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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Over 60% of S. Koreans support W100m childbirth incentive: survey
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‘Inside Out 2’ adds four new emotions, explores teenage life
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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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N. Korea tests new submarine in naval drills
North Korea has strengthened the intensity of its naval drills this year by deploying a new submarine, prompting South Korea’s military to raise its level of vigilance, a government source here said Wednesday.“North Korea is on naval maneuvers near its bases off the East Sea and Yellow Sea by mobilizing five to six submarines, including a new Sango class submarine,” the source said on the conditio
North KoreaApril 6, 2011
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S. Korea to launch task force against radioactive water from Japan
South Korea will launch a task force to handle possible contingencies from Japan's recent discharge of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, an official said Wednesday. The decision came after a series of inter-agency meetings held earlier in the day, where officials from relevant ministries agreed to coordinate their response, the foreign ministry official said on the condition of anonymi
Social AffairsApril 6, 2011
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Radioactive water leak into sea stops at Fukushima
(Yonhap News)Radioactive water leak into sea stops at FukushimaTOKYO (AFP) - A leak of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant was stopped Wednesday, the operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced."Workers confirmed at 5:38 am (2038 GMT) that the water running off out of a pit had stopped," the embattled operator said in a statement.TE
PoliticsApril 6, 2011
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Travelers seek beauty in Gangnam
Half of Seoul’s plastic surgery and skincare clinics located in the districtThis is the first of a three-part article on medical tourism in Gangnam-gu, southern Seoul. ― Ed. Jenny Cheng, a Chinese-American living in Las Vegas, stopped over in Korea last month en route to China. It was a brief stay of less than six hours, but enough to receive laser wrinkle-removal thanks to several online consulta
Social AffairsApril 6, 2011
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Man kills high school friend after 30yrs of bullying: police
(MCT)Man kills friend after 30 years of bullying: police Seoul police have arrested a 47-year-old man on charges of stabbing his high school friend to death.Seoul Suseo Police Station said the man, surnamed Yoo, stabbed him with a 30 cm knife at a bar in Gangnam, southern Seoul, on March 31. The victim, surnamed Lee, died at the site.Yoo did not attempt to escape, said police. After being arrested
Social AffairsApril 6, 2011
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Berlusconi under pressure as sex trial looms
MILAN (AFP) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's trial on charges of sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of power opens in Milan on Wednesday after a dramatic build-up that has dented his popularity.The billionaire tycoon is no stranger to the dock after years of investigations and trials linked to his business interests but this will be the first time that his tumultuous personal li
PoliticsApril 6, 2011
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Girl claims she did not brush her teeth for 10 years
The girl who hasn't brushed her teeth for 10 years appeared on the popular TV program "Martian Virus."Everyone has a special habit. However, sometimes they get so carried away as to shock others. “Martian Virus,” a popular TV program from tvN based in Seoul, introduces those with habits or characteristics that are grotesque, but those they are proud of nonetheless.The show is to introduce a girl w
Social AffairsApril 6, 2011
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Ruling party drawing up new reunification policy
South Korea’s conservative ruling party said Tuesday it will set up new policies that actively prepare for reunifying with North Korea, as the communist state suffers from deepening food shortages and political instability. Although it would not openly admit it, the conservative Lee Myung-bak government in Seoul has been increasing measures preparing for sudden collapse of the Kim Jong-il regime i
PoliticsApril 5, 2011
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Lawmakers shrink from softer campaign rules
Four lawmakers have retracted support for a proposed revision bill which would make it harder for law-breaking elected officials to lose their seats ― with others thought likely to follow. Last Friday, Grand National Party Rep. Kim Choong-whan, along with lawmakers from other parties, submitted a revision bill to raise the minimum requirements before elected officials could be stripped of their po
PoliticsApril 5, 2011
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President Lee pledges to share river development experience with Malaysia
President Lee Myung-bak said Tuesday that his government will share its experience of dredging and developing the country’s four main rivers with Malaysia ahead of summit talks with visiting Prime Minister Mohamed Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak later in the day.“The Malaysian prime minister said he wished to take a look at the four rivers being developed,” Lee said during an Arbor Day event in Yeoju, G
PoliticsApril 5, 2011
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Seoul to foster N.K. defectors as unification force
Four-month program to train 1,000 young people from N. KoreaSouth Korea will open a program aimed at training young North Korean defectors to be resourceful workers after the reunification of the two Koreas, a civic group here said Tuesday.The four-month program, funded by the government, will train 1,000 young North Koreans, who are either college seniors or graduates, on topics such as social in
North KoreaApril 5, 2011
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Ahn Chul-soo to lecture at SNU
Ahn Chul-soo, a chair professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, has accepted a teaching offer from Seoul National University, an AhnLab official said Tuesday. Ahn, 49, is the founder of computer vaccine developer AhnLab, one of Korea’s first-generation IT startups. Ahn Chul-sooThe state-run university had earlier made an unofficial offer to Ahn for the chief position now
Social AffairsApril 5, 2011
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Seoul, Yeonggwang, Jeju get electric vehicle support
The Ministry of Environment on Tuesday designated Seoul, Jeju and Yeonggwang in South Jeolla Province as “leading cities” in promoting the use of electric vehicles across the country. Local authorities will provide residents with 168 electric vehicles and 251 recharging facilities. Korea plans to put more than 1 million electric cars in use by 2020. In Seoul, where electric buses already operate a
Social AffairsApril 5, 2011
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Money increasingly fingered as reason for divorce
Money can’t buy you love but it often makes a relationship go sour.Couple.net, a matchmaking agency, said Tuesday that the number of divorces caused by financial problems has sharply increased in the past decade. In its survey of 4,405 couples divorced between 1990 and 2009, the number of people divorcing because of money problems marked 7.1 percent between 1990 and 1999, but jumped to 12.7 percen
Social AffairsApril 5, 2011
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'Minimal’ radioactive material may reach Korea
Radioactive materials from Japan might hit South Korea this week, state-run agencies said Monday. Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety and Korea Meteorological Administration said that winds containing radioactive materials from Fukushima nuclear plants might reach Korea by Thursday. “As high pressures develop around Japan, atmospheres in the height of 1-3 km may reach Korea through the East China Se
Social AffairsApril 5, 2011
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S. Korea to crack down on crimes by foreign gangs
Police to launch 5-month campaignSouth Korea said Monday it will crack down on foreigner gang crimes, which are on the rise as the number of non-Korean nationals increase each year in this traditionally homogeneous country.The National Police Agency said it will launch a five-month crackdown from Tuesday on foreign gangsters who are known to be expanding their influence in foreigner-populated area
Social AffairsApril 5, 2011
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S. Korean base in Afghanistan hit by rocket attack
A base for South Korea's aid workers and troops in Afghanistan was attacked with rockets earlier this week, an official at Seoul's foreign ministry said Monday. Two rounds of rocket-propelled grenades landed on a parade ground inside the base in Charika, a city in the northern Afghan province of Parwan, with two other rounds landing outside of the base, the ministry official said, asking not
Foreign AffairsApril 4, 2011
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Two U.S. soldiers sentenced to suspended prison terms for beating taxi driver
UIJEONGBU (Yonhap) -- A South Korean local court on Monday sentenced two soldiers of the U.S. Forces Korea to two-year suspended prison terms for beating a taxi driver last year. The American soldiers, identified only by their initials J and C, were charged with injuring a cab driver who had refused to take them to Camp Red Cloud in Uijeongbu, just north of Seoul, in June last year. The reaso
Social AffairsApril 4, 2011
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Seoul boosts ‘practical control’ over Dokdo
Construction of ocean research station to begin in April in waters near isletsFrom planting trees to building installations and selling bits of land to ordinary citizens, South Korea is eying several long-term plans aimed at strengthening its sovereignty to counter Japan’s repeated claims over its easternmost islets of Dokdo. Japan strengthened its claims the Dokdo islets in its revised textbooks
PoliticsApril 4, 2011
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Private chopper with two people aboard crashes north of Seoul
A private helicopter crashed in the low hills of Dongducheon, Gyeonggi Province, on Monday while transporting supplies for a steel power grid in the hills, the police said. The police are working to find the exact site and cause of the crash in the city located some 40 kilometers north of the capital of Seoul. They are also working to confirm the safety of a pilot and one other passenger ab
Social AffairsApril 4, 2011