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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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Industry experts predicts tough choices as NewJeans' ultimatum nears
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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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Job creation lowest on record among under-30s
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Opposition chief acquitted of instigating perjury
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Seoul, Washington fail to revise nuclear energy pact
South Korea and the U.S. have agreed to extend their bilateral atomic energy accord by two years after Seoul failed to secure Washington’s consent to develop independent nuclear fuel production capability, officials said Wednesday.The two countries have been in talks since October 2010 to amend the so-called 123 agreement which was signed in 1965, last revised in 1974 and due to expire next March. Despite progress in such issues as a joint research project for a new technology called pyroprocess
April 24, 2013
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Japan’s rightward shift dampens prospects of regional cooperation
Japan’s rightward political shift is exacerbating historical enmities harbored against it by South Korea and China, further dampening the prospects of regional security and economic cooperation.This week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a series of nationalist remarks that apparently denied his country’s colonial invasion of the Korean Peninsula and repeated a claim to Dokdo.On the back of more than 70 percent public support buoyed by his economic stimulus policy, the security hawk told
April 24, 2013
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Top diplomats of Korea, China to set up hotline
BEIJING (Yonhap News) ― South Korea’s Foreign Minister Yoon Byung-se said Wednesday he and his Chinese counterpart have agreed to open a 24-hour hotline for prompt policy consultations on North Korea.“With regard to North Korea’s several acts of raising tensions, the two sides agreed to closely work together to convince the North not to carry out additional provocations, while easing tensions on the Korean Peninsula,” Yun told reporters after a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi during
April 24, 2013
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[Newsmaker] Yasukuni: Perennial thorn in Korea-Japan ties
At the very heart of bustling Tokyo, a surreally serene, spacious shrine greets hundreds of thousands of worshippers every year seeking to pay tribute to their ancestors and lost loved ones. Albeit being one of the city’s most exquisite landmarks, the temple has for decades been a source of diplomatic feuds between Japan and its neighbors such as Korea and China.Yasukuni Shrine honors nearly 2.5 million Japanese war dead including top World War II criminals and is frequented by right-wing nation
April 23, 2013
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S. Korea raps Japanese leaders for shrine visits
South Korea scolded Japanese ministers and lawmakers Tuesday for paying homage at a controversial war shrine in Tokyo, saying such visits are evidence that Tokyo has never really repented for its wartime atrocities.Seoul's foreign ministry spokesman Cho Tai-young made the remarks a day after Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se canceled this week's planned visit to Japan in a diplomatic reprisal for visits by Japanese ministers to the Yasukuni shrine. Ignoring anger voiced by South Korea and China, nea
April 23, 2013
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Japan's security chief shelves Seoul trip over shrine visit
Japan's security chief canceled a visit to Seoul, a day before he paid tribute to a controversial war shrine that glorifies Tokyo's wartime atrocities, a diplomatic source in Seoul said Tuesday. Keiji Furuya, the chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and chief secretary of the Parliamentarian League on the North Korean abduction issue, had planned to make a two-day visit to South Korea from next Sunday and meet with Seoul's intelligence chief and home affairs minister. Furuya is one
April 23, 2013
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Japan’s lawmakers visit war shrine despite protests from Seoul
Japanese lawmakers visited controversial war shrine en masse Tuesday morning despite pouring criticism from South Korea and China.According to Kyoto News Agency, 168 members of the Japanese parliament visited the Yasukuni Shrine that venerates top World War criminals.Japan’s top officials, including Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso and National Public Safety Commission chairman Keiji Furuya paid visits to the shrine on Sunday. The visit triggered angry response from So
April 23, 2013
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Sea disputes, N.K. in spotlight at ASEAN summit
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei (AP) -- Worried that long-seething rifts could escalate over the South China Sea, Southeast Asian leaders are expected this week to press China to agree to start negotiations on a new pact aimed at thwarting a major clash in one of the world's busiest waterways.Concern over North Korea's latest threats is also expected to gain attention over economic issues in the annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, being held Wednesday and Thursday
April 22, 2013
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Foreign minister cancels Japan trip over shrine visit
Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se on Monday canceled his planned trip to Tokyo in protest against a visit by Japanese Cabinet ministers to a controversial war shrine venerating top World War II criminals. Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso, National Public Safety Commission chairman Keiji Furuya and other ranking officials paid tribute to the Yasukuni Shrine on Sunday, while Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent flowers. The South Korean Foreign Ministry expressed “deep concern and
April 22, 2013
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Top U.S. general reminds China of commitment to Japan
BEIJING (AFP) -- The top U.S. military officer told China's leaders on Wednesday that Washington is committed to defending Japan, as Beijing and Tokyo engage in intensified rhetoric over a territorial row.General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is visiting China just as the dispute between Beijing and Tokyo over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea is again heating up.Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed Tuesday to "expel by force" any Chinese landing on the islan
April 22, 2013
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S. Korean FM cancels trip to Japan over Tokyo war shrine
South Korean foreign minister Yun Byung-se has canceled his trip to Japan this week in diplomatic protest against a series of visits by Japan's cabinet members to a controversial war shrine, a Seoul official said Monday. Yun had planned to hold his first bilateral talks with Japanese foreign minister Fumio Kishida during his two-day visit to Tokyo from Friday, but abandoned the plan after two Japanese ministers visited the Yasukuni war shrine on Sunday, the senior official at Yun's ministry said
April 22, 2013
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ASEAN-Korea Center promotes Bruneian food industry
Korea and Brunei are increasing trade in food products by sharing industry expertise on product development and marketing.ASEAN-Korea Center held a seminar Thursday in Brunei’s capital city Bandar Seri Begawan, with the Brunei Economic Development Board and the Brunei Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.The ASEAN-Korea Center hosted the seminar, “2013 Seminar on Developing Local Food Products for the Global Market,” in the Southeast Asian country which is a member of the Association of Southea
April 21, 2013
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Irish veterans re-visit Korea for war memorial dedication
A group of 12 Irish Veterans of the Korean War arrived in Seoul on Monday to participate in a special dedication of a war memorial.The group will take part in commemorations and other events with veterans from Commonwealth countries, including a visit to the United Nations cemetery in Busan where many of their fallen comrades are buried, according to a statement from the Irish Embassy on Sunday.The trip was sponsored by the Ministry and Patriot Affairs.The culmination of the group’s visit takes
April 21, 2013
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Danish children’s book exhibition not kid stuff
Koreans and expatriates here can set off on a narrative adventure with the Danish tradition of storytelling in illustrated children’s books at five locations around the country this spring and summer.The moving exhibition explores some 70 years of illustrated children’s books at five locations in Seoul, Gangwon Province and Busan until July 28.The exhibition looks at children’s storytelling from the 1940s when the character, Pippi Longstocking, was conjured up by Astrid Lindgren to entertain her
April 21, 2013
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Gardening strengthens French-Korean links
The mayor of the French city of Nantes said on Wednesday that cooperation on gardening and urban sustainable development with sister city Suncheon in South Jeolla Province marks the start of even closer links in the future.“We must to build closer links, and naturally this is an area around which our two cities can cooperate,” said Mayor Patrick Rimbert during a reception at the French Embassy in Korea on Wednesday.Rimbert arrived in Seoul on April 14 to take part in the opening ceremony of the
April 21, 2013
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New president could mean closer ties between Seoul and Caracas
On the eve of President Nicolas Maduro’s inauguration in Caracas, the Venezuelan Embassy here celebrated with a toned-down reception Friday at the residence of the South American country’s Charge d’Affaires Yadira Hidalgo de Ortiz.The informal gathering was in deference to protocol; Hidalgo had left Korea to go to Caracas on April 9 and a Korean delegation led by National Assembly Vice Speaker Park Byeong-seug traveled there on Wednesday to attend the ceremony. Delegations from more than 60 cou
April 21, 2013
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Kerry calls N.K. talks conditions unacceptable
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday dismissed a set of pre-conditions laid out by North Korea for talks as “unacceptable,” calling them an opening “gambit” from Pyongyang.The isolated North on Thursday responded for the first time to an offer from Kerry during his weekend visit to the Korean peninsula to return to the negotiating table in a bid to defuse heightened nuclear tensions.The demands by the North’s main military body included the withdrawal of UN sanctions and a permanent end t
April 19, 2013
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U.S. agrees to support S. Korea's exports of nuclear power plants
The United States has agreed to actively support South Korea seeking to export its nuclear power plants, government sources here said Friday, though the countries have failed, at least for now, to renew their bilateral accord on civilian nuclear cooperation.The countries held three days of talks in the U.S. this week to revise their nuclear accord, known as the 123 agreement."There were three main areas of discussion in the negotiations, which were what to do with spent fuel rods, how to secure
April 19, 2013
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Korea, U.S. extend talks on nuclear accord
South Korea and the United States decided to extend formal negotiations aimed at revising a bilateral civilian nuclear accord for an additional day, a Seoul official said Thursday, after two days of talks failed to narrow differences. The allies began a new round of talks on Tuesday in Washington to rewrite the 1974 agreement that bans Seoul from reprocessing spent fuel because it could yield plutonium that could be used to build atomic bombs. Seoul wants Washington to allow it to use a prolifer
April 18, 2013
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Police find NIS intervened online in presidential election
Police concluded Thursday that two National Intelligence Service agents illegally intervened in the last presidential election by posting comments critical of the opposition party on the Internet closely before the poll.Police have looked into suspicions that a female employee tried to influence the Dec. 19, 2012 presidential election on behalf of the agency by writing more than 120 online posts about politically sensitive issues under multiple IDs months before the polls opened.After four month
April 18, 2013
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