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[Exclusive] Democratic Party of Korea forms US election task force
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Seoul seeks to improve foreign nanny program after two abscond
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[Grace Kao] NewJeans fights Hybe for their survival
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Samsung, top banks to create W2tr green growth fund for SMEs
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Malnutrition cases nearly triple in last 5 years
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KFA Chair denies unfair hiring of national coach
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An increasing number of K-pop idols are breaking free from big agencies. Why?
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NewJeans has few options after Ador rejects group's request to reinstate Min Hee-jin as CEO
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Couple welcoming quintuplets to receive over W170m in childbirth grants
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Korean automakers pressured to diversify supply chains as US bans Chinese tech
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Brexit's impact on Korea's ICT industry to be marginal: ministry
Korea's ICT industry is expected to suffer a limited impact from Britain's departure from the European Union in the short term, given its relatively smaller portion against its overall shipment, a senior government official said Monday.Choi Jae-you, vice minister of science, ICT and future planning, pointed out that Britain accounts for merely 0.7 percent of South Korea's ICT-related exports. ICT is an acronym for information and communication technology. (Yonhap)The volume of South Korea's dire
June 27, 2016
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BOK chief to hold emergency meeting on Brexit
The head of Korea's central bank will preside over an emergency meeting later in the day with the bank's senior staff to discuss ways of dealing with any fallout from Britain's unexpected decision to leave the European Union, it said Monday.Bank of Korea Gov. Lee Ju-yeol returned home earlier in the day, cutting short his trip to Basel, Switzerland, for the emergency meeting over the Brexit crisis. (Yonhap)The BOK's meeting, starting at 2:30 p.m., follows an earlier meeting hosted by the Financi
June 27, 2016
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Samsung Heavy Industries seeks capital increase of W1tr
[THE INVESTOR] Samsung Heavy Industries is seeking to gain approval to issue new shares worth some 1 trillion won (US$842 million) at a board meeting scheduled for June 27.In the meeting, the cash-strapped shipbuilder will propose modifying the articles of association, to prepare for the paid-in capital increase. On June 8, the company said a specific timeline for the capital increase, and the amount, will be confirmed following corporate consulting and its current fund availability.By Park Han-
IndustryJune 27, 2016
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USFDA grants Kyongbo Pharm facility approval
[THE INVESTOR] Korean pharmaceutical giant Chong Kun Dang’s raw materials manufacturer Kyongbo Pharmaceutical has got approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for its sterile GMP facility, its chief executive said June 27. CEO Kang Tae-won said the approval was granted to Kyongbo after the company applied for USFDA’s facility clearance evaluation for ceftriaxone, a core ingredient in producing antibiotics for pneumonia and bronchitis, last February. The raw material has already entered
IndustryJune 27, 2016
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Korean city to host Asian universities summit in 2017
A British institution on higher education has selected the Korean city of Ulsan to play host to a summit of Asian universities in March next year, the city government said Monday.The Ulsan regional government in Korea's southeastern area said THE Asia Universities Summit to be organized by Times Higher Education will take place from March 14-16 at the University of Ulsan.The conference will bring together heads of leading universities worldwide, as well as Asian universities, government official
Social AffairsJune 27, 2016
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New history organization to fuel debate on ancient territories
Historians critical of scholars’ colonial views formed a new organization on Sunday to push their claims on ancient territories, a move expected to pour further fuel on a debate with their academic opponents.The Council for Correct History for Future was launched with the Hangaram History and Culture Research Center, among other private organizations, as founding members. An official with the council said 115 organizations have signed up, with more to soon follow suit.These historians have been
CultureJune 27, 2016
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Aid supply to N.K. should be 'quid pro quo' for human rights improvement: professor
The international community needs to consider extending aid to North Korea as a "quid pro quo" to get the communist country to improve its human rights, a Dutch professor specializing in Korean history said Monday.Remko Breuker, professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands, told a forum on North Korea's human rights that there is a need to connect development aid to the issue of North Korea's human rights."If you want to do business with North Korea, it needs to be quid pro quo in terms of
North KoreaJune 27, 2016