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Yoon, Lee end first talks with differences, agree to meet more
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What is Hybe’s next move?
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China outpaces Korea in smaller OLED shipments for 1st time
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[Grace Kao] Hybe vs. Ador: Inspiration, imitation and plagiarism
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[Herald Interview] Mom’s Touch seeks to replicate success in Japan
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Police to open alleged stalking probe over pastor over Dior bag scandal
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'Queen of Tears' finale sets record viewership ratings as tvN's most-watched series ending
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[News Focus] Lee tells Yoon that he has governed without political dialogue
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Seoul to deploy more military doctors to fill med prof void
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Liberal bloc moves to rewrite student rights ordinance
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Korea to build new Chinatown in capital region
South Korea will build a new Chinatown near Seoul that will serve as an international shopping and tourism hub, authorities said Wednesday.The Chinatown, expected to be over 2.3 million square meters in size, will be built in Pyeongtaek, some 70 kilometers southeast of Seoul, according to the Yellow Sea Free Economic Zone (YSFEZ) authority.The YSFEZ is one the country's several free economic zones (FEZs) located near the capital area. The project, proposed by a special purpose company (SPC) esta
May 4, 2016
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Gov't to conduct full-scale probe into biocides
South Korea's government said Tuesday it will conduct a nationwide investigation into all biocides circulated in the country amid growing public outcry against the South Korean unit of the British consumer product firm Oxy Reckitt Benckiser. Oxy is currently being probed by state prosecutors over its toxic humidifier sterilizers that have been cited for causing many deaths and illnesses. The Ministry of Environment said it will establish a formal management system to prevent similar incident
May 3, 2016
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[Graphic News] Number of illegal residents surges in Jeju
With the rising number of foreign visitors to Jejudo Island, the number of illegal residents in the southern resort is also surging, statistics showed Tuesday.In recent years, nearly 3 million foreigners have visited the island each year, with 85.3 percent of them being Chinese who can enter without a visa, as of 2015.The number of illegal immigrants in Jejudo has rapidly increased from 282 in 2011 to 371 in 2012, 731 in 2013, 1,450 in 2014 and 4,353 in 2015, according to the Justice Ministry.Wi
May 3, 2016
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Upper half of dismembered body found in Daebudo
The upper half of a body matching a lower half found on Sunday was discovered on Gyeonggi Province’s Daebudo Island on Tuesday. On Sunday, a tourist had discovered the severed lower-half of a male body in a trench, naked except for the blanket and the gunny sack in which it was wrapped. (Yonhap)More than 900 police had searched the area with drones and boats, finally finding the upper half of the body in a gunny sack. The Ansan Danwon police, which is in charge of the case, said the victim’s fa
May 3, 2016
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Japanese student sues Korean cosmetic surgeon
A Japanese high school student has sued a Korean cosmetic surgeon for using photos of her taken before and after her surgery without her permission. The student, aged 18, had suffered an extreme case of depression due to dissatisfaction with her looks. She had even attempted suicide. (123RF)In 2014, while attending a school in North America, she briefly visited Busan, Korea, accompanied by her parents for nose and eye cosmetic surgeries. They left the country after explicitly asking the hospit
May 3, 2016
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ACRC to address ‘corruption' in public firms
The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission has agreed with six state-run organizations to review their bylaws and amend what it views as “corruption-prone factors,” officials said Tuesday.The state-run anticorruption body on Monday concluded a memorandum of understanding with the Korea Land & Housing Corporation, Korea Rural Community Cooperation, Korea Gas Corporation, Korea Airports Corporation, Small Enterprise and Market Service and Social Security Information Service. “The purpose of t
May 3, 2016
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Emergency cares offer help after suicide attempts
In 2013, Lee Eun-byeol, a nurse at Mokpo Jung-Ang Hospital in Mokpo, South Jeolla Province, received a 15-year-old patient who weighed only 35 kilograms. The teenager had just been admitted to the hospital’s emergency unit after cutting her wrist in an attempt to end her own life.And it wasn’t the teen’s first attempt. She was reportedly suffering from depression after being constantly bullied by her classmates at school. Her mother also had mental health issues, while her father was physically
May 3, 2016
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Constitutional Court dismisses review on deportee detention
The Constitutional Court on Tuesday dismissed the request for review on the constitutionality of the South Korean government holding deportees in protection centers for an unlimited duration.The 5-4 decision thereby upheld the constitutionality of the immigration law that allows the authorities to keep illegal residents until their repatriation. Illegal residents who are caught during clampdowns, or while committing crimes, are sent to designated shelters until their deportation. The period of s
May 3, 2016
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N. Korean defectors face problems seeking jobs due to accent
Many North Korean defectors have experienced difficulties finding jobs in South Korea because of their accent and the way they speak, a survey carried out by a local human rights watchdog said Tuesday.The poll of 1,400 North Korean defectors aged 15 years and older was conducted by the Institute of Unification Studies of Ewha Womans University at the request of the National Human Rights Commission last year.When asked about the most difficult problem in regards to employment, 26.8 percent of the
May 3, 2016
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No. of illegal aliens in S. Korea tops 210,000
The number of illegal immigrants in South Korea surpassed the 210,000 mark last year, three times the total reported for neighboring Japan, government data showed Tuesday.Illegal immigrants living in South Korea reached 214,187 last year, according to the Ministry of Justice. Corresponding figures for Japan stood at 62,818. The number of illegal immigrants has been increasing steadily from 183,106 in 2013 to 208,778 in 2014, along with the number of tourists who visit the country using the no-vi
May 3, 2016
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Man indicted over illegal entry into gov't complex
Prosecutors said Tuesday they have indicted a 26-year-old South Korean man on charges of breaking into a government complex to tamper with exam results. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office said the man, identified only by his surname Song, is accused of unauthorized entry into the government complex in central Seoul and manipulating the results of the civil service examination he took.According to prosecutors, Song illegally entered the building a total of five times after he stole th
May 3, 2016
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[EXCLUSIVE] LGBT advocacy groups to file petition against Christian party
Civic groups in support of sexual minorities are set to file a petition against a Protestant-affiliated party in late May amid growing controversy over the party’s campaign pledges.The groups advocating the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in South Korea began to collect signatures online on Tuesday, hoping to lodge the petition with the National Human Rights Commission of Korea on May 24. There are a flyer reading “Christian Libertarian Party is Human Rights Violation Party! Sto
May 3, 2016
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Seoul city official commits suicide
A public official of the Seoul city government took his life in a motel room by intentional carbon monoxide poisoning, Monday. The police said the 39-year-old surnamed Park had worked as a 7th grade civil servant for two months, before breaking into tears in front of his mother complaining of his work being “too tough” and disappearing shortly after. His mother reported him as missing to the police, who tracked the location of Park’s cell phone and found his body at a motel located in Jegi-dong,
May 3, 2016
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Teacher loses job for insinuating paid dates
A public school teacher in Busan was removed from his position after allegedly insinuating paid dates with minors. According to the Busan Metropolitan City Office of Education on Tuesday, the teacher, in his 50s, told his pupils he had “dated a young foreign girl” in the past, after which more than 10 female students alerted the school authorities that they felt sexually humiliated as “potential dates.”The teacher defended his case, saying that he had only told the story of his first love, howev
May 3, 2016
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Korea in the ’50s through a U.S. soldier’s eyes③
These are the last batch of photos The Korea Herald received from the U.S. university student Brendan Donley, whose great-uncle served in the U.S. army just after the Korean War and helped rebuild the war-ravaged country in cities of Busan and Susaek between 1953-54. Take a look. By Lim Jeong-yeo (kaylalim@heraldcorp.com)Below are the links to the previous articles with more photos.Korea in the 50s through a U.S. soldier’s eyes②Korea in the ’50s through a U.S. soldier’s eyes①
May 3, 2016
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U.S. soldier rescues women and children from fire
A U.S. airman rescued six people including three children from a burning building in Osan, Gyeonggi Province, Saturday, by rallying the public to hold up a blanket for the trapped occupants to jump onto. (Facebook capture)Master Sgt. Daniel Raimondo, upon seeing the burning building outside Osan Airbase, urged the people on the street to help hold a blanket while convincing the three mothers to throw their babies and then themselves from the fourth floor window.A video of the rescue was posted o
May 3, 2016
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Local retailers receptive to joint compensation for victims of humidifier sterilizers
Local discount chains that had sold toxic humidifier sterilizers indicated Tuesday they will work with Oxy Reckitt Benckiser, the maker of the product that caused the greatest harm, to compensate the victims.Ata Safdar, CEO of Reckitt Benckiser Korea, apologized on Monday for selling the deadly sterilizers and proposed that other makers of similar products, namely discount chains Lotte Mart and Homeplus, work with the company on joint compensation. Officials of the two retailers said they would
May 3, 2016
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Murky law school admission system comes under fire
Criticism has been sparked over the law school admission system after the government’s nationwide survey found clues of nepotism, with the Education Ministry also coming under fire for imposing light punishment against the schools.The Education Ministry said Monday that it found a total of 24 cases in which law school applicants revealed the occupations or social positions of their parents to allegedly take advantage of it in the admission process. Such information in five cases allowed the admi
May 2, 2016
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Korean-Chinese priest presumed to have been killed by N.K. security agents
Three North Korean security agents might have killed an ethnic Korean priest who was found dead in a Chinese border town last week, the head of a group of South Korean abductees' families said Monday.The Chinese national, only identified by his surname Han and known as a supporter of North Korean defectors, was found dead on Saturday in a northeastern Chinese town near the border with North Korea.Han is believed to have been murdered by three North Korean agents who were dispatched to the Chines
May 2, 2016
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Alcohol, civilian clothing permitted for cadets outside schools
The nation's military, naval and air force academies have decided to allow their cadets to wear civilian clothes and drink alcohol when they are off campus, authorities said Monday.A military official said the three academies have revised school regulations banning cadets from wearing civilian clothing and drinking liquor last year and have been implementing the new rules since March this year.But those cadets who are younger than the legal drinking age of 18 still cannot drink alcohol or wear c
May 2, 2016