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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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First-ever meeting of president, opposition chief set to finally happen
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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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NewJeans' singles, Japanese debut to proceed as planned, despite Hybe-Ador feud
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Experts raise concerns about Japan putting pressure on Naver over Line
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South Korea to launch space security center under spy agency
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More med professors to take day off each week while govt. urges them to stay
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Hybe refutes Ador CEO Min's denial of breach of trust
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S. Korea, Japan could consider simplified entry agreement: Seoul official
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Legoland Korea Resort to open until 9 p.m.
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Green growth institute mulls moving to Songdo
The Global Green Growth Institute is considering moving to the international business district of Songdo, Incheon, to take advantage of a synergy effect with the Green Climate Fund and various incentives from the city government, officials told The Korea Herald. The Incheon city government has recently offered the Seoul-based GGGI benefits including a 10-year free lease of office space and operating cost subsidies. “We’re looking into the option after receiving an offer of free office space for
April 1, 2013
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S. Korea nervous about Carter's arms sales moratorium in 1977: declassified dossier
(Yonhap) -- South Korea faced a nerve-wracking several months in 1977 after the administration of then-U.S. president Jimmy Carter held up arms sales to foreign countries worth about US$6 billion, Seoul's declassified diplomatic documents showed Sunday. The documents revealed that South Korean officials were worried about the months-long arms sales moratorium by Carter, who had at that time contemplated withdrawing ground combat troops from South Korea. Carter's sudden decision to withdraw U
March 31, 2013
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Australian envoy finishes four-year posting
Australian Ambassador to Korea Sam Gerovich returned to Canberra at the end of last week, completing a four-year posting here which started on March 24, 2009. Gerovich will be replaced by Bill Paterson who is expected to arrive in Korea in May, the embassy said. Deputy Head of Mission Brendan Berne will head up the diplomatic mission as charge d’affairs until incoming Ambassador Paterson assumes his posting here, the embassy said. Gerovich’s four years as his country’s top diplomatic representa
March 31, 2013
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[Photo News] Climate security
March 31, 2013
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Post-revolution Tunisia lauds Korea ties
Tunisia celebrated its 57th year of independence from colonial rule Tuesday, as well as the second anniversary of popular demonstrations that swept the North African nation and toppled the 34-year-long regime of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, in a reception at Lotte Hotel in Seoul on Monday.Tunisia’s top diplomat here lauded the two events as milestones for his nation struggling to overcome civil unrest two years after Tunisian youth ousted Ben Ali from power, sending the octogenarian into e
March 31, 2013
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Foreign envoys discuss report on human development
A panel of foreign envoys, government officials and experts on development issues will discuss the recent findings of a United Nations report on human development at Korea University on April 4.Bangladeshi Ambassador to Korea Enamul Kabir and Chilean Ambassador Hernan Brantes are expected to join government officials and experts from civil society to discuss the “Global Human Development Report 2013: The Rise of the South.” A profound shift has taken place in the global south, in part driven by
March 31, 2013
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Silicon Valley in the Andes
With Korea as a strategic partner, Ecuador is poised to embark on its most ambitious infrastructure project ever, a so-called “city of knowledge” on the edge of the Amazon Rainforest.Yachay, which means “to learn” in the indigenous Quechuan language, will become a hybrid urban center, with equal parts science and technology cluster, free economic zone and educational complex.Minister of Knowledge and Human Talent Augusto Espinosa, who arrived in Korea on Monday for a week of consultations and me
March 31, 2013
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Park names diplomat, key aides as ambassadors
President Park Geun-hye tapped former first Vice Foreign Minister Ahn Ho-young as South Korea’s ambassador to the U.S. and former three-term Saenuri Party lawmaker Kwon Young-se as ambassador to China, Cheong Wa Dae said Sunday. As her chief envoy to Japan, Park named Lee Byung-gi, adviser to the Youido Institute, the ruling party’s think tank. She decided to retain the current ambassador to Moscow, Wi Sung-lac, and incumbent envoy to the U.N., Kim Sook, The three new diplomats would be offici
March 31, 2013
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Park touts expanded peaceful use of atomic energy
President Park Geun-hye asked Friday for U.S. congressional support for South Korea to expand its “peaceful use” of atomic energy, her spokeswoman said, as the two nations are in talks over Seoul’s demand for the right to reprocess spent nuclear fuel.Park made the remark when she met with Bob Corker, the top Republican on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, saying she hopes an expiring nuclear accord between the two countries will be revised in an advanced way, according to spokeswoman
March 29, 2013
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Park ditches ‘green growth’ in environmental policy shift
Korea has been credited with establishing “green growth” as an international goal. Former President Lee Myung-bak touted it as the next big thing, harmonizing environmental protection and economic development.A slew of projects, including a river restoration, were pushed in its name and Korea carved its place in the international community by bridging rich and poor countries whose priorities clashed. Like many of his policies, however, “green growth” is now at risk of sinking into obscurity, as
March 28, 2013
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Nukes of both Koreas on agenda in major disarmament forum
An upcoming forum will address one of the most contentious issue between South Korea and the United States -- whether Seoul should develop its own nuclear weapons.The North Korean nuclear crisis will also be discussed at the 2013 Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference, set to begin April 8 for a two-day run.The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will participate in the event, which will include a session on a renewed call in South Korea for "nuclear sovereignty," acc
March 28, 2013
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Nuclear waste a growing headache
ULSAN ― North Korea’s weapons program is not the only nuclear headache for South Korea. The country’s radioactive waste storage is filling up as its nuclear power industry burgeons, but what South Korea sees as its best solution ― reprocessing the spent fuel so it can be used again ― faces stiff opposition from its U.S. ally. South Korea fired up its first reactor in 1978 and since then the resource poor nation’s reliance on atomic energy has steadily grown. It is now the world’s fifth-largest n
March 27, 2013
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[Newsmaker] Scholar urges Tokyo to give up on Dokdo
Haruki Wada, a professor emeritus at Tokyo University, said in his new book that Japan should immediately renounce its claims of sovereignty over Dokdo.In his recently published book titled “How to Settle the Territorial Dispute in Northeast Asia,” the 75-year-old progressive scholar argued that Japan’s claim was immoral in light of Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910-1945. “It is hard to find morality in Japan’s assertion that Korea’s control of Dokdo is an ‘illegal occupati
March 26, 2013
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Korea protests Japan’s textbook distortion
Seoul on Tuesday protested Japan’s approval of newly updated schoolbooks that carry its claim to the Korean islets of Dokdo and distort its wartime atrocities.The Foreign Ministry called in Takashi Kurai, a minister at the Japanese Embassy, and delivered a written complaint. “We strongly protest and urge a fundamental rectification of the Japanese government’s authorization of high school textbooks including content that still does not look squarely at history and evades its responsibilities,” m
March 26, 2013
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OECD aid chief urges green development
The developing world’s drive to stamp out poverty should be integrated with environmental efforts to minimize its vulnerability to climate change and achieve sustainable growth, the new chair of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee said Tuesday.Erik Solheim, who took the helm of the club of major patrons of developing countries in January, described Korea as an “inspiring example for the rest of the world,” highlighting its rapid economic ascent and increasing climate efforts. The seasone
March 26, 2013
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Chinese President Xi sends personal letter to Park
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently sent a personal letter to South Korean President Park Geun-hye, expressing hope that the two nations will further strengthen their ties, the South Korean presidential office said Tuesday. In the letter, Xi also suggested the two leaders hold a summit meeting in the near future, saying he looks forward to making a "beautiful blueprint" for their countries' relations, according to the office. The Chinese president noted that the ties between two countries
March 26, 2013
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S. Korean foreign minister to visit Washington next week: source
South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se will travel to Washington next week for consultations on North Korea and bilateral issues in the run-up to a visit here by President Park Geun-hye in May, an informed source said Monday."Minister Yun is scheduled to visit Washington in the first week of April," the source said on the condition of anonymity. Yun will meet with Secretary of State John Kerry, mainly to discuss agenda items for the first summit talks between Park and her American counterpar
March 26, 2013
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Munch photo exhibition at Samgakji Station
Seoul’s subway riders are in for a scream through this spring and summer, with a display of Edvard Munch paintings.This year the Norwegian Embassy in Korea is celebrating the 150th anniversary of modernist painter Edvard Munch with a photo exhibition of 20 paintings on display in Samgakji Subway Station through the end of August. Munch was born in the rural town of Loten in Norway on Dec. 12, 1863. This year marks the 150th anniversary of one of the most influential modernist painters of all tim
March 24, 2013
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War, peace and children in the DMZ
A handful of tour buses carrying foreign diplomats, the Korean press corps and students slowly lumbered across Unification Bridge into the demilitarized zone carefully negotiating barricades assembled halfway along the bridge’s length.The schoolchildren were fidgety and chattering excitedly, jumping out of their seats to peer out of the bus windows at sights they scarcely could have seen before ― armored vehicles, heavily armed checkpoints and barbed wire strewn helter-skelter, the legacy of a t
March 24, 2013
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La Francophonie, now and forever
The French-speaking foreign missions in Korea observed International Francophonie Day on March 20 and will celebrate the French language and French identity through a series of events through March and April.The month-long festival of French includes a concert by Swiss-French duo Laurent Brunetti & Mario Pacchioli and an opening set by Raoul and the Xpats on the 6th floor of the music faculty of Sookmyung Women’s University on April 5 at 5 p.m.“Francophonie” refers to countries and regions where
March 24, 2013