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[Weekender] Geeks have never been so chic in Korea
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N. Korea says it test-fired tactical ballistic missile with new guidance technology
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NewJeans members submit petitions over court injunction in Hybe-Ador conflict
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[News Focus] Mystery deepens after hundreds of cat deaths in S. Korea
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S. Korea's exports of instant noodles surpass $100m for 1st time in April: data
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[Herald Interview] Byun Yo-han's 'unlikable' character is result of calculated acting
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US military commander in S. Korea during Gwangju uprising dies
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[Photo News] Seoul seeks 'best sleeper'
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US expert says N. Korea might ignore Trump if he returns to White House
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[KH Explains] Why Korea's so tough on short selling
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Police to beef up war on sex crimes
The police said Monday they would increase manpower to fight sex crimes over the next three years after a series of sexual assault cases sparked widespread public concern.The National Police Agency plans to launch exclusive units for sex-related offenses at 250 police stations across the country and will dispatch a total of 879 police officers to the special investigative teams, officials said. So far, sex crimes have been handled by three separate units ― the public safety division for preventi
May 20, 2013
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More than a dozen teachers implicated in admission fraud
The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education announced on Monday that it detected cases of fraud in the admission process of two international schools here.More than a dozen teachers and faculty from the Younghoon and Daewon International Middle School were found to have tampered with applications to admit unqualified students, the office said.The education office has been conducting a special audit at the two special-purpose schools for elite students over alleged admission fraud since March.At t
May 20, 2013
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Prosecution raids Seoul police agency
Prosecution investigators raided the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency Monday as part of an inquiry into its alleged cover-up last year of a probe into intelligence agents’ illegal interference in the presidential election. More than 25 officials from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office searched the police agency’s cyber crime unit and seized documents, computer hard disks and other related materials. The cyber unit is accused of hampering the investigation led by the Suseo Police Stat
May 20, 2013
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Police parody of Psy’s ‘Gentleman’ goes viral
A police parody of Psy’s latest hit “Gentleman” has gone viral on YouTube, garnering more than 456,000 views since it was uploaded two weeks ago.The Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency posted the video titled “Gentle Cop” to promote a national campaign to fight violent crime. In the four-minute-long video, police officers dance in uniform to the song in various places, including a school, swimming pool and soccer stadium. Some officers also behave badly, mimicking Psy’s music video, such as by tea
May 20, 2013
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Controversial power-line works resume amid strong protests
The Korea Electric Power Corp. resumed work on the controversial high-voltage transmission towers in Milyang, South Gyeongsang Province on Monday amid strong opposition from residents.KEPCO restarted construction at six sites after eight months, but work was halted at four sites by early afternoon due to protesting residents. The project was approved by the government in November 2007 to link the Shin-Kori nuclear power plant in Ulsan to a substation in Changnyeong, South Gyeongsang Province, th
May 20, 2013
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Admission fraud widespread in Seoul's two major int'l schools
SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) -- A dozen officials at two prestigious international schools in South Korea have been caught falsifying documents to grant admission to unqualified students, the municipal education office said Monday. After a month-long special audit of Seoul's Younghoon International Middle School and Daewon International Middle School, the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education ordered the schools to punish faculty members involved in admission corruption, while referring 11 officials
May 20, 2013
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Justice minister vows to better protect marriage immigrants
Justice Minister Hwang Kyu-ahn vowed on Monday to step up efforts to eradicate domestic violence against marriage immigrants and their children.He outlined policies to better protect immigrants from bias, discrimination and violence in the sixth Together Day ceremony aimed at promoting multiculturalism. “We will make this year as the beginning year of preventing domestic violence against marriage immigrants in order to protect marriage immigrants and their children from bias and violence, and to
May 20, 2013
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Seoul on guard against Chinese bird flu
The Seoul government is enhancing monitoring of a new strain of deadly bird flu originating from China.Prime Minister Chung Hong-won inspected on Saturday Incheon International Airport’s passenger terminal and customs and ordered a beefing up of quarantine measures.Twenty additional officials as well as quarantine dogs will be placed at the airport to monitor travelers, according to the Prime Minister’s office.The foreign ministry has already issued a travel warning for those living in or travel
May 19, 2013
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Public see groping scandal harming running of country
A survey showed that around 80 percent of the public believed the alleged sexual assault by former presidential spokesperson Yoon Chang-jung would likely affect President Park Geun-hye’s state management. According to the survey conducted by private poll taker Mono Research last week, 76 percent of 1,191 survey participants agreed “his acts would inevitably affect state management of the current government” for either a short or long period of time. Another 22 percent agreed that “it might not h
May 19, 2013
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Law firm eyes compensation bill for Gaeseong companies
The country's largest law firm is preparing to draft legislation aimed at compensating companies that have taken a hit from the suspension of an inter-Korean industrial complex in North Korea, a law firm official said Sunday.The factory complex in the North's border city of Gaeseong has remained idle since early April as Pyongyang pulled all its workers from 123 South Korean companies there, citing South Korea's provocations."A task force of lawyers has started its research on the special compen
May 19, 2013
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Truck spills poisonous hydrofluoric acid
SIHEUNG-- A large container of hydrofluoric acid fell off of a cargo truck and spilled onto a road in Siheung near an industrial complex southwest of Seoul, police said Saturday. Police said the container fell off of the truck while it was making a right turn in a residential area, causing three lanes of the road to be covered with the acid. It said there were no immediate injuries caused by the accident, but the toxic acid spill encompassed at least 30 square meters of road leading to the
May 18, 2013
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Magnitude 4.9 quake occurred near Baengnyeong Island
A magnitude 4.9 quake occurred near waters off of Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea, marking the eighth time in a week that a tremor was reported in South Korea, the Korea Meteorological Administration said Saturday. The seismic event took place at 7:02 a.m. with the epicenter located 31 kilometers south of the island that is the northernmost of the West Sea that lie just south of the sea demarcation line that separates the two Koreas. The KMA said the quake was the sixth largest detected
May 18, 2013
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Korea honors May 1980 pro-democracy uprising
GWANGJU—Koreans on Saturday honored the 33rd anniversary of a popular uprising in the southern city of Gwangju that acted as the watershed event in the nation's transition into a democracy. The official event was attended by 2,500 people including President Park Geun-hye, senior government officials, political figures, related organizations and civic groups, and took place at 10 a.m. The ceremony, held at the May 18 National Cemetery where people killed by troops under Chun Doo-hwan are buri
May 18, 2013
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Defense ministry to build country's first trauma center
The country's first trauma center is expected to be built by 2015 to treat patients with severe external injuries, the defense ministry said Friday.Under the plan, the ministry and Seoul National University Bundang Hospital will jointly operate the center to be built inside the Armed Forces Medical Command in Seongnam, just south of Seoul.The center is expected to be equipped with 160 beds and treat both military and civilian patients, the ministry said."Officials from the defense ministry, the
May 17, 2013
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[Newsmaker] Ministry halts Janssen’s Tylenol production
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced Thursday that it would order Janssen Korea to halt production of five drugs including Children’s Tylenol syrup and file a criminal complaint against the company.The measures were drawn up as a result of an audit conducted after it was revealed the company delayed recalling Children’s Tylenol syrup last month despite being aware that the product may contain unsafe levels of acetaminophen, its main active ingredient, violating the Pharmaceutical Affai
May 16, 2013
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Korea urged to embrace diversity
Korea should recalibrate its multiculturalism policy toward a greater acceptance of cultural diversity and broader social integration of ethnic minorities, a senior official said Thursday.“It is the time to change the policy direction so that Koreans can better embrace differences and accept the identities of ethnic minorities here as part of efforts to create a truly inclusive society,” said Chung Hae-moon, secretary general of ASEAN-Korea Center at an international forum on multiculturalism in
May 16, 2013
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Nine fake eye condition to dodge draft
The military recruitment agency has referred nine people suspected of feigning an eye condition to dodge military service to the military prosecution, officials said Thursday.The Military Manpower Administration said they attached “Kimite,” a popular motion sickness patch, below their eyes to have their pupils enlarged temporarily before their physical checkups so that they could pretend to have eye problems.They applied the patch for around six months in 2009 and 2010, and claimed that their ey
May 16, 2013
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Military, Microsoft end dispute over software fees
The Defense Ministry and Microsoft have signed a pact on bilateral technology cooperation, putting an end to their dispute over the pricing of the firm’s software products used by the ministry, Seoul officials said Thursday.“Microsoft has agreed not to demand the fees for us using its software any more. Resolving the dispute, the two sides have agreed to cooperate on defense information and technology,” a ministry official told reporters, declining to be named.“We anticipate Microsoft’s technolo
May 16, 2013
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Top court recognizes marital rape as crime for first time
The nation's top court ruled Thursday that forced sex with a spouse constitutes rape, recognizing marital rape as a crime for the first time.Upholding a lower court's verdict, the Supreme Court sentenced a 45-year-old man, whose identity has been withheld, to three years and six months in prison for forcing his wife to have sex with him by threatening her with a lethal weapon. Spousal rape has not been seen as a crime in South Korea since the Supreme Court denied such a crime in the 1970s, excep
May 16, 2013
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Education woes seen as Achilles‘ heel of Brazil
Education woes seen as Achilles‘ heel of BrazilSEROPEDICA, Brazil (AP) _ There‘s a storage room just off a university lab that gives students more experience than many can handle: Skinned pigs and cats, disembodied cow livers, intestines, brains and the other unidentifiable detritus of years’ worth of dissections fill a dozen wading pool-sized vats to the brim.With the veterinary department‘s incinerator long on the fritz, the stomach-turning, formaldehyde-drenched mass of animal carcasses and o
May 16, 2013