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[Exclusive] Democratic Party of Korea forms US election task force
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Seoul seeks to improve foreign nanny program after two abscond
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[Grace Kao] NewJeans fights Hybe for their survival
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Samsung, top banks to create W2tr green growth fund for SMEs
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Malnutrition cases nearly triple in last 5 years
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KFA Chair denies unfair hiring of national coach
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An increasing number of K-pop idols are breaking free from big agencies. Why?
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NewJeans has few options after Ador rejects group's request to reinstate Min Hee-jin as CEO
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Couple welcoming quintuplets to receive over W170m in childbirth grants
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Korean automakers pressured to diversify supply chains as US bans Chinese tech
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Brexit shock weighing on Korean economy
South Korea has come under growing pressure to take more aggressive budgetary and monetary measures after Britain's decision to leave the European Union, officials and experts here said Sunday.The unexpected move has added to global market uncertainties and is fueling financial sector turbulence that is adversely impacting Asia's fourth-largest economy. On Friday, the Korea Composite Stock Price Index fell 3.1 percent to 1,925.24 points, the biggest daily loss in over four years.Even before the
June 26, 2016
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PyeongChang encourages SMEs to take part in Olympics sponsorship
The organizing committee of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games said Sunday that it started receiving applications from small and mid-sized enterprises for official sponsorships.The committee said it decided to allow SMEs to participate in sponsorship arrangements at the games in return for marketing opportunities. It said such a move is being taken as demand for various items necessary to run the global event is growing as the start date for the Olympics approaches.There are 30 categories of item
IndustryJune 26, 2016
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Brexit could force British law firms to pull out of Korea
The decision by Britons to pull out of the European Union could force British law firms out of South Korea's legal market, local sources said Sunday.Such a step will be a setback for the legal firms that have been systematically gearing up to expand their presence in the market since the South Korea-EU free trade agreement went into effect in July 2011.Data showed that five EU law firms -- Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy, Herbert Smith Freehills, Stephenson Harwood and Linklaters -- have been pre
Social AffairsJune 26, 2016
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Kim Seong-min declared brain-dead
Actor Kim Seong-min, who was found unconscious after a suicide attempt following a fight with his wife early Friday, was declared brain-dead on Sunday. The Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital’s medical team in charge of Kim’s case pronounced him brain-dead around 8:45 a.m., the hospital said in a press conference Sunday afternoon. Kim had said before that he would kill himself when under the influence of alcohol, local media reported, quoting his wife. Actor Kim Seong-min (Yonhap) Surgery was scheduled fo
TelevisionJune 26, 2016
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Iconic clubs feted in celebrity-filled Paris menswear shows
PARIS (AP) -- Actor Robert Pattinson took center stage at Dior Homme's menswear show in Paris that celebrated the styles of Britain’s iconic retro club, The Haeuroienda -- against a theatrical fairground backdrop that had celebrity attendees gawping. Kenzo, too, paid homage to legendary retro clubs in a show dedicated to the flamboyant styles once worn at New York music venues.Here are some of the highlights of the spring-summer 2017 collections.Rise of Robert PattinsonPattinson, who has success
Arts & DesignJune 26, 2016
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Greek foundation unveils new Athens opera, national library
ATHENS (AFP) -- A leading Greek foundation on Friday unveiled a sprawling new park, opera and national library in southern Athens designed to “give hope” to a country brought low by a six-year economic crisis.The 1,400-seat opera, library and adjoining park designed by famed Italian architect Renzo Piano cost nearly 600 million euros ($680 million) and took eight years to design and build.“We thought it was very important to give hope,” Andreas Dracopoulos, copresident of the Stavros Niarchos fo
CultureJune 26, 2016
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Bill Cunningham, NY Times fashion photographer, dies at 87
NEW YORK (AP) -- Bill Cunningham, a longtime fashion photographer for The New York Times known for taking pictures of everyday people on the streets of New York, has died. He was 87. Cunningham died Saturday in New York City, according to Eileen Murphy, a spokeswoman for the newspaper. He had been hospitalized recently after suffering a stroke. “To see a Bill Cunningham street spread was to see all of New York,” New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet said in a tweet posted to the newspaper'
PeopleJune 26, 2016
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‘The Handmaiden’ pulls in 4 million
Award-winning director Park Chan-wook’s “The Handmaiden” has attracted more than 4 million viewers so far. The film, which opened in local theaters on June 1, had attracted 4,005,806 moviegoers by Saturday, according to the Korean Film Council on Sunday. It is currently the best performing 19-rated film this year, having surpassed the mark set by “Deadpool,” an American superhero film that opened in February and attracted more than 3.2 million moviegoers. Actress Kim Min-hee (right) and actor Ha
FilmJune 26, 2016
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Oscar-nominated documentarian Liz Garbus makes a music video
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- What does it take to get an Oscar-nominated documentarian to direct a music video?A call from Glenn Close.That’s how Liz Garbus, director of “What Happened, Miss Simone?” came to make the video for “Ghost Story,” which is being released Friday in association with Close’s mental health advocacy organization, Bring Change 2 Mind .“Ghost Story” is by 16-year-old Whitney Woerz, who wrote the song to help a friend overcome depression and thoughts of suicide. The six-minute video f
PerformanceJune 26, 2016
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Lucas abandons plan to build museum in Chicago after lawsuit
CHICAGO (AP) – “Star Wars” creator George Lucas announced Friday that he has abandoned plans to build his art museum in Chicago, blaming delays over a lawsuit from a parks group opposed to development along the city’s prized lakefront. The filmmaker said in a statement he would take his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art to his home state of California, but he did not name a specific location. He blamed Chicago’s Friends of the Parks group for suing to stop construction on what is currently a parkin
PerformanceJune 26, 2016
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North Korea erecting more statues of dead leaders: report
North Korea is continuing to erect new statues of its dead leaders as part of the country's effort to strengthen a cult around the ruling Kim dynasty that has controlled the communist country for nearly seven decades, a U.S.-based news report said Sunday.According to Radio Free Asia, the North is moving to place new statues of the country's founder Kim Il-sung and his son Kim Jong-il in front of the country's national defense college and a museum dedicated to the two Kims in Pyongyang.Statues ho
North KoreaJune 26, 2016
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EU founders urge quickie divorce from Britain
Foreign ministers of the EU‘s founding member states, gathering in Berlin for crisis talks after Britain’s shock referendum outcome, said London must begin the process of leaving “as soon as possible”. France‘s Jean-Marc Ayrault went as far as to call for David Cameron, who has said he would resign by October, to make way more quickly for a new British prime minister to manage the transition out of the union. (Yonhap News)As the EU grappled with the first defection in its six-decade history, Eu
World NewsJune 26, 2016
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Samsung among top-three 'dynamic' brands with Google, Amazon: poll
Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea has been named one of the top-three "dynamic" companies, along with Google and Amazon, a U.S. marketing firm's survey showed Sunday.IPG Mediabrands, the media holding arm of the New York-based Interpublic Group, has created a new brand measure, called a "dynamic score," in cooperation with Jonah Berger, an associate professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. They released the "D100" list of the most dynamic firms worldwide.Samsung ra
IndustryJune 26, 2016
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PM leaves for China to discuss N. Korean issues with Beijing leadership
South Korea's prime minister is set to leave for China on Sunday to discuss North Korean issues with the Chinese leadership and touch on other bilateral matters, his office said.Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn will fly to Tianjin to participate in the Summer Davos Forum 2016, where he plans to introduce South Korea's flagship creative economy policy, which aims to generate new business opportunities through merging different industries and fostering startups.During his two-day stay in the industria
Foreign AffairsJune 26, 2016
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North Korean leader's next move after Musudan launch drawing attention
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's next move after the recent "successful" Musudan missile launch is drawing keen attention as it could help the outside world gauge the future direction of the reclusive country, Pyongyang watchers in the South said Sunday.Observers said the actions Kim takes will be of critical importance as they could fuel confrontations or allow all sides to take stock of the current situation and try to diffuse tensions.Last week, the country claimed it successfully launched a
North KoreaJune 26, 2016
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Protesters hold massive anti-gov't rally
A South Korean umbrella labor union and progressive civic groups held a massive rally Saturday to protest the government's policy on labor reform, police said.About 15,000 members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions gathered at Seoul Plaza in central Seoul to protest the government's push for labor reform, according to police. An association of farmers also held a rally at a separate place to call for a parliamentary hearing on the alleged violent crackdown by police on last year's rally
Social AffairsJune 25, 2016