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Jimin of BTS, actor Song Da-eun suspected to be dating, again
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N. Korea slams planned S. Korea-US military drills, warns of 'catastrophic aftermath'
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N. Korea fires short-range ballistic missiles toward East Sea: JCS
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[Robert J. Fouser] Social attitudes toward language proficiency
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[Graphic News] How much do Korean adults read?
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Korean firms target EV charging market in US
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Interior minister apologizes over spat between police officials
South Korea's interior minister and top police officials apologized Sunday for bickering inside police leadership surrounding an deleted online post that extolled the pro-democracy movement in Gwangju, the home of the 1980 uprising against a military junta.The dispute was sparked by a recent news report that National Police Agency Commissioner-General Lee Choel-sung rebuked the city's top police officer in November for the local police agency's Facebook post that described Gwangju as the Mecca o
Aug. 13, 2017
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Group pushes to erect statue honoring forced laborers near Japanese Embassy
A South Korean civic group is pushing to erect a statue to honor forced laborers under Japan’s colonial rule of the country near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul. Consisting of civic activists and descendants of the forced laborers, the group plans to hold a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday, which is National Liberation Day, marking the 72th anniversary of South Korea’s independence from Japan’s 1910-1945 colonization. An artist’s rendering of the statue “Unresolved Pain of Forced Labor” (Forced lab
Aug. 13, 2017
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Vacationing ministers blasted amid NK tensions
Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-hwa (far left), chief of the National Security Council Chung Eui-yong and Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyun (photo credit: Yonhap)South Korea’s security chief and top diplomat canceled or cut short their summer holidays on Sunday, after criticism mounted over the timing of their vacations amid global fears over escalating military tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-hwa, who began a six-day vacation Friday, will return to work Monday, ea
Aug. 13, 2017
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THAAD protesters refuse to accept govt. survey on environmental impact
SEONGJU -- Local residents and activists campaigning against the deployment of an advanced US missile defense system said Sunday they will not accept the outcome of a government survey that ruled out the possibility of its serious environmental damage.On Saturday, the government announced the result of a survey of electromagnetic radiation and noise from the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system in Seongju, some 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul. The defense ministry said the radiation leve
Aug. 13, 2017
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Moon watches movie about Gwangju pro-democracy uprising
President Moon Jae-in on Sunday watched "A Taxi Driver," a movie about the 1980 pro-democracy uprising in Gwangju at a local movie theater in Seoul. The movie released this month is based on the true story of a Korean taxi driver and Jurgen Hinzpeter, a German journalist who covered the armed revolt.Moon was accompanied by Edeltraut Brahmstaedt, the wife of Hinzpeter, and her family. In May 1980, citizens of the southern city rose up against a military junta led by Chun Doo-hwan, an Army general
Aug. 13, 2017
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Defense ministry says THAAD radar won't cause environmental damage
SEONGJU -- The Ministry of Defense said Saturday the advanced US missile defense system deployed in a southern town won't cause any adverse effects to the local environment.Earlier in the day, the defense and environment ministries conducted their joint environmental survey of electromagnetic radiation and noise from the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system in Seongju, some 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul.Two rocket launchers and a powerful X-band radar are operational at the new US For
Aug. 13, 2017
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Court again orders Japanese firm to compensate forced labor victims
A South Korean court on Friday ordered the Japanese firm Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to pay compensation to Korean victims of Japanese forced labor during World War II, in yet another win for the war victims. The Gwangju District Court said that the wartime construction firm must pay 150 million won ($130,920) in compensation to Oh Cheol-seok, a family member of the late victim Oh Kil-ae, 120 million won to surviving victim Kim Jae-rim and 100 million won to two surviving victims Yang Young-soo
Aug. 11, 2017
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Ex-diplomat gets 3 years in jail for sexually harassing Chilean minor
A former South Korean diplomat was sentenced to three years in prison by a regional court on Friday for sexually assaulting a minor when he was stationed in Chile. The Gwangju District Court found the defendant, only identified by his last name Park, guilty of the sexual harassment charge and ordered his immediate detention.The former councilor of the South Korean Embassy to the Latin American country was indicted without detention in May for molesting a 14-year-old girl while he was in Chile. H
Aug. 11, 2017
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Stats show women employed in record number but mostly in temporary positions
Women landed a record number of jobs in July, according to statistics Friday that also showed they were working in low-quality jobs and suspending their careers to raise a family.Statistics Korea said 11.48 million women were employed as of July, up 181,000 from the same month last year. This is the highest figure since the agency started to produce separate employment data for men and women in 1982.By comparison, 15.43 million men had jobs in July, up 131,000.The increase in employment for wome
Aug. 11, 2017
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Yoon & Yang LLC opens second Vietnam office in Hanoi
Yoon & Yang LLC, a South Korea-based international law firm, has opened its second Vietnamese office in Hanoi, following the first in Ho Chi Minh City last year, the law firm said Thursday. The Hanoi office is expected to act as a stepping stone for the firm’s expansion in the Southeast Asian legal market, it added. “We aim to offer professional advisory services customized to each Southeast Asian country, and the opening of the Hanoi office will be the momentum to expand the firm’s legal servic
Aug. 11, 2017
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Remains of 33 forced Korean workers during WW2 returned from Japan
The remains of dozens of Koreans who died in Japan after being forced to work there during World War II have recently been returned home, according to a civic group Thursday.The remains of 33 identified Koreans arrived on Sunday at Gimpo International Airport, from Kokuhei Temple in Higashimurayama, northern Tokyo, where they had been enshrined, the National Commemorative Committee for the Repatriation of Victims of Forced Laborers said during a press conference at a restaurant in central Seoul.
Aug. 10, 2017
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Police seek arrest warrant for drugmaker head over alleged abuse of chauffeurs
Police on Thursday requested a warrant to arrest the chief of a major drugmaker over alleged verbal harassment of his chauffeurs and illegal use of pills.Rhee Jang-han, chairman of Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical Corp., is accused of hurling swear words at four of his private car drivers and offering his business partners erectile dysfunction pills as gifts without obtaining prescriptions. Rhee Jang-han (C), surrounded by reporters, enters a police building in central Seoul to face questioning ov
Aug. 10, 2017
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Mother who killed newborns caught after 4 years
A 35-year-old woman who had killed and deserted the bodies of her two newborns was caught four years after she committed the crimes, South Gyeongsang Provincial Police Agency said Thursday. The woman, whose identity was withheld, is accused of strangling her own child after giving birth to it inside the bathroom cubicle of a sauna in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, in June 2013. She allegedly abandoned the body in an outdoor area within the vicinity. The woman is also accused of an identica
Aug. 10, 2017
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Man who raped stepdaughter and her friends on the run
The police are hunting for the man who allegedly raped his stepdaughter and her friends after injecting with an unidentified substance.According to the Busan district police, Thursday, the man had allegedly tricked the high school students into thinking that the drug will help them shed weight.The stepdaughter told the police that the man took her to a motel room around the end of 2015 after offering to take her to a massage parlor. She was sexually assaulted. In early 2016, the man once again t
Aug. 10, 2017
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Seoul buses to carry sex slave statues in memory of victims
Downtown buses in Seoul will carry teenage girl statues symbolizing former sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II to mark the 72nd anniversary of National Liberation Day on Aug. 15, art activists said Thursday. Starting from next week till the end of September, five buses will have seats that feature a light-weight copy of the 1.5 meter-tall bronze statue of a barefoot girl seated on a chair, created and erected in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul in 2011 by artists Kim Woon-
Aug. 10, 2017
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McDonald's hamburger found with excessive bacteria: consumer watchdog
CHEONGJU -- A hamburger from McDonald's was found to have an excessive level of a bacteria known to cause food poisoning, a local consumer agency said Thursday, as the US fast-food giant is facing troubles here with a series of complaints filed over its patties.After conducting a survey on the sanitary conditions of 38 hamburgers sold at five local convenience stores and six fast-food franchises, the Korea Consumer Agency said one burger from McDonald's contained three times the standard level o
Aug. 10, 2017
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Intl. musicians come together for Korean unification prayer song
A group of celebrated Korean and international musicians will release a project song praying for the reunification of the Korean Peninsula, according to a record label Thursday.The song titled "Korean Dream" to be released on Liberation Day - Aug. 15 - involves Korea's Jung Dong-ha and Voisper, Korean-Australian singer Dami Im, American singers Peabo Bryson and Lauren Evans, and the Philippines' Sabrina and Zendee Rose Tenerefe, One K Media said. This composite photo shows a group of internatio
Aug. 10, 2017
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Duo briefly detained for filming music video in US military base
A South Korean hip-hop duo were arrested and released by US military police in central Seoul after they shot a music video for their new album without permission from the authorities, local police said Thursday. Mighty Mouth, a male duet made up of rappers Shorry J and Sangchu, was apprehended by the US military police of the 8th Army late Wednesday, according to the Yonsan Police Station. A photo of Mighty Mouth, provided by YMC Entertainment, filed on Sept. 17, 2012. (Yonhap)Two other staff m
Aug. 10, 2017
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High court frees former prosecutor indicted for bribery
A former prosecutor serving a prison term for bribery was freed Thursday as a Seoul appellate court cleared him of some of charges and handed down a suspended sentence. The Seoul High Court overturned a lower court's ruling on Kim Hyung-joon, who was put behind bars for 2 1/2 years, and sentenced him to one-year imprisonment suspended for two years. Prosecutors had sought a seven-year prison term for Kim. The appeals court also reduced Kim's forfeiture from 27 million won ($23,700) to 9.98 milli
Aug. 10, 2017
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Seoul city govt. tests soil, water near US base for contamination
The Seoul city government conducted its own survey on soil and water near the US base in the central part of the capital for possible contamination with toxic chemicals on Wednesday, amid growing calls for the disclosure of pollution levels in the area. Officials from the Seoul Metropolitan Government visited the outer areas of the US military base in Yongsan to examine the soil and groundwater, according to the city government.They selected six spots outside the fenced-off military camps to ext
Aug. 9, 2017