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Seoul vows action over Naver's Line, Yahoo dispute
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Key S. Korean, USFK special operations officials to hold rare meeting amid NK threats
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Samsung doubles down on Vietnam
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In Beijing, S. Korean top diplomat aims to jumpstart ties with China
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Prosecutors summon pastor involved in Dior bag scandal
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Suspect behind murder of Korean tourist in Pattaya arrested
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NewJeans' members' parents complained to Hybe, email shows
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[Grace Kao] American racism against Stray Kids
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[Graphic News] Over 80% of people filing bankruptcy in Seoul in their 50s and older
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Welfare pledges lack consistency, viability
Welfare has emerged as a key issue on the campaign agenda of main presidential candidates Park Geun-hye and Moon Jae-in, but experts have criticized their pledges for lacking consistency and financial viability.According to Herald Corp.’s manifesto review panel, comprised of leading academics, candidates have painted rosy pictures of Korea becoming a welfare state, but they have listed only fragments of pledges in an attempt to woo voters without presenting realistic ways to implement their plan
Dec. 12, 2012
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Controversy over spy agency’s alleged election intervention
The ruling Saenuri party and main opposition Democratic United Party remain at loggerheads over whether state-run intelligence agency tried to illegally intervene in the presidential election slated for Dec. 19.On Tuesday, the DUP claimed that a National Intelligence Service employee was posting slanderous comments about the party’s presidential candidate Moon Jae-in on the Internet. “Recently we received a tip-off that NIS-affiliated psychosomatic information team had been reorganized into ps
Dec. 12, 2012
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Candidates’ economic plans short of viable solutions
Following is the first in a series of articles based on the assessment of the presidential manifestos by the Herald expert panel. ― Ed.The main presidential candidates Park Geun-hye and Moon Jae-in have dedicated much of their time to economic pledges, but experts say that their plans fall far short of being viable solutions. According to Herald Corp.’s manifesto review panel comprised of leading academics, the plans put forward by the Saenuri Party’s Park and the Democratic United Party’s Moon
Dec. 12, 2012
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Candidates battle it out to woo votes
In an increasingly close race to Cheong Wa Dae, candidates Park Geun-hye and Moon Jae-in rallied in the metropolitan region on Tuesday as they made their last minute pitches to the country’s biggest electorate ahead of the final public polls on Wednesday. Back at their campaign headquarters, their key economic policymakers took their cues from their television debate a night before and locked horns over their economic democratization pledges.Former independent candidate and professor-turned-poli
Dec. 11, 2012
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Turnout among overseas voters exceeds 70 percent
Over 70 percent of South Korean voters living overseas have cast ballots in the presidential election during a weeklong voting period, the National Election Commission said Tuesday.Of a total of 222,389 registered voters overseas, 158,235 or 71.2 percent have voted at polling stations set up at South Korean diplomatic missions Tuesday. The overseas voting began Wednesday last week and the final polling station closed at noon Korean time in Honolulu, Hawaii.The turnout was much higher than 44.8 p
Dec. 11, 2012
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U.S. half-heartedly accepted 1979 military coup
Dec. 12 marks the 33th anniversary of a military coup that gave power to then military strongman Chun Doo-hwan. ―Ed. It was a meeting that forever changed the course of South Korean history.On the afternoon of Dec. 12, 1979, a group of military officers from South Gyeongsang Province gathered in the office of a man who called South Jeolla his home. The office was located inside Gyeongbok Palace, which had housed the royalty of the Joseon Dynasty for over 600 years until it was conquered by the
Dec. 11, 2012
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‘Obama won’t budge unless N.K. acts first’
This is the 10th in a series of articles on the growing rivalry between the U.S. and China and its implications for the two Koreas and East Asia. ― Ed.The Barack Obama administration during its second term may not make any major shift in its policy toward North Korea unless the communist state “acts first in a positive fashion,” according to foreign policy expert Balbina Hwang.Pointing to Washington’s dismay over the North breaching the so-called Leap Day deal, Hwang, a professor at Georgetown U
Dec. 11, 2012
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Nearly 80% of voters to cast ballot in presidential election: poll
Nearly 80 percent of all voters in the country said they will vote in this year's presidential race, a poll conducted by the state election watchdog said Tuesday. The survey carried out by Korea Research Center on behalf of the National Election Commission on 1,500 people nationwide late last week showed 79.9 percent of all respondents saying they will definitely vote on Dec. 19. By age group, 74.5 percent of people in their 20s, 71.8 percent in their 30s and 78.3 percent in their 40s said t
Dec. 11, 2012
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Ex-P.M. Chung declares support for Moon
Former Prime Minister Chung Un-chan declared his backing for opposition presidential candidate Moon Jae-in on Tuesday, saying he believes he and the liberal contender can share his vision that bigger and smaller firms should seek shared growth.Chung held the country's No. 2 post in 2009-2010 under President Lee Myung-bak before serving as head of the National Commission for Corporate Partnership until earlier this year, a post that promotes "shared growth" between conglomerates and smaller busin
Dec. 11, 2012
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Lee keeps up verbal rampage against Park
Not even the car accident the day before could stop her. Lee Jung-hee of the left-wing Unified Progressive Party was back in her recalcitrant form on Monday night’s presidential debate. But this time, the 42-year-old Seoul National University-educated labor lawyer added more targets to her hit list.“Above the president exists the constitution, and above the constitution exist Lee Kun-hee and Chung Mong-koo,” Lee said in her opening statement, referring to the chairman of Samsung Electronics and
Dec. 10, 2012
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Rivals clash over chaebol reform
Three presidential candidates squared off over the conglomerate-led Korean economy in the second television debate Monday, as their campaigns revolve around economic democratization and government accountability, which are considered key to helping low-income citizens.Park Geun-hye of the Saenuri Party and Moon Jae-in of the Democratic United Party locked horns over whether the worsening polarization, growing household debt and squeezing of livelihoods were the result of the former Roh Moo-hyun
Dec. 10, 2012
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Park hangs on to lead over Moon
By Lee Joo-heePresidential candidate Park Geun-hye of the Saenuri Party held on to her narrow lead against Moon Jae-in of the Democratic United Party despite a closing gap following the endorsement of former independent runner Ahn Cheol-soo, polls over the weekend showed.The close race between the conservative and liberal flag-bearers is getting down to the wire as both camps have finalized their manifestos books and are now canvassing for votes in key battleground areas including the Seoul metr
Dec. 10, 2012
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Is Ahn Cheol-soo effect fizzling?
Recent polls indicated former candidate Ahn Cheol-soo’s star appears waning, adding woes to Democratic United Party nominee Moon Jae-in who put the reluctant ally at the center of his presidential campaign.With barely 10 days left before the presidential election, Moon is several percentage points behind Saenuri Party’s Park Geun-hye as his anticipation of a poll boost from Ahn’s assistance has yet to materialize fully. Observers say voter aspirations for political reform championed by the liber
Dec. 10, 2012
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Polls show Park's lead over Moon narrowing in presidential campaign
(Yonhap) -- The lead held by South Korea's ruling party presidential candidate over her opposition rival has narrowed ahead of the Dec. 19 election, public opinion surveys showed on Sunday. In a two-horse race, ruling Saenuri Party candidate Park Geun-hye's lead over Moon Jae-in of the main opposition Democratic United Party (DUP) has been whittled down, in some cases to within margins of error, according to the polls. This change has comeafter Ahn Cheol-soo, a popular software mogul, pledged
Dec. 9, 2012
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Park, Moon pitch political reform, chase swing voters
With 10 days to go before the presidential election, rival campaigns pitched their visions of political reform Sunday to grab undecided voters, who will determine an increasingly tight race.Opposition candidate Moon Jae-in laid out a plan to form a grand coalition government embracing a wide range of political forces, apparently targeting those who supported independent Ahn Cheol-soo but turned undecided after his withdrawal late last month.The struggling Democratic United Party nominee has gain
Dec. 9, 2012
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Park strives to woo Jeolla votes with big-name help
Saenuri Party presidential candidate Park Geun-hye is striving to woo the southwestern regions of Jeolla, the traditional liberal stronghold, pinning hopes on the weakening influence of regional loyalties on political support.No conservative presidential candidate has won 10 percent of support in Gwangju or North and South Jeolla provinces. But recent polls put her support at around 15 percent after she earned it from a number of big-name politicians hailing from the region and emphasized the fo
Dec. 9, 2012
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Scholar sees no major shift in Japan foreign policy
This is the ninth in a series of articles on the growing rivalry between the U.S. and China and its implications for the two Koreas and East Asia. ― Ed.The expected change of government in Japan after its Dec. 16 elections will not bring about a significant shift in foreign policy as the new leader will face domestic challenges of economic doldrums and political instability, a Japanese scholar said.Yasuo Suzuki, a former journalist and a professor at Toyama University of International Studies, s
Dec. 9, 2012
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Rocket launch aims to send message that N. Korea is nuclear power: Seoul gov't
North Korea's planned long-range rocket launch is aimed at sending the message that the reclusive communist country is a nuclear power, Seoul's Ministry of Unification said Saturday.The ministry said Pyongyang had revised its Constitution earlier in the year to blatantly point out that it is a country armed with nuclear weapons.It added that while the North claims that the three stage space delivery vehicle is designed to send a satellite into low orbit around the Earth, if the launch is success
Dec. 8, 2012
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Park to appear on cover of Time magazine
South Korea's ruling party presidential candidate Park Geun-hye will appear on the cover of U.S. news magazine Time, the party said Friday. The 60-year-old conservative candidate of the Saenuri Party is a leading contender in the Dec. 19 election, who could become the country's first woman president. The cover photo of Time's Dec. 17 Asia edition, published on the magazine's Web site, shows Park seated with her head turned to the right to face the camera.The cover headline reads "The Strongman's
Dec. 8, 2012
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Moon, Ahn join forces in Busan
Former independent candidate Ahn Cheol-soo joined Democratic United Party presidential candidate Moon Jae-in on the campaign trail for the first time Friday in Busan.The two stood before thousands of citizens at the underground square of Lotte Department Store in Seomyeon, waving as the spectators cheered on. “Ahn and I come here together before you. We have become one. We have decided to gather forces and by all means accomplish the administration change, and will continue to closely cooperate
Dec. 7, 2012