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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Korea enters full election mode
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Dialogue hopes fade as doctors pick hard-liner as new head
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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Court upholds jail term for man who attempted to murder ex-girlfriend
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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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East coastal areas hit by heaviest snowfall in a century
CHUNCHEON, Gangwon Province (Yonhap) -- A record-breaking snowfall pounded South Korea's east coast on Saturday, stranding hundreds of motorists on highways and destroying dozens of houses, officials said. President Lee Myung-bak ordered the military to help clear waist-high snow that blanketed the area and transport emergency food to isolated residents. Some sections of a highway linking Seou
Feb. 13, 2011
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Owner of the missing W1 billion identified
The police are looking for a private lottery dealer in his 30s with the family name Kang for having stored 1 billion won ($980,000) in a Seoul warehouse under borrowed identification and fake phone numbers. The investigators suspect him to have accumulated the money as slush funds from running illegal lotteries. The case was discovered when Yeongdeungpo police received a report of suspected explos
Feb. 11, 2011
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Who owns W1b cash found in boxes?
The police search for whoever deposited 1 billion won ($980,000) in two cardboard boxes, found Wednesday at a department store in Yeouido has failed to detect any clues so far. Questions are swirling over the mysterious boxes abandoned in the store located in the political and financial hub of Seoul. With experts claiming the modus operandi to be classic money laundering, rumormongers are gossipin
Feb. 11, 2011
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KTX bullet train derails near Seoul
GWANGMYEONG -- A high-speed KTX train bound for Seoul from the southern port city of Busan derailed near a Gyeonggi Province station southwest of the capital Friday, but no casualties were reported, the state-run Korea Railroad said. Derailed KTX train near Gwangmyeong Station, southwest of Seoul, Friday. There were no reports of casualties. (Yonhap News) The incident took place near Gwangmyeong
Feb. 11, 2011
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Multicultural Korea sees more new family names
The number of new Korean family names and clans seems to be rising in South Korea, with growing numbers of marriage immigrants choosing to create their own names to adapt to the local community.South Korea, according to a census conducted in late 2000, had 286 family names divided into 4,179 clans, with Kim, Lee and Park among the most popular Korean surnames.With a growing influx of foreigners to
Feb. 11, 2011
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Hungary's 84-year-old burglar strikes again
(MCT)BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- Hungary's notorious octogenarian thief is not ready for retirement.The 84-year-old woman, known as "Flying Gizi," whose criminal record goes back to the 1950s, is again in custody for suspected theft, police said Tuesday.Fejer County Police spokeswoman Agnes R. Szabo said the burglar, whose real name is Gizella Bodnar, is suspected of taking some 15,000 forints (euro
Feb. 11, 2011
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Police crack down on 770 online sex sites
South Korean police have cracked down on 770 Web sites and blogs selling prostitution while booking thousands for their alleged involvement in sex trafficking, officials said Tuesday.After wrapping up a six-week nationwide bust, the National Police Agency (NPA) said it booked 2,271 people without physical detention and put six under arrest on charges of illegally selling or buying sex.Of them, 1,3
Feb. 10, 2011
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Unions warn of action for legal revision
The new leader of the nation’s largest umbrella labor union pledged Thursday that the group will head toward a hard-line stance if no revision is made to the labor union law. “My predecessor, who saw labor-management relations stabilized, had worked in a way to be helpful to the Korean economy. However, there is no room for us to do so,” said Lee Yong-deuk, chairman of the Federation of Korean Tra
Feb. 10, 2011
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Most single parents do not receive child support
Less than half of single parents entitled to child support regularly receive payments from their former spouse, revealing the need for state intervention, according to government data Thursday.The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family surveyed 483 single parents legally entitled to receive child support over the course of three years. Women made up nearly 98 percent of the single parents in the s
Feb. 10, 2011
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Fewer young students going abroad to study
Unlike other Gangnam mothers, Park Sung-hee, 43, does not believe in the effectiveness of studying abroad at an early age.“My children have no problem studying English to prepare for the college entrance exam. Among other things, there are many highly-qualified teachers and private institutes in Seoul too,” said Park, a mother of two residing in Seocho-gu, southern Seoul. “I’m sure that the blind
Feb. 10, 2011
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Korean fishing boat released from 4 months' captivity in Somalia
NAIROBI, Kenya (Yonhap) -- A South Korean fishing vessel with 43 sailors aboard, including two South Koreans, was released after four months of captivity in Somalia on Wednesday (local time), Seoul's foreign ministry and a local industry source in Kenya said. The 241-ton trawler Keummi 305, which was hijacked by Somali pirates on Oct. 9, and all the crew members were freed around 9 a.m. loca
Feb. 9, 2011
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Half of men say OK to their girlfriends cheating with other girls
Half of men would forgive their girlfriends for cheating on them -- as long as they did so with another woman, a U.S. study has found.Researchers from the University of Texas, in Austin, quizzed 718 students on the subject of cheating. Half the men surveyed said that they would forgive their girlfriends as long as the affair was with a woman. But only 22 percent of men told researchers they could
Feb. 9, 2011
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1 billion won found in department store ‘bombs’
Police discovered 1 billion won ($904,000) in suspicious cases originally thought to contain bombs at a department store in Seoul on Wednesday. At 9:02 a.m. the police received a 112 call reporting two suspicious looking cases that might contain explosive material from a storage facility employee. The Yeongdeungpo Police Station responded to the call on the tenth floor of a department store with s
Feb. 9, 2011
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GNP in feud over science belt, airport
President Lee Myung-bak is facing fierce opposition from members of his own Grand National Party over plans for the controversial Science Business Belt and a new hub airport for the southeast region. Since more than 16 million swing votes may come down to these location selections, some GNP members poised to run in next year’s general elections have openly denounced Lee’s plans, reflecting feuds w
Feb. 9, 2011
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Half of foreign spouses identify as liberal
A foreign resident asks a question during the annual town meeting at Seoul City Hall on Dec. 17. (Seoul City)About half of foreign spouses here consider themselves progressive and are willing to participate in political activities such as voting, a study showed Tuesday. For her master’s degree at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Ariun Shukertei surveyed 670 foreign-born people who have either
Feb. 9, 2011
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Bachelors can apply for virtual wife online
Lonely bachelors longing for a female companion can now simply log on and apply for a virtual wife. (captured from biwihotohaisi.com)The Indian website biwihotohaisi.com offers men the choice of a homemaker, a “control freak,” an ambitious banker and a woman obsessed with soap operas. Men subscribing to the service will receive automated telephone messages from the virtual woman at a chosen time.
Feb. 8, 2011
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Fewer S. Koreans view reunification as ‘essential’
While a growing number of South Koreans are empathetic toward North Koreans, fewer view reunification as essential, a local study showed Tuesday. Some 12 percent of people here currently view reunifying with communist North Korea as an “essential national goal,” a sharp decline from the 58 percent of people who felt this way in 1995, according to analysis released by a North Korea expert here. On
Feb. 8, 2011
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Illegal protests become less frequent
Illegal violent protests have significantly declined over the past couple of decades, especially since the 2008 inauguration of the Lee Myung-bak administration, police data revealed Tuesday. According to the National Police Agency, an average of 12,200 demonstrations had taken place in each of the past three years. Of them, 56 cases, or 0.46 percent, were illegal violent protests ― a drastic decr
Feb. 8, 2011
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Petition to block free school meals starts
Conservative civic groups will start a signature-gathering campaign Wednesday, and aim to have a plebiscite vote on the controversial free school meals at schools issue, Seoul city officials said Tuesday.The Commission for Anti-Welfare Populism, an association of some 160 conservative civic groups, filed a petition Tuesday ahead of collecting signatures from Seoul citizens. Despite Seoul City Coun
Feb. 8, 2011
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One-third of imprisoned N.K. defectors in for narcotics
More than a third of imprisoned North Korean defectors here were sentenced for drug trafficking, highlighting a lack of screening and reintegration policies for defectors, according to the Korean Institute of Criminology on Monday.Professor Jang Joon-oh, director of the International Center for Criminal Justice, said 17 of the 48 defectors incarcerated in the South were charged with trafficking op
Feb. 8, 2011