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Seoul, Tokyo reboot joint maritime resource talks after 40-year freeze
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Host of Miss Korea apologizes for 'inappropriate question' about deepfake
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Korea to face another massive shortfall in tax revenue
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Who's lying? Hybe vs. Min conflict continues to intensify
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Seoul should engage Kim Jong-un’s elites for change, ex-North Korean diplomat says
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SK hynix outpaces Samsung, Micron with more powerful AI chips
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Power of nostalgia brings K-pop legends back together
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North Korea unveiling uranium enrichment site a US election-conscious move: NIS
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'Shaman says president will die,' caller warns
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Boy's emergency medical treatment delayed 2 hours due to staff shortage
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Samsung Electronics No.1 in Indian smartphone market
Samsung Electronics was the No. 1 player in the Indian smartphone market in the first quarter of the year, data showed Thursday. Samsung took up a 25.1 percent share in the Indian smartphone market in the January-March period with sales of 64 million units, followed by Micromax and Intex with 16.5 percent and 9.4 percent, respectively, according to industry tracker Strategy Analytics.U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. took up around 2.7 percent of the Indian market in the first quarter, the data showed.
IndustryMay 12, 2016
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Cuban President Castro sent congratulatory message to Kim Jong-un: media
Cuban President Raul Castro sent a congratulatory message to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for his recent appointment to the chairmanship of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, the communist country's official news outlet said Thursday.Kim was elected chairman of the North's ruling party in the recent four-day party congress which closed on Monday. The move is expected to further consolidate his hereditary one-man leadership over the reclusive country.Calling Kim "honorable comrade," Castro sa
InternationalMay 12, 2016
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Struggling Korean infielder designated for assignment by Angels
Struggling South Korean infielder Choi Ji-man was designated for assignment by the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday (local time).The Angels said they moved him off their 40-man roster to make room for pitcher Jhoulys Chacin, recently acquired in a trade with the Atlanta Braves.Choi, 24, joined the Angels via the Rule 5 Draft in December, after signing a minor league deal with the Baltimore Orioles. He spent his first five seasons in the Seattle Mariners' system.Choi made his major league debut th
BaseballMay 12, 2016
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Seoul shares open lower on Wall Street losses
South Korean share prices opened lower on Thursday following losses on Wall Street. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index fell 6.16 points, or 0.31 percent, to 1,973.94 in the first 15 minutes of trading. Traders monitor Seoul share prices at a local bank. (Yonhap)Overnight, the Dow Jones industrial average slipped 1.21 percent, weighed down by lackluster earnings results for some high-profile companies including department store chain Macy’s.Samsung Electronics remained bearish, while
May 12, 2016
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Report says women leaving workforce for family, from lack of quality jobs
More than 90 percent of South Korean women in their latter 30s, now economically inactive, had been previously employed, a report said Thursday, a finding that supports arguments that they are leaving the workforce to care for child and family.According to the report from the Korea Employment Information Service, out of 836,000 women in the 35-39 age group who were not working, 93.8 percent, or 785,000, formerly held jobs.Fifty-seven percent of the women who previously had worked were raising ch
Social AffairsMay 12, 2016
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Defectors send anti-Pyongyang leaflets
A local civic group comprised of North Korean defectors sent anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the inter-Korean border on Thursday following North Korea's recent ruling party congress.The Fighters for Free North Korea said it has scattered some 300,000 leaflets criticizing the first congress of Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in 36 years, from Gimpo, just west of Seoul. During the high-profile congress, which concluded its four-day run Monday, North Korea elected its leader Kim Jong-un the chairman o
Social AffairsMay 12, 2016
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N. Korea appoint foreigner to lead nat'l football team: report
North Korea have reportedly appointed former Bundesliga top scorer Jorn Andersen to lead their national football team, Norwegian media reported on Wednesday (local time).According to Norway's state broadcaster NRK, Andersen signed a one-year contract with North Korea. His family told NRK that the 53-year-old coach had been in the communist state for two weeks.They said that North Korea had been looking for a German coach.Andersen, who was born in Fredrikstad, southern Norway, became a German cit
North KoreaMay 12, 2016
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Kenneth Bae calls for greater international attention to suffering of N.K. people
Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American man who spent two years at a North Korean labor camp, called Wednesday for greater attention to the people of the communist nation, saying he had a first-hand look at how they are suffering in "darkness."Bae was detained in the North from 2012 to 2014 after being sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for carrying a hard drive with anti-North Korean material. In November 2014, U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper made a secret trip to Pyongyang and bro
North KoreaMay 12, 2016
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N. Korea may be trying to entice Obama or successor into bogus nuclear negotiations: ex-U.S. ambassador
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's call for global denuclearization could be part of a ploy to entice either the fading administration of President Barack Obama or his successor into negotiations over its nuclear weapons program, a former U.S. ambassador said Wednesday.John Bolton, who served as top U.S. envoy to the U.N. in 2005-2006, made the point in an article contributed to the Boston Herald, calling for caution in dealing with a regime that has a track record of violating a series of agreem
North KoreaMay 12, 2016
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Park to visit Africa, France later this month
President Park Geun-hye plans to leave for Ethiopia later this month on a 12-day, four-nation trip to Africa and France with the aim of boosting bilateral ties, South Korea's presidential office said Thursday.The trip, which will also take Park to Uganda and Kenya, comes as South Korea is pushing its companies to explore business opportunities in foreign countries that could give a much-needed boost to Asia's fourth-largest economy.Africa has emerged as a continent of opportunity in recent years
Diplomatic CircuitMay 12, 2016
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8 duty-free shops found to collude fixing exchange rates: FTC
Eight Korean duty-free operators have colluded to fix foreign exchange rates for the past five years, the nation‘s antitrust watchdog said Wednesday. The Fair Trade Commission said that it issued correction orders to the eight major duty-free shops run by Lotte, Shilla, SK Networks’ Walkerhill, Dongwha and the Korea Tourism Organization. According to the commission, the duty-free shop operators jointly decided the won-dollar exchange rate through phone calls from 2007 to 2012. The price-fixing e
IndustryMay 12, 2016
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Kakao's Q1 net dips 65% on slumping ad biz
Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea's top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said Thursday its first-quarter net profit plunged 64.5 percent, as its advertisement business suffered falling seasonal demand and it spent big on new businesses.Net profit reached 10.9 billion won ($9.3 million) in the January-March period, compared with 30.8 billion won the previous year, the company said in a regulatory filing. Operating income also dropped 47.7 percent on-year to 21 billion won, while sales rose 3.5
TechnologyMay 12, 2016
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Prosecutors seek arrest warrant for lawyer embroiled in lobbying scandal
Prosecutors on Wednesday sought an arrest warrant for a lawyer over allegations she illegally took money to lobby public officials on behalf of the chief of the South Korean cosmetics brand Nature Republic, officials said Tuesday.The judge-turned-lawyer Choi You-jeong is suspected of peddling her influence over the ruling on Jung's overseas gambling charges after receiving some billions of won in legal fees. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office said Choi allegedly received 2 billion wo
Social AffairsMay 11, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Obama to make historic visit to Hiroshima
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Barack Obama will this month become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, but the White House is scotching talk of an apology for the devastating 1945 nuclear bombing of the city.Obama, accompanied by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will make the deeply symbolic visit on May 27, after attending a G7 summit in south-central Japan, his spokesman Josh Earnest said Tuesday.The White House described the trip as an effort to highlight the U.S. “commitment to pursuing the
World NewsMay 11, 2016
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Queen calls Chinese delegation 'very rude'
LONDON (AFP) -- Queen Elizabeth II was caught on camera describing some Chinese officials as "very rude" in a rare diplomatic gaffe by the long-serving British monarch over a state visit that drummed up billions in Chinese investment.Her comments, aired on Wednesday, came just hours after Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday also made inadvertently public remarks, referring to Afghanistan and Nigeria as "most corrupt."Dressed in a pink coat and hat with white gloves, the queen could be heard
World NewsMay 11, 2016
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Arrest sought for Oxy officials
Prosecutors on Wednesday sought for the arrest of four former and incumbent officials of the manufacturers involved in the humidifier disinfectant case. This is the first time that arrest is being sought against individuals from the companies that sold toxic sterilizers that are blamed for the deaths of at least 140 since 2011.The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office’s special team said that an arrest warrant has been sought for former CEO of Oxy Reckitt Benckiser Shin Hyun-woo, a former h
Social AffairsMay 11, 2016
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[Photo News] Korea's first homegrown trainer jet goes into use
KOREA’S 1ST HOMEGROWN TRAINER JET -- President and CEO of Korea Aerospace Industries Ha Sung-yong (seventh from left), South Korea’s Air Force Chief of Staff Jeong Kyeong-doo (center) and other high-level military and government officials partake in an event Wednesday at the Korea Air Force Academy in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, to celebrate the fielding of the KT-100, the country’s first indigenous trainer jet developed by KAI. The same day, the South Korean Air Force commenced its de
IndustryMay 11, 2016
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[Graphic News] Global ship orders drop by two-thirds
Global ship orders from January to April this year dropped by two-thirds to a total of 114 vessels, according to global shipping information provider Clarksons Research on Tuesday. In the same period last year, 473 vessels were ordered.Of the 114 vessels ordered so far this year, China obtained 59 vessel orders, taking 49.3 percent of all global ship orders. China’s compensated gross tonnage — an indicator of the amount of work necessary to build a ship — was 1.9 million. Meanwhile, Korea secure
IndustryMay 11, 2016
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‘Big Data’ audio drama probes Web's weak point
Serial drama to bring together expat, international talent for global audienceA new audio drama is set to start this month, bringing a host of expat actors together with international performers in a nine-part podcast about criminals trying to take over the Internet.“Big Data,” which features guest spots from the likes of Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords), Paul F. Tompkins (Mr. Show), and Amy Stoch (Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure), is the brainchild of Busan writer Ryan Estrada.The p
Expat LivingMay 11, 2016
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Jjimjilbang the most exotic experience for foreigners
Cosmojin Tour, specializing in catering to foreign tourists, announced Wednesday that majority of its clients picked jjimjilbang as their most exotic experience in Korea. Jjimjilbang is a type of an indoor leisure complex that combines sauna, karaoke and restaurant. Even the U.S. ambassador to Korea, Mark Lippert, tried jjimjilbang while meeting with university students.According to Cosmojin Tour, it surveyed 926 tourists who visited Korea in March and April for their most memorable experience.
TravelMay 11, 2016