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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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[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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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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UN chief virtually certain to get second term
Ban Ki-moon (Xinhua-Yonhap News)UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ The worst kept secret at the United Nations is that Ban Ki-moon wants a second term as secretary-general and will almost certainly get it, possibly this month.As he travels the world, working behind the scenes and publicly to help defuse crises and push for action on issues like climate change and women's rights, Ban has also been quietly lobby
June 6, 2011
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Outcome of defoliant probe expected late June
Probe team focuses on one area at U.S. baseThe allegations that a large amount of Agent Orange was buried at Camp Carroll, a U.S. base in Waegwan, North Gyeongsang Province, in 1978 are expected to be confirmed after June 21, experts said Sunday.A Korea-U.S. joint probe team has been investigating the camp, a key logistical support center for the U.S. troops here, since late last month following t
June 5, 2011
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Prosecutors rage over politicians’ move to close unit
Summoning of suspects in savings bank scandal delayed after parliamentary subpanel’s decisionProsecutors geared up for a dogfight with the assemblymen over the weekend after a parliamentary subcommittee agreed to push ahead with its legislation plan to remove a central investigation unit of the state prosecution.A six-member panel under the special legislative committee on judicial reform announce
June 5, 2011
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Lawmakers rebuke government over N. Korea disclosure
Lawmakers blasted the Cabinet Thursday over North Korea’s disclosure that the South had proposed in clandestine meetings to hold a summit with the North.On the second day of the parliamentary interpellation, the ruling Grand National Party called into question the administration’s covert approach to the North while keeping a tough stance overtly. The main opposition Democratic Party rebuked the go
June 3, 2011
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Lee, Park agree on party unity
President Lee Myung-bak and former ruling party leader Park Geun-hye agreed that the party should pay further attention to people’s livelihoods and promote in-party unity in order to win back public trust.The two leading powers of the ruling Grand National Party met at a luncheon on Friday, the first one-on-one meeting since last August. President Lee Myung-bak talks with Park Geun-hye, former cha
June 3, 2011
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President Lee morally responsible for savings bank scandal: PM
President Lee Myung-bak should take moral responsibility for a snowballing influence-peddling scandal in which a troubled savings bank allegedly bribed influential government officials and politicians to avoid punishment for its irregularities, his prime minister said Thursday."President Lee, who appointed top officials in charge of supervising the bank, is morally responsible for the scandal, not
June 2, 2011
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Financial intelligence chief grilled in graft probe
Prosecutors on Thursday questioned the chief of a state-run anti-money laundering agency over allegations that he accepted tens of millions of won in kickbacks from Busan Savings Bank. The interrogation came as they widened their probe into the bribery scandal involving savings banks. The ongoing investigation into who oversaw the savings banks’ corruption has already implicated an ex-governor of
June 2, 2011
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Lawmaker calls for stronger policy on Dokdo
Rep. Kang, says ‘silent diplomacy’ is no more than a passive responseKorea should strengthen its policies on Dokdo given the Japanese government’s active involvement in recent years, said the chairman of the parliamentary subcommittee on Dokdo issues.Rep. Kang Chang-il, together with Reps. Moon Hak-jin and Chang Se-hwan of the subcommittee, visited early last week Kunashiri Island, the largest amo
June 2, 2011
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Assembly grills Cabinet on N.K., savings banks
Lawmakers have blasted Cabinet members on the savings banks investigation and unofficial summit suggestions to North Korea during the four-day parliamentary interpellation which started Thursday.Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik, who served as chairman of the Board of Audit and Inspection in 2008-2010, denied any involvement in the slack supervision of savings banks during that time.The main opposition
June 2, 2011
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Parties pounce on savings banks scandal
Junior pro-Lee Myung-bak lawmakers of the ruling Grand National Party submitted on Wednesday a bill to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Busan Mutual Savings Bank’s irregularities, party officials said.Other savings banks, which were declared near bankrupt and suspended earlier this year along with the Busan bank, are also to be dealt with by the independent counsel, according to the b
June 1, 2011
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Panel calls for boosting sovereignty over Dokdo
The Korean government should focus on reinforcing its social and legal influence over Dokdo, lawmakers and experts said in a parliamentary forum.A seminar was held at the National Assembly on Wednesday by the parliamentary Dokdo Guardians, a group of lawmakers that was launched last month.The discussion was attended by Reps. Suh Sang-kee, Won Hye-young and Park Sun-young and a number of local expe
June 1, 2011
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NK says Seoul offered summit talks
NK says Seoul offered summit talksNorth Korea said on Wednesday the South Korean government last month proposed holding a series of summit talks.A North Korean spokesman told state news agency KCNA that the proposal was offered during a secret meeting on May 9. Seoul offered holding three rounds of summit meetings in late June, August and next March, it added. Seoul also proposed a ministerial-lev
June 1, 2011
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Seoul proposed 3 inter-Korean summits: N.K.
Anchor of the North Korean state broadcasting agency announces official statement. (Yonhap News)Ministry says North distorting South’s ‘real intentions’North Korea said Wednesday South Korea proposed to hold three meetings between their leaders and pleaded for any gesture to appease South Koreans still angry over last year’s attacks via an unofficial communication channel.Pyongyang’s powerful Nati
June 1, 2011
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Queens may can Korean-only signs in K town
Queens, a district of New York, is to regulate foreign language signs by requiring English translations.Two Republican councilmen, Peter Koo from Flushing and Dan Halloran of Whitestone, are planning on introducing the controversial bill.When the new law is enforced, shop owners are forced to change their signs so that at least 60 percent is written in English. Some streets in areas like Flushing
June 1, 2011
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Rival parties on collision course over bank scandal
Both sides say the other should take responsibility for savings bank problemsThe presidential office and opposition lawmakers are accusing each other of being associated with a corruption scandal involving savings banks that has led to the arrest of a former top state auditor for bribery.A senior Cheong Wa Dae official on Tuesday went on a counteroffensive against Park Jie-won, former floor leader
May 31, 2011
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DP vows to thwart Korea-U.S. FTA
The main opposition Democratic Party has decided to oppose the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement bill in the June parliamentary plenary session and to urge the government to begin a renegotiation.In preparation for the June session, which is to kick off Wednesday, DP lawmakers gathered Tuesday in a daily workshop to discuss pending issues.“We refuse to ratify the current free trade bill, which is th
May 31, 2011
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Lee to meet Park on Friday
Meeting comes as GNP is embroiled in leadership crisisPresident Lee Myung-bak will meet with the ruling party’s factional leader and strongest presidential hopeful Rep. Park Geun-hye this Friday, Lee’s aide said Tuesday, 10 months after their previous meeting in August last year.During the luncheon meeting with Lee, the former chairwoman of the Grand National Party will discuss the outcome of her
May 31, 2011
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Rocket falls outside Korea’s Afghan base
Another rocket fell late Monday outside an Afghanistan base where South Korean aid workers and troops are stationed, but there were no injuries, Foreign Ministry officials said Tuesday.There have now been four attacks in May alone, with the latest apparently targeting the base in Charikar City in the northern Afghan province of Parwan. A total of nine attacks have occurred so far this year near or
May 31, 2011
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Netizens to form party to cut tuition
Promoters open Internet page for ‘Education Revolution Party’With heated debates underway over college tuition cuts, netizens are preparing to form a new political party to take the matter into their own hands.The “Educational Revolution Party” webpage was recently opened by a Twitter user referring to himself as “Rainman,” but is currently under construction (http://www.edu4korea.net/).“We plan t
May 31, 2011
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Army officer brought N.K. nuke site soil to South: reports
After 1999 mission, N.K. abducted Lt. Col. Jeong, then released him in dealA South Korean Army intelligence officer infiltrated areas near North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear complex and brought samples of soil and water there to the South in 1999 for the government to assess its nuclear activities, news reports said Monday.Later, the lieutenant colonel, identified only by his surname Jeong, was abduct
May 30, 2011