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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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Middle East’s big AI push lures Korean tech firms
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[Herald Review] 'Culinary Class Wars': fresh, creative survival show minus the drama
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Arrival of fall calls for more outdoor festivals
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New Fifty Fifty off to strong start
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Assembly to review disputed appointment of national soccer team coach
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Pikki Pikki dance: Korean cheerleader dance routine takes social media by storm
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DP HUMAN RIGHTS CONF
EU, Korea to talk human rights in Seoul The EU Ambassador is to open a conference connecting South Korea and Europe on human rights in Seoul on March 20. Tomasz Kozlowski is to speak at the conerence’s opening along with Christian Hegemer, director of the Institute for International Cooperation, and Tae-woo Kim, president of Korea Institute for National Unification.The opening conference of the EU-Korea Human Rights and Democratic Transition Dialogue Program aims to connect European and Korean r
March 19, 2012
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Israeli minister rejected check at Incheon Airport
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman refused to put his bag through security check as he left South Korea earlier this week, an airport official said Saturday.Lieberman was in Seoul for a two-day visit to mark the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two nations. He left Thursday through Incheon International Airport, the main gateway to Seoul, after denying repeated requests by security officials to put his travel bag through an X-ray check, the airport official said on conditi
March 18, 2012
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Korea, Japan launch joint disaster management program
The Korea International Cooperation Agency said it has decided to launch a multi-year development program with the Japan International Cooperation Agency on disaster management.The decision came after the Korean aid agency held a consultation in February with JICA officials. Under the “Multi-year Joint Capacity Development Program,” or MJCD, both agencies aim to achieve effective outcomes and enable their partner countries to take ownership and leadership in disaster management.KOICA and JICA wi
March 18, 2012
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Sharing Korea’s experience through KOICA program
Scholarship program boosts networks among officials from developing countriesThis is the second installment of a series of articles introducing programs and activities of the Korea International Cooperation Agency, a state-run organization for overseas assistance and humanitarian aid. ― Ed. Rita Osei, a foreign ministry official from Ghana, was curious: Why is her country, richer than South Korea in the 1960s, still receiving official development assistance from industrialized countries, while S
March 18, 2012
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Students quiz envoys in their native tongues
Student linguists are interviewing 20 international ambassadors in Seoul in their native language to quiz them on multiculturalism. More than 1,300 people applied to be part of the JOINUS KOREA project to interview the ambassadors. Of those, 43 interviewers were selected offering their skills in 20 languages. Interviews have already been held with the Polish, Malaysian, German, Turkish, Swedish, Sri Lankan, Italian and Vietnamese ambassadors.The foreign envoys’ views are being recorded and distr
March 18, 2012
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Denmark, Korea among cleantech leaders
Denmark has been listed top in the world for innovation in clean technology, and South Korea has come first in Asia. A new report from the World Wildlife Fund and Cleantech Group ranks Denmark first in the world when it comes to cleantech innovation. And the report ranks South Korea eighth in the world and first in Asia. Clean technology, or cleantech, uses innovative ways to create energy while minimizing environmental damage and pollution. Its many aspects can include recycling, renewable ener
March 18, 2012
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Czechs honor first Westerner to die in Korea
The first Westerner to die in Seoul has been honored at a ceremony led by the Czech Ambassador. The flower-laying ceremony at the Chemulpo Foreigners’ Cemetery in Incheon was held in commemoration of the first foreign correspondent to Korea and the first Westerner who died in Seoul in 1886.This month marks 126 years since the arrival and death in Seoul of Prague-born American reporter, Maxmilian Taubeles ― also known as Max Taubles.The trailblazing journalist was the first foreign correspondent
March 18, 2012
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EU to discuss N.K. rights
The EU Ambassador has called for North Korea to restart talks with European countries on human rights ahead of a conference to connect South Korean and European rights groups in Seoul. Tomasz Kolowski is to attend the opening conference of the EU-Korea Human Rights and Democratic Transition Dialogue Program, which aims to connect organizations fighting human rights violations in North Korea. “We call on North Korea to re-engage in meaningful bilateral dialogue with the EU and its member states o
March 18, 2012
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U.K. opens doors to Korean tenor
Singer Yun Jung-soo has become the first Korean artist to be granted an exceptional talent visa by the U.K. Jung, who previously studied and worked in the U.K., has been granted the visa because of his contribution to the arts and potential to become one of the world’s greatest tenors.His roles in Britain for 2012 will include Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi for Opera Holland Park, the role of Rimbaud in Robert le Diable for the Royal Opera at Covent Garden and the eponymous role of Faust for Opera
March 18, 2012
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Lights show source of Swiss culture
Gwanghwamun in Seoul will be bathed in light this week thanks to a cutting-edge 3-D projection light show at the Sejong Center. The “Nights of Sound & Lights” will launch at the Sejong Center on March 22. The show will then run until March 25, starting at 6:15 p.m. each night, with the first 10-minute light show at 7:20 p.m. and several more displays throughout each evening.It has been created by Swiss production company Starlight Events in collaboration with a young group of Swiss sound and lig
March 18, 2012
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Marking quake anniversary, Japan’s envoy thanks Korea
Japanese Ambassador Masatoshi Muto hosted a reception last Wednesday to thank Korean charities and media for helping his country during last year’s disaster. The reception at Muto’s residence in Seongbuk-dong, held three days after the first anniversary of the disaster, drew representatives from the Community Chest of Korea, the Korean Red Cross and the Korean emergency rescue unit. Also invited were media representatives and Korea’s Second Vice Foreign Minister Kim Sung-han, former National Ass
March 18, 2012
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U.S. adviser hails Internet freedom in Seoul
Hillary Clinton’s senior technology adviser has promoted Internet freedom on a visit to Korea, saying that governments cannot and should not control information online. But the U.S. Secretary of State’s senior adviser for innovation, Alec Ross, also said that he saw the WikiLeaks scandal as a theft of intellectual property. Ross told a youth forum in Seoul that human rights, freedom of speech, a free press and the freedom of association and assembly must also apply online. ”Today, that is where
March 18, 2012
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Israeli FM refused to undergo security check at S. Korean airport
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman refused to put his bag through security check as he left South Korea earlier this week, an airport official said Saturday. Liberman was in Seoul for a two-day visit to mark the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two natio
March 17, 2012
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Foreign minister to meet ambassadors of nuclear security summit nations
Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan will hold a luncheon meeting on Friday with ambassadors to South Korea from countries participating in the upcoming 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit, the government said.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said the meeting at Lotte Hotel in central Seoul will mark “D-10” to the summit, one of the largest diplomatic events in Korean history scheduled for March 26-27.Kim will invite the ambassadors of 51 countries, except Armenia, Lithuania, the U.N., the IAE
March 15, 2012
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President Lee expected to hold summit talks with up to 25 leaders
President Lee Myung-bak is expected to hold bilateral talks with up to 25 leaders on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit slated to take place in Seoul from March 26-27.“President Lee is expected to have talks with leaders from 20 or up to 25 countries during a week-long period around the Nuclear Security Summit,” Han Choong-hee, spokesperson for the summit’s preparatory body, told reporters.The premier forum on nuclear security, safety and safeguards is to be attended by the leaders of
March 15, 2012
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‘Sendai rising from tsunami damage’
South Korean diplomat Lee Bom-yon has only spent one month in Sendai, Japan, since being named Consul General of Korea in the city that was at the heart of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 15,000 people.Despite his short period of time there, he said he has been able to see Sendai slowly recovering with lots of reconstruction and restoration work.“While the infrastructure such as roads and railroads has been 90 percent recovered, only 50-60 percent of the fishing i
March 15, 2012
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Kim, Israeli minister discuss relations, regions
Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan met with his Israeli counterpart on Thursday in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries. The anniversary falls on April 10. Avigdor Liberman’s two-day visit until Friday is the first of its kind since he took office in February 2009.“This visit has a special meaning in that this year marks the 50th anniversary of our diplomatic relationship. Your visit will be another moment that upgrades our relationship,” Kim told Liberm
March 15, 2012
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U.S. stepping up efforts to boost tripartite ties with S. Korea, Japan: envoy
South Korea‘s new top envoy in the United States said Wednesday he will concentrate efforts on “fine-tuning” the alliance between the two sides and helping Washington’s efforts to boost trilateral cooperation with Seoul and Tokyo.Amb. Choi Young-jin said Seoul-Washington relations can‘t be “always smooth,” no more than relationships among friends and between husband and wife.“It is important to prevent unnecessary conflicts by predicting possible problems and managing them in advance,” he said i
March 15, 2012
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Kids inspired to help shantytown residents
International school students have raised cash to buy coals for people living in a Korean shantytown after reading about others’ work to help them in The Korea Herald. The students read about the 2,500 people living in makeshift huts in Guryong Village in southern Seoul while researching poverty as part of a class project at Gyeonggi Suwon International School. After learning about Mannam International volunteers’ recent donation of 4,000 coals to help residents keep warm throughout the winter,
March 14, 2012
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Seoul nuke summit expected to touch on N. Korea issue: Ban
NEW YORK (Yonhap News) ― U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday he expects global leaders will discuss the North Korean nuclear issue when they meet in Seoul later this month for a summit on nuclear safety and security.South Korea is scheduled to host the second Nuclear Security Summit from March 26-27 in which the heads of state from more than 50 nations and leaders of international organizations including Ban will take part.The biennial summit does not have the North’s nuclear problem
March 14, 2012