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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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Yoon, Lee end first talks with differences, agree to meet more
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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China outpaces Korea in smaller OLED shipments for 1st time
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[Grace Kao] Hybe vs. Ador: Inspiration, imitation and plagiarism
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What is Hybe’s next move?
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Samsung chief bolsters ties with Germany’s Zeiss
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Korean poverty rate rises to 7% in 2010: report
About 7 percent of the population was living under or near the absolute poverty line in 2010, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Monday. The figure is a slight increase from 6.7 percent in 2006. More than two-thirds of them were jobless, and many lived on their own or suffered from chronic illnesses with expensive medical fees, the ministry said. The report showed that 3.2 percent, or 1.5 million people, were living under the poverty line ― set at 1.4 million won ($1,217) a month for a fami
June 4, 2012
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Crackdown on relocation of foreign workers
The Labor Ministry said Monday that it will clamp down on illegal job brokers who help foreign employment-permit holders change workplaces. “There have been some reports recently on illegal brokers who lure foreign workers away from their designated workplace into new, often illegal, jobs,” said Lee Tae-hee, director of the ministry’s Manpower Policy Bureau. No one other than officials at the ministry-run support centers are allowed to be involved in recruiting and hiring migrant workers under t
June 4, 2012
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Second SNU professor accused of fabricating stem cell research
Seoul National University said Monday that it has launched an investigation into allegations that another of its professors, Kang Kyung-sun at the College of Veterinary Medicine, fabricated parts of a stem cell research paper. Kang, who is a leading scientist in stem cell studies, is known as a mentor to scandal-ridden professor Kang Su-kyung, who is accused of manipulating information in 14 research papers published in international journals. According to the school, the probe came as a group o
June 4, 2012
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Seoul to offer support for single women living alone
The city of Seoul said Monday it will open an online forum to discuss the current needs of unmarried women living alone in Seoul in an effort to provide support for such single-female households, which make up more than 10 percent of the total number of households in the city."Most policies today are centered on assisting women from conventional family systems who give birth to and raise children,
June 4, 2012
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Daegu student, 8th in six months, commits suicide over alleged bullying
DAEGU (Yonhap News) ― A high-school student was found dead over the weekend in front of his apartment building here in an apparent suicide, police said Monday, in what would be the eighth such case in six months in the city of Daegu over school violence. A security guard found the 16-year-old student’s body on Saturday evening in front of the apartment building and reported it to police. Police have not found a suicide note but they suspect the student jumped to his death. Shortly before the app
June 4, 2012
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Daegu suffers 8th student suicide in 6 months over alleged school violence
A high-school student was found dead over the weekend in front of his apartment building here in an apparent suicide, police said Monday, in what would be the eighth such case in six months in the city of Daegu over school violence. A security guard found the 16-year-old student's body on Saturday evening in front of the apartment building and reported it to police. Police have not found a suicide
June 4, 2012
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Police probe into suspected drug death of teenager
MCTA teenage girl from Liverpool died after she became ill at a social club.Friends of Rose Farley, 15, claim that her drink was spiked with ecstasy.Rose collapsed in the early hours of Saturday in her home after celebrating at a friend’s birthday party at the Silvestrian Social Club.Police said a sixteen year-old was being questioned on charges of supplying controlled drugs at the club. Police ha
June 4, 2012
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IAEA to inspect Gori-1 nuclear power plant
The International Atomic Energy Agency is to inspect Korea’s oldest nuclear power plant Gori-1 in response to the growing public concerns over its safety following a shutdown of the plant earlier this year, officials said.The eight-member IAEA expert team will begin a week-long inspection on Monday in Busan at the request of the operator Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co., the company announced Sunday. The Gori-1 nuclear plant, which began operation in 1978 in the northern part of Busan, had comp
June 3, 2012
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IAEA to conduct inspection of Gori-1 blackout
ULSAN -- South Korea's oldest nuclear reactors at the Gori-1 nuclear plant will come under a special inspection from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) this week, the state-run Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) said Sunday. The KHNP said that the IAEA will conduct an expert mission on the Gori-1 reactors from June 4-11 to look into its blackout accident in February, adding the
June 3, 2012
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Korean tourist arrested for drug possession in Vancouver
A South Korean tourist has been arrested by Canadian police after he was found to be carrying illegal drugs at Vancouver International Airport, Seoul's consulate office said Friday.The 28-year-old tourist only identified by his family name of Kim was apprehended while trying to leave the country after a four-day visit. He was scheduled to stop in Japan before returning home.The consulate office sa
June 3, 2012
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Adults find it hard to leave the nest
An increasing number of adults cannot leave their family home due to lack of financial means and rising living costs, according to statistics by Seoul City.Seoul City said the number of people in their 30s and 40s who live with their parents has almost doubled in the past 10 years.According to city government data, around 480,000 Seoulites aged 30 to 49 lived with their parents in 2010, up from 250,000 in 2000. Of the parents, almost 30 percent said the reason is that their children have not bee
June 1, 2012
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Smoking to be banned at all restaurants from 2016
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Friday it is pushing to gradually impose a smoking ban for all restaurants in the country by 2016. The Seoul Metropolitan Government also said it will enforce the all-out ban from 2014.Currently, restaurants bigger than 150 square meters are required to allocate half of their space to smoking-free areas. The announcement came on the same day that a law imposing 100,000 won ($86) fines on those caught smoking at 1,950 public spots in the capital came into
June 1, 2012
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‘Dead’ conman’s case still open: prosecutors
Prosecutors said Friday they were continuing their investigation into suspicions surrounding Cho Hee-pal, one the country’s biggest con artists, who allegedly died in China after hiding out in the country. “It is unclear yet whether the suspect is really dead. So we plan to continue investigating him,” said an official at the Daegu District Public Prosecutors’ Office. Cho had been accused of swindling thousands of investors out of some 3.5 trillion won ($3 billion) in the country’s largest pyram
June 1, 2012
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Court upholds military’s ban of ‘seditious’ books
A lower court on Thursday upheld the military’s ban on “seditious” books including bestseller “Bad Samaritans” which criticizes free market economics. In 2008 the Defense Ministry blacklisted 23 books which it deemed could negatively affect soldiers’ morale. Publishers and writers responded by filing a suit demanding 190 million won ($160,000) in damages. The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday ruled the decision lawful and recognized the administration’s autonomy to prohibit some books to
June 1, 2012
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Seoul nixes project to build landmark building
The high-profile project to build a 133-story landmark building in the Digital Media Center in Seoul was nixed due to the main constructor’s failure to pay for its purchase of the land plot, Seoul City said Friday.The metropolitan government began the project in April 2009 when it signed a land purchase deal with the firm Seoul Light Tower.The city said that the firm delayed paying for the land and failed to carry out its responsibility stipulated in the deal.Seoul officials said that they made
June 1, 2012
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More adults in 30s and 40s live with parents
The number of adults in their 30s and 40s living with their parents in the capital city of Seoul soared91.4 percent, led by rising house prices and childcare costs, a report showed Friday. The report released by the Seoul Metropolitan Government found that the number of adults aged 30 to 49 who live with their parents jumped to 484,663 in 2010, compared with 253,244 in 2000. The report was based o
June 1, 2012
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Court upholds military’s ban of ‘seditious’ books
A lower court on Thursday upheld the military’s ban of “seditious” books including bestseller “Bad Samaritans” which criticizes free market economics. In 2008 the Defense Ministry blacklisted 23 books which it deemed could negatively affect soldiers’ morale. Publishers and writers filed a suit demanding 190 million won in damages. The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday ruled the decision as lawful and recognized the administration’s autonomy to prohibit some books to protect soldiers’ mora
May 31, 2012
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POSTECH tops world 100 universities under 50 years old: Times
South Korea’s Pohang University of Science & Technology, also known as POSTECH, has topped the rankings of the world’s top 100 universities under 50 years old.The Times Higher Education, a weekly British magazine based in London, published on Thursday the list that features institutions from 30 countries.POSTECH, which was founded in 1986, headed the list with a total of 71.8 points, followed by Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne with 66.2 points. The Hong Kong University of
May 31, 2012
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Local food movement takes root in Korea
Aims to promote consumption of locally-grown foods amid wave of FTAsCommunity-supported agriculture, farmers’ cooperative markets and other “eat local” projects are springing up in Korea, touting the benefits of locally-grown foods amid an influx of imported produce. The consumer movement, in vogue in many Western countries for some years, brings a ray of hope to Korean farmers struggling to survive the rising tide of free trade globalization. For conscientious consumers, it means new alternativ
May 31, 2012
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SNU accused of downplaying Kang’s previous fabrications
Seoul National University and professor Kang Soo-kyung have come under fire for downplaying instances of academic dishonesty two years ago, which may have led to another fabrication in an international journal. According to the Hankook Ilbo newspaper and university insiders, Kang had been called into a school fact-finding ethics committee in 2010 for alleged data fabrication in her paper for the International Journal of Cancer. The committee then found much of the claim to be true. However, they
May 31, 2012