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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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Allegations surrounding BTS resurface, enraged fans demand apology
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Students with history of violence will be barred from becoming teachers
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Medical feud leaves hospitals in financial crisis
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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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Chip up cycle won’t stay long: SK chief
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Majority of professors condone plagiarism: poll
An overwhelming majority of professors in South Korea turn a blind eye to plagiarism, a poll showed Wednesday, highlighting their indifference to the problem facing local academia.The email survey of 600 college professors showed that 86.3 percent of the respondents either criticize colleagues’ plagiarism privately or just wink at the practice.Nearly 41 percent replied that plagiarism is a serious problem, with the remainder saying it is minor or not so grave, according to the survey by the Kyos
April 17, 2013
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Forum to explore ‘life-cycle’ welfare, employment program
The state-run Korea Labor Foundation will host an international conference on employment and welfare support customized to life stages to cope with a fast-aging society next Tuesday. “This symposium will be an opportunity to produce customized employment support programs for each life stage and to expand employment network services to better connect workers with jobs,” said KLF Secretary-General Moon Hyung-nam. The event also aims to prepare a customized welfare-employment service for employers
April 17, 2013
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Travel agent indicted for defrauding foreign tourists
An owner of a local travel agency has been indicted on charges of defrauding hundreds of foreign tourists with bogus hotel reservations, prosecutors said Wednesday.The 32-year-old agent, only identified by his surname Kim, is accused of accepting deposits from more than 230 foreign tourists then failing to make the hotel reservations between June and December 2012, prosecutors said.The victims were unable to stay at the hotels they thought they had previously booked, prosecutors said, adding tha
April 17, 2013
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Expert calls for bilingual programs for multiethnic children
Korea should encourage the growing number of multiethnic children not only to speak Korean fluently, but also to learn their native languages to help them adapt here, a head of school for multicultural students said.Foreign spouses, especially from developing Asian countries, are reluctant to teach children their native languages, worrying that it may do more harm than good in growing up here, according to Hong Jong-myung, the director of Seoul On Dream Multicultural Education Center, the city’s
April 17, 2013
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In Korean classrooms, multiracial students struggle to fit in
The only Korean one 15-year-old Chinese boy knew was simple greetings when he came to Seoul last summer with his mother, who married a Korean man.But even after spending more than six months learning Korean at an alternative school, going to school is still torturous. He was recently admitted to a public school near his home, but soon decided to quit. It is almost impossible for him to follow the class or make friends, said Kim Ji-sun, a consultant from Seoul On Dream Multicultural Education cen
April 17, 2013
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Minority students to get more help with Korean
The government on Tuesday announced measures to reinforce Korean language education for children of multicultural families and to expand support for foreign wives as part of efforts to help them better assimilate into Korean society.The latest move comes as increasing numbers of Korean men are marrying foreign wives, and migrant workers continue to settle here for employment opportunities.Under the envisioned comprehensive action plans for this year with a budget of 93.3 billion won ($83.6 milli
April 17, 2013
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Seoul student rights ordinance faces nullification
The municipal education office here has taken steps to nullify a controversial ordinance to protect the human rights of students, its officials said Wednesday. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education led by conservative Superintendent Moon Yong-lin recently withdrew two cases of lawsuits it had filed with the highest court in opposition to the education ministry’s ban on schools’ enforcement of the rules. Aimed at expanding students’ rights at school, the student human rights ordinance bans c
April 17, 2013
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‘Dead’ girl returned to mother, alive
Grieving parents who thought their daughter had died in a car accident recently found out that she was alive and the girl they had buried was someone else.Gyeonggi Province police on Wednesday revealed a bizarre case where two teenage victims of a car crash -- one dead and another severely injured -- were mistakenly identified as the other. According to police, 17-year-old Kim and 14-year-old An were in a traffic collision on March 24 in Goyang City, Gyeonggi Province. Police initially concluded
April 17, 2013
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One Korean injured at Boston Marathon bombing
A South Korean man has been hospitalized with wounds from an explosion during the Boston Marathon, which left three dead and more than 170 others hurt, officials said Tuesday. Ahn Dong-sik, 23, underwent minor surgery at a nearby hospital for injuries on his legs and thighs, but he is not in critical condition, according to officials at the South Korean consulate general in Boston.Ahn, in Boston for a language study program, briefly lost consciousness in the stands near the marathon's finish lin
April 17, 2013
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Seoul toughens quarantine of passengers from China
Health authorities said Tuesday they toughened quarantine inspections of passengers from Beijing and Henan province, as China confirmed that the new strain of bird flu, H7N9, had spread to its capital.Quarantine officials had been placing thermal image cameras only at arrival gates of flights and ferries coming from Shanghai and other eastern areas of China that previously had reports of human infection of the potentially fatal bird flu virus. The Ministry of Health and Welfare has also assigned
April 16, 2013
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N. Korean defectors allowed to become experienced civil servants
The government on Tuesday allowed North Korean defectors to work as experienced public servants in an effort to better embrace them as members of society.According to a revision of related rules endorsed by the Cabinet, the government can hire the North Korean defectors or naturalized citizens from overseas who have working experience in their home countries or hold a degree as civil servants. After a resume screening, the applicants will be interviewed, while being exempt from written examinati
April 16, 2013
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S. Korean man shot dead in Philippines
A South Korean man was shot dead and another Korean was seriously injured in a shooting attack in Angeles City of the Philippines, a Seoul official said Tuesday. Unknown gunmen shot the two Korean nationals inside their car shortly after dining out in Angeles City on Monday, the foreign ministry official said. There was a third Korean national inside the car, but the third person only sustained a light injury, the official said. The motive for the attack was not yet known, and South Korea called
April 16, 2013
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Korean visiting Guam attacked by shark, drowned
A Korean tourist who went missing while visiting Guam was attacked by a shark before he drowned, according to findings from an autopsy.Authorities identified the man as Nae Dok Kim, 40, Pacific Daily News reported Monday (http://bit.ly/XNkpKy ).He was last seen on the beach Saturday. Employees of Pacific Islands Club Guam had helped in the search, and lifeguards were asked to look out for any sight of him.Two fishermen found his remains floating the next day about 20 feet offshore in Tumon Bay.
April 16, 2013
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Chief of state-run Korea Gas Corp. offers to resign
The state-run Korea Gas Corp. said on Monday that its president and CEO Choo Kang-soo has offered to resign.In a press release, Choo said that he wants to step down to help South Korea open a "new era" following the inauguration of a new government, adding that he will follow the decision of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, which oversees the gas monopoly.Choo served as vice president of a Hyundai unit and is known to be a close confidant to former President Lee Myung-bak, whose five-
April 15, 2013
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Civic groups call for peaceful resolution to inter-Korean feud
Dozens of South Korean civic groups on Monday urged the two Koreas to defuse escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula by seeking a peaceful resolution through dialogue.Tensions have been simmering over the communist North's bellicose rhetoric and actions against the South and its allies after Pyongyang faced fresh U.N. sanctions for its third nuclear test on Feb. 12 and last month's joint military exercise between Seoul and Washington. An association of 24 progressive civic groups, including
April 15, 2013
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[Graphic News] More Korean hospitals going abroad
The number of Korean medical institutions expanding overseas has nearly doubled in the last three years, a report showed Monday.According to the report released by the state-run Korea Health Industry Development Institute, 91 Korean hospitals had made inroads into foreign countries as of December, up 85 percent from 49 in 2009.The hospitals were operating in 16 countries in Asia and North America. The most popular countries were China, where 31 Korean hospitals provide medical services, and the
April 15, 2013
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Real-estate tax rules to be readjusted
The government and political parties reached an agreement Monday to readjust the proposed rules for real-estate tax breaks aimed at boosting the lackluster property market.The government has proposed that transaction tax for houses worth up to 900 million won ($799,000) and up to 85 square meters be exempted for five years.In a three-way meeting, representatives of the Finance Ministry, the ruling Saenuri Party and the opposition Democratic United Party agreed to lower the threshold to 600 milli
April 15, 2013
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Court commutes jail term for Hanwha Group chairman
The Seoul High Court on Monday lowered the jail term for Hanwha Group chairman Kim Seung-youn from four years to three years after confirming most of the charges of embezzlement and breach of trust.The court cleared him of some charges related to breach of trust in connection with a corporate takeover. But the court additionally found him guilty of illegally supporting an affiliate, for which he was acquitted by a lower court. Kim was imprisoned last year but released in January due to poor heal
April 15, 2013
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Teenager loses hand in firecracker mishap
A teenager lost his hand and a man was burned on Sunday when their clumsy attempt to make a homemade rocket from a firecracker ended in failure, police said.A 16-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man, who met through an Internet Web site, bought firecrackers at a stationary store in Guri, south of Seoul, to use them as propellant for a small rocket and tried to test it at a park, officials said.When they put the gunpowder that they had collected from several squibs into a glass container, it explod
April 14, 2013
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Ex-president Kim YS hospitalized with cold
Former President Kim Young-sam is in intensive care with symptoms pneumonia, his son said Saturday.The 86-year-old Kim was admitted to Seoul National University Hospital on April 5 with a high fever and symptoms of a cold.“His recovery is slow due to his age,” his son Kim Hyun-chul wrote on Saturday night on his webpage, indicating the former president was still in serious condition. Kim served as president from 1993-1997. Born in 1927 on Geoje Island off the south coast near Busan, Kim was firs
April 14, 2013