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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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Middle East’s big AI push lures Korean tech firms
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[Herald Review] 'Culinary Class Wars': fresh, creative survival show minus the drama
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Evicted guest burns down inn; 3 killed
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Emergency bells to be installed at national parks
The Korea National Park said Wednesday it will install emergency call bells at 143 women restrooms in 20 national parks across the country, as part of its effort to make National Parks safer for visitors. When a user pushes a bell inside a women’s restroom in an emergency, it will trigger a siren and emergency lights outside the restroom, giving a notice to passersby or park rangers in the vicinity. The Korea National ParkThe KNP will attach a sign underneath the lights installed outside the res
Social AffairsJuly 20, 2016
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Filters in Hyundai Mobis, Cuckoo products found to release high levels of OIT
[THE INVESTOR] Vehicle air-conditioning system filters sold by Hyundai Mobis and those used in Cuckoo’s air filtration units have been found to release potentially toxic levels of octylisothiazolinone (OIT), the Ministry of Environment said on July 20.According to the ministry, two types of filters used in the Cuckoo products and Hyundai Mobis products released OIT at levels that could be harmful to the human body. The filter sold by Hyundai Mobis is produced by 3M, which has announced recall pl
MobilityJuly 20, 2016
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SK hynix to announce Q2 earnings on July 26
[THE INVESTOR] Chipmaker SK hynix(000660) said July 20 that it will announce its April-June earnings on July 26. A conference call will be also held on the day in which South Korea’s second-largest chipmaker will announce its business plans for the second half this year.
IndustryJuly 20, 2016
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Mobile phones most common lost item on public transport
Statistics showed Wednesday that an average of 435 items go missing daily on Seoul’s subway trains, buses and taxis, with mobile phones topping the list.Seoul City councilor Choi Pan-sul released the data showing that a total of 158,812 items were lost on Seoul’s public transportation last year, an 18 percentage point increase compared to 2014.About 78 percent or 124,627 items were lost on the subway, followed by 32,592 items lost on buses and 1,593 items on taxis.A storage room of a lost-and-fo
Social AffairsJuly 20, 2016
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‘U.S. received no complaints on Guam THAAD’
GUAM -- A U.S. congresswoman told the South Korean media that the military has received no complaints related to the Terminal High Area Altitude Defense system deployed in the U.S. territory of Guam.Madeleine Bordallo, the delegate from Guam to the U.S. House of Representatives, said that the people of Guam have welcomed the THAAD deployment and have not complained at all over having the system there.In an interview with visiting South Korean journalists, she said that threats from North Korea h
DefenseJuly 20, 2016
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[Photo News] Top duty-free brand
Lotte Duty Free was voted the most popular Korean duty-free brand by Chinese shoppers in an online survey conducted by Chinese news outlet People‘s Daily Online. Lotte Duty Free received the most votes out of all 250 Korean brands in the survey, according to the company. Pictured: Lotte Duty Free PR manager Noh Jae-seung (center right) accepts the award on behalf of Lotte Duty Free from Zhang Yue, People's Daily Online Korea Vice CEO, at the awards ceremony held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Seoul
IndustryJuly 20, 2016
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Scandals show Park's grip fading
The ongoing allegations involving several of President Park Geun-hye’s top aides have added to her growing lame duck symptoms, with 17 months of her term left. While Cheong Wa Dae cried foul and vowed strong counteraction in relation to the scandals, the ruling conservative Saenuri Party -- especially its reformist floor leadership -- increasingly showed signs of growing apart from the presidential office.The most recent trigger for the divide was the suggestion that senior presidential secretar
PoliticsJuly 20, 2016
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FSC seeks to address foreign financial firms' concerns
Jeong Eun-bo, the vice chairman of the Financial Services Commission, said Wednesday that a task force will be set up to foster constant communication with foreign financial companies operating in the country and address their needs.This comes as the state financial regulator is concerned over an increasing number of foreign financial companies folding their businesses and exiting the Korean market amid a gloomy outlook and decreasing profitability.In a meeting with executives of foreign financi
July 20, 2016
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N.K. says missile test aimed at ports, airfields in the South
North Korea said Wednesday that Tuesday’s launch of three missiles was aimed at boosting its capabilities to strike South Korean ports and airfields, in an apparent bid to ratchet up its protest against the Seoul-Washington plan to dispatch advanced U.S. antimissile assets here. The firing of one Rodong and two Scud missiles was seen as a show of force targeting the allies’ recent announcement of their deployment decision. Seongju, North Gyeongsang Province, was picked as the location for the Te
North KoreaJuly 20, 2016
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[FEATURE] Top-down corporate culture continues to take its toll
About two months ago, a 33-year-old prosecutor hung himself at his home in southwestern Seoul. A suicide note next to his body indicated that he had suffered extreme stress at work. During the investigation into the death of Kim Hong-yeong, his father and colleagues highlighted the severe verbal abuse and mistreatment by his boss as the reasons why he took his own life. Text messages exchanged between Kim and his colleagues before his death were later made public, revealing that he had often com
Social AffairsJuly 20, 2016
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Oil refineries projected to rebound
The performance of Korean oil refineries is expected to continue a gradual rebound, with improving refining margins, industry sources said Wednesday. The benchmark Singapore complex gross refining margin, which peaked at $9.9 per barrel in January, plummeted to $4.9 per barrel last month. The index, however, started to rebound to $5.4 per barrel in the first week of July. (Yonhap)The index indicates the difference between the total value of petroleum products coming out of an oil refinery and th
IndustryJuly 20, 2016
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[Sean Randolph] Why Silicon Valley matters to Korea
Every day a parade of presidents, cabinet ministers, government officials, academics, journalists and countless business leaders passes through the San Francisco Bay Area. They come from every corner of the world, but particularly from Europe and China, looking to understand how innovation happens in the region, and why so many world-leading technology companies come from there. Essentially they’re looking for the future, believing that much of the world’s economy will be shaped by what’s happen
ViewpointsJuly 20, 2016
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[Adam Minter] Has China reached peak urbanization?
The skylines of some of China’s biggest cities sprout from land that was farmed less than a generation ago. For the government, they’re a soaring testament to the country’s transformation into an urbanized superpower. And despite China’s economic slump, there are plenty of bureaucrats who’d like to see the process continue. According to a report last week, local governments are planning to develop more than 3,500 new urban areas in the next few years, with the capacity to house 3.4 billion peopl
ViewpointsJuly 20, 2016
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[Kim Myong-sik] Internal division, poor diplomacy only causes damage
The hours-long detention of Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn by thousands of angry residents of Seongju, North Gyeongsang Province, last week was a serious incident. The unruly crowd temporarily incapacitated the prime minister while he was heading the government on behalf of President Park Geun-hye who was then attending the Asia-Europe Meeting in Ulan Bator. Surrounded by the unruly, violent crowd who were throwing eggs, water bottles and other objects in the county office compound, the prime mini
ViewpointsJuly 20, 2016
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[Lee Joo-hee] Daring to go against the norm
Last week, a close friend of mine told me that he is constantly badgered by people around him.This friend, a smart, well-educated and kind-hearted man in his early 40s with a respectable job was “bullied” by his colleagues for no other reason than that he was not yet married.“Don’t you have a father? Your family must be ashamed of you,” was one of the remarks that he heard from his superior. “What is the use of decorating your place if you are not married?” was another.The comments — to which th
ViewpointsJuly 20, 2016
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[David Ignatius] Coup attempt is blow to U.S.-Turkey relations
In the uproar following the attempted military coup in Turkey, relations between Washington and Ankara, already badly strained, appear to be headed for new difficulty.The immediate test will be Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s demand that the United States extradite Fethullah Gulen, an exiled Turkish Muslim leader blamed by Erdogan for the coup attempt. Obama administration officials say they will consider any such request, under an existing extradition treaty with Turkey. But the issue
ViewpointsJuly 20, 2016
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Shinsegae DF opens luxury stores in Incheon
Shinsegae DF has completed its opening of seven luxury stores in its Incheon International Airport outlet, the company said Wednesday.The duty-free operator began bringing in luxury brands in mid-June, starting with Balenciaga. After Balenciaga, Moncler and Miu Miu stores soon followed. Celine, Fendi and Marc Jacobs stores opened on July 8, and a Hermes outlet opened on July 12. All of these brands are operated exclusively by Shinsegae DF at Incheon International Airport with the exception of He
IndustryJuly 20, 2016