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Jennie, Stray Kids's Met Gala attendance puts them on 'digital guillotine' blacklist
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Korean industries gauge impact of Biden's steep tariffs on China
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Controversy brews over shakeup of prosecutors amid probe of first lady
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OpenAI gives ChatGPT new powers to see, hear
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Do Korean doctors make too much money?
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Another suspect behind murder of Korean tourist in Pattaya arrested in Cambodia
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S. Korea to inject $70m into AI-powered public education
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[KH Explains] Naver’s Line dilemma: Lose global footing for cash?
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Is FTC's conglomerate listing a boon or bane for Hybe?
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[Herald Interview] Carbon breakthrough in Korea: Making diamonds at atmospheric pressure
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Thai woman kills new born after married Korean man left her
A Thai woman threw her new born baby from the 17th floor of her apartment building saying she was not ready for a child after her Korean boyfriend, who was married to a Korean women at the time, left her while pregnant. The man, surnamed Kim, 40, had a two-year affair with Netchanok Nokyungtong, 20, during which she became pregnant. Twenty-year-old Netchanok Nokyungtong admitted throwing the baby from the window of her apartment in Pattaya, Thailand. (Creative Commons)When Nokyungtong informed
Nov. 19, 2017
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Government speeds up earthquake preparedness after Pohang
A 5.4 magnitude earthquake and a series of aftershocks that struck off the southeastern city of Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, last week had damaged some 2,000 private homes and injured dozens as of Sunday, according to the Ministry of Interior and Safety.Officials from the Korea Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources look into sudden appearance of sands on a rice paddy in the southeastern coastal region around the port city of Pohang that was biy by the 5.4 magnitude quake last week
Nov. 19, 2017
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[Video] Seoul’s public bike rental system takes off
(Shot by Park Ju-young / Edited by Park Ju-young)The sharing economy is all the rage across the globe, and of everything that is being be shared, bikes are of particular interest for city officials seeking to make their cities more sustainable with public transportation. Seoul, with an eye on becoming a green city and upgrading its mass transit system, rolled out a citywide bike rental system in 2015. Seoul Public Bike, or “Ttareungyi” in Korean from the sound of a bike bell ringing, was launche
Nov. 19, 2017
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Pohang quakes damage some 2,000 houses, 227 schools
Some 2,000 houses have been damaged by a series of earthquakes as strong as 5.4 magnitude that hit the southeastern city of Pohang last week, the Ministry of Interior and Safety said Sunday. According to the ministry's National Disaster and Safety Control Center, 2,165 private properties have been reported to have been affected as of 5 a.m. Sunday by the earthquakes, of which 1,988 are private houses.The most frequent damage was done to roofs, with 1,789 cases being filed. The number of houses a
Nov. 19, 2017
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Avian influenza detected in southern S. Korea
The South Korean government said Saturday the avian influenza (AI) virus has been detected at a poultry farm operated by a local conglomerate located in the southern part of the country. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said the H5 strain of the bird flu was discovered from the farm with around 12,300 ducks in Gochang, 296 kilometers southwest of Seoul. The government said it is currently carrying out epidemiological investigations, while slaughtering the livestock as a pr
Nov. 18, 2017
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Memorial hall for comfort women opens in Gwangju
A memorial and exhibition hall for Korean women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II opened near Seoul on Saturday after nearly two years of construction, officials said. The two-story hall with a space of 1,300 square meters has been built on the compound of the House of Sharing, a shelter for sexual slavery victims, euphemistically called "comfort women," in Gwangju, about 40 km southeast of Seoul.A group of activists protests outside the Japanese Embassy in cen
Nov. 18, 2017
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Funeral held for 5 missing victims of ferry sinking
Families of five missing victims of the 2014 ferry sinking held a joint funeral service on Saturday after their bodies could not be recovered despite months-long search. The memorial service for the missing victims including two high school students and a teacher was held at a port in Mokpo, some 410 kilometer south of Seoul, where the hull of the suken Sewol ferry sits after being retrieved from the sea earlier this year. The 6,800-ton Sewol ferry that sank on April 16, 2014, in waters off
Nov. 18, 2017
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Injuries and facility damage rise in quake-hit Pohang area
The number of victims injured by a 5.4-magnitude earthquake that hit South Korea's southeast earlier this week rose to 80, authorities said Saturday. The quake struck the port city of Pohang on Wednesday afternoon, with the tremors felt as far afield as Seoul, 360 kilometers away. It was the second-strongest earthquake recorded in the country, after last year's 5.8-magnitude quake in nearby Gyeongju.(Yonhap) The National Disaster and Safety Control Center said the number of injured people in
Nov. 18, 2017
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7 in 10 buildings and houses in Seoul prone to earthquake
Only three out of 10 Seoul buildings subject to earthquake-related regulations have seismic-resistant design, data from the metropolitan government showed Saturday. According to the data, only 88,473, or 29.4 percent, of the capital city's 301,104 buildings and houses regulated by seismic codes were found with earthquake-resistant design as of October this year.(Yonhap) About 46 percent of apartment houses and other multi-unit dwellings were designed to withstand earthquakes, but the corresp
Nov. 18, 2017
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How does one know of first snow in Seoul?
In Seoul, the first snow of the year only counts as official if it is seen and recorded by government officials stationed at Seoul’s weather station in Songwol-dong, Jongno-gu, next to Gyeonghuigung.Early morning on Friday, social media was abuzz with sightings of snow in some parts of the capitalOpinions clashed on the accuracy of the claims. According to the Korea Meteorological Administration, although it could be true that snow fell in some parts of Seoul, it is only officially the first sno
Nov. 17, 2017
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Police arrest tourists who stole student’s tablet PC
Police arrested two suspects for stealing a tablet PC that contained notes for the college entrance exam, or Suneung, local media reported Wednesday. On Monday morning, three days before the original day when Korea’s national college entrance exam was to be held, a senior high school student in Gangneung, surnamed Kang, called the police after realizing that his tablet PC had gone missing. The exam has since been delayed to next week due to an earthquake in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, on
Nov. 17, 2017
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Prosecution probes haunt political circles
A sense of foreboding gripped political circles Friday, as prosecutors pressed ahead with a flurry of corruption probes targeting not only opposition lawmakers but also a prominent figure from the ruling fold.Three senior lawmakers from the main opposition Liberty Korea Party have been in the prosecution's crosshairs for their graft allegations. Jun Byung-hun, a senior presidential aide, offered to resign Thursday over a bribery scandal involving his two former aides.Rumors have also persisted t
Nov. 17, 2017
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Ex-head of state lender gets heavier sentence in appeals trial for corruption
An appellate court sentenced former state-run Korea Development Bank Chairman Kang Man-soo to five years and two months in prison on Friday for a string of corruption charges, raising the jail term from the lower court's ruling. The Seoul High Court found Kang, also a former finance minister under the Lee Myung-bak government, guilty of pressuring the government to designate a biotech firm run by his friend as a business partner and provide 6.6 billion won ($6.03 million) in state subsidies in l
Nov. 17, 2017
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Prosecutors raid Hyosung Group for suspected slush fund
Prosecutors said Friday they raided the main headquarters of South Korean conglomerate Hyosung Group in western Seoul over alleged management of secret funds. Investigators from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office also searched four of its affiliated firms and the residences of four officials suspected of involvement to seize evidence, they said. The raid came as part of allegations that the 25th-largest family-controlled conglomerate has been running slush funds for former chairman Ch
Nov. 17, 2017
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Victims, damage continue to rise two days after Pohang earthquake
The number of victims injured or displaced and the amount of facility damage continued to rise Friday, two days after a 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit South Korea's southeast, authorities said. The quake struck the port city of Pohang on Wednesday afternoon, with the tremors felt as far afield as Seoul, hundreds of kilometers away. It was the second-strongest earthquake recorded in the country, after last year's 5.8-magnitude quake in nearby Gyeongju. The casualties stand at 75 as of 6:00 a.m., of
Nov. 17, 2017
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Senior presidential aide to be quizzed as bribery suspect next week
Prosecutors will question Jun Byung-hun, the senior presidential secretary for political affairs, on Monday as a suspect in a bribery case involving his two former aides, according to the Seoul prosecutors' office. He offered to resign over the scandal Thursday.Jun's two former aides have been arrested for allegedly pressuring a local home shopping channel to donate 300 million ($274,000) to the Korea e-Sports Association in 2015. Prosecutors will question Jun, then the association's honorary ch
Nov. 17, 2017
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Quake leaves 1,500 homeless
More than 1,500 residents in the southeastern port city of Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, have been displaced by Wednesday’s 5.4 magnitude earthquake and a series of aftershocks following the initial tremor. The city was rattled by South Korea’s second-largest earthquake on record at 2:29 p.m. on Wednesday, which was followed by nearly 45 aftershocks of up to magnitude 4.3 through Thursday afternoon, the Korea Meteorological Administration said. (Yonhap)Although there were no reports of imm
Nov. 16, 2017
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Korea’s multicultural children see wide age gap between parents
In four out of 10 internationally married couples in Korea, the husbands are at least 10 years older than their wives. According to the report from the Korea Statistics Thursday, 21,709 international couples got married last year, marking a 3.4 percent drop from 2015. The rate has been declining for the past six years. After the government started to strictly monitor international matchmaking agencies in 2010, the number of international marriages has been decreasing. The photo is irrelevant wi
Nov. 16, 2017
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Stronger tremors could occur for months
South Korean earthquake experts warned that more aftershocks and even bigger quakes may occur for the next few months following Wednesday’s 5.4 magnitude quake in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province. YonhapWednesday’s quake took place at 2:29 p.m. At least 62 people were hurt, but no casualties were reported, according to authorities. The quake comes 14 months after a 5.8 magnitute quake hit Gyeongju, the strongest since the country began to collate seismic records in 1978. Experts voiced concerns
Nov. 16, 2017
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Fallout from Suneung delay felt across industries
The decision by educational authorities to postpone South Korea’s national university entrance examination due to Wednesday’s earthquake is having repercussions across society. Student studies of the annual college entrace exam at a shelter in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, Wednesday. YonhapDue to Wednesday’s rare magnitude 5.4 quake and the series of aftershocks that struck Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, the Ministry of Education announced Wednesday evening that the test would be delaye
Nov. 16, 2017