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Controversy rekindled over when to name criminals, suspects
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Seoul transit pass for travelers to be available starting July
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Hybe-Ador CEO conflict gets messier
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Battery makers ramp up efforts to diversify graphite supply chain
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Prosecutors to summon pastor who allegedly gave Dior bag to first lady
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‘Monk’ DJ spreading Buddhism goes global
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[LLG] Unseen inheritance: Trauma of transnational adoption 'trickles down' to adoptees' children
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Court's ruling set to shape path of medical school expansion
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Loans of self-employed swell 50% in four years
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1 passenger dies after falling overboard on cruise ship
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Arsonist gets 2 yrs for burning down ex-company
A man was sentenced to two years in jail on Wednesday for setting his workplace ablaze in the belief that his boss was intentionally avoiding him to not pay him.According to the Seoul High Court, the 37-year-old was working at a sofa manufacturing company in Gyeonggi Province when he decided to quit his job following a dispute between him and a coworker. He naturally requested the boss pay him for the work he had done so far, but was enraged when the boss, after saying he would first make other
April 13, 2016
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Magnitude-2.1 quake hits southern city in S. Korea
A 2.1-magnitude earthquake struck areas near South Korea's southern city of Gimcheon on Wednesday, the weather agency said. The quake was recorded at 5:28 a.m. some 28 kilometers southwest of Gimcheon, North Gyeongsang Province, located in the lower center of South Korea, the Korea Meteorological Administration said."No damage is expected from the tremor," the weather agency said. (Yonhap)
April 13, 2016
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UAE national suspected of having MERS
A female United Arab Emirates national is undergoing tests in Korea for Middle East respiratory syndrome, a local daily reported Wednesday, but she left the hospital for a few hours after reporting her symptoms. The woman, whose identity remains withheld, arrived in Korea on Friday, and on Wednesday at 2 a.m. she reported to Kangbuk Samsung Hospital in Seoul with a severe fever.(123rf)The medical staff identified her as possibly having MERS, however, before preliminary test results could come o
April 13, 2016
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For adoptees, DNA is game changer for finding roots
After living more than 50 years in denial of her Korean heritage, Katherine Kim had only one thing on her bucket list: to have a photo of her Korean mother.Adopted by a white American couple in California in 1961, Kim said she knows she had a better life in the U.S. than she would have had as a biracial child in Korea. But that didn't stop her from wanting to make peace with the first three and a half years of her life, which were spent here with her single mother and then at an orphanage."I fee
April 13, 2016
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[Graphic News] Seoul’s above 60 population soars: report
Seoul is aging rapidly, with the city’s population of those aged 60 and above expected to reach over 3 million by 2030, a report by McKinsey Global Institute showed Tuesday.The report said Seoul will be the eighth city in the world with the largest population in their 60s. In South Korea’s capital, this demographic group will make up 31 percent of the total population, showed the report. As of the end of 2015, 1.84 million of 10.02 million citizens in Seoul were aged 60 and over, or 18 percent o
April 12, 2016
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Premature births on rise in Korea
The proportion of newborns who need critical medical care, including premature babies, has been rising in South Korea since 2010, while general fertility rate has been going down in the country, a study showed Tuesday.According to the report released by the Health Insurance Policy Research Institute in the National Health Insurance Corporation, the number of newborns decreased in Korea from 425,786 in 2010 to 402,516 in 2014. However, the proportion of newborns who needed critical medical attent
April 12, 2016
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Celebrity campaigning gets mixed reactions
Well-known faces such as hallyu star Lee Young-ae and veteran singer Tae Jin-ah joined last-minute campaign efforts this week for Wednesday’s general election, drawing mixed reactions from voters.On Monday, actress Lee Young-ae, known for her role in the famous TV drama “Dae Jang Geum,” took part in ruling Saenuri Party’s Rep. Chung Jin-seok’s canvassing in South Chungcheong Province. Rep. Chung is an uncle of Lee’s husband, Chung Ho-young.Actress Lee Young-ae joins a campaign in support of ruli
April 12, 2016
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[HERALD INTERVIEW] 'Industries of the future require endeavors across disciplines'
Research institutes should provide opportunities to complement traditional department-based structures with multidisciplinary institutes to better tackle societal challenges amid the rapid growth of new-generation industries and various global challenges, said a president of one of France’s most prestigious science-oriented public institution. Jacques Biot, the president of Ecole Polytechnique“Mathematics and computer sciences tend to fertilize every other area, as research becomes increasingly
April 12, 2016
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[HERALD INTERVIEW] 'State's role crucial for ecosystem of innovative entrepreneurship
The government’s support plays a crucial role in building an innovative entrepreneurship ecosystem in the science technology industry, said a head of Israel’s leading college and an expert in psychophysiology of sleep disorders.“The government’s support is essential to transforming the discovery driven from the basic science research into practically applied products, and thereby, boosting the innovative entrepreneurship,” Peretz Lavie, president of Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Isr
April 12, 2016
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S. Korea, U.S. to hold strategic dialogue on N.K. denuclearization
South Korea and the United States will hold high-level strategic dialogue in Seoul next week to discuss ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation over North Korea's denuclearization and other security issues, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.Cho Tae-yong, deputy chief of South Korea's presidential National Security Office, will hold the second bilateral talks with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken here on Wednesday. The first strategic dialogue was held in February after Presidents Par
April 12, 2016
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Memorial observed to pay tribute to late Canadian missionary
Former Prime Minister Chung Un-chan, Canadian Ambassador to South Korea Eric Walsh and other participants paid tribute to a late Canadian missionary and medical doctor on Tuesday to mark the centennial of his coming to Korea.They placed flowers and burned incense in front of the grave of Frank William Scofield, who was part of Korea's independence movement against Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule, at the National Cemetery in Seoul. This year also marked the 46th anniversary of his death.Scofield --
April 12, 2016
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FM Yun warns of further N.K. defections
Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se warned Tuesday that last week's mass defection of North Korean workers from China may not be the last if Pyongyang continues to build its nuclear arsenal.Yun's remark comes four days after Seoul announced the arrival of 13 North Korean employees from a Pyongyang-run restaurant in China. It is rare for North Koreans to defect in such a large group."This appears to be an example indicating that such incidents may continue if the North Korean regime continues to make t
April 12, 2016
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Ex-chief of umbrella labor union indicted over alleged illegal rallies
Prosecutors said Tuesday they have indicted a former chief of South Korea's second-largest umbrella labor group on charges of holding unauthorized rallies.The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office said Shin Seung-cheol, former head of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), is accused of holding six illegal rallies from 2013 to 2014.Prosecutors said the 52-year-old, who led the union from August 2013 until December 2014, gathered some 3,000 protesters against rail privatization in
April 12, 2016
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Providing pension pay to foreigners after departure constitutional: court
The Constitutional Court has ruled in a 6-3 vote that the law stating that pension for foreign workers is to be paid upon their departure from the country is constitutional, court records showed Tuesday.In May 2014, foreign employees from Nepal and Uzbekistan brought the law, stipulating that their pension be paid to them within 14 days of their departure, before the constitutional court for a review, saying it violates their rights to receive insurance.Under the South Korean insurance system, a
April 12, 2016
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Korea, U.S. enter talks on mutual recognition of airworthiness assessment
South Korea has entered talks with the United States to forge an agreement to mutually recognize each other's airworthiness assessment of military aircraft, Seoul's military procurement agency said Tuesday.The negotiations began after the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) signed a deal with the U.S.' National Airworthiness Council on March 23. Under the deal, the allies will have a six-month assessment of each other's airworthiness approval process before deciding in late Septemb
April 12, 2016
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Korea calls U.N. attention to N. Korea's GPS jamming
South Korea has called the attention of the U.N. Security Council to North Korea's recent attempts to jam GPS signals in the South, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.In a letter addressed to China, the council's rotating president, Seoul said North Korea has been "generating electronic jamming signals that dangerously affect" GPS in South Korea."The GPS jamming by the DPRK is an act of provocation that poses a threat to the security of the Republic of Korea and undermines the safety of civil tra
April 12, 2016
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Japanese boycott McDonald's for Korean-style bow in commercial
Some Japanese consumers are boycotting McDonald’s for a commercial that depicts a Korean-style bow, a Japan-based English-language online publication said Friday. (YouTube capture)The commercial in question shows a McDonald’s employee politely bowing to customers before attending to their orders. While the commercial obviously intends to portray polite service, some Japanese viewers have found fault with the way the employee bows, with her hands clasped in front of her stomach, saying it appears
April 12, 2016
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A sibling fight leads to murder
A middle-aged woman was taken into police custody Tuesday on suspicion of murdering her younger brother. Gyeonggi Suwon Nambu police said that the 52-year-old is suspected of stabbing her brother aged 47 during an altercation, which led to his death. (123RF)The woman, surnamed Kim, had been staying with her younger brother’s family for a number of months. At the time of the alleged attack, Kim is said to have been under the influence of alcohol and angry at her brother’s usual disdainful attitu
April 12, 2016
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Park asks people to cast ballots for new parliament
President Park Geun-hye encouraged people on Tuesday to cast their ballots this week to ensure that the new parliament can serve the people and do its job."A new National Assembly should be born," Park said in a Cabinet meeting, adding the new parliament should devote itself to stabilizing the people's livelihoods and revitalizing the national economy.The chief executive's comments came a day before South Koreans go to polls to elect new lawmakers.Park has repeatedly accused the outgoing Nationa
April 12, 2016
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[Interview] Vitaliy Raskalov on his Lotte World Tower climb
Vitaliy Raskalov, 21, and Vadim Makhorov, 25, are the first -- and probably the only -- people to scale the 555 meter-tall Lotte World Tower, Korea’s tallest skyscraper, without permission. In a written interview with The Korea Herald on Monday, Raskalov, the more responsive of the duo, said that “Security at the Lotte Tower is very, very good” and that “It was complicated” to break through. A 7-minute-long YouTube video by the two shows exactly how they avoided the security. On the day of the
April 12, 2016