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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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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
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UNHCR ups efforts to protect N.K. defectors
This is the second installment in a new series featuring the growing number of United Nations offices in Korea. ― Ed. With a steady influx of North Korean defectors into the South, the U.N. High Commission for Refugees is ramping up diplomatic efforts and public campaigns to ensure their safe passage and preclude any repatriation, its Seoul chief said. Calls have been growing for multinational bodies to take bolder steps to protect North Koreans in the face of dire living conditions, rampant hum
March 2, 2014
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East Sea a thorny diplomatic issue
An obvious task of any foreign service officer is to avoid controversy but, sometimes that is easier said than done, as even the map used on a foreign embassy’s web site in South Korea can stir passions. The Justice Party, a small progressive political party here, found that 16 out of 17 foreign embassies with maps on their websites displayed neutral or Japanese friendly place names ― “Liancourt Rocks” and “Sea of Japan” ― for designations that South Korea insists are the Dokdo Islets and East S
March 2, 2014
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Korea, Southeast Asia discuss improving regional ties
Southeast Asia includes 600 million people of different ethnicities, cultures, languages, religions ― and disparate income levels. But despite these differences, the region is marked by widespread peace and economic development. The challenge now is how to take it to the next level. High-level national and regional leaders from Southeast Asia and South Korea convened on Wednesday in Seoul to review decades of forward-looking regional building, 25 years of ties between Seoul and ASEAN and the pat
March 2, 2014
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Indonesian envoy hosts CICI alumni reception
Indonesian Ambassador to South Korea John Prasetio hosted a reception for the Corea Image and Communication Institute celebrating “graduates” of past sessions and the start of the 17th session of the group’s CQ Forum at his residence in Yeouido on Tuesday. CQ has some 300 members from various countries, including several foreign envoys. Many of them have completed one session or more of the group’s forums. “I admire what CICI is trying to do by assembling the international community in Korea. Th
March 2, 2014
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Envoys collaborate to host translator Kevin O’Rourke
The ambassadors of Sweden and Ireland jointly hosted Kevin O’Rourke, a perennial expatriate and translator of thousands of Korean poems, in the Seoul Literary Society’s first reception of the year held at the Irish ambassador’s residence in Seongbuk-dong, Seoul, Wednesday. O’Rourke, a Columban missionary, spoke before a packed house of expatriates, foreign envoys and local VIPs. He talked at length about Korean literature, literati and the social transformation of this country, during the 33rd g
March 2, 2014
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Kenyan safaris could be next big thing for Koreans
The Kenyan Embassy here and the Kenya Tourist Board, the top travel promoter for the country, pitched to prospective South Korean tourists and travel agents in a bid to attract a larger number of South Korean visitors to the East African nation. The embassy and the board brought seven Kenyan travel companies for a two-day, two-city road show in Seoul and Busan on Wednesday and Thursday. Kenyan Ambassador to South Korea Ngovi Kitau said Kenya is riding on the launch of Korean Airlines’ direct fli
March 2, 2014
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Germany, Korea collaborate on transportation
Germany and South Korea are ratcheting up cooperation on high-tech transportation issues, including energy and the environment, in efforts to get a jump on what officials described as the transportation infrastructure of the future.“E-mobility” was the catch word that best sums up a visit here by representatives from Germany’s auto industry. An invention of auto industry consultancies, e-mobility refers to the rapidly increasing popularity of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, as well as smar
March 2, 2014
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Tokyo releases video clip against East Sea campaign
Tensions between Korea and Japan are growing again as Tokyo released Monday an online video clip that criticizes Seoul’s efforts to have the name East Sea used along with Sea of Japan in U.S. textbooks. Japan’s latest response came as some U.S. lawmakers pledged to push for the adoption of the dual-name system after Virginia passed a bill this month requiring makers of school textbooks to label the body of water between the two countries with both names.“The (name) Sea of Japan has been used sin
Feb. 25, 2014
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Naturalized scholar from Japan launches Dokdo website
A naturalized South Korean professor from Japan launched a website on Monday to fight Tokyo’s renewed claims to South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo, a research institute said.Yuji Hosaka, a naturalized Korean and head of the Dokdo Research Institute of Sejong University, opened the website (www.dokdoandeastasia.com) in three languages ― Korean, Japanese and English.A fact sheet provided on the website includes an official document released in 1877 by the Meiji government in Japan, which de
Feb. 24, 2014
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Danish prime minister to visit Korea next week
Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt will visit South Korea next week for summit talks with President Park Geun-hye about increasing cooperation in green growth, trade and investment and other areas, the presidential office said Monday.Thorning-Schmidt will arrive in South Korea on March 5 for a four-day official visit. Accompanying her will be a 68-member economic delegation, which will be Denmark’s largest-ever and seek business cooperation with South Korean firms.The Danish leader is
Feb. 24, 2014
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Korea summons Japan envoy
South Korea’s Foreign Ministry called in a senior Japanese diplomat on Sunday and filed a strong protest after Tokyo sent a central government official to a local event aimed at bolstering the country’s claims to the South’s easternmost islets of Dokdo.Lee Sang-deok, director-general in charge of Northeast Asia affairs at the foreign ministry, filed the protest after summoning Hisashi Michigami, a senior minister at Japan’s Embassy in Seoul, the ministry said. Lee also conveyed a verbal note tha
Feb. 23, 2014
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