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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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Samsung chief bolsters ties with Germany’s Zeiss
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KT launches new mobile plans for foreign residents
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Chinese Woman at center of scandal
Speculation is growing about the Chinese woman who allegedly had inappropriate relationships with at least three former South Korean diplomats in Shanghai and used them to collect confidential government information. Speculation is that Deng Xinming is most likely a broker, although it would be too premature to eliminate the possibility of her being a spy.For years, Deng has made money by fixing b
Social AffairsMarch 9, 2011
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World pays attention to S. Korean diplomats’ sex scandal
The South Korean diplomat sex scandal involving a Chinese woman has been making waves across the world. (Courtesy from Seoul Shinmun)The sex-for-favor scandal, in which three S. Korean consuls in Shanghai are alleged to have given confidential government information to their 33-year-old mistress, is rocking South Korea. And now the international media have picked up on the scandal.On some foreign
PoliticsMarch 9, 2011
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Ministry to stick to plan on plural charity groups
The Ministry of Health and Welfare on Wednesday denied allegations that the government may scrap a plan to allow multiple charity organizations to receive donations.The denial came after a U.S. charity leader was quoted by the Yonhap news agency as saying that Health and Welfare Minister Chin Soo-hee agreed with his view that the country needs no second charity organizer.“Increasing the number of
Social AffairsMarch 9, 2011
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Seoul most favored by Asian tourists
Asian tourists have picked Seoul as their favorite destination for the third consecutive year, a recent survey found Wednesday. The survey, commissioned by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, questioned 3,200 people in China, Japan and Thailand and 600 others visiting Seoul last year.Of 1,050 Chinese surveyed, 16.4 percent picked Seoul as the city which they wanted to visit within a year, followed
Social AffairsMarch 9, 2011
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Police reopen actress Jang’s case
The Gyeonggi police agency said Wednesday that it had found letters thought to be written by the late actress Jang Ja-yeon.The letters had been sent to Jang’s acquaintance, known as Jeon, who is currently serving a jail term. The police inspected Jeon’s cell Wednesday morning and found 20 letters and five envelopes, believed to have been sent by the actress, and several newspaper articles. “The le
Social AffairsMarch 9, 2011
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Seoul again urges N.K. to receive its citizens
North Korean officials are free to come and meet four nationals to verify whether they really wish to defect to the South, a senior official here said Wednesday, as Seoul repeated its demand for the prompt repatriation of the remaining 27 North Koreans.In a message to the North on Wednesday, South Korea made its fourth request for the communist state to immediately take back the 27, who were among
North KoreaMarch 9, 2011
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Int'l military report considers Korean Peninsula most 'dangerous' since Korean War
The Korean Peninsula is experiencing its most "dangerous" period since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War in light of North Korean provocations last year, an international military report showed Wednesday. The 2011 edition of the annual Military Balance, published bythe London-based think tank International Institute for StrategicStudies (IISS), said international tensions rose across the worldin
DefenseMarch 9, 2011
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Elderly suicides on rise in S. Korea: study
South Korea has seen a dramatic rise in suicides of economically strapped elderly people over the last two decades, a study revealed Wednesday, calling public attention to the dark aspects of the nation's rapidly aging society. The suicide ratio for those aged over 65 jumped to 77 per100,000 population in 2009, an over five-fold surge from 14recorded in 1990, according to Hallym University's Ins
Social AffairsMarch 9, 2011
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Students support physical punishment: report
While most students as well as human rights activists support the abolition of corporal punishment, some want to keep the tradition, believing it to be effective. Students at St Augustine High School, in New Orleans, Louisiana, rallied in support of physical punishment at school, according to Fox news.Director's assistant Tommy Curtain conducts practice of the St. Augustine High School marching ba
Social AffairsMarch 9, 2011
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Obama lauds S. Korea's education system
U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday called on the U.S. to benchmark South Korea in rebuilding the country through educational reform. "In South Korea, teachers are known as 'nation builders,'" Obama said during a classroom visit at Tech Boston Academy in Massachusetts' capital city. "That's how they're described. Here in America, it's time we treated the people who educate our children with the
PoliticsMarch 9, 2011
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Gadhafi is ‘great psychologist,’ says Ukrainian nurse
A Ukrainian nurse who worked for Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi told a TVI reporter that he is in good health and a “great psychologist,” according to the Telegraph. The most well-known of Gaddafi's nurses was Galyna Kolotnytska. US diplomats believe she may have been the Libyan dictator's lover as well as his nurse. (AP)In the interview aired last Saturday, Gadhafi’s nurse -- only identified by he
Foreign AffairsMarch 9, 2011
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Campus cleaners strike over pay
Cleaners at three major private universities in Seoul went on strike Tuesday, calling for wage raise.About 860 cleaners and janitors of Korea University, Ewha Womans University and Yonsei University started the sit-in at 6 a.m.More than 86 percent of the unionized workers at the schools agreed to strike in a recent vote. A labor group representing the cleaners, under the hardline umbrella union th
Social AffairsMarch 9, 2011
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State secrets believed leaked to Chinese mistress
Three S. Korean diplomats in Shanghai alleged to have given informationSuspicions of an espionage scheme are snowballing as at least three former South Korean diplomats are believed to have leaked confidential government information to a Chinese woman they had affairs with in Shanghai. The data thought to be leaked to the Chinese woman surnamed Deng includes visa records, documents on the Foreign
Social AffairsMarch 8, 2011
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Seoul to streamline military leadership
The Ministry of National Defense on Tuesday confirmed its plan to revamp the top military command structure for the first time in some 20 years in efforts to enhance interoperability among all military branches.It has also confirmed a series of measures to counter North Korea’s possible provocations and its asymmetrical military threats, streamline the military structure and deal with other types
DefenseMarch 8, 2011
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Top U.S. officials due here for talks on North Korea
New USFK commander visits SeoulSEOUL/WASHINGTON ― Senior U.S. officials will travel to South Korea later this week to discuss North Korea, bilateral ties and other issues of bilateral and regional concern, the State Department said Monday.Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs, “arrives in Seoul on March 12, and he will meet with senior officials,” Philip Cro
Foreign AffairsMarch 8, 2011
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S. Korea, Japan discuss N.K. uranium program
Nuclear envoys of South Korea and Japan discussed how to deal with North Korea’s renewed uranium enrichment activities and the terms of resuming multinational talks on Pyongyang’s denuclearization in Seoul on Tuesday. The meeting comes as tensions on the Korean Peninsula continue to run high over the communist North’s ongoing nuclear ambitions as well as the issue of repatriating dozens of North K
Foreign AffairsMarch 8, 2011
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Chief auditor nominee faces tough questions
Chief state auditor nominee Yang Kun faced tough questions about his moral standards and professional independence on the first day of his parliamentary confirmation hearing Tuesday.President Lee Myung-bak last month nominated the law professor of Hanyang University to be chairman of the Board of Audit and Inspection, which has been vacant for five months. The former audit chief Kim Hwang-sik was
PoliticsMarch 8, 2011
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Seoul to bolster cyber security
Seoul plans to expand the scope of its cyber security efforts and recruit more security staff following recent denial-of-service attacks on government and financial institutions.The Seoul Metropolitan Government’s u-Total Security Center will grow to include its data center in an effort to stay ahead of increasingly professional and intelligent cyber threats, officials said Tuesday.The data center
Social AffairsMarch 8, 2011
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Automated immigration system to be expanded
South Korea will expand the use of an automated immigration system at international airports and seaports nationwide in the first half of this year in a bid to make traveling more convenient for foreign tourists, the Ministry of Justice said Tuesday.Justice Minister Lee Kwi-nam unveiled the plan while meeting with chiefs of the culture ministry, state tourism agencies and Incheon International Air
Social AffairsMarch 8, 2011
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Korean university libraries trail behind America’s
Korean university libraries’ stock of books is dismal compared to their U.S. counterparts, questioning the basic foundation of academia here, according to research released Tuesday.Korea’s largest university library falls only slightly ahead of the institute ranked 39th among North American universities. A 2010 study by the Korea Education & Research Information Service placed Seoul National Unive
Social AffairsMarch 8, 2011