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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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[Weekender] How DDP emerged as an icon of Seoul
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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Doctor group's incoming head renews call for govt. to scrap medical school quota hike for dialogue
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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[Music in drama] An ode to childhood trauma
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'The Roundup: Punishment' becomes fastest 2024 film to top 2 mln admissions
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New head of doctors' association vows war in case of disadvantage to medical professors
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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Ahn did not plagiarize: university
Seoul National University said Friday that independent presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo did not engage in plagiarism during his time as a graduate student at its medical school. “A preliminary probe found no grounds for us to further investigate allegations of plagiarism against five academic papers authored by Ahn,” a research ethics committee of the state-run university said in a press statement. “The case is therefore closed without a main investigation.” In a unanimous decision, the pane
Nov. 16, 2012
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Arrest warrant sought for man over sexual assault of teenager
Police in Gyeonggi Province have sought an arrest warrant for a 24-year-old man who used a stun gun on a teenager in order to sexually abuse her on Friday.The man, who is only identified with his surname Kim, brought the electric shock device from his home in the morning and searched for a target around the Gangnam area in southern Seoul.According to the Suwon Seobu Police Station, Kim was attracted to a woman who had drinks with her boyfriend and stalked them. As the couple went into a motel
Nov. 16, 2012
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Lee to visit Cambodia, UAE for regional summits
President Lee Myung-bak will visit Cambodia next week for a series of regional summits with the newly mandated U.S. president, Barack Obama, and other leaders about freer trade and other cooperation in the region, his office announced Thursday.The three-day visit to Phnom Penh starting Sunday is part of Lee’s two-nation trip that will also take him to the United Arab Emirates for talks expected to focus on increasing atomic power and other energy cooperation between the two countries.In Phnom Pe
Nov. 15, 2012
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[Newsmaker] Protesters defy eviction order
Tension is mounting in front of the iconic Deoksu Palace in central Seoul as rag-tag protesters vow to defy a government order to end their months-long decampment or face eviction by police. The Jung-gu district office delivered a notice Wednesday that it would ask police to break up their protest tents and impose fines unless they take them down voluntarily within 15 days.The roadside street beside the Joseon Dynasty palace’s main gate has been a symbolic epicenter for anti-government and labor
Nov. 15, 2012
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Korean women outlive men by 7 years: U.N.
The average Korean woman lives seven years longer than her male counterpart, according to report by the United Nations Population Fund.The State of World Population 2012 survey also showed that Korean women and men live the eighth and 26th longest in the world respectively. The average life span of Korean women is 84 years and that of Korean men is 77.3 years. According to the UNPF report, the world population surpassed 7 billion as of October last year and stands at around 7.1 billion.China ran
Nov. 15, 2012
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LIG chairman, sons indicted for fraud
Prosecutors on Thursday indicted LIG Group chairman Koo Cha-won and his two sons for inflicting damage on minor shareholders by fraudulently issuing commercial papers.Koo Bon-sang, his first son and the largest shareholder of the group, was arrested last month. He is vice chairman of LIG Nex1, the group’s defense arm.Koo Cha-won and his second son Bon-yeop, former vice president of LIG Construction, were charged without detention. The three issued commercial papers worth some 215 billion won inc
Nov. 15, 2012
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Arrest sought for prosecutor accused of bribery
The prosecution sought an arrest warrant Thursday for a senior prosecutor on charges of bribery in a case at the center of a feud with the police over investigative powers.The suspect, Kim Kwang-jun, allegedly received around 240 million won ($220,000) from con man Cho Hee-pal, the operator of a pyramid scheme, and 400 million won from Eugene Group, a construction-based conglomerate.The special investigation team said he faces bribery and other charges. He reportedly denied charges during the in
Nov. 15, 2012
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VANK to take on Apple, Google over Dokdo
Voluntary Agency Network of Korea, a nongovernmental cyber diplomatic organization, is organizing a protest movement to pressure Apple and Google to label Dokdo and the East Sea on their maps. Apple Inc. has recently decided to use both Korean, Japanese and Franco-English names for the nation’s easternmost islets in its new English map service running on the iOS 6 mobile operating software. An updated Google Maps has also replaced the name Dokdo with the islets’ Franco-English name ― the Liancou
Nov. 14, 2012
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Man gets 25-year prison term for raping niece
PYONGTAEK (Yonhap News) ― A 58-year-old man was sentenced to 25 years behind bars for raping his underage niece as well as impregnating her, a Suwon court said Wednesday, amid growing calls for tougher punishments for brutal sex crimes against minors. The Suwon District Court handed down the hefty prison term to the man, only identified by his surname Cheong, convicted of raping his niece on multiple occasions between September 2005 and July this year in his house in Pyongtaek, south of Seoul. T
Nov. 14, 2012
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Korea to seek faster, easier visa process for Chinese tourists
South Korea will seek to make the visa process for Chinese tourists faster and more convenient in an effort to tap into the neighboring nation’s booming overseas tourism market, a presidential committee reported Wednesday.The Presidential Council on National Competitiveness reported the measure to President Lee Myung-bak, saying Chinese tourists are expected to overtake their Japanese counterparts in the near future as the No. 1 visitors to South Korea.The number of Chinese visitors nearly tripl
Nov. 14, 2012
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Doha invites education leaders for collaboration
DOHA, Qatar ― More than 1,200 education leaders from 100 countries gathered in Doha on Tuesday for an international forum to discuss how to collaborate for future development in education. The resource-rich state has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars on developing an education system that will secure the country’s economic future when its natural resources run out.Marking its fourth year, the World Innovation Summit for Education has evolved into a major international gathering, brin
Nov. 14, 2012
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Teenager dies during abortion procedure
A senior in high school died of excessive bleeding while getting an abortion in her second trimester of pregnancy, police said Wednesday. The 17-year-old, only identified by her surname Lee, was rushed to a bigger hospital after her heart stopped beating but died of a massive hemorrhage caused by uterine perforation, a side effect that can occur during abortion procedures, according to the police.Lee was 23 weeks pregnant when she was undergoing the surgical abortion last Saturday.“The abortion
Nov. 14, 2012
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Convenience stores to start sales of first-aid products
A total of 11 over-the-counter drugs including fever reducers and painkillers will be sold at 24-hour convenience stores around the country starting Thursday, officials at the Ministry of Health and Welfare said. The selected items are classified as first-aid remedies and will not require a doctor’s prescription for purchase, they said. Aimed at offering easier access to the public, the drugs will be sold at 115,338 convenience stores and 1,907 local health care centers in rural areas that have
Nov. 14, 2012
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Korea’s launch of space rocket to be further delayed
Korea’s launch of space rocket to be further delayedSouth Korea’s planned launch of a space rocket will likely be further delayed, government officials said Wednesday, as the Russian replacement for a defective part in the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1) is not expected to arrive here until the end of the week.The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and its Launch Preparation Committee earlier said the launch of the KSLV-1 would take place before Nov. 24.The replacement of the de
Nov. 14, 2012
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’Socialite Kelly is honorary consul of Korea’
’Socialite Kelly is honorary consul of Korea’ Seoul officials on Wednesday confirmed that a U.S. woman in Tampa, Florida who is linked to the sudden resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus is an honorary consul of South Korea and she will be relieved from the symbolic post if she is found to be problematic. Harassment allegations by the Tampa socialite Jill Kelley led the FBI to uncover an extramarital affair between Petraeus, the former top commander in Iraq and Afghanistan who stepped down
Nov. 14, 2012
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Seoul City to keep e-government body leadership
Seoul City was on Tuesday once again elected as the chair city of the World e-Governments Organization of Cities and Local Governments (WeGo), an international cooperative body for cities and local governments committed to sustainable city development by fostering collaboration among e-governing cities.Attending the general assembly meeting of WeGo in Barcelona, Spain, Mayor Park Won-soon delivered a welcoming speech as the chairman of the organization in front of 1,000 city leaders and official
Nov. 14, 2012
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Man gets 25-year prison term for raping niece
A 58-year-old man was sentenced to 25 years behind bars for raping his underage niece as well as impregnating her, a Suwon court said Wednesday, amid growing calls for tougher punishments for brutal sex crimes against minors. The Suwon District Court handed down the hefty prison term to the man, only identified by his surname Cheong, convicted of raping his niece on multiple occasions between September 2005 and July this year in his house in Pyongtaek, south of Seoul. The niece, who is now 16 y
Nov. 14, 2012
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Prime Minister warns prosecution and police to end feud
Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik on Tuesday called on the prosecution and police to resolve their bitter feud over investigative powers or face government arbitration. The two sides have been at odds recently over a corruption case involving a senior prosecutor accused of taking bribes from a conman and a mid-sized conglomerate. Kim expressed regret to Justice Minister Kwon Jae-jin and Public Administration and Security Minister Maeng Hyung-kyu, who are in charge of supervising the respective agenci
Nov. 13, 2012
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FM to attend Middle East security forum in UAE
South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan will visit the United Arab Emirates later this week to attend an annual forum on peace and security in the Middle East, a ministry official said Tuesday. At the invitation of UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, Kim is to make a three-day visit to the UAE from Friday and will be the first Asian foreign minister to join the Sir Bani Yas Forum in Abu Dhabi, the official said. The forum is aimed at discussing pending issues for peace
Nov. 13, 2012
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Foreigner, overseas Korean registration fees to double
The fees for foreigner registration and domestic residence registration for overseas Koreans are set to be doubled starting Jan.1.The Ministry of Justice on Tuesday made the public notice of legislation of the revised enforcement decrees on the Act on the Immigration and Legal Status of Overseas Koreans and the Immigration Control Act entailing the changes.Under the revised regulations, the foreigner registration fee will be raised to 20,000 won from the current 10,000 won. The fee for domestic
Nov. 13, 2012