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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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Will China's self-sufficient dream in HBM come true?
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Man stabs woman and her son amid financial dispute, killing 1
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Asiana jet was flying far below target speed near runway: NTSB
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON -- Asiana Flight 214 was flying significantly slower than its pilots had intended, and they made a failed attempt to abort landing just 1.5 seconds before smashing into a runway at a San Francisco airport, U.S. investigators said Sunday.The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced the preliminary results of its analysis of the so-called black box from the passenger jet, which crash-landed on Saturday.Two Chinese girls were killed and more than 180 people wer
July 8, 2013
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AP source: Kerry wife showed symptoms of seizure
BOSTON (AP) -- Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, was hospitalized in critical but stable condition Monday, a day after showing symptoms consistent with a seizure, a person in close contact with the family said.Heinz Kerry was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Sunday night after doctors at a hospital on Massachusetts' Nantucket Island stabilized her, said Glen Johnson, a spokesman for Kerry. The secretary o
July 8, 2013
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India police make arrest, study CCTV over temple bombs
PATNA ( AFP) - Indian police arrested a man on Monday over weekend bomb attacks targeting one of Buddhism's holiest sites and were studying CCTV footage that appeared to show two men planting explosives.The Indian government condemned the "terror attack" after multiple small bombs exploded at the historic Bodh Gaya Buddhist temple complex on Sunday morning, wounding two monks at the pilgrimage destination in eastern Bihar state."The police are doing everything to identify the two persons on the
July 8, 2013
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Asiana attendant describes dramatic evacuation
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The evacuation of Asiana Flight 214 began badly. Even before the mangled jetliner began filling with smoke, two evacuation slides on the doors inflated inside the cabin instead of outside, pinning two flight attendants to the floor.Cabin manager Lee Yoon-hye, apparently the last person to leave the burning plane, said crew members deflated the slides with axes to rescue their colleagues, one of whom seemed to be choking beneath the weight of a slide.Lee on Sunday described
July 8, 2013
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Three Israeli teens jailed for assaulting Palestinians
JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Three Israeli teenagers convicted of taking part in a brutal assault on a group of Palestinian youngsters in Jerusalem last August have been given jail terms, a copy of Sunday's district court judgement showed.Jamal Julani, 17, and three cousins, residents of Israeli-annexed Arab east Jerusalem, were attacked by dozens of Israeli youths in Zion Square, a busy bar and entertainment district of west Jerusalem.Julani was rushed unconscious to hospital but eventually released in
July 8, 2013
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Saddam Hussein's half-brother dies of cancer
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Saddam Hussein's half-brother and former director of his feared general security services died of cancer on Monday in a Baghdad hospital, a senior official said.Deputy Justice Minister Busho Ibrahim told The Associated Press that Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, who had received several death sentences, was transferred to the hospital from prison as his health deteriorated at dawn. His body will be handed over to his family.Al-Hassan had lived in exile for a period after the 2003 U.S.-l
July 8, 2013
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Chinese plane crash victims were student leaders
BEIJING (AP) -- The two 16-year-old girls killed in the San Francisco plane crash were close friends and top students who were on Asiana Flight 214 for the same reason: to get a taste of American education and possibly brighten their futures.Wang Linjia showed talent in physics and calligraphy; Ye Mengyuan was a champion gymnast who excelled in literature. Both were part of a trend among affluent Chinese families willing to spend thousands of dollars to send their children to the U.S. for a few
July 8, 2013
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Turkey inaugurates park honoring Korean War-era orphanage
The Turkish Embassy in Korea and Suwon City in Gyeonggi Province inaugurated a new park in memory of a school and orphanage established some 60 years ago during the Korean War by Turkish soldiers.Called “Ankara School” by the soldiers, the orphanage grew rapidly and accommodated some 100 children at a time, ranging in age from 5 to 15. It was said to have taught them music, Turkish and English. A total of 800 Korean children passed through the school.The orphanage cared for children through the
July 7, 2013
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Ukraine raises awareness about Georyo-saram with concerts
The Ukrainian Embassy in Korea brought the Sevastopol City Symphonic Orchestra to Korea to raise awareness of the legal plight of some 30,000 ethnic Korean-Ukrainians, known as Georyo-saram here, currently residing in the Eastern European country. As many as half a million Georyo-saram reside in many other countries throughout the former Soviet Union in addition to Ukraine, such as Uzbekistan, Russia and Kazakhstan. During its tour in Korea, the Sevastopol orchestra performed a number of concert
July 7, 2013
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Morales incident theme of Venezuela’s Independence Day
Venezuela’s Independence Day celebration took on special significance during a reception in Seoul on Friday in the wake of the diplomatic raucous caused when some European nations closed their airspace to Bolivian President Evo Morales’ plane. Charge d’Affaires Yadira Hidalgo de Ortiz, the South American country’s top diplomatic representative in South Korea, repeatedly underscored her country’s sovereignty and national independence in a thinly veiled reference to the international incident duri
July 7, 2013
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Addressing traffic problems in Kabul key to Afghan security
Facing down the snarled traffic that is an everyday headache in Kabul will be crucial for President Hamid Karzai to win the peace after the U.S.’ planned withdrawal in December 2014, according to the country’s transport minister.Afghan Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Daoud Ali Najafi was in Seoul last week to ink an MOU with his South Korean counterpart, Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation Suh Seoung-hwan.“One way to help Afghanistan win the peace is by better providing
July 7, 2013
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France outside Europe on N.K.
Charles de Gaulle underscored the French trend of marking itself out from its European neighbors ― not to mention the United States ― by recognizing Maoist China in 1964, the first major Western European country to do so.As France and China now look to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of those ties next year, France continues to stand apart from Europe, this time in its diplomatic approach to North Korea.“What we want is the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. We do not
July 7, 2013
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Senior S. Korean official in Russia for security conference
A top foreign affairs aide to South Korean President Park Geun-hye attended an annual international security conference in Russia and held a series of bilateral talks on North Korea and other issues, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.Ju Chul-ki, the senior presidential secretary for foreign affairs and security, has been in Russia's Far Eastern city of Vladivostok since Tuesday to attend a fourth meeting of ranking security officials from the United States, China and other major countries.The
July 3, 2013
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N.K. nuclear envoy heads to Russia
Kim Kye-gwan, North Korea’s point man on nuclear issues, departed for Russia on Tuesday, the country’s state news agency said, in what appears to be its efforts to resume dialogue with neighboring countries over the nuclear standoff.Kim, the first foreign affairs vice-minister, and his party left to visit Russia, the North’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a brief dispatch in English.“They were seen off at the airport by Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Kung Sok-ung, the Russian Ambass
July 2, 2013
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Park discusses closer ties with India
President Park Geun-hye met with India’s national security adviser Tuesday and discussed ways to expand economic and security ties between the two countries, her office said. The national security adviser, Shivshankar Menon, was in Seoul as a special envoy of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, marking the 40th anniversary this year of establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.Menon delivered a letter from Singh to Park during the meeting at the presidential office Cheong Wa
July 2, 2013
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Korea asks U.S. to check on spying claims
South Korea has asked the United States to check on recent allegations that its intelligence agency bugged the South Korean mission there, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Tuesday.The South Korean Embassy in the U.S., along with European Union missions and 37 other diplomatic missions, was allegedly targeted by the U.S. National Security Agency, which tapped their phone calls and e-mails, according to media reports based upon documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.“(The South Kore
July 2, 2013
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S. Korea to host special summit with ASEAN next year
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei ― President Park Geun-hye will host a “special” summit with leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations next year in celebration of 25 years of their diplomatic ties, Seoul officials said Monday. The decision was made at a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers on Sunday. The 10-nation bloc normally hosts a summit with Korea every year. “The event will provide a chance to expand and deepen the Korea-ASEAN relations and strengthen political and security cooperati
July 1, 2013
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Korea, Japan ministers meet to mend ties
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei ― The foreign ministers of Seoul and Tokyo held their first talks on Monday in an apparent effort to mend bilateral relations strained by historical and territorial feuds.The 25-minute conversation between Yun Byung-se and Kishida Fumio took place on the sidelines of the ASEAN Regional Forum in Brunei. It is the region’s largest security conference with 27 countries participating, including North Korea, the U.S., China and Russia. Yun scrapped a trip to Tokyo in April
July 1, 2013
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Egyptian Embassy brings social satire ‘Yacoubian Building’
The Egyptian Embassy in South Korea brought critically acclaimed 2006 film “The Yacoubian Building,” seen for the first time by the general public, to a local theater in Seoul on Friday. Based on the 2002 novel by Alaa Al Aswany, “The Yacoubian Building” sketches comic yet heart-wrenching portrayals of the vagaries of the human heart. “The Yacoubian Building” is a searing indictment of Egyptian society under now-deposed strongman Hosni Mubarak and his decades of oppressive and corrupt misrule.Th
June 30, 2013
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Irish Embassy joins social media with new Twitter account
The Irish Embassy in Korea announced on Wednesday that following the embassy’s Twitter account @Irishembkorea is a good way to keep up to date with events at Ireland’s diplomatic mission here, as well as the expatriate Irish community in Korea.Twitter followers of the Irish Embassy in Korea “will get updates and links from a range of things we think might interest you, with a particular focus on tweets from the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy network around the world and great s
June 30, 2013