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Court refuses injunction on medical school expansion
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Why Korean crime stories typically feature nameless, faceless perpetrators
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Rare mid-May heavy snow warning issued over mountainous areas of Gangwon
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S. Korea, Cambodia forge strategic partnership
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Police raid popera singer Kim Ho-joong's house over hit-and-run suspicions
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Trump may like to 'solve' N. Korean nuclear problem if reelected: ex-official
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New Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office chief vows full-fledged probe into first lady
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N Korea urges S. Korea not to dampen inter-Korean ties
North Korea on Wednesday urged South Korea to refrain from making comments that could dampen inter-Korean ties following the two Koreas' landmark deal, warning that Seoul's attitude could push the hard-won conciliatory mood to return to confrontation. Just one week before the North's warning, South and North Korea reached a landmark agreement to ease military tension on the Korean Peninsula and resume the reunion of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, raising hopes for better ties. T
North KoreaSept. 2, 2015
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Park meets with Xi ahead of WWII celebrations
President Park Geun-hye met with Chinese President Xi Jinping for talks expected to focus on how to move forward bilateral relations and how to deal with North Korea and other regional issues, South Korean officials said Wednesday. No details of their meeting -- the sixth such summit between the two leaders since Park took office in early 2013 -- were immediately available. President Park Geun-hye met Chinese President Xi Jinping Wednesday (Yonhap)Park and Xi were to hold a luncheon meeting
InternationalSept. 2, 2015
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S. Korea, China hold talks on N. Korea ahead of summit
The chief nuclear envoys from South Korea and China held talks on Tuesday on ways to resolve a long-running standoff over North Korea's nuclear weapons program, officials said Tuesday, a day before President Park Geun-hye and Chinese President Xi Jinping hold a summit in Beijing. South Korea's chief nuclear envoy, Hwang Joon-kook, arrived in Beijing earlier in the day and held talks with his Chinese counterpart, Wu Dawei. Hwang said the Tuesday meeting was aimed at fine-tuning the North Korean n
North KoreaSept. 1, 2015
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Assembly session off to shaky start
Prospects for the last regular session of the 19th National Assembly remained dim as the rival parties got off to a shaky start Tuesday, locking horns over the main opposition party’s demand to disclose details of special allowances spent by state offices.Lawmakers honor the national flag during the opening session of the National Assembly on Tuesday. (Yonhap)On the first day of the 100-day session, the parliament came to a deadlock as rival parties engaged in a political dogfight over the propo
PoliticsSept. 1, 2015
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Daddies speak out on need for better balance
Long working hours and social pressure against them taking leave for child care are some of the major difficulties faced by modern fathers in their 30s and 40s, a survey in Seoul showed Tuesday.According to the survey conducted by Seoul Foundation of Woman & Family from May 28 to June 10, 48.5 percent of the respondents cited long working hours and heavy workload as the reasons for poor work-family balance, followed by social pressure deterring them from taking child care leave (24.5 percent), l
Social AffairsSept. 1, 2015
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Park touts inter-Korean deal as unification step
President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday touted a recent breakthrough between the two Koreas, saying its thorough implementation starting with a fresh round of reunions of separated families would bring the peninsula closer to lasting peace and eventually a unification.The sides are scheduled for a working-level meeting on Sept. 7 at the border village of Panmunjeom to arrange the family reunions, following their three-day high-level talks that ended last Tuesday. “If we safeguard the hard-won agreeme
North KoreaSept. 1, 2015
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Court rules against release of U.S. forces crime data
An appeals court ruled Tuesday that the government does not have to unveil the information of cases involving U.S. soldiers if it has relinquished its right to exercise jurisdiction over them under the South Korea-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement, upending the original judgment. Under SOFA, which governs the legal status of some 28,500 U.S. troops stationed across the southern part of the peninsula, South Korea can primarily invoke judicial power when a serviceman is implicated in crimes, except
DefenseSept. 1, 2015
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[Newsmaker] Sankei under fire again for attack on Park
Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun came under fire again for an online column that called President Park Geun-hye’s plan to attend China’s World War II victory event “toadyism” and likened her to a 19th-century Korean empress assassinated by Japan.President Park Geun-hye presides over a Cabinet meeting at Cheong Wa Dae on Tuesday. (Yonhap)In its Monday edition, the conservative daily carried the column accusing Korea’s diplomacy of being historically subservient to big powers -- China, Russia or
Foreign AffairsSept. 1, 2015
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Seoul announces post-MERS plan for infectious diseases
All general hospitals with 300 or more patient beds in South Korea will be required to establish negative air pressure rooms to prevent cross-contamination, Seoul announced on Tuesday as part of its post-Middle East respiratory syndrome plan to better deal with contagious diseases. The Ministry of Health and Welfare also announced that the head of Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention will be appointed as the ministry’s joint vice minister to strengthen public health sector, and establ
Social AffairsSept. 1, 2015
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Environmentalists to sue state over cable car plan
Environmentalists vowed Tuesday to launch a legal battle against the government over its recent decision to allow the construction of a cable car in one of the country’s most preserved national parks. Several environmental groups, including Green Korea United, said they would seek revocation against the government’s approval for the cable car project on Mount Seoraksan in Gangwon Province, claiming that the decision is invalid as it didn’t strictly follow the procedural rules.Last Friday, the mi
Sept. 1, 2015
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Ruling on case from rape victim’s mother sparks outrage
A Seoul court on Tuesday threw out a compensation suit filed by the mother of two daughters who committed suicide after a convoluted multiple-rape case.The ruling has generated much online outrage, with Internet users criticizing the ruling, and local regulations. Judge Kwak Hyung-sub of the Seoul Central District Court ruled that the suit was filed after statute of limitations expired, making the suit null and void. The suit was filed in 2013, more than four years after the sisters’ suicide. Ac
Social AffairsSept. 1, 2015
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S. Korea to demand removal of Japanese column insulting Park
South Korea said Tuesday it plans to demand the retraction of a Japanese newspaper column that likens President Park Geun-hye to a former Korean empress slain by Japanese agents.Japanese conservative daily Sankei Shimbun carried a column on its homepage Monday critical of Park's plan to attend a massive military parade in Beijing marking China's victory over Japan in World War II.Calling Park's decision an example of "toadyism," the column said Korea's Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) had a woman of p
Foreign AffairsSept. 1, 2015
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Top nuclear envoys of S. Korea, China to hold talks ahead of Park-Xi summit
South Korea's top nuclear envoy, Hwang Joon-kook, arrived in Beijing on Tuesday to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart, ahead of a summit meeting between President Park Geun-hye and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Upon his arrival at the Beijing airport, Hwang said the planned meeting later in the day with Wu Dawei is aimed at fine-tuning the North Korean nuclear issue. Park will hold a summit with Xi on Wednesday in Beijing, a day before she attends a military parade marking the end of World
Foreign AffairsSept. 1, 2015
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Park says Koreas can move toward peace, unification
President Park Geun-hye said Tuesday that South and North Korea can move toward peace and unification if they honor a recent deal that defused tensions.The deal reached last week between the two Koreas after days of marathon negotiations set the stage for inter-Korean dialogue and reunions of families separated since the 1950-53 Korean War.President Park Geun-hye (Yonhap)The two Koreas are set to hold Red Cross talks on Sept. 7 to arrange the reunions around Chuseok, a major holiday that is cele
North KoreaSept. 1, 2015
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Korean Red Cross begins checking fate of separated families in S. Korea
The Korean Red Cross said Tuesday it has kicked off the process to confirm the fate of more than 66,000 South Korean family members who were separated by the 1950-53 Korean War and are known to be alive in a bid to prepare for an upcoming family reunion event. The Korean Red Cross said that it has begun a 15-day project to contact separated family members who are believed to be alive and ask whether they will agree to exchange a list of separated family members with the North. More than 129,60
North KoreaSept. 1, 2015
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S. Korea, U.S. seek China's constructive role on N. Korea
Top South Korean and U.S. diplomats have agreed that China's "constructive" role is of importance for peace and security on the Korean Peninsula, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se held 30-minute talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on the sidelines of the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic held in Anchorage, Alaska, on Monday (local time).Their meeting, the third this year, came amid concerns over the impact of President Park Geun-hye's trip to C
North KoreaSept. 1, 2015
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S. Korea, U.S. reaffirm close coordination on N. Korea
South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reaffirmed Monday that the two countries will continue to coordinate closely on North Korea, the State Department said. The two top diplomats met in Anchorage, Alaska, on the sidelines of the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic that the U.S. hosted to focus world attention on climate change affecting the polar region and discuss ways to curb it. "They had a productive discussion on plans for Republic of
North KoreaSept. 1, 2015
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S. Korea pledges cooperation for fight against climate change
Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se on Monday pledged that South Korea will work closely with the international community to curb climate change affecting the Arctic and to ensure the sustainable development of the polar region.Yun made the pledge during the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic that the United States hosted in Anchorage, Alaska, to focus world attention on climate change affecting the polar region and discuss ways to tackle the phenomenon."My government, for the first time ev
Sept. 1, 2015
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N. Korea likely to use provocations unless economic aid comes from S. Korea: U.S. expert
Provocations will continue to be a part of North Korea's strategy for dealing with South Korea despite the recent conciliatory mood created between the two sides after they defused a military standoff, a U.S. expert said Monday. Ken Gause, a senior analyst on Korea at CNA Corp., made the forecast in a just-released paper titled "North Korea's provocations and escalation calculus," saying the dynamics of Pyongyang's decision-making on provocations have not changed dramatically since Kim Jong-un
North KoreaSept. 1, 2015
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PM, Washington Gov. discuss inter-Korean deal
South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn and visiting Washington Governor Jay Inslee on Monday discussed an inter-Korean deal struck last week. The two Koreas reached a landmark deal last week to defuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula. In the agreement, North Korea "expressed regret" over the recent injury of South Korean soldiers in the explosion of landmines laid by North Korea in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas. Seoul accused Pyongyang of secretly burying the mines in
Foreign AffairsAug. 31, 2015