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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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Thousands rally in Seoul to call for Yoon resignation
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Man sentenced to 1 year, 8 months for stealing from elementary school classrooms
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FM champions multilateralism, stresses S. Korea's vision as 'global pivotal state'
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Same-sex couple denied insurance clearance despite landmark ruling
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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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[Weekender] Tea fields in Boseong beckon with natural green splendors
BOSEONG, South Jeolla Province -- While nearby tropical nations like the Philippines and Indonesia have their hanging rice terraces in Banaue and Tegalalang that serve as major tourist attractions, Korea also has its own natural green splendors for tourism. Located at the southern tip of the peninsula is the Daehan Dawon Tourist Tea Plantation -- more often known as Boseong Green Tea Plantation -- in Boseong, South Jeolla Province. The lusciously vibrant green tea fields of Boseong is the nat
FoodApril 22, 2016
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[Weekender] Tea resurgence brews
Long before the invasion of western coffee, Korea was a tea-drinking country with a rich ceremonial tea culture and heritage preserved for more than a thousand years. Tea has always been at the center of the country’s tradition, culture, poetry, drama, art and song. But little attention was often paid to it in the post-war era, making it difficult to maintain its significance in society. Korean tea eventually lost its once prominent role to coffee, as the product of the West became more access
CultureApril 22, 2016
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[Weekender] At one with nature, tea, others
Traditional Korean tea-drinking is not just about the beverage. It’s based on the harmony of all aspects involved in the process, including nature, attire, interior setting, teaware and people, explains Kim Eui-jung, who is recognized as Korea’s 27th intangible cultural asset for her expertise in traditional royal tea ceremonies. Kim’s mother, Kim Mi-hee, in 1980 helped restore Korea’s unique tea tradition which had been passed down for hundreds of years since the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392) but
FoodApril 22, 2016
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[Weekender] Tea franchises tap growing interest in health, demand for diversity
In South Korea, home to some of the world’s most avid coffee consumers, tea has often been pushed aside as a traditional drink befitting the older generation and out of touch with modernity. However, with more Koreans prioritizing health and demanding wider beverage options, tea is gradually emerging as an attractive drink, fueling the country’s fledgling tea industry. Tea franchise O’sulloc`s tea. (AmorePacific)
IndustryApril 22, 2016
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Oxy investigation widens to U.K. headquarters
Following Oxy Reckitt Benckiser’s first-ever public apology for its toxic humidifier disinfectant blamed for the loss of 103 lives, the prosecution said Friday that it will investigate related officials in the U.K.-based headquarters.According to the special probe team, executives and researchers at the U.K. headquarters were found to have ordered the Seoul office to destroy evidence related to the toxicity of the disputed humidifier disinfectant.The prosecution will closely look into emails exc
Social AffairsApril 22, 2016
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Samsung Pay accelerates overseas foray
Samsung Pay, a mobile payment service run by tech giant Samsung Electronics, is making global inroads. The Seoul-based tech behemoth announced Tuesday that it would make its mobile payment system available in Singapore in the second quarter of this year -- the first launch in Southeast Asia -- following the launch of the mobile payment solution in the U.S., China and South Korea last year. A Galaxy S7 Edge user uses mobile payment solution Samsung Pay. (Samsung Electronics)The announcement refle
TechnologyApril 22, 2016
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FIFA president to visit Korea next week
FIFA President Gianni Infantino will visit South Korea next week to meet with corporate sponsors of the international football governing body, a source close to the matter told Yonhap News Agency Friday.According to the source, Infantino will arrive in Seoul Wednesday and is expected to visit the headquarters of Hyundai Motor Group before leaving the country Thursday. This is Infantino's first visit to South Korea since he was elected FIFA's president in February.Industry insiders expect Infanti
SoccerApril 22, 2016
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VW’s buyback plan in U.S. may affect Korean lawsuit
Volkswagen’s recent legal settlement with the U.S. government, which is expected to be finalized this June, may affect the final verdict of the class action lawsuit involving VW diesel car owners here, a Korean attorney said Friday. The German carmaker reached a $1 billion deal with the U.S. government, agreeing to offer its scandal-hit diesel car owners in the U.S. buybacks, repairs and compensation. VW emblem. (Bloomberg)Details of the deal are unknown due to the judge’s order to keep the term
MobilityApril 22, 2016
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Ecuadorian ambassador calls for Koreans' financial support for quake relief
The top Ecuadorian envoy in Seoul made a desperate appeal Friday for Koreans' financial support to help his country emerge from the devastation caused by last week's massive earthquake and ensuing aftershocks that claimed nearly 600 lives.During a press conference, Ecuadorian Ambassador Oscar Herrera Gilbert underscored the severity of material damages and human casualties, and the pressing need to secure relief supplies such as tents for more than 25,300 people displaced by the quakes."Your sup
Foreign AffairsApril 22, 2016
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Merkel’s blunder doesn’t justify Brexit
Advocates of the U.K.’s withdrawal from the European Union have pounced on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ill-advised decision to allow the prosecution of satirist Jan Boehmermann for an obscene poem about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. To them, the German leader has illustrated the unacceptable compromises the European Union’s dysfunctional nature forces nations to accept. That may be right to a degree, but Merkel is walking a domestic tightrope, and she’s beginning to wobble. Earlier t
ViewpointsApril 22, 2016
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[Eye Interview] Fashion maven Suzy Menkes talks big trends of 21st century
For more than a quarter-century, Suzy Menkes has crisscrossed the globe, reporting from the front rows and back stages of fashion shows, giving the layperson intimate insights into the baffling world of fashion with her astute observations, and predicting the next big trend. “Today, there is a lot of mindless fashion, churning out of fast fashion,” said Menkes matter-of-factly during an interview with The Korea Herald at Hotel Shilla on Monday. A doyenne of fashion journalism, as well known for
Arts & DesignApril 22, 2016
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[Eli Lake] Obama deepens Saudi Arabia ties
The U.S.-Saudi relationship appears to be on the rocks. Most recently, the rift of 9/11 has been reopened. This month “60 Minutes” reported on the still-classified final chapter of a 2003 Senate report on the attacks, which it said would show that some Saudi officials, charities and wealthy individuals supported two of the 9/11 hijackers. The Saudi connection is especially relevant now because Congress is considering legislation to allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for dama
ViewpointsApril 22, 2016
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North Korean workers in Kuwait engage in illegal brewing, trading of alcohol
Some North Korean workers dispatched to Kuwait have been clandestinely brewing and trading liquor, Radio Free Asia reported Friday.Quoting a source in the Middle East country, the RFA said that some North Korean laborers were found to be manufacturing a liquor called "sadeeqi" at their apartments in Kuwait.With a taste similar to the Korean distilled liquor "soju," the illegally brewed spirit contains some 40 percent alcohol.Made from rice, the liquor is also being traded at a high price on the
North KoreaApril 22, 2016
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Stork lays eggs at outside facility in central Korea
A released stork has laid at least two eggs in the wild in the country's central region, increasing the prospects of the species' first natural breeding in the country, a research center tasked with restoring the endangered bird said Friday.The Oriental White Stork Park in Yesan, a town in South Korea's central province of South Chungcheong, said its researchers confirmed the eggs at a nest of female stork Minhwang and male stork Manhwang on Thursday. The two are part of eight storks that the pa
TechnologyApril 22, 2016
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South Korea, China hold talks amid signs of North Korea's possible nuclear test
The chief nuclear envoys of South Korea and China held talks on Friday as satellite images indicate that North Korea may be preparing to conduct its fifth nuclear test, possibly ahead of its key party congress early next month. Kim Hong-kyun, South Korea's Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs, arrived in Beijing earlier in the day and began talks with his Chinese counterpart, Wu Dawei, said a South Korean diplomat who was involved in the Friday meeting. Before d
North KoreaApril 22, 2016
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Korea slams Japan lawmakers' visit to war shrine
South Korea condemned a group of Japanese lawmakers Friday for paying tribute at a shrine viewed as a symbol of Japan's militaristic past.More than 90 Japanese lawmakers, most of them members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, visited Tokyo's Yasukuni war shrine earlier in the day to mark the annual spring festival. The shrine honors millions of Japan's war dead, including 14 Class-A war criminals."Our government cannot help but deplore the fact that some Japanese Cabinet members and lawmak
Foreign AffairsApril 22, 2016
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North Korea says it will send restaurant defectors' families to Seoul
North Korea has notified Seoul of its plans to send the families of restaurant workers who defected earlier in the month to South Korea, the country's state-run news agency said Friday.A group of 13 North Korean people defected from the same Pyongyang-run restaurant in China and came to South Korea in early April in what has become a steady stream of people leaving the isolated country.North Korea has consistently claimed South Korea abducted the workers and demanded that they be returned to the
North KoreaApril 22, 2016
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Professor indicted over alleged attempted rape
Prosecutors said Friday they have indicted a South Korean professor who works at a renowned university in Hong Kong on charges of attempted rape and inflicting bodily harm on the victim.The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office said the 42-year-old professor, identified only by his surname Jung, is accused of beating and attempting to rape a graduate student at Seoul National University after having a drink with some colleagues.He dragged the victim, whose identity was withheld, to a constr
Social AffairsApril 22, 2016
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Korean Jang Ha-na withdraws from LPGA event with anemia, insomnia
South Korean golfer Jang Ha-na withdrew from an LPGA Tour event in San Francisco Thursday with symptoms of insomnia and anemia, her Seoul-based agency said.Jang, a two-time winner this season and world No. 8, pulled out during the first round of the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic. An official at her agency, Sportizen, said since the JTBC Founders Cup tournament in mid-March, Jang had been suffering from blurred vision, dizziness and vomiting, and had also experienced trouble sleeping."She was trea
GolfApril 22, 2016
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N.K. foreign minister reaffirms nuke commitment
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su-yong reiterated the country’s commitment to its nuclear program on Thursday, calling it the only means to counter U.S. nuclear threats magnified by joint war games with South Korea. He delivered a keynote speech at a high-level meeting of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals at the U.N. in New York, amid prevalent concerns that the communist state will carry out a fifth nuclear test ahead of a major party congress and in protest against recent international
North KoreaApril 22, 2016