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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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[Eye Interview] 'If you live to 100, you might as well be happy,' says 88-year-old bestselling essayist
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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Missing S. Korean traveler in Paris found safe after 2 weeks
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Defense chiefs of US, Australia, Japan decry NK-Russia military cooperation
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Osteoarthritis patients more susceptible to suicidal impulses: survey
Patients suffering from degenerative joint disease are two times more susceptible to suicidal impulses than healthy people, a survey showed Friday.Male osteoarthritis patients have stronger impulses to take their own lives, the poll on 8,271 people taken by professors at Korea University Medical Center said. The medical center collected the data between 2010 and 2012. (Yonhap)Comparable numbers for female patients suffering from osteoarthritis was 1.5 times higher than ordinary people.Male oste
June 9, 2017
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Ex-President Park's sister indicted on charges of fraud
Former President Park Geun-hye's sister has been indicted on charges of fraud, the prosecution said Friday.Park Geun-ryoung, a younger sibling of the ousted former president, is accused of receiving 100 million won ($89,000) in checks from the head of a social welfare organization in 2014 after promising to secure a supply contract for its products with a public corporation.According to prosecutors, Park had no connections to the relevant person at the public corporation and was not in a positio
June 9, 2017
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‘Comfort women’ victims support Kang Kyung-wha for FM
Victims of Japan’s wartime sex slavery voiced their support for Kang Kyung-wha as foreign minister of South Korea on Thursday. “(Nominee) Kang Kyung-wha should be appointed as foreign minister,” said Lee Yong-soo, one of the three victims present at the conference held in Seoul. “Kang visited (on Friday) and consoled us with tears in her eyes. She promised to solve the comfort women issue, if appointed.” (Yonhap)Last week, Kang visited the House of Sharing in Gwangju, a shelter for the former “
June 8, 2017
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6 in 10 Koreans oppose same-sex marriage
Six in 10 South Koreans still oppose the legalization of same-sex marriages, a local poll showed Thursday. According to a survey conducted on 1,004 adults by Gallup Korea, 34 percent of the respondents supported same-sex marriages, while 58 percent of them opposed it. Some 8 percent reserved their answers. The findings showed a huge generational gap on the issue: The older they were the more likely they were to hold a negative view.(123rf)A majority of 20-something people, or 66 percent, were in
June 8, 2017
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Policy advisory panel to put highest priority on tackling low birthrate
The head of South Korea's presidential policy advisory panel said Thursday that he will put the highest priority on tackling the country's chronic low birthrate in order to bolster growth potential."Solving the sluggish birthrate is the pressing task that will decide the future of South Korea," Kim Jin-pyo, chairman of the State Affairs Policy Planning Committee, said before being briefed by related ministries including the Ministry of Strategy and Finance and the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
June 8, 2017
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Ex-health minister convicted over corruption scandal
A Seoul court sentenced a former health minister to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday for exerting undue influence to back a controversial merger of Samsung Group in connection with the scandal that removed President Park Geun-hye from power and landed Samsung’s de facto leader in jail. Moon Hyung-pyo, health minister from 2013 to 2015, was convicted of abuse of power and perjury in a ruling that is likely to deal a heavy blow to Park and Lee, who are standing trials of their own for a suspected mo
June 8, 2017
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INU launches joint master’s program in public health with Siena
Incheon National University is launching a dual master’s degree program in public health in partnership with the University of Siena of Italy and the International Vaccine Institute, the school announced Thursday. To help address the growing demand for experts in biotechnology and clinical development, the school will offer a joint executive master’s course in public health, with an initial enrollment of around 20 this year, it said. University of Siena President Francesco Frati (second from le
June 8, 2017
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Seoul to double guards on elevated park to prevent suicides
Seoul City plans to double the number of guards and revamp other safety measures on its recently opened elevated park, after a man jumped to his death last week, the mayor said Thursday. “We are currently pushing to hire more guards and revamp facilities to protect citizens’ safety. We will allow no more unfortunate accidents,” Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon said via radio. (Yonhap)On May 30, a 32-year-old man from Kazakhstan jumped from the 17-meter high Seoullo 7017 in an apparent suicide, crossin
June 8, 2017
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Clumsy teen’s eyelash curling attempt sets house on fire
A fire broke out in an apartment building when a teenager tried to heat a toothpick with a lighter to curl her eyelashes, firefighters said Thursday. The girl, 14 years old, tried to put out the flames with perfume, but the alcohol it contained only made the flames bigger.(Photo courtesy of the Yangju Fire Station)According to the Yangju Fire Station, the incident occurred at home on the ninth floor of an apartment complex in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province, around midnight. It was extinguished in abo
June 8, 2017
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Korea's Catholic population estimated at 5.6 million in 2015
South Korea's population of baptized Catholics reached about 5.6 million, the world's 43rd largest, in 2015, the local church said Thursday.According to the official statistics released by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea based on the 2017 Vatican yearbook, 5.592 million South Koreans were baptized Catholics as of the end of 2015. The figure was about 1 percent up from 5.5 million in the previous year. (Yonhap)The population rose steadily from 5.22 million in 2011 to 5.31 million in 201
June 8, 2017
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Korea, Japan, China agree to beef up cooperation on Arctic issues
South Korea, Japan and China agreed Thursday to strengthen cooperation for environmental protection and scientific research in the Arctic, the foreign ministry said."Climate change is affecting the vulnerable Arctic ecosystems, the livelihoods of local inhabitants and indigenous communities on a global scale, while the melting of ice brings new opportunities, such as natural resources and marine fisheries, in the Arctic, as well as the opening of sea routes," the three countries said in a joint
June 8, 2017
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President rejects bird flu measures as formality, urges fundamental solution
President Moon Jae-in on Thursday dismissed the government's existing plans to fight the spread of avian influenza as a formality, calling for "real and fundamental" solutions, the presidential office said.The proposed measures to fight the spread of bird flu came one day after the country reported a suspected case on the southern resort island of Jeju.The president's senior aides reported the measures. (Yonhap)Details of the reported measures could not be confirmed immediately, but the governme
June 8, 2017
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Moon reaffirms promise to support firefighters
President Moon Jae-in reaffirmed Wednesday his election pledge to hire at least 19,000 firefighters over his five-year term and to improve their adverse working conditions, during a visit to a local fire station in Seoul. Starting from this year, 1,500 new firefighters will be recruited to address a chronic shortage of manpower in the field, said Moon. President Moon Jae-in listens as a female firefighter speaks during a visit to Yonsan Fire Station in central Seoul on Wednesday. (Yonhap)“Firef
June 7, 2017
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Law enforcement top brass to be removed from office over scandal
Two high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Justice and the prosecution are to be removed from office following an internal probe of their dubious cash offerings to underlings.A joint inspection team, comprising officials from the Justice Ministry and the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, asked their respective organizations for the disciplinary dismissals of Lee Young-ryeol, former chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, and Ahn Tae-geun, ex-deputy minister for criminal affairs, f
June 7, 2017
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King Sejong Institute to open in 6 more overseas cities
The government said Wednesday that it will set up overseas institutes that offer foreigners Korean language courses and Korean culture activities at six universities in six additional countries.The six universities, designated as the new operators of the King Sejong Institute, are Yancheng Teachers University in China's Jiangsu Province, Astrakhan State University in Russia, Indiana University in the U.S. state of Indiana, the University of Barcelona in Spain, National University in Indonesia an
June 7, 2017
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Itaewon bar accused of discriminating against Indian
When Kislay Kumar went out with his friends in a multicultural district in Seoul to enjoy his Friday night, the 25-year-old man did not imagine that his night would be ruined just because he was Indian. In the early hours of Saturday morning, Kumar was denied entry to a bar in Itaewon because of his nationality. His other friends from Russia, Colombia, Afghanistan, Canada and France were allowed entry. “When I was in line, the bouncer asked for our identification cards. I showed him my ID card a
June 7, 2017
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Rain not enough to quench ongoing drought
Despite rain over many parts of the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday, it was not enough to quench the ongoing drought, the weather agency said. From Tuesday afternoon, around 10 to 60 millimeters of rain poured down across the nation. Wednesday brought about 5 to 30 mm of rain in central regions like Gyeonggi Province. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said that at least 70-100 mm of rain is needed to bring an end to the drought in Gyeonggi, South Chungcheong ad South Jeolla provi
June 7, 2017
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[Herald Interview] ‘Korea should review current radioactive waste management to go nuclear-free’
The South Korean government should rethink its current approach to radioactive waste treatment technologies before attempting to go nuclear free, a renowned American nuclear expert said. In an interview with The Korea Herald, Frank von Hippel, a professor at Princeton University, warned that the state-run Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute is working on technologies that have failed in all other advanced industrial countries.With liberal President Moon Jae-in -- an advocate of nuclear-zero K
June 7, 2017
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Korea to apply strong measures to contain bird flu
Despite the government being on the highest alert, more suspected cases of bird flu were found in South Korea on Wednesday, raising the specter of another massive outbreak of the virus in just two months. “It looks like a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus is becoming an indigenous animal epidemic here. The government must devise fundamental measures,” Rep. Lee Kai-ho, a member of President Moon Jae-in‘s de facto transition team, said during a briefing by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food a
June 7, 2017
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Korea kills nearly 700 birds to stem spread of bird flu
South Korean quarantine officials culled nearly 700 birds Wednesday on the country's southern resort island of Jeju in the latest attempt to contain the spread of avian influenza.Quarantine workers gassed a total of 695 chickens and ducks from three poultry farms and packed them in plastic bags with carbon dioxide before burying them in fields near the chicken and duck farms, Kim Ik-chan, an official handling the issue at the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, spoke by phone from Jeju.(Yonhap
June 7, 2017