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Court refuses injunction on medical school expansion
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Why Korean crime stories typically feature nameless, faceless perpetrators
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Debate on 'no-seniors zones' heats up
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Rare mid-May heavy snow warning issued over mountainous areas of Gangwon
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S. Korea, Cambodia forge strategic partnership
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Is NewJeans headed for a long 'break'?
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[KH Explains] Hyundai-backed Motional’s struggles deepen as Tesla eyes August robotaxi debut
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Police raid popera singer Kim Ho-joong's house over hit-and-run suspicions
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Trump may like to 'solve' N. Korean nuclear problem if reelected: ex-official
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New Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office chief vows full-fledged probe into first lady
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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
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Father, baby found dead side by side
A father and son were found dead in their studio apartment in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province, police said Tuesday. A neighbor called police last Thursday afternoon to report a “strange odor” coming from the apartment. Dispatched police officers said they found the 28-year-old father and 16-month-old son dead side by side after they forced the door open. The father had been unemployed for some time prior to his death, according to police. YonhapPolice said they found no evidence of breaking and
May 8, 2018
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Environment Ministry aims to boost additional tax collection rate for diesel car owners
Individual diesel vehicle owners are now able to pay additional taxes for environmental purposes in January, along with other general payments for vehicle usage, the Environment Ministry said Tuesday. The ministry said the revision of the payment date for diesel vehicle users, who were required to pay additional taxes separately in March, will help increase the annual tax collection rate, which now stands at 40 percent. Around 5 million drivers have to pay additional taxes for their diesel vehic
May 8, 2018
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Cabinet approves proposal to change date of National Railway Day
The Cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal to change the date of National Railway Day -- designated in 1937 when Korea was under Japan's colonial rule -- amid criticism it is a vestige of the colonial occupation.The Japanese colonial powers designated Sept. 18 as the railway anniversary to mark the 1899 opening of Korea's first railway, linking Seoul and the city of Incheon. Critics have called for the anniversary to be changed, as the Gyeongin Railway was a major means by which Japan exploited
May 8, 2018
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Man dies after stabbing wife out of ‘delusional jealousy’
Police said Tuesday that a man who killed himself after stabbing his wife on Monday had shown symptoms of delusional, or pathological, jealousy.A man, 58, stabbed his wife at a restaurant in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, at around 11:30 a.m. on Monday. The man stabbed himself in the stomach and died afterwards, according to Deokjin Police Station. (123RF)Acquaintances of the couple said during questioning that he had repeatedly suspected his wife’s relationships with other men. The man had bee
May 8, 2018
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A Marine gets suspended sentence for sexually harassing subordinates
The Pohang Branch Court of the Daegu District Court said on Tuesday it has sentenced a Marine to eight months in prison suspended for two years and ordered a 40-hour program on sexual violence on the charge of sexually harassing three subordinates. Stationed in South Korean First Marine Division, the suspect is accused of sexually harassing the subordinates by forcibly hugging them and touching their body parts from March to May in 2017. (Yonhap)The court said, “The suspect has taken advantage o
May 8, 2018
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Alzheimer’s patient hit and killed by train
An elderly man in his 80s died from the impact of a Korail-operated train in Donghae, Gangwon Province, police said Tuesday. The 82-year-old victim, surnamed Kim, was hit by the Mugunghwa train en route to Jeongdongjin Station near Samunjae tunnel at 5:36 a.m. Tuesday. YouTubeAccording to the police, Kim, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, had been living at a nursing home in the area. Police believe that the victim could not hear the incoming train, despite the train horn, as he was c
May 8, 2018
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Fire breaks out on Panama-registered tanker off southern coast
TONGYEONG, South Gyeongsang Province -- A Panama-registered oil tanker caught fire in waters off the country's southern coast, authorities said Tuesday.The accident happened at around 9:10 a.m. when a 7,700-ton vessel carrying 21 crewmen caught fire while making a passage in waters about 33 kilometers south of an island of Tongyeong, about 340 km south of Seoul, the authorities said.The fire started in one of the empty tanks, and the crewmen put out the fire in about 20 minutes using extinguishe
May 8, 2018
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Seocho District to build ‘Windy Hill’ near Gangnam Station
Seoul’s Seocho District unveiled on Monday its plans to transform the cooling towers and vents located near Gangnam Station exits into works of art.The large-scale ventilation fans and cooling towers that are located near exits 9 and 10 will be specifically used in the making of “Seocho Windy Hill,” according to Seocho authorities. The wind tower is pictured. (Seocho District-Yonhap)The wind tower will be three meters wide and 15 meters high. Attached to the backside, a mobile structure will be
May 7, 2018
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12 booked for using fake documents to get jobs, deceive partners
Police have booked 12 people without detention for allegedly using forged degrees or college transcripts to get a job or a marital partner. According to North Chungcheong Provincial Police, the suspects contacted a forger via online advertisements and requested counterfeit documents to seek employment, apply for loans or deceive their partners. An unnamed suspect, 36, requested the forger to make a counterfeit college transcript and other documents in February 2017. The suspect reportedly submit
May 7, 2018
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Sewol to be placed in upright position this week
The wreck of the Sewol ferry, currently lying on its side at the southwestern port of Mokpo, is set to be placed in an upright position this week, paving the way for further searching for the remains of victims still missing, investigators said Monday.The Sewol ferry, which sunk off the country's southwestern coast near Jindo Island in April 2014, claiming more than 300 lives, was hoisted from the seabed last year and put onto land in a port in Mokpo, not far from the site of the accident.The Se
May 7, 2018
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Two-fifths of elder abuses committed by sons: report
In nearly two-fifths of elder abuse cases, the perpetrators were sons of the victims, a report showed.According to an annual report issued by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Elder Protection Agency, 12,009 cases of elder abuse were reported to 29 state-run regional elder protection agencies in 2016. Authorities determined that 35.6 percent of them, or 4,280 cases, were actual cases of elder abuse. The figure marked a 12.1 percent increase from the previous year.Emotional abuse a
May 7, 2018
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Panel to review prosecution, Justice Ministry handling of staff sexual misconduct
A Ministry of Justice panel said Monday it will review how the ministry and the prosecution have dealt with sexual misconduct by their staff. The committee for measures against sexual harassment and sexual crimes was launched after a prosecutor revealed on television in January that she had been molested by a former senior ministry official.The panel will look into 130 cases of sexual misconduct over the past five years -- 50 within the prosecution and 80 within the ministry and its affiliated o
May 7, 2018
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Man uses condom of urine to cheat on drugs test
The Ulsan District Court has ordered a man in his 50s to serve a one-year jail term for obstructing police officers in the execution of duty, according to court officials Monday. The 54-year-old man was initially booked on the suspicion of injecting methamphetamine in Busan on Nov. 21, 2015. According to Busan Gangseo Police Station, the suspect faked a urine drug test by switching the sample with another person’s urine that was hidden inside a condom. 123RFHe was indicted on the obstruction cha
May 7, 2018
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Two killed in gas explosion in residential area
YANGJU, Gyeonggi Province -- Two people were killed in a gas explosion in a residential town in Yangju, north of Seoul, on Monday, local firefighters said.The blast took place at around 11:15 a.m., destroying two houses and damaging two others. A witness said debris flew some 50 meters in the air following the explosion.Firefighters found a woman presumed to be in her 60s dead at one of the destroyed houses. The body of a man in his 50s was later found at the site. Firefighters investigate the s
May 7, 2018
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[Video] Whistleblower urges US Customs to investigate Korean Air smuggling allegations
[Herald Interview]Park Chang-jin, a Korean Air employee of 22 years, revealed in 2014 what has come to be known as the “nut rage” incident. He said that Cho Hyun-ah, 42, then-Korean Air senior vice president, forced him, then a cabin crew chief, and a junior attendant who served nuts to her in an unopened package, to apologize on their knees. The Korean Air chairman’s daughter used abusive language and jabbed Park several times with a service manual. Cho even ordered the taxiing aircraft to retu
May 7, 2018