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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 says no plan to revise wartime sex-slave apology
TOKYO (AFP) ― Japan has no plan to revise a landmark 1993 apology over wartime sex slavery, the government‘s top spokesman said Monday, despite a controversial review of the statement which has sparked a backlash at home and abroad.The landmark apology, known as the Kono statement, acknowledged official complicity in the coercion of women from across Asia into a system of wartime brothels, an issue that draws particular resentment in neighboring South Korea.South Korean President Park Geun-hye h
March 10, 2014
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Sudanese foreign minister to visit Seoul
After more than a decade since their last meeting, South Korean and Sudanese diplomatic officials sat down for their fourth bilateral consultations in Seoul on Wednesday with the aim of forming two-way ties. The last time the two nations held such bilateral talks was 11 years ago in 2003.The Sudanese side was led by Abdel Mahmood Abdel Haleem, director general of bilateral and regional relations at the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the previous Sudanese ambassador to the United Nation
March 9, 2014
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Malaysia to take part in medical trade show at Coex
Korean society is aging rapidly, making family-centered health care a big issue for many South Korean baby boomers.The effects of this phenomenon on the local medical industry is bound to make its annual trade show more important than ever. Six Malaysian health care equipment providers are looking to expand commercial ties between South Korea and the Southeast Asian nation. Malaysia is the leading supplier of medical gloves, with a market share of about 50 percent in more than 180 countries. It
March 9, 2014
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Aussie volleyball star named goodwill ambassador
The Australian Embassy here honored professional volleyball player Thomas Edgar with the designation of goodwill ambassador for his role in promoting friendly bilateral ties on Monday.Australian Ambassador to South Korea William Paterson named the 24-year-old star athlete a goodwill ambassador in a small ceremony at the chancery’s Australia Center in downtown Seoul.Edgar joined the LIG Greaters in South Korea during the 2012-2013 V-League season. He previously played for the Italian Serie A2 clu
March 9, 2014
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Polish Embassy brings cultural collaboration in exhibition
The Polish ambassador here hosted foreign envoys and art enthusiasts at the opening of an art exhibition that featured two Polish painters who participated in three-week residencies in South Korea.“Both artists visited Korea and became fascinated with Korean culture and its natural surroundings,” said Polish Ambassador to South Korea Krzysztof Majka during the exhibition’s opening reception at Samsung Raemian Gallery in Seoul on Tuesday.The artists were hosted by Mosan Art Museum in Boryeong Cit
March 9, 2014
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Envoy notes similar pasts of Bulgaria, Korea
The Bulgarian Ambassador here underscored a cultural triumph that the southeast European nation shares with South Korea during a reception in Seoul on Monday to celebrate Bulgaria’s Liberation Day.Bulgarian Ambassador Petar Andonov, pointed out at an event to mark the 136th anniversary of Bulgaria’s liberation from five centuries of Ottoman rule that both countries had invented alphabets ― Korea developed Hangeul and Bulgaria the Cyrillic alphabet.On March 3, 1878, a peace treaty was signed betw
March 9, 2014
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Embassy brings taste of Ecuador to Seoul
Seoulites can experience authentic Ecuadorian cuisine throughout the month for the first time ever thanks to a special promotional drive by the Ecuadorian Embassy here.The embassy’s commercial office has organized a special program focusing particular attention on the South American country’s shrimp products, at the Orangerie Dining Salon at the Millennium Seoul Hilton Hotel until March 31.Ecuadorian chef Ruth Maria Moreno was flown in to Seoul to prepare a menu of traditional Ecuadorian food ad
March 9, 2014
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Korea, Kenya open business forum to upgrade trade ties
Kenya and South Korea launched the first-ever organization dedicated to upgrading commercial ties between the East African nation and Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Key South Korean business leaders met with Kenyan Ambassador Ngovi Kitau in a launch ceremony in southern Seoul on Feb. 27The Kenya-Korea Economic Forum will include 17 South Korean business leaders, such as Shinn Tae-yong, chairman of Korea Importers Association (KOIMA), and Chung Kun-mo, a member of Kenya’s National Economic and So
March 9, 2014
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Uruguayan Ambassador Legnani encourages women to aim high
“Every woman has to fight. She has to fight for her future, and her future does not have to be to take care of the house,” said Uruguayan Ambassador to South Korea Alba Florio Legnani in an interview with The Korea Herald on Wednesday, days before International Women’s Day was celebrated around the world.Legnani is one of just seven female ambassadors out of the 100-plus heads of diplomatic missions here. She is also the senior envoy of an informal caucus of women ambassadors working in South Ko
March 9, 2014
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U.S. congressmen urge reunions of divided Korean-American families
Four U.S. congressmen submitted a resolution to a House committee calling for the reunion of Koreans in the United States with their long-lost families in North Korea, according to the Library of Congress. The measure was sponsored by Rep. Charles Rangel, Howard Coble, John Conyers and Samuel Johnson, all Korean War veterans. "The division on the Korean Peninsula separated more than 10,000,000 Korean family members, including some who are now citizens of the United States," said the resoluti
March 8, 2014
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Malaysia, Vietnam mount search for airliner carrying 239 people
Malaysia and Vietnam launched searches on Saturday for a Malaysia Airlines flight that lost contact with traffic controllers, as fears mounted over the fate of the 239 people aboard.Vietnamese state media said citing a Navy official that the Kuala Lumpur-Beijing bound Flight MH370 had crashed into the sea, some 240 kilometers off the coast of Vietnam's Tho Chu Island.Vietnamese authorities said contact with Flight MH370 was lost near the country's airspace, but its exact location remained a myst
March 8, 2014
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Virginia legislature approves bill on ‘East Sea’ name
WASHINGTON (Yonhap) ― Virginia legislators wrapped up all legislative procedures in both chambers on the “East Sea” bill Wednesday, passing the onus to Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe.Last month, the House and Senate approved bills that require all public schools to name the body of water between Korea and Japan as the East Sea as well as the Sea of Japan. Koreans view the name Sea of Japan, which is still better known worldwide, as a relic of Japan’s imperialistic past, including the colonizati
March 6, 2014
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U.S. envoy denounces Japan's wartime sex slavery as 'grave human rights violation'
The U.S. ambassador to Seoul said Thursday Japan's sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II is "a grave human rights violation," expressing hope for Tokyo to take steps to ease the pains of victims. Sung Kim made the remarks at a forum hosted by the Kwanhun Club, a senior journalists' association, in Seoul, echoing Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se's criticism the previous day in Geneva of Japan's attempts to deny its wartime atrocities."Yes, I agree (with Yun)," Kim said. "The comfort
March 6, 2014
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Yun presses Japan over sex slavery at U.N.
Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se urged Tokyo to take steps to resolve its mobilization of sex slaves at a U.N. session on Wednesday, denouncing a recent series of revisionist moves and remarks by Japanese officials and politicians. It was the first time a top South Korean diplomat raised the issue and criticized Japan by name at the U.N., reflecting Seoul’s toughened stance in line with Tokyo’s accelerating swing to the right. In his keynote speech at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Yun sa
March 5, 2014
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[Graphic News] Singapore is world’s costliest city: survey
Singapore replaced Tokyo as the world‘s most expensive city due to its soaring costs of cars and utilities as well as a strong currency, according to the 2014 Worldwide Cost of Living survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit.Despite Abenomics driving consumer confidence and price inflation, a weaker yen has pushed the Japanese capital to sixth place. Seoul ranked 17th in the survey, which examined prices across 160 products and services in 140 cities.(Source: Economist Intelligence Unit)
March 5, 2014
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U.S. wants Korea, Japan to jointly seek ‘healing’ over history: Russel
WASHINGTON (Yonhap) ― The United States hopes that South Korea and Japan will make a concerted effort to promote the “healing” of the legacy from their shared history, especially in the 20th century, a key U.S. government official on Asia said Tuesday.“They are both dealing with the legacy of very, very sensitive and very difficult issues, historical issues from the 20th century.These legacy issues can’t be solved by any one party alone,” Daniel Russel, the assistant secretary of state for East
March 5, 2014
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Minister to raise N.K. human rights, sex slavery at U.N.
Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se plans to ratchet up pressure on Japan over its wartime enslavement of women and call for global efforts for better human rights conditions in North Korea at a U.N. session on Wednesday, officials said Tuesday. Yun departed for Geneva early Tuesday morning for a U.N. Human Rights Council session scheduled for March 3-28. He will be the first South Korean top diplomat to attend the meeting since 2006, and the first ever to raise the sex slavery issue there. His three-
March 4, 2014
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Minister to raise N.K. human rights, sex slavery at U.N.
Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se plans to ratchet up pressure on Japan over its wartime enslavement of women and call for global efforts for better human rights conditions in North Korea at a U.N. session on Wednesday, officials said Tuesday. Yun departed for Geneva early Tuesday morning for a U.N. Human Rights Council session scheduled for March 3-28. He will be the first South Korean top diplomat to attend the meeting since 2006, and the first ever to raise the sex slavery issue there. His three-
March 4, 2014
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Tokyo official’s sex slaves remark angers Korea
A senior Japanese government official touched off another wave of criticism from South Korea by suggesting that all the historical facts about Japan’s sexual enslavement of women during World War II might have been fabricated. Yoshitaka Sakurada, senior vice minister of education, made the controversial remark at a rally of about 500 nationalists who called for the Japanese government to reevaluate the Kono statement. “I am a person who does not like lies, fooling others or fabricating the truth
March 4, 2014
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Former U.N. climate chief to head GGGI
The Global Green Growth Institute on Monday tapped as its new director general Yvo de Boer, former executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Seoul-based organization said. He will replace Howard Bamsey, who plans to return to his native Australia after a one-year stint. De Boer, currently the global chairman of climate change and sustainability services at KPMG International, one of the world’s largest accounting and consulting networks, is due to begin his four
March 3, 2014