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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Dialogue hopes fade as doctors pick hard-liner as new head
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Korea enters full election mode
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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[Kim Seong-kon] The April 2024 election will decide our future
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Seoul’s bus union prepares for strike
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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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Children’s products with carcinogenic material recalled
Popular children’s products including Angry Birds and Pororo dolls have been found to contain harmful substances including cancer-causing agents, according to the Ministry of Knowledge Economy on Thursday.A probe of 782 children’s products and electronics appliances revealed that Angry Birds dolls, Power Rangers robots and Hello Kitty accessories contained harmful phthalate plasticizers while plasticizers, lead, and chromium were found in Angry Bird figurines. Recalls have been ordered for 17 ty
May 3, 2012
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Warrants sought for 3 in stabbing murder
Police requested arrest warrants Thursday for three suspects in the shocking stabbing death of a college student in Seoul.The murder may have been sparked by a text message dispute over a local occult community, the police said.A 20-year-old man was stabbed to death at a park in Sinchon, Seoul, on Monday. He was found to have had an argument with a teenager he met through the mobile messenger Kakao Talk.The man peppered the 16-year-old with vicious comments threatening to release his personal in
May 3, 2012
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Former vice minister questioned in bribery scandal
Former Vice Knowledge and Economy Minister Park Young-joon was grilled by the prosecutors on Wednesday over suspected bribery in the certification of a construction project named Picity.“I will faithfully comply with the prosecutors’ investigation,” Park told reporters in front of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in Seocho-dong, southern Seoul.He shook his head in response to reporters’ questioning of whether he admitted to receiving any bribes in return for favors, adding he will clarify the tru
May 2, 2012
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Seoul to enhance green development aid
Korea will realign the focus of its overseas development aid programs with the goal of sustainable and eco-friendly growth, a presidential committee said Wednesday. To handle the shift in the country’s policy on official development assistance, it will establish a pan-governmental panel this year and set new guidelines on provision of grant aid to underdeveloped and developing countries, the Presidential Committee on Green Growth said in its report to President Lee Myung-bak. “Through a new gree
May 2, 2012
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Crash highlights danger of drivers watching DMB
A car crash that left three members of a cycling team dead on Tuesday highlighted the danger of watching in-vehicle screens while driving, prompting lawmakers to take immediate action.A 19-year-old cyclist and her two teammates were killed and four others injured when a speeding truck rammed into them on a national highway in Uiseong, North Gyeongsang Province.The driver was watching a TV program through digital multimedia broadcasting, or DMB, while driving the 25-ton truck when it smashed into
May 2, 2012
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12-year-old molests woman
A 12-year-old boy was arrested for sexually molesting a woman, police said Wednesday.The boy, whose identity was withheld, allegedly followed a 28-year-old woman and assaulted her on April 28, according to the Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency. The accused attempted to flee the scene when the victim started screaming, but was caught by a passer-by and handed over to police.Police said the alleged attacker will not be taken into custody because he is a minor, and instead will be sent to family co
May 2, 2012
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School teacher, beaten by student, faints
A female teacher was beaten by a female student and fainted at a middle school in Busan.According to the Busan Metropolitan City Office of Education, a female teacher, whose name was withheld, was scolding the student for her inappropriate outfit in the hallway of the school on Monday morning.As the teacher attempted to drag her to the teacher’s room by the hand, the student started shouting abusive language to the teacher, slapped her and grabbed her by the hair.Apparently shocked by the studen
May 2, 2012
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Korea's inspection team in consultations with U.S. officials
South Korea and the United States began on-site consultations Tuesday on the latest case of mad cow disease here.A team of eight South Korean government officials and civilian experts arrived in Washington Monday for discussions with U.S. authorities and inspections of related facilities.Their visit comes amid unrelenting public concern over the safety of American beef in South Korea. The Seoul go
May 2, 2012
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‘King’s man’ faces arrest in bribery probe
Ex-vice minister Park summoned in snowballing corruption scandal involving Lee’s associatesProsecutors will question former Vice Knowledge Economy Minister Park Young-joon on Wednesday after reportedly securing evidence that he received bribes from a construction contractor, possibly through the bank account of an acquaintance. Park, nicknamed the “king’s man” for his close ties with President Lee Myung-bak, is one of two key figures embroiled in a bribery scandal considered to be one of the pro
May 1, 2012
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Truck accident kills 3 cyclists, injures 5
DAEGU (Yonhap News) ― Three professional cyclists were killed and five people injured when a 25-ton cargo truck smashed into their group during training on a local road in southeastern South Korea, police said Tuesday. The accident took place in Uiseong County, North Gyeongsang Province, 334 kilometers southeast of Seoul at around 9:50 a.m., when an apparently speeding truck crashed into the cyclists and their support van from behind, police said. The cargo truck hit the group’s minivan, which w
May 1, 2012
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Warrant sought for Chinese fishermen as Seoul protests
The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Tuesday summoned the consul general of the Chinese Embassy in Seoul to lodge a complaint over Chinese fishermen’s attack on Korean patrol officials a day earlier.The ministry said it strongly remonstrated the Chinese fishermen’s violent resistance to Korean officials’ law enforcement and urged that such incidents never happen again. The ministry told the consul general that the fines for operating unlicensed fishing boats, invading Ko
May 1, 2012
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Finding Korea’s green niche
State-run agency KEITI leads drive to promote environmental exports Korea may not be the most advanced in green technologies, or the most politically committed to carbon reductions. But that does not mean it cannot be a leader in the global environmental industry, said Yoon Seung-joon, a long-time environmental official now heading a state-run institute on the green industry. “Korea, as a country that has undergone a rapid industrialization and urbanization and struggled to fix their many side
May 1, 2012
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Police chief nominee grilled over handling of crimes in hearing
Lawmakers grilled National Police Agency Commissioner-nominee Kim Ki-yong over the police’s lax response to a recent murder case and his personal irregularities at a confirmation hearing on Tuesday.“The police should take responsibility for the Suwon case,” Rep. Ahn Kyu-baek of the opposition Democratic United Party said. He was referring to a 28-year-old woman who was abducted and raped before being killed by a Korean-Chinese man in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province on April 1. Police failed to rescue h
May 1, 2012
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Lawmaker apologizes for riding in car driven by drunk woman
Han Sun-kyo, a Saenuri Party lawmaker and head of the Korean Basketball League, apologized Tuesday for riding in a car driven by a drunk woman last week while knowing she was under the influence.The main opposition Democratic United Party criticized him for not preventing drunk driving and the arrogance he allegedly displayed during police questioning.Han was riding in the car after drinking together with his supporters, including the 40-year-old woman surnamed Jung, when it hit a passerby near
May 1, 2012
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Korean pleads not guilty over U.S. college shootings
A Korean-American former nursing student pleaded not guilty Monday to killing seven people in an execution-style shooting rampage at a religious college in California.One Goh, 43 -- who has refused to eat for several weeks -- is charged with seven counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder for the April 2 shooting at Oikos University, a small Christian school in Oakland.Law enforcement
May 1, 2012
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President’s‘political mentor’ Choi arrested in bribery case
Choi See-joong (Yonhap News)Former Korea Communications Commission Chairman Choi See-joong was arrested on Monday on charges of accepting bribes from a construction developer.Choi, 75, with close ties to President Lee Myung-bak is suspected of having received 800 million won ($700,000) from his long-time friend some five years ago in return for leveraging his influence in getting a complex constru
April 30, 2012
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Chinese fishermen held for injuring 4 patrol officials
The Korean Coast Guard seized a Chinese fishing vessel and arrested nine fishermen who attacked and injured four officials of the West Sea Fisheries Supervision Office on Monday.According to the coast guard, four Korean civil servants were attacked by Chinese fishermen when they attempted to board the Chinese vessel during a crackdown operation 75 kilometers off the coast of Hong-do in South Jeolla Province’s Heuksan County. The officials were airlifted to a hospital in the southwestern port cit
April 30, 2012
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18 Chinese booked for illegal university admission
Police in Gyeongggi Province have booked two Chinese brokers and 18 students for faking documents to enter Korean universities and are widening their investigation to find more such cases. The 20 people were booked without detention.The Chinese students, none of whom are qualified to attend university in Korea, paid 7 million won ($6,192) to 18 million won to each broker for a fake high school diploma and school reports, according to the police. A broker surnamed Gang received 7 million won from
April 30, 2012
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Korea to toughen rules on tobacco packaging in Dec.
From December, cigarette packages will be half-covered with warning signs of the health risk of smoking, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced Monday. According to the relevant law revision, the size of the warnings that tobacco producers will be obliged to attach to their product packages will increase from the current 30 percent to 50 percent. They also have to insert an anti-smoking hotline number ― 1544-9030. On low-tar products, the phrase, “Low-tar cigarettes are as harmful to healt
April 30, 2012
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Defense contractor caught swindling 24b won
Bluenier, a Korean company supplying components to the Air Force, has been found to have swindled about 24 billion won ($21 million) by manipulating the records of imports and exports and obtaining false tax invoices, the Board of Audit and Inspection said on Monday.The company collected certifications of import declaration worth about 17 billion won by exporting waste materials for down converters and importing them back to dodge import restrictions. A down converter is one of the main componen
April 30, 2012