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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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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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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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Chip up cycle won’t stay long: SK chief
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Speaker floats dual citizenship as solution to falling births
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USFK reopens Rodriguez range after accident probe
The US military in South Korea said Tuesday it has resumed the operation of its accident-prone shooting range close to the inter-Korean border.The Rodriguez training ground had been out of service since early this month after two big stray bullets from an Eighth Army helicopter-firing drill dropped at a nearby ranch in the latest-known incident. This photo taken in January 2016 shows a US army helicopter in training over the Rodriguez training ground in Pocheon, north of Seoul. (Yonhap)No one wa
April 25, 2017
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US strategic assets scramble to Korean Peninsula
The United States military staged a massive show of force against North Korea by deploying its strategic assets to the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday, as North Korea marked a major holiday amid mounting multilateral pressure on the regime’s nuclear ambition. The nuclear-powered USS Michigan made a call at the Port of Busan in time for the 85th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean People‘s Army. The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier strike group is also heading toward the East Sea to join
April 25, 2017
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US 8th Army starts base relocation by commemorating Gen. Walker
American troops in Seoul kicked off their full-fledged relocation Tuesday to a refurbished base south of the capital with a symbolic ceremony to commemorate Gen. Walton H. Walker, a Korean War hero.Standing in front of the 8th Army's headquarters at Yongsan garrison, the 10-foot-tall bronze statue is a token of the US fight against North Korea alongside South Korea in the 1950-53 conflict and their decades-old alliance.The US Eighth Army hosts the Gen. Walker Monument Transition Ceremony in fron
April 25, 2017
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Korea, US to hold joint naval drills
South Korea's Navy said Tuesday it will hold a joint live-fire exercise with the US in the Yellow Sea later in the day to show their close alliance against North Korea.It will involve the Navy's 4,400-ton destroyer Wanggeon and the USS Wayne E. Meyer, a Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the US Navy. A joint South Korea-US naval drill in the Yellow Sea. (Yonhap)They are scheduled to stage a combined tactical operation and live-fire drill, according to the Navy.The allies also plan t
April 25, 2017
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USFK chief says allies ready to counter N. Korea's provocations
Top American military commanders here on Tuesday emphasized the strength of the alliance with South Korea, as North Korea's military apparently staged its largest-ever live-fire drills along its east coast on the occasion of the founding anniversary of its armed forces."We just stand ready. That's the only message we have (to North Korea)," Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, the commander of US Forces Korea, said. "We are committed to the ROK (South Korea)-US alliance. That's the most important thing. That
April 25, 2017
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USS submarine set to join USS Carl Vinson in drills near Korea
A US submarine is set to join the USS Carl Vinson in drills near the Korean Peninsula, South Korean military officials said Monday."The nuclear-powered submarine USS Michigan will enter the waters off the peninsula soon or later to jointly conduct drills with the USS Carl Vinson," a military official told Yonhap News Agency. USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier (Yonhap)The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson is expected to arrive in the East Sea later in the week amid growing nuclear an
April 25, 2017
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S. Korea develops counter-battery radar against N. Korea
South Korea announced Monday it has developed an advanced artillery-locating radar to help counter North Korea's rocket threats more effectively.The mobile radar system, called "counter-artillery detection radar-II," will be operational starting in 2018, according to the country's arms procurement agency. A prototype of South Korea's new counter-battery radar. (Defense Acquisition Program Administration)"In recent tests it met all of the required operational capabilities of the military. It has
April 24, 2017
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Korea preps for joint exercise with USS Carl Vinson
South Korea's defense authorities said Monday the USS Carl Vinson, an American aircraft carrier, is scheduled to hold a joint training exercise with South Korean naval ships near the peninsula."Consultations are under way (between the two sides) in connection with the exercise," Moon Sang-gyun, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, said at a press briefing. He did not elaborate.The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (US Navy)He did not elaborate amid speculation that the drills will be
April 24, 2017
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Carl Vinson to arrive in East Sea in days: Pence
US Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday that his country's aircraft carrier could arrive in the East Sea within days amid high tensions with North Korea.Pence, who is visiting Australia, said in a joint press conference with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that an aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS Carl Vinson is expected to be in waters east of the Korean peninsula no later than this month, according to Australian media. Earlier, Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported
April 22, 2017
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Korea joins multilateral anti-piracy exercise in Gulf of Aden
South Korea has participated in a multilateral naval exercise involving US, Japanese and British forces to crack down on Somali pirates around the Gulf of Aden, the military here said Friday.South Korea sent the 4,400-ton destroyer Choe Yeong to the Thursday drills, which also involved the 17,000-ton US dock landing ship USS Carter Hall, Japan's 5,000-ton destroyer Teruzuki and the 4,200-ton British frigate Monmouth, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Vessels of South Korea, the US, Japan a
April 21, 2017
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Korea to open community center for Ethiopian war veterans
South Korea's defense ministry said Friday it has signed an agreement with Ethiopia to construct a community center in Addis Ababa for its nationals who fought in the 1950-53 Korean War.It's one of Seoul's friendship projects for the people of Ethiopia, the only African country that dispatched ground troops to help South Korea fight against invading North Korea during the conflict. Hwang Woo-ung (2nd from right), South Korea's deputy defense minister for welfare, poses for a photo with Abate Sit
April 21, 2017
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Korea, US complete land provision process for THAAD deployment
South Korea and the United States completed the regulatory process needed for Seoul’s provision of a base site for a US missile defense battery, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.A bilateral committee on the status of US Forces Korea approved the plan for land transfer, allowing the US military to begin work for the deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system in the some 300,000-square-meter land in the southeastern county of Seongju. The land was formerly owned by a Lotte Group
April 20, 2017
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US sends nuclear sniffer plane to Korea: source
The US Air Force dispatched a nuclear sniffer aircraft Thursday to the east of the Korean Peninsula amid the possibility of North Korea's imminent nuclear test, a government source said."The WC-135 Constant Phoenix, a special-purpose US plane, made an emergency sortie today over the East Sea," the source said, requesting anonymity.The US Air Force's WC-135 Constant Phoenix sniffer plane (Yonhap)Its mission is to collect samples from the atmosphere in order to detect and identity a nuclear explos
April 20, 2017
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Korea, US field 100 aircraft in joint drill
More than 100 South Korean and US warplanes have joined an annual combined defense exercise under way on the peninsula, South Korea's Air Force said Thursday.The Max Thunder training, which started on April 14 for a two-week run, also involves around 1,200 troops, including some American personnel stationed in Japan.South Korea has dispatched F-15K, KF-16, FA-50, F-4E and F-5 fighter jets, as well as C-130 cargo and E-737 airborne early warning and control aircraft. A F-16 fighter jet of the US
April 20, 2017
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Korea to hold anti-piracy drill
South Korea will hold an anti-piracy drill in waters off the southern coast ahead of the dispatch of a 4,500-ton destroyer to Somalia, the maritime ministry said Thursday. South Korea Navy's Daejoyoung destroyer. (Yonhap)Taking place on Friday, the one-day drill will involve the South Korean destroyer Daejoyoung, a 17,000-ton commercial vessel and 350 seamen and sailors, according to the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries.Next month, the warship will join the South Korean naval unit which has been
April 20, 2017
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Military reasserts N. Korea is 'enemy' amid political row
South Korea's defense ministry said Thursday that North Korea is clearly the country's enemy, although it has formally jettisoned the politically sensitive expression "main enemy."A longstanding controversy over labeling the communist neighbor has been rekindled by the television debate Wednesday night of five politicians running for the May 9 presidential elections.South Korean Defense Ministry's spokesman Moon Sang-gyun (Yonhap)Asked if the North is the South's main enemy, Moon Jae-in of the l
April 20, 2017
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Hwang orders military to stand ready for 'immediate response' to NK provocation
South Korea's Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn on Thursday ordered the military to strengthen its readiness posture for an "immediate" response to any North Korean provocation.His remarks came amid growing concerns that the communist regime could conduct its sixth nuclear test or an intercontinental ballistic missile launch to mark the 85th anniversary of its army's creation next Tuesday. Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn (right) speaks during a meeting with Cabi
April 20, 2017
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Defense chief urges more real combat training
South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo on Wednesday stressed the importance of real combat training for his troops as he visited the Army's major battle training field."It's the military's natural duty to focus on actual combat-like training in order to become stronger under the grim security conditions," Han said during the tour of the Korea Combat Training Center in Gangwon Province.Defense Minister Han Min-koo tests the multiple integrated laser engagement system at the Korea Combat Traini
April 19, 2017
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US aircraft carrier expected to reach Korean waters in late April: source
A US Navy strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson has finally started moving toward the Korean Peninsula after finishing joint exercises off Australia, a South Korean military source said Wednesday.The US Pacific Command said in early April the Carl Vinson fleet, which was scheduled to participate in the exercises with Australia redirected to waters off Korea amid growing tensions over North Korea's new provocations. The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier (Yonhap)But The New York
April 19, 2017
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Carl Vinson strike group isn't heading directly to Korea: reports
WASHINGTON -- A US Navy strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson was thousands of miles away from the Korean Peninsula over the weekend despite widespread belief it would be in the region to deter North Korea, news reports said Tuesday.That's because the ships aren't heading directly to the peninsula as originally reported. Instead, the group, which also includes guided missile destroyers USS Wayne E. Meyer and USS Michael Murphy and guided missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain, are
April 19, 2017