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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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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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Arrival of fall calls for more outdoor festivals
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New Fifty Fifty off to strong start
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Assembly to review disputed appointment of national soccer team coach
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Pikki Pikki dance: Korean cheerleader dance routine takes social media by storm
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Stielike concerned about Chinese fans outnumbering Koreans in World Cup qualifier
Korean men's football team head coach Uli Stielike said Tuesday he is worried about Chinese fans outnumbering home supporters when his side hosts the neighbors in the FIFA World Cup qualifier in September.For the final Asian qualifying round for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, where 12 teams compete, Korea are paired with Iran, Uzbekistan, China, Qatar and Syria in Group A. Korea will open the final round on Sept. 1 against China at home and face Syria five days later on the road.Korea have collected 1
SportsJuly 19, 2016
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SK Telecom, CAT to set up JV for Thai e-payment market
[THE INVESTOR] SK Telecom will join hands with Thailand’s CAT Telecom and enter the Southeastern country’s electronic payment market, Thai daily The Nation reported on July 19. Surapant Meknavin, acting president of the public enterprise, acknowledged that the two telecom operators will set up a joint venture to provide an e-payment gateway service. SK Telecom will own 51 percent of the JV, reportedly named Tree Pay, with registered capital of 200 million baht (US$5.72 million). Scheduled to be
TechnologyJuly 19, 2016
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Education minister vows personnel reform
A week after the scandal over a high-ranking official’s rant against the general public as “dogs and pigs,” Education Minister Lee Joon-sik said Tuesday that he will carry out drastic personnel reform that would include bringing in outside figures.“It is extremely regretful and I apologize for causing pain among the public,” Lee said in an interview with a local news media. “I will work to recover the trust through carrying out drastic personnel reshuffle.”He explained that he was also consideri
Social AffairsJuly 19, 2016
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THAAD row heats up Assembly questioning
An intense debate took place at the National Assembly on Tuesday over the Seoul government’s decision to have the U.S. station its missile defense system here, as the rival parties and the government relayed polarized views on the plan’s potential domestic, military and diplomatic impact.Citing North Korea’s test-firing of three missiles earlier in the day, the administration and the ruling Saenuri Party stressed the need for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system to safeguard the South
DefenseJuly 19, 2016
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Korea 4th most popular destination for Chinese tourists
Korea ranked fourth after Australia, Japan and Hong Kong among preferred Chinese tourist destinations, an online hotel reservation site said Tuesday. The survey of 3,000 Chinese tourists and officials at about 5,800 hotel-related firms worldwide, conducted by the hotel reservation site Hotels.com, found that 15 percent of respondents said they want to visit Australia. It was followed by 13 percent who selected Japan. Hong Kong was chosen by 11 percent, followed by Korea, which was picked by 7 pe
Social AffairsJuly 19, 2016
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[Editorial] Inconsistent policies
Since 2013, the Ministry of Education has sought to weed out poorly managed universities as demand for higher education is forecast to drop due to the falling population of high school graduates.Yet the ministry has made little progress thus far. Last month, Hanlyo University in Gwangyang, South Jeolla Province, announced it would close in the second half of the year, becoming the first university to do so under the incumbent government. Under the preceding administration, six universities had b
EditorialJuly 19, 2016
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CJ HelloVision’s share price falls after failed merger with SKT
[THE INVESTOR] Mirae Asset Daewoo on July 19 lowered the target price of CJ HelloVision to 11,000 won (US$9.67) per share in the next 12 months after its failed merger with SK Broadband, the IPTV unit of SK Telecom. In the day, its share closed at 9,550 won, down 3.14 percent from the previous day. The brokerage said the Fair Trade Commission’s disapproval of the merger would affect negatively the overall attractiveness of the nation’s paid TV market that is crowded with smaller
July 19, 2016
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[Editorial] Reform the prosecution
Justice Minister Kim Hyun-woong and Prosecutor General Kim Soo-nam apologized Monday over the arrest of Jin Kyung-joon, a senior prosecutor, for taking bribes from a leading online games firm. On Sunday, Jin became the first high-ranking prosecutor in the 68-year history of the nation’s prosecution system to be arrested while in office. He is accused of making some 12 billion won ($10.5 million) through shady stock transactions involving Nexon Co. Jin is also alleged to have pressured Hanjin Gr
EditorialJuly 19, 2016
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[Kim Seong-kon] An inscrutable nation in East Asia
Koreans tend to be conscious of what others think of them, rather than what they think of themselves. Strangely, however they do not seem to care about what foreigners think of Korea. Embarrassingly, many foreigners I met lately call South Korea a weird country. Due to the nature of my job, I frequently meet with foreign nationals who either live in Korea or are here on a visit. To my Korean friends who tell me that I spend too much time with foreigners, I humorously answer that it is an occupa
ViewpointsJuly 19, 2016
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NATO unity: First aid for Europe’s post-Brexit blues
Still reeling from Brexit’s cold slap, Europe sought salve in the form of NATO’s summit in Warsaw this month. The continent needed to show its resolve to unify in the face of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. As it happens, there’s an adversary to the east that amply serves as an entity to unify against.NATO decided to answer Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggressiveness in Ukraine with the deployment of 4,000 troops in Poland and the Baltic states along Russia’s western border
ViewpointsJuly 19, 2016
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[Kim Seong-kon] An inscrutable nation in East Asia
Koreans tend to be conscious of what others think of them, rather than what they think of themselves. Strangely, however they do not seem to care about what foreigners think of Korea. Embarrassingly, many foreigners I met lately call South Korea a weird country. Due to the nature of my job, I frequently meet with foreigners who either reside in Korea or are here on a visit. To my Korean friends who tell me that I spend too much time with foreigners, I humorously answer that it is an occupationa
ViewpointsJuly 19, 2016
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[Elizabeth Drew] Obama making most of his last hurrah
Barack Obama was just beginning to enjoy himself. He’d been itching to throw himself into the 2016 presidential race and do what he could to ensure that Donald Trump wouldn’t succeed him as President of the United States. It was evident throughout the campaign that he backed his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, but he had to wait to declare his support openly until it was certain that Sen. Bernie Sanders couldn’t beat her at the convention. His entry into the campaign came at a time w
ViewpointsJuly 19, 2016
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Korea to invest W12.5b in ‘soft robots’
[THE INVESTOR] The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said July 19 that the ministry will invest a total of 12.5 billion won (US$11 million) in the field of bio-inspired robotics, often called “soft robotics,” over the next seven years. Soft robots are highly flexible and look like sea creatures. The research aims to build machines that handle tasks impossible with traditionally designed robots. A stingray-shaped bio hybrid robot (left), a joint research project of Korea’s Sogang Unive
TechnologyJuly 19, 2016
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[Tyler Cowen] Coups Don‘t Depress Economic Growth
As the chaos in Turkey is starting to clear, investors are asking what the failed coup might mean for the country’s economic future. The news stories show many conflicting elements in play, and right now it is hard to make specific verifiable claims about what the country can expect. We can, however, turn to the broader historical record, and that suggests failed coup attempts against democratic governments don’t much lower subsequent rates of economic growth in those countries.Assistant Profess
ViewpointsJuly 19, 2016
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[Robert J. Fouser] On Constitutional reform
July 17 is Constitution Day in South Korea. It honors the day that the Republic of Korea adopted its Constitution in 1948. Since then, the Constitution has been amended a number of times in response to changes in the national leadership. The most recent amendment was the set of democratic reforms in 1987 in response to the successful democracy movement. The 29 years since the most recent amendment represents the longest period of Constitutional stability in the history of the Republic of Korea.
ViewpointsJuly 19, 2016
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[EXCLUSIVE] Samsung to adopt loyalty rewards program for Samsung Pay users
[THE INVESTOR] Samsung Electronics is seeking to lure more users to its mobile payment service Samsung Pay with a new loyalty rewards program, tentatively called Samsung Pay Rewards, industry sources said on July 19. The Korean tech giant has been pouring resources into expanding Samsung Pay’s presence globally, which it believes is crucial for its device sales. Since its launch in August 2015, the number of subscribers has reached 2.5 million globally, with the total transaction volume surpassi
TechnologyJuly 19, 2016
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S. Korea lambasts N. Korea's missile launches
South Korea's foreign ministry strongly denounced North Korea's defiant ballistic missile launches on Tuesday, vowing to take the necessary diplomatic actions to tighten the screws on the communist country.Earlier in the day, North Korea test-fired three ballistic missiles into the East Sea from its central western county of Hwangju.It was the communist country's first show of force after Seoul and Washington picked the southern county of Seongju, 296 kilometers southeast of Seoul, as the site t
Diplomatic CircuitJuly 19, 2016