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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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Kang, key Roh supporter, dies of brain tumor
Kang Keum-won, Changshin Textiles chairman and a close associate and supporter of late former President Roh Moo-hyun, died late Thursday.The 60-year-old self-made businessman had been fighting against a brain tumor. Kang, a graduate of Hanyang University’s textile engineering program, founded Changshin Textiles in 1975 and relocated the company to Busan five years later, establishing the basis of his fortune. Kang had been a long-time supporter of Roh, beginning with campaign donations in 1998 w
Aug. 3, 2012
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Seoul prepares for international forum to curb smoking
About 1,000 world health experts and policy makers from 170 countries will gather in Seoul in November to discuss transnational collaboration in curbing smoking rates and tackling illnesses that stem from tobacco consumption.The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Friday that the 5th Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control will be held at COEX in southern Seoul from Nov. 12-17.“The conference will put Korea among the leading countries of
Aug. 3, 2012
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Human rights panel to probe its own chief
The National Human Rights Commission on Friday said it has started an internal investigation into allegations that its commissioner Hyun Byung-chul has the abused rights of disabled people. The probe is expected to influence President Lee Myung-bak’s plan to reappoint him for a second term despite fierce opposition from political and civic circles as well as some commission officials. A committee under the NHRC on Thursday decided to investigate him following a petition filed by Rep. Chung Ha-na
Aug. 3, 2012
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Looking good takes a lethal turn in Korea
Concerns rise over side effects of bimaxillary operation With the rising populary of bimaxillary operations in Korea, side effects of the double jaw surgery, including parasthesia and asymmetry, are increasingly reported.According to Korea Consumer Agency, the agency received 121 damage cases from 2010 to June this year. The numbers are quickly increasing as the agency took 44 cases this year until June, almost as many as the 48 in all of 2011.The reason for such phenomena is that many celebriti
Aug. 3, 2012
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Nexon cleared of charge after leaking data on 13 million users
Nexon, which has been suspected of leaking personal information of its 13 million customers, was not indicted because of a lack of evidence, according to the announcement by Seoul Central Prosecutor’s Office on Friday.The prosecutor’s office said that the three accused including Seo Min, the CEO of Nexon Korea, are cleared of the charge that the company lost the personal information of 13 million users of its massively multiplayer online role-playing game “Maple Story” as a result of hacking att
Aug. 3, 2012
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Gangnam Station most used subway station
Seoul’s Gangnam Station on Line 2 is the most heavily used subway station in the capital city, data showed Thursday.An average of 130,745 people per day used the station in southern Seoul during the first half of this year. The next most popular was Seoul Station on Line 1, at the center of the capital, with 105,000 users, followed by Jamsil Station on Line 2 in southeastern Seoul, with 97,000 users, according to the data compiled by the Seoul Metro and Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corp., wh
Aug. 2, 2012
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30 nabbed for selling, using drugs
Police said Thursday they have arrested 20 people and booked 10 others without physical detention on charges of selling and using illegal narcotics. The suspects, including a 51-year-old habitual user, identified only by his surname Ye, allegedly circulated, sold, and used a total of 12 grams of methamphetamines worth 40 million won ($35,000) between December and June, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency.In order to avoid the police crackdown, the suspects concealed the methampheta
Aug. 2, 2012
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Record high air passengers for vacation season
The Korea Immigration Service said Thursday that the number of inbound and outbound air passengers through Incheon International Airport hit a record high of 3.2 million in July.The figure shows an eight percent increase from the year earlier when 2.9 million people passed through the airport.The immigration office cited the vacation season as the reason behind. Around 60,000 passengers departed between July 23 and 29 to their destinations from the airport, up from 47,000 during the same days la
Aug. 2, 2012
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Koreas in diplomatic war with Japan on East Sea
NEW YORK (Yonhap News) ― The two Koreas have informally teamed up against Japan in a war of diplomacy in the United Nations on the naming of the waters near them, sources said Wednesday. The 10th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names open earlier this week at the U.N. headquarters here, setting the stage for experts from around the world to discuss key issues relating to the handling of place names.International organizations formally call the waters between the
Aug. 2, 2012
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Street trees up for adoption
Seoul Metropolitan Government will put its street trees up for adoption, offering citizens a chance to look after the plants that line them, officials said Thursday. The “Adopt-a-Tree” project will launch in September with about 8,600 trees. It will be expanded to all 284,000 of its trees next year, the officials said. The trees will be allotted to institutions only, such as schools and companies, but not to individuals. Interested institutions should send in an application, officials said, alth
Aug. 2, 2012
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Police nab traditional tonic maker after snake outbreak
More than a dozen snakes that appeared in Sinwol-dong in southwestern Seoul escaped from a traditional health-supplement shop, it was revealed Thursday.Since June 29, 17 snakes have appeared in an area of Sinwol-dong undergoing redevelopment. With the sightings being concentrated in an area with a radius of 200 meters, the police raided a health-supplement shop in the area on Wednesday. According to the police, the unidentified owner of the shop illegally captured 23 snakes and brought them back
Aug. 2, 2012
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Under the knife too young
More teens get plastic surgery in pursuit of beautyPlastic surgeon Na Min-hwa gets more teenage patients in July and August than at any other time of the year. “The number of teen patients increases especially during the summer and winter vacations,” said Na who runs YEROM Plastic Clinic in Gangnam, Seoul. “Most of them go under the knife for aesthetic reasons rather than medical.”The patients getting younger at this time of the year is not a trend confined to Na’s clinic. More and more teenager
Aug. 2, 2012
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Student gets 12-year sentence for murdering his girlfriend
An appellate court in Seoul on Thursday upheld a 12-year prison term for a college student charged with killing his girlfriend in anger at her texting with another man.The student, surnamed Lee, was convicted of strangling his girlfriend to death during an argument that occurred last November when he saw her sending a KakaoTalk message to another man, according to court officials. KakaoTalk is a p
Aug. 2, 2012
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30 nabbed for selling, using meth
Police said Thursday they have arrested 20 people and booked 10 others without physical detention on charges of selling and using illegal narcotics.The suspects, including a 51-year-old habitual user, identified only by his surname Ye, allegedly circulated, sold, and used a total of 12 grams of methamphetamines worth 40 million won ($35,000) between December and June, according to the Seoul Metrop
Aug. 2, 2012
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Line No. 2 Gangnam Station most used in Seoul: data
Seoul‘s Gangnam Station on Line 2 is the most heavily used subway station in the capital city, data showed Thursday.An average of 130,745 people per day used the station in southern Seoul during the first half of this year. The next most popular was Seoul Station on Line 1, at the center of the capital, with 105,000 users followed by Jamsil Station on Line 2 in southeastern Seoul, with 97,000 users, according to the data compiled by the Seoul Metro and Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corp., whi
Aug. 2, 2012
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Heat wave set to drag on
A scorching heat wave is continuing to roast Seoul and most parts of the country, with no end in sight. A heat wave warning was issued for the capital and most other cities on Wednesday, as the mercury rose closer to 35 degrees Celsius in Seoul, the hottest this season. It was the first time that the city received such a warning for high temperatures since the national weather agency began issuing them in 2008. A high pressure system, which settled in the peninsula last month, is blamed for the
Aug. 1, 2012
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Korea to tighten rules on international marriage brokers
South Korea will intensify background checks on locals wanting to tie the knot with foreign spouses through marriage brokers as a related revision is set to come into force this week, the women’s affairs ministry said Wednesday.Under the revised law, Korean citizens who received 10 years in jail or a heavier sentence over the recent 10 years must provide their criminal records to their would-be spouses.The scope of criminal records subject to report is currently limited to such offenses as sexua
Aug. 1, 2012
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Report warns of devastating climate change impact
South Korea will see 40 percent more heavy rains by the end of this century if it continues to increase greenhouse gas emissions at the current rate, a report showed Wednesday.A constant growth in emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide is expected to bring torrential rains of at least 80 millimeters per day on an average of 4.4 days each year after 2100, according to the report by the National Institute of Meteorological Research (NIMR) under the state weather agency.That number is
Aug. 1, 2012
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Acid victim gets stem cell surgery
A group of local doctors on Wednesday injected grown stem cells into a severely-burnt Malaysian woman to repair her skin. In an extremely rare procedure, doctors extracted, cultivated and then injected adult stem cells into the woman to treat intractable burn scars, experts said.Doctors with JK Plastic Surgery Center in Seoul said the surgery on 19-year-old Hui-Linn was successful. The women’s body was scarred after her father Lim Teik Swee splashed acid on her mother and her while they were sle
Aug. 1, 2012
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Seoul under first ever heat wave warning
A child cools off under the waterfall at a swimming pool in Seoul Wednesday. Earlier in the day, the state weather agency issued a heat wave warning for Seoul.(Yonhap News)The state weather agency issued a heat wave warning for Seoul on Wednesday in response to predictions that the mercury will rise to a record high of 35 degrees Celsius in the afternoon.The warning, which is issued when temperatu
Aug. 1, 2012