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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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Probe of first lady on Dior bag allegations set to begin
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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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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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[KH Explains] Can tech firms' AI alliances take on Nvidia?
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With Indonesia unable to pay full share, what’s next for KF-21 fighter project?
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Speaker floats dual citizenship as solution to falling births
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[Grace Kao, Meera Choi] Has money displaced romance on dates?
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Police seek arrest warrant for med student who killed girlfriend
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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
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Korea to expand residence visa program for investors
Korea plans to expand its investment immigration program beginning next month to help boost local property development markets. Korea currently grants permanent residency to foreigners who make a certain level of investment in real estate in four tourist and international business zones. The Ministry of Justice said Sunday it would halve the required amount of investment from the current 1.5 billion ($1.3 million) to 700 million won for the Incheon Free Economic Zone, and from 1 billion won to 5
April 14, 2013
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Multilingual judiciary website opens for foreign residents
The Supreme Court has recently opened a website to provide legal assistance in more than a dozen languages to foreign residents in Korea. Aside from the court’s English website, the new website (jifi.scourt.go.kr) provides detailed explanations of the principles and rules of the legal system such as civil and criminal lawsuits, judicial independence, and types of courts in 15 languages. The language services include Vietnamese, Chinese and Thai.“The Supreme Court set up the website to meet an in
April 14, 2013
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Korea Science Academy celebrates 10 years as top science school
Chung Yoon, former vice science minister, has been one of the most vocal critics of the nation’s disregard of science and engineering education, warning that an aggravating shortage of professionals in the fields would undermine Korea’s future growth.After decades of growth based on schemes emulating foreign-born skills, Korea’s catch-up development model is facing its limits and its future should be anchored in creative and innovative research and technologies, he has emphasized. But the most t
April 14, 2013
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English-language instruction in U.S. bleak
MIAMI (AP) ― Duna Lopez started school in Miami last fall not knowing a single word of English. The 8-year-old girl from Barcelona, Spain, with dark blond hair was placed in the Coral Way Bilingual K-8 Center, the nation’s oldest bilingual school. For half the day, she receives classes in Spanish; it’s English for the rest. During language arts, she gets pulled out with three other new arrivals for extra help on grammar and phonics. After seven months, she’s one of the most active participants i
April 14, 2013
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Police crack down on N.K. attack rumors
Police have warned of stern action against ungrounded rumors about a North Korean attack which have been spreading online this week and further anxiety amid military tensions on the peninsula. “We will take appropriate countermeasures to prevent these false Internet rumors from triggering unnecessary panic,” National Police Agency chief Lee Sung-han said Thursday at a nationwide senior police officials’ meeting in Seoul.Early Wednesday, an urgent message appeared on Twitter that North Korea was
April 12, 2013
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NHIS considers lawsuit against tobacco firms
The state-run National Health Insurance Service is considering filing lawsuits against cigarette companies to seek compensation for rising health costs from smoking-related illnesses.Its president Kim Jong-dae told sources that tobacco companies should “no longer be free” of responsibility for smoking-related diseases that cost massive amounts of money to treat every year. In 2011, NHIS spent 1.56 trillion won to treat smoking-related diseases, he added.The health insurance corp. also told the K
April 11, 2013
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UNESCAP to announce annual development report
The U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific plans to announce its annual survey of the region next Thursday to offer policy options for governments to pursue inclusive and sustainable development.Its Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2013 will be announced at a conference cohosted by the Kyung Hee Institute for Human Society in Seoul. Simultaneous launch events of the publication will take place in 37 cities around the world.The survey shows that inclusive a
April 11, 2013
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Male nurse found dead from alleged drug abuse
A nursing assistant was found dead at a private hospital in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, on April 2, after allegedly injecting himself with a large dose of propofol.Police said Thursday that the 31-year-old was found at a consulting office at the hospital he worked for. He had a needle in his arm and 10 bottles of propofol were found near him, investigators said. They have requested an autopsy of his body, they added.Propofol has been classified as a psychotropic drug in Korea since 2011 as an in
April 11, 2013
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Teen murders disabled girl
A middle school student in Incheon was apprehended Thursday for allegedly killing a mentally disabled girl after a failed rape attempt.Police said the 16-year-old suspect tried to rape the 12-year-old victim at a building after kidnapping her on her way home from school Wednesday.After failing to rape her, he lured her to a nearby field by asking her to play. He reportedly made a hole in the field with a small shovel he had brought with him, made her lie in the pit, and suffocated her to death b
April 11, 2013
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Parents held for killing kids
A mother and father who allegedly killed their two children after failing to commit family suicide were apprehended, according to police Thursday. Police said they caught the husband surnamed Lee, 46, and his wife surnamed Jeong, 37, at a farm in Busan on Wednesday. The family left their home in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, in February 2011 and were out of contact since then. The bodies of their two daughters, aged 10 and 12, were found near a valley in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province in December of th
April 11, 2013
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Korea on alert against bird flu
Korean health authorities and stock farmers are stepping up efforts to block a new strain of deadly bird flu originated from China as it shows sign of spreading. So far, there have been no reports of infections or deaths in Korea from the fatal H7N9 virus that has killed nine people in China.Municipalities located close to China in particular have been on high alert for the possible spread of the virus. Regional offices including South and North Jeolla provinces and North Gyeonsang Province have
April 11, 2013
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Uncle hires gangsters to scold a nephew
A Korean man was arrested after hiring a group of gangsters to beat up his wayward nephew, Jeju police said Thursday. The man, 43, took the drastic measure after his nephew ran away from home and did not show up at school for several days. He hired the gangsters to give his 16-year-old nephew a beating. On March 15, the gangsters took the delinquent teenager to a public cemetery located in western Jeju and delivered the physical punishment, using a baseball bat, before sending him back to his h
April 11, 2013
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Korean universities rank high among Asia’s top 100 institutions
Korean universities have taken three of the top 10 places in a recent ranking of Asia’s best institutions.In the first edition of Asia University Rankings released on Wednesday, Korea had 14 of the top 100 institutions and more in the top 10 than any other country, according to Times Higher Education.Pohang University of Science and Technology ranked fifth on the list, followed by Seoul National University in eighth. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology was ranked 10th.The British
April 11, 2013
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Central, provincial governments wrangle over troubled hospital
Central and a provincial authorities are locking horns over a troubled public hospital in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, which faces a shutdown order amid snowballing losses and labor strife.Health Minister Chin Young said during his visit to the hospital Wednesday that the ministry will make efforts to normalize its operation. Provincial Gov. Hong Joon-pyo immediately raised opposition, urging the central government to stay out of its decision.The two met in the afternoon, after Chin met uni
April 10, 2013