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Host of Miss Korea apologizes for 'inappropriate question' about deepfake
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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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'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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Most teen sex offenders get away with slap on wrist
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Ex-Trump official calls for S. Korea to raise defense spending to 3 or 3.5% of GDP
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Man sentenced to 1 year, 8 months for stealing from elementary school classrooms
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Same-sex couple denied insurance clearance despite landmark ruling
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SK On offers voluntary retirement amid losses
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Korea’s top five chefs head to NYC for W50B gala dinners
Hailed as the five best chefs in the country, Choi Hyun-seok of Elbon The Table, Jang Jin-mo of A&ND, Yim Jung-sik of Restaurant Jungsik, Tony Yoo of 24 Seasons and Kang Min-goo of Mingles will participate in the upcoming KoreaNYC Dinners event in New York City next month. Organized by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants (W50B) association and local gourmet food magazine La Main, the culinary masters will partner with U.S.-based chefs Dan Barber and Carlo Mirarchi and take part in catering multiple
FoodMay 9, 2016
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Paris Baguette starts franchise business in U.S.
Paris Baguette, a bakery brand operated by South Korea’s leading food company SPC Group, is officially embarking on the franchise business in the U.S., with its first franchise store in San Jose, California, the company said Sunday.Up to this point, SPC Group had directly operated its 45 Paris Baguette outlets in the U.S. The newly-opened San Jose store is its 46th store to open in the country, and the first to do so under a franchising agreement.The newly-opened Paris Baguette store in San Jose
IndustryMay 9, 2016
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BBC correspondent expelled from N. Korea
CNN reporter Will Ripley tweeted on Monday that North Korea has expelled BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes from the country, under charges of disrespectful reporting toward the reclusive regime. Wingfield-Hayes was in Pyongyang ahead of the Workers Party Congress, accompanying a delegation of Nobel prize laureates. (BBC video capture)BBC said Wingfield-Hayes, as well as two other staff, producer Maria Byrne and cameraman Matthew Goddard, were detained on Friday as they were about to leave
North KoreaMay 9, 2016
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Businesses raise concerns over corporate tax hike
With the opening of the 20th National Assembly -- where opposition parties have a majority of 300 seats -- scheduled for May 30, the business community has raised concerns over a corporate tax hike and its impact on the economy. “A recent survey of about 50 Korean economists showed 72 percent of respondents backed the current corporate tax rate,’’ the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry said in a press release Monday. Of them, 12 percent called for corporate tax reduction for business vitalit
IndustryMay 9, 2016
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Korea’s ship trio face W2.2tr wall of debt next year
Korea’s three major shipbuilders face a 2.2 trillion won ($1.9 billion) wall of debt due next year, with second-ranked Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering deepest in debt, data showed Monday. DSME has 980 billion won of debt maturing this year and next, including 40 billion won in commercial paper due in September. That is nearly 70 percent of its total liability of 1.3 trillion won. (Yonhap)Cash flow has been tight at DSME after it logged a record operating loss of 5.5 trillion won in 2015
May 9, 2016
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Infinite’s Nam Woo-hyun drops first solo album
K-pop boy band Infinite’s Nam Woo-hyun released his first solo mini album “Write..” at midnight on Sunday, with the lead song “Nodding” ranking high on online music charts immediately after its release, according to the singer’s agency Woollim Entertainment. Other tracks of the mini album -- “Write..,” “Gravity,” “That Person,” “Scent,” and “Stand by Me” -- also ranked high on the music charts, according to the agency. The mini album is Nam’s first solo album since the singer debuted as a membe
PerformanceMay 9, 2016
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Calls rising for changes to tax system
In a meeting with senior journalists last month, President Park Geun-hye reiterated her objection to increasing taxes, saying she would lose face if she mentioned it. She may well feel so, given her insistence on financing expanded welfare programs without raising taxes.But a growing number of fiscal experts consider a tax increase inevitable since it is difficult to cover welfare costs by restructuring government spending as the Park administration has tried to do. Amid a prolonged economic dow
May 9, 2016
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1 in 10 school children addicted to smartphones
About one in 10 children in elementary, middle and high schools in South Korea are addicted to smartphones, a government survey showed Monday.The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family polled 1.46 million children in fourth, seventh and 10th grades and found 138,385 of them to be spending too much time on the electronic device.About one-tenth of the children addicted to smartphones were categorized as "seriously" addicted, the survey also showed.Only the three grade levels were surveyed because
Social AffairsMay 9, 2016
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Bar owner dupes drunk customers into paying 100 times more
A 42-year-old bar owner in Daejeon surnamed Kim was detained last week for charging drunk customers 100 times more than they owed. Most of them failed to recognize the scam in their inebriated state, until the next day by which time the money had already been transferred. Kim procrastinated on canceling the transactions. (123RF)One of the victims, a 60-year-old man surnamed Lee, recalls the shock he experienced upon finding an automated text message from his bank alerting him that he had spent 2
Social AffairsMay 9, 2016
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Ford Explorer named best-selling foreign gasoline car in April
Ford’s popular Explorer SUV topped in a ranking of month sales among gasoline-powered foreign cars in April, data showed Monday.According to the Korea Automobile Importers and Distributors Association, Ford topped in the gasoline car segment by selling 422 units of 2.3-liter Ford Explorer, a seven-seater sport utility vehicle, pushing Mercedes-Benz C 200 Coupe down to second spot. Ford Korea’s Explorer 2.3, the best-selling imported gasoline car in April (Ford Korea)As to growing popularity of
MobilityMay 9, 2016
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N.K. set to revise party rules to reflect 'nuclear state' status
North Korea is set to discuss the revision of the ruling party's rules at the party congress on Monday to reflect what the country claims is its nuclear state status, experts said.On the fourth day of the congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the communist country is likely to clarify that it is formally a nuclear-armed state when it revises the party's rules, North Korean watchers speculated.At the party gathering, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has made it clear that he will "permane
North KoreaMay 9, 2016
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Seoul reiterates it will never accept Pyongyang as nuclear-armed state
South Korea and the international community will never accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state, Seoul's Ministry of National Defense said Monday, vowing to pressure Pyongyang to renounce its nuclear ambitions through "strong" sanctions.The ministry also dismissed North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's proposal for cross-border military talks as "insincere," urging the communist state to stop its provocative behavior and move toward its denuclearization.During its ongoing congress of the North's W
Social AffairsMay 9, 2016
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Financial firms slashed nearly 1,800 jobs in 2015
Financial companies in South Korea cut nearly 1,800 jobs last year amid an industry slump, market data showed Monday.As of the end of 2015, the number of people employed by financial firms, such as banks and securities companies, came to 373,609, compared to 375,402 a year earlier, according to data from the Financial Supervisory Service. (Yonhap)The largest job reduction came in commercial banks, which cut 1,930 jobs. Next were insurers which slashed 799 payrolls, while the number of workers at
May 9, 2016
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China media cast wary eye on N. Korean leader's nuclear remarks
China's state-controlled media on Monday cast a wary eye on remarks by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that his country will not use its nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is invaded. The remarks by Kim, announced during a rare congress of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party and reported by the North Korean media on Sunday, reaffirmed the North's bid to become a nuclear weapons state, dashing hope that the young leader might chart a difference course on the country's nuclear weapons program.
North KoreaMay 9, 2016
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Actor Song Joong-ki enjoys unrivaled popularity in Thailand
South Korean star actor Song Joong-ki enjoyed the highest level of popularity during his visit to Thailand among all Korean celebrities, his agency said Monday. The 30-year-old heartthrob visited Bangkok on Saturday to meet his Thai fans, according to Blossom Entertainment. About 4,000 local fans surged to Thunder Dome for the hero of the hit Korean television series "Descendants of the Sun." This is Song's first visit to Thailand in four years.Song entertained his fans with a variety of games a
TelevisionMay 9, 2016
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Two best KBO clubs going in opposite directions in May
With the first week of May in the books in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), the top two clubs in the standings are moving in opposite directions.The Doosan Bears, the defending champs, are in first place at 19-10-1 (wins-losses-ties), but they're in the midst of a four-game losing streak. They were swept by the Lotte Giants at home over the weekend, starting the three-game set with back-to-back shutout losses and ending it with a 17-11 drubbing.Breathing down the Bears' neck are the NC Din
BaseballMay 9, 2016
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Former chief of Oxy Korea summoned in toxic sterilizer probe
A former chief of the South Korean unit of Oxy Reckitt Benckiser was summoned for the second time by Seoul prosecutors on Monday to face questioning over suspicions that the British firm sold humidifier sterilizers that resulted in numerous deaths and illnesses here.Former chief executive officer (CEO) Shin Hyun-woo appeared before the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in southern Seoul as a suspect in the snowballing case that involves numerous deaths since 2011, including some pregnan
Social AffairsMay 9, 2016
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Korean novelists to visit London
Korean novelists Cheon Myeong-gwan and Han Yu-joo will be discussing Korean society and literature in London from May 10-13. The two writers will be participating in an event celebrating the spring issue of Asia Literary Review, a Hong Kong-based quarterly literary journal which aims to spread Asian literature in English-speaking countries. The entire spring issue, published in April, is dedicated to introducing Korean literature, carrying translated excerpts from works by Korean novelists such
BooksMay 9, 2016
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Christie’s kicks off art auction week with curated sale
NEW YORK (AP) -- The highly anticipated art auction season arrived Sunday with a specially curated sale that included a sculpture of a kneeling Hitler by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, which fetched a record price for the artist, and a ball suspended in a water tank by Jeff Koons. Christie's “Bound to Fail” themed sale kicked off the weeklong New York auctions of modern, post-war and contemporary art at Christie’s and Sotheby’s. “Him,” Cattelan’s controversial sculpture of Hitler, appears as
PerformanceMay 9, 2016
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Top 30 conglomerates plan bigger support for partners this year
Korea's top 30 conglomerates will provide a combined 1.85 trillion won ($1.6 billion) in financial support to their partner companies this year to help them maintain the quality of their products, a business lobby said Monday. The planned figure is up 6 percent from their actual execution of 1.74 trillion won for business partners last year, according to data from the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI). Federation of Korean Industries (Yonhap)"As conglomerates manufacture more technologically
IndustryMay 9, 2016