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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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Australian envoy finishes four-year posting
Australian Ambassador to Korea Sam Gerovich returned to Canberra at the end of last week, completing a four-year posting here which started on March 24, 2009. Gerovich will be replaced by Bill Paterson who is expected to arrive in Korea in May, the embassy said. Deputy Head of Mission Brendan Berne will head up the diplomatic mission as charge d’affairs until incoming Ambassador Paterson assumes his posting here, the embassy said. Gerovich’s four years as his country’s top diplomatic representa
March 31, 2013
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March 31, 2013
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Post-revolution Tunisia lauds Korea ties
Tunisia celebrated its 57th year of independence from colonial rule Tuesday, as well as the second anniversary of popular demonstrations that swept the North African nation and toppled the 34-year-long regime of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, in a reception at Lotte Hotel in Seoul on Monday.Tunisia’s top diplomat here lauded the two events as milestones for his nation struggling to overcome civil unrest two years after Tunisian youth ousted Ben Ali from power, sending the octogenarian into e
March 31, 2013
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Foreign envoys discuss report on human development
A panel of foreign envoys, government officials and experts on development issues will discuss the recent findings of a United Nations report on human development at Korea University on April 4.Bangladeshi Ambassador to Korea Enamul Kabir and Chilean Ambassador Hernan Brantes are expected to join government officials and experts from civil society to discuss the “Global Human Development Report 2013: The Rise of the South.” A profound shift has taken place in the global south, in part driven by
March 31, 2013
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Silicon Valley in the Andes
With Korea as a strategic partner, Ecuador is poised to embark on its most ambitious infrastructure project ever, a so-called “city of knowledge” on the edge of the Amazon Rainforest.Yachay, which means “to learn” in the indigenous Quechuan language, will become a hybrid urban center, with equal parts science and technology cluster, free economic zone and educational complex.Minister of Knowledge and Human Talent Augusto Espinosa, who arrived in Korea on Monday for a week of consultations and me
March 31, 2013
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Park names diplomat, key aides as ambassadors
President Park Geun-hye tapped former first Vice Foreign Minister Ahn Ho-young as South Korea’s ambassador to the U.S. and former three-term Saenuri Party lawmaker Kwon Young-se as ambassador to China, Cheong Wa Dae said Sunday. As her chief envoy to Japan, Park named Lee Byung-gi, adviser to the Youido Institute, the ruling party’s think tank. She decided to retain the current ambassador to Moscow, Wi Sung-lac, and incumbent envoy to the U.N., Kim Sook, The three new diplomats would be offici
March 31, 2013
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Park touts expanded peaceful use of atomic energy
President Park Geun-hye asked Friday for U.S. congressional support for South Korea to expand its “peaceful use” of atomic energy, her spokeswoman said, as the two nations are in talks over Seoul’s demand for the right to reprocess spent nuclear fuel.Park made the remark when she met with Bob Corker, the top Republican on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, saying she hopes an expiring nuclear accord between the two countries will be revised in an advanced way, according to spokeswoman
March 29, 2013
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Park ditches ‘green growth’ in environmental policy shift
Korea has been credited with establishing “green growth” as an international goal. Former President Lee Myung-bak touted it as the next big thing, harmonizing environmental protection and economic development.A slew of projects, including a river restoration, were pushed in its name and Korea carved its place in the international community by bridging rich and poor countries whose priorities clashed. Like many of his policies, however, “green growth” is now at risk of sinking into obscurity, as
March 28, 2013
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Nukes of both Koreas on agenda in major disarmament forum
An upcoming forum will address one of the most contentious issue between South Korea and the United States -- whether Seoul should develop its own nuclear weapons.The North Korean nuclear crisis will also be discussed at the 2013 Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference, set to begin April 8 for a two-day run.The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will participate in the event, which will include a session on a renewed call in South Korea for "nuclear sovereignty," acc
March 28, 2013
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Nuclear waste a growing headache
ULSAN ― North Korea’s weapons program is not the only nuclear headache for South Korea. The country’s radioactive waste storage is filling up as its nuclear power industry burgeons, but what South Korea sees as its best solution ― reprocessing the spent fuel so it can be used again ― faces stiff opposition from its U.S. ally. South Korea fired up its first reactor in 1978 and since then the resource poor nation’s reliance on atomic energy has steadily grown. It is now the world’s fifth-largest n
March 27, 2013
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[Newsmaker] Scholar urges Tokyo to give up on Dokdo
Haruki Wada, a professor emeritus at Tokyo University, said in his new book that Japan should immediately renounce its claims of sovereignty over Dokdo.In his recently published book titled “How to Settle the Territorial Dispute in Northeast Asia,” the 75-year-old progressive scholar argued that Japan’s claim was immoral in light of Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910-1945. “It is hard to find morality in Japan’s assertion that Korea’s control of Dokdo is an ‘illegal occupati
March 26, 2013
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Korea protests Japan’s textbook distortion
Seoul on Tuesday protested Japan’s approval of newly updated schoolbooks that carry its claim to the Korean islets of Dokdo and distort its wartime atrocities.The Foreign Ministry called in Takashi Kurai, a minister at the Japanese Embassy, and delivered a written complaint. “We strongly protest and urge a fundamental rectification of the Japanese government’s authorization of high school textbooks including content that still does not look squarely at history and evades its responsibilities,” m
March 26, 2013
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OECD aid chief urges green development
The developing world’s drive to stamp out poverty should be integrated with environmental efforts to minimize its vulnerability to climate change and achieve sustainable growth, the new chair of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee said Tuesday.Erik Solheim, who took the helm of the club of major patrons of developing countries in January, described Korea as an “inspiring example for the rest of the world,” highlighting its rapid economic ascent and increasing climate efforts. The seasone
March 26, 2013
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Chinese President Xi sends personal letter to Park
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently sent a personal letter to South Korean President Park Geun-hye, expressing hope that the two nations will further strengthen their ties, the South Korean presidential office said Tuesday. In the letter, Xi also suggested the two leaders hold a summit meeting in the near future, saying he looks forward to making a "beautiful blueprint" for their countries' relations, according to the office. The Chinese president noted that the ties between two countries
March 26, 2013
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S. Korean foreign minister to visit Washington next week: source
South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se will travel to Washington next week for consultations on North Korea and bilateral issues in the run-up to a visit here by President Park Geun-hye in May, an informed source said Monday."Minister Yun is scheduled to visit Washington in the first week of April," the source said on the condition of anonymity. Yun will meet with Secretary of State John Kerry, mainly to discuss agenda items for the first summit talks between Park and her American counterpar
March 26, 2013
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Munch photo exhibition at Samgakji Station
Seoul’s subway riders are in for a scream through this spring and summer, with a display of Edvard Munch paintings.This year the Norwegian Embassy in Korea is celebrating the 150th anniversary of modernist painter Edvard Munch with a photo exhibition of 20 paintings on display in Samgakji Subway Station through the end of August. Munch was born in the rural town of Loten in Norway on Dec. 12, 1863. This year marks the 150th anniversary of one of the most influential modernist painters of all tim
March 24, 2013
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War, peace and children in the DMZ
A handful of tour buses carrying foreign diplomats, the Korean press corps and students slowly lumbered across Unification Bridge into the demilitarized zone carefully negotiating barricades assembled halfway along the bridge’s length.The schoolchildren were fidgety and chattering excitedly, jumping out of their seats to peer out of the bus windows at sights they scarcely could have seen before ― armored vehicles, heavily armed checkpoints and barbed wire strewn helter-skelter, the legacy of a t
March 24, 2013
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La Francophonie, now and forever
The French-speaking foreign missions in Korea observed International Francophonie Day on March 20 and will celebrate the French language and French identity through a series of events through March and April.The month-long festival of French includes a concert by Swiss-French duo Laurent Brunetti & Mario Pacchioli and an opening set by Raoul and the Xpats on the 6th floor of the music faculty of Sookmyung Women’s University on April 5 at 5 p.m.“Francophonie” refers to countries and regions where
March 24, 2013
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Libyan prospects are mixed 2 years after revolution
Libya’s diplomatic mission here held a reception in Seoul on Monday to mark two years since Libyan youth took up arms and defied a deadly crackdown by strongman Moammar Gadhafi.The demonstrations were part of a wave of popular discontent dubbed the “Arab Spring,” which toppled long-standing despotic regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, before spreading to Libya on Feb. 17, 2011. Gadhafi was shot dead in October of the same year. It is estimated that some 30,000 Libyans died in eight months of fighting.
March 24, 2013
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Kenya one step closer to African nuclear dream
Korea and Kenya forged ahead with plans to build a nuclear power plant and make the East African nation the second to have nuclear power on the continent.Kenyan Ambassador to Korea Ngovi Kitau participated in a ceremony lauding the 2013 incoming class of Kenyan nuclear engineers and other professionals on March 4 at KEPCO’s school for nuclear power professionals in Ulsan.Kenyan-Korean cooperation on development in the East African country has led to the opening of this new school to train future
March 24, 2013
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