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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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Allegations surrounding BTS resurface, enraged fans demand apology
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Govt. asks hospitals to mitigate impact of medical professors' absence
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Students with history of violence will be barred from becoming teachers
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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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N. Korea slams S. Korea for seeking new unification plan
North Korea strongly criticized South Korea's Park Geun-hye administration Thursday for working to create a new charter for the reunification of Korea. In the inaugural meeting of the Presidential Committee for Unification Preparation in August, Park said her administration will declare the charter next year, the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan's 35-year colonial rule. She said it will serve as a basis for the Constitution of a reunified Korea. "It demonstrates the South's
Nov. 6, 2014
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N. Korea steps up quarantine efforts to prevent Ebola
North Korea has been ramping up quarantine efforts on foreigners coming from Ebola-hit regions to prevent an outbreak of the deadly virus, a pro-North Korea newspaper said Thursday. The communist country is isolating travelers coming from Ebola-stricken areas at separate hotels, including one in the western border city of Sinuiju, for 21 days because of potential Ebola infection risks, the Choson Sinbo newspaper, the mouthpiece of the communist country in Japan, reported. The country has rec
Nov. 6, 2014
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N. Korean leader meets commanders, carrying no cane
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made a public appearance without a walking stick, as he convened a rare meeting of battalion commanders and political instructors of the country's troops, according to its state media Wednesday. Kim attended the two-day meeting from Monday held in Pyongyang and had a photo session with participants, reported the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). It was the first event of its kind in eight years. The previous meeting of battalion commanders and political instr
Nov. 5, 2014
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U.N., U.S. officials to discuss N.K. rights in Seoul
Two of the most symbolic figures in the international community’s campaign against North Korea’s human rights abuse will travel to Seoul next week amid efforts to bring the issue to the International Criminal Court (ICC), diplomatic sources said Tuesday.Marzuki Darusman, U.N. special rapporteur on North Korea, plans to visit Seoul from Monday through Friday, according to the sources.Amb. Robert King, U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, will make a separate three-day trip sta
Nov. 4, 2014
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Defectors learn English to speak up on rights
When Lee Geun-hyuck attended school in North Korea, he studied English to learn more about the United States, believing knowing the enemy was the best strategy to get the better of them.Together with his mother, Lee fled the impoverished, regimented communist country and defected to capitalist South Korea in 1998 in search of freedom and a better life.Sixteen years after his defection, the 33-year-old university student says his current purpose for studying English is to better communicate with
Nov. 4, 2014
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NK defectors learn English to speak about human rights
When Lee Geun-hyuck attended school in North Korea, he studied English to learn more about the United States, believing knowing the enemy was the best strategy to get the better of them. Together with his mother, Lee fled the impoverished, regimented communist country and defected to capitalist South Korea in 1998 in search of freedom and a better life. Sixteen years after his defection, the 33-year-old university student says his current purpose for studying English is to better communicate wi
Nov. 4, 2014
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N. Korea struggles with troop shortage
North Korea is moving to extend the mandatory military service term for male draftees and recruit more female conscripts in efforts to address its worsening troop shortage, sources said Monday.Pyongyang has recently been encouraging male soldiers to serve at least one more year beyond their 10-year service term to help maintain its 1.19-million-strong military, and more stably mobilize troops for various state construction projects, the sources said. “The North has yet to officially announce its
Nov. 3, 2014
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Prime minister says N. Korea's attitude not understandable
Prime minister says N. Korea's attitude not understandableSouth Korea's prime minister rapped North Korea on Monday for its refusal to hold high-level talks on the pretext of the anti-Pyongyang leaflets spread into the communist country by civilians here. Speaking at a National Assembly session, Chung Hong-won said Pyongyang's attitude is "regrettable" and "not understandable." "(The government) has no grounds to legally control the scattering of leaflets against North Korea," he said. Chu
Nov. 3, 2014
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N. Korea slams South over smartphone hacking accusation
North Korea lambasted South Korea Monday for its latest claim of the communist country's hacking attempts, denouncing the accusation as a plot to stir up anti-Pyongyang sentiment. The National Intelligence Service (NIS), the South Korean spy agency, said in a parliamentary report last week that North Korea had attempted to hack into South Koreans' smartphones by spreading malicious applications online, possibly infecting more than 20,000 phones from May to September. Denouncing the latest h
Nov. 3, 2014
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U.S. policy on N. Korea unlikely to change after midterm elections
The U.S. policy on North Korea is unlikely to differ much from now after this week's midterm elections because the issue sits low on Washington's priority list and there is little difference between the rival parties on how to deal with the communist regime, analysts said Sunday. Tuesday's elections are expected to be a watershed in U.S.President Barack Obama's second term in office amid widespread views that the Republicans are expected to take control of not only the House of Representatives
Nov. 3, 2014
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‘N.K. launched ballistic missile submarine’
North Korea has recently launched a submarine capable of firing ballistic missiles, a news report said Sunday, adding to concerns over the evolving missile and nuclear threats posed by the communist country.Pyongyang imported, reverse-engineered and modified a Soviet-era Golf-class diesel submarine that was built in 1958 and decommissioned in 1990, Yonhap reported, citing an unnamed government source. The regime is believed to have bought the vessel in the early 1990s.“The new submarine is 67 me
Nov. 2, 2014
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N.K. repeats call for Seoul to block leaflet scattering
North Korea asked South Korea Saturday to halt the cross-border scattering of anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets, declaring that there would be no government-to-government dialogue to improve ties unless its demand is met.The Rodong Sinmun, the North’s main newspaper, claimed that the Seoul government is behind the leaflet campaign being waged by civic activists in the South. Separately, the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, a powerful party organization, took t
Nov. 2, 2014
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S. Korea 'regrets' NK threat to end dialogue
South Korea expressed strong regret Sunday over North Korea's latest threat to cease all inter-Korean contact due to the scattering of anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets across the border, ruling out the possibility of holding a new round of high-level talks.A day earlier, the North called on the South to halt the cross-border leaflet campaign, warning that there would be no government-to-government dialogue to improve ties unless Seoul takes action to block it."It is very regretful that North K
Nov. 2, 2014
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N. Korea warns S. Korea against U.S.-led human rights campaign
North Korea warned South Korea Sunday against joining a United States-led campaign to condemn the communist state's human rights conditions, saying it would bring an end to inter-Korean relations.North Korea has long been accused of gross human rights violations that range from holding hundreds of thousands of people in political prison camps to committing torture and carrying out public executions.Pyongyang rejects the accusations as a U.S.-led attempt to topple its regime."If the South Korean
Nov. 2, 2014
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N. Korea launches ballistic missile submarine: gov't sources
North Korea has launched a new submarine capable of firing ballistic missiles, military and government sources in Seoul said Sunday, raising further concerns over the North's evolving missile and nuclear threats.The communist country "imported a Soviet-era Golf-class diesel submarine and modified it," a government source said on condition of anonymity. The Soviet vessel was built in 1958 and decommissioned in 1990."The new submarine is 67 meters long with a beam of 6.6 meters, and has a dived di
Nov. 2, 2014
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Kim orders changes to new airport to avoid 'copying': state media
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has ordered changes to the design of Pyongyang's new international airport to reflect the country's socialist ideology after saying the layout looked like "a copy" of a foreign facility, state media reported Saturday.Kim called a halt on work on Terminal 2 at Pyongyang International Airport after inspecting the construction site, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.He reproached workers for failing to carry out his earlier order in July that the project sho
Nov. 1, 2014
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All foreigners visiting N. Korea put in 21-day Ebola quarantine: China
BEIJING (Yonhap) – All foreigners visiting North Korea will be put under quarantine for 21 days as a precaution against the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, according to China's commerce ministry on Saturday.In a brief statement, the Chinese commerce ministry said North Korea has recently notified all diplomatic missions and international agencies in the country that it will quarantine all foreigners entering the North. Citing North Korea's state emergency anti-epidemic committee, the statement
Nov. 1, 2014
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ICC referral on N.K. human rights unlikely
International efforts to bring North Korea’s woeful human rights record to the International Criminal Court may not be successful, but the continued pressure could push the reclusive state to improve the way it treats its citizens, experts said Friday.Amid moves at the U.N. to adopt a human rights resolution calling for the North Korean case to be referred to the ICC, the North has stepped up its diplomacy to counter these efforts and even invited a top European Union human rights official to vi
Oct. 31, 2014
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S. Korea, China express 'deep concern' over N. Korea's
South Korea and China expressed "deep concern" over North Korea's advances of its nuclear and missile capabilities and agreed to continue efforts to prevent the North from further developing such capabilities, Seoul's chief nuclear envoy said Friday. Hwang Joon-kook made the remarks after talks with his Chinese counterpart, Wu Dawei, in Beijing, adding that South Korea and China pledged to make joint efforts to resume a "meaningful dialogue" on North Korea's nuclear weapons program. "We exchange
Oct. 31, 2014
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S. Korean firm at Kaesong park faces biz failure
One of South Korea's small and mid-sized manufacturing companies (SME) at the inter-Korean industrial complex has applied for business closure due to falling sales, officials said Thursday.Around 120 South Korean firms, mostly SMEs, have been operating at the Kaesong Industrial Complex, employing around 53,000 North Korean workers.The North abruptly suspended operation of the industrial part in April last year, citing tensions on the divided peninsula before resuming it in September that year.An
Oct. 30, 2014