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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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Probe of first lady on Dior bag allegations set to begin
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Indonesia’s KF-21 fighter jet deal cut back -- what’s next?
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[KH Explains] Can tech firms' AI alliances take on Nvidia?
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Police seek arrest warrant for med student who killed girlfriend
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Local filmmakers criticize ‘The Roundup: Punishment’ monopoly of screens
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[Grace Kao, Meera Choi] Has money displaced romance on dates?
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Korean battery makers heave sigh of relief over 2-year IRA reprieve
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Over 80,000 millionaires, 20 billionaires in Seoul: report
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Ex-Japanese leader lashes Abe on history
A former Japanese prime minister, who offered a landmark apology for the country’s wartime atrocities, lashed out at incumbent Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday for his ongoing attempts to chip away at Tokyo’s previous efforts to atone for its imperial past and move relations with neighbors forward.Tomiichi Murayama called on Abe to follow through on his promise to uphold previous apologies, which he said serve as foundations for better Seoul-Tokyo ties. Marking the 50th anniversary of the end
Aug. 22, 2014
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[Newsmaker] New envoy to Japan faces daunting task
Yoo Heung-soo appears to be a confident and seasoned politician. Though he has yet to grasp all the pending issues and diplomatic terminology, his hale, vigorous and poised figure defies concerns about him being Korea’s oldest-ever ambassador to Japan. The 76-year-old former lawmaker, provincial governor and national police chief is scheduled to fly to Tokyo on Sunday to take on what is currently one of Korea’s most challenging diplomatic posts. He received a letter of credence from President Pa
Aug. 21, 2014
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U.S. Treasury official discusses sanctions on N. Korea, Russia
A senior U.S. Treasury official on sanction affairs has met with the South Korean government in a bid to discuss an array of sanctions imposed on North Korea, Russia and Iran, government sources said Thursday.David Cohen, U.S. undersecretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, arrived in Seoul on Wednesday for a two-day visit as part of his tour to Asia and the Middle East.Earlier in the day, he met with Hwang Joon-kook, Seoul’s top nuclear envoy, and Lee Kyung-soo, deputy
Aug. 21, 2014
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Memories of trampled dignity haunt former sex slaves
The following is the second in a series of articles on Japan’s wartime sexual enslavement of Asian women on the occasion of the 61st anniversary of the foundation of The Korea Herald on Aug. 15. ― Ed.GWANGJU, Gyeonggi Province ― Nearly 70 years after her release from a military brothel in China, Lee Ok-seon, 86, is still haunted by the nightmarish memories of having her dignity trampled upon by frontline Japanese troops.At the tender age of 16, Lee, from a poor family in Daegu, was cajoled into
Aug. 20, 2014
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Former senior lawmaker appointed envoy to Japan
Yoo Heung-soo, a former lawmaker, provincial governor and national police chief with close ties to Japan, was appointed as the new ambassador to Tokyo on Wednesday. The 76-year-old head of the Korea-Japan Friendship Association will succeed Lee Byung-kee, who is now director of the National Intelligence Service. The announcement came as the two countries’ relations are at their lowest ebb in decades due to heated historical and territorial feuds. Skepticism has erupted in the diplomatic circles
Aug. 20, 2014
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[Herald Interview] Ex-U.N. rights expert urges Tokyo to resolve sex slavery dispute
COLOMBO ― A former top U.N. expert on women’s rights urged Japan to come up with a resolution to a decades-long dispute over its wartime sex slavery, criticizing Tokyo for moving “backwards” with its historic revisionism. Radhika Coomaraswamy, the U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women from 1994-2003, warned that the issue of the so-called comfort women would “come back to bite” Japan if it continues attempting to whitewash its imperial past and undermine earlier apologies. “Recently,
Aug. 20, 2014
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S. Korea to offer US$1 mln in aid for Iraqi humanitarian crisis
South Korea's foreign ministry said Wednesday it has decided to provide an additional US$1 million in humanitarian aid to help Iraqi refugees amid escalating violence in the country.The humanitarian crisis has heightened in northern Iraq since Sunni Muslim insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seized Iraq's second-biggest city of Mosul in June.The United States began to carry out air strikes on the Islamic extremist group on Aug. 8.Seoul's foreign ministry said it has d
Aug. 20, 2014
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[Herald Interview] KOICA seeks balanced, sustainable aid
Korea’s 2010 enrollment in the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee was a milestone in the history of its economic growth, epitomizing its unprecedented ascent from a war-stricken backwater to an aid donor. The country has since been scaling up its aid commitments and personnel to help the developing world fight poverty, disease, climate change and other grave challenges. Last year, it doled out more than $1.74 billion in official development assistance as the world’s 16th-largest patron.At t
Aug. 18, 2014
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S. Korea forms task force on historical issues with Japan
South Korea's foreign ministry has set up a task force to mainly deal with Seoul's shared history with Japan such as Tokyo's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, officials said Monday.The ministry said the three-member task force under the Northeast Asian affairs bureau is charged with dealing with Japan's moves to gloss over its wartime atrocities.The move comes as bilateral relations between Seoul and Tokyo have been strained to their lowest point in recent years due to Japan's stance o
Aug. 18, 2014
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‘Comfort women’: Living, harrowing mark on history
Following is the first in a series of articles on Japan’s wartime sexual enslavement of Asian women on the occasion of the 61st anniversary of the foundation of The Korea Herald on Aug. 15. – Ed.On Aug. 14, 1991, a feeble yet upright old woman stepped forward for a historic news conference in Seoul. In front of a crowd of reporters and a flood of flashlights, she surprised the world by declaring that she was a sex slave for the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. “Why do they (the Japane
Aug. 17, 2014
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Seoul to add consular affairs division for overseas Koreans
The Foreign Ministry will create one more consular affairs division to better protect South Koreans living overseas, a ministry official said Sunday.The new division will complement the current single consular affairs division at the Foreign Ministry, the official said. The launch of the new division will be included in the home affairs ministry’s government reorganization plan to be announced in the near future, he said.The Overseas Koreans and Consular Affairs Bureau is currently in charge of
Aug. 17, 2014
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India, Korea jointly celebrate independence, friendship
The Embassy of India and the Korea India Association jointly celebrated the independence days of India and South Korea, which fall on the same day, at the Indian Cultural Center in Seoul on Friday. Over 500 guests took part, including Indian expatriates and friends of India.Two large delegations from India were there for the event, a 40-member group of the Indian Revenue Service and a 20-member Indian Youth Delegation sponsored by India’s Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. The youths are here
Aug. 17, 2014
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Korean bonanza from Mexican energy reform?
For the first time in its 76-year history, the monopoly of Mexico’s state-owned petroleum company, Pemex, was broken as the country signed into law last week reforms that would open the country’s energy sector to foreign competition. Opening Mexico’s energy sector to foreign competition ― and therefore also massive foreign direct investment ― means South Korean power plant construction companies led by the Korea Electric Power Corporation would likely stand to reap lucrative contracts to the tun
Aug. 17, 2014
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Ecuadorian flowers decorate Seoul beatification
When hundreds of thousands gathered on Saturday for a beatification ceremony of 124 Korean martyrs at Gwanghwamun Square, they may have been awed by the ceremony’s beauty. On Monday, thousands were to gather for the pontiff’s Mass for Peace and Reconciliation at Myeongdong Cathedral, the last official event of his Korea trip.Ecuador’s diplomatic mission here was instrumental in providing the flowers for the two events. “The embassy of Ecuador in Korea and the Commercial Office of Ecuador in Seou
Aug. 17, 2014
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4 embassies lend help to ‘El Sistema’ music camp
Four Latin American embassies lent a hand this year for the Sejong Dream Tree Orchestra concert, the culmination of a 10-day music camp for orphans and other children from disadvantaged backgrounds, held at Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Seoul on Wednesday.This year’s concert marks the second iteration here in South Korea of a well-known and innovative program originated decades ago in Venezuela. El Sistema was founded in 1975 by economist and musician Jose Antonio Abreu. Dipl
Aug. 17, 2014
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Singaporean envoy sings at National Day fete
Singaporean Ambassador to South Korea Peter Tan hosted his fourth and final National Day celebration at the Hyatt Hotel on Tuesday by singing with his colleagues in the diplomatic corps.A large group of envoys, diplomatic spouses and friends of Singapore gathered on stage to entertain the assembled guests.“On a personal note, this is the fourth and final year I am hosting a National Day Reception in Seoul. It has been more than 3 1/2 years since my wife and I came to Korea. One of the finest thi
Aug. 17, 2014
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Seoul may consider summit with Tokyo under certain conditions: FM
South Korea may consider holding a long-delayed meeting between the South Korean and Japanese heads of state if Tokyo takes sincere steps toward resolving bilateral issues including the Japanese imperial army's wartime enslavement of Korean women, Seoul's foreign minister said Sunday."With next year marking the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations (between South Korea and Japan), we would not exclude the possibility (of a Seoul-Tokyo summit meeting) if the Japanese side
Aug. 17, 2014
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(Photo News) Goodwill envoy for ASEAN Summit
Korean actress Lee Young-ae poses with Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul on Wednesday after Yun appointed her the goodwill ambassador for the ASEAN-ROK Commemorative Summit in Busan on Dec. 11-12. (Yoon Byung-chan/The Korea Herald)
Aug. 13, 2014
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Yun urges international support to combat N.K. nukes
South Korea’s foreign minister on Sunday urged the international community to send more clear and stern messages to North Korea to convince it to end its nuclear weapons and missile programs. Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se made the appeal at a meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum, Asia’s biggest annual security conference, which brought together top diplomats from 26 Asia-Pacific countries and the European Union.“North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile developments pose threats to world peace an
Aug. 11, 2014
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Yun presses Japan on history
NAYPYITAW ― Foreign minister Yun Byung-se urged Japan on Saturday to resolve simmering diplomatic tension by ceasing denials of its wartime atrocities, including its use of tens of thousands of Korean and other Asian women as sex slaves for its World War II soldiers.Yun made the statement before meeting with his Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida, on the sidelines of the annual security forum hosted by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, dubbed the ASEAN Regional Forum. The last officia
Aug. 10, 2014