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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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Allegations surrounding BTS resurface, enraged fans demand apology
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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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[Photo] Comfort women hold 1,035th protest
The 1,035th Wednesday Protest for the resolution of the Japanese military sexual slavery issue was held in front of the Japanese Embassy in downtown Seoul on Wednesday to mark Korea’s Liberation Day. Despite the heavy rainfall, many supporters joined the protest and called for the Japanese government to apologize for the wartime atrocities against Korean women. Kim Bok-dong, a victim of sexual slavery, said that Japan should make a formal apology and that the Korean government should pay more
Aug. 15, 2012
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Rock star-led swimming team reach Dokdo
A group of South Koreans, led by famous rock star Kim Jang-hoon, reached the country's easternmost islets of Dokdo on Wednesday after three days of relay swimming aimed at marking Korea's 1945 independence from Japanese colonial rule.Two members of the team arrived at Dokdo around 7:30 a.m., 48 and a half hours after the team departed the southeastern port of Jukbyeon, in a relay swimming project
Aug. 15, 2012
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CNN spotlights Korean singer's love of Dokdo
The U.S. cable news channel CNN carried a detailed report Tuesday on a South Korean singer's swimming journey to Dokdo, a set of islets in the East Sea at the center of a renewed diplomatic spat between Seoul and Tokyo.CNN described Kim Jang-hoon's three-day project as "swimming into the diplomatic row" over Dokdo between the neighboring nations.Along with dozens of college students and other ama
Aug. 15, 2012
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Prosecutors seek first court order for 'chemical castration' on pedophile
Prosecutors said Tuesday they have indicted a 30-year-old pedophile and requested the court to issue an order that he be subject to hormonal treatment that suppresses sexual impulses if he is convicted.The request marks the first time prosecutors have sought the measure since a bill passed in July of last year that allows hormonal treatment, or "chemical castration," for convicted child molesters
Aug. 14, 2012
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Police to indict U.S. soldiers without detention in handcuffing case
PYEONGTAEK, South Korea (Yonhap News) – South Korean police said Tuesday that they plan to indict seven U.S. soldiers without physical detention on charges of handcuffing three South Koreans.The seven soldiers are accused of forcefully putting handcuffs on three South Korean civilians in a dispute over a parking violation in a bustling area near a U.S. military base in Pyeongtaek, a provincial cit
Aug. 14, 2012
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Teens assault man, ‘copying’ video game
Five teenage members of a motorcycle gang assaulted a drunken man, apparently copying scenes from a violent video game, police said on Tuesday.They attacked the 31-year-old man, who was sitting on the curb of a road in Gwank-gu, southern Seoul, at around 4 a.m. on Sunday.Police believe they were trying to copy a scene from “Grand Theft Auto IV.”The computer game, rated over-18, features the main character wielding guns and escaping in stolen vehicles including motor bikes. The teens did not have
Aug. 14, 2012
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Drug trafficker gets death sentence in China
A South Korean man has been sentenced to death for drug trafficking in China, Seoul officials said Tuesday. The 51-year-old, identified only by his surname Shin, was convicted of smuggling 10.3 kilograms of methamphetamine into the northeastern city of Yanji and selling it, an official at the Foreign Ministry told reporters on customary condition of anonymity. He was arrested in 2009. Under Chinese law, trafficking of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine is punishable by death. In late May, a 53-
Aug. 14, 2012
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Korea counts the cost of cheap alcohol
Low price of soju costing Korea enormouslyBinge-drinking in Korea was once viewed as a relatively harmless deviation among the nation’s workaholics, but its burden on public money and social capital is starting to prompt action. The cost of premature death caused by alcohol exceeded 3 trillion won ($2.6 billion) in 2007 and is likely to have risen since. The government has been tightening the regulatory system. Drinking in public parks will be banned from next year. In Seoul, there are proposals
Aug. 14, 2012
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Alumni of Korea-granted scholarship come back
Nineteen foreign graduates from 17 countries who studied here with support from the Korean government visited the country last week at the invitation of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.“It’s very exciting to see so many changes taking place in this country,” said Niki Tasika, a 42-year-old taekwondo coach from Greece. He learned the Korean martial art at Kyung Hee University from 2000-2003.Seyitriza Tigrek, 48, who studied at Seoul National University in 1993 and is now a profe
Aug. 14, 2012
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Web allows learning for all
Technology helps expand access to learning, reduce educational gapEconomics professor Lee Jun-koo has been highly popular among laypersons scared of a labyrinth of jargon, curves and indices that block their access to the discipline.The renowned practitioner of behavioral economics mixes everyday affairs into the principles of demand and supply, asymmetric information, and the relations between the market and government. His sarcastic criticism of President Lee Myung-bak’s growth-centered polici
Aug. 14, 2012
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Why presidential candidates are keen on lifelong learning
The presidential race has already begun with prominent candidates from rival parties scrambling to make their pledges to win people’s attention. Their pledges form a blueprint, albeit vague, for the country for the next five years. We are able to spot one common promise: a strong emphasis on helping people open a new, “third” chapter in life through lifelong education to ensure their happiness and breaking away from the current education system focused on university admission. One powerful candi
Aug. 14, 2012
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U.N. chief lauds local children aid groups
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday praised Korean relief groups and workers for their efforts to help needy children around the world. Ban acknowledged the rapid growth and brisk activities of the Korean committee for the U.N. Children’s Fund, better known as UNICEF, during a visit to its office in central Seoul. “I’d pick UNICEF and UNDP as two representative U.N. organs, because they have the longest histories and help needy people in the nearest distance,” he said, referr
Aug. 14, 2012
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Teens assault man, ’copying’ video game
Five teenage members of a motorcycle gang assaulted a drunken man, apparently copying scenes from a violent video game, police said on Tuesday.They attacked the 31-year-old man, who was sitting on the curb of a road in Gwanak-gu, southern Seoul, at around 4 a.m. on Sunday.Police believe they were trying to copy a scene from “Grand Theft Auto IV.”The computer game, rated over-18, features the main character wielding guns and escaping in stolen vehicles including motor bikes. The teens did not hav
Aug. 14, 2012
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Koreans choose overseas vacations despite economic slowdown
The number of South Korean tourists going abroad for summer vacation increased sharply despite a deepening economic slowdown, industry data showed Tuesday.The country‘s leading travel agency, Hana Tour Service Inc., said it has arranged overseas trips for a total of 68,700 people between July 25 and Aug. 3 this year, up 23.6 percent from 55,600 tallied in 2010.North America and Southeast Asia were popular destinations over the 10-day period, with the number of tourists traveling there jumping 88
Aug. 14, 2012
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Former Saenuri party official arrested over nomination scandal
Prosecutors on Monday detained with a court-issued warrant a former official of the ruling Saenuri Party believed to have served as a go-between in a money-for-nomination scandal for further investigation.The Busan District Court approved the prosecutors' request to issue an arrest warrant for Cho Ki-moon, a former official at the party's Busan branch.Cho is suspected of relaying 300 million won (
Aug. 13, 2012
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Seoul mayor blames 4-river project for algae outbreak
Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon on Monday jumped into the debate over the cause of a recent algae outbreak in major rivers, blaming President Lee Myung-bak’s four rivers pet project as the main culprit. Blue-green algae blooms have covered the upper stream of Han River, the source of drinking water for 25 million people in greater Seoul, prompting city officials to issue an algae crisis advisory. “Han River is now more like a lake, with weirs blocking water flows,” the mayor said in a radio interview.
Aug. 13, 2012
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Fire breaks out near Gyeongbok Palace, kills 4
A fire at the construction site of the National Museum of Contemporary Art’s new building near Seoul’s Gyeongbok Palace killed four workers on Monday. More than 20 others were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation.Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Choe Kwang-shik said that the fire is suspected to have started during the spraying of urethane coating on the third underground level. Choe said that the accident is unlikely to delay scheduled completion in 2013. The ministry also formed an em
Aug. 13, 2012
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Korea Herald celebrates 59th anniversary
No. 1 newspaper solidifies position, embraces changesThe Korea Herald has served as a leading English newspaper in South Korea over the past six decades. The 59th anniversary this year, which falls on Wednesday, carries a special meaning, as the paper is readying itself for a fresh move forward including a set of reforms in design and content ahead of the 60th milestone next year. It was Aug. 15, 1953 that the inaugural edition of The Korea Herald, then called The Korean Republic, was published
Aug. 13, 2012
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Koreans start 230-km swim to disputed islands
Kim Jang-hoon(right)(Yonhap News)A team of Koreans Monday began a 230 kilometre (144 mile) relay swim from an eastern port to the Dokdo islands, in Seoul‘s latest assertion of its sovereignty over the outcrops claimed by Japan.The team led by singer Kim Jang-hoon plans to complete the swim on Liberation Day Wednesday, which marks the ending in 1945 of Japan’s 35-year colonial rule over Korea.The t
Aug. 13, 2012
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Fire near Gyeongbok Palace kills 4
A fire at the construction site of the National Museum of Contemporary Art’s new building near Seoul’s Gyeongbok Palace killed four workers on Monday. More than 20 others were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation.Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Choe Kwang-shik said that the fire is suspected to have started during the spraying of urethane coating on the third underground level. Choe said that the accident is unlikely to delay scheduled completion in 2013. The ministry also formed an em
Aug. 13, 2012