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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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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is killed in Beirut strike, Israel's military says
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Suicide attempts spike among youth in Korea
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[Weekender] How Seongsu, once an industrial zone, has become ‘Seoul’s Brooklyn’
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Panmunjom tours for select Korean nationals may resume in October
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Arts fest Big Day South makes Gwangju foray
Annual audiovisual festival Big Day South is gearing up for its first show in Gwangju this month, with a collection of music, visual and performing arts. Run by art magazine Angle, the festival seeks to bring together expat and Korean artists in the south of the country. Angle founder and Big Day South organizer Philip Brett said that holding the festival’s third outing in Gwangju was a chance to broaden out.“The previous two were in Daegu and Ulsan, so they are quite close together. So I thoug
Expat LivingApril 6, 2016
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ANZA Korea ball to feature Kylie tribute
The Australia and New Zealand Association of Korea will hold its annual charity ball this month, featuring a tribute group to international pop icon Kylie Minogue.Also known as “Kylie’s favorite Kylie,” 100% KYLIE will perform in Seoul for the first time for the charity ball, with a spectacular stage show complete with classic Kylie hits and a whole lot of feathers and sparkles.This year’s “focus charity” is the Mubeopjeongsa House of Youth in Yongin, also known as “Big Mama’s House.” 100% KYLI
Expat LivingApril 6, 2016
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Talk to explore Korea’s garden culture
Korea university professor emeritus Sim Woo-kyung will give a talk on Korean garden culture for the Royal Asiatic Society on Tuesday.Gardens across the world have been designed to re-create paradise, according to Sim, but the concept of paradise has been differently imagined by Eastern and the Western cultures, especially according to their religions. He says that in the Western world, whose religions arose from arid areas, gardens were typically surrounded by high walls to protect people from h
Expat LivingApril 6, 2016
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Tax advice offered in Seoul
Tax counselors from Yeoksam District Tax Office will be visiting Yeoksam Global Village Center to offer free tax advice to foreign residents.The advice will be available from 9:30 a.m. to noon on April 19.To register for an appointment, email ygvc0417@gmail.com with your name, nationality, mobile phone number, preferred time and a brief outline of the query.The center is near Gangnam Station. To get there, walk straight from Exit 1, turn right at the first set of traffic lights, and continue for
Expat LivingApril 6, 2016
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Seoul Shakespeare group to mark bard’s anniversary
Seoul Shakespeare Company will be hosting an evening of the writer’s monologues and scenes in honor of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death next week.The event is part of the Shakespeare Theatre Association’s “400 Dreams: Shakespeare Around the Globe” program to celebrate the anniversary.Proceeds will go toward the SSC’s production of “Much Ado About Nothing” in May and June.The company is also running a fund-raising campaign on Indiegogo to help pay for the props, costume and venue, whi
Expat LivingApril 6, 2016
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[Graphic News] Popular tax havens around the world
Mossack Fonseca is considered the fifth-largest provider of offshore services.Of the companies appearing in the firm’s files, one of every two were incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, making it the firm’s No. 1 tax haven.Niue, a small South Pacific island nation with a population of about 1,000 people, ranks as the firm’s No. 5 tax haven.The most active clients by number of offshore company incorporations were from Hong Kong, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
World NewsApril 6, 2016
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Starbucks Korea receives award for equal opportunity employment
Lee Seock-koo, head of Starbucks Korea, has received a presidential medal for the coffee chain’s efforts to provide equal workplace opportunities for people with disabilities, the company said Wednesday.The CEO was given the award at an annual convention to promote employment of the disabled. It was organized by the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the state-run Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled.Starbucks Korea CEO Lee Seock-koo (right) receives a presidential medal from Labor Ministe
PeopleApril 6, 2016
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Pregnant ballerina asked to quit
Gwangju City Ballet Company’s art director is drawing flak for allegedly asking a pregnant ballerina to quit.The Gwangju Artists’ Labor Union claimed on Wednesday that the director had told the dancer to “think it through for a week,” effectively pressuring her to leave her job. The woman in this photo is not the ballerina mentioned in the article. (123RF)The director has so far denied the allegations. He refuted the Union’s claims, by saying, “I have never told her to leave because she’s pregn
Social AffairsApril 6, 2016
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[Shin Yong-bae] Election and the economy
Spring, when everything comes alive again, has arrived. Soft winds are blowing, warm weather has returned with increased sunlight, cherry blossoms are in full bloom and other flowers have started appearing. However, the season has not brought much cheer, as it is accompanied by wholly gloomy and disappointing news. North Korea is ratcheting up military tension on the Korean Peninsula with nuclear threats, and more and more cases of child abuse – including by parents -- are being uncovered. On ec
ViewpointsApril 6, 2016
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E-Land to list China unit
E-Land plans to list its Chinese unit in Hong Kong by 2018 at the earliest in a bid to improve the group’s balance sheet health and expand its Chinese retail business, the company said Wednesday. E-Land Group will hold a pre-initial public offering raising during the second of 2016 after merging its two Chinese units E-Land International Fashion Shanghai and E-Land Fashion Shanghai It is the first time that a Korean apparel firm is going public overseas. E-Land Group plans to choose a lead manag
April 6, 2016
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Korea expresses condolences over passing of former German minister
South Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Lim Sung-nam on Wednesday expressed his "deepest condolences" over the death of Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Germany's former foreign minister and key architect of the country's 1990 reunification.During his visit to the German Embassy in central Seoul, Lim wrote in the visitors' book, "His contributions to the unification of Germany will be remembered for long by the world, in particular by Korea."Genscher died of a heart failure at his home in Wachtberg near Bonn
Foreign AffairsApril 6, 2016
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No change in stance on seeking dialogue with S. Korea: N. Korea
North Korea said Wednesday it is sticking to its stance to seek dialogue with South Korea with the aim of improving inter-Korean ties in what may be a peace gesture in the face of tougher U.N. sanctions.The North's comments came two days after it said that pursuing stability and talks, rather than unilateral sanctions and military pressure, will become fundamental solutions to easing heightened tensions on the peninsula."There is no change in our stance that we seek to open the path toward dialo
North KoreaApril 6, 2016
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[Editorial] Police on Facebook
An alleged sexual assault on an Australian woman, Airdre Mattner, in September 2015 has received wide attention thanks to an article in The Korea Herald last week and follow-up by other news outlets.The Seoul police station in charge of the case has said that it has yet to find sufficient evidence to arrest any suspect. While Mattner said that she was drugged, abducted and raped, it seems that investigators have faced hurdles though they said they had collected an unidentified DNA sample from he
EditorialApril 6, 2016
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[Editorial] Tesla warning
It takes years or decades for businesses to commercialize futuristic projects. However, after mass production starts, the speed of the products’ penetration into ordinary consumers’ daily lives often goes beyond estimations.Korean consumers saw simple mobile phones being rapidly replaced by smartphones, and they are about to enter a big bang in commercial banking thanks to the emergence of fintech and Internet-only banks.Another drastic change is foreseen in the automobile industry, which U.S. f
EditorialApril 6, 2016
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[ELECTION 2016] Despite N.K. threats, security missing from election
As internal strife, partisan backbiting and economic debate take over election campaigns, all three major parties are failing to offer a clear vision for foreign and security policy as well as concrete legislative steps, despite North Korea’s evolving nuclear threats and other mounting diplomatic challenges.With the decades-long territorial division, foreign affairs and security pledges had often best emitted each party’s ideological hue. The stark differences in their stances toward hotly debat
PoliticsApril 6, 2016
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[Herald Interview] CEO data crucial to transform companies
Every Monday morning, Park Ju-gun, co-chief executive of CEO Score, chairs a brainstorming session to discuss timely content about the corporate world and its executives, before pushing out related insights. CEO Score is a four-year-old venture firm whose main business is to mine and analyze data about the top 500 South Korean companies and chief executives.Park Ju-gun, co-chief executive of CEO ScoreFollowing this meeting on the first day of the week, the company prepares a press release based
BusinessApril 6, 2016
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Ministry burned for lax regulation of harmful acids
A sulfuric acid attack against Seoul police earlier this week exposed the lax supervision of harmful acids by the Environment Ministry. A police officer at Gwanak Police Station was attacked Monday with highly corrosive sulfuric acid by a women surnamed Jeon, who was at the station to file a complaint with the Cyber Investigation Team.A corridor of Gwanak Police Station where the attacker poured sulfuric acid on police officers. (Yonhap)Jeon reportedly told the police that she had purchased the
Social AffairsApril 6, 2016
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Concerns rise over nighttime opening of palace
“I managed to get the last batch of tickets,” said 29-year-old Tina Hsing, a Chinese student here, standing in front of the main gate of Gyeongbokgung Palace in downtown Seoul after sunset. She said she really did not want to miss the chance to experience Korea’s royal palaces under the moonlight.“I heard tickets (to enter Gyeongbokgung Palace during night hours) are sold out in minutes for domestic visitors, which makes me glad that I am a foreigner here,” said Hsing.Visitors take a stroll arou
Social AffairsApril 6, 2016
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[ELECTION 2016] Minjoo chief turns to Samsung to win back votes in stronghold
The leader of the main opposition party vowed Wednesday to attract investment from South Korea’s biggest conglomerate Samsung Electronics in its traditional political stronghold, in a bid to gain back the party’s waning popularity ahead of the parliamentary election next Wednesday.The Minjoo Party of Korea chairman Kim Chong-in pledged to invite the tech giant’s auto business for electric and autonomous cars, and create more than 20,000 jobs over five years in the nation’s southern city of Gwang
PoliticsApril 6, 2016
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Park arrives in S. Korea after trip to U.S., Mexico
South Korean President Park Geun-hye arrived in Seoul on Wednesday after a two-nation tour to the United States and Mexico focused on security and economic cooperation.In Washington, Park held a series of talks with leaders of the U.S., China and Japan that resulted in them agreeing to enforce the toughest-ever sanctions resolution on North Korea.The consensus sent a clear message to North Korea: give up its nuclear ambitions and provocations or face even tougher sanctions and isolation.The deve
PoliticsApril 6, 2016