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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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N. Korean leader's grandson arrives in Bosnia
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) _ Officials in Bosnia say North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's grandson has arrived in the country to enroll at a private high school made up of international students.A border police spokeswoman said 16-year-old Kim Han Sol entered the country at Sarajevo airport Wedn
Oct. 13, 2011
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N. Korean leader's grandson arrives in Bosnia
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Officials in Bosnia say North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's grandson has arrived in the country to enroll at a private high school made up of international students.A border police spokeswoman said 16-year-old Kim Han-sol entered the country at Sarajevo airport Wed
Oct. 13, 2011
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S. Korean military beefs up border vigilance against N. Korea
South Korea's military has stepped up its combat readiness after detecting unusual military movement by North Korea's armed forces along the tense western sea border, Seoul officials said Wednesday.Seoul recently discovered that the North's military had relocated a ground-to-air missile to north of
Oct. 12, 2011
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Seoul strives to persuade Beijing to stop repatriating N.K. refugees
Seoul is still striving to persuade Beijing not to repatriate some 20 North Korean defectors arrested in China, a Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday, denying a news report that it has been notified of Beijing’s decision on their repatriation.“We are still in negotiations with Chinese authoriti
Oct. 12, 2011
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N. Korean defectors under threat of assassination
Well-developed covert weapons seized from operatives caught plotting to kill those who fled North KoreaPark Sang-hak, an outspoken anti-Pyongyang activist, left his reclusive country, North Korea, in 2000 to seek freedom in the capitalist South, but he is anything but free when he leaves his house f
Oct. 12, 2011
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Seoul to lift Gaeseong construction ban
Unification Ministry says will allow South Korean firms to build facilities in joint parkSouth Korea said Tuesday it will allow its firms to resume building facilities within the joint factory park in North Korea in the latest sign of easing ties between the two divided countries. Seoul also plans t
Oct. 11, 2011
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S. Korea’s nuclear envoy to visit Japan this week
South Korea’s new chief envoy to the stalled six-nation talks on North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs will travel to Japan this week to coordinate a joint strategy on efforts to revive the multilateral forum, officials said Tuesday. Lim Sung-nam, who was appointed to the post last week in a routin
Oct. 11, 2011
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China releases S. Korean held for helping N.K. defectors
One of two South Koreans detained by Chinese authorities late last month with a group of North Korean defectors has been released and returned home, Seoul’s foreign ministry officials said Tuesday. The two men, who had also defected from North Korea before they settled in the South, were held by Chi
Oct. 11, 2011
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Prosecutors launch probe into online pro-N.K. activity
The South Korean prosecution has launched a sweeping investigation into Internet users carrying out anti-state acts including praising North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il, its military and society, officials said Tuesday.The move comes as the number of pro-Pyongyang postings on websites based here and
Oct. 11, 2011
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N. Korea notches up cult around 'Illustrious' son
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- The Illustrious General has had a busy year.Since making his international debut a year ago Monday, Kim Jong Un has been serving as military strategist, political statesman and trusted deputy to his father, leader Kim Jong Il. North Korea leader Kim Jong Il's son Kim J
Oct. 11, 2011
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N.K. to open mountain resort to foreigners
North Korea’s scenic mountain resort in Mount Geumgang will be open to foreigners later this month via a Beijing-based company’s cruise, amid an ongoing tug of war over South Korean assets in the area. Young Pioneer Tours posted the five-day tour program on its website, explaining it will cost 8,500
Oct. 10, 2011
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‘N.K., U.S. to hold more nuclear talks this month’
North Korea and the United States will hold a second bilateral meeting to discuss the stalled six-nation talks on the North’s nuclear weapons programs, a senior Seoul diplomat said Monday. The exact date for the meeting has not been set, but the two sides will meet sometime after this week’s planned
Oct. 10, 2011
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N.K. warns of action against South’s ‘war moves’
North Korea warned on Saturday it could take physical action against South Korea in response to the South’s “ceaseless provocative war moves.”This warning came after the South Korean military conducted maritime live-fire drills on Thursday off Bangnyeongdo and Yeonpyeongdo near the tense inter-Korea
Oct. 9, 2011
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N. Korea warns of physical action against S. Korean 'war moves'
North Korea warned on Saturday it could take physical action against South Korea in response to the South's "ceaseless provocative war moves."The (North) Korean Central News Agency, Pyongyang's state-run media, said the Korean Peninsula was at "the crossroads of dialogue or confrontation and peace o
Oct. 8, 2011
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Seoul rejects N.K. demand to send back two sailors
South Korea said Thursday it will not repatriate two North Koreans who crossed the eastern sea border earlier this week, a development that could anger North Korea.The two brothers clearly expressed their wish to stay in South Korea after sailing here on a small boat on Monday, according to South Ko
Oct. 6, 2011
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New nuclear envoy heads to U.S. for N. Korea talks
South Korea’s new chief envoy to the stalled six-nation talks on North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs left for the United States Thursday, amid cautious diplomatic jostling to revive the multilateral forum. Speaking to Yonhap News Agency before departing for Washington, Lim Sung-nam said that he “
Oct. 6, 2011
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N. Korean defectors return to South after failed asylum attempts: report
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Yonhap) -- More than 100 North Korean defectors who had sought aslyum overseas despite holding South Korean citizenship returned to the South in the last five years, a lawmaker said Thursday.Seoul's diplomatic missions overseas issued 109 individual passports to North Korean defectors with South Korean citizenship in what appeared to be efforts to return to the South after fake asylum attempts were rejected or when life in foreign nations proved too difficult, even if asylum had b
Oct. 6, 2011
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Japan’s role in six-party nuclear talks uncertain
North Korea has met with both the U.S. and South Korea on the resumption of the six-party talks aimed at its denuclearization. China and Russia have already spoken forcefully in favor of the talks’ resumption. But what role Japan is willing to take should they resume is unclear. This question is sig
Oct. 5, 2011
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N.K. defector claims father sent spies here
One defector used mobile phone to talk with relatives in SouthOne of the nine North Korean defectors who came here via Japan on Tuesday claimed that his father led the task of abducting South Koreans and sending them back to the South on espionage missions, a Japanese daily reported on We
Oct. 5, 2011
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‘Ordinary life in N.K. appears busy, active’
Based on the limited aspects of North Korea seen from his recent trip, the North Korean public appears to be leading busy lives with active exchanges of foodstuffs in state markets, a U.S. expert said Wednesday. “The Tongil (unification) Market felt like Seoul,” John Delury, professor at Yonsei Univ
Oct. 5, 2011