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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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Samsung chief bolsters ties with Germany’s Zeiss
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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KT launches new mobile plans for foreign residents
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Romania prosecution leads in independence
While prosecutors here are struggling against some lawmakers’ plans to end what they call politically biased investigations, in Romania, the prosecution’s authority is supreme.The European country’s prosecution has total authority to initiate and conduct an investigation and no one, not even the president or justice minister, can interfere with or comment on an ongoing case. Only prosecutors thems
June 29, 2011
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Heavy rain kills one, injures several more
One person died and several others are assumed injured after a landslide caused by rain that hit the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday.Scores of buildings were inundated by up to 170 millimeters of rain while traffic accidents have been reported in the center of the country. According to Seoul City authorities, a landslide took place near the Choansan Station construction site in Nowon-gu, northern Se
June 29, 2011
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Universities face restructuring
Demographic shift adds urgency to the need for reformThis is the third and last installment of a three-part series looking into problems in Korea’s tertiary education ― Ed. Earlier this month, professors at Sunghwa College received 136,000 won as their salary and a text message that the rest would be wired once the institution collected tuition fees from students. The college, where about 1,200 st
June 29, 2011
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Reader's Voice
On prostitution...Prostitution should not be legalized because it won’t protect prostitutes’ rights, but the rights of the owners of brothels. If you look at Germany, where prostitution is legalized, the lives of prostitutes have not changed after legalization. In order to gain full access to the workers’ rights, the prostitutes must state that they are prostitutes, and that record remains on thei
June 29, 2011
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Hopes and fears for multiple unions
Long-standing ban on plural unions at company level to be lifted FridayFollowing is the first in a two-part series featuring multiple labor unions that will be introduced in Korea on Friday. ― Ed.After 13 years of hesitation, Korea is finally easing its iron-fisted labor union policy to allow more than one trade union at a single workplace, a move widely expected to open a new page in the country’
June 28, 2011
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United Nations to support bill on refugees in S. Korea
It has been 19 years since Korea joined the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees but the country still has a long way to go in protecting the lives and rights of displaced people seeking shelter, an expert says.According to the Ministry of Justice, the country has received 3,073 applications for refugee status since 2001, when it first received asylum seekers, but so far only 235 have bee
June 28, 2011
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Chinese boy fuels Korean language boom in Harbin
The latest strand of the Korean wave isn’t coming from the usual pop culture, but Chinese parents sending their children to learn Korean. Leading the boom is 10-year-old Liu Ming-feng who took home the gold from the Homtamin Cup Korean Chinese Children’s Broadcasting Culture Festival, in the category for narrating children’s stories in Korean. The seventh contest held by China Radio International
June 28, 2011
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Gangnam subway station area never sleeps
Crossroads near Exit No. 6 busiest part of SeoulFor Oh Byung-kook, a 30-year-old office worker, the area around Gangnam subway station in southern Seoul is always the first consideration for a night out with his friends.“The area is a traffic point with easy access from anywhere in Seoul. It has everything from movie theaters and shops to restaurants and karaoke,” Oh said. “Among other things, I l
June 28, 2011
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More typhoons expected here
With typhoon Maeri fizzling out, sparing the Korean Peninsula from predicted damage, two more typhoons may hit here this season, according to the state’s weather agency on Monday.The Korea Meteorological Administration predicts that 23 typhoons will form this year, following the yearly average of 23.3 typhoons during the season, between June and December.Of those predicted, one or two typhoons are
June 27, 2011
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Hanjin Heavy signs fragile deal
Union agrees to end 190-day strike, but hardliners cry foul against accordLabor unionists of Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction’s shipbuilding unit on Monday announced that they would return to their workplaces, ending their 190-day strike against the company’s massive layoff plan. Still, anxiety is suurrounding the back-to-work move as hawkish unionists cry foul against their leadership’s dec
June 27, 2011
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Would you fight for mother land?
Six out of 10 Korean teens would rather “go abroad”About six out of 10 Korean teenagers said they would go abroad in case of another war, suggesting the lack of patriotism among students.Korea Advanced Youth Association and Teengora media conducted research on about 2,500 Korean teenagers from 400 middle and high schools, finding out that only 19.5 percents replied they would fight.Meanwhile, in a
June 27, 2011
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Middle children have more chances to become bully
Children with both older and younger siblings have a higher chance of becoming bullies, according to research.Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex and the University of Warwick conducted the study covering some 40,000 British households.It was traditionally assumed that the oldest child is likely to dominate or use violence against his or her siblings. However, it
June 27, 2011
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Typhoon leaves 13 dead or missing
A tree is uprooted on a Seoul street by strong winds on Sunday as Typhoon Meari approaches the nation. (Yonhap News)Thirteen people were reported dead or missing over the weekend due to a heavy downpour that pounded the country. With Typhoon Meari expected to affect the Korean Peninsula through Tuesday, the government advised people to take extra care for their personal safety.According to local p
June 26, 2011
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Police take action against investigative rights bill
Police officers have taken collective action against a revised bill on the investigative rights of the police and the prosecution, signaling a bumpy road ahead for the compromise reached a week ago.Top government officials including Presidential Chief of Staff Yim Tae-hee, Justice Minister Lee Kwi-nam and National Police Agency chief Cho Hyun-oh agreed on a compromise draft last Monday to let the
June 26, 2011
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Hurdles remain for Korean adoption
Red tape means many de-facto adoptions not included in official figuresFor 46-year-old housewife Yoo Hyun-mi, mornings are a nightmare. Her three daughters, Cha Hye-in, Cha Hye-seon and Cha Hye-ju quarrel over clothes, hairstyles and other trivial matters before going to elementary school. Yoo always has to mediate to make them go to school on time. “Sometimes I don’t have time to breathe,” Yoo sa
June 26, 2011
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High college tuition fee drives student thefts
A college student on a leave of absence to raise college funds worked a part-time job by day and allegedly committed thefts by night has been arrested, according to Yonhap News.The student, surnamed Lee, 22, faces charges of breaking into shopping malls and offices to rob them late at night. Lee allegedly stole fourteen times recently, by sneaking into offices and arcades around Jinyeong, Gimhae c
June 26, 2011
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Samhwa Mutual Savings Bank declared bankrupt
The Samhwa Mutual Savings Bank, one of the local banks troubled with capital shortages, was declared bankrupt Friday.The savings bank filed for bankruptcy on May 19. In January, the Financial Services Commission suspended the bank for six months during moves to weed out unviable banks that failed to meet regulatory capital requirements.The ill-fated bank has been criticized for its allegedly illic
June 24, 2011
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Korea set to approve world’s first stem-cell drug
Medication passes safety, quality testsKorea will approve the world’s first stem-cell medication as early as this month, the Korea Food and Drug Administration said Friday. The state-run drug regulator said Friday that Hearticellgram-AMI, a stem-cell medication for treating heart attack victims, passed all the required safety and quality tests early this week. It will be the world’s first therapeu
June 24, 2011
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Seoul wins U.N. public service awards again
The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Friday that it has won the United Nations Public Service Awards for the fourth consecutive year.This year, Seoul won two United Nations awards in recognition of its efforts to help troubled teenage girls and establish an open tax appeals system for citizens, the municipal government said. Park Kyo-ok (left), deputy director general for complaints analysis of
June 24, 2011
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Prosecutors snub GNP probe demand
Refuse to reinvestigate illegal deposit withdrawal, say found nothing to look intoThe prosecution seemed to refuse Friday to reinvestigate suspected illegal deposit withdrawals from a corruption-ridden savings bank despite demands from the ruling Grand National Party. “If we have dug up a mine and found nothing, we have to move to another mine. That’s the position of the prosecutor-general and the
June 24, 2011