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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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Opposition mulls delay of financial investment income tax
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Immigration policy must go beyond labor supply: experts
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‘Korea crossed the line too far’ disgraced singer’s lawyer cries foul after 3rd visa denial
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Korean American documentary ‘Free Chol Soo Lee' wins Emmy
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S. Korea to showcase Hyunmoo-5 ballistic missile on Armed Forces Day ceremony for 1st time
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Teenage figure skater captures first int'l title
Teen figure skating phenom You Young captured her first international title on Thursday in Austria.You, 11, won the advanced novice girls' competition at the Cup of Tyrol in Innsbruck with a combined score of 134.75 points after short program and free skating.Marina Piredda of Italy was a distant second at 102.43 points.You, who made headlines by becoming the youngest South Korean champion in January, led all skaters with 88.03 points in Thursday's free skating. A day earlier, she also topped th
More SportsMarch 11, 2016
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Asia Culture Center offers rich spring events
No more staying indoors, cowering from the cold. Spring is just around the corner and along with it comes various fun and vibrant cultural activities around the country.The Asia Culture Center (ACC), a state-run arts and concert venue in the southwestern city of Gwangju, is planning to hold various events in the coming month.Every Saturday from March 26 until April 30 the center will stage the "ACC Spring Festival" with a slew of dance and music performances, art shows and participatory events l
CultureMarch 11, 2016
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Star forwards spice up new football season
Familiar foreign strikers and local heavyweights are to battle for the top scoring title in South Korea's first division football league this season, but their closest rivals could lie within their club.Twelve teams in the K League Classic start their nine-month journey this weekend with two-time defending champion Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors again the top dogs, while reigning Korean Football Association Cup winner FC Seoul are considered the top challenger to dethrone Jeonbuk. Fans are also likely t
SoccerMarch 11, 2016
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Orioles' Kim Hyun-soo ends drought, picks up first U.S. hit, RBI
Baltimore Orioles outfielder Kim Hyun-soo ended a long drought at the plate to pick up his first U.S. hit and RBI in preseason action Thursday.Kim snapped out of a 0-for-23 funk with a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the seventh against the New York Yankees left-hander James Pazos in Sarasota, Florida.Kim's RBI made it 4-2 Yankees, and the O's scored two more runs in the same inning to draw the game even. It ended in a 4-4 tie.Kim ended the day 1-for-3 with an RBI, and he was also hit by a
BaseballMarch 11, 2016
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U.N. chief to hold first meeting with victim of Japan's wartime sexual slavery
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will hold a meeting this week with an elderly South Korean victim of Japan's wartime sexual slavery, an activist group for victims said Thursday.The 89-year-old victim, Kil Won-ok, plans to visit Ban at the U.N. headquarters on Friday, the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan said.The meeting will mark the first time that Ban has met with a sexual slavery victim as U.N. chief. During the meeting, Kil is expected to voice her
Foreign AffairsMarch 11, 2016
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U.N. chief urges North Korea to honor U.N. resolutions after missile firings
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges North Korea to comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions and halt destabilizing acts, his spokesman said Thursday, after Pyongyang fired two short-range missiles in its latest provocation.The North fired the missiles early Thursday morning (Seoul time), the latest in a series of provocative statements and acts the North has engaged in as South Korea and the U.S. have been conducting annual joint military exercises Pyongyang has long branded as a rehea
North KoreaMarch 11, 2016
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Royce nominates late Korean-American war hero for Presidential Medal of Freedom
The chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee has nominated late Korean-American war hero Kim Young-oak for this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom, his office said Thursday.Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) sent a letter to President Barack Obama last month to nominate the late retired colonel, the office said. Kim, a son of a Korean independence fighter, was the first minority officer to command an Army combat battalion in American history."Colonel Kim served with exceptional valor in the
DefenseMarch 11, 2016
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U.S. commander: North Korea can 'range continental U.S.' with ICBM
North Korea can "range the continental United States" with an intercontinental ballistic missile and it would be prudent to assume Pyongyang can also miniaturize a nuclear warhead to put on an ICBM, the U.S. northern commander said Thursday."I assess that they have the ability to put an ICBM in space and range the continental United States and Canada," U.S. Northern Command Commander Adm. William Gortney said during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. Asked if the range will then clearly
North KoreaMarch 11, 2016
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Galaxy S7 smartphones starts sales in S. Korea
Samsung Electronics started selling its latest high-end smartphones -- Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 Edge -- in South Korea on Friday. The two models, first showcased at a trade fair in Spain last month, come with improved batteries and are water and dust resistant. The company also brought back the micro SD card slot that had disappeared in the Galaxy S6 series. Samsung’s Galaxy S7 (Yonhap)The world’s top smartphone-maker said the local price of the 32 gigabyte (GB) Galaxy S7 is 836,000 won ($69
IndustryMarch 11, 2016
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South Korean shares open higher after ECB measures
Seoul share prices started higher on Friday after investors took comfort from European Central Bank‘s stronger-than-expected monetary easing measures. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index added 0.84 point, or 0.04 percent, to 1,970.17 in the first 15 minutes of trading. As of 9:40 a.m., the index was trading nearly flat, up 0.08 percent at 1970.84 points. European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi. (Yonhap)On Thursday, the ECB unveiled measures for cutting all its interest rates and ex
March 11, 2016
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Car crashes into Hyundai Motor building
An SUV crashed into the front doors of Hyundai Motor’s headquarters in Seoul on Friday, about an hour before the carmaker’s annual shareholders meeting, according to witnesses. The Hyundai-made Sante Fe car drove into the front glass doors of the building at around 8 a.m. A Sante Fe SUV crashes into Hyundai Motor’s headquarters in Seoul on Friday. (Yonhap)No injuries were reported. The driver, whose identify has yet to be confirmed, is now in police custody, company officials said.Some reports
IndustryMarch 11, 2016
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N.K. leader orders more nuke tests, readiness for nuclear attacks
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered his officials to get ready to carry out nuclear attacks and conduct more nuclear tests, the North's state media said Friday, raising tensions on the divided peninsula.The North's leader stressed the need to further develop nuclear weapons and diversify the means for delivering nuke warheads so as to "make nuclear strikes at the enemies from anywhere on the ground, in the air, at sea and underwater," the North's Korean Central News Agency said."He gave
North KoreaMarch 11, 2016
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Asian stocks post first advance this week on stimulus outlook
Asian stocks climbed for the first day this week amid speculation central banks will provide additional stimulus to bolster global economic growth.The MSCI Asia Pacific Index gained 0.5 percent to 125.57 as of 8:01 p.m. in Hong Kong, halting three days of losses. U.S. shares rebounded with crude oil on Wednesday ahead of Thursday’s European Central Bank meeting that may provide more insight on the potential for further steps to loosen policy and the trajectory of interest rates. The Reserve Bank
World BusinessMarch 10, 2016
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ECB cuts main interest rate to zero percent
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – The European Central Bank has cut all its main interest rates including a surprise reduction in the main refinancing rate to zero percent from 0.05 percent.It also reduced the interest rate on deposits held by banks at the central bank to minus 0.4 percent from minus 0.3 percent.And it expanded its monthly bond-buying program to 80 billion euros ($85 billion) a month from the previous 60 billion.
World BusinessMarch 10, 2016
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Pope imposes financial oversight for saints after abuses
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis imposed new financial accountability regulations on the Vatican's multimillion-dollar saint-making machine Thursday after gross abuses were revealed in two books.The rules require external vigilance over individual Vatican bank accounts created for beatification and canonization causes, as well as regular budgeting and accounting to make sure the donations from the faithful are being used as intended.The reforms were imposed after Francis tasked a fact-finding co
World NewsMarch 10, 2016
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Inconsistencies in leaked IS files sound 'alarm bells': analysts
BEIRUT (AFP) - Analysts on Thursday cast doubt on the authenticity of thousands of documents reportedly leaked from the Islamic State jihadist group, pointing out mistakes and uncharacteristic language.The trove of documents, which includes the names, addresses, phone numbers and family contacts of IS jihadists, was handed over to Britain's Sky News by a disillusioned former member, the broadcaster said Wednesday.Syrian opposition news website Zaman al-Wasl said there were thousands of repetitio
World NewsMarch 10, 2016
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How far will European Central Bank go in providing stimulus?
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – How far will Mario Draghi and the European Central Bank go to boost inflation and a shaky economy?Market participants are waiting for the bank rate decision and president's news conference Thursday to find out. Economists predict that the ECB's 25-member governing council will follow through on Draghi's comments in recent weeks that have been interpreted as a near-promise of more stimulus. The question is, how much more? And how much good will it do? Market analysts exp
World NewsMarch 10, 2016
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Fukushima 'decontamination troops' often exploited, shunned
MINAMISOMA, Japan (AP) – The ashes of half a dozen unidentified laborers ended up at a Buddhist temple in this town just north of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Some of the dead men had no papers, others left no emergency contacts. Their names could not be confirmed and no family members had been tracked down to claim their remains.They were simply labeled ``decontamination troops'' – unknown soldiers in Japan's massive cleanup campaign to make Fukushima livable again five years after rad
World NewsMarch 10, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Lula charged in money laundering probe
SAO PAULO (AFP) -- Brazilian state prosecutors on Wednesday filed money laundering charges against ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a dramatic twist to an anti-corruption battle threatening to bring down the government.The indictment against the hugely influential leftist leader alleges that he hid ownership of a luxury triplex apartment at a seaside resort in Sao Paulo state, a source in the Sao Paulo prosecutor‘s Office said.“He is accused of hiding property in relation to the triplex
World NewsMarch 10, 2016
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BOK freezes rate, cautious on more cuts
Korea’s key interest rate is low enough to help spur economic growth, Bank of Korea Gov. Lee Ju-yeol said Thursday, dampening market expectations of an imminent cut. “The base rate at 1.5 percent is already accommodative,” Lee told reporters in a presser that followed the central bank’s decision to freeze the rate. “It does not restrain economic growth,” he said in response to a question as to whether the key rate, currently at a record low, is higher than the optimal level for the economy to ma
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