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Torrential rainfall forces 1,500 to evacuate, causes widespread damage to homes, roads
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[KH Explains] Can smart chargers ease tensions over EV fires?
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1 in 5 households to have breadwinner over 80 in 30 years
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[Online Predators] Online reviews of sex tourism in Southeast Asia proliferate
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Assembly to review disputed appointment of national soccer team coach
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New Fifty Fifty off to strong start
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Arrival of fall calls for more outdoor festivals
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Evicted guest burns down inn; 3 killed
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[Herald Interview] US election may unleash growth for Korea: Laffer
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Yoon's Prague visit sets stage for W24tr nuclear power plant deal
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[James Heinzen] Putin‘s Russia began in chaos of ’91
I caught a glimpse of Vladimir Putin‘s Russia in a Moscow police station 25 years ago.The USSR was disintegrating around me. I was a University of Pennsylvania graduate student in Russian history spending a year in Moscow poring over newly declassified Soviet Communist Party archives. As I immersed myself in documents that revealed startling details about the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the revolution of 1991-92 was transforming the Soviet Union.Although on the streets things seeme
ViewpointsAug. 30, 2016
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[Kim Seong-kon] Time to stop blaming the older generation
In the eyes of young people, older people may look like an entirely different species. Of course, you cannot stereotype someone simply because he is old, and yet many older people are hopelessly pathetic and unbearable for many reasons. For example, they are incredibly stubborn and impudent, and authoritative and overbearing. Many older men display the characteristics of male chauvinists, too. Due to the destitute situation in which they were raised, they are likely to be stingy, parochial and n
ViewpointsAug. 30, 2016
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[Elizabeth Drew] Staff change reveals more about Trump
Donald Trump, the US Republican Party’s presidential nominee, has again shaken up his campaign organization. In doing so, he is revealing more about himself and his so-called management style than he may want people to see. Few presidential campaigns have featured such evident chaos and churn in personnel.Two people who have never run a presidential campaign, and whose political instincts contradict each other’s, are now running Trump’s operation.Kellyanne Conway, his new campaign manager, is a
ViewpointsAug. 30, 2016
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Greetings from Earth, Proximans
“We hit the jackpot here.” -- Astrophysicist Guillem Anglada-Escude, on a planet “more or less” like Earth orbiting Proxima Centauri, the star nearest to our solar system.An open letter to our friends on Earth II or Proxima b (or whatever you call your planet):Greetings, fellow cosmos dwellers!We were thrilled to hear the news that your Earth -- we hope you don’t mind if we call it that -- is a lot like our Earth. Slightly bigger, yes. And we’re told your year takes only 11 days (which means Chr
ViewpointsAug. 30, 2016
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[Robert J. Fouser] Raising Korea’s low fertility rate
On Aug. 25, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced a series of measures aimed at raising South Korea’s low birthrate by 2020. The measures focused on changing the workplace culture so that people will have more time to spend with their families, which should encourage them to have more children. The government also promised to increase support for infertility treatment and increasing paternity allowances for parents who have a second child. The government hopes to raise the fertility rate
ViewpointsAug. 30, 2016
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Gov't proposes 2017 budget in excess of record 400 trillion won
The South Korean government aims for a 3.7 percent increase in its spending next year to push the annual budget above the 400 trillion won ($358 billion) mark for the first time, with steep rises planned for youth job creation, expansion of custom-made welfare benefits and stabilization of public livelihoods, the finance ministry said Tuesday.The proposed 2017 budget calls for boosting spending on job creation, education, defense, and culture and tourism by 10.7 percent, 6.1 percent, 4 percent a
Aug. 30, 2016
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N. Korea using THAAD to incite antagonism toward S. Korea: report
North Korea is using Seoul's decision to deploy an advance antimissile system on its soil to intensify hostility toward South Korea, a media report citing sources in the reclusive country said Tuesday.A source in North Hamgyong Province told Radio Free Asia that North Korea's propaganda machine has harshly criticized Seoul's decision to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system.According to the RFA, the source said lectures to the public include the claim that the development of THAA
North KoreaAug. 30, 2016
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Fitbit Charge 2 and Flex 2 coming to Korea
US wearable-maker Fitbit will launch its newest fitness wristband models Charge 2 and Flex 2 in Korea in September and in October, respectively, the company announced Tuesday. Fitbit Charge 2 (Fitbit)Fitbit Charge 2 has a display screen that is four times larger than its predecessor Charge HR, which allows the wearer to see all information in one screen. Just as HR did, this Charge 2 allows non-stop monitoring of heartrate, checks the wearer’s inner oxygen level and offers recommended breathing
TechnologyAug. 30, 2016