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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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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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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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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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S. Korea lowers COVID-19 warning level, lifts last-remaining antivirus mandates
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South Korea gripped by worst cold spell in 10 year
(Yonhap News)A prolonged cold spell sent the mercury plummeting nationwide on Sunday, with temperatures in even the usually warmer southern regions dropping to their lowest in decades, the country's weather agency said.Seoul recorded minus 17.8 C, the lowest since a minus 18.6 C reading in the nation's capital on Jan. 15, 2001, said the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA).The morning low dro
Social AffairsJan. 16, 2011
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Japanese FM puts inter-Korean dialogue ahead of Tokyo-Pyongyang talks
South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan, left, shakes hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara at the joint news conference. (Yonhap News)Japan's foreign minister said Saturday that inter-Korean dialogue should be the starting point for talks with North Korea and urged the communist nation to take specific steps demonstrating its commitment to denuclearize."For dialogue with North Ko
North KoreaJan. 16, 2011
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Japanese FM urges N. Korea to improve ties with Seoul
Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara said Saturday that North Korea should take concrete stepsdemonstrating its seriousness of purpose and first hold dialoguewith South Korea if six-party nuclear talks are to reopen.Maehara also said that inter-Korean dialogue should be the starting point for any talks with North Korea and urged the communist nation to take specific steps demonstrating its comm
North KoreaJan. 15, 2011
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Additional FMD case discovered
South Korea confirmed a single case of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) on Saturday in the country’s southeastern region, as nationwide vaccinations and quarantine efforts have started to help stem new outbreaks.The additional case in Cheongsong, 285 kilometers southeast of Seoul, brings the total number of confirmed FMD outbreaks to 119, since animals started showing symptoms in late November, the Mi
Social AffairsJan. 15, 2011
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Clinton urges China to implement N. Korea sanctions
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on China Friday to faithfully implement sanctions on North Korea, imposed by U.N. resolutions, for the North's nuclear and missile tests in the past years. In a speech at the State Department ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit here early next week, Clinton said, “Until North Korea demonstrates in concrete ways its intention to keep its comm
InternationalJan. 15, 2011
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GNP sues DP lawmakers over defamation
The ruling Grand National Party sued Rep. Lee Seok-hyun and Park Jie-won of the main opposition Democratic Party on Friday for making a false accusation that a son of GNP chairman Ahn Sang-soo received special favors in his admission to the nation’s top school. GNP leader Ahn Sang-soo (right) meets Lee Hoi-chang, leader of a small opposition party, on Friday. (Yonhap News)Despite Lee’s public apol
Social AffairsJan. 14, 2011
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U.S. opens door to N.K. engagement
Gates warns Pyongyang to renounce hostilityU.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that “diplomatic engagement” with North Korea, starting with direct inter-Korean dialogue, is possible as a next step to deal with the belligerent communist state.“With regard to next steps on North Korea, diplomatic engagement is possible, starting with direct engagement between DPRK (North Korea) and the S
PoliticsJan. 14, 2011
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Koreans face deportation from Philippines: report
Seven Koreans operating English training centers in the Philippines are likely to be deported for violating local immigration law, according to local media reports. The Seoul government has requested Manila for a humanitarian approach to the case, but observers say the Filipino authorities will adopt strict measures against to set an example. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade,
Social AffairsJan. 14, 2011
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Credit union accused of bribing lawmakers
State prosecutors have launched a probe into allegations that the National Credit Union Federation of Korea provided tens of millions of won to lawmakers as it lobbied for legislation to ease its lending rules.The prosecution has already searched the office of the credit union for evidence, Yonhap News reported Friday, citing sources in the prosecution and the credit union.The probe on the credit
PoliticsJan. 14, 2011
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Korean fishing boat trespassed into Japanese waters
The captain of a South Korean fishing boat admitted that his vessel trespassed into Japanese waters near South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Friday.An overnight joint investigation by the two countries’ maritime police found that the 29-ton “33 Ssangyong” did not engage in illegal fishing within the Japanese exclusive economic zone.“The South Korean Coast Guard
PoliticsJan. 14, 2011
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Dozens of birds drink selves to death
Dozens of birds drank themselves to death in eastern Romania, reported Australia’s Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.According to the report, the incident occurred just few days after thousands of birds and fish died suddenly in the United States, Britain, Sweden, Italy and other parts of the world. Dead birds on a street of Lousiana, US (AP)Romeu Lazar, head of the local sanitary and veterinary
InternationalJan. 14, 2011
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Women line up to bed Singapore casanova
A number of women are “queuing up” to have sex with a Singaporean man after he posted recordings of him having sex with his female partners on his blog.Apparently, these women wanted to “check out” Gary Ng’s skill in bed after seeing what he was capable of.Sin Chew Daily said Ng, 28, was nicknamed Edison Chen after the Hong Kong heartthrob who was embroiled in a sex scandal two years ago which imp
Social AffairsJan. 14, 2011
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Four workers trapped in reservoir construction site found dead
GANGNEUNG, (Yonhap) -- All four workers who had been trapped under a collapsed reservoir construction site here were found dead early Friday, rescuers said. The scaffolding at the site in the city of Gangneung, 237 kilometers east of Seoul, collapsed at around 4:30 p.m. Thursday while four workers were doing concrete work to build a waterway for a reservoir to prevent flooding. Rescuers h
Social AffairsJan. 14, 2011
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Croatia wants embassy in Seoul
Croatia will actively push to open an embassy in South Korea, its prime minister was quoted as saying Thursday.“We have decided to open our embassy in South Korea,” Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor told visiting South Korean National Assembly Speaker Park Hee-tae. “We will push for the opening as soon as our economy recovers,” she was quoted as saying by the Speaker’s spokesman.Park was on a
PoliticsJan. 14, 2011
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Hyundai Motor Group set to ink deal to buy Hyundai E&C
Creditors of Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) were to sign a preliminary deal later Friday with Hyundai Motor Group to sell the leading builder in South Korea. On Jan. 7, creditors, led by Korea Exchange Bank, picked South Korea's top automotive group as the preferred bidder for a 35 percent stake in the builder following a court rejection of Hyundai Group's request to salvag
PoliticsJan. 14, 2011
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‘U.S. wants approval of Korea FTA before July’
The Obama administration wants Congress to ratify the free-trade deal with South Korea before a similar pact between Korea and the European Union goes into effect in July, the chief U.S. trade official said Thursday.“Our goal is to hand this agreement to Congress before the EU trade agreement goes into effect on July 1,” U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk told a forum in Washington. “Everything we
PoliticsJan. 14, 2011
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Obama to discuss with Hu North Korea's nuke, provocations: White House
WASHINGTON (Yonhap) -- North Korea will be on the agenda next week when U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the White House, Obama's spokesman said Thursday. "There will be discussion on global economic issues as well as security issues like North Korea and Iran and important issues of political reform and human rights," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
PoliticsJan. 14, 2011
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People would not be surprised by alien life: scientist
Psychologist Albert Harrison believes that people have grown accustomed to the idea of aliens and, if alien life were to appear before their eyes, they would not be surprised. “Advances in our technology have brought civilization to a point where the idea of other beings traveling through space to Earth no longer seems far-fetched or frightening,” he writes in the journal Philosophical Transaction
InternationalJan. 14, 2011
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Some 110 Korean students held in Manila for allegedly studying without permits
About 110 young South Korean students have been held in the capital of the Philippine for allegedly studying English at a language school there without permits, Seoul's foreign ministry said Thursday. Immigration officials rounded up the Korean students, who are all minors, at an English-language learning center in Manila on Jan. 7 for violating the Philippine immigration law, an official at Seoul
PoliticsJan. 14, 2011
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Penguin makes stepping stone of seal
A video posted on YouTube shows a daredevil penguin making a quick escape from an unwanted predator -- a seal.In the YouTube clip, entitled “Penguin takes a risky path,” the unsuspecting penguin is seen hanging around the rocks and accidentally leaping on a relatively large and smooth rock.Shortly after, the penguin realizes the rock-shaped object is actually a seal. The lucky penguin runs for its
InternationalJan. 14, 2011