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Jimin of BTS, actor Song Da-eun suspected to be dating, again
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What's next for the government's push in quota hike?
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Woman falls to death from acquaintance's home after exhibiting ‘unexplained' behaviors
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‘Malice should not undermine the system, social order,’ says Hybe's Bang
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N. Korea says it test-fired tactical ballistic missile with new guidance technology
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N. Korea fires short-range ballistic missiles toward East Sea: JCS
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[Weekender] Geeks have never been so chic in Korea
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Korean firms target EV charging market in US
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NewJeans members submit petitions over court injunction in Hybe-Ador conflict
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Human rights commission urges Korea to raise awareness of LGBTQ rights
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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
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Korea to take more responsibility for dementia patients
The new state program for dementia patients proposed by President Moon Jae-in is expected to affect some hundreds of thousands of patients suffering from memory loss and their families in the country, experts said Wednesday. During the presidential campaign, Moon had stressed that the government should take more responsibility for the treatment of dementia and proposed launching a state program to handle the issue. President Moon Jae-in holds up a pot of flowers that he made with senior citizens
June 7, 2017
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Public sentiment clashes with law over verdicts on two homicide cases
Different verdicts on two murders have created a public uproar in South Korea since last week, with many raising doubts over whether the sentences on the accused were fair enough to get justice for the victims and their families. While the two cases may look similar, legal experts here said the perpetrator's intent to kill was what led to the contrasting ruling, which is never to be condoned in a law-abiding society. A murder suspect (center) accused of killing his girlfriend and burying the bo
June 7, 2017
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Woman linked to Sewol operator arrested in France
PARIS/INCHEON -- The daughter of a late businessman blamed for the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster has been arrested, as France extradited her three years after she fled to avoid arrest on embezzlement charges, officials said Wednesday.The Incheon District Prosecutors' Office said they apprehended Yoo Sum-na, the daughter of Yoo Byung-eun, aboard a Korean Airlines plane bound for Incheon at Charles de Gaulle Airport at around 3:30 a.m.She arrived in Incheon at around 3:00 p.m. wearing white pants and
June 7, 2017
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Mumbling ‘f---ing crazy’ to oneself not a crime: court
Mumbling “f---ing crazy” in English in front of a Korean aggressor does not constitute a criminal insult, a local court said Tuesday. The Constitutional Court said in a unanimous ruling that the prosecution should cancel its decision to acknowledge the action as a criminal offense. (Yonhap)In South Korea, insulting an individual publicly is a criminal offense punishable by a prison term of up to one year or a fine of up to 2 million won ($1,800).“It is hard to acknowledge that the complainant h
June 6, 2017
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[Feature] Firefighters hope for change
From natural disasters or ducklings trying to cross an expressway to locked doors at home, firefighters are being called to handle just about every “emergency” one can imagine. These everyday heroes, however, have long been among the groups most neglected by policymakers in South Korea. Career firefighters, despite facing life-threatening dangers in the line of duty, have suffered a chronic shortage of manpower, budget and, perhaps most importantly, a collective sense of being valued. But finall
June 6, 2017
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Korea begins culling 120,000 poultry over bird flu
Quarantine officials began slaughtering about 120,000 poultry Tuesday on the country's southern resort island of Jeju as South Korea raised the bird flu alert to the highest level."The culling could continue well into the night, though it remains unclear when it will end," Park Sung-soon, an official handling the issue at the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, told Yonhap News Agency via telephone. (Yonhap)Quarantine officials have already killed 38,000 chickens and ducks across the country,
June 6, 2017
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S. Korean man stabbed by strangers in Indonesia
A South Korean man has been stabbed by two unidentified assailants in Jakarta, local police said Monday. The assailants, presumed to be Indonesians, attacked the 28-year-old victim in the northern neighborhood of Kelapa Gading at 1 a.m. Sunday, they said. The Korean man, whose identity was withheld, is known to have entered Indonesia on Saturday night and was out to buy something after checking in at a hotel in the neighborhood. "The victim was robbed of his cell phone and returned to th
June 5, 2017
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S. Korea to raise bird flu alert status to highest
South Korea plans to raise the avian influenza alert status to the highest level, government officials said Monday, as it confirmed a case of highly pathogenic avian flu on the country's southern resort island of Jeju. Officials said they will issue the warning Tuesday and ban all poultry farmers across the country from moving poultry for 24 hours starting Wednesday. The move came hours after the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said tests showed the virus that hit a poultry f
June 5, 2017
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4th ferry victim ID'd as housewife
South Korean officials said Monday that they have positively identified the remains of a person wearing a life jacket in the wreck of the doomed ferry that sank in 2014.They said DNA tests showed the remains recovered from the third floor of the ship on May 22 belonged to Lee young-sook, a housewife, raising to four the number of people whose remains have been positively identified. (Yonhap)Lee was aboard the Sewol ferry that sank off the country's southwestern coast near Jindo Island in April 2
June 5, 2017