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Psy's touch or new trend in music? P Nation’s solo stars lose their shine
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Seoul to hold grand military parade on Tuesday, disrupting major city routes
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Park Zi-a, the actor who played 'The Glory' heroine's mother, dies
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Yoon warns North Korea against nuclear attack attempt
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Shut up and dance
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NewJeans fans corner Hybe amid PR backlash, looming National Assembly audit
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Miss Universe Korea names 80-year-old model 'best dressed'
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Israel targets Palestinian group in first strike on Beirut center
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Brit pop legend Oasis to perform in Seoul next year
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[KH Explains] Is Hyundai-GM partnership win-win to beat Tesla, Chinese rivals?
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Minjoo Party recruits high-profile figures
The main opposition Minjoo Party of Korea leader Moon Jae-in meant it when he said he would “boldly recruit new figures” in a housecleaning action to replace the big shots who recently defected.Lee Soo-hyuck, former deputy foreign minister and chief delegate for the six-party negotiation talks with North Korea, joined the party Tuesday, following suit after crime profiler Pyo Chang-won and video game company Webzen chairman Kim Byung-kwan.“Lee is a top-level expert in the diplomatic field, which
PoliticsJan. 5, 2016
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Marriage stress may fuel Korea’s low fertility rate: study
Marriage and financial stress, rather than child care-related struggles, may have a bigger influence on a Korean mother’s decision not to have more than one child, research by a state-run think tank suggested. Contrary to the popular belief in Korea that child care stress can significantly reduce the mother’s desire to have a second child, the study, written and released by the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education, showed that wives with lower household income or who are unhappy with thei
Social AffairsJan. 5, 2016
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Park calls for airtight national defense
President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday called on her top aides to strengthen defense capabilities and maintain airtight readiness posture, saying this year marks a “turning point” in her diplomatic and security policy. Presiding over the first Cabinet meeting of the year, she also pledged to make constant efforts to put cross-border relations back on track, in an upbeat response to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s New Year address in which he said Pyongyang would strive to improve the ties and cont
DefenseJan. 5, 2016
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Hanwha to supply tactical communication systems
(Hanwha Thales)Hanwha Thales clinched an agreement Tuesday to supply tactical information communication networks to the Defense Acquisition Program Administration, as Seoul seeks to improve its battlefield command and control systems, the company said. Under the 166.3 billion won ($139.9 million) deal, the Seoul-based defense contractor will deliver network management, tactical mobile communications and low-capacity trunk radio systems by the end of this year. Hanwha and the Agency for Defense D
DefenseJan. 5, 2016
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Korean fire stations to get advanced ambulances
The government will place at least one ambulance with advanced equipment at each fire station in the country to provide quicker treatment for emergency patients, officials said Tuesday. The Ministry of Public Safety and Security said it would provide special ambulances that are equipped with 12 emergency medical devices to 205 fire stations. In these ambulances, medical staff will be able to conduct emergency treatments, such as intubation or heart-stimulating drug injections, which are difficul
Social AffairsJan. 5, 2016
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Park’s salary to rise by 3 percent
The Cabinet has decided to raise President Park Geun-hye’s annual salary by more than 3 percent and expand the merit-based wage system in the public sector, the Ministry of Personnel Management announced Tuesday. Park is set to earn 212 million won ($179,000) this year, compared to 205 million won last year, after the Cabinet approved the bill on government employees’ salaries in the meeting held in the morning.Given that the nation’s average consumer price inflation stood at 0.7 percent last ye
Social AffairsJan. 5, 2016
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[CES 2016] Samsung flaunts TV leadership
LAS VEGAS -- Even with all the buzz about driverless cars and the Internet of Things, the annual International Consumer Electronics Show can never be complete without fancier TVs. Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest TV-maker, unveiled Monday its new high-end UHD TVs before their official debuts at the CES trade show that runs from Wednesday through Friday in the U.S. city of Las Vegas. Samsung’s TV chief Kim Hyun-seok speaks at a media preview event for the company’s 2016 quantum-dot UHD TV
TechnologyJan. 5, 2016
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[Kim Seong-kon] What lies ahead of Korea in Year of Monkey?
Waking up in Seoul in the Year of the Monkey, I once again ponder on the future of Korea in accordance with the Chinese zodiac. I am far from superstitious, and yet it surely is fun and even enlightening to compare the Korean people’s character traits to those of the symbolic animal of the year. Sometimes, I am amused to find people who strongly resemble the animal of the year in which they were born. My father, who was born in the Year of the Monkey, is very agile and dexterous. Although he is
ViewpointsJan. 5, 2016
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[Photo News] LG prepares for 2016 CES
LG PREPS FOR 2016 CES -- LG Display CEO Han Sang-beom (left) pays a visit to the firm’s exhibition booth at the 2016 International CES trade show to be held from Wednesday to Saturday in Las Vegas. At the booth, the display-maker will showcase 55-inch double-sided displays, a 139-inch commercial display made of 8 organic light-emitting diode displays, and high-end OLED TVs with their sizes ranging from 65 inch to 77 inch. (LGD)
TechnologyJan. 5, 2016
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[Photo News] LG Uplus, Rinnai launch smart heating system
TECHNOLOGY CONVERGENCE FOR SMART HEATING -- Mobile carrier LG Uplus and Rinnai Korea, a local gas-fired tankless water heater maker, have jointly developed a smart boiler controller which allows users to monitor and remotely control home heating systems.(LG Uplus)
TechnologyJan. 5, 2016
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[Robert J. Fouser] Korea needs united opposition party
The end of 2015 saw the implosion of the New Politics Alliance for Democracy, Korea’s main opposition party, after months of rising tension. On Dec. 13, Ahn Cheol-soo announced that he was leaving the party and that he would form another party with the hope of becoming the main opposition party. Since then, a number National Assembly representatives have left the party, which has rebranded itself as the Minjoo Party of Korea. Since Ahn’s departure, defections have continued as politicians jocke
ViewpointsJan. 5, 2016
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Former U.S. envoy on N.K. dies
Stephen Bosworth, a former U.S. envoy for North Korea policy, died Sunday, according to the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, where he had worked until recently. He was 77.Stephen Bosworth (Yonhap)The exact cause of his death was not immediately made public. But he is known to have contracted prostate cancer several years ago. Last November, he was scheduled to visit Seoul to attend an international forum, but his visit was canceled due
Foreign AffairsJan. 5, 2016
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[CES 2016] LG to show off premium tech at CES
LAS VEGAS -- Aiming to claim the limelight at the 2016 International Consumer Electronics Show to be held Wednesday to Saturday in Las Vegas, Korean tech giant LG Electronics said Tuesday it would focus on building and promoting its premium brand image with high-end product lineups, including the LG Signature for home appliances. The LG Signature, the latest christening strategy for the company’s premium products, consists of organic light-emitting diode TVs, a twin-tub washer and refrigerators.
TechnologyJan. 5, 2016
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Kill pain and addiction
There is a grim connection between two worsening addictions in the U.S.: to prescription opioid painkillers and to heroin. Both can be partly traced to worthwhile public-health initiatives that deserve to be protected.The first initiative was a 1990s campaign to get doctors to take people’s pain more seriously. This worked amazingly well -- for some people, too well. The second effort was the recent response to the ensuing spike in opioid addiction: Legal controls on painkiller prescriptions wer
ViewpointsJan. 5, 2016
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How Trump blew Republican chances
As 2016 begins, Republicans confront two challenges that are as familiar as they are profound. First, they remain an essentially all-white party in an increasingly multiracial nation. Second, the party’s economic platform — cut taxes for the wealthiest and everything will somehow work out — long ago lost its purchase on public opinion. After a year or so of vigorous presidential campaigning, the party has made no progress whatsoever bringing its economic fantasy into alignment with the real worl
ViewpointsJan. 5, 2016
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Unionized Asiana workers protest against restructuring
Unionized workers at Asiana Airlines, the nation’s second-largest flag carrier, launched a sit-in protest Tuesday blasting the management’s restructuring plan that would lead to massive layoffs.The move came less than a week after the carrier unveiled the self-rescue plan to improve its financial health and survive in the overheated air transportation and services market. (Yonhap)Under the two-year plan, Asiana is set to close three international routes this year and reduce the number of branch
BusinessJan. 5, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Hanmi chief gains spotlight with stock gift
Hanmi Pharmaceutical Group founder and chairman Lim Sung-ki has found himself in the public spotlight since announcing plans to distribute a portion of his personal stocks, worth some 110 billion won ($92.5 million), as a gift of gratitude to all his employees. The country’s largest drugmaker said Monday it is distributing 900,000 shares of the chairman’s common stocks in Hanmi Science, the holding company of Hanmi Pharma, to the entire workforce. As a result, some 2,800 Hanmi employees at both
IndustryJan. 5, 2016
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[Editorial] Staying healthy
With drinking, smoking and obesity taking an increasingly heavy toll on Korean society, the government needs to step up its campaign against these health risks to reduce their socioeconomic costs. A recent study by the Health Insurance Research Institute has estimated the ill effects of these three key health risks at 23.3 trillion won ($19.8 billion) in 2013. The figure accounts for about 46 percent of the total medical bills covered by the national health insurance scheme that year. The instit
EditorialJan. 5, 2016
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[Editorial] Legislative inaction
Legislative inaction is hurting people and companies in need of help. Due to lawmakers’ failure to act, jobless people cannot receive larger unemployment benefits; struggling households have to pay higher interest rates on loans from credit businesses; and distressed companies face difficulty in getting debt relief from their creditor banks. Last year, the government proposed a graduated scheme for unemployment benefits starting this year. It planned to allow beneficiaries of employment insuranc
EditorialJan. 5, 2016