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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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Texas officer on leave after video shows him pushing teen
McKINNEY, Texas (AP) -- A suburban Dallas police officer has been placed on leave after a video showed him pushing a 14-year-old girl in a bikini to the ground outside a pool and pointing his gun at other black teens.McKinney Police Chief Greg Conley said at a news conference Sunday that the incident began when officers responded Friday to a report of a disturbance involving a group of young people at a neighborhood pool. The police department has said they did not live in the area or have permi
June 9, 2015
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S. Korea gears up for ASEAN meetings
Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Hong-kyun will fly to Kuala Lumpur this week for preparatory meetings ahead of key annual talks with Southeast Asian countries, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Kim will participate in the two-day senior officials' meetings starting Tuesday in Malaysia, the chair of this year's ASEAN meetings. Those include the ASEAN-plus-three talks involving South Korea, China and Japan, as well as the larger East Asia Summit and the U.S., Russia, India, Australia and New Zeala
June 8, 2015
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Hong Kong quarantines 2 more people over MERS fears
Hong Kong's health authorities said Monday they have quarantined two more people who have developed fevers after recently returning from separate trips to South Korea. A 21-year-old woman has been treated under isolation after returning from South Korea to Hong Kong on Wednesday, Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection said in a statement. Another 66-year-old man was found to have a fever after he arrived in Hong Kong on Saturday from a 10-day trip to South Korea. The two people, who have
June 8, 2015
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S. Korea set to help youth find overseas jobs
South Korea will ramp up efforts to help young people find jobs in foreign countries in an attempt to cope with stubbornly high youth unemployment, the government said Monday. The move comes as the jobless rate among people aged between 15 to 29 stood at 10.2 percent in April, much higher than the 3.9 percent national average. According to the finance ministry, the goal is to find at least 10,000 overseas positions for qualified people in 2017, up from 5,000 last year, with emphasis placed on
June 8, 2015
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S. Korea, Japan to hold talks over UNESCO world heritage next week
South Korea and Japan have agreed to hold a second round of talks next week to resolve a row over Tokyo's push to win world heritage status for industrial facilities linked to wartime Korean slave labor, the Seoul government said Saturday.Japan has applied to list a package of 23 coal mines, shipyards and other early industrial zones as UNESCO world heritage sites.South Korea is strongly against the bid as the facilities include seven sites where nearly 60,000 Koreans were forced to work during
June 6, 2015
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Senegalese president to visit S. Korea next week
Senegalese President Macky Sall plans to make a four-day visit to Seoul next week for talks with his South Korean counterpart, Park Geun-hye, Park's office said Thursday.The two leaders are set to meet on June 4 to discuss ways to boost cooperation in a wide-range of areas, including trade, investment, construction as well as science and technology.Seoul said Sall's visit could further enhance traditional friendship between the two countries and help South Korean companies make inroads into the
May 28, 2015
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S. Korea, Uzbekistan agree to push for economic projects
South Korea and Uzbekistan agreed Thursday to push for large-scale cooperative projects in the Central Asian country, a move that could further boost their economic ties.The agreement was reached in a summit between President Park Geun-hye and her Uzbek counterpart, Islam Karimov, in Seoul, the second such meeting in a year.South Korea said it can set up mutually beneficial ties with Uzbekistan by marrying Seoul's technology and know-how for economic development with Tashkent's rich natural reso
May 28, 2015
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S. Korean, U.S., Chinese nuclear envoys to meet in Beijing
South Korea's top nuclear negotiator left for Beijing on Thursday to meet with his Chinese counterpart and discuss measures to counter North Korea's growing missile and nuclear threats.Hwang Joon-kook, special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, will meet with Ambassador Wu Dawei later in the day to share the results of Wednesday's trilateral talks involving the chief nuclear negotiators of the U.S. and Japan.On Wednesday, Hwang held talks in Seoul with Sung Kim, U.S.
May 28, 2015
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S. Korea, OSCE to hold security meeting
South Korea will next week host a meeting with member nations of the world's largest intergovernmental security bloc to discuss security affairs and cooperation among the sides, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.The two-day session will begin Monday with the participation of more than 100 officials and experts from the 57 member nations of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and its 11 partner states, the ministry said in a press release.This year's discussions will cover
May 27, 2015
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S. Korea, U.S., Japan discuss concerted approach on N. Korea
Top South Korean, U.S. and Japanese nuclear envoys held talks here Wednesday on ways to put more pressure on North Korea and cajole it into returning to the negotiating table."This trilateral meeting is particularly timely, given the current North Korean situation that is uncertain and tense," Hwang Joon-kook, Seoul's senior diplomat in charge of North Korea affairs, said at the outset of the gathering with his American and Japanese counterparts -- Sung Kim and Junichi Ihara.Hwang was apparently
May 27, 2015
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Seoul's defense chief leaves for Vietnam for bilateral talks
South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo headed to Vietnam on Wednesday for talks with his counterpart there to explore ways to boost military cooperation, his office said.During his three-day visit, Han is scheduled to meet with Phung Quang Thanh to discuss ways to boost cooperation in the defense field based upon the nations' "strategic cooperation partnership" clinched in 2009, according to Seoul's defense ministry."The two sides will also sign a memorandum of understanding on the bilateral
May 27, 2015
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China's defense paper warns of 'instability' on Korean Peninsula
China warned Tuesday of "instability and uncertainty" on the Korean Peninsula as North Korea's unpredictable regime has claimed breakthroughs in its nuclear and missile capabilities. "The Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia are shrouded in instability and uncertainty," the State Council, the Cabinet of the communist-ruled nation, said in its latest defense policy paper. The 25-page paper did not elaborate on North Korea, but along with an array of security tensions with its neighbors, including
May 26, 2015
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Libya arrests two suspects in Korean embassy attack
Two suspects in an April attack on the South Korean embassy in Libya have been arrested, Seoul's foreign ministry said, citing information from Libyan police.Libyan police informed South Korea that they have recently caught the militants behind the shooting attack, which killed two local security guards. Another was critically wounded as the gunmen fired more than 40 machine-gun shots toward the guard post in the embassy compound on April 12.The suspects were quoted as telling police that they c
May 26, 2015
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China, Japan envoys discuss ways to reopen 6-party talks
Senior Chinese and Japanese diplomats discussed ways to resume long-stalled talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program, according to China's foreign ministry on Tuesday. Wu Dawei, China's chief envoy to the six-party talks, held talks with his Japanese counterpart, Junichi Ihara, on Monday in Beijing during which they exchanged views on resumption of the talks with North Korea, the Chinese ministry said in a brief statement. The meeting between Wu and Ihara came as the U.S.
May 26, 2015
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S. Korean nuclear envoy due in Beijing for talks on N. Korea
South Korea's chief nuclear envoy will visit China this week after talks with his U.S. and Japanese counterparts on ways to deal with North Korea, the foreign ministry said Monday.Hwang Joon-kook, special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, plans to meet with China's top nuclear negotiator, Wu Dawei, in Beijing during his two-day trip there starting Thursday.Hwang is scheduled to hold trilateral talks on Tuesday and Wednesday in Seoul with Sung Kim, the U.S. special r
May 25, 2015
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First round of hearings wind up in Lone Star case
An international tribunal has wrapped up the first round of hearings in a multi-billion-dollar case the U.S. private equity firm Lone Star filed against South Korea over disputes surrounding its asset sell-offs in Korea.Both sides largely repeated their existing positions during the hearings that began on May 15 and were wound up Saturday at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes in Washington, sources said. "I heard that our government team did its best and offered good
May 25, 2015
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U.S. resolution calls for memorial marker for USFK members
A U.S. congressman has introduced a resolution calling for a memorial marker honoring American servicemembers killed or missing in action while helping defend South Korea after the 1950-53 Korean War.Rep. William Keating introduced the concurrent resolution on Thursday, saying many servicemembers have died or been wounded in Korea as a result of hostile fire from North Korea in what is known to their families as the "DMZ War" or the "Forgotten War of the Forgotten War." The DMZ is short for the
May 25, 2015
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U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon says save migrants, deal with cause of flight
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday urged Southeast Asian nations to deal with the causes behind a growing humanitarian crisis that has forced thousands of people from Myanmar and Bangladesh to flee by sea, leaving many still stranded in boats. Rohingya migrants sit inside their temporary shelter in Bayeun, Aceh province, Indonesia, Sunday, May 24, 2015. Thousands of migrants - about half of them Bangladeshi and the others minority Rohingya Muslims from Myanma
May 24, 2015
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Ethiopians vote in 1st election without former strongman
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Ethiopians have started voting in national and regional elections, the country's first since the death in 2012 of longtime leader Meles Zenawi.More than 38 million voters are eligible to cast ballots in this East African nation of about 90 million people. Hailemariam Desalegn, a former university professor turned politician, has been leading the country since the death of Meles, who built the ruling coalition into a powerful political organization while opposition g
May 24, 2015
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52 dead in China floods, including 2 kids on overloaded bus
BEIJING (AP) -- The death toll in China's latest round of flooding has risen to at least 52, including two schoolchildren aboard a bus carrying more than twice its authorized passenger load that plunged into a pond, authorities said. At least six other people are missing in floods that have ravaged mountain districts of six provinces and autonomous regions in central and southeastern China. More than a quarter-million people have been moved to temporary shelters, and major damage has been inflic
May 24, 2015