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AI textbook bubble could burst, expert warns
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Samsung tightens its belt amid crisis winds
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Food tycoon Paik Jong-won's Theborn Korea pushes toward IPO
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North Korean trash balloons cross border day after Seoul military parade
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Prosecution closes 'Dior bag' case amid opposition uproar
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Court confirms sentence for rapper who attempted to evade national service
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N. Korea may revoke 1991 Inter-Korean Basic Agreement in parliament: Seoul
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[Kim Seong-kon] Understanding uniquely American things
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Ministry confirms irregularities in national soccer coach hiring
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Yoon, Ishiba discuss cooperation on N. Korea in 1st phone talks
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Court battle begins in Lotte feud
The sons of Lotte Group founder Shin Kyuk-ho on Wednesday clashed in the first round of their legal battle over which of them will take over the 90 trillion won ($80 billion) business empire. Lotte Group general chairman Shin Kyuk-hoThe attorneys of SDJ Corp. chairman and Shin’s eldest son Dong-joo claimed that the Lotte chairman, his youngest son Dong-bin, inflicted more than 1 trillion won in losses from his business operations in China and tried to conceal it.But Dong-bin’s litigators struck
IndustryOct. 28, 2015
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LG launches air care brand PuriCare
LG Electronics on Wednesday launched new air care brand “PuriCare” in a renewed push to expand its air purifier and humidifier product lineup globally. The company added that it aimed to see 1 million unit sales in the $6 billion market within the next three years. “Korea, China and the Middle East may be the key markets for now. But we aim to launch the brand in some 30 countries in the near future,” said Cho Seong-jin, head of LG’s home appliance and air solution business division, in a press
TechnologyOct. 28, 2015
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Melbourne Cup lunch to support education fund
The Australia New Zealand Association, Korea will hold its annual Melbourne Cup Charity Luncheon on Tuesday in aid of education for a local children’s home.The event will include a four-course meal at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, alongside live coverage of Australia’s most famous horse race.“It’s called the race that stops the nation and literally most people in Australia do stop to watch this three- or four-minute horse race, so we’re a part of that,” said ANZA welfare coordinator Cathy McQ
Expat LivingOct. 28, 2015
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Abstract exhibition to kick off series of expat art shows
Expat artist Michael Corra will hold a solo exhibition in Seoul from Nov. 4, kicking off a series of shows by expat artists at the venue.The show, titled “At Angles With Each Other,” features abstract images that incorporate a variety of media, including wood, fabric and concrete. Corra works and reworks these materials to create awkward and thought-provoking arrangements in which they form interesting visual relationships with each other. “I Can’t Understand the Lyrics but I Love This Song” by
Expat LivingOct. 28, 2015
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Indians in Korea to celebrate Diwali festival with a ‘bang’
IndiansInKorea will hold an event next month to mark the Indian festival of Diwali.The Diwali Dhamaka will run at the Suwon campus of Sungkyunkwan University as part of IIK’s annual celebrations.Diwali, the festival of lights, is the biggest holiday in India, and it is celebrated by many of the country’s faiths. It falls on Nov. 11 this year. The “Wedding Fiesta” performance from last year’s IndiansInKorea Diwali celebrations. IIKThe Dhamaka from the event’s name translates literally as “bang,”
Expat LivingOct. 28, 2015
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Gwangju tour to explore roots of region’s Buddhism
Gwangju International Center will be running its GIC Culture Tour to Yeonggwang, South Jeolla Province, for an overnight temple stay this month.The first stop on the tour will be Beopsong-po, the arrival point of the Indian monk Marananta who travelled through China before bringing Buddhism to the Baekje Kingdom in A.D. 384. There is a shrine with a statue of the monk, a small museum and several examples of Indian architecture here to commemorate this. Lunch will feature the local specialty, gul
Expat LivingOct. 28, 2015
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Seoul Global Center offers expat start-up support
Seoul Global Center is opening another round of support for start-ups run by expats in the city.The center will again run its free Business Start-up School next month, and is accepting applications from foreign start-ups for incubation offices for the first half of next year.The Business Start-up School will run Nov. 16-27 at the center’s main building near Jongak Station. The course consists of evening classes covering 10 subjects useful to would-be entrepreneurs, including information on busin
Expat LivingOct. 28, 2015
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LG donates W10b to youth job fund
LG Group said Wednesday its executives will donate a combined 10 billion won ($8.8 million), including 7 billion won from chairman Koo Bon-moo’s personal fortune, to a government-initiated fund supporting young jobseekers. LG is the latest to join the youth employment fund following other big companies such as Samsung, Hyundai Motor and SK. “We want to support the fund that aims to help expand job opportunities for young people and strengthen their job safety,” the group said in a press release.
TechnologyOct. 28, 2015
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Sweeping partnerships key to post-2015 development era
With a new development agenda taking off over the next 15 years, traditional and emerging donors should join forces alongside the private sector, civil society and other non-state actors to beef up financial sources and leverage inclusive growth, leading international policymakers said Tuesday. The Korea Herald brought together four officials from around the world to explore ways to better implement the Sustainable Development Goals set forward early this year by 193 countries at the U.N. They a
Foreign AffairsOct. 28, 2015
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Unions to play soccer with North
GIMPO -- South Korea’s labor unions left for North Korea on Wednesday to participate in an inter-Korean friendly soccer match in Pyongyang, resuming after an eight-year hiatus to give a boost to cross-border exchanges in the private sector. A total of 162 workers from the nation’s biggest trade union umbrella groups – the Federation of Korean Trade Unions and the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions -- flew to the communist country for the four-day event that will run through Saturday. This is
PoliticsOct. 28, 2015
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Blue House denies link to ‘secret textbook team’
The presidential office on Wednesday denied allegations by the opposition that it had operated a secret task force for the state-published history textbooks, stressing that the team’s operation was “completely legal.” On Sunday, members of the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy alleged that the Education Ministry has been running a covert 21-member team -- reporting directly to Cheong Wa Dae -- to develop and promote history textbooks for secondary education. The NPAD members vi
PoliticsOct. 28, 2015
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Start-up sisters learn resilience from father’s sacrifice
SAN FRANCISCO ― Half a century after The Kim Sisters singing trio took the U.S. music scene by storm, three sisters from Korea are aiming to make their mark among San Francisco’s start-ups. From left: Dawoon, Arum and Soo Kang, cofounders of Coffee Meets Bagel. (Coffee Meets Bagel)The Kang sisters, who moved alone to the U.S. as teenagers, have been picking themselves up by their bootstraps their whole lives. And their experiences taught them the resilience and devotion that have helped them fos
TechnologyOct. 28, 2015
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Seoul tightens regulations on postnatal centers
South Korea’s health authorities on Wednesday announced a set of stricter safety measures to address sanitation and health concerns at the nation’s postnatal care centers. Worries about standards at the centers were raised after some 120 newborns were exposed to tuberculosis by a nurse at a Seoul-based facility about three months ago. Postpartum care centers in which newborns stay in a separate room with other babies, away from their mothers, and are looked after by nurses in shifts, are a popul
Social AffairsOct. 28, 2015
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‘Foodpolis best site for foreign firms eyeing Asia-Pacific’
The Korea National Food Cluster, or Foodpolis, is the strongest pick of headquarters for foreign food companies seeking to enter markets in Asian economies, the Korean Agriculture Ministry said Wednesday. In a press conference for foreign journalists, Lee Ju-myeung, director general of the food industry policy unit in the ministry, said that the world’s first state-supported food cluster offers a balanced incentive package that exceeds other food clusters in practicality. “We offer more than ju
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Seoul calls for peaceful resolution of disputed sea
Cheong Wa Dae on Wednesday urged for a peaceful resolution to escalating tensions between the U.S. and China over territorial disputes in the South China Sea.“South Korea has been strongly calling for restraint of any action that affects peace and stability in the region through various channels including global forums,” a senior official at the presidential office told reporters. “Disputes should be resolved in accordance with international norms.”The U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Lass
Foreign AffairsOct. 28, 2015
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‘Korea’s GDP vulnerable to stock crash’
A sharp drop in the composite stock price index could deal a harder blow to the Korean economy than other major countries, a report from a U.K.-based think tank said Wednesday.Oxford Economics compared 34 countries in its analysis of the impact of equity price shocks on the gross domestic product. The U.S. topped the list in terms of its vulnerability, and Korea was ranked second, followed by Singapore, Hong Kong and the U.K.The research report noted that the combined market capitalization of Ko
Oct. 28, 2015
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Samsung to roll out new mobile chip for Galaxy S7: report
Samsung Electronics will soon roll out its new mobile application processor, the Exynos 8890, which is likely to be mounted on the next flagship smartphone Galaxy S7, according to news reports.Samsung will mass produce its own mobile chip as late as December at its production lines in Giheung, Gyeonggi Province, according to a local news outlet. Samsung refused to comment on the production plans of the next-generation chip model. Samsung Electronics‘ Exynos 7 Octa featured in the Galaxy S6. (Yon
TechnologyOct. 28, 2015
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‘Ars Nova’ to feature Wu Wei on the sheng
Wu Wei, a renowned soloist of the traditional Chinese mouth-organ sheng, will hit the stage Friday night as part of Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra’s two-day “Ars Nova” contemporary music concert series. The 4,000-year-old woodwind folk instrument is a rare sight in today’s music scene, with an equally rare-sounding instrumental pitch to match. “The sounds of the sheng are very mysterious and the skills it takes to play this instrument are not something that can easily be explained,” said SPO compo
PerformanceOct. 28, 2015
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[Kim Ji-hyun] Depression hits overseas community
A few years ago, the news of a suicide in Tokyo made its rounds in the Korean community in Japan. The dead woman was the wife of a man who was dispatched by a Korean firm to Japan. Apparently, she suffered from depression even before she arrived in Tokyo. Her husband thought a change of scenery might help. He thought wrong. Cut off from her family, her friends -- basically her entire support structure -- the woman eventually succumbed to her inner demons. Her husband had tried, but it was not
ViewpointsOct. 28, 2015