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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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Debate on 'no-seniors zones' heats up
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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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Is NewJeans headed for a long 'break'?
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[KH Explains] Hyundai-backed Motional’s struggles deepen as Tesla eyes August robotaxi debut
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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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Saenuri scores resounding victory in by-elections
The governing Saenuri Party unexpectedly emerged as the overall winner in parliamentary by-elections Wednesday, despite suffering from a corruption scandal. The victory effectively gives the party a mandate to push through the administration’s reform plans and economic initiatives. The conservative party prevailed in three of the four contested districts, dealing a crushing blow to the main opposition New Political Alliance for Democracy, which won none.Independent Chun Jung-bae (left) and the S
PoliticsApril 29, 2015
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Couple seeks help after botched suicide attempt
A man and a woman who attempted to commit suicide through carbon monoxide poisoning have called firefighters for help, police said Wednesday. The man, 32, and the woman, 19, burned charcoal in a hotel room late Tuesday but called firefighters after nothing happened, Han Jong-seop, police superintendent at Gwanak Police Station, said. The two had met through chatting online, he added. It was not immediately clear why they had decided to kill themselves. They were being treated at a local hosp
Social AffairsApril 29, 2015
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S. Korean ambassador says deeper 'emotional solidarity' with China
South Korean Ambassador to China Kim Jang-soo said Wednesday that an "emotional solidarity" between Seoul and Beijing is deepening as more people visit each other's country. Kim made the remarks at a meeting with about 100 Chinese bloggers after naming them civilian delegates to promote South Korea's image in China. "An emotional solidarity between the people of the two countries has been deeper than ever before as the number of the two nations' visitors to each other's country surpassed 10 m
Foreign AffairsApril 29, 2015
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Residents up in arms against U.S. live-fire complex
Over 600 residents near a U.S. live-fire range in South Korea's inter-Korean border town staged a protest Wednesday over decades-long damages caused by military drills there. The protesters, most of whom are elderly farmers residing in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, gathered in Yongsan, central Seoul, where Seoul's defense ministry building and the headquarters of the U.S. 8th Army headquarters are located. They are infuriated by a series of accidents involving errant shells from the sprawling Rod
Social AffairsApril 29, 2015
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N. Korea executed 15 senior officials this year: spy agency
North Korea has killed 15 senior officials this year, two South Korean lawmakers said Wednesday, in the latest public executions in the communist country. In January, a vice forestry minister was executed for allegedly complaining about the country's forestation plan, the lawmakers told reporters after being briefed by South Korea's spy agency in a closed-door parliamentary session. In March, four members of North Korea's Unhasu Orchestra were also executed on charges of espionage, Shin Kyoung
North KoreaApril 29, 2015
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S. Korea bans labor unions' visit to N. Korea for football match
South Korea Wednesday rejected an application by the two local umbrella labor unions to visit North Korea to discuss a football friendly in Pyongyang, citing its political nature. The Federation of Korean Trade Unions and the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions are seeking to hold a football game between workers of the two Koreas in May, hoping that the event could help promote peace on the divided peninsula. The Unification Ministry said that it has decided not to allow the heads of the two
Foreign AffairsApril 29, 2015
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S. Korea opens int'l bidding for recovery of sunken ferry
South Korea on Wednesday launched the process to select a company to salvage a ferry that sank last year, killing over 300 people, with the bidding open to all local and foreign companies. The move came a week after the country's central disaster control center decided to physically recover the 6,800-ton passenger ferry, the Sewol. The ship sank on April 16, 2014 while en route to the country's southern resort island of Jeju, killing 304 people, mostly high school students on a school excursio
Social AffairsApril 29, 2015
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Woman strangles baby to death: police
A 30-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday for allegedly strangling her toddler to death, police said. The woman, identified only by her surname Kim, called the police a day earlier to report that her husband beat their two-year-old son to death, according to Yang Hui-seong, chief crime investigator at Gumi Police Station. However, she later admitted she tried to kill herself and the baby "because of stress from family discord." She has lived separately from her husband since November, police
Social AffairsApril 29, 2015
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War victims condemn U.S. over Abe speech
A group of victims of Japan's war crimes blasted the United States Wednesday for inviting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to address its Congress despite his refusal to apologize for his country's past wrongdoing. Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery during World War II called the invitation "unbelievable," as South Korea marks the 70th anniversary of its independence from Japan's 1910-45 rule. "The U.S. Congress basically cleared Abe from blame," the Korean Council for the Wome
Social AffairsApril 29, 2015
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N. Korean army deserters kill 3 Chinese citizens: report
BEIJING -- Three North Koreans believed to be army deserters killed three Chinese citizens in the border city of Helong last week, a Chinese media reported Wednesday.The Beijing News, citing a statement issued by a verified Weibo account of the propaganda department of Helong, said a manhunt has been under way. The incident took place on Friday just across the Tumen River dividing China and North Korea, according to the report. South Korean public broadcaster KBS reported the incident on Tuesday
North KoreaApril 29, 2015
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S. Korea honors independence fighter against Japan's colonization
South Korea said Wednesday it has reopened an exhibition hall in China honoring a prominent independence fighter against Japan's colonial rule in the early 1900s. The memorial hall in the Lu Xun Park in Shanghai is dedicated to Yun Bong-gil, a Korean who killed two high-ranking Japanese officials and wounded several others by setting off a bomb during the birthday celebration of the Japanese emperor in the Chinese city on April 29, 1932. Yun was executed in December of the same year at the a
Social AffairsApril 29, 2015
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N. Korean army deserters kill 3 Chinese citizens: report
Three North Koreans believed to be army deserters killed three Chinese citizens in the border city of Helong last week, a Chinese media reported Wednesday. The Beijing News, citing a statement issued by a verified Weibo account of the propaganda department of Helong, said a manhunt has been under way. The incident took place on Friday just across the Tumen River dividing China and North Korea, according to the report. South Korean public broadcaster KBS reported the incident on Tuesday night.
InternationalApril 29, 2015
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Environment ministers of S. Korea, China, Japan set for talks
Environment ministers of South Korea, China and Japan were set to hold three-way talks here later this week to jointly address sand storms, smog, maritime pollution and other environmental issues, South Korean officials said Wednesday. South Korean Environment Minister Yoon Seong-kyu and his Chinese and Japanese counterparts, Chen Jining and Yoshio Mochizuki, will meet in Shanghai on Thursday. Ahead of the trilateral meeting, the ministers of South Korea and Japan held bilateral talks on Wedn
April 29, 2015
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S. Korea seeks UNESCO's help against Japan's wartime slave labor
South Korea asked a U.N. organization Tuesday to help foil Japan's attempt to list facilities served by wartime slave laborers as world heritage sites. The Shinzo Abe administration is pushing to win UNESCO's recognition for 23 coal mines, shipyards and other early industrial sites. The candidates include seven facilities where nearly 60,000 Koreans were coerced into slave labor during World War II. Japan colonized Korea from 1910-45. Seoul's new ambassador to UNESCO, Lee Byeong-hyun, delivere
Foreign AffairsApril 29, 2015
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S. Korea to send 30 more rescue workers to Nepal
South Korea said Wednesday it will dispatch 30 more rescue workers and medics to Nepal later this week, with the death toll of a 7.8 magnitude earthquake there having exceeded 5,000. The first group of 10 members from the Korea Disaster Response Team arrived in Nepal Tuesday and immediately began operations. "The KDRT has been assigned to Bhaktapur, about 15 kilometers east of Kathmandu," a Foreign Ministry official said. The additional group will head to the region on Friday, he added. There
InternationalApril 29, 2015
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S. Korea, Japan to resume finance ministers' talks
South Korea and Japan will resume talks between their finance ministers next month to discuss economic and fiscal issues, despite strained diplomatic ties, the Seoul government said Wednesday. The meeting, set for May 23 in Tokyo, will be the first of its kind since November 2012, when both nations suspended such talks due to frayed relations, the finance ministry said. It comes after South Korean Finance Minister Choi Kyung-hwan and his Japanese counterpart Taro Aso agreed to separate economi
Foreign AffairsApril 29, 2015
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Park makes slow recovery from illness
President Park Geun-hye is recovering from ill health caused by fatigue slower than expected, an official said Wednesday. She is resting at her official residence, presidential spokesman Min Kyung-wook told reporters. Park has been under medical treatment due to stomach cramps and a sore throat after her recent four-nation trip to South America. (Yonhap)
PoliticsApril 29, 2015
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Voters heading polls amid bribery scandal
Voters began casting ballots in parliamentary by-elections Wednesday amid a broadening bribery scandal involving some key aides to President Park Geun-hye. Four seats are up for grabs in the by-elections widely seen as a bellwether for next year's general elections. Polling stations in four constituencies, including one in Seoul, opened at 6 a.m. and are set to close at 8 p.m. to allow more voters to cast ballots before and after work. As of 3 p.m., voter turnout stood at 26.5 percent, with m
PoliticsApril 29, 2015
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Abe refuses again to apologize for wartime sexual slavery
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe refused again Tuesday to apologize for the country's wartime sexual enslavement of women, continuing a play with words to circumvent calls for an unequivocal apology. "I am deeply pained to think about the comfort women who experienced immeasurable pain and suffering as a result of victimization due to human trafficking," Abe said during joint news conference with U.S. President Barack Obama, using a euphemistic term for sex slaves. "This is a feeling that I
InternationalApril 29, 2015
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U.S. serviceman arrested in alleged assault
Police said Tuesday that they have arrested a U.S. serviceman over an alleged assault on a South Korean employee at a local club after being drunk.The 29-year-old U.S. soldier, whose name has not been revealed, was arrested Sunday on accusations of hitting a South Korean employee's face with a brick at a club located in the central Seoul.Police said the sergeant was kicked out of the club after being too drunk and was protesting against the move when he made the assault.He was immediately arrest
Social AffairsApril 28, 2015