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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Korea enters full election mode
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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Court upholds jail term for man who attempted to murder ex-girlfriend
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S. Korea to boost support for single-parent families
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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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Seoul wins U.N. public service awards again
The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Friday that it has won the United Nations Public Service Awards for the fourth consecutive year.This year, Seoul won two United Nations awards in recognition of its efforts to help troubled teenage girls and establish an open tax appeals system for citizens, the municipal government said. Park Kyo-ok (left), deputy director general for complaints analysis of
Social AffairsJune 24, 2011
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N.K. may have grid-disabling nuke
North Korea may have developed a “super-EMP” weapon capable of emitting more gamma radiation than a 25-megaton nuclear weapon, a former CIA nuclear weapons analyst was quoted as saying by a U.S.-funded radio station Friday. Peter Vincent Pry told the Voice of America that a group of Russian nuclear weapons scientists approached him in 2004 to warn the U.S. that the technology to make the electroma
North KoreaJune 24, 2011
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U.S. envoy calls for revival of Kim Dae-jung’s unification vision
Through the late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung’s reconciliatory ideals, Seoul and Washington should work together on achieving a reunified, peaceful Korean Peninsula, U.S. Ambassador Kathleen Stephens said during a recent Memorial Day ceremony. Stephens published on her weblog the speech she gave at a national park in Jindo on June 6 Memorial Day. “On this Memorial Day … we honor the memory
Foreign AffairsJune 24, 2011
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Prosecutors snub GNP probe demand
Refuse to reinvestigate illegal deposit withdrawal, say found nothing to look intoThe prosecution seemed to refuse Friday to reinvestigate suspected illegal deposit withdrawals from a corruption-ridden savings bank despite demands from the ruling Grand National Party. “If we have dug up a mine and found nothing, we have to move to another mine. That’s the position of the prosecutor-general and the
Social AffairsJune 24, 2011
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Veterans see fruits of their sacrifices
Robert Hoyt (right), a Korean War veteran, and his grandson Quentin Backstrom pose for a photo after their visit to the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, Thursday.(Chung Hee-cho/The Korea Herald)PAJU ― Although it is his first visit to South Korea, Quentin Backstrom, a 16-year-old student from Philadelphia, is quite familiar with the country through the vivid memories of his grandfath
DefenseJune 24, 2011
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European firms offer internship to N. Korean defectors
SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- HSBC Bank and several other European companies in South Korea plan to offer a rare internship program to dozens of North Korean defectors in a move to give them work experience, an official said Friday. Under the initial program, 20 North Korean college students and graduates in the South are scheduled to work as interns at about 10 European firms for about three mon
Foreign AffairsJune 24, 2011
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Obama extends national emergency against N. Korea
WASHINGTON, (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Barack Obama issued a public notice Thursday to extend the national emergency in relation to North Korea that provides a legal and administrative basis for sanctions against the nuclear-armed communist nation.On the basis of the national emergency declared in 2008 under the National Emergencies Act, the Obama administration slapped tougher sanctions on Pyongy
PoliticsJune 24, 2011
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Leaders of N. Korea, Russia planning summit: reports
TOKYO/MOSCOW, (Yonhap) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il are planning to hold their first meeting later this month or early next month in the Russian Far East, news reports claimed late Thursday.Citing local officials and Russian public security officials, Kyodo News reported that the two countries are considering having a summit around next Thursday on the o
Foreign AffairsJune 24, 2011
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Presidential aide in U.S. for possible talks on N. Korea, FTA: source
SEOUL, June 23 (Yonhap) -- A key South Korean presidential aide on national security is visiting the United States for possible talks on inter-Korean relations and the ratification of a free trade agreement between Seoul and Washington, a source said Thursday.Kim Tae-hyo, a senior secretary to President Lee Myung-bak for national security strategy, left for the U.S. on Wednesday, the source added,
Foreign AffairsJune 23, 2011
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Police clear marathoners of doping allegations
CHUNCHEON, South Korea, June 23 (Yonhap) -- Police said Thursday that they have cleared a marathon coach and his athletes of doping allegations, wrapping up their probe two months before South Korea hosts the world athletic championships.The Gangwon Provincial Police Agency said it has examined records from a rehabilitation hospital where 19 athletes were treated, and found no evidence that they h
Social AffairsJune 23, 2011
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Court orders compensation for Samsung employees who died of leukemia
SEOUL, June 23 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court ordered compensation for the families of two young Samsung Electronics employees who died of leukemia, recognizing for the first time a link between leukemia and working in a computer chip-making line.The Seoul Administrative Court ruled in favor of the families, who requested the court annul the Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Services' 2009 decision
Social AffairsJune 23, 2011
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Parliament passes bills on Korea-EU free trade safeguards
SEOUL, June 23 (Yonhap) -- The National Assembly on Thursday passed a package of safeguard bills aimed at protecting local industries from cheap imports after a free trade deal with the European Union (EU) takes effect in July. The free trade pact, approved by the parliament in April, will eliminate 98 percent of import duties and other trade barriers in manufactured goods, agricultural products a
PoliticsJune 23, 2011
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GNP proposes 30% tuition cuts
The government and the Grand National Party announced Thursday a new college tuition plan, which aims to cut fees by 30 percent by 2014.A total of 6.8 trillion won ($6.3 billion) from the national budget and 1.5 trillion won from school scholarship programs will be set aside for tuition cuts in the coming years, said GNP floor leader Hwang Woo-yea. In order to reduce tuition fees by 15 percent nex
Social AffairsJune 23, 2011
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Minister touches off debate on allowing Koreans into casinos
Casino gamblers sit around a gaming table. The government is seeking to allow more casinos to admit Korean nationals. (The Korea Herald)The government plans to review whether to allow foreigner-only casinos to admit Korean nationals, citing the lack of casinos as one of the main reasons for the country’s unfavorable trade balances in tourism.Currently, only one casino, Kangwon Land in Gangwon Prov
Social AffairsJune 23, 2011
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Children with foreign parents exceed 150,000
The number of children in South Korea with at least one foreign parent nearly tripled over the past four years, as international marriages continued to increase, statistics showed. According to data released by the Ministry of Public Administration and Security on Thursday, there were 151,154 such children registered as of Jan. 1, surpassing the 150,000 mark for the first time. This year’s figure
Social AffairsJune 23, 2011
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DP rules out compromise over TV fee rise plan
The main opposition Democratic Party renewed its pledge to veto the KBS subscription fee rise unless the public broadcaster moves to maintain political neutrality.“Only when KBS proves the legitimacy of the fee hike and shows efforts to renew itself will we examine the necessity to raise the fee,” said a party spokesperson after the DP Supreme Council meeting. The remarks overturned the party floo
PoliticsJune 23, 2011
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S. Korea to open N.K. info center
South Korea said Thursday it is working on establishing a state-run open source-based center to consolidate scattered information on its reclusive northern rival. The purported center, which will be fully open to government officials as well as the general public here, will gather and organize information that has already been made public by the media and international agencies, an official at the
North KoreaJune 23, 2011
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An slams ‘blind spot’ on overseas schools
Lawmaker says education key to winning hearts of voters living abroadOverseas Korean schools have long been a blind spot for the government and National Assembly and it is time they paid attention to the issue, even if only to win votes abroad, said a second-term lawmaker.Rep. An Min-suk of the main opposition Democratic Party, who is also on the parliamentary education committee, has lately been
PoliticsJune 23, 2011
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S. Korea has less forest per capita than OECD average
South Korea had one of smallest per-capita forest areas among major economies, an international report said Thursday, indicating the country’s dense population.The nation’s forest area was 1.3 square kilometers per every 1,000 people as of 2008, the “Toward Green Growth” report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development showed.The reading marks the seventh-lowest level among thos
Social AffairsJune 23, 2011
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Electronic ID card plan hits resistance
A controversial government plan to introduce electronic personal identification cards is unlikely to be realized as scheduled in 2013, faced with strong opposition from those fearing human rights infringements and a waste of taxpayers’ money.A related government bill has yet to be submitted to a parliamentary committee for deliberation although a committee session was held recently, the Ministry o
Social AffairsJune 23, 2011