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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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Govt. asks hospitals to mitigate impact of medical professors' absence
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S. Korea's working-age population to dip nearly 10m by 2044 amid low births
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Doggy patrol team on the move to protect their cities
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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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1,200 detained for date abuse
More than 1,200 date abuse perpetrators were arrested in Seoul from June-August, as police conducted a special crackdown on violence against women, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said Thursday.Police encouraged women to contact the agency whenever they felt their safety was threatened on both public and private property during the period. Some 7,810 women reported feeling unsafe via smartphone applications and by phone. Each case was handled by officers specializing in crime prevention. Al
Sept. 1, 2016
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Senior citizens slapped with prison terms for sex-related crimes
The Seoul High Court on Wednesday convicted an 80-year-old man with a six-year prison term for the attempted rape of a 92-year-old woman. The man was indicted in March for breaking into the house of his neighbor and trying to rape her. He was given six years in the first trial, but later appealed for a lighter term. The High Court dismissed his appeal and upheld the original verdict. The man was also sentenced to undergo 40 hours of a rehabilitation program against sexual violence. In February,
Sept. 1, 2016
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Man burgles school to fulfill urge to sniff female shoes
A 33-year-old man obsessed with sniffing female shoes has reportedly burgled an elementary school in search of more shoes, police said on Thursday. Gwangju Bukbu Police in Gwangju, South Jeolla Province, confirmed that they arrested a man, known only by his surname Park, on July 28 for allegedly breaking into an elementary school in northern Gwangju to steal six pairs of slippers belonging to female teachers. Stolen shoes belonging to female teachers are displayed in Gwangju Bukbu Police Statio
Sept. 1, 2016
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Man caught masturbating at women’s university
A man is being accused of “engaging in masturbation” at a women’s university, police said on Thursday. According to Seoul Seongbuk Police Station, the 31-year-old man, whose identity has not yet been revealed, violated laws against indecent exposure of genitalia and engaging in masturbation in public. (123rf)The immediate arrest of the offender came after police received reports from witnesses that a man was masturbating on a bench at Sungshin Women’s University in Seongbuk-gu, as graduation ph
Sept. 1, 2016
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Yongsan police runs mobile counseling booth for foreign women
Yongsan Police Department has been running a special counseling program every Friday evening this summer to help foreigners visiting Itaewon, one of the city’s most popular nighttime hangouts, feel safer.Throughout August from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. every Friday, the counseling service was provided via a mobile booth set up near areas populated with bars and clubs. The service is offered in English, German and Russian, and is especially catered to women.“There were about 40 foreign women in their 20s
Aug. 31, 2016
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Parents abandon children at restaurant after fight
Police said they are looking into a case in which a married couple in their 20s left their young children at a restaurant after a fight, only to take them back after police got involved.The Bundang Police Department in Gyeonggi Province said Tuesday that the couple got into a fight at a restaurant in Seongnam at around 8 p.m. on Aug. 27. The husband left the scene after paying the check. Soon after, the wife also left, leaving behind their two children, a boy aged 5 and a girl aged 2. Some half
Aug. 31, 2016
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30% of Koreans feel basic rights violated
Three out of 10 surveyed South Koreans said they have been violated of their basic rights protected by the Constitution at least once, a survey showed Wednesday.The Constitutional Court said it surveyed 6,552 citizens to ask whether they have experienced being violated of their basic rights guaranteed by the Constitution and 1,997 responded yes.The survey was conducted from July 15 to Aug. 15 on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of the July 17 Constitution Day. Most violation, or 30.5 percent
Aug. 31, 2016
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Mayor unveils Yongsan park plan
Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon on Wednesday denounced the central government’s overlapping plan to utilize the land in Yongsan following the scheduled relocation of the US troops next year. He said the city will continue to draw up detailed plans to create an urban park upholding the historical value of the site.After several rounds of talks stretching decades, South Korea and the US agreed in 2004 to relocate the US military headquarters in Yongsan to an expanded military base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeongg
Aug. 31, 2016
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Most dementia patients are non-drinkers
Heavy drinking has long been considered a major risk factor for dementia, but a new local study has found that almost 90 percent of South Korea’s elderly patients with the disease do not have a history of heavy drinking.The study, compiled by Konkuk University Medical Center’s department of neurology, conducted research on 554 patients with severe dementia and aged 65 or older. Among them, 81.9 percent were women, while 89.9 percent were nondrinkers. Only 9.1 percent were either drinking heavily
Aug. 31, 2016
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Why some men choose to enlist
PFC Park Ju-won, 31, recalls the day he suited up to serve as a private second class in the Army. His superior had just scolded him for yawning in front of him.“I thought to myself, ‘this guy’s far younger than me and he tells me off just because he enlisted a bit earlier?’ These are the moments I have conflicting feelings (about the military),” he said. He immediately then thought, he did not even have to join the military.All able-bodied Korean men are mandated by law to serve in the military
Aug. 31, 2016
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2 arrested for falsely outing sex workers on Instagram
Two women were arrested by police Tuesday for falsely exposing ordinary women and men as sex workers on social media. The Seoul Suseo police said that two women who were behind Instagram accounts Gangnam Patch and Hannam Patch had been arrested for online defamation. The now-defunct account of Gangnam Patch. (Instagram capture)The 24-year-old Gangnam Patch operator, surnamed Jeong, and the 28-year-old Hannam Patch operator surnamed Yang knew each other through online correspondence but were not
Aug. 31, 2016
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Court again rejects Korean A-bomb victims' suit against gov't
A Seoul court on Wednesday ruled in favor of the government and dismissed a compensation suit filed by South Koreans who survived the 1945 US atomic bombings in Japan.The Seoul Northern District Court turned down the suit filed by 141 victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, seeking 10 million won ($9,000) in compensation for each victim.They said the government neglected its duty to take active measures against Japan to settle the issue by referring the matter to an arbitration c
Aug. 31, 2016
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Senior judge summoned over alleged bribery
Prosecutors on Wednesday summoned an incumbent judge over allegations he received kickbacks from a local businessman who is at the center of a lobbying scandal that is rocking the country's legal sector.The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office said it called in the judge, identified only by his surname Kim, to ask questions over suspicions that he bought a used car owned by Jung Woon-ho, former chief of local cosmetics brand Nature Republic, at a below market price, and even got back some
Aug. 31, 2016
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Seoul to resume policing operations to protect Han River waters
South Korea will resume its policing operations next month to prevent Chinese fishermen from illegally entering neutral waters of the Han River estuary ahead of the peak season for crab fishing, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said Wednesday. In June, the joint military police unit composed of the Marine Corps personnel and police forces under the approval of the UNC Military armistice commission successfully completed its first round of operations near the Han River to expel Chinese fishermen, th
Aug. 31, 2016
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Another mass infection of hepatitis C reported in Sunchang
About 200 people have been infected with hepatitis C in southern South Korea, an official said Wednesday, prompting health authorities to conduct an epidemiological investigation.Some of the people had received dental treatment from unlicensed dentists in Sunchang, some 360 kilometers south of Seoul. The local official said this could be to blame for the outbreak.Repeated calls to South Korea's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seeking comment went unanswered.The latest outbreak came si
Aug. 31, 2016
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Korea confirms 3rd cholera infection
South Korea has confirmed an additional case of cholera, raising the number of people infected with the waterborne disease here to three, officials said Wednesday.A 64-year-old man residing on the southern island of Geoje is presumed to have contracted the disease from eating seafood earlier this month, the South Gyeongsang Provincial Government said.The regional government said the man received treatment at an intensive unit of a hospital in the southern port city of Busan after complaining of
Aug. 31, 2016
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Presidential official summoned over suspicions of orchestrating rally
State prosecutors said Wednesday they have summoned a presidential official earlier this week to investigate allegations he ordered a local civic group to hold a rally in favor of the government.The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office said it questioned Heo Hyun-joon on Tuesday over suspicions he ordered the right-wing Korea Parent Federation to hold a rally in January, supporting a landmark deal reached by Seoul and Tokyo in December.In April, a local weekly newsmagazine said Heo sent a
Aug. 31, 2016
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Korea's vice foreign minister pays respects to victims of Italian earthquake
South Korea's vice foreign minister visited the Italian Embassy in Seoul Tuesday to offer his condolences to the victims of the 6.2-magnitude quake that rocked the European country last week, the ministry said.The death toll from the earthquake, which hit central Italy on Aug. 24, reached about 290, with the number expected to rise as more bodies are being found in the rubble.The disaster also left thousands of people homeless.Vice Foreign Minister Lim Sung-nam expressed his deepest sorrow for t
Aug. 30, 2016
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Top court rules Samsung not liable for worker's leukemia death
South Korea's top court on Tuesday upheld a ruling by a lower court that South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. is not to blame for the leukemia death of one of its former employees at a chipmaking facility, citing a lack of evidence.In 2010, five people, including three bereaved family members of the three Samsung employees who died of leukemia after working at its semiconductor production lines, filed a suit with the Seoul Administrative Court to nullify the Korea Workers' Compensatio
Aug. 30, 2016
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Former professor who fed employee feces gets 8 years in prison
The former university professor who forcibly fed human feces to his pupil-turned-employee was convicted with eight years in prison Tuesday. The Supreme Court found Jang, 53, guilty of abusing his 30-year-old pupil for two years since March 2013.Jang was indicted in August 2015 under charges of feeding human feces to the victim, as well as beating him with an aluminum bat and spraying tear gas over his face which was covered by a plastic bag. (Yonhap)The first trial gave Jang 12 years in prison,
Aug. 30, 2016