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Thousands rally in Seoul to call for Yoon's resignation
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Suicide attempts spike among youth in Korea
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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is killed in Beirut strike, Israel's military says
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FM champions multilateralism, stresses S. Korea's vision as 'global pivotal state'
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[Weekender] How Seongsu, once an industrial zone, has become ‘Seoul’s Brooklyn’
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Delta Air Lines to launch new Incheon-Salt Lake City route in June next year
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S. Korea to showcase Hyunmoo-5 ballistic missile on Armed Forces Day ceremony for 1st time
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Korea, China, Japan vow to address yellow dust and climate change
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4 in 10 illegal aliens entered S. Korea without visas last year: data
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Korean American documentary ‘Free Chol Soo Lee' wins Emmy
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Government to check non-tariff barriers against Korean goods
The Korean government will conduct a close inspection of non-tariff barriers in overseas markets that restrict sales of Korean-made goods as part of its efforts to prop up faltering exports, the trade ministry said Friday.The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy held a meeting in Seoul with local exporters and officials from the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) to listen to businesses' difficulties in dealing with non-tariff trade barriers when they go through customs and to see
March 25, 2016
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No thanks for the memories: Taiwan confiscates tourists‘ pebbles
TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan authorities are confiscating pebbles collected as mementos by tourists and returning the rocks to the island's picturesque beaches as they step up moves to preserve the scenic east coast. In the latest geological repatriation, a cache of stones taken from outbound visitors by airport immigration were last week sent back to Taitung county, where rugged seascapes attract tourists, particularly from mainland China. The haul of pebbles, collected over two months at Taipei’s m
TravelMarch 25, 2016
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Creation of quality jobs is No. 1 economic policy: BOK chief
The chief of Korea's central bank on Friday urged additional efforts to create quality jobs, calling it an ultimate goal of economic policies."The reason our society pays close attention to employment numbers is because job security is closely related to the welfareof all major economic players, such as companies, households and people," Bank of Korea (BOK) Gov. Lee Ju-yeol said in a monthly meeting with leading economists here."Also from a point of view that the ultimate goal of economic growth
March 25, 2016
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Ninja-seeking Japanese region inundated with overseas applications
TOKYO (AFP) - Hundreds of aspiring ninjas from abroad have overwhelmed tourism officials in Japan looking to hire six full-time secret assassins, massively outnumbering local applicants. Central Japan's Aichi prefecture is hiring a troupe of ninjas -- the martial-arts masters and stealth assassins of feudal times immortalized in history books and period dramas -- to promote tourism. In a job ad published earlier this month, the prefecture said candidates of any nationality were welcome. A week l
TravelMarch 25, 2016
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Accounting firms come under criticism for moral hazard
Accounting firms have come under criticism for their incompetence and moral hazard as they increasingly fail to spot fraudulent accounting in clients and trade stocks using information obtained during audits, government officials and industry people said Friday. Most recently, Deloitte Anjin LLC confessed its failure to uncover that Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering had cooked the books to make its snowballed losses in recent years look smaller, according to the Financial Supervisory Serv
IndustryMarch 25, 2016
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Reach Korea’s regional cities via bus
An exclusive bus tour program connecting the capital city of Seoul with six regional destinations was launched Friday, as part of governmental efforts to offer unique travel experiences to foreign visitors.Named K-Travel Bus, the program offers overnight travel to various regions in Korea via bus. The list of destinations includes Daegu, Gangwon Province, South Jeolla and North Gyeongsang Provinces as well as Busan and Ulsan in southeastern region. The program also carries tourists to Tongyeong,
TravelMarch 25, 2016
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[Box office] Latest movie releases
One Way Trip (Korea) Opened March 24 Drama. Directed by Choi Jeong-yeol Four friends who have just reached their 20s take off on a journey together. Carefree, they roam about the beach at Pohang in southeastern Korea when they come across a woman in danger. The four are then swept up in a crime case, testing their friendship and masking a cloud over their youthful days. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (U.S.) Opened March 24 Fantasy/Superhero. Directed by Zack Snyder Two years after Superman’
FilmMarch 25, 2016
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AmorePacific opens Sulwhasoo flagship store in Seoul
AmorePacific, South Korea’s top cosmetics maker, said Friday it will be opening the flagship store of its luxury brand Sulwhasoo next week.According to the company, it will be the nation’s largest flagship store for a single cosmetics brand, housed in a four-story building in the affluent Gangnam district. The grand opening is slated for March 30. The new facility will even offer spa and beauty-consulting services for VIP customers, AmorePacific said.Launched in 1997, Sulwhasoo is sold at 20 sto
IndustryMarch 25, 2016
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[Album review] ‘Post Pop Depression’ rocks and shocks
Iggy Pop “Post Pop Depression” (Loma Vista/Concord) Iggy Pop rocks and shocks on “Post Pop Depression,” evoking his 1977 peak achieved with David Bowie but enhanced by all he’s gone through since. In Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal, Pop has found a congenial songwriting partner and producer, the mature pupil who grasps both the power and subtlety of the master. QOTSA’s Dean Fertita and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders skillfully complete the band. There are re
PerformanceMarch 25, 2016
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[Album review] Gwen Stefani’s solo album is catchy, but basic
Gwen Stefani “This Is What the Truth Feels Like” (Interscope Records) Gwen Stefani’s new solo album is fun and catchy: the hooks are cute and likable, the beats will make your head bop and her voice is calm and cool. But after listening to it, you’re on to the next. “This Is What the Truth Feels Like,” Stefani’s first solo album in 10 years, isn’t memorable or distinctive. It’s not that the songs are bad -- because they aren’t. But they aren’t good either. The 12 tracks are an OK batch of pop t
PerformanceMarch 25, 2016
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[Album review] Patchwork of the dark and the catchy
Bob Mould “Patch the Sky” (Merge Records)Bob Mould says “Patch the Sky” is the darkest and catchiest album he‘s made recently (“Silver Age” and “Beauty & Ruin” are the others in this cycle) and he’s right on both counts. “The words make you remember, the music makes you forget,” Mould says about the adversity he’s gone through, including “more death, relationships ending, life getting shorter.” Without sounding forced, the happy/sad contrast between melodies and lyrics puts a roll cage around t
PerformanceMarch 25, 2016
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Samsung rumored to be still interested in Sharp
Samsung Electronics is rumored to have interest in purchasing Sharp, amid drawn out takeover talks between the Japanese company and its new owner Foxconn. Samsung Electronics’ vice chairman Lee Jae-yong had visited Japan last week, fueling the rumor. Samsung currently owns a 3 percent stake in Sharp. Samsung had tried to purchase Sharp in recent years but talks had failed because it wanted to only buy the display plant in Sakai, Japan, while Sharp wanted to sell the company as a whole.Samsung u
TechnologyMarch 25, 2016
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Nothing new in ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2’
Back in 2002, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” became a bona fide cultural phenomenon, a romantic comedy that mined the cultural specificities of the Greek heritage of unknown writer and star Nia Vardalos. The film picked up an Oscar nomination for Vardalos’ original screenplay, everyone began adding “My Big Fat” in front of various nouns, and we all learned a thing or two about the versatility of Windex. Fourteen years later, Vardalos and gang are back again for another wedding, but this time, it’s t
FilmMarch 25, 2016
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S. Korea, U.S. conduct naval training to commemorate inter-Korean naval clashes
The South Korean and United States navies conducted a joint training exercise on Friday, in remembrance of the sailors and soldiers killed in recent clashes with North Korea, the military said FridaySouth Korea commemorated the deaths from the three past inter-Korean skirmishes near the western sea border area on Commemoration Day, which has been designated on the fourth Friday of March.In 2010 alone, 48 soldiers were killed in two military conflicts between the rival Koreas. In March that year,
DefenseMarch 25, 2016
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Park warns that N. Korea's provocations lead to self-destruction
President Park Geun-hye warned Friday that North Korea's provocations will eventually lead to the regime's self-destruction, as she ramped up pressure on the isolationist regime to give up its nuclear weapons program."The Republic of Korea will stay firm despite North Korea's threats and the regime will eventually self-destruct with its consistent provocations," Park said during a ceremony at the national cemetery in the central city of Daejeon,The ceremony was held to commemorate South Korean m
North KoreaMarch 25, 2016
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[Weekender] Korea needs big players for space expedition
A race to conquer space has been heating up with more billionaires and entrepreneurs around the world betting big on commercial space businesses such as space travel and cargo delivery to space stations. Korea, as a late-starter, succeeded in launching a rocket in 2013. However, the country has been struggling to make its way into the top echelon of the world’s space sector due to its lack of talents, experience and investment.Long exposure of the launch, reentry and landing of U.S. space firm S
TechnologyMarch 25, 2016
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Suspected Indonesian follower of al-Qaida affiliate gets jail term
A local court on Friday delivered an eight-month jail term to an illegal Indonesian immigrant, suspected of following a terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaida.The Seoul Central District Court, however, suspended the sentence for the 33-year-old, whose identity was withheld, for two years. He was convicted of violating South Korea's control of firearms, swords, explosives and miscellaneous weapons act.The man was arrested in November in South Chungcheong Province, where he had been working in a
Social AffairsMarch 25, 2016
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S. Korea’s per capita income fell in 2015
South Korea’s per capita income fell from a year earlier in 2015, marking the first on-year drop in six years, the central bank said on Friday.Last year, the country’s per capita gross national income came to $27,340, down 2.6 percent from $28,071 in the previous year, according to preliminary data from the Bank of Korea.The fall was mostly caused by a decline in the Korean won, the bank said. The local currency had suffered a 7.4 percent drop in value against the dollar in 2015. The BOK also sa
March 25, 2016
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Korean ‘caravan’ to cross Central Asia next week
A group of South Koreans will travel to Central Asia next week under the banner of promoting cross-regional ties amid tension with neighboring North Korea.On Monday, a delegation of some 100 government officials, businessmen, scholars and artists will leave for Almaty, Kazakhstan, on the first leg of a two-nation, three-city tour that will later take them to Tajikistan, according to the Foreign Ministry.Dubbed the South Korea-Central Asia Caravan, the annual event is now in its sixth year.Under
InternationalMarch 25, 2016
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'Descendants of the Sun' keeps on climbing
The popular TV series "Descendants of the Sun" has continued to reach new heights in viewership on the 10th episode, data showed Friday.The drama starring actor Song Joong-ki and actress Song Hye-kyo raked in 36.4 percent of viewers in Seoul, a record for the show, on Thursday night. Nationwide, 31.6 percent of TV homes tuned into the show, up 1.2 percentage points from the previous day.The tale of romance between a South Korean special forces captain and a volunteer doctor in the fictional war-
TelevisionMarch 25, 2016