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[Exclusive] Korean adoptee sisters meet for the first time in 39 years
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Signs point to N. Korean troops in Russia-Ukraine combat zone
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Rose's 'Apt.' redefines K-pop's global appeal
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Yoon calls for measures to protect Koreans amid escalating Iran-Israel conflicts
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Two years on, thousands mourn Itaewon tragedy, calling for accountability
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Civil servant’s death linked to workplace bullying
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[Weekender] Walk around Korea to really get to know the country
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N. Korea slams Seoul-Washington joint air exercise
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[Herald Interview] Love for K-drama, food defines 'Secret Ingredient'
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[Herald Interview] K-pop’s 'best years are ahead of us': Spotify’s general manager for Asia Pacific
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[Newsmaker] tvN’s ‘The Ramyeonator’ may be slapped with KCSC warning
The Korea Communication Standards Commission’s Broadcast Advertising Sub-Commission on Tuesday decided to recommend issuing a warning to CJ Olive Networks and tvN’s show “The Ramyeonator” for exposing a specific brand of Korean ramen on the show. “The Ramyeonator” featured a popular television show host, Kang Ho-dong, eating ramen with different ingredients, trying to find the tastiest ramen combination. Kang added everything from oyster, duck, clams and cra
TelevisionMay 27, 2020
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[Newsmaker] Man gets jail for breaking quarantine
A 27-year-old man was sentenced on Tuesday to four months in prison for breaking self-quarantine. It was the first court ruling in a COVID-19 case since the infectious disease control law was toughened last month. It is also the first time a jail term has been handed out in South Korea for a quarantine violation. The man, surnamed Kim, was required to self-isolate for two weeks upon being discharged in early April from the Catholic University of Korea Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital, whe
Social AffairsMay 26, 2020
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[Newsmaker] Recycling centers face desperate battle to survive
The global coronavirus pandemic is threatening the future of plastic recycling in South Korea, as major recycling centers are incurring mounting losses amid a collapse in global demand. Many are being forced to cut costs, work hours and head counts just to stay afloat, but a quick turnaround appears unlikely, industry insiders and government officials said. “(Local) recycling centers are largely dependent on exports of collected recyclables, but trade is not happening these days,&rdquo
Social AffairsMay 25, 2020
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[Newsmaker] LG under fire for inappropriate video clip
LG Electronics’ Polish unit came under fire Sunday for running a video advertisement on social media that many claimed as inappropriate. In one of the videos posted on LG Poland’s official TikTok account, an old man uses LG Electronics’ V60 ThinQ dual screen smartphone to take photos of a young woman in front without her consent. Noticing the shutter sound, the woman turns around and grabs the phone only to find the old man’s selfies. She apologizes to the old man and
Social AffairsMay 24, 2020
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[Newsmaker] Five more foreigners deported for breaching self-isolation rules
Five more foreign nationals have been deported from South Korea after getting caught violating self-isolation rules, the Ministry of Justice said Friday. The violators -- two Chinese nationals and one each from Pakistan, Poland and Britain -- have been ordered to leave for their home countries after failing to comply with Seoul's mandatory self-isolation rule aimed at containing the new coronavirus. Three of the five, who entered South Korea after April 1, when the mandatory self-isolation or
Social AffairsMay 22, 2020
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[Newsmaker] 2 paid members of sex abuse chatroom charged with ‘joining criminal group’
Police said on Thursday it requested court warrants to detain two paying members of an online chat room that distributed photos and videos of violent sex acts on charges of joining a criminal group as well as violating the child protection law. Police suspect that the two were heavily involved in criminal activity while knowing that the chat rooms were run not just by a single person, but by a group of people with different tasks. “We suspect that unlike other paying members, they took
Social AffairsMay 21, 2020
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[Newsmaker] Korean football club get record fine over sex dolls in stands
South Korea's FC Seoul were fined a record 100 million won ($81,000) for using sex dolls to fill seats at a match held behind closed doors, with K-League officials saying the football club had "deeply humiliated women fans". With spectators barred because of the coronavirus, FC Seoul came under fire after dozens of dolls wearing T-shirts or holding placards with the logo of a sex-toy seller appeared at Sunday's game. The incident made headlines around the world. After reviewing th
SoccerMay 21, 2020
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[Newsmaker] Actress denies having partied in Itaewon amid outbreak
Actress Lee Min-jung on Wednesday denied allegations that she partied in Seoul's nightlife district of Itaewon after the area emerged as a hotbed for coronavirus cluster infections earlier this month. "Lee did not visit Itaewon. Instead she went to a friend's birthday party at a cafe in Cheongdam (in southern Seoul). All she did was take a picture while dropping off a gift," a representative at MSTeam Entertainment, Lee's management company, told Yonhap News Agency over the phone on
TelevisionMay 20, 2020
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[Newsmaker] Extradition hearing starts on S. Korean child porn site operator
Son Jong-woo, a South Korean national who operated the world’s largest child pornography website and is wanted by US authorities, demanded guarantees at his extradition hearing Tuesday that he will not face charges in the US for crimes he has been convicted of here. The 24-year-old’s defense made the argument during a hearing on his extradition to the US at the Seoul High Court. The court is scheduled to reach a decision in the next two months on the US Justice Department&rsq
Social AffairsMay 19, 2020
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[Newsmaker] 4 K-pop stars test negative after visiting Itaewon last month
BTS' Jungkook and three other K-pop idol singers visited Itaewon, the center of the recent outbreak of the new coronavirus in Seoul, together late last month but have tested negative for the virus, their agencies said Monday. A local internet-based daily reported earlier in the day that Jungkook, Jaehyun of NCT, Mingyu of Seventeen and Cha Eun-woo of Astro hung out at a restaurant and two different bars on April 25 in Itaewon, Seoul's most popular nightlife and multicultural neighborhood, whil
K-popMay 18, 2020
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[Newsmaker] ‘World of Married’ finishes on a high
The hit drama series “The World of the Married” wrapped up its 16-episode run Saturday, setting a record as the most-watched drama series on Korean cable TV channels. According to viewership research institute Nielsen Korea, the final episode of the JTBC series marked a record viewership of 28.3 percent, outrunning the previous record of 23.8 percent set by another JTBC hit “SKY Castle.” Drama “The World of the Married” centers around the character of
TelevisionMay 17, 2020
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[Newsmaker] Child porn site operator’s father files complaint against son
The father of the world’s largest child porn site operator pressed charges against his son in an apparent bid to prevent his extradition to the US by getting him prosecuted in South Korea. The father of Son Jong-woo, who ran the Welcome to Video site on the dark web, filed a complaint against his son with the prosecution on Monday for violation of the law on criminal proceeds concealment. He wrote in the complaint that his son used his personal information without his consent to open a
Social AffairsMay 15, 2020
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[Newsmaker] Singer Jung Joon-young takes rape conviction to Supreme Court
Jung Joon-young, a disgraced singer and TV personality sentenced to five years in prison for rape and other crimes in a Seoul high court earlier this week, has appealed to the Supreme Court, court officials said Thursday. According to the officials, Jung's lawyer submitted a petition of appeal to the Seoul High Court on Wednesday. Jung, 31, received a six-year prison term from a Seoul district court last November, and the Seoul appellate court reduced his jail sentence to five years Tuesday.
Social AffairsMay 14, 2020
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[Newsmaker] Election watchdog asks prosecution to probe vote-rigging allegations
The election watchdog confirmed that the ballot papers an opposition lawmaker claimed were “proof of vote rigging” were indeed leaked from its Guri branch, and requested the prosecution to investigate. Rep. Min Kyung-wook of the United Future Party disclosed the unmarked ballot papers for proportional representation on Monday, saying the fact that they were in his hands was evidence of manipulation, since in early voting, ballot papers are printed each time a voter arrives at the p
Social AffairsMay 13, 2020
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[Newsmaker] Park Yu-chun apologizes on air for lying about drug use last year
Park Yu-chun, an actor and a member of K-pop group, JYJ, apologized for having lied about the drug charges against him last year in a TV interview aired on Monday. He said he had lost “rational judgement” when he swore to leave the entertainment industry if found guilty. “I really regret that I lied (about using drugs), and I still wonder ‘What if I had told the truth to people and sincerely asked for forgiveness (instead of insisting on innocence),’” Park
TelevisionMay 12, 2020
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[Newsmaker] Police request warrant for creator of Telegram sex abuse chatrooms
Police said Monday that they had apprehended a creator of sex abuse chatrooms on Telegram that exploited over 70 women and girls. An arrest warrant has been sought for the 24-year-old creator of the so-called Nth Telegram chatroom, who is better known by his alias “God God,” on suspicion of breaching the act on the protection of children and youth against sex offenses and other potential charges, according to the Gyeongbuk Provincial Police Agency. “This is an ongoing inve
Social AffairsMay 11, 2020
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[Newsmaker] WHO says has no proof from US on 'speculative' Wuhan lab claims
GENEVA (AFP) -- The World Health Organization said Monday that Washington had provided no evidence to support "speculative" claims by the US president that the new coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab. "We have not received any data or specific evidence from the United States government relating to the purported origin of the virus -- so from our perspective, this remains speculative," WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan told a virtual briefing. Scientists believe the
World NewsMay 5, 2020
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[Newsmaker] Kim Jong-un’s sister could emerge as heir apparent, think tank suggests
Amid conflicting reports about the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a parliamentary think tank in South Korea has weighed in on Kim’s younger sister Kim Yo-jong taking over the throne of the reclusive regime. “Kim Jong-un, in order to overcome the national crisis, could expand Yo-jong’s status and role as the ‘party center,’” the National Assembly Research Service said in a report released on Wednesday. “Party center” is a term th
North KoreaApril 29, 2020
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[Newsmaker] Students get suspended prison sentences for trespassing on US envoy's residence
Four South Korean university students indicted for breaking into the United States ambassador's residence in Seoul last October were all given suspended prison sentences by a local court Wednesday. The Seoul Central District Court sentenced the four students each to an imprisonment of one year, suspended for two years, after finding them guilty of obstruction of business charges. The students were also ordered to conduct community service. The four are among 17 student members of a progressi
Social AffairsApril 29, 2020
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[Newsmaker] Seoul confident ‘nothing is unusual’ in North
Amid mounting speculation about the health status of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Seoul officials expressed confidence that “nothing is unusual” in the reclusive regime, labeling the rampant rumors as an “infodemic.” “(The government) has enough information-gathering capabilities to say confidently that there are no unusual signs (in North Korea),” Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul told a plenary session of the National Assembly’s foreign
North KoreaApril 28, 2020