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Yoon warns North Korea against nuclear attack attempt
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81-year-old model awarded ‘best dressed’ in Miss Universe Korea
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Seoul mayor suggests shift in immigration policy
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'Smart pill'? ADHD treatment prescriptions spike this year
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[KH Explains] Korea pursues ‘fire-free’ batteries amid EV fears
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AI textbook bubble could burst, expert warns
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Man calls 119, found dead 1 week later because officials went to wrong place
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[Herald Review] One of Netflix's most expensive Korean originals returns, but at what cost?
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Fights, complaints, stalker fans among reasons passengers exit planes before takeoff
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SF Giants outfielder Lee Jung-hoo back home after injury-shortened rookie season
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North Korean band leader appears in China after execution rumors
Hyon Song-wol, leader of North Korea's all-female propaganda band, appeared in public Friday, quelling a series of rumors and many media reports that she was executed in 2013. Hyon heads the Moranbong Band, hand-picked by North Korea's young leader Kim Jong-un, who sent the band to Beijing on Thursday for a six-day "friendship" tour, in an apparent move that indicates that once-strained ties between the allies are warming.Upon her arrival Friday morning at a luxury hotel in central Beijing where
North KoreaDec. 11, 2015
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Seoul, Tokyo to hold talks on 'comfort women' issue
South Korea and Japan will have another round of talks next week on the issue of Korean sex slaves during World War II, the Foreign Ministry announced Friday.The two sides plan to hold the working-level meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.It will mark the 11th session of their formal negotiations, launched in April last year, on Japan's sexual enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Korean women for its frontline troops during the war.South Korea is demanding a formal apology from Japan for the atrocity
Foreign AffairsDec. 11, 2015
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[Herald Interview] Kim Jo-han continues cooking-up music with ‘no MSG’
At a time when rhythm and blues music was virtually nonexistent in the Korean music scene, Solid, the now-defunct vocal trio of Korean-American singers, became one of the pioneering forces of Korean soul with its debut in 1993. Former Solid members Kim Jo-han, Jeong Jae-Yoon and Lee Joon, whose debut album was aptly titled “Give Me a Chance,” are, to this day, still regaled as among the country’s most influential figures in introducing the R&B genre to Korean listeners. Solid was short-lived. T
PerformanceDec. 11, 2015
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Korea's foreign currency deposits fall in Nov.
Foreign currency deposits at South Korean banks fell in November from a month earlier as local firms withdrew money to pay back bonds, the central bank said Friday.Outstanding foreign currency-denominated deposits held by local residents reached $62.31 billion as of end-November, down $1.09 billion from the previous month when the country had the largest amount of deposits since June, according to the Bank of Korea.Those holding the deposits include firms and foreign nationals who have stayed in
Dec. 11, 2015
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Korea facing tough economic challenges in 2016: finance minister
South Korea will face some tough challenges in 2016 as it moves to prop up growth that has been hit hard by the sluggish global economy, the top economic policymaker has said.In a meeting with reporters late Thursday, Finance Minister Choi Kyung-hwan predicted that overall conditions in 2016 may not improve much from this year. He cited potential fallouts from the planned U.S. interest rate hikes that can raise financial sector volatility and other persistent uncertainties."Everyone must be on g
Dec. 11, 2015
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Rival parties agree to open parliamentary plenary session next week
Rival parties agreed Friday to open a parliamentary plenary session next week to discuss the issue of redrawing electoral districts, said a ruling-party lawmaker.The Saenuri Party and the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy failed to redraw the electoral constituency map last month and failed to meet their self-imposed deadline for the general elections slated for next April."The plenary session will be held on Tuesday," Won Yoo-cheol, floor leader of the ruling Saneuri Party, to
PoliticsDec. 11, 2015
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Life sentence sought for senior woman suspected of poisoning soft drink
Prosecutors sought life imprisonment on Friday for an 82-year-old woman who is believed to be involved in a poisoning case that killed two senior women and injured four others. Prosecutors demanded a life sentence for the defendant, identified only by her surname Park, at a trial at the Daegu District Court, citing the brutality of the crime and a lack of effort to make amends for her actions."Despite enough evidence, (Park) denied the allegations, and we also took into consideration that the to
Social AffairsDec. 11, 2015
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Korea-EU FTA to come into full force Sunday
South Korea's free trade deal with the European Union will go into full effect this weekend, four years after it was "provisionally" implemented, the government said Friday.The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said that starting Sunday, all provisions of the South Korea-EU free trade agreement will be implemented fully.The FTA effectively went into effect on July 1, 2011, under an arrangement to prevent administrative delays from holding back tariff cuts and free movement of goods. South K
Dec. 11, 2015
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Trade minister vows to improve Korea's investment climate
South Korea's trade minister met Friday with members of the European Chamber of Commerce in Korea to exchange views on how best to improve business investment conditions in the country.At the breakfast meeting in Seoul, outlined to European businessmen measures taken by the government to ease restrictions and reform outdated rules that will make it easier for foreign companies to invest in Asia's fourth-largest economy.He stressed that such efforts are ongoing so that overall conditions will get
Dec. 11, 2015
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BOK chief urges more efforts to manage debt
South Korea's central bank chief urged all economic players Friday to keep close tabs on their debt levels as global economic uncertainty has escalated ahead of an imminent U.S. rate hike.The call by Bank of Korea Gov. Lee Ju-yeol came amid growing concerns over South Korea's soaring household debt, which is feared to hamper consumer spending and drag down Asia's fourth-largest economy."If one economy employs excessive leverage, it will force economic players to shoulder a heavy financial burden
Dec. 11, 2015
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Most Koreans short on retirement savings
Most South Koreans don’t have enough funds saved for their postretirement life, especially married couples with children, a report showed Friday.According to the report released by the KB Financial Group Research Center, which surveyed 2,906 Koreans aged 25-59 nationwide on their household finances, Koreans need an average monthly income of 2.26 million won ($1,920) for postretirement expenses. However, based on the surveyed individuals’ savings, public and private pension plans and other financ
Dec. 11, 2015
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Gyeonggi Center for Creative Economy & Innovation actively supporting startups ④ Danuon
Danuon is a company that develops mobile games for visually impaired users. After starting out as a social venture corporation in 2013, it was chosen as one the startups to be incubated at the Gyeonggi Center for Creative Economy & Innovation last September.Danuon will soon be releasing two new mobile games, including Cybathlon (tentative title), which may be released as early as this week. With its title created by combining “cyber” and “athlon,” Cybathlon is a game that involves a character co
IndustryDec. 11, 2015
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Mobile transactions brisk at online malls
Online payments using mobile devices have continued to rise in South Korea this year thanks to the widespread use of smartphones and easier transaction options tailored for tech-savvy consumers, industry data showed Friday.11th Street and GMarket, the nation's two leading open market operators, received about half of their online payments via mobile last month, the companies said, without elaborating on the total amount.The average mobile transaction ratio for 11th Street added 13 percentage poi
TechnologyDec. 11, 2015
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Hyundai Motor's PHEV engine picked as one of world's top 10
An eco-friendly power train of Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's leading automaker, has been selected as one of the global top 10 engines by a major U.S. automotive magazine, the company said Friday.WardsAuto included the power train used in Hyundai Motor's Sonata plug-in hybrid vehicle in its world's top 10 engine list, according to the automaker.This marked the second straight year that Hyundai Motor's eco-friendly power train has made the list. In 2015, the power train used in the Tucson fuel-
MobilityDec. 11, 2015
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Koreas open high-level talks aimed at improving ties
South and North Korea kicked off high-level talks Friday on ways to mend frayed ties following heightened cross-border military tensions in August, government officials said.The vice-ministerial talks began at around 10:40 a.m. at a joint industrial complex in the North's border city of Kaesong as part of efforts to implement an inter-Korean deal in August on defusing tension.The agenda for the talks has not been revealed publicly, but the rival Koreas are likely to discuss various pending issue
North KoreaDec. 11, 2015
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Unification by absorption would spell catastrophe: head of presidential panel
South Korea is seeking unification with North Korea by none other than peaceful means, the head of a presidential panel on unification said Thursday, stressing that unification by absorption could spell catastrophe.Chung Chong-wook, vice chairman of Seoul's Presidential Committee for Unification Preparation, made the point during a Heritage Foundation discussion in Washington, emphasizing that there is "no other rational alternative" to peaceful unification."Unification by absorption will create
North KoreaDec. 11, 2015
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Korea's import, export prices drop at faster rate in Nov.
South Korea's export prices continued to slip at a fast rate in November largely due to a sharp cut in raw material prices, the central bank said Friday.Export prices, in local currency terms, dropped 8.6 percent on-year last month, quickening from a 6.2 percent cut in the previous month, according to preliminary data from the Bank of Korea."Export prices in November dropped 1 percent from the previous month due to a cut in prices of home appliances, coal and petroleum products," the central ban
Dec. 11, 2015
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U.N. Security Council holds discussions on North Korea's human
The U.N. Security Council held a meeting on North Korea's human rights situation on Thursday, the second time the issue has been discussed at the top global security body after the first such meeting last year.The meeting took place after a proposal for the meeting was passed in a 9-4 vote with two abstentions.Last year, the Security Council held its first-ever meeting on the North's human rights issue after the adoption of a landmark U.N. General Assembly resolution calling for referring the co
North KoreaDec. 11, 2015
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White House doubts North Korea's H-bomb development claims
The White House said Thursday it doubts North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's claims that the communist nation has developed hydrogen bombs."We certainly are concerned about the policies and intent and destabilizing actions of the North Korean regime. At this point, you know, the information that we have access to calls into serious question those claims," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said at a regular briefing of the North's H-bomb claims."But we take very seriously the risks and the threat t
North KoreaDec. 11, 2015
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U.S. urges Pyongyang to give up all nuclear weapons, programs after leader Kim's H-bomb claims
The United States urged North Korea on Thursday to completely give up all of its nuclear weapons and programs after leader Kim Jong-un claimed the communist nation developed hydrogen bombs considered more powerful than conventional atomic weapons.During a visit to a historic site for the North's arms industry, Kim said the country has a "powerful nuclear weapons state ready to detonate a self-reliant A-bomb and H-bomb to reliably defend its sovereignty and the dignity of the nation."It was belie
North KoreaDec. 11, 2015