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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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Key Minjoo lawmakers split on THAAD
The main opposition party’s former leader Rep. Moon Jae-in on Wednesday announced his opposition to the deployment of the U.S. missile system in South Korea, urging the government to reconsider the plan and seek out public consensus on the move. Moon Jae-in (Yonhap) Meanwhile, the current Minjoo Party leader Rep. Kim Chong-in, dismissed Moon’s statement as a “personal opinion.” Kim reiterated that the nation should refrain from taking a “binary approach” toward the U.S. missile system and that t
PoliticsJuly 13, 2016
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Length of domestic highways to top 5,000 km by 2020
South Korea will increase the length of domestic highways to over 5,000 kilometers over the next four years to ensure faster and safer travel and ease traffic congestion, the government said Wednesday. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport unveiled the draft of the comprehensive road plan that calls for extending the combined length of nationwide highways from the current 4,193 km to 5,131 km by 2020.Once the 73.7 trillion-won ($64.2 billion) project is completed, the road construct
Social AffairsJuly 13, 2016
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[Editorial] Taxing times
The National Assembly’s Special Committee on Budget and Accounts has recently pointed out in a report the need to reduce the proportion of wage earners exempted from income tax. The committee has expressed concern that the ever-expanding share of workers who do not pay any income tax could have negative effects on the government’s tax revenue in the long term as it would deter the expansion of the taxation base.Last year, of the 16.7 million Korean workers, 8.02 million, or 48.1 percent, did not
EditorialJuly 13, 2016
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Korea to jack up R&D spending on semiconductors
The government said Wednesday that it will allocate an additional 1.1 billion won ($958,000) to the development of next-generation semiconductors in an effort to boost the industry.This year's R&D budget will be put at 35.6 billion won, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.The state research and development funds will help the country maintain its worldwide competitiveness and raise self-sufficiency in the production of semiconductors, the ministry said.The state R&D expenditu
TechnologyJuly 13, 2016
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[Editorial] Stem cell research
In Korea, research on creating stem cell lines using cloned human embryos has been virtually suspended following the cloning scandal of Hwang Woo-suk, which erupted in 2005 causing a stir around the world.Hwang, then a professor at Seoul National University, claimed that he had successfully established stem cell lines from cloned embryos. But his work was discredited as he was found to have fabricated a series of experiments.The scandal prompted the government to enact the Bioethics and Safety A
EditorialJuly 13, 2016
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Seongju residents stage anti-THAAD rally
Thousands of residents in the southern town of Seongju took to the streets on Wednesday to protest the government's designation of the town as a site for the deployment of an advanced U.S. antimissile system.Some 5,000 residents of the town in North Gyeongsang Province staged a massive rally, chanting slogans upbraiding the government for the decision to station a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense battery in the town.The residents argued that the decision by Seoul and Washington to bring in TH
Social AffairsJuly 13, 2016
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Samsung smartband tops U.S. consumer study
South Korea's tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. topped a U.S. quality test for the fitness smartband segment, industry watchers said Wednesday.According to the research conducted by industry tracker J.D.Power and Associates, Samsung Electronics won the highest consumer satisfaction ratings for a smartband for fitness.With the satisfaction rating-- based on performance, reliability, features, price, ease of operation, style and warranty -- calculated on a 1,000-point scale, J.D. Power said the S
TechnologyJuly 13, 2016
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UNEP’s Korean committee hosts environment talk concert
A seminar gathering environment experts and artists will be held on July 22, the U.N. Environment Program National Committee for the Republic of Korea said Wednesday.The event, being held at Seoul City Hall, is jointly hosted by the Canadian Embassy in Korea and Seoul Metropolitan Government. Among the noted participants include Yoon Ho-seob, an honorary professor at Kookmin University renowned for his environment-friendly designs, architecture professor Henry Tsang of Keimyung University and Jo
Social AffairsJuly 13, 2016
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Spend your summer by the river
The return of the scorching summer sun and humid air is not always welcome, especially if you live in the big city surrounded by a concrete jungle and elbow-to-elbow crowds. The heat wave is expected to continue until August with occasional rain in July, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration.Thankfully, the sprawling Hangang River that runs through the middle of the capital offers spacious relief for tired urban souls. Various festivals by the river are in store for the summer, ho
Social AffairsJuly 13, 2016
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Korean professor helps Chinese sex slavery victims
A South Korean professor has set out to help Chinese victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery in a bid to ease the suffering that so many of his compatriots also went through.Yang Pil-seung, honorary head of a research institute on Chinese businesses at Seoul's Konkuk University, recently launched a charity fund in China with the aim of supporting the few surviving victims of the Japanese military's sexual enslavement during World War II.In a phone interview with Yonhap News Agency, Wednesday,
Social AffairsJuly 13, 2016
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Samsung Heavy workers stage sit-in protest
A group of workers of Samsung Heavy Industries Co., a unit of Samsung Group -- the country's largest conglomerate -- staged a sit-in protest Wednesday at the group's headquarters in downtown Seoul, demanding that the management's restructuring drive be nixed. Their protest, the second of its kind in less than one month, came as the shipbuilder, one of the country's big three shipyards, is seeking to launch a large-scale restructuring move in the face of a fall in new shipbuilding orders and wors
IndustryJuly 13, 2016
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Defense ministry counters health, diplomatic concerns over THAAD deployment
As South Korea moves forward with deploying the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, the country is expanding efforts to allay public health and diplomatic anxieties surrounding the move, local observers said Wednesday.South Korea and the United States are to officially announce the location for deploying a THAAD battery later in the day in the run-up to the full deployment of one THAAD battery by the end of 2017.A southern county of Seongju, close to the country's southeast coast, h
DefenseJuly 13, 2016