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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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Thousands rally in Seoul to call for Yoon's resignation
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Most teen sex offenders get away with slap on wrist
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FM champions multilateralism, stresses S. Korea's vision as 'global pivotal state'
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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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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is killed in Beirut strike, Israel's military says
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Panmunjom tours for select Korean nationals may resume in October
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Suicide attempts spike among youth in Korea
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[New Books] Pervading sense of passivity dominates ‘The Hole’
“The Hole” By Pyun Hye-young Moonji Publishing (210 pages, 13,000 won, $11) After a devastating car accident, 40-something university professor Oh-gi wakes up to find his wife dead and his own body completely paralyzed in a hospital bed, capable of no other movement than blinking. His whole existence seems to have collapsed and disappeared into nothing, he says in a monologue. He is recognizable to himself only through a nametag that a nurse placed at the foot of his bed. “The Hole,” the f
BooksApril 13, 2016
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[New Books] Veteran TV reporter releases coverage of his own life
“And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East” By Richard Engel Simon & Schuster (241 pages, $27) In his 20 years of reporting from some of the most volatile hot spots in the Middle East, Richard Engel has survived bombings and uprisings, been kidnapped and spent many nights sleeping on the floor, a mattress shoved against the window in case of an explosion. Engel’s accounting of his two-decade rise from young freelancer to NBC’s chief foreign correspondent is often as exhausti
BooksApril 13, 2016
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Korean automobile exports down 10.8% in Q1
Korea’s automobile exports dropped 10.8 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier due to weak demand from emerging countries, according to data and market analysts Wednesday.The Korea Automobile Manufacturers’ Association said in its report that Korean automakers sold 654,494 units abroad from January to March. They sold 733,759 units during the same period last year. GM Korea cars are lined up ready to be shipped to overseas markets. (Yonhap)Industry watchers attributed the decline to th
IndustryApril 13, 2016
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[New Books] Essays on the endings of well-known writers
“Final Chapters: How Famous Authors Died” By Jim Bernhard Skyhorse Publishing (296 pages, $14.99 paperback) A person’s life is always more important than his or her death -- but no one reads an obituary or biography without wanting to know how the subject died. British-educated Texas writer Jim Bernhard gives a respectful nod to the understandable fascination most of us have with death in this collection of essays about the ends authors have come to. To his credit, he includes in each essay some
BooksApril 13, 2016
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[Exclusive] Samsung’s Enbrel biosimilar wins supply deal in Denmark
Samsung Bioepis’ Enbrel biosimilar won a supply deal from Denmark’s drug procurement agency Amgros on Tuesday, becoming the priority etanercept drug used for treating rheumatoid arthritis in the country, an industry source told The Korea Herald on condition of anonymity. Benepali, Samsung’s biosimilar version of Amgen’s top-selling Enbrel, is expected to take away at least 50 percent of the original drug’s market share in Denmark, as local hospitals and doctors favor prescribing drugs selected b
IndustryApril 13, 2016
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Michael Mann inks three-book deal with William Morrow
NEW YORK (AP) -- A book project founded by director-writer Michael Mann has found a home with HarperCollins Publishers. The Harper imprint William Morrow told the Associated Press on Tuesday that it had acquired three novels to be released through Michael Mann books. The novels, all coauthored by Mann and currently untitled, will include a collaboration with “The Cartel” author Don Winslow on a story based on the lives of crime bosses Tony Accardo and Sam Giancana and a prequel to Mann’s origina
BooksApril 13, 2016
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Padma Lakshmi reveals much more than ‘Top Chef’ in new memoir
If you ever happen to interview Padma Lakshmi, do yourself a favor and let her pick the location. That way, you might just find yourself enjoying a piping hot plate of spicy orecchiette at an unassuming East Village trattoria while the former model converses in fluent Italian with the restaurant’s owner. To anyone who’s watched “Top Chef,” the popular Bravo competition series that has introduced a generation of American TV viewers to phrases like sous-vide and mise en place, it should come as no
BooksApril 13, 2016
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[Albert R. Hunt] Rivals should be in cahoots to stump Trump
Donald Trump is getting some unlikely assistance from his opponents in his uphill effort to win a majority of Republican presidential delegates. Ted Cruz and John Kasich remain too busy battling each other to unite in opposition to the front-runner.Cruz and Kasich have the same goal: to prevent Trump from getting close to the 1,237 delegates he needs for the nomination. Yet in remaining contests in New York, California, New Jersey and elsewhere, the battle between the two of them sets back that
ViewpointsApril 13, 2016
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North Korea factor wanes in election
The Wednesday general election was held in familiar territory when it comes to political parties stoking ideological debate, this time driven by North Korea’s nuclear test and long-range rocket launch earlier in the year.Controversy persisted over Seoul’s unveiling of the joint arrival of 13 North Korean defectors just days before polls were cast, with the attention returning to how ideological battles during past election seasons played out. In throngs, ruling Saenuri Party contenders chanted c
North KoreaApril 13, 2016
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[Peter Singer] Can artificial intelligence be ethical?
Last month, AlphaGo, a computer program specially designed to play the game Go, caused shockwaves among aficionados when it defeated Lee Se-dol, one of the world’s top-ranked professional players, winning a five-game tournament by a score of 4-1.Why, you may ask, is that news? Twenty years have passed since the IBM computer Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov, and we all know computers have improved since then. But Deep Blue won through sheer computing power, using its ability
ViewpointsApril 13, 2016
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[Kim Myong-sik] Dealing humbly with our remains after death
Lawyer Kim Chang-kook, an old friend of mine, died of liver cancer last week. His body -- thinned by the long bout of illness -- was cremated, with the remains placed in an earthen jar that was buried under a pine tree. He had caught hepatitis C many years ago and the disease had developed into liver cirrhosis, then to cancer. He had a liver transplant operation five years ago but the cancer had spread to his lung and other organs. Early last year, his doctor told him that he had 12 months to li
ViewpointsApril 13, 2016
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[Kim Ji-hyun] Aging with grace
A few weeks ago, there was a bit of a row among a couple of Korean ladies living in Tokyo.To cut a long story short, an older lady ended up apologizing to a younger one for trying to force her to see things from her viewpoint. I thought that was the end of that, but after dining with one of them – the older one – last week, I could see she still refused to believe she had done anything wrong. She complained that the younger woman had asked for advice and that she had imparted it, with the expect
ViewpointsApril 13, 2016
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SK hynix’s operating profit likely to plunge in Q1
SK hynix, the world’s third-largest chipmaker by sales, is expected to see its operating profit more than halve during the first three months of this year, according to analyst reports Wednesday.Korean investment firms predicted that the Korean chip company’s first quarter operating profit would be in a range of 512 billion won ($446 million) to 579 billion won. SK hynix’s NAND Flash memory chip. (SK hynix)The estimates are up to 60 percent lower than the company’s operating profit in the first
TechnologyApril 13, 2016
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Samsung steps up self-driving car technology push
Tech giant Samsung Electronics has been accelerating its push into the autonomous vehicle segment by trying to attract seasoned researchers in the field.The company posted a job opening for researchers in the autonomous driving vehicle sector on Samsung Group’s online job bulletin board Tuesday. Internet giant Google’s self-driving vehicle. (Yonhap)The job description showed that new researchers would handle tasks including computer vision, biosignal analysis, and optical film for display, which
TechnologyApril 13, 2016
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[Nir Kaissar] Who’s afraid of financial robo-advisers?
The Massachusetts Securities Division recently fired a shot heard around the robo-adviser world when it declared that the online financial advisers may not be up to snuff as fiduciaries for investors. If that’s the case, it means they may not qualify as investment advisers in Massachusetts.Regulators must of course hold all financial advisers to a high standard, but robo-advisers -- the most investor friendly financial innovation since the index fund -- are on the frontlines in the fight for bet
ViewpointsApril 13, 2016
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Toxic disinfectant-maker switched company status: reports
The manufacturer of toxic humidifier disinfectant Oxy Ssak Ssak was found to have established a new corporate body, allegedly to evade criminal and civil responsibility for the deaths of at least 92 product users, sources said Wednesday.(Yonhap)According to legal sources, Reckitt Benckiser changed its organization type from “corporation” to “limited liability company” in December 2011, when public anger peaked after the government confirmed the toxicity of Oxy Ssak Ssak and ordered the product w
Social AffairsApril 13, 2016
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[팟캐스트](140) 북한 엘리트 탈북 외 1건
진행자: 윤민식, Julie Jackson1. 북한 고위 장교와 외교관 탈북 기사요약: 한국 정부는 11일, 북한 정찰총국 출신의 북한군 대좌와 북한 외교관 두 명이 작년과 재작년에 걸쳐 한국으로 망명했다고 확인했다. 해당 소식은 지난 8일, 통일부가 중국에 위치한 북한 식당의 종업원들이 집단탈북했다는 소식을 밝힌지 사흘 만에, 그리고 총선을 이틀 앞둔 시기에 전해졌다. 아이튠즈(아이폰):https://itunes.apple.com/kr/podcast/koliaheleoldeu-paskaeseuteu/id686406253?mt=2 팟빵 (안드로이드):http://www.podbbang.com/ch/6638 [1] A ranking official at North Korea’s military spy agency and two diplomats working outside the country have defected to the South, the government confirm
English EyeApril 13, 2016
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Voter turnout 46.5% at 3 p.m.
Voter turnout in South Korea’s parliamentary election stood at 46.5 percent as of 3 p.m., 10 hours after polls opened Friday, according to the National Election Commission.The turnout includes early and overseas voting. (Yonhap)In the last general election, the voter turnout recorded 41.9 percent as of 3 p.m. The country saw the highest voter turnout in South Jeolla Province at 54.1 percent, while Daegu recorded the lowest turnout of 42.6 percent. Seoul’s turnout was 46.8 percent. Some 42.1 mil
Social AffairsApril 13, 2016
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N. Korea-China trade volume up 12.7% on-year in Q1
Trade volume between North Korea and China posted double-digit growth in the first quarter of 2016 from a year earlier despite the United Nations' punitive economic sanctions imposed on the reclusive country, official data showed Wednesday.(Yonhap)The size of bilateral trade stood at 7.79 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) in the January-March period, up 12.7 percent from the same period last year, Huang Songping, spokesman of China's General Administration of Customs, said during a press briefing on t
April 13, 2016
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China exports jump 11.5%
BEIJING (AFP) -- China's exports surged 11.5 percent year-on-year in March to $160.8 billion, authorities said Wednesday, in a positive sign for the world’s second-largest economy. Imports fell for the 17th consecutive month, dropping 7.6 percent on-year to $131 billion, Customs said, while the trade surplus leaped to $29.9 billion, nearly 10 times the dollar figure for the same month last year.The data beat expectations, with a Bloomberg poll of economists predicting a 10 percent increase in ex
World BusinessApril 13, 2016