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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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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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FM champions multilateralism, stresses S. Korea's vision as 'global pivotal state'
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Panmunjom tours for select Korean nationals may resume in October
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Young Poong says no better offer for Korea Zinc
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Korea's first global webtoon festival lights up Seongsu-dong
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[Thitinan Pongsudhirak] A role reversal for Myanmar and Thailand
Rarely do next-door neighbors move as rapidly in opposite political directions as Thailand and Myanmar have in recent years. After more than a half-century of military dictatorship, Myanmar has restored democratic rule, and now has a civilian-led government led by the former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy. Thailand, by contrast, has twice reverted from popular rule to military dictatorship in the past decade, owing to coups in 2006 and 2014. What accoun
ViewpointsMay 3, 2016
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[Albert R. Hunt] Candidates’ claims of American decline are hype
As in any U.S. national election without an incumbent president, this race’s candidates are painting an ugly picture: The country is “going to hell,” bluntly asserts the Republican front-runner, Donald Trump.One of his Democratic challengers, Sen. Bernie Sanders, isn‘t much kinder, and even Hillary Clinton is starting to focus more on challenges than successes.To many voters the message is: The economy is terrible, the social fabric is disintegrating and America is losing respect around the worl
ViewpointsMay 3, 2016
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Park, Rouhani united on nukes, terror
TEHRAN -- Rounding off her historic three-day visit to the recently sanction-freed Iran, President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday praised the renewed bilateral partnership of the two states, highlighting the high economic yields expected in the infrastructure sector.She also expressed hopes that such productive ties may be expanded to underdeveloped fields, such as medical care, culture and information technology.“The outstanding construction technology of Korean companies, when combined with Iran’s m
PoliticsMay 3, 2016
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Accent hinders defectors’ job searches: survey
North Korean defectors say the biggest obstacle to finding a job in South Korea is their accent, according to a recent survey. In a survey of 1,400 defectors conducted last year by Kim Seok-hyang, a professor of North Korean Studies at Ewha Womans University, 26 percent said their accent was what made job seeking difficult. It was followed by lack of skills or experience, health, and age at 22.4 percent, 18.3 percent and 17.1 percent, respectively.The report was commissioned by the National Huma
North KoreaMay 3, 2016
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Emergency cares offer help after suicide attempts
In 2013, Lee Eun-byeol, a nurse at Mokpo Jung-Ang Hospital in Mokpo, South Jeolla Province, received a 15-year-old patient who weighed only 35 kilograms. The teenager had just been admitted to the hospital’s emergency unit after cutting her wrist in an attempt to end her own life.And it wasn’t the teen’s first attempt. She was reportedly suffering from depression after being constantly bullied by her classmates at school. Her mother also had mental health issues, while her father was physically
Social AffairsMay 3, 2016
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Park embraces Muslim culture to befriend Iran
TEHRAN -- Throughout her three-day state visit to Iran, President Park Geun-hye has been seen wearing a headscarf in public, abiding by the dress code required of Muslim women in the region.Through her attire, the state leader displayed her diplomatic amity toward the sanction-freed Islamic country where South Korea is hoping to gain new growth momentum for its stalled economy.Upon arrival at the Mehrabad International Airport on Sunday, the president wore a long light-green jacket matched with
PoliticsMay 3, 2016
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Constitutional Court dismisses review on deportee detention
The Constitutional Court on Tuesday dismissed the request for review on the constitutionality of the South Korean government holding deportees in protection centers for an unlimited duration.The 5-4 decision thereby upheld the constitutionality of the immigration law that allows the authorities to keep illegal residents until their repatriation. Illegal residents who are caught during clampdowns, or while committing crimes, are sent to designated shelters until their deportation. The period of s
Social AffairsMay 3, 2016
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Seoul 'on alert' for N.K. nuke test
South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo said Tuesday that the military is on alert based on the belief that the North might carry out another nuclear test to decorate its leader Kim Jong-un ahead of its ruling party congress later this week.“North Korea has been conducting nuclear tests to fulfill its various political agendas,” Han told the parliamentary defense committee, adding that the North’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site appears ready to carry out the nuclear test on cue. There has been s
North KoreaMay 3, 2016
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Twins' Park Byung-ho hits first big league triple
Park Byung-ho of the Minnesota Twins hit the first triple of his major league career Monday against the Houston Astros.Park touched the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner Dallas Keuchel for a two-run triple in the top of the fifth, making it 5-1 Twins at Minute Maid Park in Houston.With men at first and second with one out, Park sent an 85 mph fastball over center fielder Colby Rasmus, bringing both runners home.The three-bagger chased Keuchel from the game. It was Park's second hit
BaseballMay 3, 2016
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Taekwondo star battling nerves ahead of Olympic debut
At the ripe age of 22, Kim So-hui has already been to numerous international taekwondo competitions. Yet the Olympics will be a completely different animal even to the stoic athlete.Kim will make her Summer Games debut in Rio de Janeiro in August. With two world championships and one Asian Games medal to her credit, it's a wonder Kim hadn't qualified for an Olympics before this year.Attending a corporate promotional event in Seoul on Tuesday, Kim said she is carrying a mixed bag of emotions with
SportsMay 3, 2016
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N. Korean defectors face problems seeking jobs due to accent
Many North Korean defectors have experienced difficulties finding jobs in South Korea because of their accent and the way they speak, a survey carried out by a local human rights watchdog said Tuesday.The poll of 1,400 North Korean defectors aged 15 years and older was conducted by the Institute of Unification Studies of Ewha Womans University at the request of the National Human Rights Commission last year.When asked about the most difficult problem in regards to employment, 26.8 percent of the
Social AffairsMay 3, 2016
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Korea says message from its summit with Iran sent clear warning to N.K.
The "shared understanding" between South Korea and Iran in support of a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula sent a strong warning to North Korea, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, urging Pyongyang to renounce its nuclear ambitions.In a press conference after his summit with President Park Geun-hye in Tehran on Monday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the Islamic republic is "in principle opposed to any nuclear development." His remarks were seen as indicating Tehran's stance against Pyongya
North KoreaMay 3, 2016
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Korea, Iran biz groups to boost ties
Leading business groups of South Korea and Iran agreed Tuesday to promote commercial and industrial partnerships by establishing consultative bodies.The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran's Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture.The KCCI will establish an Iran desk and the ICCIMA will operate a Korea desk under the deal inked on the occasion of President Park Geun-hye's landmark trip to Tehran.The offices will provid
Foreign AffairsMay 3, 2016
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No. of illegal aliens in S. Korea tops 210,000
The number of illegal immigrants in South Korea surpassed the 210,000 mark last year, three times the total reported for neighboring Japan, government data showed Tuesday.Illegal immigrants living in South Korea reached 214,187 last year, according to the Ministry of Justice. Corresponding figures for Japan stood at 62,818. The number of illegal immigrants has been increasing steadily from 183,106 in 2013 to 208,778 in 2014, along with the number of tourists who visit the country using the no-vi
Social AffairsMay 3, 2016
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Chief organizer for 2018 PyeongChang Olympics resigns
Hanjin Group Chairman Cho Yang-ho offered to resign as the chief organizer of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Tuesday, citing the need to tend to his corporate responsibilities.Cho announced his resignation in a statement released by the organizing committee, which will lose its leader with less than two years left until the first Winter Games in South Korea.The committee explained that Cho wanted to handle "urgent matters" within his business group, including rescuing Hanjin Shipping, t
SportsMay 3, 2016
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Man indicted over illegal entry into gov't complex
Prosecutors said Tuesday they have indicted a 26-year-old South Korean man on charges of breaking into a government complex to tamper with exam results. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office said the man, identified only by his surname Song, is accused of unauthorized entry into the government complex in central Seoul and manipulating the results of the civil service examination he took.According to prosecutors, Song illegally entered the building a total of five times after he stole th
Social AffairsMay 3, 2016
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U.S. State Dept. recommended to re-designate N. Korea as religious freedom violator
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has called on the U.S. State Department to re-designate North Korea as a "country for particular concern" for religious freedom violations, a media report said Tuesday.The independent organization under the U.S. federal government made the recommendation in its annual report on religious freedom, in which North Korea is one of 17 countries named CPCs under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, according to the Washington-based Voi
World NewsMay 3, 2016
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N. Korea raises surveillance ahead of party congress: source
North Korea has beefed up its surveillance near Pyongyang and along its border with China ahead of its key party congress slated for late this week, a source familiar with North Korean affairs said Tuesday.On Monday, North Korea announced a special surveillance week to monitor people in the capital city and border areas as the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) plans to hold the first party congress in more than 30 years on Friday, according to the source.It said that the North provided special compe
North KoreaMay 3, 2016
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Parents of N. Korean restaurant workers appeal to U.N. for help to return defectors
The parents of 12 female North Korean staff who defected to South Korea last month while working at a restaurant run by the North in China have sent a letter to the United Nations asking the international body to mediate their return, a Chinese state-run media reported on Tuesday. South Korea said on April 8 that the North Korean workers and their male North Korean manager defected to the South, in the biggest group defection since North Korean leader Kim Jong-un took power in late 2011. North K
World NewsMay 3, 2016
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N.K. says South Korea proposed football matches between workers in Aug.
North Korea said Tuesday that a South Korean civic group has proposed holding friendly football matches between workers from the two Koreas in Seoul in August to promote cross-border civilian exchanges.The South Korean Committee for the Joint Implementation of the June 15 Summit Declaration has offered to hold the games in Seoul on Aug. 15, the anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule, according to the North's main propaganda website Uriminzokkiri.North Korea said tha
North KoreaMay 3, 2016