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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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[Weekender] How DDP emerged as an icon of Seoul
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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Doctor group's incoming head renews call for govt. to scrap medical school quota hike for dialogue
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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[Music in drama] An ode to childhood trauma
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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Seoul may ban Japan lawmakers’ trip
Foreign minister warns Tokyo to end Korean Air boycott over DokdoJapan has more to lose than gain from its recent boycott against South Korea’s main airline, as such a move is far from enough to undermine South Korea’s sovereignty over Dokdo islets or Korean Air’s business, the Foreign Ministry here said Tuesday. Last week, Japanese foreign minister instructed officials to refrain from using Korea
Foreign AffairsJuly 19, 2011
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Kindergarten costs surge
Private kindergarten costs surged by an average of 32.6 percent over the last five years, exceeding the average private university tuition rise of 19.4 percent.According to Statistics Korea on Tuesday, the rate of increase for private kindergarten fees is almost double the country’s combined inflation rate of 18.2 percent between 2006 and 2011, and is higher than the average rate increase of publi
Social AffairsJuly 19, 2011
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Nation’s first nudist forest to open at end of this month
The nation’s first nudist forest spa will be opening late this month in South Jeolla Province, allowing “free spirits” a chance to walk among nature in their birthday suits.Woodland, a forest spa offering various cypress related treatments, will open its newest venue, Vivi Ecotopia, on July 30. The idea of a nudist forest drew much media attention after the announcement to open the venue nearly a
Social AffairsJuly 19, 2011
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Market experts roll up their sleeves to help elderly people start businesses
Kim Sang-hun, a noted business consultant, recently advised on the opening of “Silver Day,” a caf run by the silver generation of those over 65 years old.Kim lent a hand in working out the details, from selection of location to analyzing business feasibility. His firm, Start Business, consulted on interior and exterior designs, facility management, menu and purchase of ingredients as well as staff
Social AffairsJuly 19, 2011
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Fitness fanatics may have caused mall shaking
Jumping in a fitness center is believed to have caused the shaking of the 39-story shopping mall in Seoul that had forced the evacuation of hundreds of tenants earlier this month, experts said Tuesday.The upper floor of TechnoMart, which houses hundreds of electronics retailers and commercial offices, rocked up and down for about 10 minutes on July 6 for no apparent reason. Authorities evacuated t
Social AffairsJuly 19, 2011
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Heat wave kills two people
Temperatures soar past 30°C as across the countryTwo people died due to sweltering heat that swept the country after a three-week-rain front subsided on Sunday afternoon. Both were women in their 80s in South Chungcheong Province.According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a 84-year-old woman died of heat stroke while working in a field on Monday. Another 89-year-old woman f
Social AffairsJuly 19, 2011
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NPS to diversify overseas investment
The national pension fund will invest more overseas to guarantee a profitable yet secure source of interest for subscribers, the National Pension Service said Tuesday. Having focused on overseas bonds since its overseas investment kicked off in 2001, the NPS headquarters said it would diversify its investment portfolio. The public corporation owns several pieces of overseas real estate including t
Social AffairsJuly 19, 2011
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National pension embraces unemployed
Choi Sun-hee, a 56-year-old housewife, recently bought the national pension policy, although she was not obliged to. She will be paying around 140,000 won a year for the next 10 years and will start receiving around 250,000 won every month from then. “It is a bank savings program with the highest interest rate, you can say,” she said.Choi admitted that she wasn’t too keen to join the pension progr
Social AffairsJuly 19, 2011
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International Pension Conference enhances NPS global status
Korea hosted the International Pension Conference to discuss issues surrounding the world’s most influential investment funds from July 11-13. The forum drew 37 heads of pension services worldwide who manage a total of 3,620 trillion won ($3.4 trillion) worth of assets.Representatives from powerhouses including Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund, Canada’s Canada Pension Plan Investment and
Social AffairsJuly 19, 2011
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Man steals wife’s car to pay debt
A man in Gwangju was charged with stealing his wife’s car from their apartment parking lot, the police said Tuesday. The man identified by his surname Oh was in deep debt and decided to put his wife’s car up as collateral for a 12 million won ($11,000) loan. Oh’s wife noticed a week later that her car -- worth 35 million won --was missing. Once she reported the missing automobile, police spotted h
Social AffairsJuly 19, 2011
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‘Photo on North Korea suffering from flood is fake’
A photo that shows Pyongyang residents suffering from heavy rain has been digitally altered, the Associated Press said in a letter to editors and other subscribers Monday afternoon.The news agency asked them to immediately eliminate the photo from their system and archives.“The content of this image has been digitally altered and does not accurately reflect the scene,” the news agency said in a st
North KoreaJuly 19, 2011
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Nominees face uphill battle for confirmation
President Lee Myung-bak’s nominees for chief prosecutor and justice minister look set to face an uphill battle to win the parliamentary and public confirmation, with opposition politicians gearing up to thwart their confirmation. Suspicions of wrongdoings started to surface on Monday, even before Lee’s office sends a formal letter to the National Assembly, asking it to confirm the appointment of K
PoliticsJuly 18, 2011
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Lee to underscore national harmony in Aug. 15 speech
Buoyed by sucessful PyeongChang’s bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, President Lee Myung-bak is likely to highlight national harmony in his Liberation Day speech on Aug. 15, Cheong Wa Dae officials said.The president has customarily used the Liberation Day speech to sound out public opinion on new policy plans or present areas of focus. Last year he suggested introducing a “unification tax
PoliticsJuly 18, 2011
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Eyes on Koreas at regional security forum
Official says Seoul will not highlight N. Korea’s attacks in chairman’s statementAn unofficial meeting between top diplomats of the two Koreas during a regional security forum this week may pave the way for the resumption of long-stalled official dialogue between the countries, officials and analysts said Monday. South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan will visit Indonesia from Thursday to att
PoliticsJuly 18, 2011
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Lee calls for efforts to curb consumer prices
President Lee Myung-bak called Monday for concerted efforts to curb rising consumer prices, instructing aides to set up a prices-monitoring team and to make the issue a fixture on the agenda for weekly meetings of senior secretaries, his spokesman said.“The most important thing for our government is the issues of prices and jobs. We have to tighten the rein on prices,” Lee told a meeting of senior
PoliticsJuly 18, 2011
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Female crime rate rises sharply
The crime rate among women has hit a five-year high, largely affected by a surge in offenses committed for the sake of livelihood, according to the Ministry of Justice on Monday.Data released by the ministry’s women and children’s policy team showed that 408,111 women were convicted in 2009, accounting for 16.2 percent of that year’s overall convictions ― the highest proportion in five years.Previ
Social AffairsJuly 18, 2011
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Marine Corps to take stringent steps to stamp out abuse at barracks
Measures to include disbanding of units found to have serious problemsThe Marine Corps is seeking to introduce a set of severe measures to stamp out physical and verbal abuse in its units, which have been blamed for suicides and a shooting rampage in recent months, officials said Monday.It plans to take the red name tag, a long-standing marine emblem, off the uniforms of those caught mistreating f
DefenseJuly 18, 2011
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Consulting firm offers tips on U.S. university admission
As more South Korean students try to get into top American colleges, they have started to turn to admission consulting companies which provide application assistance and help design extracurricular activities.A team of experts from Manhattan Global Prep, a New York-based college admission consulting firm, offered advice to Korean students in its seminar last Saturday in Seoul on what students shou
Social AffairsJuly 18, 2011
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Taiwan candidates ‘like’ SNS campaigning
Taiwan’s 2012 presidential campaign candidates have been actively interacting with supporters online, and they are taking advantage of social networking websites differently, research reveals. Results from research recently done by the Internet Buzz Research Center (iBuzz) on President Ma Ying-jeou and Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen’s Facebook pages indicated that
PoliticsJuly 18, 2011
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S. Korea, Japan to begin consultations on return of looted royal books
South Korea and Japan will start working-level consultations early next month on the return of more than 1,200 volumes of ancient Korean royal archives that Japan took during its 1910-45 colonial rule, foreign ministry officials said Monday. The planned consultations, which will come about nine months after Japan promised to hand them over to South Korea in a goodwill gesture, are aimed at discuss
InternationalJuly 18, 2011