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Torrential rainfall forces 1,500 to evacuate, causes widespread damage to homes, roads
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[KH Explains] Can smart chargers ease tensions over EV fires?
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1 in 5 households to have breadwinner over 80 in 30 years
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Assembly to review disputed appointment of national soccer team coach
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New Fifty Fifty off to strong start
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Arrival of fall calls for more outdoor festivals
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Evicted guest burns down inn; 3 killed
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[Online Predators] Online reviews of sex tourism in Southeast Asia proliferate
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[Herald Interview] US election may unleash growth for Korea: Laffer
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Yoon's Prague visit sets stage for W24tr nuclear power plant deal
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Korea to hold culture ministers' talks with 7 S. Asian countries this week
The culture ministers of South Korea and seven South Asian countries will hold their second round of talks this week in the southwest city of Gwangju to agree on enhancing cultural cooperation among them, South Korean officials said Monday.During the one-day talks on Thursday, South Korean Culture Minister Kim Jong-deok and his counterparts from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are scheduled to adopt a joint communique on an action plan in relation to what
CultureAug. 29, 2016
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Corporate loans slightly increase in Q2
Loans extended by local lenders to businesses rose slightly at the end of June from three months earlier due to increased facility investments, central bank data showed Monday.Outstanding loans extended to local companies by financial institutions came to 970.7 trillion won ($863 billion) as of end-June, up 11.6 trillion won or 1.2 percent from the previous quarter, according to data from the Bank of Korea. (Yonhap)It marked decline from a 1.7-percent on-quarter gain in the previous quarter. Fro
Aug. 29, 2016
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2PM gears up for new album
K-pop boy band 2PM is currently preparing for a new release. The six-member act is scheduled to announce a new album next month, according to the group’s management agency JYP Entertainment on Monday. “The upcoming tracks will demonstrate a new side of 2PM,” JYP Entertainment told local media outlets. The currently untitled album will be the group’s first domestic release since its fifth studio album “No. 5,” unveiled last June. While gearing up for the upcoming album, the group’s members hav
PerformanceAug. 29, 2016
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Korea take on China to open final World Cup qualifying round
South Korea will start a year-long journey to the 2018 FIFA World Cup this week against China, with an eye on reaching the sport's premium competition for the ninth consecutive time.South Korea, ranked 48th in the latest FIFA world rankings, will host No. 78 China at Seoul World Cup Stadium on Thursday to open the final Asian qualifying round for the World Cup. South Korea will then face No. 105 Syria five days later on the road.In the previous round, South Korea won Group G with a flawless reco
SoccerAug. 29, 2016
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MC Mong returns with new album
Korean hip-hop artist MC Mong is returning to the scene with his first full-length album in two years. The 36-year-old will be releasing his seventh studio album, “U.F.O,” next week, but has no concrete plans to make broadcast appearances, according to his management agency DreamT Entertainment on Monday. “For the past two years, he has dedicated his heart and soul into perfecting the upcoming album,” DreamT Entertainment said in a statement. “It boasts (the) witty lyrics and charismatic melody
PerformanceAug. 29, 2016
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Quiet battle for the sound of silence in UK shops
LONDON (AFP) -- Nigel Rodgers is in hell. A campaigner against piped music for decades, he stands in a shoe shop on London’s Oxford Street which is blaring out loud pop music, wincing visibly.“It’s just as bad as passive smoking,” said the 63-year-old, sporting a blue blazer with a red handkerchief in the top pocket and eagerly eyeing the exit.“It really is enough to drive most people bonkers if they have got any sensitivity at all.”Rodgers has campaigned against the canned music which is common
PerformanceAug. 29, 2016
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In North Korea, a hard-boiled (and fictional) cop keeps watch
NEW YORK (AP) -- The hero, a police inspector, prowls a city known more for its political malevolence than its street crime. If you read the local newspapers, you could think it’s a city with almost no crime at all. There have been no murders reported there for years, no bank robberies, no muggings, no rapes. The city is Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, which has long hidden so many realities beneath layers of propaganda and isolation. The hero is Inspector O, a policeman who knows those rea
BooksAug. 29, 2016
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Pirelli’s starry calendar focused on acting talent, not skin
LONDON (AP) -- Pirelli has unveiled a star-studded lineup for its 2017 calendar that looks more like the ultimate Oscar red carpet than the stuff of salacious pinups.Among the subjects announced Sunday are actresses Nicole Kidman, Uma Thurman, Kate Winslet, Julianne Moore, Robin Wright, Rooney Mara, Lupita Nyong’o, Penelope Cruz, Jessica Chastain, Lea Seydoux, Zhang Ziyi and Charlotte Rampling. The youngest model, Alicia Vikander, is 27; the eldest, Helen Mirren, is 71.German photographer Peter
PeopleAug. 29, 2016
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Korea sees high chance of N. Korea's additional provocation
South Korea said Monday that there is an "ample" possibility of the North making additional provocations during ongoing joint military drills between Seoul and Washington.Seoul's unification ministry said North Korea is likely to take further provocative action following last week's test-firing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in response to the allies' two-week military exercise which kicked off on Aug. 22."It seems that North Korea is not just making (verbal) threats.There is a
North KoreaAug. 29, 2016
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Daewoo shipbuilding provided luxury tour to journalist: lawmaker
A lawmaker of South Korea's ruling Saenuri Party said Monday that Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., the country's troubled shipbuilder, allegedly paid for a luxury tour for the chief editor from one of the country's top national dailies, apparently to seek favorable news coverage.Rep. Kim Jin-tae said his investigation showed Song Hee-young, a chief editor of South Korea's top newspaper Chosun Ilbo, went on a tour in 2011 involving a private jet flight, a yacht cruise and hitting the
Social AffairsAug. 29, 2016
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Olympic golf champ Park In-bee to miss LPGA major with injury
The reigning Olympic women's golf champion Park In-bee said Monday she will sit out the final major of the LPGA Tour season with a nagging thumb injury.Park appeared at a press conference in Seoul with her left thumb in a cast, and said it will stay that way for three weeks -- which has ruled her out of the Sept. 15-18 Evian Championship in Evian-les-Bains, France.The 28-year-old had been bothered by back and thumb ailments all season. She was questionable for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics held ea
GolfAug. 29, 2016