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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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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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Immigration policy must go beyond labor supply: experts
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Asiana presents new Korean menu
Asiana Airlines has introduced a new menu filled with modern reinterpretations of traditional Korean palace foods, the company said Sunday.The menu includes items such as steamed beef ribs, marinated grilled beef slices called neobiani and seasoned spring greens. It will be available for flyers in the airline’s First Class Lounge at Incheon International Airport. Models pose with Asiana Airlines’ new Korean food menu, available in the Asiana First Class Lounge at Incheon International Airport. (
IndustryMarch 21, 2016
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Merck Korea holds colorectal cancer campaign
To raise public awareness on colorectal cancer, Merck Korea hosted an event Friday with its employees and medical experts, the company said Monday.The local office of the multinational pharmaceutical firm held a lecture on ways to raise Koreans‘ awareness of colorectal cancer and how to treat the disease. Merck Korea managing director Michael Grund (second from left) poses with employees and medical experts during an event to raise awareness on colorectal cancer in Seoul on Friday. (Merck Korea
IndustryMarch 21, 2016
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IngDan eyes new ecosystem for IoT innovation
SHENZHEN, China -- “Helping turn innovative ideas into products” is a goal shared by numerous tech start-up incubators and accelerators around the world. In Shenzhen, China’s electronics manufacturing powerhouse, one company is looking to tackle this task by capitalizing on the city’s rich resources and its own strengths to establish a new ecosystem for smart device developers. IngDan’s core mission is simple -- linking global start-ups making gadgets that utilize the Internet of Things, everyda
IndustryMarch 21, 2016
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Ballet season to kick off this month with ‘Swan Lake,’ ‘La Bayadere’
With spring officially upon us, theater lovers will soon be able to regale themselves in a new season of dance as the nation’s two top ballet companies are gearing up to kick off their 2016 openers. With drastically different season repertories this year, the Korean National Ballet and Universal Ballet are not slated to have any clashing productions for the season, other than their annual holiday production of “The Nutcracker.” Universal and KNB will launch their season openers this month with
PerformanceMarch 21, 2016
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Korea second among emerging markets in household debt growth
Korea saw the second fastest increase in household debt among emerging economies in 2015, a new study shows. The study, released by the Institute of International Finance, put Korea only behind China in the expansion of household debt relative to gross domestic product. Apartment complex in Seoul (Yonhap)Korea marked a 3.45 percentage point increase in its household debt-to-GDP ratio, ranking second after China out of 19 developing countries. China’s debt ratio gained 3.49 percentage points.By p
March 21, 2016
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[Photo News] LG No.1 projector maker
LG NO. 1 PROJECTOR MAKER -- LG Electronics said Monday it has maintained the No. 1 position in the global LED projector market for five consecutive years, with a 13.9 percent market share last year. LG Mini Beam, a small portable projector, has sold more than 600,000 units since its debut in 2008. (LG Electronics)
TechnologyMarch 21, 2016
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[Photo News] Samsung Galaxy S7 arrives in Kenya
TechnologyMarch 21, 2016
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Korea boosts partnership with China for VR field
South Korea said Monday it will strengthen cooperation with China for the development and marketing of virtual reality gear and related products, to take a lead in the burgeoning but promising sector.The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning plans to organize a "South Korea-China VR business day" event in Shanghai on Tuesday, setting the stage for more than 60 firms from neighboring countries to explore partnerships in the rapidly growing industry.They include South Korea's SKONEC Enterta
IndustryMarch 21, 2016
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Growth-focused China signals it hasn’t forgotten leverage
Chinese policy makers underscored their concern about a surge in leverage in the world’s second-largest economy, days after the conclusion of a gathering of the national legislature that showed their top priority is securing at least 6.5 percent annual growth for years to come.The comments from People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan and Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli suggest China’s leaders are trying to avoid a repeat of what happened under their predecessors, when unbridled stimulus created
World BusinessMarch 21, 2016
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[Graphic News] Full-time housewives decrease as more elderly women join workforce
The number of full-time housewives is decreasing as more and more elderly women join the workforce to help with household income, according to Statistics Korea on Monday. The agency’s report on the breakdown of the country’s economically active population showed that the number of full-time housewives last year was 7.08 million, down 0.8 percent from the previous year.Despite the number of stay-at-home housewives consistently increasing since 2000, the decreasing trend began in 2014 with a 2.1 p
March 21, 2016
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Jay Park releases digital single
Jay Park, Korean-American rapper and founder of independent hip-hop label AOMG, released digital R&B single “The Truth Is” along with a music video at midnight Sunday. In his new R&B ballad, Park talks about his complex and volatile post-breakup feelings frankly from a third-person perspective in his song. The song was jointly produced with producer team Groovy Room. A screen capture of Jay Park in a trailer video for his new digital single, “The Truth Is.” (AOMG) “The song features various com
PerformanceMarch 21, 2016
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Famed publisher opens Paris’ first on-demand only bookshop
PARIS (AP) -- To many Parisians, the letters PUF have always been associated with the intellectual heart of the French capital. So when the 95-year-old venerable publishing house specializing in human and social sciences was forced to close its historic bookstore on the Place de La Sorbonne in 1999, it left a big void in the heart of many students and researchers. But Les Presses Universitaires de France (PUF) is back in town, just a stone’s throw from their previous location in the Quartier Lat
BooksMarch 21, 2016
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Park says N. Korea trying to stage reckless provocations
President Park Geun-hye called on officials on Monday to maintain thorough preparations to cope with any possible provocations from North Korea, saying Pyongyang is trying to stage reckless provocations."Now is a very crucial time for the future of the Korean Peninsula," Park said in a meeting with her top aides at Cheong Wa Dae, South Korea's presidential office.North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said his country will conduct "a nuclear warhead explosion test and test-fire several kinds of bal
Social AffairsMarch 21, 2016
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Korea to roll out new patrol boats, toughen sea border defense
South Korea's Navy will launch new patrol boats to bolster defense along the tension-prone western maritime sea border with North Korea, the military said Monday.The Navy will start work to build the 200-ton guided missile and gun armed patrol boats. The boats are updated versions of the Yoon Young-ha-class boats that are already in service with the armed forces.Seoul is expected to launch some 20 of these patrol killer guided B (PKG-B) boats in the coming years to replace the existing fleet of
DefenseMarch 21, 2016
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Users pose as actor Song Joong-ki on social media
Fans of actor Song Joong-ki are forewarned of the existence, and rapid growth, of social media pages claiming to be managed by the actor personally, Song's talent agency said Monday.An Instagram user posing as Song shared a photo of the actor in Greece along with the comment, "THANKS for support," earlier this day, but the account has been declared fake by the agency Blossom Entertainment."Song Joong-ki was briefly on Cyworld in the past, but he hasn't used any social networking services (SNS) s
TelevisionMarch 21, 2016
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EXO, fans quake Olympic arena in Seoul concert
South Korean boy band EXO, the darlings of S.M. Entertainment, rocked the Olympic Gymnastics Arena in its Seoul encore concert on Sunday, with an ear-popping mass chorus by its fans. EXO's nine heartthrobs shot up the temperature of the early spring stage for "EXO PLANET #2 The EXO'luXion [dot]," an encore concert held in the gymnastics arena at Olympic Park in southeastern Seoul. The concert was an encore to the exclusive show that the band staged in Seoul in March 2015 -- herein comes the "dot
PerformanceMarch 21, 2016
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'N. Korea is capable of conducting fifth nuke test at any time'
North Korea is capable of conducting a fifth nuclear test at any time, Seoul's Unification Ministry said Monday, amid signs of continued activities in the communist state's nuclear experiment site."We believe that (the North) is able to carry out a fifth nuclear test immediately," ministry spokesperson Jeong Joon-hee said during a regular briefing, stressing that the government is preparing for "all possibilities."Seoul officials have said that Pyongyang remains "technically ready" to conduct an
North KoreaMarch 21, 2016
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South Korea and the United States kicked off their first high-level talks
Monday dealing exclusively with implementing new sanctions on North Korea.The meeting brought together senior officials from both sides to exchange views on ways to enforce a recent string of sanctions imposed on the North over its nuclear test in January and long-range rocket launch last month.Kim Hong-kyun, South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, sat down with Daniel Fried, the State Department's coordinator for sanctions policy, at the Foreign Min
Social AffairsMarch 21, 2016
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Kim Sei-young captures 1st LPGA win of year
South Korea's Kim Sei-young captured her first LPGA Tour win of 2016 in Phoenix on Sunday.Kim cruised to a five-shot victory at the JTBC Founders Cup at Wildfire Golf Club at the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa in Phoenix, finishing the four-round event at 27-under 261. She lapped the field with a bogey-free final round of 10-under 62 and left world No. 1 Lydia Ko well back at 22-under.Kim, who took home $225,000, also tied an LPGA scoring record in relation to par. At the Standard
GolfMarch 21, 2016
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'Descendants of the Sun' nears milestone
A popular TV series about a soldier and doctor who fall in love on the battlefield, inched closer to the 30-percent viewership mark, data showed Monday."Descendants of the Sun," the KBS 2TV drama starring actor Song Joong-ki and actress Song Hye-kyo, renewed its own viewership record at 28.5 percent last week, data by Nielsen Korea showed. In Seoul, the figure broke the 30-percent mark the week prior to last one.The Wednesday-Thursday night drama portrays the struggles of Korean peace-keeping tr
TelevisionMarch 21, 2016