Korea carries out short-ra
North Korea Feb. 27, 2014
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Biden: US-China ties rely on trust, good motives
(AP) -- Emerging from a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that U.S.-China relations depend on trust and a positive notion of each other's motives. Neither leader made public mention of a major clash over disputed airspace that's pitted China against the U.S. and its Asian allies.Appearing somber and subdued, Biden said the relationship between the two major powers will significantly affect the course of the 21st century. If the U.S. and China
World News Dec. 4, 2013
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Park arrives in Vietnam for state visit
HANOI, ST. PETERSBURG -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye kicked off her schedule in Vietnam Sunday by attending a joint fashion show and a meeting with business leaders of South Korea and Vietnam to discuss wider cooperation and investment on the second day of her state visit. Park arrived in Vietnam on Saturday for a five-day stay that she plans to use as the starting point for her “sales diplomacy” drive. The highlight of the trip is a summit with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang on M
National Sept. 8, 2013
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Homegrown characters go global
Everyone has a favorite cartoon character from childhood that occupies a special place in their memories. Until 2000, characters that reminded many Koreans of their childhood were not Korean creations. Most were Japanese or American, from the classic Tom and Jerry and Thomas and Friends to Pokemon and Digimon. Amid the swarm of foreign characters, the Korean character Dooly was rare in remaining popular since its debut in 1983 through a televised animation series on KBS. But for those who spent
Culture Aug. 23, 2013
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N. Korean man defects to western S. Korean island
A North Korean man has defected to a South Korean western border island on Friday and is currently under investigation by authorities, a military official said. “An unarmed North Korean man arrived in Gyodong Island earlier in the day,” a military official said. “He was found by residents at around 3:40 a.m.” The 46-year-old man knocked on the door of an island resident‘s home, saying he came from the North, the official said. He was subsequently reported to military officials who took custody o
North Korea Aug. 23, 2013
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Park to host lunch for top 10 chaebol chiefs next week
President Park Geun-hye plans to host a lunch for the chiefs of the country‘s top 10 business conglomerates next week to hear their views on how to revitalize investment and create jobs, her spokeswoman said Friday.The lunch, slated for Wednesday, would mark the first time Park has invited the top 10 chaebol heads to Cheong Wa Dae, though she held breakfast meetings with accompanying business leaders during her trips to the United States and China earlier this year.Park plans to use the meeting
Politics Aug. 23, 2013
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Park‘s office bristles at opposition’s mention of 1960 election rigging
The office of President Park Geun-hye bristled Friday at the main opposition party likening an election meddling scandal involving the state intelligence agency to the 1960 presidential election rigging that forced the resignation of then-President Rhee Syng-man.Earlier this week, members of the main opposition Democratic Party issued an open letter urging Park to learn a lesson from the case in which the Rhee government employed a series of illicit means to help him win re-election in the March
Politics Aug. 23, 2013
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Two Koreas to hold family reunions at Geumgang September 25-30
The two Koreas agreed Friday to hold reunions of separated families at the North’s Mount Geumgangsan resort in late September in the latest sign of easing tensions on the peninsula.During a meeting at the border village of Panmunjeom, Red Cross officials agreed that 100 people from each side would meet their loved ones from Sept. 25-30 in the program that had been suspended for nearly three years.The two sides will also arrange a video meeting among 40 families from each side from Oct. 22-23 and
North Korea Aug. 23, 2013
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