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Over 82,000 Korean young people unemployed, not searching for job long-term
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40% of Korea's workers who reported bullying faced retaliation: survey
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600 evacuated as heavy rain floods roads, homes in southern regions
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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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[Weekender] Young Koreans more open to Japanese cultural products
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New Fifty Fifty off to strong start
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1 in 5 households to have breadwinner over 80 in 30 years
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Jeju's solo traveler-friendly spots offer solitude as well as camaraderie
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Doctors defend colleague accused of blacklisting non-strikers
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In ‘American Heiress,’ Patty Hearst case evokes the dark side of ’70s
“American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst”By Jeffrey ToobinDoubleday (384 pages, $28.95)In modern media culture, news stories blow up, consume us and then, in a matter of months, devolve into trivia, pop-culture reference material and, in the end, a footnote.Take the 1974 kidnapping of heiress Patricia Hearst. The case dominated America’s consciousness for most of two years, especially after she announced she had joined her captors, a homegrown terroris
BooksAug. 10, 2016
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Ruth Ware returns with nightmare cruise thriller
“The Woman in Cabin 10”By Ruth WareScout Press (340 pages, $26)Laura Blacklock is a writer for a British travel magazine. When a dream assignment lands in her lap — covering the weeklong inaugural cruise of a five-star “boutique” ship with just 10 swanky cabins for passengers pursuing the Northern Lights in the Norwegian fjords — she leaps at the chance.But the poor girl is off to a rough start. Her flat is broken into just before she leaves for the trip, and her encounter with the masked burgla
BooksAug. 10, 2016
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North Korea's economic development districts at standstill: report
Development of North Korea's economic development zones has come to a standstill since the reclusive country carried out its fourth nuclear test early this year, a U.S.-based media report said Wednesday.Citing a professor in South Korea, the Voice of America said Pyongyang has failed to induce foreign firms to come set up operations in its special economic development districts, despite its desperate efforts to attract investments, especially from its key ally China.The United Nations Security C
North KoreaAug. 10, 2016
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Screenwriting guru Robert McKee writes his story's next chapter
In the early 1990s, Robert McKee had a revelation that would change the course of his career and influence the lives of tens of thousands of other writers. At the time, he’d written “Abraham,” a four-hour biblical miniseries, for TNT and had sold several unproduced screenplays.“I looked at ‘Abraham’ and thought, ‘I’m a good writer, but I will never be Ingmar Bergman,’” McKee said. “The creative explosion is not happening. It’s professional, it’s actable, it’s entertaining. But I want to be the b
BooksAug. 10, 2016
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Teen girl’s trauma reveals truths about ugly, beautiful sides of life
"The Inseparables"By Stuart Nadler Little, Brown and Co. (352 pages, $27)The best fiction illuminates life’s realities, and Stuart Nadler spotlights the fact that we all skate on a very thin edge between joy and sorrow, respectability and shame, life and death.Or, as Henrietta tells her granddaughter, Lydia, in “The Inseparables,” you can be sitting next to a window in a restaurant having a perfectly nice lunch and, “A bird could come through the window right at this instant and impale you.”One
BooksAug. 10, 2016
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Korea to complete radar development for KF-X jets by 2026
South Korea will complete the development of an advanced radar system to be placed on the country's indigenous fighter jets by 2026 that will greatly boost its air-combat capabilities, the state arms procurement agency said Wednesday. The state-run Agency for Defense Development has begun the process of developing the active electronically scanned array radars for some 120 KF-X fighter jets that South Korea seeks to develop by the mid-2020s, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration said.
DefenseAug. 10, 2016
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Uncoordinated military action in event of N.K. collapse could lead to U.S.-China war: report
Uncoordinated military intervention by China, South Korea or the United States in the event of North Korea's collapse could lead to war between the U.S. and China, a U.S. research institute said.RAND Corporation raised the prospect in a report titled, "War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable," saying the two super powers are in a row over a series of issues that could lead to a military confrontation.Other situations that could turn violent included China and Japan skirmishing over disp
InternationalAug. 10, 2016
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China's THAAD objection thwarts UNSC's push to denounce N. Korea's missile launches
The United Nations Security Council's push to adopt a statement to denounce North Korea's recent ballistic missile launches has fizzled out because China demanded the statement also include its opposition to South Korea's deployment of a U.S. defense system, sources here said Wednesday.As the United Nations Security Council discussed issuing the statement critical of North Korea's defiant launch of two ballistic missiles on Aug. 3, China insisted that the document should also state Beijing's opp
Foreign AffairsAug. 10, 2016
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N. Korea's No.2 man in Rio appears nonexistent in sports diplomacy arena
North Korea's No. 2 man attending the 31st Summer Olympic Games appears to be almost nonexistent in the arena of sports diplomacy as he is mostly seen cheering on athletes or taking tours, observers here said Wednesday. In addition, the North's report that Choe Ryong-hae met with the interim Brazilian leader turned out to be false.Choe, who holds the title of vice chairman of North Korea's State Affairs Commission, arrived in Rio de Janeiro last Thursday (local time) to attend the Olympics, loca
North KoreaAug. 10, 2016
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South Korea rejects calls for reopening shuttered joint industrial park
South Korea on Wednesday said it is nonsense to talk about reopening the now-shuttered joint industrial park with North Korea, as the communist country is continuing to move forward with its development of nuclear weapons and missiles.Six months ago, Seoul shut down the Kaesong Industrial Complex in the North's border city of the same name, the last symbol of inter-Korean reconciliation, in response to the communist country's fourth nuclear test in January and launch of a long-range rocket in t
North KoreaAug. 10, 2016
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Korea successfully hosts trade fair in Los Angeles
South Korea successfully hosted a trade road show in Los Angeles aimed at helping local firms make inroads into the U.S. market and attract foreign investment, Seoul's science ministry said Wednesday.The "Creative Economy Global Road Show" closed on July 31 after a three-day run at the Los Angeles Convention Center with the participation of 90 local companies and 106 foreign buyers, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said.The trade fair was held on the sidelines of KCON 2016 LA, th
InternationalAug. 10, 2016
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Stocks down in late morning trading as won strengthens
South Korean shares traded lower late Wednesday morning as the Korean won's surge against the U.S. dollar weighed on tech and auto stocks. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index shed 1.15 point, or 0.06 percent, to 2,042.63 as of 11:20 a.m.After rising to a nine-month high a day earlier, the KOSPI stock index started 0.04 percent lower and it swung between gains and losses.Market expectations for an interest rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve were slightly lower following softer U
Aug. 10, 2016