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Seoul, Tokyo reboot joint maritime resource talks after 40-year freeze
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Host of Miss Korea apologizes for 'inappropriate question' about deepfake
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Korea to face another massive shortfall in tax revenue
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Who's lying? Hybe vs. Min conflict continues to intensify
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[Contribution] Turkmenistan celebrates the 33rd anniversary of its Independence
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[Photo news] Faker Mercedes
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SK hynix outpaces Samsung, Micron with more powerful AI chips
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Power of nostalgia brings K-pop legends back together
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North Korea unveiling uranium enrichment site a US election-conscious move: NIS
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Seoul should engage Kim Jong-un’s elites for change, ex-North Korean diplomat says
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[JEJU FORUM] Jeju Forum to seek new leadership for evolving challenges
The 11th Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity kicks off on Jejudo Island, gathering prominent political and business leaders, seasoned professionals, journalists and representatives of international organizations to seek a new cooperative leadership to tackle evolving regional and global challenges.Under the theme “Asia’s New Order and Cooperative Leadership,” the forum takes place from May 25-27 at the International Convention Center Jeju in Jungmun, Seogwipo City in southern Jeju.Bringing toget
Social AffairsMay 23, 2016
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[Graphic News] Domestic gas prices continue to rise
Gasoline prices in the nation are steadily rising in line with global oil prices that are showing signs of increase, data showed Sunday. The average price of gasoline was 1,393.79 won per liter on May 20, an increase of 2.05 won from the previous day, according to the Korea National Oil Corp.’s oil price information system Opinet. The average diesel price also increased by 3.34 won to 1,165.76 won per liter.Oil prices are expected to increase to $60 per barrel next year after hitting a low of $2
May 23, 2016
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[JEJU FORUM] Opening ceremony to feature Paul Potts, Insooni
The 11th Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity will kick off its journey with an opening ceremony at the International Convention Center Jeju on May 25 at 8 p.m. The main performances will include “Britain’s Got Talent” star Paul Potts and Korea’s own songstress Insooni.Titled “Peace Wave from Jeju,” the concert style performance will begin with a 20-minute recital by the Seogwipo chorus of Jejudo Island, who will also belt out Insooni’s “The Dream of a Goose.”Insooni, Paul Potts perfoming on stag
Social AffairsMay 23, 2016
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Fraudster use employment as bait
A 66-year-old woman who squeezed 16 million won ($13,500) from an acquaintance with the promise of employment for the victim’s nephew was given one year in prison suspended for two years on Monday. The Jeonju district court said the woman misused her daughter’s position as a university professor to promise employment at the university as part of the management staff. She is also accused of taking another 16 million won from a group of people with whom she was in a “gye.” A gye is a traditional
Social AffairsMay 23, 2016
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[JEJU FORUM] ‘Eco-friendly energy is an expanded concept of peace’
With Jejudo striving to become a carbon-free island by 2030, the province’s Gov. Won Hee-ryong said hosting of the 11th Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity could not be more fitting.“Eco-friendly energy is a new and expanded concept of peace as it can overcome resource competition amongst nations and the global crisis of climate change,” said Won, governor of Jeju Special Self-governing Province and chairman of Jeju Forum’s organizing committee.“We must go beyond the simple notion of peace again
Social AffairsMay 23, 2016
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[Editorial] Parliamentary hearings
Relations are cooling rapidly between the presidential office and opposition parties following the passage last week of a bill enabling parliamentary committees to open hearings more frequently.The bill allows a committee to hold hearings on any matter under its jurisdiction if a majority of its members agree to do so. Up until now, a committee has only been able to resolve to hold hearings on “important” matters.The revision effectively enables the two opposition parties -- The Minjoo Party of
EditorialMay 23, 2016
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[Editorial] Jeju peace forum
Jejudo Island is best known as a resort island with many sites of scenic beauty and cultural importance. It attracts more than 10 million tourists from home and abroad every year.Yet the island has another aspect that is less well known to the public. Since the early 1990s, it has hosted many historic summits between Korean presidents and foreign leaders that have contributed to promoting peace on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia.Located at the center of the three key players of the re
EditorialMay 23, 2016
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Korean women speak out on gender violence
About five years ago, Kim Ji-eun was caught smoking at home by her older brother. She was 20 at the time, enrolled in her first-year at a university, and it was just a day before her final exam. “He started beating me for smoking at home,” Kim told The Korea Herald. “He first slapped me in the face, and I fell on the floor. Then he started violently stomping on my stomach and my head.” The incident severely damaged Kim’s uterus, as her mother did not offer to pay for her required hospital treat
Social AffairsMay 23, 2016
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Corpse found in unconnected car
A woman was found dead in a car she had no connection to on Sunday afternoon, according to police in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province. The owner of the blue vehicle parked in the residential area of Gonghang-dong, Seoul, near Gimpo International Airport, was in for a surprise when police discovered a dead woman’s body splayed across the backseat of his car. (YTN YouTube capture)He reportedly did not know the deceased 56-year-old surnamed Lee, and said his car had been parked in the same spot for over
Social AffairsMay 23, 2016
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Politicians pay respect to late President Roh
Political representatives gathered Monday to commemorate the seventh anniversary of former President Roh Moo-hyun’s death. The ceremony came days after the leaders had gathered to commemorate the May 18 democratic uprising and amid simmering political rivalry among parties entering the next parliamentary term.It was The Minjoo Party of Korea, the home camp of the deceased liberal president, which took a leading role in the day’s event, while the ruling conservative Saenuri Party and the runner-u
PoliticsMay 23, 2016
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Ex-Oxy RB CEO summoned in disinfectant
The prosecution on Monday questioned former Oxy Reckitt Benckiser CEO John Lee on charges of accidental manslaughter and injury as part of the widening probe into the humidifier disinfectant scandal. Lee, a 48-year-old Korean-American who currently heads Google Korea, is suspected of not taking appropriate measures despite rising health complaints from users when he was leading the company from June 2005 to May 2010. Sales of Oxy Ssak Ssak reached a high during his term. Former CEO of Oxy Reckit
Social AffairsMay 23, 2016
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Pink elephant's 'Zootopia' protest aggravates Gangnam murder controversy
A ruckus broke out Sunday at the makeshift memorial for the victim of an unprovoked murder at Seoul’s Gangnam Station exit 10, when a 31-year-old man surnamed Kim, dressed in a pink elephant onesie and a full head mask, promoted a “safer Korea with men and women hand-in-hand.”(Online Community)The killing of a 23-year-old woman by a schizophrenic man on May 17, who said he committed the crime out of his hatred for women who had “ignored and belittled” him, has since exploded in to a widespread m
Social AffairsMay 23, 2016
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President’s former doctor named new SNUH director
Former presidential doctor Suh Chang-suk has been appointed the new director of Seoul National University Hospital, officials said Monday.Suh will replace current SNUH director Oh Byung-hee, who is stepping down later this month after three years. According to the SNUH board of directors, three professors were shortlisted for the post and went through interview and voting among board members in early April. Suh will start his tenure in June for three years. The 55-year-old is the youngest direct
Social AffairsMay 23, 2016
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Gangnam murder spurs calls for hate crime law
The government and lawmakers are stepping up moves to legislate preventive measures and stronger punishment against hate crimes, following the murder of a 23-year-old woman in Gangnam last week.Although the police reiterated that they view the case as a random crime committed by a mentally-ill person, politicians have come to the fore to identify it as a hate crime, calling for the need to stiffen penalties for crimes motivated by prejudice. The suspect had testified that he committed the murder
PoliticsMay 23, 2016
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[David Ignatius]Taking the fight to the Islamic State
BAGHDAD -- Amid hedgerows of computer screens in the joint operations center that runs the war against the Islamic State, Marine Brig. Gen. Bill Mullen explains the complex assault that drove the extremist fighters last week from the strategic town of Rutbah at the western edge of Anbar province. The battle showed how the campaign against the Islamic State, which has had a slow takeoff over the last 18 months, is supposed to work: In early May, a U.S. drone attack on a nearby highway killed Shak
ViewpointsMay 23, 2016
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[Aryeh Neier] Hiroshima With or Without Remorse?
The announcement that U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to Japan later this month will include a stop in Hiroshima is welcome news. Of course, Obama will not apologize for America’s 1945 nuclear attack, which annihilated the city and instantly killed about 90,000 people (with many more dying later from the effects of radiation). Nonetheless, the visit will inevitably spur reflection and debate about what happened there and why.The main argument in favor of dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima,
ViewpointsMay 23, 2016
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[Robert Park] Trump and the myth of U.S. magnanimity in Korea
U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s highly publicized charges that South Korea has not been paying its fair share within the U.S.-R.O.K. military alliance has caused a political firestorm in the South, with Koreans almost universally expressing offense or alarm at his inaccurate and denigrating assertions. In a 2013 statement about extracting further payments for the ongoing American military presence in South Korea, Trump stated: “They’re rich because of us. … They sell us every
ViewpointsMay 23, 2016
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[Eric Frazier] Wake me when this election is over
If I were still predigital enough to own a paper calendar, I’d circle Wednesday, Nov. 9, on it. Why? That’s the day after Election Day. The day when all the grown people of America who are losing their minds over politics can finally -- I hope -- begin to regain their sanity. The general election season has barely begun, but it seems like it’s already been going on for two years. Donald Trump’s relentless bloviating curdles forth on seemingly every news show. Hillary and Bill Clinton’s transgres
ViewpointsMay 23, 2016
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[Park Sang-seek] Korean Democracy at the Crossroads
In democratic countries the contest in politics mainly takes place between conservative and liberal forces. When the ideological spectrum in a democracy is divided into the conservative, moderate and liberal camps and power shifts from one camp to another smoothly, the country enjoys political stability. But if these three political forces either weaken or turn into extreme left or right forces, or become threatened by them, the country suffers from political turmoil.When the Republic of Korea w
ViewpointsMay 23, 2016
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Owner found for boar killed in Seongnam
A boar authorities killed to stop from rampaging through the residential area of Yeosu-dong, Seongnam in Gyeonggi Province on Sunday evening was found to have belonged to a woman in her 80s.The woman said she had been pasturing the hog in the nearby mountains. She demanded the police return the dead hog. (Yonhap)The hog weighed over 200 kilograms. Police had requested a hunter shoot it down after their anesthetic guns had no effect on the animal. No one was hurt in the process. Authorities are
Social AffairsMay 23, 2016