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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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Samsung chief bolsters ties with Germany’s Zeiss
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KT launches new mobile plans for foreign residents
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Putting EU FTA into practice
In the language of free trade agreements, the phrase “comprehensive deals” usually means long and complicated sections that take many hours to find out how they apply to a given industry.The European Delegation last week invited representatives of EU companies, embassies of EU member states and local importers of EU products to join in a one-day seminar that covered all aspects related to making t
Foreign AffairsJune 26, 2011
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Diplomat licensed to help needy children
France’s Bertrand devotes Saturdays to volunteer workFor most of us, Saturdays are our personal time to spend with the family or hang out with friends and escape the rat race of work. For Lydie Bertrand, Saturday is her special day, not because she explores the country or goes shopping; instead she feeds her spirit by helping those who need it the most.“There are not many things in life that give
Foreign AffairsJune 26, 2011
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Sung Kim, Obama's choice for stable management of NK, public diplomacy
WASHINGTON -- With the pick of Sung Kim, a Korea-born career diplomat, as his new ambassador to Seoul, U.S.President Barack Obama aims to handle the North Korean nuclear issue in a more professional way and step up public diplomacy with South Koreans, officials and experts here said. Kim, 51, is on a path to become the first person of Korean origin to serve as U.S. ambassador to Seoul, a his
Foreign AffairsJune 26, 2011
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Lee visits Africa next week for PyeongChang bid, energy ties
President Lee Myung-bak (Yonhap News) President Lee Myung-bak on Saturday will fly to South Africa for a weeklong tour of three African countries, Cheong Wa Dae said Sunday. The trip is part of last-minute efforts to promote Korea’s PyeongChang as the host of the 2018 Winter Olympics and to strengthen economic ties. The president will arrive in Durban, South Africa, on Saturday evening, four days
PoliticsJune 26, 2011
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High college tuition fee drives student thefts
A college student on a leave of absence to raise college funds worked a part-time job by day and allegedly committed thefts by night has been arrested, according to Yonhap News.The student, surnamed Lee, 22, faces charges of breaking into shopping malls and offices to rob them late at night. Lee allegedly stole fourteen times recently, by sneaking into offices and arcades around Jinyeong, Gimhae c
Social AffairsJune 26, 2011
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Activists send anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets
South Korean activists sent five anti-North Korean propaganda balloons across the inter-Korean border on Saturday from a western border resort in commemoration of the outbreak of the 1950-53 Korean War, their representatives said.About 10 activists, mostly North Korean defectors, released the propaganda balloons in Paju, north of Seoul, Saturday morning. The balloons carried about 100,000 leaflets
NationalJune 25, 2011
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Samhwa Mutual Savings Bank declared bankrupt
The Samhwa Mutual Savings Bank, one of the local banks troubled with capital shortages, was declared bankrupt Friday.The savings bank filed for bankruptcy on May 19. In January, the Financial Services Commission suspended the bank for six months during moves to weed out unviable banks that failed to meet regulatory capital requirements.The ill-fated bank has been criticized for its allegedly illic
Social AffairsJune 24, 2011
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Korea set to approve world’s first stem-cell drug
Medication passes safety, quality testsKorea will approve the world’s first stem-cell medication as early as this month, the Korea Food and Drug Administration said Friday. The state-run drug regulator said Friday that Hearticellgram-AMI, a stem-cell medication for treating heart attack victims, passed all the required safety and quality tests early this week. It will be the world’s first therapeu
Social AffairsJune 24, 2011
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Lawmakers up ante against tycoons
The feud between parliamentarians and some of the nation’s corporate leaders escalated Thursday, as politicians threatened legal action if the businessmen defied their request to testify before parliament next week. Members of the National Assembly’s Knowledge Economy Committee decided to call to a public hearing it is organizing three of the nation’s major business organizations’ chiefs ― Huh Cha
PoliticsJune 24, 2011
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Seoul wins U.N. public service awards again
The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Friday that it has won the United Nations Public Service Awards for the fourth consecutive year.This year, Seoul won two United Nations awards in recognition of its efforts to help troubled teenage girls and establish an open tax appeals system for citizens, the municipal government said. Park Kyo-ok (left), deputy director general for complaints analysis of
Social AffairsJune 24, 2011
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N.K. may have grid-disabling nuke
North Korea may have developed a “super-EMP” weapon capable of emitting more gamma radiation than a 25-megaton nuclear weapon, a former CIA nuclear weapons analyst was quoted as saying by a U.S.-funded radio station Friday. Peter Vincent Pry told the Voice of America that a group of Russian nuclear weapons scientists approached him in 2004 to warn the U.S. that the technology to make the electroma
North KoreaJune 24, 2011
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U.S. envoy calls for revival of Kim Dae-jung’s unification vision
Through the late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung’s reconciliatory ideals, Seoul and Washington should work together on achieving a reunified, peaceful Korean Peninsula, U.S. Ambassador Kathleen Stephens said during a recent Memorial Day ceremony. Stephens published on her weblog the speech she gave at a national park in Jindo on June 6 Memorial Day. “On this Memorial Day … we honor the memory
Foreign AffairsJune 24, 2011
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Prosecutors snub GNP probe demand
Refuse to reinvestigate illegal deposit withdrawal, say found nothing to look intoThe prosecution seemed to refuse Friday to reinvestigate suspected illegal deposit withdrawals from a corruption-ridden savings bank despite demands from the ruling Grand National Party. “If we have dug up a mine and found nothing, we have to move to another mine. That’s the position of the prosecutor-general and the
Social AffairsJune 24, 2011
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Veterans see fruits of their sacrifices
Robert Hoyt (right), a Korean War veteran, and his grandson Quentin Backstrom pose for a photo after their visit to the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, Thursday.(Chung Hee-cho/The Korea Herald)PAJU ― Although it is his first visit to South Korea, Quentin Backstrom, a 16-year-old student from Philadelphia, is quite familiar with the country through the vivid memories of his grandfath
DefenseJune 24, 2011
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European firms offer internship to N. Korean defectors
SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- HSBC Bank and several other European companies in South Korea plan to offer a rare internship program to dozens of North Korean defectors in a move to give them work experience, an official said Friday. Under the initial program, 20 North Korean college students and graduates in the South are scheduled to work as interns at about 10 European firms for about three mon
Foreign AffairsJune 24, 2011
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Obama extends national emergency against N. Korea
WASHINGTON, (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Barack Obama issued a public notice Thursday to extend the national emergency in relation to North Korea that provides a legal and administrative basis for sanctions against the nuclear-armed communist nation.On the basis of the national emergency declared in 2008 under the National Emergencies Act, the Obama administration slapped tougher sanctions on Pyongy
PoliticsJune 24, 2011
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Leaders of N. Korea, Russia planning summit: reports
TOKYO/MOSCOW, (Yonhap) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il are planning to hold their first meeting later this month or early next month in the Russian Far East, news reports claimed late Thursday.Citing local officials and Russian public security officials, Kyodo News reported that the two countries are considering having a summit around next Thursday on the o
Foreign AffairsJune 24, 2011
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Presidential aide in U.S. for possible talks on N. Korea, FTA: source
SEOUL, June 23 (Yonhap) -- A key South Korean presidential aide on national security is visiting the United States for possible talks on inter-Korean relations and the ratification of a free trade agreement between Seoul and Washington, a source said Thursday.Kim Tae-hyo, a senior secretary to President Lee Myung-bak for national security strategy, left for the U.S. on Wednesday, the source added,
Foreign AffairsJune 23, 2011
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Police clear marathoners of doping allegations
CHUNCHEON, South Korea, June 23 (Yonhap) -- Police said Thursday that they have cleared a marathon coach and his athletes of doping allegations, wrapping up their probe two months before South Korea hosts the world athletic championships.The Gangwon Provincial Police Agency said it has examined records from a rehabilitation hospital where 19 athletes were treated, and found no evidence that they h
Social AffairsJune 23, 2011
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Court orders compensation for Samsung employees who died of leukemia
SEOUL, June 23 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court ordered compensation for the families of two young Samsung Electronics employees who died of leukemia, recognizing for the first time a link between leukemia and working in a computer chip-making line.The Seoul Administrative Court ruled in favor of the families, who requested the court annul the Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Services' 2009 decision
Social AffairsJune 23, 2011