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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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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Police execute arrest warrant to quiz Druking
Police obtained arrest warrants to interrogate on Thursday a blogger at the center of an online opinion rigging scandal as he has been refusing to be questioned.Kim Dong-won, known by his online alias “Druking,” was detained and indicted last month for allegedly using software in January to jack up the number of “likes” for two internet comments critical of the Moon Jae-in administration on news stories carried by internet portal Naver.After being interrogated twice on April 17 and 19 at the Seo
May 10, 2018
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Court hands 18-year jail term for lawmaker’s nephew in parricide
The Uijeongbu District Court on Thursday sentenced a nephew of a lawmaker to 18 years in prison for killing his father after being denied a credit card payment on his behalf. Prosecutors had demanded a 20-year prison term for the defendant, surnamed Joo, citing the brutality of his crime.The latest case garnered considerable attention following confirmation that the defendant was the nephew of Joo Kwang-deok, a legislator with the main opposition Liberty Korea Party. YonhapJoo, who is 40 years
May 10, 2018
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Ministry to reduce plastic waste in grocery chains by 35 percent
The Environment Ministry announced Tuesday a range of measures aimed at reducing plastic waste and boosting the recycling rate, following last month‘s waste management crisis. Photo: YonhapThe measures include cutting down on single-use packaging and plastic waste in fast food and quick service restaurants, and grocery chains by 35 percent by 2022, while gradually changing sales and distribution of all colored plastic bottles for beverages to transparent plastic by 2020.With online shopping on
May 10, 2018
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[Feature] Why young Koreans refuse to marry
For Park Hyun-ah, 30, life was always meant to follow a certain trajectory. After graduating from high school, she went on to a prestigious university, after which she was certain she would pass the bar exam or land a high-paying, stable job. Fierce competition obstructed both options, and Park entered graduate school. Having at least tackled the hurdles of education, the next rite of passage was employment. But after a year of job seeking, Lee remained jobless. Last month, she nabbed a contract
May 10, 2018
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Police looking into spycam snaps of high school dorm
Police have begun investigating a case where photos of a high school dorm room taken by hidden cameras were reportedly spread online. According to Gyeonggi Province Nambu Police on Thursday, a report was filed Wednesday that “screenshots from an illegally taken video” of a high school dormitory, located in the south of Gyeonggi Province, seem to be circulating. (123RF)Some 20 screenshots from a video taken with a hidden camera showed female students inside a dorm room. The photos appear to have
May 10, 2018
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(Video) 5 injured, 100 evacuated after ‘suspicious’ apartment fire
One hundred people were evacuated from an apartment building in Doksan-dong, Seoul Wednesday night, after a fire broke out from an eighth floor apartment unit, according to local fire authorities. The fire reportedly started at approximately 10:32 p.m. Wednesday and was extinguished at 12:06 a.m. Thursday. The fire is said to have started inside a house on the eighth floor of the 15-floor building. Some 116 firefighters and 36 firefighting vehicles were sent to the apartment.
May 10, 2018
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Police to refer Korean Air 'drink rage' case to prosecution
Police plan to refer Cho Hyun-min, a daughter of Korean Air Lines Co.'s chief, to the prosecution this week, police officials said Thursday.The 36-year-old former senior marketing executive of the flag carrier has been probed by the Seoul Gangseo Police Station over her alleged assault of an advertising agency official.The police station said it will wrap up its probe and refer her case to the prosecution on Friday, recommending an indictment on the charge of obstruction of business.Cho allegedl
May 10, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Korean Air staff to hold second rally against founding family
Hundreds of Korean Air Lines Co. employees plan to stage another rally this weekend against the founding family members accused of abuses and assaults on company staff, the organizing group announced Thursday.The rally will begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the square in front of Seoul Station, the group said on its mobile group chat used by some 1,000 former and current employees at the top South Korean airline.Other workers from its affiliated companies and citizens may also join the protest.It i
May 10, 2018
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Motel owner arrested for exploiting sailor with prostitutes
A motel owner has been arrested for allegedly arranging sex between a sailor and women and exploiting the sailor’s financial resources, the West Regional Headquarters Korea Coast Guard said Tuesday.Local maritime authorities said they have arrested the woman, surnamed Park, on charges of brokering prostitution and violating the Employment Security Act. Park, 60, was the proprietor of a motel in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province. She is accused of facilitating prostitution that created a considerable
May 9, 2018
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‘Feminist’ group probed for link with online sexual harassment in South Korea
An online community which brands itself a “feminist” organization is under police investigation for an online sexual harassment case involving a photo of a nude male model posing for fine arts students at Hongik University in Seoul, which was posted online without the victim’s consent.The case, which has stirred up controversy, emerged after an unidentified person posted the photo on the website of Womad, an online community that supports misandry and “radical feminism.”Police announced that the
May 9, 2018
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Brick drops on top of car from apartment building
A brick has been dropped on top of a car parked in an apartment parking lot in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province and caused damage.The vehicle owner found her property damaged by a fallen brick around 2 p.m. on Tuesday. YonhapThere was a grey brick on the roof of the automobile along with a dent as if it had fallen from a great height.The owner filed a report to police after watching the CCTV footage which included the scene of the car being struck by the brick.She said, “What if there was a person cl
May 9, 2018
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Man booked on string of claw machine robberies
Daegu Police on Wednesday booked a man in his 30s on suspicion of breaking into a coin exchange machine located inside a claw machine arcade and stealing cash in Dong-gu, Daegu. According to Daegu Dongbu Police Station, the 33-year-old man, a resident of Jeju Island, faces multiple theft charges.The suspect is accused of breaking into the kiosk using a screwdriver and running off with nearly 800,000 won ($740) in cash at a claw machine arcade in Bullo-dong, at approximately 3:50 a.m. April 12.
May 9, 2018
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Last year saw record number of ship accidents
A record number of ships had accidents at sea last year, with over 90 percent caused by human errors, Korea Coast Guard statistics showed.Accidents involving 3,160 vessels were reported to 18 maritime police stations across the nation last year, up 11.3 percent from the previous year, according to data posted on the government statistics portal.The figure is the highest since the Korea Coast Guard began compiling the figures in 1993.The number of casualties in last year’s ship accidents was also
May 9, 2018
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Autopsy rules out starvation in father, baby death
Police and forensic authorities have ruled out starvation as the most probable cause of the recent deaths of a father and baby, whose bodies were found side by side in a studio apartment in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province, Thursday. With no evidence suggesting a break-in, police had first suspected that the father most likely died after suffering from an illness, while his son died of starvation, citing the lack of signs that the kitchen had been used and their emaciated bodies. Initial autopsy
May 9, 2018
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Korean Air chief's wife banned from leaving country pending assault probe
Police on Wednesday banned the wife of Korean Air Lines Co.'s chief from leaving the country pending a probe into allegations that she verbally and physically assaulted company employees.Police are investigating the string of alleged assaults by Lee Myung-hee, the director of Ilwoo Foundation and wife of Hanjin Group Chairman Cho Yang-ho, after numerous tips were lodged by employees of the national flag carrier and the group's hotel affiliate accusing her of the crimes.Korean Air is the flagship
May 9, 2018
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Ex-President Park Geun-hye visits hospital for checkup on back pain: correctional service
Former President Park Geun-hye, jailed for corruption and other charges, visited a hospital Wednesday for treatment for chronic back pain, police and correctional service sources have said. A vehicle carrying Park arrived at the hospital in the southern district of Seocho at around 10:30 a.m., the sources said. Park was sentenced to 24 years in prison in April pending an appeal over a massive influence-peddling and corruption scandal that removed her from office early last year. Former Presiden
May 9, 2018
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[Photo News] Setting the Sewol ferry upright
The wreck of the Sewol ferry, currently lying on its side at the southwestern port of Mokpo, is to be lifted into an upright position Thursday. Workers were seen checking steel wires supporting the 6,800-ton ferry on Wednesday morning.The Sewol ferry sank off the country’s southwestern coast near Jindo Island in April 2014, claiming more than 300 lives. It was salvaged from the seabed last year and placed on land in a port in Mokpo, not far from the site of the accident.The Sewol Investigation C
May 9, 2018
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Woman claims months of abuse by ex-boyfriend
A woman filed a complaint against her former boyfriend for alleged dating violence and abuse that lasted for months, Gwangju police said Tuesday. The move came after she shared the extent of her injuries via social media that she claimed resulted from his violent acts, According the Gwangju Dongbu Police Station, the victim was called into the station Tuesday to give her statements. The victim alleged that her ex-boyfriend had physically assaulted her on several occasions since July last year.
May 8, 2018
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20 suffer from blood poisoning in Gangnam dermatologist
Twenty patients who were treated while under propofol anesthesia at a dermatologist clinic in Seoul have been transferred to nearby hospitals after showing symptoms of blood poisoning, the police said Tuesday. According to the Gangnam District Police, 20 patients treated at a dermatologist’s located in Sinsadong, Gangnam-gu, are being treated for septicemia, or blood poisoning and low blood pressure, in six nearby hospitals including Soon Chun Hyang University Hospital. (Yonhap)One man and 19 w
May 8, 2018
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SNU to hire its first female Korean economics professor
The economics department at Seoul National University is expected to hire its first female Korean professor in its 72-year history.In posting a job opening for an economics professor last month, the university’s College of Social Sciences said only women are eligible to apply.The college said this was due to the Education Officials Act that calls for policies to provide equal opportunities for both genders in appointing faculty members.Currently, all of the 35 professors at SNU’s economics depar
May 8, 2018