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[Online Predators] Online reviews of sex tourism in Southeast Asia proliferate
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Middle East’s big AI push lures Korean tech firms
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Pikki Pikki dance: Korean cheerleader dance routine takes social media by storm
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[Herald Review] 'Culinary Class Wars': fresh, creative survival show minus the drama
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[Exclusive] Democratic Party of Korea forms US election task force
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Man arrested 16 years after murdering girlfriend, hiding body in cement
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[Grace Kao] NewJeans fights Hybe for their survival
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NK nuclear test 'possible' around US election in Nov., says Yoon aide
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[News Focus] Ex-Moon aide slammed from both sides over remarks on leaving Koreas divided
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What will Yoon, Han talk about at dinner?
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Snoop Dogg honored in politically charged BET Hip-Hop Awards
ATLANTA (AP) -- Snoop Dogg said he initially felt misunderstood at the beginning of his rap career while accepting his “I Am Hip Hop” honor during a politically charged BET Hip-Hop Awards show near Atlanta. Rapper Kendrick Lamar surprised attendees Saturday evening by introducing and handing Snoop the award during the 11th annual awards, which was taped. Lamar, in front of a packed crowd at the Cobb Energy Performing Centre, said the ultra-smooth West Coast rapper “paved a way into many hearts”
PerformanceSept. 18, 2016
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Lotte group chairman to be summoned by prosecutors Tuesday
State prosecutors said Sunday they will summon Shin Dong-bin, the chairman of the embattled South Korean retail giant Lotte, this week to undergo questioning over corruption allegations involving the conglomerate.The Seoul Central District Prosecutors‘ Office said the business tycoon will be questioned as a suspect on charges of embezzlement and breach of trust on Tuesday.Prosecutors here have been looking into Lotte’s alleged wrongdoings since they launched full-fledged raids into the group‘s h
IndustrySept. 18, 2016
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Japan choosing 88 animation travel spots to boost tourism
TOKYO (AP) -- Eighty-eight places in Japan are going to be designated as “animation spots” to encourage tourism, using train stations, school campuses, rural shrines and other fairly everyday places where the characters of popular “manga,” or Japanese comics, are depicted. Such landmarks number in the tens of thousands, given the popularity and volume of manga in Japan. But this is being billed as the official list for any fan’s animation “pilgrimage,” as the places are known as “seichi,” or “sa
TravelSept. 18, 2016
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[Photo News] Starbucks’ tea brand Teavanna takes off in Korea
TEAVANNA TAKES OFF IN KOREA -- Starbucks Korea employees celebrate the local launch of the company’s flagship tea brand Teavanna at a Starbucks outlet inside the Starfield Hanam shopping complex in Hanam, Gyeonggi Province on Sept. 6. Since its official launch, more than 1 million Teavanna drinks have been sold at Starbucks outlets nationwide as of last Friday, according to Starbucks Korea. (Starbucks Korea) TEAVANNA TAKES OFF IN KOREA -- Starbucks Korea employees celebrate the local launch of t
IndustrySept. 18, 2016
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LG asks Italian court to nullify Secop’s patents
LG Electronics has requested an Italian court to nullify two patents held by Germany’s compressor manufacturer Secop, claiming that such technologies are no longer subject to legal protection as they are widely used throughout the industry.LG said Sunday in a statement that it filed the suit against Secop with the Torino Court in response to a claim by the German company that the South Korean electronics giant had infringed its patents.In July, Secop sent a letter of complaint to LG Electronics
TechnologySept. 18, 2016
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Samsung sells W1tr worth of stocks in global tech firms
Tech behemoth Samsung Electronics said Sunday that it has sold its shares in a total of four global tech companies, including Sharp of Japan and Seagate Technology of the US in recent weeks.The series of stock sales are said to be in line with Samsung Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s push to streamline the company’s business portfolio and focus on flagship businesses, including smartphones and chips.Samsung said selling the shares of the four companies -- Sharp, Seagate Technology, Dutch chip equipm
TechnologySept. 18, 2016
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[Editorial] To be productive
This year’s parliamentary audit, which will mark the first conducted under the 20th National Assembly, is scheduled to begin Sept. 26 for a three-week run.Wordy warfare between the ruling and opposition parties will likely intensify over the issue of the US and Korean governments’ accord to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense on the peninsula and North Korea’s fifth nuclear test earlier this month.Rival parties have also been at loggerheads over whether to question Woo Byung-woo, a pr
EditorialSept. 18, 2016
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Samsung to roll out Galaxy Note 7 replacements this week
Samsung Electronics will begin rolling out replacements of the Galaxy Note 7 in South Korea and the US this week, moving fast to restore consumer trust hurt by faulty batteries prone to potential explosions. The new Galaxy Note 7 replacement devices, equipped with new batteries, will become available in Korea from Monday and in the US from Wednesday, according to Samsung’s latest announcement. The ongoing recall affects Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones released in 10 nations last month, incl
TechnologySept. 18, 2016
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[Editorial] FOMC week
After the five-day Chuseok holiday, the local economy and financial markets will face significant external influence from the US in the form of a decision to be publicized here Sept. 22. If the US Federal Reserve keeps its base rate untouched again during the gathering of the Federal Open Market Committee, slated for Sept. 20-21, South Korea’s policymakers might be given more time to boost the economy in the fourth quarter.Some foreign investment banks even predict the Bank of Korea could choose
EditorialSept. 18, 2016
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‘Magnificent Seven’ against Trump, says Hawke
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain (AFP) - US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump might well enjoy “The Magnificent Seven” movie remake, but the film’s characters would join forces to defeat him, actor Ethan Hawke quipped Saturday.“I bet Donald Trump would like the film, but he doesn’t know that what the film is actually about is people gathering together to defeat him,” Hawke told reporters at the San-Sebastian film festival in northern Spain.“I like to say that Peter Sarsgaard plays Donald Trump in
FilmSept. 18, 2016
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[Slawomir Sierakowski] The Illiberal International
Stalin, in the first decade of Soviet power, backed the idea of “socialism in one country,” meaning that, until conditions ripened, socialism was for the USSR alone. When Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared, in July 2014, his intention to build an “illiberal democracy,” it was widely assumed that he was creating “illiberalism in one country.” Now, Orban and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and puppet master of the country’s government (thou
ViewpointsSept. 18, 2016
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[George Soros] Saving Refugees to Save Europe
The refugee crisis in Europe was already pushing the European Union toward disintegration when, on June 23, it helped drive the British to vote for Brexit. The refugee crisis and Brexit calamity that it spawned have reinforced xenophobic, nationalist movements that will seek to win a series of upcoming votes -- including national elections in France, the Netherlands and Germany in 2017, a referendum in Hungary on the EU refugee policy on Oct. 2, and a rerun of the Austrian presidential election
ViewpointsSept. 18, 2016
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How Schools Can Help Children Struggling to See
It’s hard to learn your ABCs when all you can see on the page are blurry squiggles. That’s the problem that hundreds of thousands of American children face as they start school with undiagnosed vision problems. Fortunately, helping them needn‘t be expensive or complicated. It’s just a matter of getting parents, schools and vision professionals to work better together.Most kids’ vision checkups are the kind that involve reading pyramids of letters and numbers from 6 meters away. But these often f
ViewpointsSept. 18, 2016
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[Peter D. Sutherland] Migration’s private-sector problem-solvers
As the Mediterranean migrant crisis has escalated over the past year, the spotlight has been on national governments’ policies, some of which have been generous, others callous. But non-state actors -- individuals, nongovernmental organizations and private companies -- have been just as important in responding to the crisis, often literally coming to the rescue of refugees and migrants.International cooperation among governments is necessary to help displaced people, but it is not always suffici
ViewpointsSept. 18, 2016
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How to squeeze Kim Jong-un
“There’s going to be a global shaming campaign.” -- Professor Andrei Lankov of Kookmin University in Seoul, South Korea, on an international plan to rein in North Korea’s nuclear arsenal, Sept. 11, 2016, the Washington Post. Earlier this month, North Korea celebrated the 68th anniversary of its regime with an underground nuclear blast, its fifth since 2006. A few days before that, the North launched a round of medium-range ballistic missile tests toward Japan. The responses have been predictably
ViewpointsSept. 18, 2016