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Signs point to N. Korean troops in Russia-Ukraine combat zone
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[Exclusive] Korean adoptee sisters meet for the first time in 39 years
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Rose's 'Apt.' redefines K-pop's global appeal
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Two years on, thousands mourn Itaewon tragedy, calling for accountability
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[Herald Interview] Love for K-drama, food defines 'Secret Ingredient'
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Hanwha, HD Hyundai vie for Poland’s $2.7b submarine program
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First lady’s controversies to top agenda at meeting of party leaders
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[Photo News] Rallying against LGBTQ+
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4 in 10 young South Koreans take up 'irregular' jobs: data
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SM founder Lee Soo-man is back with A2O Entertainment
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[Newsmaker] FTC meets archnemesis -- prosecution
The prosecutors’ latest search and seizure of the Fair Trade Commission was purportedly to look into its suspected backscratching ties with top-tier business groups and to check on potential power abuse by the antitrust watchdog. But the abrupt action was also viewed as a chronic power struggle between the prosecution and the FTC -- often dubbed “prosecutors in the economic realm” -- over the latter’s expansive range of rights concerning fair trade rule violations.On the
EconomyJune 21, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Marriage immigrant women in Korea vulnerable to financial abuse: study
Foreign-born women who moved to South Korea upon marrying Korean men are often subjected to financial abuse by their spouses and in-laws, a new government study showed Wednesday. The study, organized and released by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, came to the conclusion after surveying 920 foreign-born women married to South Korean nationals last year. The largest proportion of the surveyed women, 42.4 percent, came from Vietnam, followed by China (29.4 percent) and the Philippin
Social AffairsJune 20, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Court to arraign Korean Air chief's wife over charges of illegally hiring Filipino housekeepers
A Seoul court arraigned the wife of Korean Air's chairman Wednesday to determine whether to issue an arrest warrant prosecutors requested for her on charges of illegally hiring Filipino housekeepers.Lee Myung-hee, 69, wife of the national flag carrier's chairman, Cho Yang-ho, is accused of hiring about 20 maids from the Philippines over the past 10 years without the correct visas. Prosecutors requested an arrest warrant for her on Monday.It was the second time that an arrest warrant had been sou
Social AffairsJune 20, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Korean victims of toxic disinfectant ask public to boycott Strepsils
Victims of a toxic disinfectant for humidifiers that was sold in South Korea from 2001-2011 held a rally in central Seoul on Tuesday asking the public, especially local pharmacists, to boycott products by Oxy, a local subsidiary of British conglomerate Reckitt Benckiser that also produced the fatal cleaning product. “Oxy should leave this country, Oxy should leave this country for good,” the victims, many of whom have lost their family members after they came in to contact with the product, cha
Social AffairsJune 19, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Rescue team to conduct additional search inside Sewol ferry
A joint rescue team will search the unchecked areas of the Sewol ferry in a last-ditch effort to find the remains of victims who are still missing, a state-run commission said Tuesday.The ill-fated ferry, which sank off the country's southwestern coast near Jindo Island in April 2014 claiming more than 300 lives, was hoisted from the seabed last year and moved to Mokpo, 410 kilometers southwest of Seoul. The left side 6,800-ton vessel was lying on the port, which made it hard to gain access to t
Social AffairsJune 19, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Anti-refugee sentiment flares up on Cheong Wa Dae petitions
Cheong Wa Dae’s online petition system is once again making headlines with petitions calling for tougher regulations on refugees rapidly gaining traction. The online public petition system is promoted by the Moon Jae-in administration and top presidential aides respond to petitions that gain more than 200,000 signatures within one month. The latest petition to attract over 200,000 supporters demands the government to revise the law on refugees and the visa waiver program for Jeju, following the
Social AffairsJune 18, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Police seek arrest warrant for KT chief over illegal political funding
Police sought an arrest warrant for the head of South Korea's major mobile carrier KT Corp. and three others on Monday for alleged involvement in the firm's illegal donations to lawmakers. Seven former and incumbent KT executives, including Hwang, have been booked on charges of embezzlement and violation of laws related to political funding. Of them, police are seeking arrest warrants for four, the National Police Agency said in a briefing. They are suspected of creating 1.15 billion won ($1.04
Social AffairsJune 18, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Why did Korean Air heiress illegally hire Filipina domestic workers?
It was not an unfamiliar sight when Cho Hyun-ah, the Korean Air heiress whose “rage” over nuts delayed a flight some four years ago, once again bowed and apologized for her “troubles” last month over another set of criminal allegations, this time of illegally hiring domestic helpers from the Philippines. She admitted to the wrongdoing. Given the wealth of the Cho family, one might wonder why Hyun-ah and her mother Lee Myeong-hee sought domestic helpers from overseas, particularly from the Philip
Social AffairsJune 17, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Former NIS chiefs guilty on transfers to Park
Former National Intelligence Service chiefs were sentenced to prison terms of three to 3 1/2 years Friday for regularly making secret money transfers to former President Park Geun-hye’s aides when she was in office. The Seoul Central District Court found the three former spy chiefs -- Nam Jae-joon, Lee Byung-kee and Lee Byong-ho -- guilty of sending 3.5 billion won ($3.24 million) from the agency’s “special activities” budget, which had been suspected by investigators to be an illicit channel fo
Social AffairsJune 15, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Rise and fall of presidential hopefuls
The June 13 local elections ended with a sweeping victory by the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, and now the focus is on how it may benefit the next potential presidential candidates. Newly elected Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon won his third consecutive term in the June 13 local elections. YonhapThe ruling progressive party, whose members includes President Moon Jae-in, grabbed 14 of the 17 metropolitan mayor and governor posts, plus 11 of the 12 National Assembly seats in the by-elections that wa
PoliticsJune 14, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Main opposition party leader steps down over election defeat
Hong Joon-pyo, the chief of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, resigned Thursday after his party suffered a crushing defeat in the previous day's local elections.The LKP won only two of the 17 big mayoral and gubernatorial races contested in Wednesday's local elections. It also won only one parliamentary seat in by-elections held concurrently with the local elections.Hong's resignation was widely expected as he wrote a message on his Facebook saying "The buck stops here." Liberty Korea Pa
PoliticsJune 14, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Minor opposition party leader resigns after election fiasco
A co-leader of the minor opposition Bareunmirae Party resigned Thursday after the party fared so poorly in Wednesday's local elections in a fiasco that even raised questions about whether it can continue to exist.The party won only 20 minor races in the elections, where more than 4,000 local administrative, legislative and educational posts, including 17 big-city mayoralties and provincial governorships, were up for grabs, in addition to 12 National Assembly seats."I solemnly accept the people's
PoliticsJune 14, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Verification key to testing denuclearization promise
With North Korea and the US having wrapped up a historic summit with a vague promise to work toward “complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” how far North Korea accepts verification will be the barometer for Pyongyang’s willingness to denuclearize, analysts say. In the agreement signed by US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at Tuesday’s summit in Singapore, there was no mention of how irreversibly and verifiably Pyongyang will dismantle its nuclear weapons p
North KoreaJune 13, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Trump retreats from US moral leadership stance
WASHINGTON -- Beaming in the moments after his summit with Kim Jong-un, President Donald Trump was asked about North Korea’s history of human rights horrors. “It’s rough,” he allowed. Then he added, “It’s rough in a lot of places, by the way. Not just there.”Trump’s verbal shrug in Singapore represented a striking change from the way US presidents have viewed their job, a shift from the nation’s asserted stance as the globe’s moral leader in favor of an approach based more on trade-offs with adv
North KoreaJune 13, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Formal end to Korean War not part of Singapore meeting
Speaking to reporters at a post-summit press conference following the historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump said he hopes the Korean War will finally end. (Yonhap)Bringing a formal end to the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in an armistice, is widely thought to be a first step to guaranteeing the North Korean regime’s security. “While the armistice was agreed to, the war never ended to this day, never ended. But now we can all h
North KoreaJune 12, 2018
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[Newsmaker] South Koreans hope Trump-Kim meeting brings lasting peace
With the world watching US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un hold a historic summit in Singapore on Tuesday, the eyes and ears of South Koreans were fixed to the live TV footage.Watching a summit thought unimaginable just months ago, South Koreans raised both hope and concerns for future relations with the “brethren” North, which has been separated from the South since the 1950-53 Korean War.At Seoul Station in the morning, busy passers-by stopped to watch the two leader
North KoreaJune 12, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Who joined Trump, Kim at summit table?
The first session of the summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was joined by only the two leaders’ respective translators, but they were joined by their aides at the expanded bilateral meeting. (Yonhap)Trump was flanked by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, chief of staff John Kelly and national security adviser John Bolton, as previously announced by the White House. Sitting across the table from the US team were North Korean leader Kim, Kim Yong-chol, fir
North KoreaJune 12, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Pompeo due in Seoul this week with outcome of US-NK summit
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit South Korea this week to personally explain the outcome of the US-North Korea summit to his South Korean counterparts, an official from Seoul's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Tuesday.The top US diplomat is set to arrive here Wednesday, one day after the historic summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore."He is expected to visit Cheong Wa Dae on (June) 14th and explain the outcome of the North Kor
North KoreaJune 12, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Trump, Kim Jong-un ready for history-making summit with top aides by side
After months of on-again, off-again speculation, President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will finally sit down for a historic summit in Singapore on Tuesday aimed at ending a nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula. Accompanying Trump and Kim in Singapore for the high-stakes meeting are the leaders’ trusted foreign policy officials who have been leading the closed-door meetings in the flurry of diplomacy that culminated in Tuesday’s summit. With the roster of who will be s
Foreign AffairsJune 11, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Wife of Korean Air chief grilled over alleged illegal hiring of foreign housekeepers
Lee Myung-hee, wife of Korean Air Lines Co. chief, on Monday appeared for questioning once again, this time over allegations that she hired housekeepers from the Philippines without due visas.Lee, 69, arrived at the Seoul office of the Korea Immigration Service at around 10 a.m.She is accused of hiring some two dozen maids from the Southeast Asian country for at least the past decade by sponsoring them with traineeship visas in violation of the law.To work as housekeepers in Korea, a foreigner m
Social AffairsJune 11, 2018