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10-man S. Korea lose to Indonesia to miss out on Paris Olympic football qualification
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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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First-ever meeting of president, opposition chief set to finally happen
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NewJeans' singles, Japanese debut to proceed as planned, despite Hybe-Ador feud
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Experts raise concerns about Japan putting pressure on Naver over Line
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Samsung mobile chief, Google device head meet in Seoul
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Ship linked to NK arms shipments to Russia is moored in China: State Dept.
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[Kim So-hyun] The quiet taxi driver from Paris
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Police blasted for response to murder victim’s last call
Police have come under fire over their response to an emergency phone call from a woman who had been kidnapped and was murdered shortly afterward. National Police Agency Commissioner-General Cho Hyun-oh offered a public apology and promised to tighten monitoring of the police hotline, 112.“I deeply regret what happened during the 112 Call Center’s handling the rape-murder case in Suwon on April 1. We will have a major overhaul of the 112 report system,” he said to police officials nationwide on
April 8, 2012
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Scientists developing electromagnetic radiation guns
Russia is developing weapons that can bend minds and put people in a zombie-like state, the Daily Mail reported last Saturday.Prime Minister and President-elect Vladimir Putin has confirmed that his country’s scientists are working on guns that emit electromagnetic radiation (EMR). He claims that the new weapons will be “more acceptable in terms of political and military ideology” than nuclear wea
April 8, 2012
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‘Mastering one foreign language is not enough’
German and French used to be second language choices at schools in Korea, but have since been replaced by Chinese and Japanese. This made it easier for Korean students to get high scores on second language exams, plus the Chinese and Japanese economic and cultural influence on Korea was growing.Still, German is still an essential tool for those seeking to do business with Europe, said a distinguished professor who recently came to Seoul from Germany.“European countries are Korea’s major export m
April 6, 2012
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Petitioners await White House’s response on East Sea name dispute
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― The Korean community in the United States said it is waiting for the White House’s formal stance on a long-standing dispute over the name of the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.More than 25,000 people have filed online petitions with the White House, demanding the publishers of public school textbooks here to refer to the waters not only as the Sea of Japan but also the East Sea, according to the Korean-American Association of Virginia.In the petition pos
April 6, 2012
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Seoul mayor wins defamation suit
The Supreme Court on Friday confirmed the innocence of Seoul City Mayor Park Won-soon in a defamation case appealed by the state over his allegation of being spied on by intelligence agents.The top court said it upheld the lower court’s ruling against the National Intelligence Service which sued Park, then a civic activist, in 2009 on defamation charges. In 2009, Park, an executive director at a progressive civic group, the Hope Institute, claimed in an interview with a news media outlet that th
April 6, 2012
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Sex offenders booted from videogame playgrounds
New York State's top prosecutor on Thursday announced that thousands of sex offenders have been kicked out of online playgrounds popular with young videogame lovers.Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said that 3,580 accounts belonging to people compelled by law to register with authorities for sex crime convictions were booted from online videogame platforms in an operation dubbed "Game Over.""We
April 6, 2012
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Ministry considering name change for NEAT
The Education Ministry is considering renaming its English test for students and adults.An official told The Korea Herald that the ministry is searching separate names for the two versions of the National English Ability Test currently being trialed. “The word ‘National’ doesn’t fit in our long-term plan to export the testing tool to other countries where English is not spoken as the mother tongue,” he said, adding that the ministry plans to export the adult version of NEAT. NEAT is being develo
April 5, 2012
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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