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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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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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KT launches new mobile plans for foreign residents
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Bereaved families join hands to shed light on 1923 massacre in Japan
The bereaved families of Koreans killed in a post-earthquake massacre in Japan nearly 100 years ago banded together Wednesday to reveal the truth and demand Tokyo's compensation. In the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, up to 6,000 Koreans were killed by Japanese people agitated after the government spread a rumor that Koreans planned a riot, according to historians.Seven victims' families launched the first association devoted to the incident which has not received much attention, e
Aug. 30, 2017
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Korea to improve livestock breeding to secure food safety
South Korea will expand free range livestock husbandry in raising chickens as a way to improve food safety following the recent pesticide egg scandal that rocked the nation, the agriculture ministry said Wednesday.At the policy briefing held before President Moon Jae-in in Sejong, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said it will introduce mandatory "pasture-raised" poultry farms from 2018 to improve the hygiene and safety of birds being raised.It will give financial incentives to
Aug. 30, 2017
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Moon urges variety in education, reduced burden on students
President Moon Jae-in stressed the importance of variety in public education Wednesday, while calling for government efforts to reduce financial burdens on students and their parents."What I especially want to stress to the education ministry is that there must never be standardized education that undermines variety," he said while meeting with officials from the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for a policy briefing."The fourth industrial revolution requires
Aug. 30, 2017
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Over half North Korean defectors estimate Korean reunification impossible
Nearly 56 percent of North Korean defectors who participated in a recent South Korean survey said they thought Korean reunification was impossible while living in the North. YonhapThe Seoul National University’s Institute for Peace and Unification Studies asked 132 defectors who fled to South Korea last year, and 55.7 percent of respondents said they were pessimistic about unification before coming to the South. It marked an increase by 11 percentage points compared to the previous year’s surve
Aug. 30, 2017
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Shaman ruled not guilty of fraud
A shaman who was taken to court on charges of fraud was ruled not guilty by the Seoul Southern District Court on Wednesday. “Shamanism is, for the most part, aimed at gaining consolation and inner peace. Even if shamanistic rituals do not yield the promised outcome, it is difficult to hold the shaman accountable for the failure,” the court said.The shaman in the case had blamed the spirits of the victim’s aborted twin babies for her husband’s flagging business and suggested the victim appease th
Aug. 30, 2017
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[Newsmaker] Former spy chief gets 4 years in jail for election manipulation
The Seoul High Court on Wednesday gave a four-year jail term to a former spy agency chief for his role in a covert operation to manipulate public sentiment in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election. Won Sei-hoon, 66, who led the National Intelligence Agency from 2009 to 2013 under the conservative Lee Myung-bak administration, was found guilty of election and NIS law violations. He was accused of directing his agents to conduct an illicit smear campaign online to sway voters in favor of th
Aug. 30, 2017
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Overseas Korean women gather for annual conference
GUNSAN -- Hundreds of Korean female leaders in various fields at home and abroad gathered in Seoul on Wednesday to discuss women's empowerment and changing roles in an age marked by disruptive technological transformation. The 17th annual Korean Women's International Network, organized by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, opened at the Gunsan Convention Center in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province, some 270 kilometers south of Seoul. More than 600 women leaders from 32 countries who are cre
Aug. 30, 2017
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Extended Deoksugung Stonewall Walkway unveiled to public
Some 100 meters of walkway by the famous stonewall surrounding the palace Deoksugung in Seoul has been restored and was opened to public Wednesday.The section is part of the 170 meters of the 1.1-kilometer wall that has been occupied by the British Embassy for nearly 60 years. Some 70 meters of the walkway, which is the embassy’s legal property, will remain off-limits to pedestrians. Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon made the first approach to the UK authority for cooperation in restoring and returning
Aug. 30, 2017
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4 dead, 2 missing after fishing ship capsizes off Pohang
POHANG -- Four men were killed and two others went missing after a fishing boat capsized off Cape Homi in Pohang on South Korea's southeastern coast Wednesday, the Coast Guard said.Around 12:50 p.m., the Coast Guard received a report from a merchant ship that the 27-ton boat carrying nine crew members was found capsized in high waves about 40 kilometers east of the cape.The Coast Guard rescued the ship's captain and two others who are in stable condition, it said. It also transferred another fou
Aug. 30, 2017
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Surge of young drug offenders in Korea
The number of drug offenders nearly doubled over the past five years, with steep increases in those in their teens and 20s, data showed Wednesday.Rep. Kang Seok-ho of the Liberty Korea Party released a statistics report on drug offenses in the country submitted by the National Police Agency on Wednesday.According to the report, the number of people arrested for drug offenses increased from 5,105 in 2012 to 8,853 last year, and 5,115 were arrested in this year’s first half alone.The number of dru
Aug. 30, 2017
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Man nabbed for stealing rice offerings at Buddhist temple
A 57-year-old man has been arrested for theft after allegedly stealing bags of rice offered to Buddha at a temple in the southern coastal city of Busan, police said Wednesday. (Yonhap)According to police, the suspect, surnamed Lee, had stolen rice offerings from the temple on over 40 occasions since February. He stole a total of 200 kilograms of rice, worth 1 million won ($891). Lee reportedly said that he was not a Buddhist. (ddd@heraldcorp.com)
Aug. 30, 2017
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Man attacks women for smoking
A 29-year-old man who attacked women for smoking was booked without detention in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, police said Wednesday. According to investigators, the man found three women aged around 23 years smoking in the residential area of Yongam-dong in the city at around midnight Tuesday. (Yonhap)He allegedly tried to stop the women, insisting, “Women should not smoke.” When the women disagreed, the irate man struck them across the cheek and kicked them. He told police he became a
Aug. 30, 2017
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Ex-president Park visits hospital for back pain
Impeached former president Park Geun-hye left the Seoul detention center on Wednesday to visit a hospital for her ailing back. This is the second time that Park left her incarceration for medical treatment outside of the detention center. In July, Park had MRI scans of her toe injuries. (Yonhap)Park is temporarily incarcerated at the Seoul detention center for the on-going trial to determine her involvement in the influence peddling scandal in connection with major corporations here including Sa
Aug. 30, 2017
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MBC union to stage first strike in five years
Unionized workers of South Korea's public broadcaster MBC on Tuesday voted to go on strike early next month demanding the resignation of its president and CEO over his alleged political meddling in news production, the union said.The union said it took a vote of its members from Thursday to Tuesday to decide whether or not to stage a strike and 93.2 percent of the 1,682 members who took part in the strike voted in favor of it."This is the highest-ever consent rate for a general strike in the uni
Aug. 29, 2017
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Toxin safety check to be conducted on menstrual cups
The government said Tuesday it will carry out safety checks on menstrual cups before approving them for sale, amid growing concerns over the safety of feminine hygiene products here. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety is looking into levels of volatile organic compounds, including a variety of chemicals that may cause health problems, potentially contained in the menstrual cups by an American brand. “We decided to inspect whether VOCs are contained in menstrual cups, what kinds of VOCs and whe
Aug. 29, 2017
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Prosecutors seek life imprisonment for accomplice, 20 years for murderer
The prosecution on Tuesday asked the Incheon District Court to sentence two suspects in an 8-year-old child’s murder case to life and 20 years in prison, respectively.The prosecution sought a life sentence for the alleged instigator who directed the killer, while asking for a shorter 20 years’ prison term for the younger killer. 18-year-old Park (Yonhap)The instigator, an 18-year-old woman surnamed Park, was initially indicted as an accessory to murder. The charge was later stiffened as it was a
Aug. 29, 2017
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Special counsel files appeal against ruling on Samsung heir
Special prosecutors said Tuesday they appealed a district court ruling on Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong who was sentenced to five years in prison late last week for bribing former President Park Geun-hye and her longtime friend. Special Counsel led by Park Young-soo, in charge of the high-profile corruption case involving the de facto head of South Korea's richest conglomerate, said it will contest part of the verdict that found Lee innocent of some of the bribery charges. The p
Aug. 29, 2017
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Korean scholar lays claim to Japan’s globally recognized tea farming system
A new tea farming method that Japan registered as its own agricultural heritage with a UN body last year is not uniquely Japanese as touted, as a study in Korea precedes it by many years, a local scholar has claimed. The tea production system -- officially designated Japan’s Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations -- involves growing native grass between tea bushes to help enhance the soil and encourage biodiversity. A bookl
Aug. 29, 2017
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Number of public servants disciplined for drunk driving nearly doubles last year
The number of public servants disciplined for drunk driving nearly doubled to 1,175 last year from a year earlier, according to government data obtained by a ruling party lawmaker.The Ministry of Personnel Management data showed that a total of 3,544 public servants received disciplinary punishment for drunk driving for the past five years, according to Rep. Lee Jae-jung of the Democratic Party.In particular, the number rose sharply to 1,175 from 624 in 2015.By ministry, the education ministry h
Aug. 29, 2017
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Nine out of 10 Koreans live in cities
Nine out of 10 South Koreans lived in cities that accounted for only 17 percent of the overall national territory last year, the transport ministry said Tuesday. In 2016, 47.47 million people, or 91.8 percent, of the country's total population of 51.7 million resided in Seoul and other cities, according to data from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. (Yonhap)Areas categorized as cities stood at 17,609.5 square meters, or 16.6 percent, of the overall territory measured at 106,05
Aug. 29, 2017