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Do Korean doctors make too much money?
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Korean industries gauge impact of Biden's steep tariffs on China
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Court refuses injunction on medical school expansion
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Why Korean crime stories typically feature nameless, faceless perpetrators
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Is FTC's conglomerate listing a boon or bane for Hybe?
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NewJeans to headline palace show
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Coupang's Kim Bom escapes chaebol chief designation again
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Debate on 'no-seniors zones' heats up
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S. Korea, Cambodia forge strategic partnership
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Rare mid-May heavy snow warning issued over mountainous areas of Gangwon
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Police seek warrant to arrest Hanwha chief's son for assaulting bar employees
Police requested an arrest warrant for the third son of Hanwha Group Chairman Kim Seung-youn on Friday over allegations he assaulted two bar employees the previous day. Kim Dong-seon, 27, was taken to Gangnam Police Station early Thursday after beating the workers, whose identities were withheld, at a bar in southern Seoul at around 3:30 a.m. The younger Kim, who is a member of the equestrian team of South Korea's eighth-largest business group and official at Hanwha Engineering & Construction Co
Jan. 6, 2017
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Constitutional Court to ask police to locate Park aides
The Constitutional Court will ask the police to locate two former aides to President Park Geun-hye who are at the center of a political scandal that led to Park's impeachment, an official said Friday. The court's justices agreed to file the request with the respective police stations in Seoul's Jongno and Gangnam Wards as both aides appeared to have fled to avoid giving testimony in court. "We will send summonses to their addresses by mail and request a search by the police at the same time," th
Jan. 6, 2017
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Seoul court orders gov't to make public documents related to sex slave deal
A South Korean court on Friday ordered the Seoul government to disclose part of a dossier related to its negotiations for a 2015 deal with Tokyo to settle the thorny issue of Japan's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women. The Seoul Administrative Court ruled in favor of lawyer Song Ki-ho who filed a lawsuit last February against Seoul's foreign ministry to demand part of the documents be made public to verify the "true nature" of the deal. Song, a member of the Lawyers for a Democratic Soci
Jan. 6, 2017
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Probe closes in on alleged bribery involving Park, Samsung
The independent counsel investigating the corruption scandal involving President Park Geun-hye summoned the CEO of a Samsung Group subsidiary Friday, with the probe zeroing in on whether Park indirectly took bribes from the nation’s largest conglomerate.The investigation team grilled Lim Dai-ki, the CEO of Cheil Industries, to look into whether the advertising firm sponsored Park’s longtime confidante Choi Soon-sil in return for the president helping the merger of Samsung Group’s two affiliates.
Jan. 6, 2017
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Ex-Reckitt Benckiser CEO gets 7-year jail term
A Seoul court Friday sentenced a former chief of Reckitt Benckiser’s local unit to seven years in prison, after more than five years since the accusations on toxic humidifier disinfectants first surfaced in 2011.The Seoul Central District Court convicted ex-CEO Shin Hyun-woo of skipping the due safety tests for the disputed products and for using false advertisements with terms such as “harmless” and “safe for babies.” The lower court handed down the maximum criminal penalty possible under the c
Jan. 6, 2017
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South Korea confirms 17th Zika virus infection
South Korea has confirmed another case of the Zika virus infection, raising the number of people infected with the virus here to 17, health authorities said Friday. A 20-year-old Korean woman was confirmed to have been infected with the mosquito-borne virus after visiting the Philippines, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is presumed to have been bitten by a mosquito during her five-day stay in the Southeast Asian nation in December, they said The woman, who
Jan. 6, 2017
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Former Oxy CEO gets 7-year term for toxic humidifier sterilizers
A Seoul court on Friday sentenced a former head of Oxy Reckitt Benckiser to seven years in prison, more than five years after the scandal over the household goods maker's toxic humidifier sterilizers came to light.The Seoul Central District Court convicted Shin Hyun-woo, 68, of selling the products without going through due safety checks, and affecting 181 people, including the deaths of 73.The 68-year-old headed the company from 1991 to 2005. Oxy started selling the sterilizers here in 2001.Joh
Jan. 6, 2017
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Hanwha chairman’s son accused of assaulting bar employees
The third son of Hanwha Group Chairman Kim Seung-youn is under investigation without detention for allegedly assaulting two bar employees Thursday, police said.Kim Dong-seon, 27, was arrested by police at the bar in southern Seoul at around 4:10 a.m., after beating the workers, whose identities were withheld, according to the Gangnam Police station. Kim Dong-seon (right), the third son of Hanwha Group Chairman Kim Seung-youn, is investigated by Gangnam Police. (Yonhap)The younger Kim, who is a
Jan. 5, 2017
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Probe team says culture minister, former Park aide linked to blacklist of cultural figures
The independent counsel team investigating a corruption scandal linked to President Park Geun-hye said Thursday that the current culture minister and a former top presidential aide were involved in the alleged blacklisting of cultural figures deemed critical of the conservative government. During a regular press briefing, spokesman Lee Kyu-chul said Culture Minister Cho Yoon-sun and Kim Ki-choon, former presidential chief of staff, were implicated in the alleged creation and management of a bla
Jan. 5, 2017
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Woman at center of scandal pleads not guilty at first court hearing
President Park Geun-hye's close friend, who is at the center of an influence-peddling scandal that led to her impeachment, pleaded not guilty during her first formal hearing held Thursday. Choi Soon-sil, 60, appeared before the Seoul Central District Court as a defendant for a string of charges, including abuse of power and attempted fraud, in a hearing held after two rounds of preparatory sessions last month. "There are many parts that are unfair to me," she said in court, denying all allegatio
Jan. 5, 2017
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Study blames windstorm for warmer Arctic
Excessive warmth in the Arctic was triggered by the entry of a strong Atlantic windstorm, a team of South Korean researchers has revealed. According to a study released Thursday by researchers of the Korea Polar Research Institute, the warm and moist air driven to the Arctic by a windstorm named “Frank” is the primary contributing factor of the extremely warm weather in the region. Storm Frank, the worst winter flooding on record in the United Kingdom, left hundreds homeless for two days in late
Jan. 5, 2017
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3 in 10 Seoulites say education level factor in discrimination
About three in 10 Seoulites consider one’s level of education the biggest factor in social discrimination, a survey shows.According to a poll conducted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s survey center Seoul Survey, 28.7 percent of some 47,000 respondents living in Seoul in 2015 said that they believe people judge and discriminate others based on education level. Graduates view a bulletin on job offers after attending a commencement ceremony at a university in Seoul(Yonhap)Respondents also co
Jan. 5, 2017
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Factory farming blamed for massive bird flu outbreak: experts
Two months into the outbreak of a highly pathogenic H5N6 strain of bird flu in the country, experts said that poor breeding conditions at poultry farms such as industrial-scale farming of egg-laying hens may have accelerated the spread of avian influenza virus. A record number of 30.4 million birds have been culled throughout the nation so far as of Wednesday, with egg-haying hens accounting for over 73 percent. While the government has yet to offer clear reason for the worsening situation, cast
Jan. 5, 2017
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90 pct of teens use mobile Internet: survey
The mobile Internet is found to be the most frequently used medium among South Korean teenagers outstripping TVs, newspapers and other traditional media, according to a survey released Tuesday. The study, conducted from June 23 to July 29, also showed that one in four teens have experience using one-person broadcasting on online platforms such as YouTube and South Korea‘s AfreecaTV.The Korea Press Foundation unveiled the results of their “2016 Media Usage by Teenagers” survey based on one-on-one
Jan. 3, 2017
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Suicide rate triples in 25 years
The number of South Koreans who chose to take their own lives has tripled in the past 25 years, with the most dramatic increase among those in their 40s and women, a study shows. According to a team of researchers led by professor Park Sang-hwa at Seoul National University Medical Research Center, the country’s suicide rate came in at an average of 29.6 cases per 100,000 people in the 2010-2014 period, a 3.6-fold increase from the 8.2 cases recorded for 1985-1989. Stock image(123rf)In the 80s,
Jan. 3, 2017
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Seoul faces dilemma over ‘comfort women’ statue in Busan
Seoul’s dilemma is intensifying over a newly installed “comfort women” statue in Busan, as government efforts to relocate it stumbled amid citizens’ frenzied resistance while Tokyo stages a strong protest. The memorial was initially put up on Dec. 28 on a sidewalk near the Japanese consulate in the port city, in a display of resistance toward a settlement on the sex slavery dispute reached precisely one year ago. `Comfort women` statue installed near Japanese consulate in Busan (Yonhap)The poli
Jan. 3, 2017
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70% of Korea’s fine dust particles come from China: study
About 70 percent of fine dust particles found in South Korean skies come from neighboring Northeast Asian countries such as China, a recent study shows. According to an analysis of the state-run Korea Environment Institute, up to 70 percent of Korea’s fine dust particles and other airborne pollutants originated in China and other Central Asian countries like Kazakhstan and Mongolia. The study was conducted on a total of 254 days between 2001 and 2008 when Seoul’s ultrafine dust particle concentr
Jan. 3, 2017
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Daily number of road casualties lowest in 2016
Seoul saw a total of 343 deaths from traffic accidents last year, the lowest since the city government began collecting such data. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government on Tuesday, 2016 marks the first time the city saw the daily average number of road casualties fall below one, at 0.94 deaths. It is the lowest number since the city government started collecting data in 1970 when the daily toll stood at 1.46 deaths. The capital city saw the figure rise to as high as 3.76 in the 1980s, w
Jan. 3, 2017
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Chung Yoo-ra ordered to turn in passport
The South Korean government has ordered the daughter of Choi Soon-sil, the woman at the center of a massive presidential scandal, to turn in her passport in a bid to pressure her to return home and face an investigation, diplomatic sources said Tuesday.Chung Yoo-ra was arrested in the northern Danish city of Aalborg on Sunday on charges of illegal stay. She is suspected of receiving favors from a Seoul-based college in the admissions process and on tests by taking advantage of her mother's ties
Jan. 3, 2017
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Suspicious deaths surround Park: opposition politician
One of the leaders of South Korea’s main opposition party on Monday called for law enforcement authorities to reinvestigate “suspicious deaths surrounding” President Park Geun-hye. “Another death. How many deaths have there been so far?” asked Rep. Woo Sang-ho, floor leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, referring to a longtime secretary of Park Ji-man, the president’s younger brother. (Yonhap)The man, a 45-year-old surnamed Joo, was found dead Sunday at his home in southern Seoul. Police sai
Jan. 2, 2017