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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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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 to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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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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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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Kim under fire for obscene remarks
An opposition candidate has come under fire for joking about sexual violence eight years ago on a satirical Internet program.Newspapers, politicians and citizens reproached him, with some urging him to quit the race and apologize. According to an audio clip revealed on YouTube on Sunday, Kim Yong-min, a candidate for the main opposition Democratic United Party, made the remarks in 2004 during “Kim Gura/Hani’s Plus 18,” an online show.When he was asked about anti-terrorism measures, he replied, “
April 4, 2012
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Investigators seize police files in election hacking probe
A special prosecutor team raided the National Police Agency on Wednesday, seizing computer files for an investigation into a cyber attack on the state election watchdog’s website during the mayoral by-elections in October.According to the team, the raid on the police was to determine whether officers investigating the distributed denial of service attack on the National Election Commission webpage attempted to cover up the incident.“We conducted the raid to download computer files in order to co
April 4, 2012
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Death penalty sought for Chinese captain over slain Korean officer
Prosecutors on Wednesday demanded capital punishment for the captain of a Chinese fishing boat accused of killing a South Korean law enforcement officer during a crackdown on illegal fishing last year. The 43-year-old captain, Cheng Dawei, was indicted in January on charges of stabbing Coast Guard Cpl. Lee Cheong-ho to death with a knife and seriously injuring another officer during a Dec. 12 raid
April 4, 2012
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Women’s groups protest deployment of prosecutor accused of harassment
Male-dominated organizational structure under fire as more women join prosecutionWomen’s rights groups in Gwangju are protesting the deployment of a prosecutor accused of sexually harassing female reporters. On Monday morning, an association of women’s groups in the city issued a statement denouncing the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office for deciding to dispatch Choi Jae-ho, a mid-ranking prosecutor from Seoul Western Prosecutors’ Office, to the region, after complaints of repeated sexual harassment w
April 4, 2012
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Muslim should not be forced to process pork: rights body
Placing Muslim workers who do not eat pork at pork processing operations could be an infringement of their human rights, the National Human Rights Commission said Tuesday. The human rights watchdog advised a local sundae (Korean blood sausages) manufacturer in February to move a 36-year-old Indonesian Muslim who does not eat pork for religious reasons from the sausage processing section of the factory to another department. The worker had previously asked the management for reassignment but his
April 4, 2012
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U.S. attack suspect upset about expulsion, teasing
A nursing student expelled from a small Christian university and upset about being teased over his poor English skills opened fire at the school, going from room to room in a rampage that left six students and a secretary dead, police said Tuesday. Oakland Fire officials work outside of Oikos University after a school shooting in Oakland, California, Monday. (AP-Yonhap News)One L. Goh, 43, a South
April 4, 2012
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Korea ups education on Dokdo
The Korean government is stepping up school education on Dokdo, about a week after the Japanese government approved high school textbooks that claim the easternmost islets as Japanese territory.Seoul’s education ministry said it distributed supplementary textbooks on Dokdo to all elementary, middle and high schools to be used during the designated classes on the islets in the new semester which began in March. “The education on Dokdo is to raise students’ awareness of the necessity for guarding
April 3, 2012
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Graduate oversupply projected to continue for 10 years
Korea’s labor market will face an oversupply of nearly 500,000 college graduates by 2020, as a mismatch between jobseekers and the demand for their skills widens a government report said Tuesday. The Ministry of Employment and Labor projected in the report that some 4.6 million holders of two-year college degrees or higher will enter the labor force over the next decade. The national economy is likely to add just 4.1 million jobs for them, resulting in an oversupply of 500,000 workers, it said.
April 3, 2012
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Groups demand prosecutor’s sacking
Activists protest relocation of prosecutor suspected of sexual harassmentWomen’s rights groups in Gwangju are protesting the deployment of a prosecutor accused of sexually harassing female reporters. On Monday morning, an association of women’s groups in the city issued a statement denouncing the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office for deciding to dispatch Choi Jae-ho, a mid-ranking prosecutor from Seoul Western Prosecutors’ Office, to the region, after complaints of repeated sexual harassment were file
April 3, 2012
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Teens join fight against tobacco industry
A group of teenagers became the latest campaigners against Korea’s cigarette industry on Friday, calling tobacco production unconstitutional. The students, members of an anti-smoking club at Handong International School in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, have begun an online movement to gather a million signatures. In the petition the middle school and high school students claim that the Tobacco Enterprise Law is “unconstitutional.”The club, Blue Jeans, is run by 10 students from the internat
April 3, 2012
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MBC fires two strike leaders
After being plagued by more than two months of labor union strikes, MBC has taken additional disciplinary measures against strike leaders, its union said Tuesday, escalating labor-management conflict at the public broadcaster.The union said MBC management fired labor union head Jung Young-ha and his deputy Kang Ki-woong and suspended five others for two to three months for masterminding an "illega
April 3, 2012
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MBC fires two strike leaders
After being plagued by more than two months of labor union strikes, MBC has taken additional disciplinary measures against strike leaders, its union said Tuesday, escalating labor-management conflict at the public broadcaster.The union said MBC management fired labor union head Jung Young-ha and his deputy Kang Ki-woong and suspended five others for two to three months for masterminding an “illegal” walkout.A total of 17 unionists have now been disciplined since the MBC strike began on Jan. 30.T
April 3, 2012
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S. Korean held for girlfriend’s ’live octopus‘ death
A South Korean has been arrested for allegedly killing his girlfriend who was initially believed to have accidentally suffocated while eating a live octopus, a prosecutor said Tuesday. After an investigation lasting many months the suspect identified only as Kim was formally arrested for murder last Friday, prosecutor Lee Geon-tae at Incheon city, west of Seoul, told AFP.Kim would be charged within the next 10 days, he said. “He’s still denying the charge... we believe enough evidence has been c
April 3, 2012
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Seven killed in shooting at U.S. religious college
Oakland Fire officials work outside of Oikos University after a school shooting in Oakland, California, Monday. (AP-Yonhap News)OAKLAND, California (AP) ― A 43-year-old former student of a small Christian university in California opened fire at the school, killing at least seven people and setting off an intense, chaotic manhunt that ended with his capture at a nearby shopping center, authorities
April 3, 2012
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Farm school opens for homeless
Seoul Metropolitan Government has opened a farm school for the homeless to help them stand on their own as farmers or farm hands. The Seoul Farm School, opened on Monday, is expected to offer agricultural education so that the homeless can support themselves and break free from life on the streets. “I want to start a new life at the farming school. I’ve been living on the streets and eat at homeless shelters, but I want to earn money that can support me in the future,” said Ki Un-chan, 52, one o
April 2, 2012
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Chinese motorbike import banned for CO emissions
The Korean government banned imports of a Chinese motorcycle brand because it breached limits on harmful emissions, officials said Monday. The Opera motorcycles, imported by local firm Hansom Bike, were found to emit 6.875 grams of carbon monoxide per kilometer, three times more the legally permitted 2 grams, the environment ministry said. A total of 96 units have been imported since October 2010 and some are believed to have been sold to customers, it added. The ministry said it will push for a
April 2, 2012
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Police documents make up most of Roh administration files
The majority of the cases outlined in newly revealed evidence concerning the Prime Minister’s Office placing civilians under illicit surveillance were compiled as part of legitimate police procedure during the previous administration, according to Cheong Wa Dae.About 80 percent of the documents were compiled during the Roh Moo-hyun administration, said the presidential office. In addition, the presidential office says that of the 420 or so cases conducted under the current administration, only a
April 2, 2012
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TB most prevalent in homeless
Tuberculosis is still strongly linked to poverty, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday. In its study on 42,763 people with practically no income who visited public health centers and other medical facilities for TB checkups in 2008, about 80 were diagnosed with the pneumonic disease. The frequency rate could be translated into 187 out of every 100,000 people who fall sick to tuberculosis. Other studies have found the national average rate to be 91 in 100,000.Tuberculo
April 2, 2012
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Greenpeace officials denied entry on national interest
Greenpeace East Asia executive director Mario Damato and another employee were denied entry into the country on Monday.Mario Damato was accompanying Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo into the country on Monday when they were denied entry at Incheon International Airport at roughly 2 p.m. on Monday.Naidoo was allowed entry.According to a Korea Immigration Service officer, they received a request to deny entry to Greenpeace officials from a government branch. The officer, on
April 2, 2012
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U.S. teacher arrested over suspected child molestation
A U.S. language instructor who fled South Korea after being suspected of child molestation was recently arrested in his native country and extradited to the South, police here said Monday.The 56-year-old teacher, whose identity was withheld, is accused of five counts of molestation of four boys between June and July 2010, the police said.The suspect allegedly forced the boys into areas at an eleme
April 2, 2012