Eight cabin crew members who were on board the Asiana Airline Flight 214 Boeing 777-200ER that crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport in 2013 were revealed to have filed damage suits against Korea’s second largest carrier and the plane manufacturer Boeing.The eight were among 12 flight attendants aboard at the time and filed the suits in a U.S. district court rather than in Seoul.  According to reports, one of workers had her backbone broken in the accident and filed a suit in Janua

Business Sept. 16, 2015

The body of another passenger missing from a capsized fishing boat was recovered Wednesday on an island off South Korea's southern coast near the site of the accident, raising the death toll to 13, Coast Guard officials said.The body, which was found washed up on the coast of Chuja Island at around 7:20 a.m. by a local resident, was identified as that of a 44-year-old man surnamed Lee, according to the Korea Coast Guard. The island is located about halfway between the mainland and the southern r

National Sept. 16, 2015

Half of South Koreans used their mobile phones while sitting on a toilet, research conducted to promote colon health showed Tuesday.Seven out of 10 Koreans said they defecate at least once daily and spent an average of 6.1 minutes on the toilet, the report by the Korean Society of Coloproctology and research company Macromillembrain said. They surveyed 2,000 Koreans living in Seoul and metropolitan cities aged 16 to 69.Three out of 10 said they have experienced constipation, while 8 out of 10 sa

National Sept. 15, 2015

Some 20 different emergency phone numbers will be integrated into three from July next year, the Ministry of Public Safety and Security said Tuesday.The ministry said it has finalized plans to integrate the numbers so that one can dial 112 to report a crime, 119 to report emergencies and 110 to make nonemergency reports. It added that all numbers will have English-language service.When the system is reorganized, distress calls made to the numbers will be shared among relevant organizations in re

National Sept. 15, 2015

The two Koreas will hold working-level talks on Monday at Panmunjeom to figure out when and how to hold the reunions of separated families as a follow-up to the high-level inter-Korean agreement last month.Red Cross officials will be discussing the exact date and scope of the reunions, with the Seoul side also planning to suggest making the event regular.The Unification Ministry said its priority will be to hold the event as soon as possible.Sources said it is most likely for the upcoming reunio

National Sept. 6, 2015

The population of females surpassed that of males in South Korea for the first time since the state registration system began tallying demographics in the late 1960s, statistics showed Sunday.The Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs said that as of June this year, there were a total of 25,715,796 registered females, 492 more than the 25,715,304 males.By the end of July, the number of women surged further to 25,725,414, widening the gap by 2,645. The difference continues to grow

National Sept. 6, 2015

The main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy’s floor leader Rep. Lee Jong-kul said Friday that he would consider ousting Huh Young-il, a former party vice spokesman who recently resigned over his Facebook post praising the North Korean leader.“I’m not sure how much Huh actually respected (North Korean leader Kim Jong-un), but just the fact that a person in the party’s important role made such comment is a grave problem,” Lee said in a radio interview. Huh’s expulsion may be considered

National Aug. 28, 2015

BRETIGNY-SUR-ORGE, France (AFP) - Investigators worked Saturday to determine the cause of a train crash near Paris that claimed six lives as the French transport minister warned that more victims could yet be found.Praising the quick reflexes of the driver, who sent up the alert that halted all train traffic in the area, Transport Minister Frederic Cuvillier virtually ruled out human error in the disaster, saying the probe would focus instead on the "rolling stock, infrastructure and the precise

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