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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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Envoys briefed on risks from intelligence failure in Korea
North Korea is the country one might think of first during a discussion about intelligence and the risks of a possible intelligence failure, but what are the risks from intelligence missteps right here in South Korea?About three dozen researchers, executives and foreign envoys of countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa attended a luncheon lecture on the risks associated with intelligence failure during the Asia Society Korea Center’s March luncheon lecture at the ASEAN-Korea Centre in
March 23, 2014
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Japan's Abe plots warmer ties with S. Korea ahead of summit
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe indicated Sunday that he wanted Tokyo and Seoul to put wartime enmities behind them ahead of his first meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-Hye.Relations between the two countries are at their lowest ebb in years, mired in emotive issues linked to Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule and a territorial dispute, as well as Japan's use of "comfort women" in wartime brothels.Abe left Tokyo's Haneda airport for a three-day visit to the Netherlands to attend a Nucl
March 23, 2014
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U.S. says trilateral summit with S. Korea, Japan will show its security commitment to Asia
WASHINGTON -- The White House said Friday next week's trilateral summit meeting between the U.S., South Korea and Japan is of great significance in that it will demonstrateWashington's unswerving security commitment to Northeast Asia.National Security Adviser Susan Rice emphasized that the Obama administration stays focused on its policy of re-balancing toward Asia."After a period of tension, we will bring together two of our closest allies, the Republic of Korea and Japan, in a trilateral meeti
March 22, 2014
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S. Korea, U.S., Japan to hold three-way summit in Hague
South Korea, the U.S. and Japan will hold a three-way summit on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, Netherlands, next week, Seoul officials confirmed Friday.The summit will mark the first time for South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to sit down for official talks, which Park had previously rejected amid escalating historical and territorial feuds.Observers say that Washington might have played a central role in persuading Park to jo
March 21, 2014
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Park, China's Xi to hold talks during nuclear summit in The Hague
South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold bilateral talks on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague next week, China's foreign ministry said Thursday. China's foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei made the announcement during a regular press briefing. Xi will also hold bilateral talks with U.S. President Barack Obama as well as the leaders of Britain, Finland and Kazakhstan, Hong said, without elaborating. It will be Park and Xi's second sum
March 20, 2014
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N. Korea, China discuss ways to resume nuclear talks: Beijing
China's top negotiator on the North Korean nuclear issue, Wu Dawei, has been holding talks with his North Korean counterpart in Pyongyang on restarting the six-party talks aimed at ending the North's nuclear weapons program, the Chinese foreign ministry said Wednesday. Wu arrived in Pyongyang on Monday, the North's state media said in a one-line report, without giving details of his itinerary.China's foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters during a regular press briefing that Wu has b
March 19, 2014
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Your personal data, sold in China for a cent
(Result obtained by typing in reporter's younger brother's registration number) First page of 'South Korean identity search' pageA Chinese website showed that Koreans’ personal information has been sold through a Chinese website at 1 cent per identity. A Facebook user came forward with a set of captured pictures of a Chinese website, saying, “Our information has been sold at 1 cent (6 won).” The pictures showed lists of South Korean names and resident registration numbers being shared among Inte
March 19, 2014
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Future is now for Canadian craft beer in Korea
Beer needs no ambassador, it might be said, but in South Korea the Canadian Embassy is helping inch open the market for quality craft beer at grocery stores, restaurants and bars.Canadian beefsteaks and the country’s thirst-quenching suds will slowly be made more widely available with the conclusion of nine years of free trade talks. So, spirits were pretty high at the second annual Canadian beer and cider tasting event at a hotel in southern Seoul on Wednesday.Canadian micro-brewers Brasseurs d
March 16, 2014
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N. Ireland peace model for Korea?
Irish officials and experts are sharing their experience in the Northern Ireland peace process with their South Korean counterparts in a bid to help ratchet down tensions on the most militarized border in the world, Ireland’s top diplomat here said. “Previously in my career I was directly involved in the Northern Ireland peace process and so am keen to contribute in this area during my posting in Seoul,” Irish Ambassador to Korea Aingeal O’Donoghue said in an interview with The Korea Herald in S
March 16, 2014
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Envoy awards Heineken as best Dutch company in Korea
Dutch Ambassador to South Korea Paul Menkveld presented the Hamel Trade Award to Heineken Korea Inc., dubbing the iconic European brewer the best-performing business from the Netherlands in South Korea.The ambassador presented the award to the multinational beer company’s local division head, country manager Jan Arie Smit, during a gala dinner for the Dutch business community on Wednesday. The trophy is handed out once every two years and is named after Hendrick Hamel, the seafaring Dutchman who
March 16, 2014
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German state finance minister pitches $1.4b in bonds
The finance minister of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia pitched $1.4 billion in treasury bonds, as well as ways Seoul can completely eliminate tax evasion, during his visit in Seoul on Thursday. Finance Minister Norbert Walter-Borjans of North Rhine-Westphalia talked up investing in the state’s recent issuance of over a billion dollars in bonds, as well as creating people-friendly tax payment procedures to completely eradicate tax evasion. Walter-Borjans was on a whirlwind four-day, t
March 16, 2014
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Photo exhibition on ‘dark’ chapter of Azerbaijani history
Ramzi Teymurov, Azerbaijani charge d’affaires to South Korea, inaugurated a photo exhibition at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies on Wednesday that portrays a tragic period in Azerbaijan’s history as an independent nation.The photo exhibition, entitled “Azerbaijani Realties,” depicts the mass killing of 613 people, including 65 children, near the small town of Khojaly on the night of Feb. 25 and 26, 1992, during the Nagorno-Karabakh War with neighboring Armenia. The incident became known as t
March 16, 2014
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Envoys praise Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid
The ambassadors of both Iraq and the United Kingdom expressed pride in Iraqi-born British architect and Pritzker Prize winner Zaha Hadid, during an opening reception for the new Dongdaemun Plaza in Seoul on Tuesday.The new design plaza is poised for its official public opening March 21 ― more than seven years after the plans were first floated. Hadid came to Seoul to take part in a reception celebrating the new addition to the city’s mecca for 24-hour shopping. Joining her were foreign envoys, V
March 16, 2014
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Korea mulls sending aircraft for Malaysia jet search
South Korea is considering dispatching two military aircraft to assist with ongoing international search efforts for the missing Malaysia airplane, a military source said Friday, amid deepening mystery surrounding the jet's fate.Seoul is reviewing a plan to send the P-3C Orion patrol aircraft and C-130 military transport airplane to find the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared somewhere over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam last week."The South Korean military has participated in t
March 14, 2014
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Over 1,300 Japanese scholars protest review of 1993 apology
More than 1,300 Japanese academics have joined a protest against Tokyo’s move to review and alter its 1993 apology for its military’s wartime mobilization of sex slaves, a news report said Thursday. Hirofumi Hayashi, a politics professor at Kanto Gakuin University, and 14 other scholars have launched a signature-collecting drive against retaining and developing the statement by then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono, the Tokyo Shimbun reported. The apology, along with a 1995 statement by former
March 13, 2014
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Korean, Japanese officials hold fence-mending talks
Vice foreign ministers of Korea and Japan held talks on Wednesday in Seoul in an apparent attempt to mend the two countries’ relations frayed by the Shinzo Abe government’s increasingly hawkish policies on historical and territorial issues. Cho Tae-yong and Akitaka Saiki were expected to have discussed bilateral ties and the situation on the peninsula, possibly including Japan’s wartime sex slavery and other historical issues. The meeting marks the first high-level dialogue since Abe’s visit to
March 12, 2014
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China welcomes Japan's help in search for missing Malaysian jet
China on Wednesday welcomed the decision by Japan to send military aircraft to help locate a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner, with multinational search operations still having found no trace of the jet carrying 239 people days after it vanished.The Japanese government is set to dispatch four military aircraft to join the widening search operations to find the Boeing 777 plane, which disappeared from radar early Saturday while en route to Beijing.Asked about the Japanese government's decision,
March 12, 2014
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Seoul, Tokyo fail to make progress in strained relations
South Korea and Japan held vice ministerial level talks on Wednesday to discuss their strained relations, but not much progress was made despite hopes for a diplomatic thaw, a government official here said.In the meeting between South Korea's newly named Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yong and his Japanese counterpart Akitaka Saiki, the officials only reiterated their previous stances, the foreign affairs official said.The Seoul-Tokyo high-level talks, the first of their kind since Japanese Prime
March 12, 2014
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U.N. panel says ties with N. Korea's Air Koryo breach arms embargo
Doing business with North Korea's flag carrier, Air Koryo, could violate U.N.-led sanctions, according to U.N. report issued Tuesday. An eight-member expert panel with the U.N. Security Council said the airliner, as well as all airports and airfields in the nation, are actually run by the Air Force through its Civil Aviation Bureau. Accordingly, U.N. member states "should be aware that providing financial transactions, technical training, advice, services or assistance related to the provi
March 12, 2014
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Obama to bestow medals on 'overlooked' Korean War veterans
The sacrifice of U.S. soldiers in the Korean War and two other major conflicts decades ago will be highlighted once again by the White House next week, when President Barack Obama bestows top medals on two dozen Army veterans. Obama plans to award them the Medal of Honor "for their conspicuous gallantry" in an unusually massive White House ceremony on Tuesday, followed by a Pentagon induction event the following day. The 24 recipients include nine Korean War veterans, eight who served in the
March 12, 2014