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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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AI textbook bubble could burst, expert warns
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[KH Explains] Korea pursues ‘fire-free’ batteries amid EV fears
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[Herald Review] One of Netflix's most expensive Korean originals returns, but at what cost?
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Food tycoon Paik Jong-won's Theborn Korea pushes toward IPO
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Samsung tightens its belt amid crisis winds
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Man calls 119, found dead 1 week later because officials went to wrong place
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Department stores evolve into food craze epicenters
On Saturday morning office worker Kim Hye-sun rushed to Hyundai Department Store in Pangyo, Gyeonggi Province, to buy red velvet cupcakes and banana pudding from the recently opened Magnolia Bakery located in a food court inside the premises. People line up at Magnolia Bakery at Hyundai Department Store in Pangyo, Gyeonggi Province. (Hyundai Department Store)Waiting half an hour in a long line at the New York-based dessert shop known for its cameo on U.S. TV show “Sex and the City” didn’t bother
IndustryNov. 19, 2015
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Samsung holds memorial service for late founder
The owner family of the nation’s largest conglomerate Samsung Group held the 28th memorial service for its late founder Lee Byung-chull on Thursday. Samsung Electronics vice chairman and heir apparent Lee Jae-yong presided over the event on behalf of his ailing father, chairman Lee Kun-hee, who has been hospitalized since suffering a heart attack in May last year. His mother Hong Ra-hee and two sisters Lee Boo-jin and Lee Seo-hyun attended the event that was held at a family burial ground in Yon
TechnologyNov. 19, 2015
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Seoul mayor’s welfare plan sparks political spat
Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon’s plan to provide cash benefits to unemployed young people has prompted political debate as the government slammed it as an unrealistic attempt to seek political gains. While Finance Minister Choi Kyung-hwan on Thursday rebuked the move as “welfare populism” and pledged to block the policy, Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon vowed to push ahead with the scheme under the support of main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy leader Rep. Moon Jae-in. “Some local governme
PoliticsNov. 19, 2015
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International marriages fall to 12-year low
The number of international marriages of a Korean and foreign spouse is on a steady decrease, along with falling divorce and childbirth rates among multicultural families, the state-run statistics agency said Thursday. According to a multicultural family report compiled by Statistics Korea, the number of international marriages stood at 24,387 in 2014, the lowest since 2003. It fell 9.5 percent from a year earlier, showing a steady annual decline since 2008. The steady decline has been attribut
Nov. 19, 2015
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Woori Bank launches first smartwatch wiring service
(Woori Bank)Woori Bank said Thursday it has launched the country’s first smartwatch money transfer service for Android-based smartwatches. Dubbed the “Woori Watch-banking Simple Money Transfer Service,” the smartwatch banking service runs on the “WiBee Mobile Pay” program, developed independently by the South Korean lender in May. The service does not require a digital authorized certificate or security code card, as smartphone banking services do. By simply typing in their pin number, bank cu
BusinessNov. 19, 2015
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Abe demanded Seoul remove comfort woman statue: report
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has demanded the removal of a statue of a teenage Korean girl, a symbol of Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery, as a condition for settling the issue involving the victims, according to a news report Thursday. President Park Geun-hye (right, back row) talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left, back row) as they stand for a photo session at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Manila, the Philippines, Thursday. (Yonhap)Citing a
Foreign AffairsNov. 19, 2015
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'China, U.S. holding back to conserve strength'
This is the sixth installment in a series of interviews with scholars and experts on China as a resurgent Asian power that is changing the regional order. This installment looks into the intensifying Sino-U.S. rivalry and China’s revisionism. -- Ed.China and the U.S. have been restraining themselves to conserve their strength, as they are caught in a long-term geopolitical rivalry, French China expert Francois Godement said, noting the limitation of conflict is the “main zone of bilateral cooper
Foreign AffairsNov. 19, 2015
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[Editorial] Dealing with depression
By all indicators, Korea is not a happy society. Korea had the highest suicide rate among member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development last year. At 29.1 persons per 100,000, Korea’s suicide rate was more than twice the OECD average of 11.9 persons per 100,000. A local survey of 1,000 Koreans aged 20-59 showed 36 percent of the respondents saying they were unhappy. A third of the respondents reported experiencing emotional stress and 56 percent said they suspected
EditorialNov. 19, 2015
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[Editorial] Korea no longer safe
The news that police are questioning an Indonesian national in Korea about his ties with a terrorist group linked to al-Qaida brought home the message that the country may not be completely safe from terrorist attacks. According to the National Police Agency, the 32-year-old man arrested at his house in South Chungcheong Province on charges of violating immigration laws and forging documents, is suspected of supporting the Nusra Front, a Syrian branch of al-Qaida. The police found a model M16 ri
EditorialNov. 19, 2015
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[Kim Hoo-ran] Soul searching after Paris attacks
On an April afternoon this year, I found myself seated next to a couple from the Middle East — the wife in hijab and the husband sporting a heavy beard — in a cafe in Venice, touted as the oldest cafe in the world. As expected in any oldest-of-its-kind establishment, the place was brimming with tourists from around the world. Soon, a couple from Australia, judging by their accent, took the last empty table and the elderly man struck up a conversation with the man from the Middle East. “Don’t yo
ViewpointsNov. 19, 2015
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[Newsmaker] Hyundai to commemorate 100th anniversary of founder
Hyundai Motor Group and other Hyundai family companies kicked off a weeklong commemoration of the 100th birth anniversary of its founder Chung Ju-yung at the Seoul Arts Center on Wednesday night, with a performance of the world-famous orchestra Staatskapelle Dresden on Beethoven’s second and third symphonies, better known in Korea as “Hero Symphonies.” The family members of the Hyundai empire, who attended the first memorial event, included Hyundai Heavy Industries owner Chung Mong-joon, the six
IndustryNov. 19, 2015
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Asia Culture Center aims for hub for artistic talents
Gwangju is seeking to become a cultural hub of Asia as the Asia Culture Center, a mega cultural complex equipped with artistic production facilities, theaters and cultural and educational programs, officially opens Wednesday. In addition to two existing international cultural events -- the Gwangju Biennale and Gwangju Design Biennale -- the center is the latest addition to the city to expand its cultural infrastructure and presence in Asia. View of the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju (Yonhap)“Th
CultureNov. 19, 2015
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[Noor Huda Ismali] A wake-up call from Paris terror
Following the attacks on Paris last Friday, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the well-coordinated shootings and bombings outside the group’s territory in Iraq and Syria. The attacks that killed at least 129 people and injured hundreds of others took place in venues symbolizing cosmopolitan, urban and cultural life of Paris; a sport stadium, concert hall and restaurants. Places that most of us can easily relate to. This cold-blooded attack resembles, for instance, the 2008 Mumbai Ho
ViewpointsNov. 19, 2015
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[Herald Review] 'Inside Men' sees darkness everywhere
“Inside Men” is a scathing, absorbing work about the dirty tricks that manipulate public opinion and power in Korean society.That might seem like nothing new. This year, the Korean box office has seen its fair share of movies discussing the corruption and collusion rampant in Korean society. But “Inside Men” is different because there is no good guy to root for. There is no justice-seeking lawyer as in “The Unfair” or righteous cop like in “Veteran.” Politician, prosecutor, columnist and mobster
FilmNov. 19, 2015
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Police seize profits earned by prostitution
Police have taken measures to hold some 3 billion won ($2.5 million) in assets from brothels in an effort to more effectively fight prostitution, the authorities said Thursday.The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said they have frozen the accounts containing money illegally earned by 22 brothels from March 2010 to September this year. The money will be confiscated if the suspects are convicted.Among the total, 1.8 billion won came from 60-year-old Lee who owns a bar in Seocho district, southern
Social AffairsNov. 19, 2015
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Johnson & Johnson accepts W1.86b fine for fair trade violations
The Korean subsidiary of U.S.-based health care giant Johnson & Johnson will pay fines of 1.86 billion won ($1.6 million) for violating local fair trade regulations in selling its popular Acuvue soft contact lenses in the domestic market, company officials said Thursday. The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of the Fair Trade Commission, concluding a dispute that began when J&J Korea filed a lawsuit to nullify the antitrust watchdog’s claims that it took part in unfair business practices a
IndustryNov. 19, 2015
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Snack-makers seek to regain consumer trust
Last year, a group of South Korean college students got the media spotlight for completing a 1.3-kilometer journey across the Hangang River on a self-built raft, attracting more than 200 spectators. What was so special about this raft? It was built by tying together 160 unopened bags of potato chips, to protest against snack-makers that made consumers feel as if they “bought nitrogen gas packets that came with a couple of free snacks,” as one of the paddlers put it at the time.A group of Korean
IndustryNov. 19, 2015
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CGV seeks 10,000 screens by 2020
CJ CGV, Korea‘s largest cinema chain, is targeting 10,000 screens and 700 million moviegoers worldwide by the year 2020, its chief executive said Wednesday. Speaking to press at the chain’s Cheongdam branch in southern Seoul on Wednesday, CEO Seo Jung said that his company will be focusing on overseas expansion through active mergers and acquisitions, rather than the saturated domestic market. In Korea, the cinema unit of local conglomerate CJ has 128 theaters and 971 screens, controlling nearl
FilmNov. 19, 2015
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Kumho Tire launches giveaway event with winter tire purchase
Kumho Tire has launched its regular seasonal giveaway event for those purchasing winter tires until Dec. 15, company officials said.Customers who purchase the WinterCRAFT KW27 and other winter tires at Kumho Tire dealerships across the country will receive a moisturizing body lotion set. Kumho Tire's promotional poster for winter tires. Kumho TireAdditionally, Kumho Tire dealerships in Seoul, Incheon and parts of Gyeonggi Province are also offering a service where they store customers’ old tires
MobilityNov. 19, 2015