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Seoul vows action over Naver's Line, Yahoo dispute
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[KH Explains] Hyundai Motor’s plan for new landmark keeps hitting bumps
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Key S. Korean, USFK special operations officials to hold rare meeting amid NK threats
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Samsung doubles down on Vietnam
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In Beijing, S. Korean top diplomat aims to jumpstart ties with China
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[Grace Kao] American racism against Stray Kids
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Suspect behind murder of Korean tourist in Pattaya arrested
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Prosecutors summon pastor involved in Dior bag scandal
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NewJeans' members' parents complained to Hybe, email shows
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[Graphic News] Over 80% of people filing bankruptcy in Seoul in their 50s and older
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Universities caught lying about graduates’ employment
A number of local universities have been falsifying graduate employment data to raise funds and attract students, according to a government investigation.The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology announced Thursday after a two-month investigation that it found 28 universities across the country falsely reported the employment rate for their graduates. The ministry report came as an increasing number of universities in the country face declining student enrollment and tightened budgets. “
July 26, 2012
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Koreans show world’s fastest improvement in TOEFL scores
Koreans’ average score for the Test of English as a Foreign Language, or TOEFL, rose the fastest in the world from 2006 to 2011, data showed Thursday.Out of a total score of 120, Koreans’ average results increased to 82 in 2011 from 72 in 2006. The country’s ranking jumped to 70th among 150 test-taking countries from 111th out of 147 countries, according to Lee Ik Hoon Language Institute.The private language school analyzed six-year data published by the Educational Testing Services, a U.S.-base
July 26, 2012
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Women migrants to guide at national parks
Major national parks plan to recruit women from multicultural families as guides for ecological systems for foreign visitors.The Korea National Park Service has placed 120 such guides this year to help park visitors better understand the natural environment.Starting the end of July, 15 women from the Philippines, China and Mongolia will receive a month’s training for the work. It aims to place 80 female migrants at Mount Seorak, Bukhan and Naejang and 10 other parks by 2015.“The plan will create
July 26, 2012
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Lee’s brother indicted
The prosecution on Thursday indicted Lee Sang-deuk, elder brother of President Lee Myung-bak, for allegedly receiving kickbacks from the management of ailing savings banks in exchange for granting them business favors through influence-peddling.Lee has been detained since July 10 and will be the first sibling of an incumbent president to stand before the court. According to the special investigation unit at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, Lee is suspected of receiving more than 300 million won
July 26, 2012
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Seoul to toughen rules against sex crimes
The government and the ruling Saenuri Party are to toughen the punishment for sex crimes and expand the disclosure of perpetrators’ identities. The Ministry of Justice will take over the management of sex offenders’ information and increase the number of perpetrators whose personal information is made public. In order to toughen the rules, sexual assaults against minors under 13 years old will be subject to the Act on the Punishment of Sexual Crimes and Protection of Victims, which will allow fo
July 26, 2012
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Young temps suffer labor abuses
Legal minimum wage still out of reach for many part-timersLee Hyun-mi, a 19-year-old high-school graduate, learnt a bitter lesson when she recently quit working at an ice cream shop. She worked six hours a day during the week for the past three months and was paid a meager 4,000 won ($3.49) per hour. When she said she wanted to quit, the boss told her that her final month’s pay would be cut in half. The reason, she was told, was that she was caught resting at a table while not attending customer
July 26, 2012
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Konkuk University names new president
Konkuk University in Seoul has named Song Hee-young, a professor of economics, as its new president. University officials said Song was elected to the position at a board meeting on Wednesday. The newly-elected president started teaching at the college of commerce and economics at the university in 1982, and served as director at the office of strategy and finance for five years from 1991, then vice president from 1998 to 2000. He was a committee member of the Local Press Commission, which suppo
July 26, 2012
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Prosecutors determined to question Park
The prosecutors investigating a savings bank scandal said they would take steps to arrest Park Jie-won, floor leader of the main opposition Democratic United Party, if he rejects a third summons issued Wednesday. The prosecution ordered Park to appear on Friday for questioning over suspicions that he had received kickbacks from the management of ailing savings banks. This is the third time the political bigwig has been called in for the investigation related to the scandal which also implicates
July 25, 2012
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Japan’s WWII trafficking of Korean women is fact: U.S.
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― In a further clarification of its view on a key history issue between South Korea and Japan, the U.S. government said Tuesday that Japan’s trafficking of Korean women for sex services during the World War II is an unassailable “fact.”“These were women who were trafficked for sexual purposes,” a State Department official told Yonhap News Agency.The official stressed that how to characterize the incident is more important than the terminology to describe the victims.“Rat
July 25, 2012
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Women’s group calls for arms trade limits
A women’s group is calling on the United Nations to adopt a strong arms trade control treaty to prevent human rights violations and sexual violence.According to the Women’s Forum for Peace and Diplomacy, the adoption of a strong arms trade treaty is being hampered by a small number of countries that want more freedom in trading arms and ammunition in the run up to the deadline of Friday for completing the treaty. It is an arm of the Ecumenical Campaign for a Strong and Effective Arms Trade Treat
July 25, 2012
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Single male Seoulites up 10-fold over 20 years
The number of unmarried male citizens in Seoul aged 35 to 49 has increased more than 10-fold over the past 20 years, data showed Wednesday.According to the data released by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, the number of single men of the age bracket in the capital city came to 242,590 in 2010, up from 24,239 in 1990. The rate of unmarried men among the age group has shown an upward trajectory during the past two decades to account for 20.1 percent in 2010 from around 2 percent in 1990, the dat
July 25, 2012
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Kim visits amusement park
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has paid an inspection visit to an amusement park construction site, the North’s media said Wednesday, publishing Kim’s third reported visit to the newly built facility in Pyongyang.“Marshal Kim Jong-un visited the Rungna People’s Pleasure Ground just before the start of operation,” the (North) Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported in an English-language dispatch. The official news outlet has covered Kim’s two previous visits in April and early July to the am
July 25, 2012
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Learn from Myanmar: U.S. envoy
The U.S. ambassador on Wednesday urged North Korea to learn from the recent political and economic reforms in Myanmar to improve the lives of its own people, but warned the North’s new leadership will be further isolated unless it abandons its nuclear ambitions. U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Sung Kim also said his government has “lost confidence” in working toward resuming dialogue with North Korea after it reneged on the Feb. 29th deal with Washington, an agreement to swap denuclearization ste
July 25, 2012
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'Chinese investigators torture anti-N.K. activist’
Kim Young-hwan claims North Korea was involved in detention of four activistsNorth Korea was closely involved in China’s detention of four South Korean activists who campaigned for human rights in the communist country, one of them said Wednesday. Kim Young-hwan also told a news conference that he was physically abused by Chinese investigators during interrogation and told not to disclose it.Kim and three others arrived in Seoul on Friday after 114 days of confinement in China. They were arreste
July 25, 2012
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Single male Seoulites up 10-fold over 20 years
The number of unmarried male citizens in Seoul aged 35 to 49 has increased more than 10-fold over the past 20 years, data showed Wednesday.According to the data released by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, the number of single men of the age bracket in the capital city came to 242,590 in 2010, up from 24,239 in 1990. The rate of unmarried men among the age group has shown an upward trajectory du
July 25, 2012
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North Korea ramps up campaign against Lee
North Korea ramped up its bashing campaign of the South’s President Lee Myung-bak, with its broadcasting station airing images of North Korean soldiers shooting at paper targets marked with Lee’s name and campaign phrases.The state-run media (North) Korean Central Television, monitored in Seoul, aired a nighttime program on Monday featuring security soldiers who accused the Lee administration of masterminding an attack on the statues of North Korea founder Kim Il-sung and pledged revenge for wha
July 24, 2012
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Cabinet approves law to cut capital gains tax on houses
South Korea’s Cabinet approved Tuesday a revised law to cut the capital gains tax on home sales, in the latest measure to stimulate the real-estate market and boost consumption. Under the revised law, endorsed at the Cabinet meeting presided over by President Lee Myung-bak, an owner of two houses does not have to owe a flat rate of 50 percent of capital gains earned on a home sale as tax. Also, an owner of three or more houses does not have to pay a flat rate of 60 percent of gains made on a hom
July 24, 2012
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French world atlas uses ‘East Sea’ name
PARIS (Yonhap News) ― The French publisher of one of the world’s most authoritative world atlases has adopted both Korean and Japanese names for the waters between them in its latest edition, according to publishing firms here on Tuesday.The company Atlas used the names “Mer de l’Est (East Sea)”and “Mer du Japon (Sea of Japan)” printed in letters of the same size in eight maps of its world atlas for 2012, they said.It marks the first time that the Korean name for the waters has been used concurr
July 24, 2012
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Presidential aide slapped with arrest warrant
A local court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for Kim Hee-jung, a former presidential secretary in personal affairs, for receiving money from the management of ailing savings bank. The Seoul Central District Court granted Kim’s detention for allegedly receiving some 100 million won from Lim Suk, chairman of Solomon Savings Bank from 2009 to 2010 in exchange for peddling his influence in rescui
July 24, 2012
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U.S. deputy defense chief to visit Seoul
Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan will meet with U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter in Seoul to discuss the bilateral alliance and North Korea, ministry officials said Tuesday. Carter will make a two-day visit to Seoul from Wednesday as part of his trip to Asia-Pacific nations and the meeting with Kim will take place Thursday, officials said. Kim and Carter are expected to “exchange views on the situation of North Korea and discuss policy coordination on the North,” a ministry official
July 24, 2012