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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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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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Samsung chip business back on track, logs W1.9tr operating profit in Q1
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Shinsegae faces showdown with investors over SSG.com's delayed IPO
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Hopes rise for possible Gaza truce deal
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Ex-pro baseball player who killed debtor appeals sentence
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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Envoy to Vietnam named first vice foreign minister
President Lee Myung-bak named South Korea’s ambassador to Vietnam, Park Suk-hwan, the new first vice foreign minister Tuesday in a reshuffle that also replaced four other vice-ministerial posts and three presidential secretaries, a presidential spokesperson said.Park, 56, a career diplomat, entered foreign service in 1979 and has since worked mostly for Asian affairs. His previous overseas posts w
PoliticsFeb. 8, 2011
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S. Korean nuclear envoy to visit China for talks on N.K.
South Korea’s chief nuclear envoy will visit China later this week for talks with his counterpart on North Korea and its nuclear programs, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.Wi Sung-lac plans to meet with Chinese nuclear envoy Wu Dawei on Thursday to discuss the nuclear standoff and other North Korea issues as well as strategies to deal with them, the ministry said in a statement without elaboratin
North KoreaFeb. 8, 2011
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Junk food diet linked to lower IQ: study
PARIS (AFP) ― Toddlers who have a diet high in processed foods may have a slightly lower IQ in later life, according to a British study described as the biggest research of its kind.The conclusion, published on Monday, comes from a long-term investigation into 14,000 people born in western England in 1991 and 1992 whose health and well-being were monitored at the ages of three, four, seven and eig
InternationalFeb. 8, 2011
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GCC Days highlights need for ties
Not many people know about the Gulf Cooperation Council or what it stands for but everyone knows about its member states and their importance in the development of this nation.To shed light on various issues, the GCC is teaming up with leaders from both sides to participate in two-days of seminars.“The relations between the GCC and South Korea are wide and comprehensive and encompass all fields of
Foreign AffairsFeb. 8, 2011
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Military seeks to add 2,000 to marines
The South Korean military is seeking to add between 1,200 and 2,000 marine troops to its numbers as part of efforts to better defend five northwestern border islands, multiple government sources said Tuesday.The plan to increase the number of marine troops ― which currently stands at around 27,000 ― could lead to the numbers of Army, Navy and Air Force troops also being readjusted, according to th
PoliticsFeb. 8, 2011
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Navy plans to deploy ship-to-surface missiles in West Sea
The South Korean military plans to deploy ship-to-surface cruise missiles with a range of more than 500 kilometers this year on 4,500-ton KDX-II class destroyers operating in the West Sea, a military source said Tuesday.The indigenous Cheonryong missile is capable of attacking key strategic ground targets in North Korea, including its military command posts and surface-to-ship missile bases on the
PoliticsFeb. 8, 2011
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Fewer S. Koreans view reunification as ‘essential’
While a growing number of South Koreans are empathetic toward North Koreans, fewer view reunification as essential, a local study showed Tuesday. Some 12 percent of people here currently view reunifying with communist North Korea as an “essential national goal,” a sharp decline from the 58 percent of people who felt this way in 1995, according to analysis released by a North Korea expert here. On
Social AffairsFeb. 8, 2011
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Illegal protests become less frequent
Illegal violent protests have significantly declined over the past couple of decades, especially since the 2008 inauguration of the Lee Myung-bak administration, police data revealed Tuesday. According to the National Police Agency, an average of 12,200 demonstrations had taken place in each of the past three years. Of them, 56 cases, or 0.46 percent, were illegal violent protests ― a drastic decr
Social AffairsFeb. 8, 2011
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Petition to block free school meals starts
Conservative civic groups will start a signature-gathering campaign Wednesday, and aim to have a plebiscite vote on the controversial free school meals at schools issue, Seoul city officials said Tuesday.The Commission for Anti-Welfare Populism, an association of some 160 conservative civic groups, filed a petition Tuesday ahead of collecting signatures from Seoul citizens. Despite Seoul City Coun
Social AffairsFeb. 8, 2011
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One-third of imprisoned N.K. defectors in for narcotics
More than a third of imprisoned North Korean defectors here were sentenced for drug trafficking, highlighting a lack of screening and reintegration policies for defectors, according to the Korean Institute of Criminology on Monday.Professor Jang Joon-oh, director of the International Center for Criminal Justice, said 17 of the 48 defectors incarcerated in the South were charged with trafficking op
Social AffairsFeb. 8, 2011
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New heads for National Museum, Cultural Heritage Administration
Choe Kwang-shik, the current director-general of the National Museum of Korea, has been designated as the new administrator of the Cultural Heritage Administration, replacing Yi Kun-moo, who was removed from the position Tuesday. Choe Kwang-shik, new administrator of the Cultural Heritage Administration. (Yonhap News)Choe, who holds a Ph.D. in history from Korea University, had served as the presi
PoliticsFeb. 8, 2011
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Fair-haired island no blonde joke in Lithuania
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) -- Empowering blondes or stereotyping them? The jury is out on a Lithuanian company that plans to build a ``fantasy resort'' staffed only by blondes in the Maldives. Olialia (pronounced Oh-la-LA) has created a business empire in Lithuania, using its troupe of glitzy models with platinum hair to market just about anything from potato chips to pop music. There's Olialia pizz
InternationalFeb. 8, 2011
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Protest held near Berlusconi's villa in Milan
A demonstrator wears a mock mask of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, dressed as a pink rabbit with handcuffs during a protest outside Berlusconi's private residence, in Arcore, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011, to demand Premier Silvio Berlusconi's resignation following allegations he paid for sex with a 17-year-old girl and used his office to cover it up. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)MILAN (AP) _ Critics of
InternationalFeb. 8, 2011
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Public puffing increasingly difficult in Korea
Choi Hak-young, a 37-year-old office worker in Seoul, grew up seeing people smoking just about everywhere in South Korea, including at subway stations and even on city buses and airplanes.Today, South Korea is no longer a smokers’ haven. The social environment of smoking has changed so much over the years, and smokers like Choi too often find themselves unwelcome almost everywhere in the country.
InternationalFeb. 8, 2011
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France to return ancient Korean books by May
Some 297 volumes of Korean royal books taken by France during their war in the 19th century will be returned by the Paris government by May, the Seoul government said Monday. One of the Joseon-period royal books set to return from France (Yonhap News)South Korea and France officially forged a pact Monday over the return of centuries-old “Oegyujanggak books” as follow-up to French President Nicolas
PoliticsFeb. 8, 2011
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Koreas start preliminary military talks: official
Military officers from South and North Korea Tuesday began preliminary talks to lay groundwork for a higher-level meeting, a defense ministry official said, the first meeting since the North's deadly bombardment of a border island. "The working-level military talks started at around 10:00 a.m. as scheduled in the Demilitarized Zone," said an official at the Defense Ministry.The colonel-level talks
North KoreaFeb. 8, 2011
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Koreas set for first military talks since island attack
Military officers from South and North Korea were set to hold working-level talks on Tuesday to lay the groundwork for a meeting of higher-level officials, the first such cross-border meeting since the North's deadly artillery attack on a border island last November, officials here said. The colonel-level talks to be held at the border truce village of Panmunjom separating the two Koreas are a
North KoreaFeb. 8, 2011
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Concerns rise that cull may cause disaster
Minister Lee says reckless burial of infected livestock may result in widespread contaminationThe reckless burial of cattle in an attempt to prevent the further spread of foot-and-mouth disease could trigger a massive environmental disaster, Environment Minister Lee Maan-ee said. The minister called for a thorough examination of the effect of the burials on the surrounding soil and environment to
Social AffairsFeb. 8, 2011
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Boat carrying 31 N. Koreans towed into South Korea
Thirty-one North Koreans crossed the tense sea border and arrived on a frontline South Korean island at the weekend, but it is unlikely they are defectors, the Seoul government said Monday. The North Koreans, consisting of 11 men and 20 women, arrived on South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island on a 5-ton fishing boat on Saturday. Their ship has been towed to a nearby port city for investigation, the South
PoliticsFeb. 7, 2011
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Police corroborate Somali pirate’s shooting charges
Investigators have corroborated charges that a Somali pirate shot the captain of a seized Korean freighter using ballistics evidence, maritime police in Busan said Monday. The evidence includes a bullet removerd from the injured captain and bullet traces on the ship’s wheel house.In addition, the rescued Korean crewmembers of the Samho Jewelry told police that they saw Arai Mahomed shoot the capta
PoliticsFeb. 7, 2011