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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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First-ever meeting of president, opposition chief set to finally happen
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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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NewJeans' singles, Japanese debut to proceed as planned, despite Hybe-Ador feud
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Experts raise concerns about Japan putting pressure on Naver over Line
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South Korea to launch space security center under spy agency
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More med professors to take day off each week while govt. urges them to stay
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Hybe refutes Ador CEO Min's denial of breach of trust
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S. Korea, Japan could consider simplified entry agreement: Seoul official
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Legoland Korea Resort to open until 9 p.m.
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Park's signature history textbooks rejected by all but 1 school
One school in the country has volunteered to use a set of state-authored history textbooks, the education ministry said Monday, highlighting the controversy surrounding the program advocated by impeached President Park Geun-hye.Munmyeong High School in Gyeongsan, 331 kilometers southeast of Seoul, applied to use the textbooks in the new academic year starting in March, the ministry said. Some 1,800 other middle and high schools did not apply even though the government offered merit points for te
Feb. 20, 2017
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1 dead, 1 missing after fishing boat sinks off Jeju Island
A fisherman died and another went missing after a fishing boat sank off South Korea's southernmost island of Jeju on Monday, the Coast Guard said.The 278-ton fishing ship with a crew of 10 sank in waters some 40 kilometers northeast off the city of Jeju on the island, coast guard officers said. The ship sent a distress message to the coast guard around 1:30 p.m.Medical workers carry a fisherman, who was in critical condition, to an emergency room at a hospital in the city of Jeju on South Korea'
Feb. 20, 2017
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Samsung to halt weekly meeting of top executives after arrest of Lee
Samsung Group will halt its weekly meeting of top executives for the time being after the group's de facto chief, Lee Jae-yong, was arrested over his alleged role in the presidential influence-peddling scandal, group officials said Monday.Lee, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics who has denied any wrongdoing, was arrested last Friday over the scandal that led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye. (Yonhap)Samsung has held the weekly meeting every Wednesday and the temporary suspension
Feb. 20, 2017
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Seoul sees assassination aimed at removing potential challenger to Kim
South Korea's defense chief said Monday that North Korea's alleged assassination of its leader Kim Jong-un's half brother appears to be part of Pyongyang's move to remove any potential challengers to Kim's power and forestall any outside attempt to overthrow its regime."The murder of Kim Jong-nam by the North can be meant to remove alternative forces to the Kim Jong-un regime and warn the international community against any possible regime change attempts," Defense Minister Han Min-koo told the
Feb. 20, 2017
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Asiana Airlines briefly shuts down website due to hacking attack
Asiana Airlines Co., South Korea's second-largest flag carrier, was forced Monday to temporarily close its global website due to an apparent attack by hackers, causing inconveniences to many who tried to book flights or check their flight schedules.No leaks of personal information have been detected despite the hacking attack that began around 4:30 a.m., according to company officials. (Yonhap)Online services had been restored from as early as 8 a.m., and the company said they were fully back on
Feb. 20, 2017
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FMD vaccine imports due to arrive in Korea this week
About 560,000 doses of vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease are set to arrive in South Korea later this week, the agriculture ministry said Monday, a move that would help the nation prevent the further spread of the animal disease.The development came after South Korea recently asked a British manufacturer of the vaccine, Merial, for emergency imports of the FMD vaccine for the type O+A virus to fight against the simultaneous outbreak of the type A and type O viruses. So far, about 1,400 cattl
Feb. 20, 2017
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5 youths booked for stealing dolls from claw machine
Police said Monday they have booked five youths without physical detention for being allegedly involved in a break-in of a claw machine to steal dolls by entering the machine through its exit which is slightly larger than an A4 sheet of paper.According to the Dongbu Police Station, one of the five, 18, identified only by his surname Lee, managed to crawl into the exit of a machine at an unattended shop in the southwestern city of Gwangju around 12:30 a.m. on Jan. 25 and take seven dolls worth 45
Feb. 20, 2017
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Autopsy results could come out as early as Wednesday: report
Malaysia could unveil the results of an autopsy on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half brother this week, a foreign news report showed Monday.Malaysia's health minister told reporters that the autopsy results for Kim Jong-nam could be ready as early as Wednesday, based on the normal period to complete the post-mortem, according to Reuters.Malaysia's deputy national police chief Noor Rashid Ibrahim (L) speaks in the press conference. (AP-Yonhap)Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son of late former leade
Feb. 20, 2017
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Civic group to hold protest meeting in Japan over Dokdo
Members of a group promoting South Korea's sovereignty over South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo will make a visit to Japan this week to protest against an annual ceremony stressing Tokyo's claim to the islets, the group said Monday.In a rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, the group said a five-person delegation will leave for Japan the same day before taking part in the "Takeshima Day" ceremony in Matsue, Japan's Shimane Prefecture, as protesters.This file photo, dated Feb. 22
Feb. 20, 2017
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Korea's antibiotic use down in 2015, still highest among OECD countries
South Korea's consumption of antibiotics edged down in 2015 but remained the highest among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the health ministry said Monday.According to the ministry, the country's antibiotic use was tallied at 31.1 defined daily dose per 1,000 people, meaning 31.1 out of 1,000 people were prescribed antibiotics a day. The prescription of antibiotics, which stood at 26.9 DDD in 2008, topped 30 DDD in 2013 and peaked at 31.7 DDD in 2014 before
Feb. 20, 2017
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Gov't provides 178 bln won to MERS-hit hospitals and others
The government has compensated a total of 233 hospitals, shops and other agencies that suffered from massive losses in the wake of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outbreak in 2015, a report showed Sunday.According to the report submitted to Rep. Kim Seung-hee of the ruling Liberty Korea Party, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said a total of 178 billion won ($155 million) was provided to cover their losses incurred in dealing with the respiratory disease through shutdowns and preventive m
Feb. 19, 2017
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Samsung arrest prompts questions about Park's fate
The arrest of Samsung Group's de facto leader has prompted questions about the fate of President Park Geun-hye, who has been impeached for allegedly extorting money from conglomerates including Samsung.Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., was arrested Friday on suspicion of offering 43 billion won ($36.3 million) worth of bribes to Park's friend Choi Soon-sil in exchange for business favors. President Park Geun-hye (Yonhap)The president's lawyers dismissed any link between the
Feb. 17, 2017
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Lee’s arrest puts Park under pressure
With the arrest of Samsung Group’s heir apparent Lee Jae-yong, the special counsel team is likely to accelerate its investigation into President Park Geun-hye who is suspected of receiving bribes and giving favors in return. Lee, Samsung Electronics vice chairman, was arrested early Friday morning, after a court approved the second request from the counsel to issue a warrant. He is suspected of offering 43 billion won ($36 million) to Choi Soon-sil, Park’s longtime friend, which the investigator
Feb. 17, 2017
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Ready for school -- and the academic race
Six-year-old Kim Lyu-hyun has yet to start school, but he is not new to sitting tight for a few straight hours to study. The child is comfortable reading and writing in his mother tongue, can add and subtract below 20 without errors -- and without using his fingers to count -- and claims to understand why one plus infinity is still infinity. He currently attends a thrice-a-week, three-hour intensive course on English, a language he rarely hears or uses outside the classroom. A boy studies at Han
Feb. 17, 2017
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New charges, Park aide’s diaries key to Lee’s arrest
The independent counsel’s tightly rewoven bribery charges propped up by fresh evidence including a new batch of a presidential aide’s diaries were seen among key factors that had driven the court to issue an arrest warrant for Samsung’s de facto chief Lee Jae-yong on Friday. The decision means the court saw that Lee was behind the tech giant’s donation of 43.3 billion won ($37 million) to President Park Geun-hye’s confidante Choi Soon-sil in exchange for business favors. Cheong Wa Dae is accused
Feb. 17, 2017
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Presidential hopeful seeks to shut down gender ministry
Aides to Rep. Yoo Seong-min, a potential presidential candidate from the Bareun Party, on Friday defended his remarks that he hopes to close down the gender ministry and disperse its functions to other executive departments.Yoo made the remark during a TV interview on Thursday, sparking heated discussion on online forums with some calling it a patriarchal and chauvinistic idea. Rep. Yoo Seong-min of the Bareun Party (Yonhap)He criticized the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family for failing to
Feb. 17, 2017
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3 in 10 Korean adults skip breakfast every day: survey
Almost three in 10 South Korean adults skip breakfast, with people in their 20s doing so more often, a survey said Friday, raising the need for improving the public's eating habits.The survey on the status of the eating habits of the country's adults, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, revealed that 29.5 percent and 26.1 percent of males and females, respectively, aged 19 or older did not eat breakfast in 2015. (Yonhap)The figures represented growth of 9.1 percentage po
Feb. 17, 2017
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Samsung heir apparent's arrest puts younger sister in spotlight
The elder daughter of Samsung Group's controlling family was recast in the spotlight Friday on speculation, although mostly perceived as unlikely, that she may take over the country's biggest conglomerate in lieu of her brother being arrested early in the day on bribery charges.Lee Boo-jin is known in the business community as most resembling her father Lee Kun-hee, the head of Samsung Group who has been hospitalized since May 2014 after a heart attack, in management style and character. She has
Feb. 17, 2017
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Special counsel to summon Samsung heir this weekend
Special prosecutors will summon the de facto leader of Samsung Group this weekend to question him for the first time since his arrest over a bribery scandal involving President Park Geun-hye, a spokesman said Friday.Lee Jae-yong, who was formally arrested earlier in the day, will be brought to the special prosecutors' office Saturday, according to Assistant Special Counsel Lee Kyu-cheol, to face questioning over allegations he offered 43 billion won ($36.3 million) worth of bribes to Park's frie
Feb. 17, 2017
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70 percent of people call for renegotiation of Seoul-Tokyo deal on ‘comfort women’: survey
South Koreans' calls for the renegotiation of a 2015 Seoul-Tokyo deal on Japan's sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II have been rising amid the rekindling of a row between the two countries over symbols of the victims, according to poll results released by Gallup Korea on Friday.About 70 percent of the respondents said South Korea should hold talks with Japan to renegotiate the agreement, while 20 percent of them expressed their objection to the idea, with the remaining 10 perc
Feb. 17, 2017