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Contentious grain bill put directly to plenary meeting for vote
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Yoon's approval rating plunges to all-time low
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Will tug-of-war between doctors, government end soon?
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Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GDP by nearly a fifth
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Trilateral talks acknowledge ‘serious’ slumps of won, yen
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[KH Explains] Hyundai's full hybrid edge to pay off amid slow transition to pure EVs
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North Korea removes streetlights along cross-border roads with South
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Russia's denial of entry of S. Korean national unrelated to bilateral ties: Seoul official
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Farming households dip below 1m for first time in 2023
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S. Korea votes in favor of Palestinian bid for UN membership
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Brothel brokers busted for soliciting Japanese tourists
South Korean sex traffickers were detained on charges of luring Japanese tourists at a popular shopping district in Seoul and leading them to brothels, police said Thursday.The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said they apprehended 27 brokers of a group called “Myeongdong Alpine Club” and requested arrest warrants for five of the members, including its 58-year-old ringleader surnamed Kim. The name of the club refers to the eponymous district located in central Seoul, a major tourist attraction w
April 5, 2012
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Ex-official summoned in surveillance probe
The prosecutors investigating the illegal surveillance scandal summoned Jin Kyung-rak, the former chief of planning for the ethics division in the Prime Minister’s Office.The summons called for Jin to attend questioning at 10 a.m. on Friday. The investigators are reportedly be planning to question Jin on whether he hid a laptop computer containing data from surveillance activities involving civilians. The investigators also hope to find out if Jin ordered Jang Jin-su to destroy the hard drive of
April 5, 2012
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POSTECH creates fellowship
Pohang University of Science and Technology said Thursday that they have created a presidential fellowship with the Japanese company Hitachi to assist students’ science research. The $1.3 million scholarship will be available to students who will conduct research on medical equipment, the major field of study for school president Kim Yong-min. The school noted that the scholarship was created from money left over from the president’s research fund from Hitachi and a donation from the company.The
April 5, 2012
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Sex traffickers busted for soliciting Japanese tourists
South Korean sex traffickers were detained on charges of luring Japanese tourists at a popular shopping district in Seoul and leading them to brothels, police said Thursday.The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said they apprehended 27 brokers of a sex trafficking group called "Myeongdong Alpine Club"and requested arrest warrants for five of the members, including its 58-year-old ringleader surname
April 5, 2012
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S. Korean game addict accused of killing baby
A South Korean woman has been detained for killing her baby who was born while she was playing online games, police said Thursday.They said the 26-year-old gave birth while at an Internet cafe in Seoul on March 25. She allegedly put the infant in a plastic bag, sealed it and dumped it in a nearby parking lot.The woman had visited Internet cafes almost daily, police said."She was playing games unti
April 5, 2012
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Student sues to wear anti-homophobia shirt
An Ohio teen has filed a lawsuit saying his high school principal violated his First Amendment rights by preventing him from wearing an anti-homophobia T-shirt.Maverick Couch, 16, said in the federal lawsuit filed Tuesday Waynesville High School Principal Randy Gebhardt prevented him from wearing a T-shirt that said "Jesus Is Not A Homophobe," the Dayton Daily News reported Wednesday.Gebhardt told
April 5, 2012
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Iranian Christian granted refugee status
The Supreme Court on Thursday granted refugee status to an Iranian who converted from Islam to Christianity. The top court upheld a lower court’s decision in favor of the 35-year-old Kurdish-Iranian man over the Ministry of Justice, saying his “condition comes under the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and is subject to protection by a third country. “Should he return to his country, his religious beliefs could put him in a life-threatening position,” Justice Min Young-il said. “It
April 5, 2012
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N. Korean defector-spy gets 4-year jail term for assassination attempt
A North Korean defector-turned-spy was sentenced to four years in prison for attempting to kill a fellow defector in South Korea at the order of the communist regime, court officials said Thursday.The secret agent, surnamed Ahn, was charged with plotting to kill Park Sang-hak, a defector leading anti-Pyongyang propaganda activities in the South, with a poisoned needle in September.He was also ordered to pay 11.75 million won ($10,399) in fines, the equivalent of his payment from the North.“Sever
April 5, 2012
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Prosecutors seek death penalty for Chinese fisherman
Prosecutors demanded Wednesday the death penalty for the captain of an illegal Chinese fishing boat indicted on charges of killing a Korean Coast Guard officer last year.The Incheon District Prosecutors’ Office also asked for two- to three-year prison sentences for nine other Chinese sailors. In addition, prosecutors demanded a 20 million won ($17,700) fine for each.The captain surnamed Chung, 43, is accused of murdering Korean Coast Guard sergeant Lee Cheong-ho and seriously wounding another of
April 4, 2012
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Kim under fire for obscene remarks
An opposition candidate has come under fire for joking about sexual violence eight years ago on a satirical Internet program.Newspapers, politicians and citizens reproached him, with some urging him to quit the race and apologize. According to an audio clip revealed on YouTube on Sunday, Kim Yong-min, a candidate for the main opposition Democratic United Party, made the remarks in 2004 during “Kim Gura/Hani’s Plus 18,” an online show.When he was asked about anti-terrorism measures, he replied, “
April 4, 2012
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Investigators seize police files in election hacking probe
A special prosecutor team raided the National Police Agency on Wednesday, seizing computer files for an investigation into a cyber attack on the state election watchdog’s website during the mayoral by-elections in October.According to the team, the raid on the police was to determine whether officers investigating the distributed denial of service attack on the National Election Commission webpage attempted to cover up the incident.“We conducted the raid to download computer files in order to co
April 4, 2012
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Death penalty sought for Chinese captain over slain Korean officer
Prosecutors on Wednesday demanded capital punishment for the captain of a Chinese fishing boat accused of killing a South Korean law enforcement officer during a crackdown on illegal fishing last year. The 43-year-old captain, Cheng Dawei, was indicted in January on charges of stabbing Coast Guard Cpl. Lee Cheong-ho to death with a knife and seriously injuring another officer during a Dec. 12 raid
April 4, 2012
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Women’s groups protest deployment of prosecutor accused of harassment
Male-dominated organizational structure under fire as more women join prosecutionWomen’s rights groups in Gwangju are protesting the deployment of a prosecutor accused of sexually harassing female reporters. On Monday morning, an association of women’s groups in the city issued a statement denouncing the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office for deciding to dispatch Choi Jae-ho, a mid-ranking prosecutor from Seoul Western Prosecutors’ Office, to the region, after complaints of repeated sexual harassment w
April 4, 2012
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Muslim should not be forced to process pork: rights body
Placing Muslim workers who do not eat pork at pork processing operations could be an infringement of their human rights, the National Human Rights Commission said Tuesday. The human rights watchdog advised a local sundae (Korean blood sausages) manufacturer in February to move a 36-year-old Indonesian Muslim who does not eat pork for religious reasons from the sausage processing section of the factory to another department. The worker had previously asked the management for reassignment but his
April 4, 2012
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U.S. attack suspect upset about expulsion, teasing
A nursing student expelled from a small Christian university and upset about being teased over his poor English skills opened fire at the school, going from room to room in a rampage that left six students and a secretary dead, police said Tuesday. Oakland Fire officials work outside of Oikos University after a school shooting in Oakland, California, Monday. (AP-Yonhap News)One L. Goh, 43, a South
April 4, 2012
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Korea ups education on Dokdo
The Korean government is stepping up school education on Dokdo, about a week after the Japanese government approved high school textbooks that claim the easternmost islets as Japanese territory.Seoul’s education ministry said it distributed supplementary textbooks on Dokdo to all elementary, middle and high schools to be used during the designated classes on the islets in the new semester which began in March. “The education on Dokdo is to raise students’ awareness of the necessity for guarding
April 3, 2012
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Graduate oversupply projected to continue for 10 years
Korea’s labor market will face an oversupply of nearly 500,000 college graduates by 2020, as a mismatch between jobseekers and the demand for their skills widens a government report said Tuesday. The Ministry of Employment and Labor projected in the report that some 4.6 million holders of two-year college degrees or higher will enter the labor force over the next decade. The national economy is likely to add just 4.1 million jobs for them, resulting in an oversupply of 500,000 workers, it said.
April 3, 2012
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Groups demand prosecutor’s sacking
Activists protest relocation of prosecutor suspected of sexual harassmentWomen’s rights groups in Gwangju are protesting the deployment of a prosecutor accused of sexually harassing female reporters. On Monday morning, an association of women’s groups in the city issued a statement denouncing the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office for deciding to dispatch Choi Jae-ho, a mid-ranking prosecutor from Seoul Western Prosecutors’ Office, to the region, after complaints of repeated sexual harassment were file
April 3, 2012
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Teens join fight against tobacco industry
A group of teenagers became the latest campaigners against Korea’s cigarette industry on Friday, calling tobacco production unconstitutional. The students, members of an anti-smoking club at Handong International School in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, have begun an online movement to gather a million signatures. In the petition the middle school and high school students claim that the Tobacco Enterprise Law is “unconstitutional.”The club, Blue Jeans, is run by 10 students from the internat
April 3, 2012
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MBC fires two strike leaders
After being plagued by more than two months of labor union strikes, MBC has taken additional disciplinary measures against strike leaders, its union said Tuesday, escalating labor-management conflict at the public broadcaster.The union said MBC management fired labor union head Jung Young-ha and his deputy Kang Ki-woong and suspended five others for two to three months for masterminding an "illega
April 3, 2012