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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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Samsung chip business back on track, logs W1.9tr operating profit in Q1
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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Smoking to be banned at all restaurants from 2016
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Friday it is pushing to gradually impose a smoking ban for all restaurants in the country by 2016. The Seoul Metropolitan Government also said it will enforce the all-out ban from 2014.Currently, restaurants bigger than 150 square meters are required to allocate half of their space to smoking-free areas. The announcement came on the same day that a law imposing 100,000 won ($86) fines on those caught smoking at 1,950 public spots in the capital came into
June 1, 2012
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‘Dead’ conman’s case still open: prosecutors
Prosecutors said Friday they were continuing their investigation into suspicions surrounding Cho Hee-pal, one the country’s biggest con artists, who allegedly died in China after hiding out in the country. “It is unclear yet whether the suspect is really dead. So we plan to continue investigating him,” said an official at the Daegu District Public Prosecutors’ Office. Cho had been accused of swindling thousands of investors out of some 3.5 trillion won ($3 billion) in the country’s largest pyram
June 1, 2012
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Court upholds military’s ban of ‘seditious’ books
A lower court on Thursday upheld the military’s ban on “seditious” books including bestseller “Bad Samaritans” which criticizes free market economics. In 2008 the Defense Ministry blacklisted 23 books which it deemed could negatively affect soldiers’ morale. Publishers and writers responded by filing a suit demanding 190 million won ($160,000) in damages. The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday ruled the decision lawful and recognized the administration’s autonomy to prohibit some books to
June 1, 2012
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Seoul nixes project to build landmark building
The high-profile project to build a 133-story landmark building in the Digital Media Center in Seoul was nixed due to the main constructor’s failure to pay for its purchase of the land plot, Seoul City said Friday.The metropolitan government began the project in April 2009 when it signed a land purchase deal with the firm Seoul Light Tower.The city said that the firm delayed paying for the land and failed to carry out its responsibility stipulated in the deal.Seoul officials said that they made
June 1, 2012
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More adults in 30s and 40s live with parents
The number of adults in their 30s and 40s living with their parents in the capital city of Seoul soared91.4 percent, led by rising house prices and childcare costs, a report showed Friday. The report released by the Seoul Metropolitan Government found that the number of adults aged 30 to 49 who live with their parents jumped to 484,663 in 2010, compared with 253,244 in 2000. The report was based o
June 1, 2012
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Court upholds military’s ban of ‘seditious’ books
A lower court on Thursday upheld the military’s ban of “seditious” books including bestseller “Bad Samaritans” which criticizes free market economics. In 2008 the Defense Ministry blacklisted 23 books which it deemed could negatively affect soldiers’ morale. Publishers and writers filed a suit demanding 190 million won in damages. The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday ruled the decision as lawful and recognized the administration’s autonomy to prohibit some books to protect soldiers’ mora
May 31, 2012
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POSTECH tops world 100 universities under 50 years old: Times
South Korea’s Pohang University of Science & Technology, also known as POSTECH, has topped the rankings of the world’s top 100 universities under 50 years old.The Times Higher Education, a weekly British magazine based in London, published on Thursday the list that features institutions from 30 countries.POSTECH, which was founded in 1986, headed the list with a total of 71.8 points, followed by Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne with 66.2 points. The Hong Kong University of
May 31, 2012
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Local food movement takes root in Korea
Aims to promote consumption of locally-grown foods amid wave of FTAsCommunity-supported agriculture, farmers’ cooperative markets and other “eat local” projects are springing up in Korea, touting the benefits of locally-grown foods amid an influx of imported produce. The consumer movement, in vogue in many Western countries for some years, brings a ray of hope to Korean farmers struggling to survive the rising tide of free trade globalization. For conscientious consumers, it means new alternativ
May 31, 2012
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SNU accused of downplaying Kang’s previous fabrications
Seoul National University and professor Kang Soo-kyung have come under fire for downplaying instances of academic dishonesty two years ago, which may have led to another fabrication in an international journal. According to the Hankook Ilbo newspaper and university insiders, Kang had been called into a school fact-finding ethics committee in 2010 for alleged data fabrication in her paper for the International Journal of Cancer. The committee then found much of the claim to be true. However, they
May 31, 2012
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Market to open for Seoul’s farmers
Seoul’s farmers will be able to bring their fresh harvests to an outdoor market to be set up among Gwanghwamun skyscrapers on Saturdays, city officials said. The Seoul Farmers’ Market, open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., will allow farmers and food producers, not just in the capital but elsewhere in the country, to sell directly to consumers, they said. It will open every Saturday from June 2 till mid-October.“We hope that it becomes more than just a food market and helps bring closer urban and rural c
May 31, 2012
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Online game curfew for youth to be enforced in July
A selective online game shutdown for youth will take effect in July after a month-long test next month, the culture ministry said Thursday, as it accelerates its bid to ease online addiction among young students.Under the selective shutdown system, teens under the age of 16 will be banned from accessing highly addictive online game sites from midnight to 6 a.m., ministry officials said.Online game
May 31, 2012
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4 percent of teenagers at risk of Internet addiction: study
Four in every 100 Korean teenagers are at risk of Internet addiction, a government study showed Wednesday. The survey of 1.74 million youths, conducted by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family in cooperation with the Education Ministry, found that 3.9 percent of the participants, or 68,044, were categorized as high-risk Internet users; or at-risk users, in other words, potential addicts. Although lower than the previous year’s 4.94 percent, the rate is still high, ministry official Kim Sung
May 30, 2012
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Probe of alleged Roh slush fund resumed
The prosecution’s investigation into suspicions surrounding late President Roh Moo-hyun’s daughter’s alleged attempt to purchase a high-end apartment in the U.S. resumed as a key witness was summoned to testify. The questioning is expected to facilitate probes into family members of the deceased president, whose case was closed after his death on May 23, 2009. Officials at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office said Wednesday that Kyung Yeon-hee, who attempted to sell her Hudson Club complex apartment
May 30, 2012
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Fewer students at risk of Internet addiction: survey
Approximately four percent of South Korean teenage students are at risk of Internet addiction, but the number is on the decline, a government survey showed Wednesday. The survey of 1.74 million students in three age brackets of 11, 14 and 17 found that 68,044 of them, or 3.9 percent, risk becoming addicted to Internet use, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said in a statement. Of th
May 30, 2012
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SNU to probe alleged research fraud
Stem cell papers retracted as Korean scientific circles suffer fresh setbackSeoul National University said on Tuesday it will investigate four stem cell research papers authored by its professors after they were retracted from an international journal earlier this month on suspicion of fabrication and incorrect data.The university will form an investigative body to verify the authenticity of data in the papers written by Professor Kang Soo-kyung and others, SNU dean of research Lee Joon-sik said
May 29, 2012
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Seniors outpace younger couples in divorce
Longer life expectancy, patriarchal culture, changing values cited as main reasonsDivorce in Korea is no longer unusual.In the past wives who had long swallowed ill feelings against their abusive husbands would say to themselves: “I’ll endure in silence as I have done so far. How many days are left in my life?” Now is an age in which some people can live 100 years and unlimited endurance in marriage is no longer accepted. “In the old days, every wife endured. Nowadays, that’s not the case,” said
May 29, 2012
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Man convicted of molesting disabled teenager
A district court sentenced a 54-year-old man to five years behind bars for sexually assaulting a disabled minor on Monday.The man, identified by his surname Um, enticed the 16-year-old girl who is grade 2 mentally disabled into his Ulsan home and molested her. The two met in an online chat room last year.Ulsan District Court also ordered him to undergo a 200-hour a compulsory therapy program and have his name and personal information released to the public for 10 years.(From news reports)<한글 기사>
May 29, 2012
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Korea to help China clean up polluted lake
The state-run Korea Environment Corp. said Tuesday it will provide technology to clean up China’s fifth-largest lake and produce biogas from the waste. The company has signed an agreement with Hefei city in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui to exchange technology and know-how to decontaminate Chaohu, one of the most polluted lakes in China.Hefei and Anhui authorities plan to spend 70 billion yuan ($11 billion)on improving water quality, in line with a national campaign to clean up the Yangtz
May 29, 2012
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Captain indicted for insults against president
Military prosecutors have indicted an Army captain who used foul language to criticize President Lee Myung-bak on Twitter.According to military law, those who publicly insult their seniors are subject to imprisonment of up to three years.The officer, whose name was withheld, denounced the president for alleged corruption, a government plan to privatize Incheon International Airport and KTX services and a canceled plan to build his private retirement home on the outskirts of Seoul. The officer wa
May 28, 2012
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Nobel economics laureate Sargent to teach at SNU
Thomas Sargent, the winner of 2011 Nobel Prize in economics, has been appointed as a full-time professor at Seoul National University.The school announced that the 69-year-old economist will start to teach undergraduate and graduate students starting next year. Sargent is one of the architects of the rational expectations hypothesis that swept through macroeconomics in the 1970s-80s. He is currently teaching at New York University and is also a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution.Sarg
May 28, 2012