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Thousands rally in Seoul to call for Yoon's resignation
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Suicide attempts spike among youth in Korea
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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is killed in Beirut strike, Israel's military says
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FM champions multilateralism, stresses S. Korea's vision as 'global pivotal state'
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[Weekender] How Seongsu, once an industrial zone, has become ‘Seoul’s Brooklyn’
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S. Korea to showcase Hyunmoo-5 ballistic missile on Armed Forces Day ceremony for 1st time
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Delta Air Lines to launch new Incheon-Salt Lake City route in June next year
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Korean American documentary ‘Free Chol Soo Lee' wins Emmy
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Korea, China, Japan vow to address yellow dust and climate change
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4 in 10 illegal aliens entered S. Korea without visas last year: data
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‘Descendants of the Sun’ hits U.S.
KBS2’s hit TV drama “Descendants of the Sun” has become the most-searched recent TV series on U.S.-based global video-streaming site Viki, the service said Wednesday. The 16-episode drama series, set against the backdrop of military operations in a fictional country, stars actor Song Joong-ki and actress Song Hye-kyo. It has been shown exclusively by Viki in the U.S. for the past four weeks. The TV drama’s first eight episodes have been uploaded on the platform and it became the most-searched of
TelevisionMarch 23, 2016
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‘Holy Grail’ Beatles record sold to British collector
LONDON (AFP) - The demo vinyl record that persuaded late music producer George Martin to sign The Beatles -- a “unique” piece of music history -- was sold on Tuesday to an unnamed British collector. The record sold for 77,500 pounds ($110,000), a spokeswoman for the Omega Auctions, based in Warrington in northern England, told AFP. The price tag was well above the 10,000 pounds initial estimate, showing the object’s “historical importance,” the spokeswoman said, adding that bids had come in also
PerformanceMarch 23, 2016
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Seoul sees unemployment hit 280,000
Seoul saw its number of unemployed people reach 286,000 February, a 13.1 percent annual rise, data showed Tuesday.According to Gyeongin Regional office of Statistics, Seoul’s unemployment rate reached 5.3 percent, compared to 4.7 percent in February 2015. The employment rate was 59.4 percent, slipping by 0.2 percentage points from a year before. The data was collected by surveying 4,100 households in Seoul and those aged 15 or older, excluding soldiers in service, public service workers and inma
Social AffairsMarch 23, 2016
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Seoul to install more CCTV cameras in school zones
The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced Friday that it will install more surveillance cameras in all of Seoul’s school zones for the security of young students and prevention of crime.As of March, there are a total of 3,167 surveillance cameras installed in 1,659, or 97.3 percent, of Seoul’s school zones.School zones began to be designated in 1995. They are areas within a radius of 300 meters of elementary schools or day care centers, according to road traffic laws.YonhapThe city vowed to in
Social AffairsMarch 23, 2016
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Owner family’s misdeed hits Daelim
Daelim Group, a family-owned construction business-driven conglomerate with a 77-year history, is being exposed to risks following rising public anger at the revelations of longtime physical and verbal abuse of chauffers by the heir apparent. According to local Internet news site No Cut News on Wednesday, Lee Hae-wook, vice chairman of flagship affiliate Daelim Industrial, habitually abuses his chauffeurs by bad-mouthing them and risks their lives while driving, quoting former drivers.Describing
BusinessMarch 23, 2016
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In 'My Lawyer, Mr. Jo,' disgraced prosecutor seeks justice
The upcoming TV series "My Lawyer, Mr. Jo" will follow a prosecutor's search for justice in a world where the rich get richer and the poor even poorer, producers said Wednesday.Starring actor Park Shin-yang and actress Kang So-ra, the riches-to-rags story based on a web cartoon series will inherit KBS 2TV's Monday-Tuesday night time slots from "Babysitter," which flopped with a viewing rate of 3.5 percent.With another KBS 2TV drama, "Descendants of the Sun," making a splash in South Korea and Ch
TelevisionMarch 23, 2016
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Military seeks to develop new patrol craft to bolster front-line defense
South Korea is seeking to develop a highly mobile patrol craft as part of its efforts to bolster naval defense along the maritime boundary with North Korea, military officials said Wednesday.Through a civilian-military cooperative project, the military plans to develop a 20-ton "high-speed interceptor craft" that can travel faster than 60 knots per hour, or 111 kmph, the officials said.The military plans to launch the project within this year and produce a prototype in five years so they can be
DefenseMarch 23, 2016
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North Korea threatens to attack Cheong Wa Dae
North Korea on Wednesday threatened military action against the Park Geun-hye administration, starting with Cheong Wa Dae, in an apparent attempt to spark national unity as well as warn South Korea and the U.S. The North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, entrusted with inter-Korean affairs, released a statement saying that the Kim Jong-un regime will launch a “retaliatory battle of justice in order to resolutely eliminate the Park Geun Hye group of traitors on this land and un
North KoreaMarch 23, 2016
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Opposition chief quells dissenters
Minjoo Party chief Kim Chong-in announced on Wednesday he has decided to stay on for the sake of the party’s victory in the April elections, allowing the main opposition to avert a leadership crisis but leaving a dent on the party’s reputation. “After much thought, I decided to stay,” said Kim in a press conference at the National Assembly. “We have almost 20 days left before the elections. That makes me feel a sense of responsibility about my decision on whether to leave the office,” he said.
PoliticsMarch 23, 2016
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Work starts on ASEAN culture house
(Foreign Ministry)BUSAN -- The Foreign Ministry broke ground Wednesday for an organization to promote the cultures of Southeast Asian countries as part of efforts to broaden sociocultural exchanges. The ASEAN Culture House will be sheltered in a four-story building at a 2,640-square-meter area in Busan’s vibrant Haeundae area, with construction work scheduled to be completed around June 2017. Some 400 ministry and city officials as well as ambassadors and diplomats from the 10-nation bloc, along
Foreign AffairsMarch 23, 2016
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Children to be allowed to demand cutting ties with abusive parents
The government will present a revision to family litigation law in September to expand the rights of underage children and more effectively deprive unqualified parents of their authority, legal sources said Tuesday. According to the revision, teenage children who are abused by their parents will be able to file a suit against parents to demand the state invalidate their parental authority. Up until now, children have had limited rights in family-related trials, which experts cited as one of the
Social AffairsMarch 23, 2016
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Saenuri members defect to run as independents
The ruling party’s parliamentary majority was put at stake on Wednesday as an increasing number of incumbents who had been excluded from the nomination list decided to leave the party and run as independents in the April general election. Reps. Yoon Sang-hyun and Joo Ho-young announced their defection from the Saenuri Party earlier in the day. A total of eight incumbent lawmakers have left the party, bringing its number of parliamentary seats to 149. It is just two seats short of losing the maj
PoliticsMarch 23, 2016
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[ELECTION 2016] Parties brush voters aside in battle to win
Decades of regionalism seem to have left South Korean voters with a certain political inertia -- one in which they continue to vote for a specific favored party, regardless of its policies or the candidate.It is this voter allegiance that often gives political parties the confidence, as well as the discretion, to freely move their candidates from one constituency to another, without sweating over its impact at the ballot box.But such arbitrary reallocation, though considered a useful deployment
PoliticsMarch 23, 2016
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Worldly a cappella group bridges cultures through song
It's almost dinner time. A middle-aged Korean man ushers a racially diverse group of young people into a dimly-lit restaurant in Seoul."Before college, they were troublemakers. Today, they are Treblemakers. Please welcome them with a round of applause!" With that cheesy line delivered in somewhat broken English, the college a cappella group walks in, with the 17 members wearing a matching black T-shirt and a pair of blue jeans.The act's opener is a song that apparently starts out as Ariana Grand
PerformanceMarch 23, 2016
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Korea’s median age rises to 40.8 in 2015
Korea’s total population came in at 50.6 million in 2015, with its demographic profile shifting toward one that has more old people and fewer children, according to a government report Wednesday.The report by Statistics Korea noted that out of every 100 Koreans, 13 are aged 65 or older while another 14 are 14 years old or younger. Sixty are working, 70 have never given donations while 70 spend their free time flipping through TV channels. The population is projected to peak at 52.1 million in 20
March 23, 2016
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France to open events to mark 130th anniversary of diplomatic ties
France will showcase various aspects of its culture in South Korea for a year starting Wednesday as part of the two countries' joint program to celebrate the 130th anniversary of diplomatic ties, organizers said.The two countries have been celebrating the anniversary, which falls on June 4 this year, in the largest scale ever, with about 350 events in such areas as culture, education, science-technology, economy and industry. The events first kicked off in September of last year.In 2010, the cou
Diplomatic CircuitMarch 23, 2016
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K-water taps Asia for water projects overseas
State-run Korea Water Resources Corp., better known as K-water, will step up its penetration into the Asian water market by taking a leading role in the 1st Asia Water Council, which kicked off in Bali, Indonesia, for a three-day run Tuesday. "The company’s CEO and executives will tap the business opportunities during the Council meeting, while promoting the firm’s water management know-how and technological prowess in the sector,’’ a K-water official said. K-water employees conduct a construct
BusinessMarch 23, 2016
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KDB may delay KAI sales over growing foreign ownership
The state-run Korea Development Bank may postpone its plan to sell shares of Korea Aerospace Industries to fend off the fast-growing stakes of foreign investors in the government-controlled firm, according to market reports Wednesday.The percentage of KAI shares owned by foreign investors jumped to 22.8 percent this week, an increase of more than 7 percentage points from 15.2 percent in January. Korea Development Bank headquarters in Seoul (Yonhap)Foreign investors seems to have acquired the KAI
IndustryMarch 23, 2016
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GS E&C to go digital in architectural drawings
(GS E&C)South Korean builder GS Engineering & Construction is set to adopt a digital construction app to replace paper architectural drawings. The builder said on Wednesday it has adopted a smart work system Plan Grid after working with the U.S. app developer PlanGrid for two years. This app enables users to share around 5,000 drawings using cloud computing services and to modify blueprints via smartphones real-time, preventing confusion at construction sites. GS E&C said it has launched the lat
BusinessMarch 23, 2016
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K-pop girl groups lash out against prostitution rumors
While a list of female celebrities allegedly involved in prostitution has been circulating among the public for the past week, some of those named -- including a number of K-pop girl group singers -- are vehemently protesting the rumors in an unprecedented string of public statements. (123rf)Last Saturday, Yubin of girl group Wonder Girls issued a statement via her agency, JYP Entertainment, calling the rumors “completely false” and vowing to take legal action against people circulating the list
PerformanceMarch 23, 2016