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Court refuses injunction on medical school expansion
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Why Korean crime stories typically feature nameless, faceless perpetrators
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Is NewJeans headed for a long 'break'?
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Jimin of BTS, actor Song Da-eun suspected to be dating, again
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S. Korea, Cambodia forge strategic partnership
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Police raid popera singer Kim Ho-joong's house over hit-and-run suspicions
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[KH Explains] Hyundai-backed Motional’s struggles deepen as Tesla eyes August robotaxi debut
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Trump may like to 'solve' N. Korean nuclear problem if reelected: ex-official
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What's next for the government's push in quota hike?
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Parents arrested over child's frozen, mutilated body
BUCHEON -- A couple was arrested Friday after their child was found dead and mutilated, police said.Police discovered the boy's body earlier in the day at the home of an acquaintance of the father in Incheon, west of Seoul.During questioning, the father said he mutilated and froze the body after his son died, recently transferring it to his acquaintance's home. He denied, however, that he killed his son.The acquaintance said he did not know what was in the bag that carried the body, police said.
Jan. 15, 2016
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Korea quarantines livestock to contain foot-and-mouth outbreak
South Korean authorities have announced a weeklong ban from Saturday on any movement of pigs from North Jeolla Province to other regions in efforts to contain the recent foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, which has resulted in the culling of over 10,000 pigs.The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said the ban would apply on all 1.2 million pigs in the area, and is effective from Saturday to midnight Jan. 23. It follows a daylong provisional quarantine of the area issued Wednesday. (Yo
Jan. 15, 2016
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Prosecutors seek 20 years for Itaewon murder suspect
Arthur John Patterson (Yonhap)Seoul prosecutors sought a 20-year jail term Friday for a Korean-American charged with murdering a South Korean college student nearly two decades ago, known as the Itaewon murder case. Arthur John Patterson, a 35-year-old U.S. citizen, was extradited to Korea on Sept. 23 to face a new trial on charges of murdering Cho Choong-pil, who was stabbed to death in 1997 at Burger King restaurant in Itaewon, a multicultural district frequented by expats in Seoul. At the cri
Jan. 15, 2016
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Ulsan to improve dolphin conditions
Ulsan’s south district office mapped out a plan Friday to enhance the welfare of dolphins locked in the city’s aquarium amid escalating criticism from environmental groups of its attempt to cover up their deaths. (Yonhap)Apologizing for hiding a series of deaths of dolphins at the city’s Whale Life Experience Museum, the office vowed to improve the living conditions for dolphins in captivity and temporarily suspend their import from Japan. Under the plan, it will make the conditions in the tanks
Jan. 15, 2016
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Active Korean Catholic priests likely to exceed 5,000 by this year
The number of Catholic priests in active service will likely exceed 5,000 by the end of this year, according to the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea on Friday.Issuing the latest version of who's who on Catholic priests in Korea, the conference said the total number of Koreans honored to the priesthood stood at 5,899 by the end of September last year.Of the total, 536 died and 427 quit the priesthood to return to secular life, leaving the number of active priests at 4,936.The CBCK said the t
Jan. 15, 2016
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4 family members killed in fire in Seoul
A fire has torn through at an apartment in southern Seoul, killing four family members, police and fire officials said Friday.The blaze erupted at around 10:50 p.m. on Thursday on the third floor of the apartment in the affluent Gangnam district before being put out 20 minutes later, they said.The officials said three people were found dead when firefighters arrived at the scene, while a fourth person was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead.Three severely burned bodies were
Jan. 15, 2016
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Court rejects Korean A-bomb victims' suit against gov't
An appeals court on Thursday ruled in favor of the government and dismissed a compensation suit filed by South Korean atomic bomb victims, who were conscripted into the Japanese military or drafted to work in Japan during its 1910-45 colonial rule.Upholding a lower court's ruling, the Seoul High Court turned down the suit filed by 79 members of an association of Korean victims of the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings.The plaintiffs filed the suit in August 2013, representing some 2,600
Jan. 14, 2016
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Noise complaints rise in winter
Noise complaints among neighbors living in multistory complexes increase drastically during wintertime due to increased time spent indoors, a report showed Thursday. Seoul City analyzed 1,097 cases of noise complaints since 2014, when it launched a team to mediate conflicts among neighbors. Citizens hold a rally calling for stricter measures to prevent conflicts between residents over noise in June in Seoul. YonhapStarting with 47 complaint cases in October 2014, the number increased to 48 in N
Jan. 14, 2016
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Campaign launches to cancel Korea-Japan sex slavery deal
Hundreds of progressive civic groups launched an umbrella organization on Thursday to demand Seoul and Tokyo invalidate the landmark deal over Japan’s sexual enslavement of Korean women. The umbrella organization, which encompasses 383 civic, religious, lawyers’ and students’ groups as well as 300 individuals, announced its plan to campaign against the deal at home and abroad in a press conference held in central Seoul. “We gathered here to invalidate the agreement, demand renegotiations with
Jan. 14, 2016
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Koreans stress most about finances
Financial stress, such as unemployment and financial insecurity postretirement, is the biggest cause of anxiety among South Koreans, a new report showed Thursday. Yonhap The report, published by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, surveyed a total of 5,000 school children aged 14-18, as well as 7,000 adult Koreans aged 19 or older. Researchers showed that 43.7 percent of all surveyed adult Koreans were anxious because of financial insecurities. The biggest portion of the adult pa
Jan. 14, 2016
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Former 'comfort women' declare recent deal with Japan null
A group of former "comfort women" declared Wednesday the nullification of the recent South Korea-Japan agreement on the wartime sexual slavery victims, urging the Seoul government to make a "proper" resolution.The agreement, reached on Dec. 28, has sparked a wave of public protests among victims and their supporters, who claim Japan got the better end of the deal by obtaining Seoul's promise to settle the issue once and for all if Tokyo fulfills its commitments.Under the deal, Japan apologized a
Jan. 13, 2016
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Korea to set traditional herbal medicine standards
South Korea’s traditional herbal medicine -- currently sold in packs of prepared herbs or decocted herbs in drinkable pouches -- will be made into tablets and syrup as part of the government’s efforts to standardize their quality, the Health Ministry announced Wednesday. The announcement came just a day after the biggest group of traditional doctors announced that they would file a lawsuit against the ministry if the government does not guarantee their right to use nontraditional medical equipme
Jan. 13, 2016
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Professor ordered to compensate sex slavery victims
A South Korean court Wednesday ordered a university professor to compensate the nation’s aging sex slavery victims who were forced to work for the Japanese military during World War II, for publishing a book that allegedly contained false information about the women. Park Yu-ha, a professor at Sejong University, has been ordered to pay a total of 90 million won ($74,719) -- 10 million for each of the nine surviving victims who filed the suit against her last year -- in compensation. In her cont
Jan. 13, 2016
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Controversy grows over legitimacy of sex slavery deal
Two weeks after South Korea and Japan reached a landmark deal over Japan’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II, lawyers and scholars remain split over the legitimacy of the bilateral settlement. A progressive lawyers’ group claimed that the deal was invalid according to international law, while other experts pointed out that the agreement between two governments carries legal obligations. Some also questioned the agreement as conflicting with domestic laws. “Putting aside the
Jan. 13, 2016
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Korean scholar ordered to compensate wartime sex slaves
A local court on Wednesday ordered a South Korean scholar to compensate nine women who were sexually enslaved by Tokyo during World War II by giving them 10 million won each for mental distress that they suffered because of her controversial book.The Seoul Eastern District Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, including Lee Ok-seon, 87, who filed the suit against Park Yu-ha, a professor of Seoul's Sejong University, in June 2014 for her book "Comfort Women of the Empire."The book, released in
Jan. 13, 2016
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Elderly poverty increases in Korea
The income and expenditures of the average Korean nose-dives around retirement age by roughly one-third, driving up the country’s already-high poverty rate of senior citizens, a recent report by a state-run think tank showed. The average Korean senior, aged 65 or older, made roughly 63.93 percent of the average Korean's income in 2014, while their spending was 63.37 percent, according to Sung Hye-yeong, a researcher from the National Pension Research Institute. The figures were in stark contras
Jan. 13, 2016
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E-commerce fraud on social media on rise: statistics
A 25-year-old officer worker surnamed Kim purchased a handbag from a blogger in October last year. After communicating with the dealer via a social network, she sent the money. The handbag, however, was never delivered. She attempted to reach the dealer through the social media site, but no responses came. Similar cases of fraud have been on the rise, as more e-commerce take place on social media. 123rfAccording to statistics released by Seoul Metropolitan Government on Wednesday, e-commerce f
Jan. 13, 2016
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City pushes for zero-energy residential buildings
Seoul City will build zero-energy high-rise residential buildings as part of its efforts to join the carbon cut move, officials said Wednesday. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said it agreed with the Transport Ministry to build two zero-energy apartments each in Seongbuk and Gangdong districts on a trial basis. More than 2,900 households will benefit from the new project. Zero-energy buildings refer to construction projects that minimize the use of energy and maximize insulation, while generat
Jan. 13, 2016
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Few male Seoulites use paternity leave: report
The majority of fathers in Seoul have not used their paternity leave benefits, showing little improvement in sharing the child care burden over the past decade, a report showed. YonhapAccording to the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s gender report, only 3.2 percent of Seoul fathers used paternity leave benefits, although over 70 percent of them were familiar with childbirth and paternity leave schemes. This shows only a 1.9 percentage point rise in fathers using benefits compared to 2004. The c
Jan. 13, 2016
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Teacher receives 18-month jail term for sexually abusing six students
A local court on Wednesday handed down a jail term to a 54-year-old high school teacher for molesting six of his female students from 2014 to 2015. The Seoul Western District Court sentenced the defendant, whose identity was withheld, to 18 months in prison and ordered him to take 120 hours of a therapeutic program for sexual offenders.The public school educator was indicted in May 2014 after investigative authorities launched a probe into the school's five male staff members, including him, for
Jan. 13, 2016