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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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Opposition mulls delay of financial investment income tax
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Immigration policy must go beyond labor supply: experts
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‘Korea crossed the line too far’ disgraced singer’s lawyer cries foul after 3rd visa denial
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Korean American documentary ‘Free Chol Soo Lee' wins Emmy
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S. Korea to showcase Hyunmoo-5 ballistic missile on Armed Forces Day ceremony for 1st time
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Kennedy Center taps Q-Tip as first hip-hop director
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Kennedy Center, the prolific Washington concert hall led by the US government, has tapped Q-Tip to a new position of artistic director for hip-hop culture. Q-Tip -- whose former group, A Tribe Called Quest, was at the vanguard of art-house hip-hop in the 1980s and 1990s -- will take the role for the Kennedy Center's 2016-2017 season. The 45-year-old New York rapper and DJ, whose real name is Jonathan Davis, will curate a series of hip-hop events in the upcoming season.
PerformanceMarch 10, 2016
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Publishing’s lack of diversity fails readers: author Rai
HONG KONG (AFP) -- As the film and music industries grapple with the fallout from the race controversy that dogged the Oscars and the Brit Awards, English author Bali Rai warns publishing too has a serious diversity issue. The award-winning writer, who has Indian heritage but was born and grew up in Leicester, England, echoes critics of Hollywood and the Academy Awards when he suggests gatekeepers are only recognizing a narrow band of talent and ideas, which does not properly reflect society. He
BooksMarch 10, 2016
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Samsung mobile chief confident of Galaxy success
Samsung Electronics’ mobile chief on Thursday showed confidence in sales of the company’s latest flagship smartphone Galaxy S7 and its Edge variant, saying the phones will exceed their predecessors. After a week-long preorder period, the latest Galaxy phones will go on sale globally from Friday. Samsung’s mobile chief Koh Dong-jin poses with the Galaxy S7 and its Edge variant phones at a press conference in Seoul on Thursday. (Samsung Electronics)“There are positive reviews about the new phones
TechnologyMarch 10, 2016
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Korean works, writers to be featured at Paris Book Fair
Korea will be spotlighted as the guest of honor at the Paris Book Fair, to be held March 16-20 at the Paris Expo Porte de Versaille exhibition center, where a selection of Korean works will be displayed and some of the country’s most influential writers will be holding talks, the Korean Publishers Association said in a statement Wednesday. Some 60 works by 30 Korean authors will be featured, including the esteemed Hwang Sok-yong, who wrote the novel “Evening Star,” and Han Kang, whose novel “Th
BooksMarch 10, 2016
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Calls grow to move up date of Arbor Day
President Park Geun-hye plants a tree at Cheong Wa Dae to celebrate Arbor Day in 2015. (Cheong Wa Dae)Due to constantly rising temperatures worldwide caused by global warming, South Korea’s local governments voiced concerns that National Arbor Day should be held earlier in a more suitable tree-planting season.Currently, Arbor Day falls on April 5, when nationwide tree-planting campaigns and events kick off.The Korea Forest Service, which has been hosting Arbor Day over the past 70 years, said ch
Social AffairsMarch 10, 2016
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Convenience stores in Korea evolve
South Korean convenience stores have evolved from simple 24-hour corner shops into all-in-one stopovers for foods, goods and services tailored to modern needs. Despite sluggish consumption, convenience stores have constituted the country’s fastest-growing retail segment, outpacing offline retailers by a large margin with a 29.6 percent on-year hike in sales in 2015, according to Statistics Korea. KDB Daewoo Securities analyst Lee Jun-ki predicts “a continued growth of Korea’s convenience store
IndustryMarch 10, 2016
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AMCHAM delegation to visit Washington for Korea promotion
A delegation of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea plans to visit Washington D.C. next week to meet government officials and politicians to stress the importance of South Korea as an economic partner. The delegation includes James Kim, AMCHAM chairman and CEO of GM Korea, AMCHAM president John Schuldt, United Airlines country manager David Ruch, attorney Jeffrey Jones, Johnson & Johnson Medical Korea chief Swami Raote, and GE Korea adviser Choi In-bom. They plan to attend around 30 meetin
IndustryMarch 10, 2016
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‘Bio firms cash in on demographic change’
South Korean bio firms enjoying record-high sales last year may have benefitted from a demographic change of women outnumbering men, with their economic power stronger than before, according to industry observers quoting statistics. Statistics Korea said in its September announcement that the number of women stood at 25,715,304 in June, 492 higher than the male population, marking the first time women have outnumbered men since the government began compiling data in 1960.The gap between men’s an
IndustryMarch 10, 2016
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Hyundai Department Store to open Dongdaemun outlet
Hyundai Department Store will open a new outlet in Dongdaemun, a popular shopping district in Seoul, on Friday, targeting Chinese tourists looking for high-quality products.Built on a 37,000- square-meter plot, the nine-floor outlet will have lifestyle and food sections, a branch of Kyobo Bookstore as well as medical and beauty service centers. It will also have the first offline store of e-commerce operator Wemakeprice, it added.Total floor space of the outlet’s food and beverage section -- sim
IndustryMarch 10, 2016
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N. Korea unlikely to have thermonuclear weapon: UK institute
North Korea’s claim to have miniaturized a nuclear weapon to fit a ballistic missile is likely to be false, a London-based defense information provider said Wednesday.The communist country had revealed a photo of its leader Kim Jong-un inspecting a silver sphere -- believed to be the device in question -- in front of the state’s KH-08 long-range missile. Kim had directly stated that his engineers succeeded in miniaturizing the nuclear warheads.But Karl Dewey, a senior analyst at IHS Jane’s said
North KoreaMarch 10, 2016
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SKT to cement partnership with Google, Facebook
Mobile network operator SK Telecom said Thursday that it had joined a Google-led global initiative, dubbed OpenConfig, to improve network infrastructure around the world.SKT’s chief technology officer Choi Jin-sung delivers a presentation at the annual Open Compute Summit event Wednesday in San Jose, California. (SKT)OpenConfig, an informal working group of network operators, was founded in October 2014 with the aim of developing network systems and enhancing the efficiency of network infrastruc
TechnologyMarch 10, 2016
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Asia markets rally as ECB meeting comes into focus
HONG KONG (AFP) -- Asian investors turned positive again Thursday, extending a global advance, as they turn their attention to a European Central Bank policy meeting later in the day that is expected to see another stimulus push.But while most regional markets are in the ascendancy, Shanghai -- which analysts say has been supported in the past few days by state-backed buying -- was in retreat despite a strong Chinese inflation reading.Confidence across trading floors is broadly upbeat this month
World BusinessMarch 10, 2016
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China consumer inflation jumps in February
BEIJING (AFP) -- China's consumer inflation jumped to 2.3 percent in February, its highest in nearly two years, official data showed Thursday, in a positive sign for demand in the world’s second-largest economy.Food prices surged during the annual Lunar New Year holiday, with pork prices jumping 25.4 percent year-on-year, and vegetables up a hefty 30.6 percent.The rise in the consumer price index released by the National Bureau of Statistics was the largest since July 2014, and came in ahead of
World BusinessMarch 10, 2016
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Couple arrested for abusing 2-month-old daughter
Police on Thursday arrested a couple in their 20s who are suspected of letting their 2-month-old daughter die by not taking her to the hospital after she suffered an injury at their home in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province.According to the police, the 22-year-old father is suspected of pushing the baby off the bed and leaving the injured child on the floor for more than 10 hours without getting her necessary medical attention. The infant died early Wednesday morning. Police said the father had also in
Social AffairsMarch 10, 2016
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Samsung Medison to name new CEO from Samsung Electronics
Sonogram maker Samsung Medison will appoint Jun Dong-soo, medical device unit leader of Samsung Electronics, as its new CEO, according to news reports on Thursday. Jun’s appointment will be reportedly made official on Friday at the board of directors’ meeting. He is also expected to be listed as Medison’s internal director at the shareholders’ meeting on the same day. Jun Dong-sooMedison declined to comment on the news. The appointment of Jun, one of the key men inside the country’s largest bus
IndustryMarch 10, 2016
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Hyundai Motor extends coprosperity drive
Hyundai Motor Group said Thursday it has extended its initiative to grow together with its vendors for another year.In an agreement with the Fair Trade Commission, officials from the automotive group pledged to build a cooperative ecosystem for the group and its small vendors.The nation’s anti-trust body has made such fair trade agreements with major conglomerates since 2007. Hyundai Motor Group joined the FTC’s “economic democratization” initiative in 2008, pledging to encourage its affiliates
MobilityMarch 10, 2016
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Drama 'Signal' to reveal conspiracy behind brother's death
The local TV drama "Signal," which concludes this weekend, is set to unravel the mysterious death of protagonist Park Hae-young's brother.The time-travel epic has been another addition to tvN's growing arsenal against terrestrial networks. The show starring actor Lee Je-hoon and actress Kim Hye-soo broke 10-percent viewership, which is considered meaningful for cable shows, on its 11th episode.In "Signal," criminal profiler Park and detective Lee Jae-han, who lives in the past, realize they are
TelevisionMarch 10, 2016
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Korean Go player joins ruling party
Renowned South Korean Go player Cho Hoon-hyun joined the ruling Saenuri Party on Thursday, apparently hoping to win a proportional representation ticket in the April general elections.Cho, a ninth-dan player who went pro at the age of 9, said he decided to join the party to work for the broader Go community and its players.The 63-year-old holds the world record on professional wins with 160.Go, known as "baduk" in Korea, originated in China more than 2,500 years ago. It involves two players alte
PoliticsMarch 10, 2016
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Korea deploys anti-aircraft missiles along maritime border
South Korea has deployed a newly developed anti-aircraft missile system along the maritime border with North Korea in the Yellow Sea, a military official said Thursday."The surface-to-air guided missile system, Cheongung, was placed in the northwest islands area early this year to defend it from North Korean aircraft," the military official said, asking not to be named.The system can intercept North Korean airplanes or other hostile aircraft penetrating into South Korean airspace with almost no
DefenseMarch 10, 2016
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Korea's ICT exports dip 9.8% in Febuary
Korea's exports of information communication technology (ICT) goods dropped almost 10 percent last month, led by a continued slump in sales of semiconductors and displays, government data showed Thursday.But the pace of decline slowed last month on the back of an increase in outbound shipments of mobile devices, according to the data compiled by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. Samsung Galaxy S7 (Yonhap)The ICT exports of Asia's fourth-largest economy dropped 9.8 percent to $11.4 bill
IndustryMarch 10, 2016