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Torrential rainfall forces 1,500 to evacuate, causes widespread damage to homes, roads
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[KH Explains] Can smart chargers ease tensions over EV fires?
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1 in 5 households to have breadwinner over 80 in 30 years
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Assembly to review disputed appointment of national soccer team coach
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New Fifty Fifty off to strong start
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Arrival of fall calls for more outdoor festivals
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[Herald Interview] US election may unleash growth for Korea: Laffer
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Evicted guest burns down inn; 3 killed
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Yoon's Prague visit sets stage for W24tr nuclear power plant deal
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[Online Predators] Online reviews of sex tourism in Southeast Asia proliferate
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Japan adds foreign ministry Web page to step up Dokdo claim
Japan added a new Web page on the foreign ministry's official website to step up its sovereignty claim to the easternmost South Korean islets of Dokdo, according to the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Tuesday.The new page was added to the ministry's website last Friday under the front-page tab titled "Japanese Territory," according to the embassy and the English-language version of the website.The new Web page is a compilation of previous ministry Web pages focused on Japan's territorial conflicts
April 8, 2014
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Matching Korean investors to developing-world needs
This is the fourth installment in a series of interviews with chiefs of United Nations offices in Korea. ― Ed.With industrialization playing a key role in economic growth, the U.N. Industrial Development Organization has been striving to bridge Korean businesses and emerging markets through research, surveys and seminars since the launch of its Seoul office in 1987. The office is now gearing up to put its cause into action: After years of study, it will embark on its first-ever pilot program in
April 6, 2014
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Swedish ambassador hosts novelist Lee Kiho
Swedish Ambassador to South Korea Lars Danielsson hosted the 34th session of the Seoul Literary Society, which featured novelist Lee Ki-ho, at the ambassador’s home in the Seongbuk-dong neighborhood of Seoul on Thursday.Lee, who debuted with a short story in 1999, has been described as inventive for both his narrative form and his iconoclastic characters. One character is a small-time pimp who dropped out of high school after assaulting a teacher. Another is a third-rate actor addicted to sniffi
April 6, 2014
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Ambassadors’ spouses join Garden Club flower show
The Garden Club of Seoul, a perennial institution of the diplomatic community here, held an exhibition of flower arrangements at Raemian Gallery in Anguk-dong in Seoul on Thursday.Spouses of ambassadors have long participated in the Garden Club, and the club’s steward and flower muse, Im Hwa-kong, has been the very embodiment of floral design in the diplomatic community since the club’s founding more than five decades ago.“The show would not have been possible of course without the support and s
April 6, 2014
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Envoys of Europe, Korea highlight cooperation on science and technology
South Korean Ambassador to the EU Kim Chang-beom and European Union Ambassador to South Korea Tomasz Kozlowski kicked off a “promotion caravan” in Seoul on Wednesday to raise awareness about South Korea-EU ties, as well as cooperation in fields of science and technology.The two envoys highlighted upgraded cooperation in science and technology, which promises to see some 40 South Korean scientists and researchers work with their European counterparts for yearlong visits by the end of 2014.“The pa
April 6, 2014
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‘Korean tourists to Turkey to double’
The new Turkish Ambassador to South Korea vowed to double the number of annual tourists to his country from South Korea during his diplomatic posting here.“Turkey is becoming more interesting for Koreans nowadays,” said Turkish Ambassador to South Korea Arslan Hakan Okcal in an interview with The Korea Herald at his office in Seoul on March. He said he hoped to double the number of Korean visitors to Turkey by the end of his posting. “Sure, it is ambitious, but can I tell you one fact: Last year
April 6, 2014
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Rwanda recalls genocide in ‘Walk to Remember’
Rwandan Ambassador to South Korea Eugene Segore Kayihura is hosting a series of commemorative activities Monday to raise awareness about the horrendous loss of life that took place in his country 20 years ago, as well as the failure of the international community to respond to pleas for help.Various activities have been organized for the 20th Rwanda Genocide Commemoration, dubbed “KWIBUKA20,” to commemorate what the embassy described in a press statement as a “genocide that took away nearly a mi
April 6, 2014
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U.S. seeks to reassure Japan amid Ukraine crisis fallout
YOKOTA AIR BASE, TOKYO (AFP) -- US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel on Saturday vowed America would stand by its security commitments to Tokyo, after Russia's intervention in Ukraine raised concerns in a region plagued by its own territorial disputes.Hagel, on a two-day visit to Japan as part of a tour of Asia, said Russia's annexation of Crimea had sparked worries among allies in the Pacific and elsewhere.Japan is locked in a bitter dispute with China over islands in the East China Sea, and some a
April 5, 2014
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Kerry outdoes himself in new diplomatic frenzy
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) -- More than a week into what was supposed to be only a five-day trip to Europe and Saudi Arabia, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sat in a Paris hotel suite contemplating his next moves on multiple crisis fronts.It was Monday morning, and despite an emergency meeting with his Russian counterpart the night before, Moscow was still massing troops on Ukraine's border. And the Israeli-Palestinian peace process was teetering on the brink of collapse.Expected in Brussels on
April 5, 2014
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Seoul protests Japan’s fresh Dokdo claim
Seoul on Friday protested Japan’s introduction of newly updated schoolbooks and an annual diplomatic paper that carry reinforced claims to the Korean islets of Dokdo and distorted views on its wartime sexual slavery and other atrocities. Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yong summoned Japanese Ambassador to Korea Koro Bessho and delivered a written complaint. “We strongly condemn the Japanese government’s approval of elementary schoolbooks that step up its provocations regarding Dokdo compared with
April 4, 2014
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Ex-tycoon vows to pay fines
A convicted property mogul under public criticism for receiving a court ruling widely seen as unjust pledged Friday to pay off the remainder of unpaid fines and made a public apology for “causing public concern.”Huh Jae-hoh, the former chairman of the now-defunct Daeju Group convicted of embezzlement and tax evasion, was allowed by a district court in 2010 to pay off his fines of 25.4 billion won ($23.66 million) through 50 days of manual labor at a prison facility.The court ruling caused a publ
April 4, 2014
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S. Korea voices strong regret over Japan's fresh Dokdo claim
South Korea lodged a strong protest Friday against Japan for laying a fresh territorial claim to its easternmost islets of Dokdo, warning it could further compromise their already strained relations.Japan's "Diplomatic Bluebook for 2014" released earlier in the day identified the set of South Korean islets as Japanese territory, vowing to make efforts to resolve the territory issue through international law."South Korea expresses strong regret over the Japanese government's outrageous claim laid
April 4, 2014
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Yun warns of stern action against Japan’s Dokdo claims
The South Korean foreign minister pledged Thursday to take stern action against Japan if Tokyo steps up its territorial claim to the easternmost South Korean islets of Dokdo in its new history textbooks. Japan is scheduled to announce the results of its examination of revised elementary school textbooks on Friday, with Seoul expecting Tokyo to ratchet up its territorial claim to Dokdo.“Right after the announcement is made, (South Korea) will take stern measures accordingly,” Foreign Minister Yun
April 3, 2014
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Ex-intelligence analyst gets jail term for documents leak
WASHINGTON (AP) ― A judge has sentenced a former U.S. State Department intelligence analyst on North Korea to 13 months in prison for passing classified information to a journalist.In a court proceeding Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said Stephen Kim’s criminal act was “a very serious one’’ committed by a national security expert who lost his “moral compass.’’“I take full responsibility,’’ Kim said of his actions.The case is the latest one brought to conclusion by the Obam
April 3, 2014
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Virginia governor signs East Sea naming legislation
WASHINGTON (Yonhap) ― Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has signed into law a landmark bill on the East Sea name, Korean-Americans here said Wednesday.Accordingly, all new public school textbooks will identify the body of water between Korea and Japan as the East Sea as well as the Sea of Japan starting on July 1, they said.Virginia is the first U.S. state to pass such legislation.The governor signed the bill Friday, according to Peter Y. Kim, head of the Voice of Korean Americans, an organization t
April 3, 2014
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April 3, 2014
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Japan’s newly approved school textbooks expected to step up Dokdo claim
Relations between Seoul and Tokyo are expected to heat up further as Japan plans to announce newly approved textbooks for elementary schools this week carrying strengthened claims to the Korean islets of Dokdo. All Japanese school textbooks are due to be screened and authorized every four years by the country’s education ministry. Most social studies textbooks for fifth grade refer to Dokdo as Japanese territory, but they are now likely to contain clearer, stronger statements in line with the Sh
April 2, 2014
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U.S. government expands list of alleged Japanese war criminals for entry ban
WASHINGTON (Yonhap) ― The U.S. government confirmed Tuesday it has more than doubled the number of suspected Japanese war criminals who are banned from entering the country.In 1996, the Department of Justice created the so-called “watchlist” of 16 Japanese alleged to have committed crimes against humanity during World War II.The department has since expanded the list.“The total number placed on the watchlist is 35,” Peter Carr, Department of Justice spokesman, told Yonhap in an emailed reply.The
April 2, 2014
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Greek envoy marks national day for first time in 5 years
In a first for Greece’s top diplomat here in the past five years, Greek Ambassador to South Korea Sourvanos Dionysios underscored commercial and political ties between his country and South Korea during a reception celebrating Greek Independence Day in Seoul on Wednesday.The reception was the first of its kind for the Greek Embassy since 2009, when the previous Greek ambassador, Petros Avierinos, was posted here.“After 400 years of occupation, the Greek people rose against the Ottoman rule, in o
March 30, 2014
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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