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AI textbook bubble could burst, expert warns
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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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North Korean trash balloons cross border day after Seoul military parade
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Ex-presidential official’s leaked phone call rattles conservative bloc
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Prosecution closes 'Dior bag' case amid opposition uproar
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Man escapes DUI charges by downing bottle of soju while pulled over
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Pay debate plagues foreign nanny pilot
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K-pop star lip-syncing controversy flares up again
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Court confirms sentence for rapper who attempted to evade national service
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[Herald Review] ‘The Advocate’ is worth your patience
The early segments of “The Advocate: A Missing Body” are spent introducing all the typical characters needed to put together a typical criminal law drama. Lee Sun-kyun (acclaimed for “A Hard Day”) plays Byeon Ho-seong, an unscrupulous top lawyer with an incredible 100 percent win rate. Kim Go-eun (most recently in “Memories of the Sword”) is a spunky cub prosecutor named Jin Seon-min who believes justice will always prevail. Jang Hyun-sung becomes the untouchable giant Moon Ji-hoon leading a pha
FilmOct. 11, 2015
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S. Korea cautious over modified N.K. ballistic missile
South Korea's military said Sunday it is too early to judge whether North Korea's modified intercontinental ballistic missiles could carry a nuclear warhead.On Saturday, North Korea displayed KN-08 ICBMs with round warheads in a massive military parade marking the 70th founding anniversary of its ruling Workers' Party. Previous displays of the missiles showed them with pointed warheads.The KN-08 is known to have a range of some 12,000 kilometers, which make it capable of striking the U.S. mainla
North KoreaOct. 11, 2015
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Daelim Industrial wins deal to build water power plant in Indonesia
A consortium led by Daelim Industrial Co., South Korea's fourth-largest builder, has won a deal valued at 269.3 billion won ($231.9 million) to build a hydroelectric power plant in Indonesia, the company said Sunday.Daelim Industrial joined hands with Italian construction firm Astaldi SpA. and Indonesian state-run Wika to clinch the Upper Cisokan Pumped Storage Power Project in West Java, funded by the World Bank. The South Korean firm holds a 1,077 billion-won stake in the project, according to
IndustryOct. 11, 2015
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SK Innovation moving to boost presence in Indonesia
SK Innovation Co., South Korea's top refiner, said Sunday it is ramping up efforts to tap into the Indonesian market in a bid to diversify its export markets.SK Innovation said it has recently won a series of orders from PT Pertamina, Indonesia's state-owned oil and natural gas corporation, to provide petroleum products, beating global competitors.The winning of the contracts is part of SK Innovation's efforts to make inroads into Indonesia, which has emerged as a new export market for South Kor
IndustryOct. 11, 2015
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8 Hyundai, Kia models top China's customer survey
Eight models of South Korean carmakers Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp. have won top marks in a Chinese customer satisfaction survey, the companies said Sunday.Hyundai's Tucson ix, ix25, Santa Fe, Mingtu and Langdong, and Kia's K2, K3 and KX3 scored the highest in their respective categories in the 2015 China Automobile Customer Satisfaction Index .Hyundai retained first place for the second year in a row in car maintenance satisfaction.The CACSI is published by the China Quality Associati
IndustryOct. 11, 2015
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S. Korea to chair multilateral aid assessment body
South Korea has been chosen as the next chair of an international body tasked with assessing development aid by multilateral organizations, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday.South Korea will succeed the United States as chair of the Multilateral Organization Performance Assessment Network, a 17-member body established in 2002 to assess the effectiveness and accountability of multilateral organizations offering development and humanitarian assistance, the ministry said in a press release.As the ch
InternationalOct. 11, 2015
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Park to visit U.S. for summit with Obama
President Park Geun-hye will visit the United States this week for summit talks with her American counterpart, Barack Obama, a senior presidential official said Sunday.Park will depart for Washington on Tuesday for a four-day trip, which will include a summit with Obama on Friday, senior presidential secretary for foreign affairs Ju Chul-ki said during a press briefing.It will be Park's second official visit to the U.S. and her fourth summit with Obama since she took office in February 2013."The
InternationalOct. 11, 2015
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S. Korea to hold RCEP talks in Busan
South Korea will hold a fresh round of talks on a multinational free trade agreement covering Asia and Oceania this week, following the recently concluded Trans-Pacific Partnership led by the United States, the trade ministry said Sunday.The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said the upcoming negotiations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the 10th of its kind, will be held in Busan, a southern port city, from Oct. 12-16.The RCEP negotiations involve 16 countries of South K
Oct. 11, 2015
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October, a month of fashion in Seoul
Upcoming fashion events are set to turn the capital city of Seoul into a style destination. Celebrities and models will present creations of talented Korean designers during Seoul Fashion Week as fashionistas and photographers take to the streets of Seoul to keep the festive mood. Buyers from leading stores around the world will be on a hunt to discover young emerging talents in Korea. Models present creations of a fashion designer during a previous Seoul Fashion Week. (SFW)Seoul Fashion Week, o
Arts & DesignOct. 11, 2015
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Daewoo Shipbuilding estimated to have additional 1 tln-won loss: sources
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., South Korea's No. 2 shipbuilder, is estimated to hold an additional 1 trillion won ($861 million) in losses from overseas units that have not yet been reflected in its balance sheet, industry sources said Sunday.In the second quarter, the shipyard posted a record 2.39 trillion won in net deficit, a sharp turnaround from a 76 billion-won profit during the same period a year earlier, as it added the increased costs from a delay in the construction of l
IndustryOct. 11, 2015
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S. Korea's home sales dip 0.6 % on-year in Sept.
South Korea's home transactions dipped in September from a year earlier mainly due to the Chuseok holiday that reduced the number of working days available to make purchases, the government said Sunday.In September, the number of housing purchase transactions reached 86,152, a 0.6 percent dip from a year earlier, and down 8.5 percent compared to August, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said. Transaction data is one of the key indicators of economic activity, with more purchases
Oct. 11, 2015
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Q4 outlook bright for building, IT sectors: biz body
The outlook for South Korea's construction, information technology and electronics industries is bright for the fourth quarter on real estate deregulation and the strong performance of chipmakers, a leading business body said Sunday.In its latest industry outlook, the Korea Chamber of Commerce & Industry said the construction industry will likely have "not bad" business conditions in the current quarter thanks to the government's property deregulation and brisk government investment.In August, t
Oct. 11, 2015
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UNESCO panel publishes Japan's admission of forced labor on website
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has published on its website the minutes of a meeting in July where Japan admitted its use of forced Korean labor in the 1940s.The minutes, published on pages 220-224 of a summary of the annual meeting in Bonn, Germany, record the listing of 23 early Japanese industrial facilities, including shipyards and coal mines, on the UNESCO World Heritage list.Some of the facilities were sites of forced Korean labor in the 1940s, when the Korean Peninsula was under Japa
InternationalOct. 11, 2015
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S. Korean economy to grow 2.8 % in 2016: think tank
The South Korean economy is expected to expand 2.8 percent in 2016 from this year, fueled by the gradual recovery in both domestic demand and exports, a leading private economic think tank said Sunday.In its 2016 economic outlook, the Hyundai Research Institute predicted Asia's fourth-largest economy to grow 2.7 percent in the first half of next year and 2.8 percent in the second half.HRI's full-year projection is 0.3 percentage point higher than its growth estimate of 2.5 percent for this year.
Oct. 11, 2015
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Korea, ASEAN launch forest week
The ASEAN-ROK Forest Cooperation will launch the AFoCo Forest Week 2015 on Monday to celebrate its third anniversary, officials said Sunday.The event, whose theme is “mobilizing forest and people together for greener Asia,” is to be held at the MVL Hotel in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, from Oct. 12-16.Participants will discuss issues on reforestation, rehabilitation through landscape restoration and enhancing local livelihood through an eco-friendly, participatory means.Nearly 200 participants rep
Oct. 11, 2015
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Foreign tourists to S. Korea forecast to near 20 mln in 2019
The number of foreign tourists to South Korea is expected to flirt with 20 million in 2019 on the strength of a sharp rise in Chinese visitors, the state tourism agency said Sunday.Despite an expected drop this year due to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outbreak, the number is project to surge 14.6 percent on-year in 2016 and grow at an annual average rate of over 7 percent for the next three years to reach 19.35 million in 2019, according to the Korea Tourism Organization.During the cited
Social AffairsOct. 11, 2015
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Outstanding value of state bonds to top 600 tln won next year
The outstanding amount of South Korea's state bonds is expected to exceed the 600 trillion-won ($517 billion) mark for the first time in 2016, a government report showed Sunday.According to the report by the finance ministry, the amount of government debt outstanding is projected to reach 606.4 trillion won next year, up 50.2 trillion won from this year's estimate.The outstanding value of government debt is likely to rise to 655.9 trillion won in 2017 and 697.4 trillion won in 2018 before breaki
Oct. 11, 2015
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Suicide bombings kill 95 people at Ankara peace rally
Nearly simultaneous explosions targeted a Turkish peace rally Saturday in Ankara, killing at least 95 people and wounding hundreds in Turkey’s deadliest attack in years _ one that threatens to inflame the nation’s ethnic tensions. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said there were “strong signs” that the two explosions _ which struck 50 meters (yards) apart just after 10 a.m. _ were suicide bombings. He suggested that Kurdish rebels or Islamic State
InternationalOct. 11, 2015
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Younger generations in Japan should learn about history
Younger generations in Japan should learn about the country's wartime history even if they don't feel personally connected to it, the head of a Japanese-funded think tank in Washington said Saturday."The Japanese do have a point that it's been three and a half generations since those things happened. Young people don't feel personally connected to it," said Dennis Blair, chairman of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, in an interview with Yonhap News Agency, in response to a question about the "c
InternationalOct. 11, 2015
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N. Korea stages huge military parade on party anniversary
North Korea staged what's believed to be the largest-ever military parade on Saturday to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party, state media showed, in a move to show off its military might.The North has hyped up the festive mood and promoted the accomplishments of its leader Kim Jong-un ahead of the anniversary.But it forewent provocative acts such as a long-range rocket launch, which the North has threatened to do so in recent weeks.Empty military vehicles
North KoreaOct. 10, 2015