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Seoul blanketed by heaviest Nov. snow, with more expected
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NewJeans to terminate contract with Ador
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NewJeans terminates contract with Ador, embarks on new journey
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Korean Air gets European nod to become Northeast Asia’s largest airline
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Seoul snowfall now third heaviest on record
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Heavy snow of up to 40 cm blankets Seoul for 2nd day
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Chaos unfolds as rare November snowstorm grips Korea for 2nd day
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BOK makes surprise 2nd rate cut to boost growth
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‘VCHA, Katseye and Dear Alice are not K-pop groups,’ industry experts say
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Korea's birthrate shows signs of recovery
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Korea, Oman celebrate 40 years of friendship
Omani Ambassador to South Korea Mohamed Salim Alharthy marked 40 years of diplomatic relations between his country and South Korea with government officials, the diplomatic community and participants in town for a global energy conference during a gala dinner in Seoul on Tuesday.The participation of the conference delegates served to underscore just how important billions of dollars in annual gas imports are for the nations’ two-way ties. South Korea has become the world’s second-largest buyer o
March 30, 2014
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Envoy to host Nauryz in Seoul
It is a rite of spring nearly as ancient as the windswept steppes of Central Asia.Nauryz, a holiday celebrating the end of winter, the cycle of the seasons, the return of the sun’s warmth and life’s new beginnings, will be celebrated with a cultural festival hosted by Kazakh Ambassador to South Korea Dulat Bakishev at Hangang Park in Yeouido on April 5.“Nauryz is both an old and a new holiday for Kazakhstan: Old, because people of Central Asia have been celebrating Nauryz for a long time, since
March 30, 2014
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Envoy kicks off photo exhibition linking Turkey, Korea
The Turkish Ambassador to South Korea helped kick off an exhibition featuring world-renowned Turkish and South Korean photographers at the Sejong Center in downtown Seoul on Wednesday.“Istanbul, connecting Europe and Asia on the western side of the Silk Road, has been the capital of three different world empires ― the Eastern Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman ― for almost two millennia, creating an imprint on ancient, medieval and contemporary history,” said Arslan Hakan Okcal, Turkey’s top diplomat
March 30, 2014
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Ambassador reveals what is great in Britain
As if in response to one of the most famous phrases in American history: “The British are coming,” the British indeed have arrived, and apparently in full force in southern Seoul.Lanky Western-looking men in red British Royal Guard uniforms and those iconic big fluffy bearskin hats were spotted marching up and down the fashionable Apgujeong-dong shopping district on Thursday. The Royal Guard look-alikes were part of a Beefeater Gin promotional stunt, and the start of a much larger five-day promo
March 30, 2014
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Ecuadorian Embassy hosts international students
About 50 Ecuadorian youths enrolled in universities from around the country took part in a seminar that was equal parts academic orientation and workshop on life in South Korea at the Ecuadorian Embassy in Seoul on Saturday.The seminar, dubbed “Superior Education, Culture and Academic Life in Korea,” saw students from as far as Busan travel to the capital city to participate. Ecuadorian youths enrolled in such schools as Seoul National University; Yeungnam University in Gyeongsan City, North Gye
March 30, 2014
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UN Security Council condemns N. K. missile launch
The UN Security Council on Thursday condemned North Korea‘s latest ballistic missile tests and agreed to quickly consult on an appropriate response, its rotating president said.“Security Council members condemn this launch as a violation of Security Council resolutions,” Luxembourg’s ambassador Sylvie Lucas told reporters after a closed-door debate of less than an hour.The condemnation did not amount to a formal statement from the 15-member council. Instead Lucas said members had requested that
March 28, 2014
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Park offers broader exchanges with N. Korea
President Park Geun-hye on Friday proposed the establishment of inter-Korean cooperative offices and pledged to expand humanitarian, financial and infrastructure support for the North as part of measures to lay the foundation for an eventual reunification. In an address in the former East German city of Dresden, she laid out a three-point agenda to “break down the barriers” across the border.Just as citizens of the two Germanys were allowed to visit each other before unification, the two Koreas
March 28, 2014
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(Photo News) Britain in Seoul
March 27, 2014
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Seoul slams Japanese minister's remarks on past apologies
South Korea lambasted the Japanese education minister Thursday for distancing his government from Tokyo's past apologies for its wartime atrocities, calling on him to refrain from such remarks in future.Education Minister Hakubun Shimomura reportedly told a parliamentary meeting Wednesday that the Kono Statement and the Murayama Statement do not constitute a unified government view as they were not adopted by the parliament. The remarks appear to be in denial of the two landmark apologies Japan
March 27, 2014
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Korea, U.S., Japan agree to convene nuke envoys’ talks
The leaders of South Korea, the U.S. and Japan agreed Wednesday to have their chief negotiators on the North’s nuclear weapons program convene at an early date, boosting expectations for the resumption of the long-stalled six-nation talks. At their trilateral meeting on the margins of the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, they reaffirmed that the six-party talks should ensure “substantive progress” in dismantling Pyongyang’s nuclear programs in a “complete, verifiable and irreversible” manne
March 26, 2014
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Australian premier to visit
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will make a state visit to Korea from April 8-9 to hold talks with President Park Geun-hye and to sign a free-trade agreement between the two countries, Cheong Wa Dae said Tuesday.The upcoming trip marks Abbott’s first official visit to Korea since he took office in September last year. The two leaders will hold talks on April 8 to discuss a wide range of issues including political, business and cultural cooperation. The two held their first summit in Octobe
March 25, 2014
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U.S. describes 'comfort women' as Japan's systematic enslavement of women
The United States has called the "comfort women program" Japan's systematic enslavement of women for sexual purposes, according to a U.S. government report.The description was included in a final report to the U.S. Congress by the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group in 2007.In 2000, Samuel Berger, then National Security Adviser to President Bill Clinton, directed agencies to locate records held by the U.S. government relating to war crimes committed
March 25, 2014
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S. Korea joins U.N. resolution on N. Korea's human rights
South Korea has joined hands with Japan and the European Union in drafting a resolution on North Korea's human rights situation, calling on the United Nations to refer the case to an "appropriate" international justice mechanism, officials here said Tuesday.The resolution led by Japan and the EU was presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council on Sunday, with member states working on details for possible revisions.It condemned the communist country "in the strongest terms" for its "systematic, wid
March 25, 2014
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Park discusses economic cooperation with Dutch P.M.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye met bilaterally with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday and discussed ways to expand economic cooperation and exchanges between the two countries, her office said.The meeting took place in The Hague on the sidelines of a global leaders' summit on anti-nuclear terrorism opening later Monday for a two-day run. South Korea hosted the biennial Nuclear Security Summit in 2012 that was initiated by U.S. President Barack Oba
March 23, 2014
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Abe summit puts Park’s ‘principled’ diplomacy to test
President Park Geun-hye faces a major test to her “principled” diplomacy at an upcoming summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who still refuses to repent for the country’s imperial past and sticks to his hawkish security stance. The two leaders are scheduled to join U.S. President Barack Obama in The Hague on Tuesday for a three-way summit on the sidelines of a nuclear security conference. It will mark the first formal contact between Park and Abe since their inaugurations about a year
March 23, 2014
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‘Saemaul Movement tool for U.N. hunger initiative’
This is the third installment in a series interviews with chiefs of United Nations offices in Korea. ― Ed.Feeling empty and lost, university student Lim Hyoung-joon started backpacking around the world in 1990 in search of inspiration for a worthy life. After roaming every corner of the globe from affluent metropolises of the U.S. to poverty-stricken streets in Bangladesh, he went to Malawi in 1994. Three days in the African country changed his life. With no other means of payment than traveler’
March 23, 2014
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Probe launched into Qingdao consul amid sex trade claims
The Foreign Ministry said Sunday it will dispatch a group of officials to the consulate-general in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao to look into allegations that a consul there failed to pay after having sex with prostitutes. In a complaint made Saturday by a former local hire, part of the mission’s budget is allegedly misused for unintended purposes, while the consul-general has been pocketing some of funds allotted for public events. The ministry said it will launch an investigation on the
March 23, 2014
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Korea-Indonesia cooperation moves beyond resources
The term “resource nationalism” was splashed across headlines around the world to describe Indonesia in recent weeks, the stories including dire predictions that the Southeast Asian country could scare off vital foreign direct investment.Despite such admonishments, measures in Jakarta ostensibly to slow down the export of oil, gas and minerals do not appear to crimp trade and investment ties between Indonesia and Asia’s fourth-largest economy ― both trillion-dollar-plus nations.Proof could be se
March 23, 2014
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Envoy presses for investment in post-revolution Tunisia
Tunisia celebrated its 58th year of independence from colonial rule and marked the popular demonstrations that swept the North African nation in 2011, toppling the 34-year-long regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, in a reception in Seoul on Thursday.“On March 20, 1956, Tunisia retrieved its sovereignty and began the arduous mission of setting up the foundations of its modern republic,” said Tunisian Ambassador to South Korea Mohamed Ali Nafti. “On Jan. 14, 2011, the Tunisian people usher
March 23, 2014
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Panamanian envoy awards CEO meritorious plaque
Panamanian Ambassador to South Korea Aram Cisneros awarded KSS Shipping Services CEO Yoon Chang-hee with a meritorious plaque of appreciation, recognizing the company’s role in helping to strengthen commercial ties between South Korea and Panama. KSS helped to strengthen commercial ties, buoying the local community of sea transporters by adding four new vessels last year registered under the Panamanian flag of convenience.“While many shipping companies struggled last year during a time of global
March 23, 2014
