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Yoon apologizes for first lady Dior bag scandal, calls push for special probe ‘political’
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Korea forecast to overtake Taiwan in chip production by 2032: report
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Girl hanging on bridge, police trying to rescue her both fall off; rescued immediately
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[K-pop’s dilemma] Can K-pop break free from ‘fandom’ model?
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YouTuber fatally stabbed on livestream by another YouTuber in Busan
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Yoon rebuffs opposition's call for special probe into wife
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Arrest warrant issued for medical student for allegedly killing girlfriend after breakup
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Stray Kids hit with racism in Met Gala photo line
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[News Analysis] Yoon's first 2 years marked by intense confrontations, lack of leadership
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Yoon apologizes for wife's 'unwise conduct'
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Canada Embassy enhances online presence
The Canadian Embassy is taking its online presence to the next level through the launch of new online products and the enhancement of previous online publications. By scanning the Canadian Embassy’s QR code, smartphone users in Korea can now easily access the embassy’s new mobile website. In ad
Foreign AffairsAug. 21, 2011
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Gift that keeps on giving from Czech Republic
The Czech Republic Embassy last week donated 15 books and related newspaper and magazine documents to the Seoul Museum of History that date back almost a century.“These are travelogues and books written by Czechoslovakian writers who visited in the 1910s and 1920s that are about Korea,” said Czech R
Foreign AffairsAug. 21, 2011
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Reaching new climate change deal in Durban
A global deal must be the aim of a future climate change pact said British Ambassador Martin Uden.“I don’t need to tell you that climate change is a tremendous challenge,” said Uden.The United Kingdom has committed to deep carbon cuts. “In 15 years our emissions will be half of what they were in 199
Foreign AffairsAug. 21, 2011
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Spanish envoy broadens focus of ties
Spain plans language institute here, sees trade with Korea growingIn Korean society, “hwangap,” the traditional way of celebrating a 60th birthday, means that one has completed a cycle and is starting another one.“We are starting the second cycle of our diplomatic relations,” Spanish Ambassador Luis
Foreign AffairsAug. 21, 2011
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Son of N.Korea's Kim absent from Russia trip: KCNA
SEOUL (AFP) -- North Korean's heir apparent appeared to be absent from the entourage on leader Kim Jong-Il's trip to Russia, according to a list announced by the North's state media during the rare visit.Korean Central News Agency confirmed Sunday Kim's "unofficial visit to Siberia and the Far East"
North KoreaAug. 21, 2011
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Seoul mayor vows to stake office on free lunch vote
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Yonhap) -- Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon pledged Sunday to stake his mayorship on the results of this week's referendum on the city's free school lunch program, upping the ante in the controversial vote. Oh Se-hoon (Yonhap News)"I will stake my mayorship on the results of Wednesday's refere
PoliticsAug. 21, 2011
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N. Korean leader's Russian visit expected to focus on economic cooperation
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's latest trip to Russia appears to be primarily aimed at boosting economic cooperation and attracting more aid and investment from the resource-rich neighbor, experts said Saturday.While meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in a Siberian city next week, Kim
North KoreaAug. 20, 2011
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N.Korean leader in Russia, will meet with Medvedev
MOSCOW (AP) -- Reclusive North Korea's autocratic leader Kim Jong-il crossed into Russia Saturday on his armored train to discuss with President Dmitry Medvedev the possible renewal of nuclear disarmament talks and the construction of a pipeline that will stream Russian natural gas to both Koreas, t
North KoreaAug. 20, 2011
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Chief justice nominee leans toward right
President Lee Myung-bak’s nominee for Supreme Court chief justice is expected to bring the court’s political pendulum considerably to the right as he takes over from his liberal predecessor. Yang Sung-tae, who served as justice of the top court from 2005 to 2011 February, was named the new chief lat
PoliticsAug. 19, 2011
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Korea to be Greenpeace’s 41st outpost
Group to open Korean office soon to focus on nuclear power, maritime environmentThe main issues in Korea in the last 10 years have been peace, environment and energy. Greenpeace’s announcement in June that it would open a Korean office looks set to stir these issues further.Greenpeace started in Van
Social AffairsAug. 19, 2011
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Kim Jong-il’s Russia visit ‘imminent’
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is likely to embark on a Russian visit as early as Saturday, South Korea’s intelligence officials said Friday. “Kim Jong-il’s visit to Russia appears imminent,” an official at the National Intelligence Agency told a parliamentary intelligence committee, according to m
North KoreaAug. 19, 2011
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Campaign heats up for vote on school meals
Election commission bans mayor from picketing, probes education board for ‘encouraging’ vote boycottThe nation’s conservative and liberal forces, siding with Seoul government and education authority respectively, exchanged barbs Friday, arguing about whether citizens should participate in the upcomi
PoliticsAug. 19, 2011
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[URGENT] N. Korean leader's Russian visit imminent, Seoul's spy
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is likely to embark on a Russian visit as early as Saturday, South Korea’s intelligence officials said Friday. “Kim Jong-il’s visit to Russia appears imminent,” an official at the National Intelligence Agency told a parliamentary intelligence committee, according to m
North KoreaAug. 19, 2011
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Ewha Univ. cancels Paju campus plan
Ewha Womans University, the nation’s most prestigious women’s school, on Friday scrapped its plan to build a campus on the site of a former U.S. military camp in Paju, north of Seoul, citing price issues. The price of the campus site, owned by the Ministry of Defense, has gone up to a level that the
Social AffairsAug. 19, 2011
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Roh ordered attack on Japanese ships near Dokdo: aide
Former President Roh Moo-hyun had ordered his maritime police to smash into Japanese vessels in 2006 if they approached Dokdo in an attempt to claim the easternmost Korean islets, one of the late leader‘s former aides said. Roh, president from 2003-2008, was known for his hard-line stance on Japan’s
PoliticsAug. 19, 2011
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Widow of shipping firm chief embezzles company fund
Prosecutors indicted the widow of the deceased chairman of an off-shore shipping company for embezzlement.According to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, the 47-year-old woman surnamed Kim colluded with her husband’s secretary in misappropriating 100 billion won ($92.4 million) between
Social AffairsAug. 19, 2011
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Woman abandons her four infants
(Yonhap News)A 38-year-old woman has been booked for abandoning her four newborn babies in Namhae, South Gyeongsang Province, local police said.The mother admitted that she deserted four babies including a 4-day-old boy she gave birth to last month. She was seen on closed-circuit camera leaving her
Social AffairsAug. 19, 2011
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N. Korea proposed summit talks with U.S., professor claims
North Korea proposed holding a summit with the United States in an apparent bid to seek a breakthrough for reopening the stalled aid-for-denuclearization talks, a South Korean professor claimed Friday. The proposal was made in late July when North Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan hel
North KoreaAug. 19, 2011
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U.S. to offer $900,000 in relief aid for N. Korea
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) -- The United States announced a decision Thursday to provide $900,000 worth of emergency aid to flood-ravaged North Korea less than a month after the two sides resumed high-level dialogue."In response to humanitarian needs arising from recent flooding in the Democratic Peop
North KoreaAug. 19, 2011
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Former top court justice named new Supreme Court chief
Former Supreme Court Justice Yang Seung-tae was named the new chief justice of the Supreme Court on Thursday, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said.Yang, 63, had been a justice at the top court from 2005 to February 2011. His term as the chief justice will also run six years. If approved, Yang
PoliticsAug. 18, 2011