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1 in 3 Koreans live alone, family types becoming diverse
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Korea, Japan finance chiefs vow to tame rampant FX market volatility
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US 'incredibly concerned' about suspected NK-Iran military ties
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K-pop group's manager dismissed for setting up spycam in theater dressing room
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K-pop singer lost consciousness after being hit by foul ball, cancels show
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Korean Muslim YouTuber's plan to build mosque in Incheon goes viral
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[Kim Seong-kon] Democracy and the future of South Korea
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Yoon's office denies considering liberal figures for key posts
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Why is Apple Pay struggling to get purchase in Korea?
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Seoul says Fu Bao loan 'not going to happen'
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Managers, owners of defunct savings banks siphoned off 1.2 trillion won
The prosecution on Wednesday confirmed that 1.282 trillion won ($1.1 billion) from four now-closed savings banks was misappropriated by management and major shareholders. The investigators have decided to confiscate 332.7 billion won and indict 25 key figures responsible for corruption in addition to the indicted chairmen of Solomon, Mirae Mutual, Hanju and Korea savings banks. According to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, management at the banks arranged illegal loans as well as embezzled and a
June 20, 2012
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Police arrest 6 for giving prostitutes meth
Police arrested six men and booked 18 others for injecting prostitutes with methamphetamine and taking it themselves on Wednesday. Those who were arrested met the prostitutes through dating websites between February 2011 and March 2012, Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency said.They injected themsleves with methamphetamine and gave it to the women to enhance physical pleasure during sex.(The Korea Herald)<한글 기사>성매매 여성에게 히로뽕 투약한 일당 검거경기지방경찰청 마약수사대는 20일 성매매 여성에게 히로뽕을 투약한 혐의로 김모(35)씨 등 6명을 구속하고 태모(37)
June 20, 2012
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SMEs vow to join nationwide effort to save energy
South Korea's small and medium enterprises (SMEs) pledged Wednesday to play an active role in cutting back on electricity use during the peak summer months.Members of the Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business, the Korea Federation of Retail Organizations and the Korean Women Entrepreneurs Association met in Seoul to give support to government-led efforts to cut back on electricity use.The
June 20, 2012
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Scam travel agent given 21/2 years
A travel agent who scammed some 65 foreign customers out of more than 170 million won ($147,000) was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison at Seoul Eastern District Court on Tuesday. Kang Wan-koo, who also goes by “Wystan,” was also fined an undisclosed amount of several million won.Kang took millions of won from customers for non-existent flights through his company Zenith Travel, often claiming the bookings had been accidentally cancelled. Many of his victims only discovered they had no
June 19, 2012
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Ministry, medics lock horns over uninsured treatment
The government and medical circles are at odds over the Supreme Court’s Monday ruling partially justifying doctors’ charging extra fees for tests and treatments outside state guidelines. While medical institutions call for extended autonomy of medics, the administration is striving to minimize the aftereffect of the ruling, which could pave the way for doctors to prescribe pricy but unnecessary treatments in the future. The long-term rift reemerged when the nation’s top court ruled in favor of Y
June 19, 2012
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Scientists find new method for early cancer diagnosis
Researchers from Yonsei University have found a new method of detecting tumor cells in early stages, claiming a critical advance in cancer diagnosis.Early detection is the key to the treatment of cancer. Doctors currently have to go through a series of medical tests and examine the removed tissues under a microscope to find cancerous cells. Instead of the traditional time-consuming method, the Korean research team used a high-resolution microscope to detect a specific type of protein called matr
June 19, 2012
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Police protest guidelines on SNS
Police officers are protesting the National Police Agency’s recently-announced guidelines on using social networking services.They say the “Basic Principle and Outline for SNS,” announced on Friday, discourages freedom of speech.The guidelines include restrictions on leaving political comments and uploading photos, which the NPA says would “degrade the image of the police.”Under the guidelines, police officers who have a Twitter or Facebook account are screening out political comments themselves
June 19, 2012
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Korean-Chinese murderer appeals death penalty
A Korean-Chinese man convicted of killing and dismembering the body of a 28-year-old woman has appealed his death penalty sentence, court officials said Tuesday.Wu Yuanchun, 42, submitted a petition of appeal to the Suwon District Court in Suwon, south of Seoul, following the court's death sentence Friday, the officials said without elaborating.Prosecutors who demanded capital punishment, the maxi
June 19, 2012
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S. Korea to have oldest labor force in the world in 2045: report
The average age of South Korean workers is expected to be the oldest in the world in 2045 mainly due to the country's rapidly aging population, a report showed Tuesday.The report by the Korea Center for International Finance, based on findings by the Royal Bank of Scotland, showed the average age of workers in the country will hit 50 in the cited year.It said the average age of the country's labor
June 19, 2012
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Korean Air: Sorry for calling Kenyans ‘primitive’
A notice on Korean Air’s website announcing the start of non-stop flights from Korea to Kenya sparked a flurry of angry Tweets and Facebook postings Monday over the description of Kenyans as indigenous people full of “primitive energy.’’Muthui Kariuki, who is handling public relations for Korean Air in Kenya, said that the notice had been removed from the website and that the word “primitive’’ was a result of a mistake in translation from Korean to English.Kariuki said the airline, which is supp
June 19, 2012
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Four missing after explosion at glue factory
HWASEONG, Gyeonggi Province -- Four people were missing Monday after an explosion apparently triggered by overheating at a glue factory in a city south of Seoul, police and fire officials said.The explosion occurred just before noon, destroying one building and damaging three others at the factory in Hwaseong, 60 kilometers south of the capital, the officials said.Four workers remained unaccounted
June 18, 2012
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Korean society struggles to embrace multiculturalism
Students from different races, countries still face discrimination despite society’s effortsAn American English teacher recently led her class in a ball game to help them learn. Whoever had the ball had to throw it and exchange seats with the classmate who caught it. They all enjoyed themselves, except for one ― a Japanese-Korean child, whom the other students called “dirty.” “If we passed a ball around in a circle, it would stop with him, (and) no one wanted to touch the ball after him. They’d
June 18, 2012
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Busan education head in bribery case
Busan’s educational chief has been booked on charges of taking bribes from kindergarten operators, the city police announced Monday.Lim Hea-kyung, superintendent of the Busan Metropolitan City Office of Education, is suspected of receiving three items of clothing worth around 1.8 million won ($1,400) from two kindergarten operators in return for allowing the two preschools to extend their classes. The other two suspects were also booked. None of them were detained.Under the current government s
June 18, 2012
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Giant nature reserve nears completion in Seocheon
National Institute of Ecology and its vast ecological parks to be unveiled early next yearA small coastal town in South Chungcheong Province is brimming with new hope, decades after a plan to turn its vast tidal flats and wetlands into an industrial complex fell through. Instead of a huge reclamation project that was planned in the late 1980s, Seocheon is erecting a gigantic ecological center called the Ecorium ― which, the project manager said, will be the only one of its kind in the world. “Co
June 18, 2012
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Seoul boosts efforts for use of renewable energy
Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to double the proportion of new public facilities using renewable energy sources from the current 10 percent to 20 percent by 2014.The city said it will make use of geothermal and solar energy and solar heat and also install energy-efficient insulating and ventilating systems to make city buildings greener.These efforts are expected to reduce the use of fossil fuels, which now take up 90 percent of the entire energy consumption, to 60 percent. From the second
June 18, 2012
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Seoul mayor to lead group on environmental talks
Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon was elected as chair of the World Mayors Council on Climate Change at its meeting in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on Sunday.The council is an alliance of leaders of 70 metropolitan cities including Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City and Montreal aimed at addressing climate change and sustainable development. Park will serve for two years.The city government also signed a memorandum of understanding with the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives to open the offic
June 18, 2012
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U.S. lawmaker proposes tribute to ‘Chosin Few’
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― A U.S. lawmaker is pushing for legislation on the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, one of the fiercest fights in the Korean War, a congressional source said Sunday.Rep. Don Young, a Republican from Alaska, submitted a bill earlier this month to designate a peak in the state as “Mount Chosin Few,” a move supported by Korean War veterans there who participated in the battle in December 1950, also known as the Changjin Lake Campaign, according to the source.The Chosin Few is a
June 18, 2012
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South African union accused of using witchcraft
South Africa’s largest trade union has accused as upstart rival of using witchcraft to boost recruiting. Tensions between the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union are running high, and rank and file workers are taking the allegation seriously.The two unions, NUM and AMCU are fighting for control among workers at the world’s biggest platinum mine, run by Impala Platinum. “One of the tools which is used strongly is ‘muti’ and members of NUM
June 18, 2012
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Newlywed woman killed by husband
(MCT)Police in Daegu arrested a 31-year-old man on Monday on homicide charges for strangling his newlywed wife after a quarrel.The man identified only by his surname Kim had an argument with his wife last Wednesday after he rebuked her for going on a trip with her friends. They were married three months ago.The man reportedly told police that he became furious when she challenged him. She told him
June 18, 2012
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New nuclear reactor halted again on technical glitch
One of the new nuclear reactors under trial operation here has shut down due to a technical glitch, a week after resuming a test run following a stoppage due to flaws in coolant pumps in March, officials said Monday.The Shin (New) Wolsong 1 reactor went offline on Sunday morning after its turbine generator was automatically stopped, said officials at the Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co.It did not c
June 18, 2012