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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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Samsung chip business back on track, logs W1.9tr operating profit in Q1
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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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Shinsegae faces showdown with investors over SSG.com's delayed IPO
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Hopes rise for possible Gaza truce deal
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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Ex-pro baseball player who killed debtor appeals sentence
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S. Korea to issue travel ban on Haiti amid intensifying gang violence
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Leaders of S. Korea, Angola agree to boost economic, trade cooperation
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Ex-P.M.: Keep U.N. chief out of politics
Han Seung-soo criticizes those who link Ban to Korea’s presidential election in 2012U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon should be “freed from domestic politics,” former Prime Minister Han Seung-soo said, referring to recent opinion polls that included Ban as one of the country’s presidential hopefuls.“It is our duty to free Secretary General Ban from domestic politics so he can serve the world,” Ha
April 12, 2011
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Opposition parties unite against GNP in by-elections
With the official campaigns for the April 27 by-elections to kick off Thursday after a two-day candidacy registration, opposition parties have successfully moved to form a united front against the ruling party.In the Bundang-B constituency in Seongnam, Lee Jin-hee of the minority New Progressive Party withdrew from the race Monday, making the contest a showdown between candidates from the ruling G
April 11, 2011
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Lawmakers raised W47b in political funds in 2010
Ruling and opposition lawmakers raised a total of 47.7 billion won ($44 million) in political donations last year with the ruling party drawing more funds than the competition, the election watchdog said Monday.While the total amount increased by 16 percent from 41.1 billion won in 2009, it came short of the 63.4 billion won collected in 2008 when a nationwide general election was held, according
April 11, 2011
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Assembly session focuses on science belt
Opposition urges Lee government to keep election pledgeLegislators on Monday continued to uphold their regional interests over the location of the envisioned multi-trillion-won science-business belt and pounded the government with questions on the safety of nuclear power plants.Opposition lawmakers called on the Lee Myung-bak administration to stick to the president’s campaign pledge to locate the
April 11, 2011
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Guatemalan judge approves first lady's divorce
Sandra Torres de Colom (AP)GUATEMALA CITY (AP) _ A Guatemalan judge on Friday dismissed a suit seeking to block divorce proceedings by the wife of President Alvaro Colom, clearing the way for her to run for the presidency.A university group and others had sought to block the divorce because it would allow Colom's wife to get around a constitutional ban on a president's extended family from running
April 11, 2011
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Opposition to field single nominee in Gimhae
Opposition parties have finally reached an agreement to run a single candidate for the upcoming by-election in the hometown of the late liberal President Roh Moo-hyun, forewarning a showdown with the ruling party there.“We have resolved to select a single candidate to represent the opposition parties by Tuesday, when the official candidate registration begins,” an official of a civic group advocat
April 8, 2011
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S. Korea mulls stationing military troops on Dokdo: PM
South Korea's prime minister said it is worthwhile to study the idea of deploying military troops on Dokdo to strengthen sovereign control of the nation's easternmost islets in the face of Japan's repeated territorial claims. South Korea has kept a small police detachment on Dokdo in the East Sea since 1954. "In reality, it's appropriate to station police, but we should consider the idea of d
April 8, 2011
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Seoul urged to press Japan on radiation
Legislators also rebuke government over Dokdo, translation of EU FTALawmakers Thursday lashed out at the government over measures to handle the inflow of radioactive material from Japan, Tokyo’s approval of history textbooks claiming sovereignty over Dokdo and the mistranslation of the Korea-EU Free Trade Agreement.“Our government needs to stand firm on this issue of radioactive waste disposal,” R
April 7, 2011
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Candidates give way to big names in Bundang
The by-election race in the Bundang constituency has come down to a battle between the former and incumbent leaders of the ruling and main opposition parties, as two other candidates have stepped out of the way.Park Gye-dong, former lawmaker of the ruling Grand National Party, held a press conference Thursday to announce his withdrawal from the by-election contest.“I shall accept the party’s decis
April 7, 2011
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Politicians debate split-up of science belt
Panel starts reviewing where to locate multi-trillion-won facilitiesLawmakers engaged in a heated dispute over a proposal to divide up an envisioned multi-trillion-won science-business belt into two or three different regions as a panel assigned with selecting the location held its first meeting Thursday. The Lee Myung-bak administration last year sought to set up the science-business belt in Sout
April 7, 2011
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Number of seniors tops 1m in Seoul
Citizens over 65 years old account for 9.7% of city populationThe number of people in Seoul older than 65 has surpassed 1 million, Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday. The number of infants and youths, on the other hand, declined. According to its report, the number of senior citizens marked 1,002,770 as of Dec. 31 last year, a 6.3 percent jump from the previous year’s 942,946. Over-65s n
April 7, 2011
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‘Artificial rain mulled to ...block Japan radioactivity’
The nation’s weather agency considered creating an artificial rainstorm above the Taebaek Mountains along the eastern coast to block the inflow of radioactive materials from Japan’s crippled nuclear plant, an opposition legislator said Wednesday.Rep. Shin Hak-yong of the Democratic Party said he was told that the Korea Meteorological Agency attempted the rainmaking despite the possibility of causi
April 6, 2011
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Radioactive water leak into sea stops at Fukushima
(Yonhap News)Radioactive water leak into sea stops at FukushimaTOKYO (AFP) - A leak of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant was stopped Wednesday, the operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced."Workers confirmed at 5:38 am (2038 GMT) that the water running off out of a pit had stopped," the embattled operator said in a statement.TE
April 6, 2011
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Berlusconi under pressure as sex trial looms
MILAN (AFP) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's trial on charges of sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of power opens in Milan on Wednesday after a dramatic build-up that has dented his popularity.The billionaire tycoon is no stranger to the dock after years of investigations and trials linked to his business interests but this will be the first time that his tumultuous personal li
April 6, 2011
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Ruling party drawing up new reunification policy
South Korea’s conservative ruling party said Tuesday it will set up new policies that actively prepare for reunifying with North Korea, as the communist state suffers from deepening food shortages and political instability. Although it would not openly admit it, the conservative Lee Myung-bak government in Seoul has been increasing measures preparing for sudden collapse of the Kim Jong-il regime i
April 5, 2011
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Lawmakers shrink from softer campaign rules
Four lawmakers have retracted support for a proposed revision bill which would make it harder for law-breaking elected officials to lose their seats ― with others thought likely to follow. Last Friday, Grand National Party Rep. Kim Choong-whan, along with lawmakers from other parties, submitted a revision bill to raise the minimum requirements before elected officials could be stripped of their po
April 5, 2011
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President Lee pledges to share river development experience with Malaysia
President Lee Myung-bak said Tuesday that his government will share its experience of dredging and developing the country’s four main rivers with Malaysia ahead of summit talks with visiting Prime Minister Mohamed Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak later in the day.“The Malaysian prime minister said he wished to take a look at the four rivers being developed,” Lee said during an Arbor Day event in Yeoju, G
April 5, 2011
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Seoul boosts ‘practical control’ over Dokdo
Construction of ocean research station to begin in April in waters near isletsFrom planting trees to building installations and selling bits of land to ordinary citizens, South Korea is eying several long-term plans aimed at strengthening its sovereignty to counter Japan’s repeated claims over its easternmost islets of Dokdo. Japan strengthened its claims the Dokdo islets in its revised textbooks
April 4, 2011
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Lee’s office puts brakes on legal compliance bill
Cheong Wa Dae said Monday it will take some time before giving the green light to a new bill requiring listed companies to hire legal experts.The National Assembly last month passed a revised commercial bill that requires all listed businesses to employ lawyers or law professors of more than five years’ experience to monitor for potential legal problems in addition to the counsels they already hav
April 4, 2011
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Parties pick candidates in tight match areas
Parties confirmed several candidates for the April 27 parliamentary by-elections Monday.The ruling Grand National Party announced the selection of Kang Jae-sup, the party’s former leader, as its candidate to run in the Bundang-B constituency in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. Kang will compete against Sohn Hak-kyu, the chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party.“The party has decided, based on
April 4, 2011