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No plan to let doctors with foreign licenses practice here anytime soon: PM
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Ador CEO's dismissal to be decided on last day of May
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[Graphic News] Beer the most favored alcoholic drink by Koreans
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Science Ministry expresses regret over Japan’s pressure on Naver
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Haeundae Beach to become sand art museum in late May
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Medical professors set to take day off amid protracted walkouts by junior doctors
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Hostilities get out of hand as YouTuber murders another outside courthouse
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Police officer jumps barefoot into drainage tunnel to save man
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Yoon interacts with public for 1st time since election defeat
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Lee Sun-kyun's posthumuous film to hit theaters in August
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Warrants sought for 3 suspected of praising N. Korea
Prosecutors Wednesday sought arrest warrants for three people suspected of praising and sympathizing with North Korea in violation of an anti-North Korea law.The Suwon District Prosecutors' Office said it has asked the court to issue the writs for two former members of the now-defunct Unified Progressive Party and a union leader.Woo Wi-young, one of the former UPP member, is accused of praising North Korea at public events in May 2013 in violation of the National Security Law that bans praising
Social AffairsMay 13, 2015
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S. Korea, Japan, China FTA talks end with some progress
Three-way negotiations among South Korea, Japan and China for a free trade agreement came to an end Wednesday with some progress but not a significant breakthrough, Seoul officials said.The chief negotiators from the three countries held the latest round of talks in Seoul that began Tuesday in an effort to iron out differences over the proposed trade deal. "We have made headway on some issues, but the talks continued to move slowly," said Kim Hak-do, Seoul's chief negotiator to the talks, the se
InternationalMay 13, 2015
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Amnesty Int'l calls for release of conscientious objectors
A human rights group Wednesday called for the release of hundreds of South Koreans jailed for dodging military service on conscientious grounds, seeing their imprisonment as a human rights violation. Compulsory military service has been a touchy subject in South Korea, where all able-bodied men must serve in the military for about two years and stay in the reserve forces for eight years.The mandatory service was introduced after the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.
InternationalMay 13, 2015
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Shooting leaves 3 dead, two injured
A shooting spree by a South Korean reservist left three people dead and two others injured. The reserve soldier killed one and wounded three others before killing himself in a shooting rampage at a military training camp in Seoul on Wednesday morning, the Defense Ministry said. One of the wounded victims died in a hospital at around 9:30 p.m., YTN news reported. The man opened fire with his rifle at around 10:44 a.m. during shooting practice at 52 division under the Army Capital Defense Command
Social AffairsMay 13, 2015
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Biz lobby urges gov't to ease greenhouse gas emission goal
A major business lobby in South Korea called on the government Wednesday to lower its reduction target for greenhouse gas emissions, saying that it is "impossible" to achieve.The government earlier proposed cutting greenhouse gas emission by 30 percent from business-as-usual levels by 2020. It plans to submit its greenhouse gas emission target to the United Nations soon ahead of the launch of a new climate regime after 2020."Since the government's emission target is in effect impossible to achie
May 13, 2015
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S. Korea, China, Japan to hold anti-terrorism talks
South Korea, China and Japan will hold talks this week to discuss joint measures to counter terrorism, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.Chief delegates from the three countries will meet Friday in Beijing to discuss a wide range of issues, including terrorism in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, the three nations' anti-terrorism policies, and ways to enhance trilateral cooperation against cyber terrorism and extremism, the ministry said in a press release.The talks will be attended by Choi Su
InternationalMay 13, 2015
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N.K. executes defense chief
North Korea executed its defense chief for treason late last month with an anti-aircraft machine gun, Seoul’s National Intelligence Service said Wednesday. The killing of Hyon Yong-chol, minister of the People’s Armed Forces, took place around April 30 at the Kangkon Military Academy in Pyongyang with hundreds in attendance, the agency told lawmakers at a closed-door parliamentary briefing. Hyon Yong-chol gave a speech in Moscow, Russia, not too long ago at the 4th Moscow International Security
North KoreaMay 13, 2015
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S. Korea to send disaster response officials to Nepal
South Korea will dispatch a "rapid response team" Wednesday to Nepal reeling from a new earthquake and aftershocks, officials said.The three-member group will gather information on damages there to help determine whether South Korea needs to send another batch of search and rescue workers.It will also check the safety of around 600 South Koreans residing in the Himalayan country."So far, there have been no reports of any South Korean victims," a Foreign Ministry official said.A 7.3-magnitude qua
InternationalMay 13, 2015
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Korean-American scientist released from prison
A Korean-American scientist was released from prison Tuesday after serving 10 months on a conviction of passing classified information about North Korea to a reporter in a case that has sparked criticism that the U.S. government applied double standards.Stephen Kim, 47, was sentenced in April last year to 13 months in prison for passing information about the possibility of North Korea conducting a nuclear test to a Fox News reporter in 2009. Kim began serving the prison term in July.Kim later go
North KoreaMay 13, 2015
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N. Korea's SLBM test conducted from barge, not from submarine: U.S. expert
North Korea is believed to have conducted the recent test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile from a submerged barge, not from a submarine as claimed by the communist nation, a U.S. expert said Tuesday.Joseph Bermudez, a top North Korea military expert, also said the North appears to have "photoshopped" images of the test to exaggerate progress in its SLBM development, saying the photo released by Pyongyang shows no flame coming from the missile's engine when a "bright pink shadow" was ref
North KoreaMay 13, 2015
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Governor's close aides raided in campaign bribery probe
Prosecutors raided the homes and offices of two close aides to a local provincial governor on allegations they covered up evidence of an alleged bribery scandal, authorities said Tuesday. Hong Joon-pyo, governor of South Gyeongsang Province, is currently under suspicion of violating political funding laws by pocketing some 100 million won ($91,190.95) from Sung Wan-jong, the chairman of a construction firm who committed suicide last month.Authorities said they confiscated financial statements a
PoliticsMay 12, 2015
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S. Korea to send emergency response team after 2nd major quake in Nepal
South Korea said Tuesday it will send an emergency response team to Nepal, which was hit by another massive earthquake less than three weeks after it was devastated by a quake of a similar magnitude. Nepal suffered another massive earthquake with a 7.3-magnitude in a remote area near Mount Everest earlier on Tuesday.A three-member team will head to Nepal on Wednesday to help determine whether there are any South Korean casualties as well as their exact whereabouts and current condition, accordi
Social AffairsMay 12, 2015
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Prosecution to summon former P.M. Thursday
Former Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo will face a prosecutorial summons on Thursday for allegedly taking illicit money from a businessman, officials said Tuesday.Lee is suspected to have received 30 million won ($27,347) from former Keangnam Enterprises head Sung Woan-jong, who claimed to have given money to eight politicians before killing himself in early April.A special investigative team on the case said Lee agreed to appear before the prosecution at 10 a.m. Thursday. He is the second of the eig
PoliticsMay 12, 2015
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Park warns against N.K. provocation
President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday warned that North Korea’s development of submarine-launched ballistic missiles posed a “grave challenge” to regional peace, as the military stepped up efforts to boost its anti-submarine capabilities to better counter the threat.She also called for “stern punishment” in case of any provocation in the skirmish-prone West Sea, following the communist neighbor’s repeated threats over the weekend to strike South Korean Navy vessels that it claimed were breaching it
North KoreaMay 12, 2015
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Self-reliance of Seoul districts hits record low
The financial independence of districts in Seoul City hit a record low amid the escalating cost burden of public welfare measures, officials said Tuesday. According to Seoul Metropolitan Government, the self-reliance rate of 25 districts on average plummeted to 31.5 percent this year, reaching the lowest mark since the city started to draft and execute its own budget under an elected mayor in 1995.The self-reliance rate, which is the ratio of district offices’ own revenue sources such as local t
Social AffairsMay 12, 2015
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Assembly approves tax refund bill
The National Assembly passed a bill authorizing tax refunds to millions of taxpayers and two resolutions criticizing Japan’s lack of contrition for its World War II atrocities, among other bills, at Tuesday’s plenary session in Seoul’s legislature.But ongoing disagreements over proposed changes to the civil service pension reforms between the main parties left the amendments and scores of draft bills pending, continuing a weeks-long partisan impasse.“The National Assembly has gathered today to c
PoliticsMay 12, 2015
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NPAD feud deepens over verbal attacks
Some rank-and-file members of the main opposition party have filed a petition to their ethics committee against the party’s lawmaker Rep. Jung Cheong-rae over his verbal attacks last week, revealing the deepening intraparty division.Jung is at the center of an intensifying factional feud as he accused his colleague Rep. Joo Seung-yong of “blackmailing” the party while trading blame over the defeats in the April parliamentary by-elections. “As a senior member of the party, Jung made comments that
PoliticsMay 12, 2015
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EMP protection firm carves out Korean niche
A local firm specializing in facilities to protect against electromagnetic pulse attacks is carving out a leading market position with a series of patents and its decades-old experience in the increasingly important defense field.Established in 1989, YES EMP Research Center has five patents regarding EMP protection. It is the only local firm capable of designing, installing and maintaining EMP protection systems specifically tailored for each customer.With its accumulated know-how, the firm has
DefenseMay 12, 2015
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Prosecutors raid state oil firm over shady energy projects
Prosecutors raided on Tuesday a state-owned oil firm as part of the expanding probe into alleged corruption and misuse of taxpayers’ money in overseas resource projects during the former Lee Myung-bak administration. Some 30 investigators stormed into the head office of the Korea National Oil Corporation, the residence of its ex-president Kang Young-won and the Seoul office of investment bank Merrill Lynch on Tuesday morning to secure evidence related to the probe, according to the Seoul Central
Social AffairsMay 12, 2015
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Women more vulnerable to workplace bullying
In 2012, a former bank employee won damages from her employer and coworkers, who bullied her after returning from a year of maternity leave. The banker, who had been in charge of accounts and mostly worked as a teller before taking leave, was asked to be an usher instead when she returned. Her own desk was gone, and as an usher she had to stand the whole time. When she confronted her boss after waiting for a month, he told her: “I don’t consider you as my employee. If you feel this is unfair, yo
Social AffairsMay 12, 2015