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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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Industry experts predicts tough choices as NewJeans' ultimatum nears
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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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Kidnapped Korean official freed in Libya
A Korean trade official abducted in Tripoli was released after Libyan authorities arrested the gunmen Thursday, capping a three-day kidnapping that prompted Seoul to issue a travel alert and highlighted the instability of the North African country. Han Seok-woo, head of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency’s Libya unit, was handed over uninjured to the Korean Embassy in the capital at about 4:15 a.m., Seoul time, the Foreign Ministry here said. He was kidnapped by four men while heading h
Jan. 23, 2014
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Park to present 'creative economy' in Davos
President Park Geun-hye on Wednesday will present her vision of “creative economy” to political and business leaders attending the annual World Economic Forum at the Swiss ski resort of Davos.In her keynote speech which would open the first session of the forum, Park is expected to introduce the Korean government’s economic reform strategy based on her mantra of “creative economy.” Her vision is aimed at nurturing creative ideas from all over society, assimilating them with ICT and science techn
Jan. 22, 2014
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Obama to meet with Pope Francis in March
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican as part of a weeklong European trip scheduled for March.The White House says Obama "looks forward to discussing with Pope Francis their shared commitment to fighting poverty and growing inequality" during their March 27 meeting. Obama also plans to meet in Rome with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Enrico Letta.Obama's trip begins March 24-25 in The Hague, Netherlands, where he will partic
Jan. 21, 2014
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China seized 60,000 piracy suspects last year
BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese state media say police seized almost 60,000 suspects involved in intellectual property infringement cases with a total estimated value of 173 billion yuan ($28 billion) in 2013.The official Xinhua News Agency says more than 90 million tons of counterfeit and substandard goods were confiscated last year, and more than 1,000 criminal networks smashed.It also reported Tuesday that during a campaign against the sale of fake drugs online, police seized a record 300 million pil
Jan. 21, 2014
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Park takes firsthand look at Swiss vocational school
BERN, (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye visited a vocational high school in Switzerland on Tuesday in an effort to learn from the European country's advanced job education system seen as a key to the highly competitive economy.Bolstering cooperation in vocational training has been a top priority for Park's state visit to Switzerland, a small country with population of mere 8 million yet one of the biggest economies in Europe. The Swiss economy has often been cited as the most com
Jan. 21, 2014
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Syria photos prove mass torture by Assad regime: report
LONDON, (AFP) -- Former international prosecutors said Tuesday they have evidence from a defector proving that the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has systematically killed and tortured around 11,000 people.A report by three top investigators commissioned by Qatar, which backs the Syrian rebels, examined thousands of pictures said to have been smuggled out by a former military police photographer.The report, which was first released in the Guardian and on CNN, shows evidence of starva
Jan. 21, 2014
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Visitor from Australia killed in crash on NY road
POMFRET, New York (AP) -- Police in New York State say a 49-year-old woman killed in a three-vehicle crash on a snow-covered road was visiting from Australia.Troopers say Carolanne Boulionis from Melbourne was driving a pickup truck too fast for the weather conditions on Route 60 Monday afternoon when she lost control and crossed into oncoming traffic in the Chautauqua (shuh-TAW'-kwuh) County town of Pomfret, 35 miles (56 kilometers) southwest of Buffalo.Police say her pickup hit a truck, while
Jan. 21, 2014
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S. Korea, China hold working-level defense dialogue
South Korea and China held their 13th working-level defense meeting on Tuesday to arrange bilateral consultations and exchange programs aimed at promoting military ties, Seoul's defense ministry said.Lee Jeong-gyu, the South Korean defense ministry's international policy director, met with his Chinese counterpart Hu Changming to coordinate the vice defense ministerial dialogue and this year's exchange plans between the two armed forces, the ministry said.The two sides agreed to have Chinese defe
Jan. 21, 2014
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Park takes firsthand look at Swiss vocational school
BERN (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye visited a vocational high school in Switzerland on Tuesday in an effort to learn from the European country's advanced job education system seen as a key to the highly competitive economy.Bolstering cooperation in vocational training has been a top priority for Park's state visit to Switzerland, a small country with population of mere 8 million yet one of the biggest economies in Europe. The Swiss economy has often been cited as the most compe
Jan. 21, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Korea-Japan tension rises over memorial
Tension is intensifying further in Northeast Asia after Japan protested the launch of new facilities devoted to a Korean independence fighter in China, triggering strong condemnation from Seoul. Tokyo’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Monday slammed the memorial hall that opened a day before to honor Ahn Jung-geun, who fatally shot Japan’s first Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito in Harbin in 1909 in protest against its colonial rule. Suga said Ahn was a “terrorist sentenced to death” for the
Jan. 21, 2014
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U.S. concerned about reckless N. Korea: deputy secretary
The United States and South Korea are concerned about the recent developments in North Korea and its possible provocations, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns said Tuesday, expressing commitment to talks for denuclearizing the communist country.Burns made the remarks during a press briefing in Seoul following the meeting with Seoul’s First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kyou-hyun. The deputy secretary is here for a two-day visit from Monday on the first leg of his three-nation visit to Nort
Jan. 21, 2014
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Korean kidnapped in Libya confirmed unharmed: official
A South Korean trade agency employee kidnapped in Libya has been confirmed to be unharmed, a ranking government official said Tuesday.Han Seok-woo, the head of the Libya unit of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, was abducted Monday by four unidentified Libyan gunmen on his way home, prompting Seoul to ramp up efforts to win his release.“Han has been confirmed to be unharmed,” the official said, without disclosing how he confirmed his safety and who was behind the abduction.The governm
Jan. 21, 2014
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Korean trade official abducted in Libya
A South Korean official at a state-run trade agency was kidnapped in Libya by unidentified armed men, and his whereabouts remains unknown, the Foreign Ministry confirmed Monday. Han Seok-woo, head of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency’s Libya unit, was abducted by four gunmen while on his way home from his office in Tripoli at around 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, ministry officials said. The assailants headed west, leaving behind Han’s car and Iraqi driver, who reported the incident to the Korea
Jan. 20, 2014
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China dismisses Japan’s protest over memorial to Korean independence hero
BEIJING (Yonhap News) ― China on Monday dismissed a diplomatic protest by Japan over its memorial to a revered Korean independence hero as unacceptable, renewing its calls for Japanese leaders to squarely face history. The Chinese government opened the memorial hall on Sunday in the northern city of Harbin to honor Ahn Jung-geun, the symbol of the Korean independence movement, who assassinated a prominent Japanese colonial leader a century ago. Ahn shot to death the Korean Peninsula’s first Japa
Jan. 20, 2014
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China opens hall honoring Korean independence fighter
China opened a memorial hall on Sunday honoring a Korean independence fighter who assassinated a prominent Japanese colonial leader in 1909, Seoul’s foreign ministry said. In October 1909, Ahn Jung-geun shot to death Hirobumi Ito, the first Japanese governor-general of Korea, in Harbin, China. A year later, he was executed at a Japanese prison in the northern Chinese city of Ryojun, now called Lushun.The assassination by Ahn occurred prior to the beginning of Japan’s brutal 36-year colonial rule
Jan. 19, 2014
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Park arrives in Switzerland for summit, Davos Forum
BERN ― South Korean President Park Geun-hye arrived in Switzerland on Saturday for a state visit to Bern and an annual meeting of global business leaders and politicians at the Swiss ski resort of Davos.Park is the first South Korean president to make a state visit to the European country since the two sides opened diplomatic relations in 1963. Officials said Switzerland invites only one foreign leader for a state visit a year and that this year’s invitation to Park shows that the country hopes
Jan. 19, 2014
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‘Win-win partnerships’ key to Korea-Africa relations
For ties between South Korea and Africa, 2012’s Korea-Africa Forum was a game changer. But what is key now is implementing what was agreed and building win-win partnerships, according to Nigeria’s ambassador to Korea. He is optimistic that the two nations will convene their fifth Joint Korea-Nigeria Commission in Seoul in the second quarter of the year, and make arrangements for a state visit by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. “We have so much room to strengthen diplomatic relations. We ca
Jan. 19, 2014
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U.S. to brief S. Korea on NSA reforms: official
The United States will brief South Korea on the recently announced reforms of the scandal-hit National Security Agency, including a likely ban on eavesdropping on South Korean President Park Geun-hye, a South Korean government official said Sunday.On Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama pledged to limit the NSA's eavesdropping on leaders of U.S. allies amid international outrage over revelations that the intelligence agency wiretapped the conversations of the leaders of 35 nations.Seoul filed sev
Jan. 19, 2014
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Azerbaijan remembers ‘Black January’
The following article was contributed by the Azerbaijani Embassy in South Korea. The views expressed do not represent the opinions of The Korea Herald. ― Ed.Twenty-four years have passed since the Central Soviet Authorities perpetrated an atrocious crime against the people of Azerbaijan. On Jan. 20, 1990, 26,000 Soviet troops invaded the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku, in a desperate, brutal and yet futile attempt to strangle the growing independence movement and prevent the fall of the Soviet Comm
Jan. 19, 2014
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Envoy eyes Olympic dream in sports exchange program
Kenya’s top envoy here inaugurated this year’s Dream Program, which brings over a hundred young people from more than three dozen countries around the world for intensive training in winter sports, with some experiencing a snowy climate for the first time.“Without the organizing committee’s efforts, dedication and hard work, most of these young people would not have any idea of sports like skiing, snowboarding and skating,” said Kenyan Ambassador to South Korea Ngovi Kitau, during his inaugural
Jan. 19, 2014
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