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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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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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[Graphic News] Number of coffee franchises in S. Korea rises 13%
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S. Korean children, teens grow taller, mature faster than before: study
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Some junior doctors are returning: Health Ministry
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Army takes group action against Hybe for neglecting BTS
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[Robert J. Fouser] AI changes rationale for learning languages
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[Today’s K-pop] Stray Kids go gold in US with ‘Maniac’
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Woman dangling from power lines rescued by residents holding blanket
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Koreans more concerned about health: report
South Koreans tend to feel disproportionately that they are unhealthy despite their long average life expectancy among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member countries, state-led research showed Friday.According to the report by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, 35.1 percent of Koreans aged 15 years and over deemed their health condition to be “good.” That was about half the OECD average of 69.2 percent. Only Korea and Japan scored less than 40 percent
Jan. 22, 2016
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Dr. Cho Su-jin included in Marquis Who’s Who
Pediatrician Dr. Cho Su-jin has been listed in the 2016 edition of Marquis Who‘s Who, a U.S.-based publisher of biographical information. Dr. Cho Su-jin (Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital)Marquis Who’s Who, with 115 years of history, is one of the top three biographical publishers, along with American Biographical Institute and the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England.Cho, who heads the intensive care unit for newborns at Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, has been
Jan. 22, 2016
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Koreans weighed down by excessive health concerns
South Koreans feel they are suffering from bad health despite having one of the longest life expectancies in the world, a report by a state-run think tank showed Friday.According to the report by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, 35.1 percent of South Koreans over 15 said they are in good health. This is well below the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development average of 69.2 percent, and significantly lower than the 80-90 percent levels found in the United States, C
Jan. 22, 2016
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Korean watchdog probing Volkswagen over advertising
South Korea's antitrust watchdog has opened a formal investigation into suspicions that Volkswagen AG misled consumers with false and exaggerated advertisements on their vehicles that have been cited for emissions cheating, a source said Friday.The source at the Fair Trade Commission said Volkswagen is under investigation because it sent out ads claiming its diesel vehicles passed U.S. and European emissions tests in flying colors, and in particular, the Euro 5 standard."The ads are misleading a
Jan. 22, 2016
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Court confirms revocation of progressive teachers' union's legal status
An appeals court on Thursday upheld a lower court's ruling that a progressive teachers' union is not a legitimate labor group because its members include fired teachers.In October 2013, the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union filed a lawsuit with the Seoul Administrative Court against a government's decision to outlaw the KTU due to the union's repeated refusal to deny membership to nine fired teachers.Under the law, dismissed teachers are not eligible to join a trade union.The Seoul Hig
Jan. 21, 2016
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Yongin determined to take lead in environment, gender issues
In 1996, Yongin was largely a farming region surrounded by mountains. Now, the city has established itself as one of the fastest-growing cities in South Korea, with a population of nearly 1 million. It’s home to Everland and Caribbean Bay, the nation’s most popular amusement and water parks, 10 university campuses and some of the most significant museums and galleries in the country -- including the Ho-Am Art Museum and the Nam June Paik Art Center. An image of Yongin Techno Valley (Yongin Cit
Jan. 21, 2016
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Elementary schoolers want to be chefs, star athletes
The top dream jobs among young students in South Korea are to be an entertainer, star athlete or other professional in sports and art, a survey showed Thursday.It marked a stark contrast to former generations who mostly wished to become the president (1970s, '80s) or a doctor (1990s).According to a survey by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs on 456 fourth and sixth graders in elementary schools, 40.5 percent of respondents said they wanted to become athletes, artists or entertain
Jan. 21, 2016
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Seoul holds off Shilla’s hanok hotel project
Hotel Shilla’s third attempt to obtain a permit to build a traditional-style hotel in central Seoul was once again mired in a deadlock by Seoul City on Thursday.The Seoul Metropolitan government said it reserved the decision to approve the company’s request to ease regulations for the project envisioned at a location designated as a development-restricted area.The company had sought to build a hanok hotel at Jangchung-dong in Jung-gu district, a neighborhood near the historic Fortress Wall of Se
Jan. 21, 2016
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Low-income Koreans more suicidal than richer people
South Koreans in the low-income bracket think about committing suicide much more than people at higher income levels, a report showed Thursday.According to the report by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, one out of 15 low income earners has thought about killing themselves in the past year, 4.3 times higher than those in higher income brackets. The low income bracket refers to those who earn less than 60 percent of the median income for all Koreans. The degree of depression felt
Jan. 21, 2016
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Lotte executive gets suspended jail sentence in construction worker's death
An executive director of Lotte Engineering & Construction Co. was given a suspended jail sentence Thursday for neglecting safety measures at the construction site of its skyscraper in Seoul leading to the death of a worker.The Seoul Eastern District Court sentenced the 57-year-old executive in charge of the construction project to eight months in prison, suspended for a year, for involuntary manslaughter.Two other defendants who supervised the site received shorter jail terms with a year of susp
Jan. 21, 2016
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Appeals court upholds stripping teachers’ union of legal status
The Seoul High Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of the government’s decision to strip the Korea Teachers and Education Workers’ Union of its legal status, dealing it yet another blow in its two-year legal fight. The left-leaning group has been engaged in a bitter battle with the Labor Ministry since October 2013, when it was no longer deemed a legal entity. The ministry cited a violation of a labor law clause that bans dismissed education workers from joining trade unions. According to the Educat
Jan. 21, 2016
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Pets no longer considered ‘waste’ under new law
Pet owners are no longer required to dispose of the bodies of their beloved pets in the trash, as a revised animal protection law came into effect Thursday. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, pets treated at animal cremation facilities will no longer be classified as waste under the revised law. Animals not treated at cremation facilities will still be subject to the waste management law, which requires pet owners to dispose of the bodies as waste.Before the law wa
Jan. 21, 2016
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Korea's power demand hits new high amid cold wave
South Korea's power demand soared to an all-time high on Thursday as people turned up their heaters amid a severe cold wave, the government said Thursday.The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Korea Power Exchange said electricity demand rose to 82.97 million kilowatts as of 11 a.m., breaking the previous record of 82.12 million kilowatts set two days earlier.The spike came as the average temperature for all of South Korea fell below freezing, with Gimhwa in Cheorwon County, 88 kilom
Jan. 21, 2016
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Korea to focus on structural, labor reform to fuel growth in 2015
South Korea will focus on pushing forward much needed structural reforms this year in order to create quality jobs for the younger generation and strive to revive domestic demand and exports as part of overall economic policy plan, the government said Thursday."We will do our best to create jobs by producing tangible results of structural reform and economic renovation," the finance ministry said in a follow-up of the 2016 economy policy plan released last week.It said the measures are aimed at
Jan. 21, 2016
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Court acquits South Korean for following pro-North Twitter account
A local court has acquitted a 73-year-old former journalist accused of following a Twitter account praising North Korean ideology, court records showed Thursday.The Seoul Western District Court found the defendant, identified only by his surname Lee, not guilty of following the account of North Korea's main propaganda website, Uriminzokkiri, which means "only by Korean ourselves."Prosecutors indicted Lee on charges of following the account and posting pro-Pyongyang writings on his blog in Novemb
Jan. 21, 2016
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Four in 10 Korean households unprepared for old age
Approximately four in 10 South Korean households have no concrete plans to cope with life after retirement, a report showed Thursday.The report by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs on circumstances facing senior citizens showed 38.5 percent of local households are unprepared for old age, while those who claim they are ready expect difficulties in maintaining current living standards."Many South Koreans don't have plans for life after retirement because they have to educate their
Jan. 21, 2016
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Court upholds jail sentence of ex-parliamentary chief over harassment
A local court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of a former parliamentary leader accused of sexually harassing a golf caddie.The appeals department of the Chuncheon District Court sentenced Park Hee-tae to six months in jail with a one-year suspension for inappropriately touching a 24-year-old female caddie several times at a golf course in Wonju, Gangwon Province, some 132 kilometers southeast of Seoul, in 2014. Park led the National Assembly from 2010 to 2012.The court also ordered Park, 77,
Jan. 20, 2016
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Koreans nabbed in Vietnam for running online gambling ring
A group of South Koreans operating an illegal high-stake sports gambling website in Vietnam has been apprehended in the Southeast Asian country, the South Korean police said Wednesday.The seven-member ring, including a 39-year-old surnamed Joo, were to be extradited to Seoul later in the day by the local police in Hanoi, the National Police Agency said. The extradition is the first since South Korea and Vietnam agreed to strengthen cooperation in investigations last month.South Korean authoritie
Jan. 20, 2016
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Gov't to increase student enrollment for vocational high schools
The government will expand the ratio of student enrollment for vocational high schools up to 30 percent of all high school students in the country in a bid to resolve youth unemployment. In a report to President Park Geun-hye, the education ministry said Wednesday it will also decrease by 160,000 the enrollment quota of the nation's university students by 2022 by restructuring universities nationwide.Instead, it will increase the enrollment of students majoring in technology and engineering scie
Jan. 20, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Professor stands trial for defaming ‘comfort women’
Only a week after a Seoul court ordered a university professor to compensate the nation’s sex slavery victims on defamation charges, she appeared in court again on Wednesday to face a criminal trial. Park Yu-ha, a professor at Sejong University, was brought to the court after prosecutors indicted her in November on charges of defaming former “comfort women” -- the euphemistic term for Korean women coerced into sex slavery for the Japanese military during World War II -- with her book “Comfort W
Jan. 20, 2016