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Signs point to N. Korean troops in Russia-Ukraine combat zone
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Rose's 'Apt.' redefines K-pop's global appeal
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Two years on, thousands mourn Itaewon tragedy, calling for accountability
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[Herald Interview] Love for K-drama, food defines 'Secret Ingredient'
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103 autumn foliage paths in Seoul
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Hanwha, HD Hyundai vie for Poland’s $2.7b submarine program
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Seoul aims to halve current suicide rate by 2030
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First lady’s controversies to top agenda at meeting of party leaders
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When two worlds collab: K-pop flexes power with global stars
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Bipartisan panel formed to address livelihood issues amid tension over first lady probe
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Ahn accuses Moon of incompetence over Trump’s itinerary
Ahn Cheol-soo, chairman of the minor centrist People’s Party, on Wednesday accused President Moon Jae-in and his office of incompetence and missing the beat in Seoul-Washington relations. Speaking at a party meeting on Wednesday, Ahn said US President Donald Trump’s Asian tour itinerary reflects South Korea’s lack of status. People`s Party chief Ahn Cheol-soo speaks at a party meeting in Seoul on Wednesday. Yonhap“(Trump) stays in Japan for three days, but his stay in South Korea, the country di
Oct. 18, 2017
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Korea's state gas company invested large sums in IS-controlled Iraqi regions: lawmaker
The state-run Korea Gas Corp. has made huge investments in stalled development projects in conflict-laden Iraq despite security risks sparked by the Islamic State militant group, a lawmaker said Wednesday.Citing the firm's reports on its overseas investments over the last five years, Rep. Son Kum-ju of the People's Party said that it has invested $372 million in projects to develop gas fields in Akkas and Mansuriyah, which lie southwest and southeast of Baghdad.The lawmaker pointed out that the
Oct. 18, 2017
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Trump to make first state visit by US leader in 25 years
US President Donald Trump’s visit to Korea next month will take the form of a state visit, marking the first state visit by a US leader since 1992. According to Seoul’s presidential office, Trump will arrive early on Nov. 7 in Seoul, where he will attend welcome ceremonies and hold a summit meeting. “The schedule was agreed to in consideration of President Trump’s flight schedules, and in consideration of ceremony schedules,” Cheong Wa Dae spokesman Park Soo-hyun said Tuesday. US President Donal
Oct. 17, 2017
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Main opposition party to discuss ending ties with Park
The main opposition party will make a high-stakes decision this week over whether to sever ties with corruption-tainted former President Park Geun-hye, a source said Tuesday, as it pushes to unite the fractured conservative bloc.The Liberty Korea Party's ethics panel will convene Wednesday to discuss whether to accept its reform panel's recommendation to ask Park and two of her allies to leave the party, the source told Yonhap News Agency on condition of anonymity.Their departure would mark a cu
Oct. 17, 2017
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Cabinet to approve proposal to extend security for ex-presidents, spouses
The Cabinet approved a proposal Tuesday to extend the period of state security services for former presidents and their spouses to up to 20 years after they leave office from the current 15 years. The current law provides that the Presidential Security Service provide security for former presidents and their spouses for 10 years after they leave office and up to an additional five years if they request it.The new proposal calls for increasing the additional security service period to up to 10 ye
Oct. 17, 2017
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Conservative Bareun Party faces divide over merger with Liberty Korea Party
Internal discord within the minor conservative opposition Bareun Party is intensifying, as a chasm in the party deepens over the idea of a merger with the main opposition Liberty Korea Party. While some Bareun Party lawmakers hope to establish a bilateral panel to push for the merger, others say such a move would be a fatal mistake. At a party meeting Monday, Bareun Party members failed to reach a consensus in creating a special committee to prepare for unity within the conservatives. The actin
Oct. 16, 2017
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Korea free from highly pathogenic AI: govt.
South Korea said it is free of highly pathogenic avian influenza as new cases of H5N6 and H5N8 strains haven't been discovered in the nation over the last three months, the government said Monday.The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said it acquired the AI clean status on Oct. 13 and notified the World Organization for Animal Health.Since the last outbreak of highly pathogenic AI on June 19, quarantine authorities have carried out culling, disinfection and cleanup in areas infecte
Oct. 16, 2017
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Moon's approval rating rises to 68.5%
President Moon Jae-in's approval rating increased slightly last week, a poll showed Monday.In a survey conducted by Realmeter, 68.5 percent of respondents said they approved of the way the president managed state affairs, up 0.8 percentage point from two weeks earlier.The weekly survey was conducted Sunday through Friday on 3,075 adults throughout the nation. It had a margin of error of 1.8 percentage points. The survey was skipped in the first week of this month when the country marked the week
Oct. 16, 2017
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Parties clash in parliamentary audit
Clashes among political parties across the aisle are expected to continue entering the second week of a 20-day parliamentary audit, as they blame each other for disturbing the smooth operation of the audit sessions. The related parliamentary committees on national defense and education, culture, sports and tourism, are expected to discuss the allegations involving the Lee Myung-bak administration and immediate successor Park Geun-hye, accused of using government offices and the national spy agen
Oct. 15, 2017
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Talk of conservatives' integration likely to gain traction this week
Political conservatives' push for unity is expected to gain more traction this week as the main opposition party is set to take a crucial step to sever ties with corruption-tainted former President Park Geun-hye.The ethics committee of the Liberty Korea Party (LKP) is expected to convene Tuesday or Wednesday to determine whether to accept its reform panel's recommendation to ask Park and two of her allies to leave the party.Park's LKP affiliation has long been a hurdle to uniting the fractured c
Oct. 15, 2017
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Korean, Russian parliaments agree to form consultative body
The parliamentary leaders of South Korea and Russia agreed Saturday to establish a consultative body to push for cooperation between the two legislatures.Chung Se-kyun, speaker of the National Assembly, and Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of the State Duma, issued a joint statement after their talks on the sidelines of the 137th assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in St. Petersburg. (Yonhap)"We agreed to form a high-level committee to be co-chaired by the speakers of the two countries for cl
Oct. 15, 2017
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Presidential office rejects possibility of 2nd 'IMF crisis'
The presidential office Cheong Wa Dae on Friday dismissed the possibility of the country facing a financial crisis in the near future, saying the local economy remains strong while its exports continue to grow."Some have been raising the possibility of a second foreign exchange liquidity crisis as it will soon be the 20th anniversary since the country faced the last foreign exchange liquidity crisis, but there is no possibility of an economic crisis," Hong Jang-pyo, chief presidential secretary
Oct. 13, 2017
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Jury on fate of 2 unfinished nuclear reactors to enter crucial debate camp
Hundreds of members of a jury formed to deliberate on President Moon Jae-in's proposal to scrap two unfinished nuclear power reactors were to enter a three-day debate camp Friday in a crucial final step to determine whether to kill or continue the project.Up to 478 members of the jury, which is formally known as the "citizens' participation group," have since last month been familiarizing themselves with the pros and cons of the controversial proposal to abandon construction of the Shingori-5 an
Oct. 13, 2017
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Seoul to host biggest forum on the Arctic next year
Seoul will host the biggest international forum on the Arctic next year to seek ways to promote arctic countries' interest in the East Asian region, the foreign ministry here said Friday.South Korea announced the hosting of the conference, tentatively named Arctic Circle Seoul Forum, in December 2018 at the Arctic Circle Assembly which kicked off its three-day meeting earlier in the day in Reykjavik, Iceland.The Arctic Circle is an international organization intended to facilitate multilateral d
Oct. 13, 2017
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Ahn moves to tamp down talk of possible alliance with ruling party
The leader of the minor opposition People's Party brushed aside emerging talk of a possible alliance with the ruling party Friday amid a brewing internal rift over his party's future course of action.Ahn Cheol-soo, the center-left party's chief, called on the ruling Democratic Party to stop "playing pranks" on his party members to check whether they are willing to join forces with it in the opposition-led National Assembly.His remarks came amid reports that ruling party grandees recently sounded
Oct. 13, 2017
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Moon to meet ruling party officials over N. Korea, bipartisan efforts
President Moon Jae-in was set to meet with top decision-makers of the ruling Democratic Party Friday for discussions on ways to enhance cooperation between the government and the ruling party, as well as between ruling and opposition parties, an official said.The meeting will be held from 7 p.m. at the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae and will involve 20 lawmakers and party officials, including the heads of the party's 14 provincial and district headquarters, according to the Cheong Wa Dae offi
Oct. 13, 2017
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Moon's approval rating reaches five-week high on eased tension over N. Korea: poll
President Moon Jae-in's approval rating improved significantly this week amid a brief but continued hiatus of provocations by North Korea, a poll showed Friday.Moon's approval rating came to 73 percent in a survey conducted by Gallup Korea on Tuesday through Thursday. The latest reading marked a 8 percentage-point jump from 65 percent tallied two weeks earlier. A weeklong break over the Chuseok holiday prevented the weekly survey last week. This week's reading also marked the highest in five wee
Oct. 13, 2017
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Cheong Wa Dae requests probe into alleged falsification of Sewol reports
The presidential office on Friday requested the prosecution to investigate the alleged manipulation of official documents by former leader Park Geun-hye's aides to lessen her responsibility for the government's mishandling of the deadly sinking of a passenger ship three years ago, a Cheong Wa Dae official said.The formal request was filed with the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.The move comes one day after Cheong Wa
Oct. 13, 2017
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‘Park’s presidential office doctored Sewol response logs’
Records concerning former President Park Geun-hye’s activities during the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster have been altered, Cheong Wa Dae said Thursday. In the disaster, the Sewol ferry sank off the country’s southwestern coast, resulting in 295 deaths and nine passengers unaccounted for. Since the wreckage was brought ashore in April this year, the remains of four of the nine missing passengers have been found. According to President Moon Jae-in’s chief of staff Im Jong-seok, documents were found th
Oct. 12, 2017
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Moon to hold third summit with Trump, attend ASEAN, APEC meetings in November
President Moon Jae-in will hold another summit meeting with US President Donald Trump in Seoul, and embark on an eight-day trip of three Southeast Asian nations in early November. According to Cheong Wa Dea, Moon and Trump will hold their third summit meeting in Seoul during the US president’s tour of South Korea, China and Japan. The exact date of the meeting has not yet been released. Major items on the agenda are expected to include the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement, and the ongoing North Kor
Oct. 12, 2017