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Korean industries gauge impact of Biden's steep tariffs on China
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Do Korean doctors make too much money?
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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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Why Korean crime stories typically feature nameless, faceless perpetrators
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Rare mid-May heavy snow warning issued over mountainous areas of Gangwon
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CIO chief nominee to explain allegations at confirmation hearing
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Yoon vows to run country 'rightly' on Buddha's birthday
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Debate on 'no-seniors zones' heats up
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Syria crisis forcing Korea's top presidential aide to delay trip to U.S.
A top South Korean presidential aide handling national security affairs will have to adjust his plan to visit Washington in September, especially as the Barack Obama administration is preoccupied with the Syrian crisis, an informed source said Sunday.Kim Jang-soo, head of the national security office at Cheong Wa Dae, initially planned to travel to the U.S. this month, which would have been his first trip here since taking the post in February."Kim has been pushing for a trip to Washington for m
Sept. 9, 2013
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Malaysian envoy bids farewell to Korea posting at National Day reception
Malaysian Ambassador to South Korea said farewell to friends and colleagues in the foreign diplomatic community during a reception celebrating the Southeast Asian nation’s 56th National Day at a hotel in Seoul on Tuesday. Dato’ Ramlan bin Ibrahim is ending a four-year posting here and said he would return to his home country later this month. He began his posting in March 2009. “I will be leaving Korea in less than two weeks to Kuala Lumpur to begin my new assignment at the Foreign Ministry,” R
Sept. 8, 2013
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Canadian Embassy brings art to Sookmyung University
The Canadian Embassy here has organized an exhibition showcasing 31 works of art from the embassy‘s collection at Sookmyung Women’s University Museum through Nov. 29.In addition to the embassy’s “Colours of Canada Exhibition: Canadian Modern Art Exhibition,” which showcases contemporary Canadian artworks, it organized two solo exhibitions by Korean-Canadian artists Jinny Yu and Choi Young-man being held in conjunction with the main exhibition.The embassy organized the exhibition as part of its m
Sept. 8, 2013
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Post-humanist future explored at French culture center
Downloading consciousness, fashioning physical bodies out of a variety of parts, neuro-implants and personality altering medicine ― in some sense, the future is now, according to Dominique Babin, a writer and post-human theorist invited by the French Embassy to Seoul for a writer-in-residence program. With the translation of her 2004 book “A User’s Guide and Service Manual of the Post-Human (Manuel d‘Usage et d’Entretien du Post-Humain)” into Korean by Kungree Publishing, Babin wrapped up her th
Sept. 8, 2013
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‘Mexican FTA talks looking bright’
Talks for a long-stalled free trade agreement between Mexico and South Korea could resume by the end of the year, according to the incoming Mexican ambassador to South Korea. The talks, stalled since 2008, could restart with impetus from a face-to-face meet-up between the nations’ leaders on the sidelines of either of two multilateral summits in September and October, said Mexican Ambassador to South Korea Jose Luis Bernal. “We are waiting for the next meeting of our leaders,” Bernal said during
Sept. 8, 2013
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Park arrives in Vietnam for state visit
HANOI, ST. PETERSBURG -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye kicked off her schedule in Vietnam Sunday by attending a joint fashion show and a meeting with business leaders of South Korea and Vietnam to discuss wider cooperation and investment on the second day of her state visit. Park arrived in Vietnam on Saturday for a five-day stay that she plans to use as the starting point for her “sales diplomacy” drive. The highlight of the trip is a summit with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang on M
Sept. 8, 2013
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Park urges Japan to face up to history during summit with Germany
South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Friday she hopes Japan will face up to history and work toward moving relations with Seoul in a "future-oriented manner," as she met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.Park made the remark when the German leader asked Park about relations between Seoul and Tokyo. The discussion arose during a bilateral summit held on the sidelines of a summit of the Group of 20 major economies in Russia's port city of Saint Petersburg, senior presidential foreign affai
Sept. 6, 2013
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Envoy warns against nuke testing
Karipbek Kuyukov was severely disfigured as a result of radioactive fallout from a nearby nuclear weapons testing site in Kazakhstan ― he was born without arms ― but that did not stop him from pursuing his dreams.He is now an artist, painting artworks with his mouth and feet, a key figure in the nation’s anti-proliferation efforts, leading an international movement against testing.Kuyukov was born in the late 1960s in the village of Yegyndybulak, a poor rural area on the Central Asian steppe abo
Sept. 1, 2013
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British Embassy accepting scholarship applications
The British Embassy here announced that it was accepting applications for the Chevening Scholarship for the 2014-15 academic year.Some 600 people from 118 countries are expected to go to the United Kingdom on the prestigious scholarship. Awards are typically for a one-year master’s degree in any subject and at any of the U.K.’s leading universities. The scholarship aims to support U.K. foreign policy priorities by creating lasting positive relationships with future leaders, influencers and decis
Sept. 1, 2013
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Latin American envoys join forces in bid for Korean investment
Envoys from countries belonging to the Pacific Alliance, a Latin American trade bloc, pitched to some 150 Korean executives and entrepreneurs from manufacturing, energy and mining sectors on investment opportunities during a day-long seminar in Seoul on Thursday. Heads of diplomatic missions and commercial chiefs from Peru, Colombia, Mexico and Chile took turns proffering the advantages of investing in their countries, members of the Pacific Alliance, a new trade bloc that is fast becoming an im
Sept. 1, 2013
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Turkish envoy announces retirement at Victory Day reception
Turkish Ambassador to South Korea Naci Saribas said farewell to colleagues, friends and the foreign diplomatic community during a reception celebrating his country’s 91st anniversary of Victory Day at a hotel in Seoul on Thursday. Turkey’s Victory Day is celebrated on Aug. 30 to commemorate the Turkish victory in the Battle of Dumlupinar, a decisive fight in August 1922 during the Turkish War for Independence.Anticipation within the diplomatic community for the Turkish ambassador’s farewell anno
Sept. 1, 2013
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Omani Embassy, other missions open doors to public
Five embassies here opened their chanceries to the public on Friday as part of the foreign diplomatic community’s participation in “2013 Seoul Open Night,” which took place over the weekend at several sites around the capital. The embassies of Oman, New Zealand, Poland, Turkey and Brazil opened their doors as part of the Seoul metropolitan government’s “Open House Seoul,” when more than 200 facilities opened to the public including the mayor’s official residence, large companies, museums and gal
Sept. 1, 2013
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[Photo News] Independence Day
Sept. 1, 2013
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Seoul mulls asking Japan for talks over wartime sex slavery
South Korea is considering calling on Japan again for talks on the issue of compensating elderly local women forced to serve in front-line Japanese brothels during World War II, a Seoul official said Thursday.Up to 200,000 women, including many Koreans, were coerced into sex slavery for the Japanese army during the war, when the Korean Peninsula was a Japanese colony, according to historians.The official said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is prepared to send an official letter to urge Japan to
Aug. 29, 2013
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Park urges Japan to face up to colonial history
President Park Geun-hye urged Japan Wednesday to look squarely at history and resolve grievances stemming from the country’s colonial rule of Korea, saying “regressive” remarks and actions regarding history by some Japanese politicians keep feeding tensions between the two countries.“It is regrettable that the tense situation between South Korea and Japan continues because of regressive words and deeds on history by some Japanese politicians,” Park said during a meeting with members of Mindan, t
Aug. 28, 2013
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Japanese envoy to head Korea-Japan-China body
Shigeo Iwatani, a former Japanese ambassador to Austria and Kenya, has been named the new secretary-general of the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat of Korea, China and Japan, the agency said Tuesday. The three countries set up the organization in May 2011 to facilitate and document their summits and other key tripartite dialogues, devise joint projects and conduct related research. Iwatani will begin his two-year term on Sept. 1, replacing Shin Bong-kil, the TCS’ inaugural chief and Korea’s fo
Aug. 27, 2013
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S. Korea retrieves stolen 19th-century currency printing plate from U.S.
South Korea has retrieved a century-old currency printing plate that was illegally taken to the United States by a thief during the 1950-53 Korean War, prosecutors said Tuesday.The metal printing plate, made in 1892 under the rule of King Gojong of Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) to print the nation's first modern currency, was stolen in 1951 by a U.S. serviceman who came to fight in the Korean War, they said. At the time it was being kept at Seoul's Deoksu Palace, one of the royal palaces from Joseo
Aug. 27, 2013
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S. Korea P.M. asks for Qatar's active investment
South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won called on Qatar Tuesday to expand its investment here and its support for South Korean firms' participation in major construction projects in the Gulf state.He made the request during a meeting in Doha with his Qatari counterpart Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani.Chung is in the Gulf state on the second leg of his seven-day, four-nation tour from Sunday that also includes visits to Bahrain, Sri Lanka and Turkey.He requested that Qatar "make more investments
Aug. 27, 2013
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U.N. chief Ban takes swipe at Japan over attitude to history
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged Japan to face up to history and foster forward-looking relations with its neighbors, expressing concerns over heightened tension in the region. In a news conference in Seoul, Ban also called on the leaders of Korea, China and Japan to “open-mindedly” discuss contentious issues for a “future-oriented solution based on the correct historical understanding.” “I think the political leaders of the Japanese government need a very profound introspectio
Aug. 26, 2013
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Korea launches forum on U.N. agendas
South Korea’s Foreign Ministry launched a local forum on Monday to discuss new international aid agendas to replace the United Nations millennium development goals when they expire in 2015. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se attended the event held in the ministry building to launch the annual Post-2015 Korea Forum, with about 200 civic activists, lawmakers and government officials also on hand.The local forum is designed to formulate South Korea’s proposals for
Aug. 26, 2013