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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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Allegations surrounding BTS resurface, enraged fans demand apology
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Students with history of violence will be barred from becoming teachers
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Medical feud leaves hospitals in financial crisis
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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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Chip up cycle won’t stay long: SK chief
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Georgian mineral water Borjomi comes to Korea
The Borjomi mineral water -- an iconic commercial brand from modern Georgia -- will be available in Korea from November across various distribution centers and online stores. Supplied by Korean company ANK PS, which has signed exclusive sales rights with IDS Borjomi Georgia, the website (www.borjomi-korea.co.kr) will sell 500-milliliter bottles of the carbonated water alongside physical retailers such as Hyundai Department Store. Other distribution channels are currently being discussed for wide
Oct. 4, 2016
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Indian parliamentarian hopes for greater synergy with Korea
Since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn into office in May 2014, New Delhi has actively engaged Seoul as part of its “Act East” foreign policy aimed at deepening integration with Asian countries to the east. As an inheritor of the “Look East” policy initiative announced two decades ago, the eastward internationalist stance of the Indian government has been based on a recognition that the center of gravity in global geopolitics and commerce has significantly shifted to Asia. To streng
Oct. 3, 2016
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3 Philippine public hospitals renovated, reopened with help of Korean aid agency
Three public hospitals in the Philippines reopened in July after being expanded and renovated for 13 months, with financial support from South Korea's state-run aid agency.The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) said Sunday that the renovation is part of the agency's regional health improvement program that started in 2013 with a total budget of US$7 million. Dignitaries from South Korea and the Philippines celebrate the reopening of Aleosan Hospital on Sept. 27.(Yonhap)The three hos
Oct. 2, 2016
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Korea to expand fishing zone, hours to deter illegal Chinese fishing
The fishing zone and hours near the western inter-Korean sea border will be expanded starting this weekend, a government ministry said Friday.The measure is intended to help local fishermen increase their income, as they have suffered troubles from Chinese fishing boats illegally operating there.The Yeonpyeong Island zone, designated in 1969 just below the Northern Limit Line, will be broadened by 14 square kilometers to the west starting on Saturday, according to the Ministry of Oceans and Fish
Sept. 30, 2016
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Korea, Netherlands agree to launch working holiday program
South Korea and the Netherlands have signed a deal to launch a working holiday program this week to give their younger people a chance to work and travel in the other country for up to one year, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.The agreement was reached Tuesday between South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and the Netherlands' agriculture minister Martijn van Dam in Seoul, according to the ministry. (123RF)Under the deal, both will start a working holiday program on Saturday under which
Sept. 28, 2016
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Victims, officials face off over sex slavery settlement
After a round of raucous debate, dozens of top diplomats, lawmakers and their aides bated their breath as Kim Bok-dong, a victim of Japan’s sex slavery during World War II, took the stand to tell about the most appalling chapter of her life of 90 years at a parliamentary audit Monday. At age 14, the daughter of a rural farmer was taken by the Japanese, who faced her family with the choice of sending her to a military uniform plant or property confiscation and eventual deportation. Days later, Ki
Sept. 26, 2016
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Controversial nonprofit fund allegedly active before launch
Fresh allegations surfaced Monday about a nonprofit fund that is at the core of an influence-peddling scandal involving close confidants of President Park Geun-hye, claiming that the organization was orchestrating an overseas aid program even before its formal launch. During a regular parliamentary audit, Rep. Kim Kyung-hyup of the main opposition The Minjoo Party of Korea argued that the Mir Foundation requested some professors of an academic-industrial team at Ewha Womans University last Novem
Sept. 26, 2016
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[HERALD INTERVIEW] Nagasaki atom bomb survivor urges denuclearization of world
TOKYO -- More than 70 years later, Terumi Tanaka can still relive the havoc wrought on his hometown Nagasaki, which was flattened by a plutonium bomb unleashed from a United States Army Air Forces plane.At around 11 a.m. on Aug. 9, 1945, Tanaka was at his home some 3.2 kilometers away from the hypocenter of the atomic blast, when he heard a “loud bang” and immediately fell unconscious. “Everything was instantly blown away in a storm,” the 84-year-old Japanese man told The Korea Herald in Tokyo l
Sept. 25, 2016
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S. Korea, China share need for stronger UNSC resolution against NK
South Korea's top nuclear envoy said Friday that China has agreed to the need for a stronger UN Security Council resolution than existing ones in response to North Korea's fifth nuclear test.The agreement was reached at a meeting held on Thursday in Beijing between Kim Hong-kyun, special representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs at South Korea's foreign ministry, and his Chinese counterpart Wu Dawei."(I) said that there are loopholes in existing UNSC resolutions that need to
Sept. 23, 2016
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Yun questions NK membership, urges stronger measures at UN
South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said Thursday that North Korea is "totally ridiculing" the authority of the United Nations by pursuing repeated military provocations in defiance of global condemnation, calling into question its qualification as a member of the world body. South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se addresses the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday. (AFP-Yonhap)In his keynote speech at the UN General Assemb
Sept. 23, 2016
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Park vows ‘new, strong’ sanctions against Pyongyang
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Thursday vowed to focus on crafting “new and strong” international sanctions against Pyongyang, saying Seoul will do all it takes to end North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s “maniacal” obsession with nuclear arms. During a meeting with her senior secretaries, Park pointedly noted that past efforts to resolve the decades-old nuclear standoff with the communist state through dialogue and negotiations failed to stop the growth of its nuclear program. President P
Sept. 22, 2016
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Foreign ministers of Korea, Germany discuss cooperation on NK nuclear threat
Top diplomats from South Korea and Germany discussed ways to expand cooperation in fighting the growing nuclear threat from North Korea, sharing the view that its latest test is a grave provocation that cannot be tolerated, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier held a bilateral meeting on Tuesday (local time) in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, according to the ministry.Yun emphasized
Sept. 21, 2016
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Korea and Mexico progress in strategic partnership
On Sept. 15-16, Mexico celebrated its 206th anniversary of independence, which coincided with Korea’s Chuseok holiday this year. While congratulating the Korean people and government, our country wants to take this auspicious moment to assess the progress we have made together in our bilateral cooperation and Strategic Partnership for Mutual Prosperity that was initiated in 2005. Ten years after our leaders agreed to elevate our relations to a higher plane, we confirm that collaboration has bloo
Sept. 18, 2016
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Exhibition illuminates secret to happiness in Denmark
A photo exhibition featuring the happy lives of Danes will run on Namido, northeast of Seoul, until Nov. 6. Showing picturesque parts of Copenhagen and people enjoying their time with family, “Happy Danes” offers a glimpse of why the Nordic country regularly tops world happiness reports. Denmark came first in the United Nations’ World Happiness Report in 2013, 2014 and this year, and came in third last year. Danish Ambassador Thomas Lehmann speaks at the opening ceremony of “Happy Danes” on Nam
Sept. 18, 2016
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Forum ponders constructive path for Korea, Japan
Amid the prolonged rift between Japan and Korea, a group of experts from diverse fields met in early September to probe ways to narrow the fissures and plan a more constructive future. The event, titled the “4th Korea-Japan Future Dialogue,” gathered 30 opinion leaders from both countries representing academia, media, politics, law and public administration. It was jointly organized by the East Asia Institute, Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies and Genron NPO. Out of the disparate analyses, t
Sept. 18, 2016
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In the eye of the storm: Global refugee crisis
In its latest report on worldwide displacement, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees puts the number of forcibly displaced persons in 2015 at an all-time high of 65.3 million. About 12.4 million people were newly displaced last year, which means that every minute, 24 people were forced to flee their homes. If the forcibly displaced were to constitute a country of their own, they would make up the world’s 21st biggest nation. It is not difficult to imagine the colossal human pain and grief behin
Sept. 18, 2016
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'Korean thread from Peace Corps days is woven through my life'
Amid the escalation of the Cold War, David Lassiter, then a 22-year-old college student in international relations, landed at Gimpo airport in 1966 as part of the maiden batch of US Peace Corps volunteers tasked with aiding South Korea’s post-war reconstruction. A lover of Chinese food who had not traveled outside the US and who was largely ignorant of Korean society, he came directly into solitude, homesickness and “culture shock,” among other snags, as soon as he began teaching English at Euij
Sept. 13, 2016
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National Assembly speaker Chung begins trip to US
South Korea's National Assembly Speaker Chung Sye-kyun will leave for the United States on Monday to strengthen cooperation between the legislatures of the two countries in promoting peace on the Korean Peninsula and beyond, his office said.Chung is to be accompanied by the floor leaders of the ruling Saenuri Party, the main opposition Minjoo Party of Korea and the People's Party -- Chung Jin-suk, Woo Sang-ho and Park Jie-won, respectively.It is the first time that a parliamentary chief has trav
Sept. 12, 2016
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Marrying technology and tradition in digital world
The Gothic Bead installation is a co-production by the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Canadian Film Center Media Lab and Seneca College with 3-D scanning led by the AGO’s Lisa Ellis and the VR creative team led by French artist and designer Priam Givord. The medieval Christian sculpture with intricate inner engravings will be exhibited in this fall at the AGO in Toronto. (Ian Lefebvre / Art Gallery of Ontario)The work of Ana Serrano, chief digital officer of the Canadian Film Center, involves mergi
Sept. 12, 2016
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Organic Irish food whets appetite
In Ireland, cows graze on unsoiled grass and feed on preserved hay in winter. Around the island on the western seaboard of Europe, oodles of salmon, crab, lobsters and mussels are netted to be consumed at home and shipped abroad. Under the initiative “Origin Green,” Irish seafood and agricultural products are increasingly marketed and sold worldwide as healthy edibles. A delegation of Irish trade mission representing the agri-food sector visited Korea last week to promote its industry and streng
Sept. 11, 2016