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[Exclusive] Democratic Party of Korea forms US election task force
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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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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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An increasing number of K-pop idols are breaking free from big agencies. Why?
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KFA Chair denies unfair hiring of national coach
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Couple welcoming quintuplets to receive over W170m in childbirth grants
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College is expensive? In S. Korea, English preschools cost much more
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Hanjin family draws millions in dividends despite massive losses
[THE INVESTOR] The Cho family of Hanjin Group received about 1.1 billion won ($954,000) in dividends from Hanjin Kal although the company posted 205.2 billion won net loss in 2015.Hanjin Kal is the holdings company of Hanjin Group that counts Korean Air among its subsidiaries. The company posted a large deficit for 2015, but paying out total of 4.01 billion won in dividends was approved at the general shareholders meeting in March.Hanjin Group chairman Cho Yang-ho and his three children, includi
IndustryJune 22, 2016
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Son remembers his father who may have inspired 'Mockingbird'
“My Father & Atticus Finch” By Joseph Madison Beck W.W. Norton (218 pages, $25.95) “To Kill a Mockingbird” has inspired readers and critics for decades. But what inspired Harper Lee to write her novel? Joseph Madison Beck suggests he may have the answer. In this fast-moving memoir, Beck recounts how his father, a small-town lawyer, was thrown into the 1938 trial of a Northern black man accused of raping a local white woman in a southern Alabama town. His taking the case puts everything he loves
Life&CultureJune 22, 2016
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Book investigates why Koreans are the way they are
“K-Style: Living the Korean Way of Life” By Choi Jung-wha Designhouse (30,000 won, $26) Professor and interpreter Choi Jung-wha introduces Korean lifestyle to English-speaking audiences in her latest book. Divided into four chapters -- spring, summer, autumn and winter -- the book traces what it is to live a distinctly “Korean” life in modern times, following both significant events that take place each season and everyday joys like watching “meokbang,” or broadcasts of people eating food, on
Life&CultureJune 22, 2016
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[ANALYSIS] North Korea's missile launch raises concern
North Korea on Wednesday managed to fly its intermediate-range ballistic missile for 400 kilometers for the first time, sparking mixed assessments on its degree of success after its previous five launches went down in supposed failures.After its first Musudan missile launch at around 5:58 a.m. exploded in yet another failure, the communist state fired another missile about two hours later at 8:05 a.m.The second projectile’s flight, while well short of the 500 kilometer suspected minimum flight r
North KoreaJune 22, 2016
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ASEM culture ministers‘ meeting kicks off in Gwangju
High-level cultural officials from the Asia-Europe Meeting member countries gathered in the southwestern Korean city of Gwangju on Wednesday to share their experiences in cultivating creative industries.Some 200 delegates from 51 ASEM member countries, including eight culture ministers and 11 deputy ministers, will attend the 7th Asia-Europe Culture Ministers’ Meeting, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said.The event will take place at the Asia Culture Center, a state-run arts and conc
CultureJune 22, 2016
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'Frozen' coming to new books, Lego animated shorts
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Disney is letting “Frozen” go in new directions. The company says Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Kristoff and Sven from the blockbuster 2013 animated film will appear in both new books from Random House and an animated short film series from the Lego Group. The eight-book series “Frozen Northern Lights” will revolve around the characters attempting to restore the aurora borealis with a new troll protagonist named Little Rock. This image released by Disney Publishing shows the cover of
BooksJune 22, 2016
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Fox News host Bret Baier working on book about Eisenhower
NEW YORK (AP) -- Fox News host and chief political anchor Bret Baier is working on a book about the waning days of Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency and the beginning of John F. Kennedy’s administration. William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, told the Associated Press on Monday that Baier’s “Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower’s Final Mission” would come out in January, around the time the successor to President Barack Obama will be sworn in. Baier will focus on Eisenhower’s
BooksJune 22, 2016
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Anne Tyler tames Shakespeare's 'Shrew'
Last fall Hogarth Press published the first in a series of novels by contemporary writers reimagining Shakespeare's plays on the 400th anniversary of his death. So far we’ve had Jeanette Winterson’s “The Gap of Time: The Winter’s Tale Retold” and Howard Jacobson’s “Shylock is My Name,” an interpretation of “The Merchant of Venice.” Now Anne Tyler has written a charming and witty adaptation of “The Taming of the Shrew,” moving it to Baltimore, where many of her novels are set, and dialing down S
BooksJune 22, 2016
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Exports to increase in H2: report
[THE INVESTOR] Korea’s exports will show small improvement in the second half of the year, the Institute for International Trade projected in a report released on June 22. In the report, IIT projected that Korea’s exports will come in at US$260.5 billion in the second half of the year, up 0.9 percent from the same period last year. The IIT cited developed nations’ economic recovery, rising oil prices and improving demand from emerging economies for the projection. The IIT forecast that crude oil
June 22, 2016
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Park Yoo-chun's lawyer calls on police to reveal charges made by alleged rape victims
An attorney for Park Yoo-chun, the embattled member of boy band JYJ, called on the police Wednesday to make known the details of the charges raised against the singer-actor who has been accused or raping several women.The lawyer said the police should provide information made by the three alleged victims who claimed they were raped by Park.Getting information about the charges raised can better help an attorney to prepare for a case in which it is important to prove innocence.While the police us
PerformanceJune 22, 2016
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Philadelphia’s soda pop revolution
There’s no sense sugarcoating it: Philadelphia is one of the fattest big cities in the fattest country in the developed world. To its credit, it has been trying to shed the pounds -- back in 2001, its then-mayor enlisted the city’s basketball team in challenging residents to lose 76 tons in 76 days -- but very little has worked. That’s why Philadelphia’s decision to tax sugary drinks is so promising. About one-third of Americans adults are obese, and obesity is a primary cause of diabetes, heart
ViewpointsJune 22, 2016
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[Kim Myong-sik] Park’s positive role needed for constitutional amendment
Constitutional amendment can be proposed by a majority of National Assembly members or the president.” – Paragraph 1, Article 128 of the Constitution After 3 1/2 years in the Blue House, what can President Park Geun-hye present as her major achievements? Or, what would the people readily cite as the meritorious deeds of the president to date? These questions may be premature, as the president still has 18 more months to finish her five-year tenure. Important policies hardly bear fruit in just tw
ViewpointsJune 22, 2016
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Life insurers pressured to pay suicide benefits
Korea’s life insurers are torn over how to deal with a mistake in their insurance contracts regarding suicide coverage, which would amount to 246.5 billion won ($213.8 million) in additional payouts to policyholders. While five small and medium-sized players have surrendered under increasing pressure from financial authorities and the public to pay according to the contracts, eight are refusing to do so, arguing the statutes of limitation have already expired in most cases. In this photo taken o
June 22, 2016
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[Cho Sung-hun] Anti-communist guerrillas in the Korean War
The Korean guerrillas who operated along the east and west coasts under the U.N. Command during the Korean War had previously been anti-communists in the North Korean regime. With the intervention of the Chinese forces, to reclaim their homeland in North Korea, they evacuated to islands near Pyongan and Hwanghae provinces and continued their armed resistance with the support from the U.S. Army. The anti-communist guerrilla resistance in the Korean War began in the early stages of North Korea’s i
ViewpointsJune 22, 2016
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[Newsmaker] GM union plagued by corruption charges
General Motors Korea has been hit by another setback after the prosecution found some dubious cash flow in the automaker’s recruiting process. Investigators are looking into allegations that some executives and members of the labor union were bribed in exchange for hiring subcontract workers to full-time regular workers. The new revelation came amid ongoing investigations into other corruption charges involved with its suppliers. The Incheon Prosecutor’s Office said earlier this week that it is
MobilityJune 22, 2016