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Actor Jung Woo-sung admits to being father of model Moon Ga-bi’s child
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Wealthy parents ditch Korean passports to get kids into international school
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Man convicted after binge eating to avoid military service
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First snow to fall in Seoul on Wednesday
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Final push to forge UN treaty on plastic pollution set to begin in Busan
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Nvidia CEO signals Samsung’s imminent shipment of AI chips
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Korea to hold own memorial for forced labor victims, boycotting Japan’s
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Opposition chief acquitted of instigating perjury
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Job creation lowest on record among under-30s
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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
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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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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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