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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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DP slams GNP over savings banks probe
Opposition demands more figures summoned, including Park Geun-hye’s brotherAs the parliament’s August provisional session draws near, parties are attacking each other over the parliamentary investigation into alleged illegal lobbying and bribery by failed savings banks. The planned inquiry by lawmakers is seen as part of a larger battle over more controversial subjects such as the Korea-U.S. Free
PoliticsJuly 17, 2011
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President Lee to publish autobiography in U.S.
An English-language autobiography of President Lee Myung-bak will be published in the United States in November, according to online bookstore Amazon.com. Titled “The Uncharted Path: The Autobiography of Lee Myung-Bak,” the book will be out on Nov. 1, published by Chicago-based Sourcebooks, the website said. It is currently available for pre-order online. The 336-page hardcover is priced at $26.99
Social AffairsJuly 17, 2011
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Korean a mouthful for English speakers
Korean has long been thought of as a difficult language to learn, and now a U.S. website, the ThirdAge (www.thirdage.com), has ranked it the fourth most difficult language to learn, at least among English native speakers. The website, which calls itself the biggest site for baby-boomer generation women, said that Korean has a “different sentence structure, syntax, and verb conjugations that makes
Social AffairsJuly 17, 2011
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Heat wave forecast this week as storm clouds subside
As the rainy season comes to an end, the country is expected to face sweltering weather throughout the week, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration on Sunday. The North Pacific high-pressure system developed north, placing the Korean peninsula on its outer edges, bringing about a heat wave and partly cloudy skies in place of wet weather.Temperatures will remain at hotter than 30 degr
Social AffairsJuly 17, 2011
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Seongsu IT Center to foster Seoul technology companies
Seoul opened the Seongsu IT Center last Thursday in Seongdong, one of its eastern districts, to help foster small- and mid-sized technology companies based in the capital city.The center housed in a 14-story buildng has 9,900 square meters of offices, a mobile phone application development facility, and exhibition and consulting rooms, the Seoul Metropolitan Government said. The Seongsu IT Center
Social AffairsJuly 17, 2011
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Swiss defense minister outlines future of Korea cooperation
Armaments is one possible point of cooperation between Switzerland and South Korea if the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission becomes obsolete in the event of reunification of North and South, Swiss Defense Minister Ueli Maurer told a gathering at the Swiss Embassy in Seoul on Tuesday.Switzerland, along with Sweden, is one of two nations making up the NNSC, tasked with keeping the peace at the
Foreign AffairsJuly 17, 2011
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Australia-Korea trade reaches milestone
The scale of trade between Korea and Australia has increased dramatically since relations were established five decades ago.Overall trade between the two countries ballooned to more than $27 billion during that period, making Korea Australia’s third largest trading partner.The bilateral trade relationship is fueled by exports of Korean cars, petroleum products and automobile parts.For its part, Au
Foreign AffairsJuly 17, 2011
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Creative search for a Human Rights logo
There are symbols that almost everyone knows ― a heart stands for love, a white dove for peace ― yet there is no logo that symbolizes human rights.The German Embassy announced a global competition to find the international symbol for humanity’s fundamental rights.Until July 31, candidates can submit proposals for what will be known the world over as the accepted logo for the principle of human rig
Foreign AffairsJuly 17, 2011
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British Embassy on Facebook
The British Embassy has joined the growing ranks of local embassies on Facebook.“We launched our official Embassy Facebook page in an effort to keep pace with the growing use of social networking services in Korea,” British Ambassador Martin Uden told The Korea Herald.The page opens another window through which the embassy can communicate and interact with people in Korea and in the United Kingdom
Foreign AffairsJuly 17, 2011
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Winners of ASEAN photo contest announced
The ASEAN-Korea Center announced the winners of its 3rd Multimedia Competition that ran from April to May.Over 900 photographic and video artworks were submitted by university students and young artists from the Southeast Asian member states of the regional block and Korea.The winners of the 2011 ASEAN-Korea Multimedia Competition are Hassnal Adam Raasalhague Sulainan from Brunei, Hoeng Keomakara
Foreign AffairsJuly 17, 2011
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Matching German wine with Korean food
Soju may be the typical accompaniment to “samgyeopsal,” but German Ambassador to Korea Hans-Ulrich Seidt is on a mission to promote a less obvious pairing with the Korean favorite ― Riesling white wine.“I like Korean food very much. And I realized that German white wine goes very, very well with Korean food, in particular Riesling from the different areas we have in Germany,” Seidt said Wednesday
Foreign AffairsJuly 17, 2011
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Envoy’s vision: From science to diplomacy
New Poland ambassador sees promise in academic partnershipsAmbassador and scientist ― those are the two titles that the new Polish envoy is bringing to an already strong and flourishing bilateral relationship.“I plan to put a lot of emphasis on developing science and technology cooperation,” said Poland Ambassador Krzysztof Ignacy Majka during his first interview with the local English press.As a
Foreign AffairsJuly 17, 2011
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U.S. soldier arrested for allegedly assaulting elderly Korean woman
A U.S. soldier was arrested Sunday for allegedly breaking into the home of an elderly Korean woman and assaulting her, local police said.The 27-year-old staff sergeant, identified only by his initial W, is accused of trespassing in the home of a 67-year-old woman, identified only as A, in the city of Uijeongbu, north of Seoul, at around 9:30 p.m. Saturday. The U.S. soldier was allegedly under the
Social AffairsJuly 17, 2011
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Korean 'SlutWalk' hits Seoul
Dozens of South Korean women in skimpy clothes and wearing sunglasses or masks rallied on Saturday as part of the "SlutWalk" global protest against sexual violence.About 70 people, mostly women who met online to coordinate the action, danced together in the rain in central Seoul to make their point that "a dress does not mean yes." (Yonhap News)"Don't touch my body," read a slogan written on yell
Social AffairsJuly 17, 2011
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Heavy downpours raise fresh concern about N.K. food shortages
Heavy downpours battered much of North Korea earlier this week, causing casualties and flooding homes, farmlands, and roads, the country's media reported Saturday.The massive flooding raises fresh concern that the North's already serious food shortages may worsen. The North's Korean Central News Agency said that downpours hit many parts of the country from July 12-15, with North and South Hwanghae
North KoreaJuly 17, 2011
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Sweden plans to offer medical aid to N.K.
Sweden is planning to send medical aid worth US$2.94 million to North Korea, the Voice of America reported Saturday.The supply of medical aid to the communist state will be made through European relief agencies such as Save the Children U.K., according to the report.The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) said the medical aid to the North is part of its humanitarian assista
North KoreaJuly 17, 2011
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Somali pirates demand release of captured pirates
Somali pirates holding four South Koreans in a hijacked chemical tanker are demanding that Seoul pay ransom for the hostages and release five pirates captured during a January raid of a seized Korean freighter, the Associated Press reported Friday.Hassan Abdi, one of the pirates holding 25 crew aboard the MV Gemini, told the AP that his group wants compensation for eight pirates killed in February
InternationalJuly 16, 2011
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Lee names top aide Kwon as justice minister
Han nominated as prosecutor generalPresident Lee Myung-bak on Friday named his top aide for civil affairs Kwon Jae-jin as the new justice minister despite objections from some ruling and opposition lawmakers.Lee also nominated Han Sang-dae, chief of the Seoul Central Prosecutors’ Office, as the prosecutor general to succeed Kim Joon-kyu who resigned in apparent discomfort over the passage of a bil
PoliticsJuly 15, 2011
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Seoul may act against Tokyo’s Korean Air boycott
The South Korean government said on Friday that it will take various countermeasures if Tokyo refuses Seoul’s request to revoke its boycott of Korean Air in protest of its demonstration flight over Dokdo.Japan’s foreign ministry ordered its officials not to fly with Korean Air for a month starting next Monday in an unprecedented action against the private airliner for test flying its new Airbus A3
Foreign AffairsJuly 15, 2011
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Sex scandal rumors fly at Assembly
The National Assembly was recently shaken by a series of sex scandals, most of them involving members of the Grand National Party.Earlier this month, a major daily newspaper reported that a married ruling party lawmaker sexually harassed a drunken woman in a taxi and handed over money to the driver who threatened to upload the recorded file on the Internet.The subject of the article was the illici
PoliticsJuly 15, 2011