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[KH Explains] Can smart chargers ease tensions over EV fires?
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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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Evicted guest burns down inn; 3 killed
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[Herald Interview] US election may unleash growth for Korea: Laffer
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[Online Predators] Online reviews of sex tourism in Southeast Asia proliferate
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Yoon's Prague visit sets stage for W24tr nuclear power plant deal
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S. Korea, U.S. in close contact over Obama's Asia trip plan
South Korea and the United State are in close communication over U.S. President Barack Obama's potential trip to Seoul during his planned visit to Asia in April, the foreign ministry here said Tuesday."(Seoul) is closely communicating with the U.S. side," foreign ministry spokesman Cho Tai-young said in a briefing in response to a question over the April visit.Government sources have earlier said Obama may travel to Seoul and Beijing in April to hold bilateral summits during his planned visit to
Feb. 4, 2014
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Virginia bill on 'East Sea' in home stretch
Use of the name East Sea in textbooks won approval Monday from a Virginia legislative committee, leaving just two steps before a longtime dream of the local Korean-American community comes true.The House of Delegates education panel passed it in a 18-3 vote. The House floor is expected to vote Thursday on the bill, which requires new school textbooks to name the body of water between Korea and Japan the East Sea as well as the Sea of Japan.Chances are high that it will pass the floor, given the
Feb. 4, 2014
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Vice foreign minister tapped as head of NSC secretariat
Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kyou-hyun on Monday was appointed head of the secretariat of Cheong Wa Dae’s National Security Council, the presidential office said. The 61-year-old career diplomat will also assume the vice ministerial position of vice chief of the National Security Office headed by Kim Jang-soo. “Kim not only excels in leadership, external negotiations and crisis management, but also is equipped with a strategic mindset with regard to national security,” Ju Chul-ki, senior presidenti
Feb. 3, 2014
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‘Korea ties symbolic for Hungary’
Once a Warsaw Pact nation with ties to North Korea, Hungary was the first nation from the communist camp to break ranks and establish diplomatic relations with South Korea.Hungarian ties to the North date back to the Korean War. It built a hospital, the Rakosi Matyas Hungarian Hospital, outside Pyongyang, and hundreds of doctors and medical staff worked there through the 1950s, treating patients and further developing the facility. The two nations supported each other. Some 200 North Korean war
Feb. 2, 2014
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‘Morsi’s ouster necessary to secure Jan. 25 Revolution’
Egypt’s top diplomat in South Korea said the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi last year on June 30 was necessary for the future of Egyptian democracy, as the envoy marked the 3rd anniversary of the Jan. 25th Revolution in 2011 at Hankook University of Foreign Studies in Seoul on Jan. 23. Egyptian Ambassador to South Korea Hany Selim said the revolution that took place in 2011 was part of a wider push for democracy and human dignity across the Arab world, and that the Egyptian military’s over
Feb. 2, 2014
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Local staff act as the faces of foreign embassies in Korea
Rew Ji-sun, a long-time local staff member at the South African Embassy here, helped others set up for the monthly club meeting as her elementary school aged daughter drew in her coloring book.The Embassy Staff Club has been meeting monthly like this for most of its 24-year history with members often bringing their kids to meetings.Local staff like Rew comprise a crucial contingent in every one of the more than 110 foreign diplomatic missions here in South Korea.The reason is simple: The Korean
Feb. 2, 2014
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Germany awards ex-P.M. Kim for promoting ties
Kim Hwang-sik, who was prime minister during the Lee Myung-bak administration and recently touted as a possible candidate in the coming Seoul mayoral race, was awarded a prestigious medal by German Ambassador to South Korea Rolf Mafael on Jan. 23 for Kim’s part in promoting bilateral ties.Mafael awarded Kim the Knight Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany during a private reception at the ambassador’s residence in the Seongbuk-dong neighborhood of Seoul. Seni
Feb. 2, 2014
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[Photo News] Atomic partnership
Feb. 2, 2014
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South Korea, India expand cooperation on education
Indian and South Korean universities signed MOUs to boost student and educational exchanges in early January.Professor Nah Yoon-jong, executive director of the International Ccoperation Division at Tongmyong University, signed MOUs with the leaders at two Indian universities ― Indian Institute of Technology and Amity University in Guwahati and Dehli, respectively. He also signed a letter of engagement with Banaras Hindu University.The series of cooperation agreements between the centers of highe
Feb. 2, 2014
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New Chinese ambassador to Seoul to take office in mid-February
China's new ambassador to South Korea will likely take office in mid-February, according to the Chinese Embassy here on Sunday.China had requested Seoul's approval for the appointment of Qiu Guohong, the director general of the Department of External Security Affairs at the Chinese foreign ministry, in early January.Qiu would replace former Ambassador Zhang Xinsen, who finished his four year stint as China's envoy to Seoul and returned home last month."After finishing the bilateral process betwe
Feb. 2, 2014
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S. Korea denounces Japanese leader over Dokdo comments
South Korea lashed out Friday at Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his remarks that Tokyo is considering bringing their territorial dispute over Dokdo to the International Court of Justice.Japan has long laid claims to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo, stoking deep resentment among South Koreans against Japan, which colonized the Korean Peninsula in 1910-45.Seoul's Foreign Ministry condemned Abe's comment made a day earlier, calling it nothing but "empty rhetoric and a meaningless
Jan. 31, 2014
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Virginia's House panel passes bill on East Sea name
A legislative panel at the Virginia House of Delegates on Thursday passed a bill requiring new school textbooks to use the Korean name East Sea as well as the Sea of Japan.The 5-4 vote in the education subcommittee kept alive the Korean-American community's hopes that Virginia will become the first U.S. state to introduce legislation to identify the waters between Korea and Japan as the East Sea.The state's Senate approved a similar bill last week.Koreans contend the Sea of Japan, still more pop
Jan. 31, 2014
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Kerry expected to visit Korea, China in Feb.
WASHINGTON (Yonhap) ― U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will likely visit South Korea and China next month, diplomatic sources here said Sunday.The State Department is in consultations with the governments of the two countries for the secretary’s trips for the purpose of discussing North Korea, history and territorial tensions in Northeast Asia, and other pending issues, they added.“Secretary Kerry is considering trips to China and South Korea in February. He is expected to visit the two countr
Jan. 27, 2014
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U.S. envoy holds talks in Beijing amid N. Korea’s charm offensive
BEIJING (Yonhap) ― The U.S. special envoy for North Korea held talks with senior Chinese officials on Monday to discuss their policy toward the North as Pyongyang pushes Seoul to cancel annual military drills with Washington.U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy Glyn Davies arrived in Beijing late Sunday on the first leg of his three-nation trip that will also take him to South Korea and Japan this week. In Beijing, Davies started talks with Chinese officials, including Executive Vi
Jan. 27, 2014
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Iranian leader willing to mediate between Koreas
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is willing to play a mediator's role in resolving difficult issues between the two Koreas, a South Korean official now visiting Iran said Monday.The Iranian leader made the remarks during his meeting with South Korean Assembly Speaker Kang Chang-hee in Tehran on Monday, according to Kang's spokesman Bae Sung-rye.Kang is the first South Korean Assembly speaker to visit Iran since the two countries established diplomatic ties in 1962.The spokesman said Rouhani told
Jan. 27, 2014
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Pursuit of nuclear weapons is top N. Korea issue: top U.S. diplomat on Asia
The most important issue concerning North Korea is the challenge it poses by continuing to pursue nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, the top U.S. diplomat on Asia said Sunday.Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Russel made the remarks after meeting South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Kyung-soo in Seoul, saying the talks were part of intensive and in-depth discussions between South Korea and the U.S. on important issues related to North Korea.Russel, who accompanied Deputy Secretary of
Jan. 26, 2014
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NHK chief’s sex slave remark triggers uproar
The new chairman of Japan’s public TV station NHK has stirred controversy over the weekend as he claimed that the system of forcing women to serve at military brothels during World War II was “common in any country at war.”Katsuto Momii, the top NHK official, said in his first news conference on Saturday that such institution existed “everywhere” and it is being treated as “wrong” when viewed from “today’s morality.”“Can we say there were none in Germany or France? It was everywhere in Europe,”
Jan. 26, 2014
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Iraq seeks stronger Korea ties
After invading Iraq with the goal of eliminating suspected weapons of mass destruction and sweeping Saddam Hussein from power, United States forces dissolved the Iraqi army in April 2003, opting to rebuild it from scratch.Eleven years on, Iraq seeks a new partnership with South Korea, a U.S. ally, said its top diplomat here. Iraq celebrated a re-constituted and robust military ― now 1 million strong ― on Army Day with a reception in Seoul on Friday.“Korea has a brand name in Iraq. Korea has a pr
Jan. 26, 2014
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Gala celebrates Swedish Chamber of Commerce
Swedish Ambassador to South Korea Lars Danielsson lauded the work of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce Korea as it celebrated two years as an organization with a gala dinner in Seoul on Friday.The Swedish Chamber, headed by chair Peter Carlberg of Alfa Laval with vice chair Gustaf Hakan Borin of SAAB, two Swedish companies with offices in Seoul, was established as a result of a growing Swedish business community here. There is also keen local interest in Swedish industrial creativity, innovation a
Jan. 26, 2014
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S. African envoy advises aspiring young diplomats
What is the most important attribute for a diplomat? The question is as straightforward as it is fundamental.Over 120 school pupils ages 12 to 18 from across the country quizzed South African Ambassador Hilton Dennis on what it takes to be an ambassador, South Africa’s support during the Korean War, and the legacy of Nelson Mandela at Kookmin University in Seoul on Friday.It was all part of a three-day program, the Young Opinion Leaders Knowledge Forum, organized by The Korea Herald over the wee
Jan. 26, 2014