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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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Over 60% of S. Koreans support W100m childbirth incentive: survey
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‘Inside Out 2’ adds four new emotions, explores teenage life
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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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Ex-pitcher Kang given prison term
The Seoul Central District Court sentenced former baseball player Kang Byung-kyu to one and half years in prison on Friday for fraud.Kang, a former pitcher for the Doosan Bears in Korea’s pro baseball league, was accused of borrowing more than 300 million won from his friends in 2008 without paying them back.The Seoul court also sentenced Kang to one year in prison with a stay of execution for three years for violence and making threats against actor Lee Byung-hun in a separate case filed in 200
Feb. 1, 2013
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Korean women top plastic surgery ratio
Women in Korea received the most plastic surgery operations per head of population, British media reported. According to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, 13 cosmetic surgery operations per 1,000 people were done in 2011, indicating one in 77 people had undergone cosmetic surgery procedures. One in five women aged 19-49 living in cities reported to have gone under the knife. The most popular operation among Korean women was double-eyelid surgery, which makes eyes bigger an
Feb. 1, 2013
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Police to crack down on ‘brash’ graduation celebrations
The National Police Agency said Friday that it will crack down on excessively violent celebrations among students graduating from elementary, middle and high school.The NPA announced in the recent statement that it plans to conduct an intensive preventive education to deter brash celebrations, while closely monitoring 1,360 schools it has deemed susceptible to such violence.Anyone who has taken part in such activities, no matter how small, will be punished. “(Police will) only hand out warnings
Feb. 1, 2013
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Asian students discuss climate change, development
Asian college students kicked off an eight-day forum in Seoul on Thursday to share ideas on economic development, climate change and cultural exchange for future regional cooperation.The ASEAN-Korea Frontier Forum, scheduled to run until Feb. 7, gathered over 90 students from 11 Asian countries, including Singapore, Malaysia and Cambodia. It is hosted by the Asia Exchange Association affiliated to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. “This year, 93 students from across Asia have joined the
Feb. 1, 2013
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SK chairman given four years in prison
A lower court sentenced SK chairman Chey Tae-won to four years in prison on Thursday for embezzling corporate funds for stock investment. The 53-year-old tycoon was put in prison immediately following the verdict by the Seoul Central District Court. Separately, a Seoul higher court also gave a two-and-a-half-year prison term to Lee Kuk-chul, chairman of SLS Group, on the same day on several charges including bribing a former vice culture minister and other high-ranking government officials. Lee’
Jan. 31, 2013
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Chadwick nurtures global talent
The recent selection of Songdo as the location for the secretariat of the United Nation’s Green Climate Fund is good news ― not only for the Korean government, but also for international schools in the free economic zone, said Jeff Mercer, headmaster of Chadwick International.“We’re very thrilled about the GCF, which will be coming to Songdo very soon. We’re very optimistic. It will be very meaningful for us to raise the ratio of international students,” he said in an interview with The Korea He
Jan. 31, 2013
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Alternative school for immigrants to host first graduation
The Seoul Dasom school announced that it would host a ceremony next week for its first three graduates. Established in March 2012, it is first and only alternative school in Seoul designed to support children from multicultural families who have immigrated.The immigrant students are those who were born and raised in a different country but moved to Korea in their preteens. They include children of international spouses and migrant workers. The public alternative school currently teaches Korean,
Jan. 31, 2013
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Former U.C. Merced chief named president of KAIST
Korea’s top science university will have the former chief of the University of California Merced in the U.S. as its new president, school officials said Thursday.The board of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology held a meeting and elected Kang Sung-mo, also known as Steve Kang, as the new president, according to the officials. The 68-year-old Kang, an electrical engineering scientist who has earned a global reputation in the field of electronic circuits and systems, was appoint
Jan. 31, 2013
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‘Goose father’ arrested for prostitution
A 41-year-old man living alone in Korea to support his wife and children abroad was arrested for charges of prostitution with a minor on Thursday. According to the Saha Police Station in Busan, the man lured a 16-year-old girl he met online to a motel where he had sex with her on Jan. 16. He paid her 100,000 won ($92). The man is a so-called “Goose Father,” a term used in Korea to describe men separated from their children and wives, usually because the family goes abroad for education.Police f
Jan. 31, 2013
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SK Group chairman sentenced to 4 yrs in prison for embezzlement
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won was sentenced to fours years in prison on Thursday for embezzling a massive amount of company funds for personal stock investments.The 53-year-old disgraced tycoon was imprisoned immediately after the Seoul Central District Court handed down the ruling.Chey was found guilty of embezzling 49.7 billion won (US$44.5million) from two SK Group affiliates and funneling the funds into a firm headed by a former executive at SK's telecommunications unit for investments in s
Jan. 31, 2013
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Runaway teen lies about kidnapping
A runaway teenager lied about being kidnapped to avoid getting in trouble with her mother, according to police. The 18-year-old surnamed Kim, who had left home 8 months ago, called her mother early on Monday morning to tell her that she was locked in a room in Busan, South Gyeonsang Province. “I’m on the third floor of a red brick four-story building in Moradong, Busan. There are three rooms in the hallway,” said Kim to her mother on the phone.Some 80 police officers searched Moradong area build
Jan. 31, 2013
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Naju rapist receives life imprisonment
A district court on Thursday sentenced a 24-year-old man to life in prison for kidnapping and raping an eight-year-old girl in the southern city of Naju.The defendant, only identified by his surname Koh, was found guilty of abducting the sleeping elementary school first-grader from her home and brutally raping her before trying to kill her in August in Naju, 350 kilometers south of Seoul.The Gwangju District Court also ordered that Koh be subject to hormonal treatment that suppresses sexual impu
Jan. 31, 2013
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Civic groups step up criticism of Samsung over deadly chemical leak
Civic groups and politicians on Wednesday stepped up criticism of Samsung Electronics over a toxic chemical leak at one of its semiconductor lines that killed one worker and injured four others. The workers were from a subcontractor.Approximately two to 10 liters of hydrofluoric acid leaked in the incident that took place on Sunday.According to the Industrial Safety and Health Law, business operators that deal with toxic chemicals are legally responsible for safety matters.“The accident occurred
Jan. 30, 2013
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Samsung to be fined over lax response to gas leak
Samsung Electronics Co. will be fined up to 1 million won ($923) for belatedly reporting last week's fatal hydrofluoric acid gas leak at its chip plant that killed one worker and injured four others, police said Wednesday. Police said they plan to impose the fine on Samsung and its subcontractor, named STI Service, for violating the Toxic Chemicals Control Act that stipulates the firms to notify the authorities promptly when such an incident breaks out. Up to 10 liters of diluted hydrofluor
Jan. 30, 2013
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New email-hacking phishing spreading
A new form of phishing crime, stealing a victim’s accredited certificates by hacking into email accounts, has been spreading, the police reported.Phishing is a compound word of “private data” and “fishing” and was first reported in Korea in 2004. Scammers have been refining fraud techniques to steal personal data over the last 8 years and a variety of tricks like voice-phishing and smishing, one by text message, have hit many unsuspecting users.“Offenders of the new phishing fraud break into vic
Jan. 30, 2013
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College president arrested in money-for-student scheme
Officials from a college in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, were accused of misappropriating school funds and state subsides and bribing high school teachers to increase its enrollment, prosecutors said. The Daegu District Public Prosecutors’ Office said it has charged the president and six high-ranking officials of Pohang College Friday with embezzlement, bribery, fraud and other offenses.They were suspected of falsely increasing the number of students to secure more government subsidies.Its
Jan. 29, 2013
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Drug offenders increase in 2012
The number of drug offenders in 2012 came to 9,225, up by 0.9 percent from a year earlier according to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office.Of them, 359 were foreign nationals, a 38.6 percent increase from 2011.The total number of drug offenders had been on the decrease since 2009 but 2012 saw an upturn, according to the data.The authorities confiscated a total of 50.1 kilograms of illegal drugs last year, down from the previous year’s 110.9 kilograms. But the weight of drugs smuggled into the countr
Jan. 29, 2013
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[Newsmaker] Samsung under fire for clumsy response
Samsung Electronics came under fire for its clumsy response to a toxic gas leak in its semiconductor line, which killed one subcontract worker and injured four others on Monday.The world’s largest technology company was accused of failing to take proper safety measures and even attempting to conceal the incident to minimize damage to its reputation.The plant is located less than 4 kilometers from Dongtan New Town in Hwaseong City and Suwon City, where 1.3 million residents live in both areas. T
Jan. 29, 2013
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Female doctorate holders have lower incomes: survey
Female doctorate degree holders earn less than their male counterparts, due mainly to a larger number of women majoring in lower-paying fields such as human studies and natural science, a survey showed Tuesday.According to the survey of 2,638 men and 1,089 women who got their Ph.D. in South Korea for the academic year in 2012, the rate of men with doctorates who earn more than 50 million won ($45,913) per year came to 63.2 percent, nearly double that of women, which came to 36.2 percent.But 28.6
Jan. 29, 2013
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Recommendations of rights watchdog often neglected
Some 30 percent of policy recommendations issued by the human rights commission have been partly or wholly rejected, the watchdog said Tuesday, raising questions over the efficacy of its role.The National Human Rights Commission said it has made a total of 2,768 recommendations to government agencies and private entities since its establishment in 2001 until last year upon receiving petitions, and some 68.7 percent have been accepted so far.By type, government organizations, including the police
Jan. 29, 2013