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Torrential rainfall forces 1,500 to evacuate, causes widespread damage to homes, roads
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[KH Explains] Can smart chargers ease tensions over EV fires?
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1 in 5 households to have breadwinner over 80 in 30 years
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[Online Predators] Online reviews of sex tourism in Southeast Asia proliferate
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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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Yoon's Prague visit sets stage for W24tr nuclear power plant deal
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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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[Photo News] French ambassador's courtesy call
April 17, 2013
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Aussie expert to lead GGGI
Australia’s special advisor on green growth was appointed Tuesday as the new director-general of the Global Green Growth Institute, the Seoul-based organization said. Howard Bamsey will replace Richard Samans, who will return to the World Economic Forum as managing director for global cooperation after spearheading the GGGI’s transformation into an international body last year. Bamsey, who took office immediately, is also an adjunct professor at Australian National University’s Climate Change In
April 16, 2013
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China joins disaster talks in US-Philippine drills
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Two Chinese military officers have for the first time joined a closed-door discussion on disaster response which is part of major annual U.S.-Philippine military exercises that Beijing has protested in the past. Philippine Brig. Gen. Aurelio Baladad says the inclusion of military officers from the United States and China along with nine other countries in Monday's talks on responding to sea disasters shows that major powers sometimes seen as rivals can work togethe
April 15, 2013
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ASEAN-Korea Center hosts ‘Plus Three’ meetup
In a bid to expand multilateral cooperation among Southeast Asia’s so-called “Plus Three” grouping of China, Japan and Korea, ASEAN-Korea Center’s secretary-general hosted his counterparts from the ASEAN centers of China and Japan on Friday.ASEAN-Korea Center Secretary-General Chung Hae-moon hosted counterparts Ma Ming-qiang of China and Yoshikuni Ohnishi of Japan at the ASEAN-Korea Center in downtown Seoul. They agreed to seven areas of cooperation, including linking their respective websites,
April 14, 2013
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Kenyan Embassy awards stipends to worthy overseas students
The Kenyan Embassy and the Kenyan Community in Korea helped award four students stipends on April 6 in recognition of their academic excellence and overcoming personal and financial challenges while studying abroad here in Korea.Kenyan students Josephine Kamakia, Wesley Kirui, Alias Kirugi and Mirriam Karithi were awarded stipends of 250,000 won ($220) each during a reception that also doubled as an organizing meeting of the KCK at restaurant Silk Road in Itaewon in Seoul. Kenyan Ambassador Ngov
April 14, 2013
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Israel recalls Holocaust on Remembrance Day
An entire nation stopped its daily routine for two minutes on Monday. Drivers stopped their cars on crowded highways and got out to stand quietly on the street as mourning sirens wailed throughout Israel, as they do every year, to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.Here in Seoul, too, far away from the Middle East, the Israeli Embassy and about 100 guests including some two dozen foreign envoys held a silence to remember the 6 million Jews systematically murdered during World War II by Nazi Germany,
April 14, 2013
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New Indonesian envoy introduces self to diplomatic community
The Indonesian Embassy in Korea hosted the foreign diplomatic community, business executives with ties in the Southeast Asian country and local media on April 4 to more fully introduce its country and its top diplomatic representative here.The country went through rapid changes over the past decade, including sweeping democratic reforms and the settlement of a decades-old dispute in East Timor.“Although our transition to democracy in the 1990s and early 2000s was a bit chaotic, nevertheless we n
April 14, 2013
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Korean, Turkish national libraries expand cooperation
The national libraries of Turkey and Korea expanded their cooperation with the opening of a new section of the National Library of Korea, “Window on Turkey.”Turkish Ambassador to Korea Naci Saribas inaugurated the new section with an opening ceremony at the National Library of Korea on Monday.The section consists of 1,168 items of books and non-book materials about Turkey. “Window on Turkey” consists of books in Turkish and English languages, including those of famous Turkish novelists such as N
April 14, 2013
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Georgia upgrades ties with Korea, East Asia
Korean relations in the Caucasus could be poised for a leap forward in every area including diplomacy, energy investment, tourism and even wine imports, with the opening of an embassy in Georgia this year. That is because Georgia, a small country strategically located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, and between the energy-rich Caspian and Black seas, is working double-time to expand its diplomatic reach in East Asia and upgrade its bilateral ties with countries such as Japan and Korea. In
April 14, 2013