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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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Koreas to discuss troubled resort
SEOUL (AFP) -- North Korea has agreed to hold talks with South Korea to settle a dispute over Seoul-owned buildings at a jointly run resort which have been seized by the communist country, officials said Monday.The communist North had set a deadline of Wednesday for final discussions about the properties at the Mount Kumgang resort, which is in North Korea and was supposed to have been a symbol of
North KoreaJuly 11, 2011
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Koreas to meet this week to discuss fate of South Korean assets
North Korea has agreed to hold talks with the South on Wednesday to settle a dispute over South Korean-owned buildings in a tourist resort in the isolated state, officials said.Korea is thus to send a team of government officials and business representatitives to the corresponding resort, according to the Unification Ministry spokesperson Chun Hae-sung.Monday, just two days before the date Pyongya
North KoreaJuly 11, 2011
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GNP chiefs to cancel tax cuts, reduce tuition
The ruling Grand National Party, led by newly elected chairman Rep. Hong Joon-pyo, has announced a reformative, “people-friendly” stance.In the party workshop at the National Assembly on Sunday, the Supreme Council and the policy committee agreed almost unanimously to slash university tuition fees and reinforce regulations over conglomerates.The plan also included overturning additional corporate
PoliticsJuly 11, 2011
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Lee to name new top prosecutor, justice chief
President Lee Myung-bak, who returned from his African tour Monday, is expected to replace the justice minister, prosecutor-general and senior presidential secretary for civil affairs later this month.In protest over a bill which state prosecutors believe restricts their investigative rights, Prosecutor General Kim Joon-kyu offered to resign last week while Lee was in South Africa. Lee is likely t
PoliticsJuly 11, 2011
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Red Cross officials of two Koreas hold informal talks
Red Cross officials from the two Koreas held informal talks on the sidelines of an international conference in China last week, a South Korean Red Cross official said Monday.Kim Yong-hyun, secretary-general of the South’s Red Cross, and Paek Yong-ho, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Red Cross Society of North Korea, met during breaks at the East Asian regional Red Cross leadership mee
Social AffairsJuly 11, 2011
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S. Korean, U.S. air forces to hold aerial refueling drills
South Korean and U.S. Air Forces have recently reached an agreement to stage an aerial refueling exercise on a regular basis here, using a U.S. in-flight tanker, a military source said Monday.The first joint refueling exercise in which the U.S. is to mobilize its KC-135 tanker currently based in Okinawa, Japan, is expected to take place in the latter half of this year, the source said.“Although ou
DefenseJuly 11, 2011
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90% of new labor unions unaffiliated
For ten days since the multiple-trade-union law took effect on July 1, 167 new unions have been formed, with about 90 percent of them not joining either of the umbrella unions, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the Federation of Korean Trade Unions.Under the revised labor law, employees can freely set up labor unions no matter how many there are at a work site. The measure is expected t
Social AffairsJuly 11, 2011
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Another marine dies in apparent suicide
Criticism over management of troops deepens in wake of Ganghwa shootingAnother marine was found dead at his unit in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, in an apparent suicide on Sunday night, further escalating public concerns over purportedly prevalent abuses in the military.The death of the 19-year-old lance corporal, identified only by his surname Jeong, came after a marine committed suicide and
DefenseJuly 11, 2011
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Korea to conduct nuclear disaster drill
South Korea will carry out a disaster drill on a nuclear power plant on the east coast this week to check updated emergency protocols on damage control and evacuation, the government said Monday.The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said the drill will be carried out at the Wolsong station, located 370 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Tuesday and Wednesday. The plant currently has fou
Social AffairsJuly 11, 2011
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Heavy rain kills 15, leaves three missing
A road collapses after heavy rain hits Wanju, North Jeolla Province. (Yonhap News)Fifteen people died and five went missing during the massive downpour that swept the country over the weekend. The damage is expected to increase since the state weather agency forecast that heavy rains would blanket the nation by the end of next week. The National Emergency Management Agency on Monday said the rainf
Social AffairsJuly 11, 2011
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Cho pushes for easier overseas voting
Rep. Cho Jin-hyeong of the Grand National Party talks in a recent interview with The Korea Herald. (Yang Dong-chul/The Korea Herald)Lawmaker proposes postal votes, transport for Korean voters in remote areasPending bills must be passed to ensure the 7 million Korean citizens overseas can exercise their political rights, a ruling party lawmaker has said.“We don’t have much time left until this Nove
PoliticsJuly 11, 2011
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Minnesota politician sends himself fake bomb
An American politician who allegedly posted himself an imitation grenade has been accused of making false police report.Leroy Schaffer, a city councilman from Minnesota, told authorities that somebody had sent him a bomb. It turned out to be a ploy to buy sympathy from people.On July 1st, the accused had called police concerning a suspicious package he had received from Chicago. He told officers t
PoliticsJuly 11, 2011
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Marine hangs himself in new blow to Corps
A Korean Marine has hanged himself in his barracks, an official said Monday, in a new blow to the Corps after a corporal who claimed he was bullied went on a deadly shooting spree last week.The 19-year-old Private First Class, identified only as Jung, was found by colleagues Sunday night hanging in a barracks shower room in the southeastern port of Pohang, a Marine Corps spokesman said.Military in
Social AffairsJuly 11, 2011
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Georgian journalist says he spied for Russia
TBILISI (AP) -- The personal photographer to the Georgian president was shown on television Saturday confessing to supplying a colleague with secret information that was then sent to a Russian secret service.Irakli Gedenidze confessed to giving another photographer, Zurab Kurtsikidze of the European Pressphoto Agency, details of the president's itinerary, motorcade route and offices for unspecifie
PoliticsJuly 11, 2011
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8 dead, 4 missing in storms in south
At least eight people were killed and four were missing after torrential rains hit southern parts of South Korea over the weekend, emergency officials said Sunday. Since Friday, as much as 40 centimeters of rain has fallen in South Gyeongsang and Jeolla provinces, leaving tens of thousands of hectares of farmland submerged and nearly 90 homes flooded. On Sunday, two old women, aged 92 and 86, were
Social AffairsJuly 10, 2011
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Abuse at barracks cause of escalating concern in Korea
Defense minister orders full-scale inspection of all military unitsAlthough his son will not join the military for another 10 years, Moon Young-sook is already apprehensive that his boy could suffer the “appalling” human rights abuses said to be widespread there.“I feel more worried than before as it is said that such abuses are still taking place in many units, not in just a few. When we heard of
DefenseJuly 10, 2011
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11 people charged with forming anti-state entity
Prosecutors are investigating 11 people on charges of establishing an anti-state organization under a directive from North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party, officials said Sunday.Among them was a member of the Korea Higher Education Research Institute, which spearheaded a nationwide campaign to halve college tuitions, triggering criticism that the probe aims to stifle voices against a government poli
Social AffairsJuly 10, 2011
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S. Korea, South Sudan establish ties
The South Korean foreign ministry said Sunday it had established diplomatic relations with South Sudan, congratulating the world’s newest state on its formal independence.The diplomatic accord was signed in South Sudan between South Korean Cabinet minister Lee Jae-oh and Deng Alor Kuol, the African nation’s foreign minister on Saturday, the ministry said in a statement.“With the establishment of d
Foreign AffairsJuly 10, 2011
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Lee offers to aid Ethiopia development
President, first lady join volunteer work; thank nation for Korean War helpPresident Lee Myung-bak continued volunteer work in Ethiopia on Sunday, working on construction sites for public restrooms and a village hall in a rural area, before his weeklong tour of Africa.Lee and First Lady Kim Yoon-ok helped repair wells and fences during their visit to a rural village, joined medics’ examinations of
PoliticsJuly 10, 2011
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S. Korea’s emigration drops to record low in 2010
The number of South Korean nationals who left their home country for the purpose of permanent residence in foreign nations dropped to a record low last year, as the nation’s economy continues to improve, a report showed Sunday. A total of 899 people left South Korea to emigrate in 2010, down 22 percent from the previous year, according to the report by the Foreign Ministry. It marked the first tim
Social AffairsJuly 10, 2011