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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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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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S. Korean children, teens grow taller, mature faster than before: study
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Army takes group action against Hybe for neglecting BTS
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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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[Graphic News] Number of coffee franchises in S. Korea rises 13%
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Some junior doctors are returning: Health Ministry
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Ador CEO's request for exclusive right to terminate NewJeans' contract with Hybe refused in February
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Naver will consider company benefits in deciding on selling Line shares: CEO
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Woman dangling from power lines rescued by residents holding blanket
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Opposition leader visits Japanese embassy over quake
The leader of South Korea's main opposition party on Monday visited the Japanese Embassy in Seoul to express deep consolation for Japan's enormous human and property losses caused by massive earthquake and tsunami."I express my deepest consolation to the Japanese people," Sohn Hak-kyu, chairman of the Democratic Party (DP), said in his meeting with Masatoshi Muto, Japan's ambassador to South Korea
March 14, 2011
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S. Korea, Philippines defense chiefs hold talks
Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin discussed bilateral military exchanges and cooperation in the defense industry with Philippine Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin in Seoul on Monday, officials said.Gazmin, 68, arrived here Sunday for a four-day schedule. During his stay here, he is scheduled to visit Seoul National Cemetery, the monument in Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi Province, which marks the participation o
March 14, 2011
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Lee sees start of building of UAE reactor
President Lee Myung-bak said on Monday that Korea will make the utmost efforts to ease concerns over the safety of the nuclear power plants that it builds in the United Arab Emirates.“I am confident that cooperation between the two nations in the construction of nuclear reactors will further solidify bilateral relations,” Lee said at a groundbreaking ceremony for initial works at the proposed nucl
March 14, 2011
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Cheong Wa Dae probing presidential jet fault
South Korea’s presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Monday it was investigating a maintenance problem in the country’s presidential jet after it was forced to make an unprecedented emergency landing.The plane, a Boeing 747-400 leased from Korean Air, bound for the United Arab Emirates carrying President Lee Myung-bak and First Lady Kim Yoon-ok, flew back less than half an hour after taking off on
March 14, 2011
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S. Korea joins rescue work, readying more assistance
S. Korea sends 102-member rescue team to devastated areasSeoul has accepted a request to divert liquefied natural gas to Japanese power companies to help fight power shortages in the wake of Friday’s earthquake.Several of Japan’s nuclear power plants have been out of commission following the earthquake that ravaged the country’s northeastern coastal region.The state-run Korea Gas Corp. said it wou
March 13, 2011
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Officials in Shanghai to probe sex scandal
A government investigation team arrived in Shanghai, China, Sunday, to investigate the sex-for-favors scandal involving several South Korean diplomats and a Chinese woman, officials said.The high-profile probe into the scandal involving at least four of South Korea’s elite officials is to continue through Saturday. The case has seriously eroded public trust in diplomats’ ethical standards.The dipl
March 13, 2011
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Lee says S. Korean troops in UAE crucial for bilateral ties
ABU DHABI -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak stressed that the role of South Korean troops in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is important not only for the ties between the two sides but also for South Korea's long-term national interests.(Yonhap News) He said that in that sense, each of the soldiers is like an "ambassador." "The UAE is a special country (for South Korea). South Korea a
March 13, 2011
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60 Korean nationals remain unaccounted for after Japan earthquake: ministry
In the wake of Japan's biggest recorded earthquake two days ago, the South Korean government grappled Sunday with searching for missing nationals and supporting relief efforts in the disaster-hit northeastern region, Seoul'sforeign ministry said. Local people are out on a street to inspect the aftermath of a massive tsunami triggered by March 11 earthquake, in Tagajo, near Sendai, northern Japan,
March 13, 2011
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Top state auditor Yang takes office
South Korea on Friday filled the post of chief state auditor that had been vacant for more than five months amid political setbacks and the disgraceful exit of a former nominee.President Lee Myung-bak gave a letter of appointment to Yang Kun to lead the Board of Audit and Inspection. Lee earlier emphasized the agency’s role in his “fair society” campaign and drive to fight corruption and moral haz
March 11, 2011
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Judicial reform plan faces uphill battle
By Kim So-hyunPlans to launch a special agency to probe crimes committed by prosecutors and judges face a rough ride in the National Assembly amid a vehement backlash from the prosecution and judiciary circles.The judicial reform package passed a six-person parliamentary subcommittee Thursday. It calls for abolishing the controversial central investigation unit at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office t
March 11, 2011
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Massive quake causes surge in telephone traffic between S. Korea, Japan
The massive earthquake that hit Japan's northeastern region has caused telephone traffic to surge between South Korea and its neighbor that effectively made placing calls impossible, the country's largest telephone operator said Friday. KT Corp. said that from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. cellular and landline phone traffic shot up 91 times and 41 times, respectively, compared to normal traffic. Calls
March 11, 2011
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Lee bound for UAE Saturday
President Lee Myung-bak departs for the United Arab Emirates Saturday to hold summit talks, attend a nuclear power plant event and visit the South Korean troops deployed in the Middle Eastern country.Upon his arrival in Abu Dhabi Saturday, Lee will head to the eastern town of Al Ain to meet some 130 Korean troops on a two-year mission to help train UAE‘s special forces. The contingent named “Akh,”
March 11, 2011
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Blue House raps Samsung chief's comments over profit-sharing system
Senior presidential officials expressed regret Friday over Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee's thinly veiled criticism against a proposal to introduce a profit-sharing system between conglomerates and their subcontractors here as part of efforts to balance their growth. It is unusual for top Cheong Wa Dae officials to take direct aim at a powerful head of South Korea's family-owned conglo
March 11, 2011
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Japan PM under pressure over donation
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's embattled Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Friday admitted to receiving donations from a man believed to be a foreign national, the same violation which claimed the foreign minister his job."I thought he was a Japanese national as he had a Japanese name," Kan told a parliamentary committee after a newspaper report said that Kan's fund-management body had taken donations from a Sou
March 11, 2011
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Clapper warns of further provocations from N. Korea
WASHINGTON (Yonhap) -- The chief U.S. intelligence official Thursday did not rule out chances of North Korea provoking South Korea further after the North's attacks on a South Korean border island and a warship last year. Speaking at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, James Clapper, national intelligence director, said, "It is also our assessment at this time that there is a low proba
March 11, 2011
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N. Korea may have developed nukes for missile payloads: intel chief
WASHINGTON (Yonhap) -- North Korea may have already developed nuclear warheads that are small enough to be mounted on missiles and aircraft, a senior U.S. intelligence official said Thursday. "The North may now have several plutonium-based nuclear warheads that it can deliver by ballistic missiles and aircraft as well as by conventional means," Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess, director of the Defense
March 11, 2011
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S. Korean diplomat in Japan's Niigata resigns over corruption: official
A South Korean diplomatic mission chief in Japan has resigned over allegations that he misappropriated government money, an official said Friday, adding to concern about decaying discipline of diplomats amid a sex scandal rocking the mission in Shanghai. The chief of South Korea's consulate general in Niigata, identified only by his surname initial Y, quit last month after an investigation into
March 11, 2011
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Gov. Kim faces potentially damaging probe
Prosecution probes alleged illicit funding involving sponsors of Gyeonggi governorGyeonggi Governor Kim Moon-su, one of the ruling bloc’s strong presidential hopefuls, is facing a potentially critical setback as prosecutors are expanding their inquiries into allegations of illicit political funding involving several of his sponsors.Prosecutors are investigating allegations that employees of Gyeong
March 10, 2011
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Second sex scandal rocks “Ministry of Love Affairs”
A diplomatic sex scandal has erupted out of the Korean Embassy in Mongolia, coming just days after a similar scandal involving a Chinese woman shook the nation, according to news reports in Seoul.A high ranking diplomat at the Korean Embassy in Ulan Bator was reported to have had an inappropriate relationship with a local woman, the government official was quoted as saying on Wednesday. When the o
March 10, 2011
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World pays attention to S. Korean diplomats’ sex scandal
The South Korean diplomat sex scandal involving a Chinese woman has been making waves across the world. (Courtesy from Seoul Shinmun)The sex-for-favor scandal, in which three S. Korean consuls in Shanghai are alleged to have given confidential government information to their 33-year-old mistress, is rocking South Korea. And now the international media have picked up on the scandal.On some foreign
March 9, 2011