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Who's lying? Hybe vs. Min conflict continues to intensify
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Seoul should engage Kim Jong-un’s elites for change, ex-North Korean diplomat says
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Most teen sex offenders get away with slap on wrist
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Ex-Trump official calls for S. Korea to raise defense spending to 3 or 3.5% of GDP
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Man sentenced to 1 year, 8 months for stealing from elementary school classrooms
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Same-sex couple denied insurance clearance despite landmark ruling
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Panmunjom tours for select Korean nationals may resume in October
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Young Poong says no better offer for Korea Zinc
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Korea's first global webtoon festival lights up Seongsu-dong
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FM champions multilateralism, stresses S. Korea's vision as 'global pivotal state'
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Lee Kwang-soo emoticons on Chinese messenger
Emoticons featuring Korean actor and entertainer Lee Kwang-soo were launched Tuesday on Chinese messenger app WeChat, said the actor’s agency King Kong Entertainment. Lee, best known for his appearance on SBS’s variety show “Running Man,” is often referred to as an “Asia Prince” due to his popularity across the region. Lee Kwang-soo emoticons on Chinese messenger app We Chat (King Kong Entertainment) The set consists of 24 animated emoticons of Lee with different expressions, representing his
TelevisionMay 4, 2016
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Samsung reaffirms no plan for OLED TV
Samsung Electronics president and TV chief Kim Hyun-seok on Tuesday reaffirmed that the company has no immediate plan to produce organic light-emitting diode TVs. But the tone and manner was stronger than ever. “I have always said it would take two to three years to consider OLED TV. But now when little progress has been made on its tricky production and high costs since our suspension back in 2013, I wouldn’t say OLED is our future direction,” he told reporters at the company’s headquarters in
TechnologyMay 4, 2016
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Seoul Open Art Fair to highlight young talents
The Seoul Open Art Fair returns to Coex in Samseong-dong for its 11th edition, running from May 10-14. A total of 90 Korean and overseas galleries will be participating in the country’s second-largest art fair, presenting some 5,000 pieces of art by 4,000 artists. In keeping with its reputation as an event to discover emerging artists, the art fair each year selects talented young artists through a contest. This year, 21 young artists working with diverse mediums will be introduced at the fair.
PerformanceMay 4, 2016
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Korea to build new Chinatown in capital region
South Korea will build a new Chinatown near Seoul that will serve as an international shopping and tourism hub, authorities said Wednesday.The Chinatown, expected to be over 2.3 million square meters in size, will be built in Pyeongtaek, some 70 kilometers southeast of Seoul, according to the Yellow Sea Free Economic Zone (YSFEZ) authority.The YSFEZ is one the country's several free economic zones (FEZs) located near the capital area. The project, proposed by a special purpose company (SPC) esta
Social AffairsMay 4, 2016
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[Photo News] Sony at Photo and Imagining 2016
Sony Korea will showcase its latest cameras and lenses at the Photo and Imaging 2016, the largest photography and imaging trade show in Asia, which kicked off Wednesday through Sunday at Coex in southern Seoul. (Sony Korea)
TechnologyMay 4, 2016
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Chinese auto parts maker to list in Korea
Chinese auto parts manufacturer Rothwell International is set to be listed on the Korean stock exchange next month. The company seeks to raise as much as 68.2 billion won ($59 million) through an initial public offering in Korea, according to a preliminary IPO prospectus.The firm, which will kick off a two-day bookbuilding session starting May 24, has set its price range at 2,400 won to 3,600 won per share for the upcoming IPO. It will give Rothwell a market capitalization of up to 280 billion w
May 4, 2016
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KAI renews CEO’s term
The nation’s sole aircraft-maker Korea Aerospace Industries said the company decided to renew the three-year term for CEO Ha Sung-yong.KAI said in a filing that the decision came at an extraordinary shareholders meeting at the company’s headquarters in Sacheon, South Gyeongsang Province, on Wednesday. KAI president Ha Sung-yong (Yonhap)Under Ha’s leadership, KAI last year clinched a deal with Indonesia -- 20 percent cost sharing for the Korean Fighter Experimental program. The KF-X project aims
IndustryMay 4, 2016
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Hyundai, Kia see mixed sales in U.S.
Kia Motors posted all-time high sales of 56,508 units in the U.S. in April, according to company officials Wednesday. The automaker attributed the record performance to a 78.9 percent on-year increase in sales of its sport utility vehicle Sportage, and a 35.6 percent sales jump of the Forte sedan. Kia Motors’ emblem (Yonhap)In the first four months this year, Kia Motors sold 202,829 units, up 4.3 percent over the same period last year.Unlike Kia’s strong performance, Hyundai Motor sold 62,213 un
MobilityMay 4, 2016
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Hyundai Merchant pressed to complete negotiations over charter rates
Creditors of ailing Hyundai Merchant Marine and the government have urged the country's No. 2 shipper to wrap up its negotiations with the owners of chartered ships to cut leasing rates by May 20, threatening to put it under court receivership if it fails to produce tangible outcomes, industry sources said Wednesday.Last month, the creditors gave the nod to the financially troubled Hyundai Merchant's self-rescue plans including asset sales on the condition that it should complete renegotiations
IndustryMay 4, 2016
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Corporate restructuring to have little impact on banks: bank association chief
The chief of the Korean banks' association said on Wednesday that the ongoing industrial restructuring will have little impact on local commercial banks, citing their minor exposure to financially troubled companies. In a press conference held in Germany on the sidelines of the 49th Asia Development Bank annual meeting which ends on May 5 (local time), Korea Federation of Banks (KFB) Chairman Ha Yung-ku said, "In the past, commercial banks carried a bigger exposure ratio of 60 percent to compani
May 4, 2016
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Top conglomerates' debt rises 2.5% in 2015
The debt held by Korea's leading conglomerates increased 2.5 percent in 2015 from a year earlier, with five of them logging debt ratios exceeding 200 percent, corporate data showed Wednesday. According to the data by market researcher CEO Score, 252 affiliates of the country's top 30 business groups held a combined 279.88 trillion won ($243.3 billion) in debt at the end of last year, up from 272.97 trillion won a year earlier. The figure did not include debt owed by financial companies. Over the
IndustryMay 4, 2016
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Beer companies compete to supply to Chinese tourist parties
Korea's beer companies are competing to supply their products to Chinese tourists whose latest trend is to come here in the thousands and enjoy food parties together. Hite Jinro supplied 4,000 cans of beer to the 4,500 Chinese employees of Chinese beauty group Aolan, who had come to Korea on a reward trip and gathered in Incheon, a port city west of Seoul, on March 28 for a party. It will again be the provider of beer when some 8,000 employees from Zhongmai Group, a Chinese health care company,
IndustryMay 4, 2016
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Don DeLillo’s new novel considers life after death
“Zero K” By Don DeLillo Scribner (288 pages, $26) Don DeLillo’s latest novel toggles between a remote compound in central Asia and the workaday world of New York City. In the bunker an apocalyptic cult is engaged in the cryogenic preservation of humans, whose brains and bodies are being frozen until the time when diseases have been cured and human consciousness perfected. Meanwhile, in Manhattan, an introspective young man named Jeffrey Lockhart, whose father, billionaire Ross Lockhart, is an
BooksMay 4, 2016
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Fiction by ex-prosecutor tackles campus rape head on
“The Last Good Girl” By Allison Leotta Touchstone (288 pages, $25) Former federal sex-crimes prosecutor Allison Leotta continues her series featuring her fictional counterpart Anna Curtis in a too frighteningly real scenario in “The Last Good Girl.” College student Emily Shapiro has gone missing. She was last seen leaving a bar with a young man named Dylan, but he was chasing her down the street. The investigation reveals a video diary that Emily kept that detailed how Dylan had raped her, and
BooksMay 4, 2016
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New Spenser novel is a 5-alarm thriller
“Robert B. Parker’s Slow Burn” By Ace Atkins G.P. Putnam’s Sons (320 pages, $270) A troubling series of fires in mostly abandoned Boston buildings turns deadly in “Robert B. Parker’s Slow Burn,” the latest crime thriller in the long-running but still potent Spenser series. Spenser, a private detective, is called upon when the arson unit of the fire department hits dead ends investigating a fire at an old, shut down Catholic church. Three firefighters entering the church died when flames erupted
BooksMay 4, 2016
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Judy Blume talks Tumblr, possible new book
NEW YORK (AP) -- Judy Blume has many projects on her mind. She recently helped open a bookstore in Key West, Florida, where she lives much of the year. She’s starting to promote the paperback edition of her novel “In the Unlikely Event,” set in her native New Jersey in the early 1950s. She has just launched a Tumblr account (judyblumeofficial.tumblr.com), on top of her popular Twitter feed and Facebook page. And, she hasn’t ruled out a new book, despite indicating last year that “In the Unlikely
BooksMay 4, 2016
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Korea seeks hope in new industries
Concerns are growing that the Korean economy may be drawn into a long-term downturn -- perhaps irreversible -- if it fails to make a swift shift to next generation industries that can prop up its future growth.In a recent survey of 800 adult Koreans, conducted by the Federation of Korean Industries, more than 84 percent of the respondents said the country’s economy was now facing a slump caused by the lack of new growth engines and other fundamental problems.The country’s 10 major export items,
IndustryMay 4, 2016
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Undeterred by rescues, novelist ready to set sail again
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- A novelist who was twice rescued from storm-battered sailboats hopes his next adventure lacks in such drama. South Carolina author Michael Hurley plans to sail around the world after using the experience of scuttling his sailboat on a failed trans-Atlantic crossing for his new book, “The Passage.” “The Passage” by Michael Hurley (Ragbagger Press) “I love the freedom of sailing on the ocean. There’s no limit. The horizon extends. There’s nothing to stop you from going w
BooksMay 4, 2016
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LINE expands mobile presence in Thailand
BANGKOK -- For the past year, Pattayawat Tuppiree and Chairode Srisermsin, a Thai couple who are emoji developers, have been creating animated stickers that can be used while chatting on mobile messenger LINE.Their mobile stickers including TuaGom, depicting an unruly, but lovely, girl, have been highly popular among young Thai LINE subscribers, allowing the couple to amass enough money to buy a house in Bangkok. Ariya Banomyong (left), the head of LINE Corp.’s Thai branch, introduces a delivery
TechnologyMay 4, 2016
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N. Korea likely to collapse within 10-15 years: Chinese commentator
The North Korean regime is likely to collapse within 10 to 15 years because of worsening economic difficulties following tightened U.N. sanctions, according to a Chinese political commentator on Wednesday.Deng Yuwen, who was a former deputy editor of the Study Times, a paper controlled by China's ruling Communist Party, made the claim in his recent article posted on a Chinese military-related website named "Tiexue." North Korea has been slapped with tougher U.N. sanctions following its fourth nu
North KoreaMay 4, 2016