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No. of multicultural students increases tenfold in 10 yrs
The number of multicultural students in South Korea has risen by more than 10-fold in the past decade, data showed Sunday.According to data from the Ministry of Education, 99,186 multicultural children are currently studying at elementary, middle and high schools in the country, accounting for 1.68 percent of the overall student population.In 2006, there were 9,389 multicultural students who accounted for 0.12 percent of the total."Considering the decline in the number of school-aged children an
Dec. 4, 2016
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More than 2 million take to streets calling for Park’s resignation
Up to 2.3 million people took to the streets across the nation on Saturday in their sixth consecutive weekend rally, to demand the President Park Geun-hye‘s resignation over an influence-peddling and corruption scandal. If organizers’ figures are correct, the rally is the biggest in the nation’s history, estimated at more than double the size of that in June 1987, when about a million people poured onto the streets to fight for democracy.Some 1.7 million people gathered in central Seoul to deman
Dec. 3, 2016
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[From the scene] Dec. 3 anti-Park rally in pictures
Around 1.6 million South Koreans rallied near the presidential office north of Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul to demand the ouster of scandal-ridden President Park Geun-hye on Saturday. Here are some of the photos featuring one of the biggest, but most peaceful protests in the country.A protester wears a chicken costume to make fun of President Park while marching towards the presidential office. (Bak Se-hwan/The Korea Herald)At 3 p.m., protesters gather at Gwanghwamun Square before marchi
Dec. 3, 2016
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[UPDATE] Up to 1.5 million march to presidential office in protest
Tens of thousands of South Koreans took to the streets of central Seoul on Saturday in their sixth consecutive weekend rally to demand the President Park Geun-hye’s resignation over an influence-peddling and corruption scandal.As of 8 p.m. up to 1.5 million protesters, according to rally organizers, packed main boulevards connecting City Hall and Gwanghwamun Square to Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul for a candlelight vigil aimed at ramping up pressure on Park to immediately step down.Up to 900
Dec. 3, 2016
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[BREAKING] Sixth massive anti-Park rally held in Seoul
Tens of thousands of South Koreans took to the streets of central Seoul on Saturday in its sixth consecutive rally to demand the scandal-hit President Park Geun-hye’s resignation over an influence-peddling and corruption scandal. As of 4 p.m., up to 500,000 protestors packed main boulevards in central Seoul, according to rally organizers, and began to march toward the presidential office along three main routes to ramp up pressure on Park to step down.This is the sixth week of major protests aga
Dec. 3, 2016
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Sewol ferry disaster to be made into feature film
A ferry incident off the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula that caused more than 300 deaths will be made into a feature film, industry sources said Sunday.The movie, tentatively titled "Sea Tiger," will be based on a novel written by Kim Tak-hwan about divers who were involved in the2014 rescue operations on the doomed ferry Sewol.Kim wrote the book based on the testimony of late diver Kim Kwan-hong, who committed suicide while suffering from the mental and physical after effects of the int
Dec. 3, 2016
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Court allows weekend protest 100 meters from presidential office
A local court on Friday ordered police to allow citizens to march up to 100 meters from the presidential office for the rally slated for the weekend amid public anger over the influence-peddling scandal centered on President Park Geun-hye and her confidante.The decision marks an easing of restrictions from a week earlier when the court allowed protesters to march to 200 meters from the presidential office of Cheong Wa Dae. The ruling only permits the rally from 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.Organizers c
Dec. 3, 2016
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Special counsel vows to grill Park
A special counsel appointed to investigate a scandal engulfing President Park Geun-hye vowed Friday to question the president in person, saying a face-to-face interrogation was a principle that should apply to all subjects of the forthcoming probe. “The public’s desire is for the special counsel team to unearth the whole truth and I intend to do just that and devote my everything to it,” Park Young-soo, former chief of the Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office, told reporters. Special counsel Park Youn
Dec. 2, 2016
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Lawmakers against Park impeachment under fire
South Koreans are bombarding lawmakers of the ruling Seanuri Party with phone calls and text messages to pressure them to join the opposition-led campaign to impeach President Park Geun-hye. This came after Rep. Pyo Chang-won of the opposition Democratic Party of Korea unveiled a list of the lawmakers opposing the impeachment. Rep. Pyo Chang-won of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (left) argues with lawmakers of Saenuri Party at the National Assembly on Thursday. (Yonhap)Mobile phon
Dec. 2, 2016
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Life expectancy of S. Koreans edges up to 82.1 years in 2015
South Korean babies born in 2015 are expected to live more than 82 years as the risk of death has been diminished by medical advances and other efforts, a government report showed Friday.The life expectancy at birth averaged 82.1 years in 2015, slightly up from the previous year's 81.8 years, according to the report by Statistics Korea.Baby boys and girls were expected to live 79 years and 85.2 years, respectively, last year, with the male-female difference dropping 0.2 year to 6.2 years.The gen
Dec. 2, 2016
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When will Choi’s daughter return?
As an independent counsel is set to take over the investigation into the spiraling scandal involving President Park Geun-hye and her confidante Choi Soon sil, eyes are on when Choi’s daughter Chung Yoo-ra will return to Korea. Chung, a 19-year-old dressage rider, is involved in the scandal, but has not been brought in for questioning yet. Chung is said to be in Germany, on leave of absence from Ewha Womans University. Her mother, who stayed there with Chung, returned to Korea last month and is n
Dec. 1, 2016
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Parody SNS accounts of Choi, Chung viral
In October, a 2014 Facebook post by Chung Yoo-ra, the daughter of President Park Geun-hye’s now infamous friend Choi Soon-sil, drew public ire. “Blame your own parents if they don’t have the ability. Don’t point fingers at us if your parents don’t have what it takes. Money is also a form of ability,” it read, stoking public anger over what is now being called the Choi Soon-sil scandal. Choi, a friend of the president for some 40 years, is accused of meddling in state affairs, extorting money fro
Dec. 1, 2016
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Arson suspected in fire at birthplace of late president
Arson is suspected in a fire at the birthplace of late leader Park Chung-hee, father of President Park Geun-hye, in southern South Korea, local firefighters said Thursday.The fire broke out around 3:15 p.m. at the home located in Gumi, some 261 kilometers southeast of Seoul, and was extinguished within 10 minutes, they added. No casualties were immediately reported.Firefighters, however, said the fire has destroyed the memorial hall that displayed the late president's portrait. The birthpalce of
Dec. 1, 2016
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Park visits burned market in her political stronghold of Daegu
President Park Geun-hye on Thursday visited a fire-ravaged market in her political stronghold of Daegu, in her first trip outside her office in over a month, as a crippling scandal rumbles on. The embattled leader made the unannounced visit to Seomun Market, some 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, where nearly 680 shops were destroyed and two firefighters were injured in a fire on Wednesday.Upon her arrival, Park looked over the damaged section. The city has called on the central government to d
Dec. 1, 2016
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Ex-presidential nurse says Park received no medical treatment on day of ferry disaster
South Korean President Park Geun-hye received no treatment from her medical staff on the day of a deadly ferry disaster in 2014, a former presidential nurse said Wednesday, amid persisting rumors she might have undergone plastic surgery.The Army nurse, identified as Capt. Cho, who has been in the US for training at an Army hospital in Texas, also said in a telephone interview that neither she nor other medical staff visited Park's residence on April 16, 2014, when the ferry disaster happened.Her
Dec. 1, 2016
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Fire guts Daegu market, no casualties reported
A fire broke out in the southern city of Daegu early Wednesday, gutting over 800 stores in the city’s biggest street market. No casualties were reported. According to local authorities, the blaze started at around 2 a.m. in a section of Seomun Market where 839 stores -- mostly selling clothes -- are located. The stores suffered severe damage, but the estimated financial damage is not yet known. Two firefighters were injured and two people were rescued from the blaze. No major injuries were repor
Nov. 30, 2016
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Old Haebangchon market seeks change through urban revitalization
Located at the foot of Namsan, Shinheung market was once the center of the local knitwear industry in the 1960s. It had a vibrant and festive market atmosphere, and attracted people from adjacent towns. Over 20,000 people from across the nation flocked to the market looking for jobs up to the 1990s.But the advent of shopping malls and the decline of the knitwear industry in the face of cheap Chinese products in the years that followed spelled doom for the old market located in the upper part of
Nov. 30, 2016
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Civil society ups pressure on Park
Tens of thousands of unionized workers staged a general strike and students boycotted classes Wednesday, upping pressure on President Park Geun-hye to resign. Demanding the president‘s immediate resignation, civic groups, the workers and students vowed to hold a large-scale rally Saturday. An association of 500 civic groups declared Wednesday as “a day of citizens’ resistance,” staging rallies in front of City Hall in central Seoul and in major cities from 3 p.m. More universities also joined a
Nov. 30, 2016
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Former presidential aides probed in Choi scandal
The prosecution is investigating President Park Geun-hye’s former Chief of Staff Kim Ki-choon and former Senior Secretary Woo Byung-woo as suspects in the corruption scandal involving Park and her confidante, government officials said Wednesday. A report for the parliamentary audit by the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office showed that Kim is being investigated for abusing his authority to have officials removed from their posts. This is suspected to have been related to the
Nov. 30, 2016
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Ex-presidential chief of staff, aide under probe over influence-peddling scandal
Two former presidential secretaries are currently under investigation over their alleged involvement in an influence-peddling scandal surrounding President Park Geun-hye and her confidante, according to the government.In a document written for the parliamentary probe over the scandal, the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Prosecutors' Office said Kim Ki-choon, former presidential chief of staff, and Woo Byung-woo, ex-senior presidential secretary for civil affairs, have been named as suspects
Nov. 30, 2016