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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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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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Carrots and sticks to keep diplomats disciplined
With recent scandals highlighting prevalent ethical problems among its officials, the South Korean Foreign Ministry has been drawing up tougher surveillance and disciplinary measures.Also important, however, is simultaneously carrying out a system encouraging officials to not only “avoid the wrong, but also actively do the right,” Seoul’s first ambassador for performance evaluation of diplomats sa
Foreign AffairsJune 26, 2011
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Local design projects into Danish finals
Three Korean projects have made it to the final round of the Danish foundation INDEX awards for the best Designs to Improve Life.In the community category, the Design Seoul concept; The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project and Dasan Call Center have made it to the finals.Every second year, The Danish design foundation INDEX awards the best “Design to Improve Life” awards. The three local finalists a
Foreign AffairsJune 26, 2011
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Indians invited to teach English in Korea
The English Program in Korea is recruiting English teachers from India starting from this fall semester, the Indian Embassy has announced.Established in 1995, The EPIK program is sponsored by the Korean Ministry of Education with a mandate to improve the English speaking abilities of students and teachers in Korea and to develop cultural exchanges. Through EPIK, more than 1,000 teachers are placed
Foreign AffairsJune 26, 2011
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Appointment for U.S. Embassy services
All routine American Citizen Services provided at the U.S. Embassy now require an appointment. Since June 15, the embassy no longer accepts walk-in customers unless they require emergency help. Services include passport applications, requests for consular reports of births abroad, and notarial services.“Requiring appointments for all our non-emergency, routine services means that we’ll be able to
Foreign AffairsJune 26, 2011
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Online appointments at French Embassy
The French Embassy has set up an online appointment system to improve its service and reduce waiting times for visa applicants.Starting today, all visa applicants will have to reserve an appointment with a consular officer online.Holders of diplomatic passports can still apply without an appointment but must contact the embassy’s Consular Section beforehand.For details visit www.ambafrance-kr.org(
Foreign AffairsJune 26, 2011
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Seoul-idifying the art of batik diplomacy
From panda to shuttle to ping pong to even Facebook diplomacy, there are many different kinds of diplomatic practices that aim to inform, entertain and bring two nations closer together. There is now a new form of diplomacy straight from the Indonesian island of Java; one which is so heavily entrenched in their culture that even their president, government officials and sultans wear it on official
Foreign AffairsJune 26, 2011
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Putting EU FTA into practice
In the language of free trade agreements, the phrase “comprehensive deals” usually means long and complicated sections that take many hours to find out how they apply to a given industry.The European Delegation last week invited representatives of EU companies, embassies of EU member states and local importers of EU products to join in a one-day seminar that covered all aspects related to making t
Foreign AffairsJune 26, 2011
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Diplomat licensed to help needy children
France’s Bertrand devotes Saturdays to volunteer workFor most of us, Saturdays are our personal time to spend with the family or hang out with friends and escape the rat race of work. For Lydie Bertrand, Saturday is her special day, not because she explores the country or goes shopping; instead she feeds her spirit by helping those who need it the most.“There are not many things in life that give
Foreign AffairsJune 26, 2011
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Sung Kim, Obama's choice for stable management of NK, public diplomacy
WASHINGTON -- With the pick of Sung Kim, a Korea-born career diplomat, as his new ambassador to Seoul, U.S.President Barack Obama aims to handle the North Korean nuclear issue in a more professional way and step up public diplomacy with South Koreans, officials and experts here said. Kim, 51, is on a path to become the first person of Korean origin to serve as U.S. ambassador to Seoul, a his
Foreign AffairsJune 26, 2011
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Lee visits Africa next week for PyeongChang bid, energy ties
President Lee Myung-bak (Yonhap News) President Lee Myung-bak on Saturday will fly to South Africa for a weeklong tour of three African countries, Cheong Wa Dae said Sunday. The trip is part of last-minute efforts to promote Korea’s PyeongChang as the host of the 2018 Winter Olympics and to strengthen economic ties. The president will arrive in Durban, South Africa, on Saturday evening, four days
PoliticsJune 26, 2011
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High college tuition fee drives student thefts
A college student on a leave of absence to raise college funds worked a part-time job by day and allegedly committed thefts by night has been arrested, according to Yonhap News.The student, surnamed Lee, 22, faces charges of breaking into shopping malls and offices to rob them late at night. Lee allegedly stole fourteen times recently, by sneaking into offices and arcades around Jinyeong, Gimhae c
Social AffairsJune 26, 2011
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Activists send anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets
South Korean activists sent five anti-North Korean propaganda balloons across the inter-Korean border on Saturday from a western border resort in commemoration of the outbreak of the 1950-53 Korean War, their representatives said.About 10 activists, mostly North Korean defectors, released the propaganda balloons in Paju, north of Seoul, Saturday morning. The balloons carried about 100,000 leaflets
NationalJune 25, 2011
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Samhwa Mutual Savings Bank declared bankrupt
The Samhwa Mutual Savings Bank, one of the local banks troubled with capital shortages, was declared bankrupt Friday.The savings bank filed for bankruptcy on May 19. In January, the Financial Services Commission suspended the bank for six months during moves to weed out unviable banks that failed to meet regulatory capital requirements.The ill-fated bank has been criticized for its allegedly illic
Social AffairsJune 24, 2011
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Korea set to approve world’s first stem-cell drug
Medication passes safety, quality testsKorea will approve the world’s first stem-cell medication as early as this month, the Korea Food and Drug Administration said Friday. The state-run drug regulator said Friday that Hearticellgram-AMI, a stem-cell medication for treating heart attack victims, passed all the required safety and quality tests early this week. It will be the world’s first therapeu
Social AffairsJune 24, 2011
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Lawmakers up ante against tycoons
The feud between parliamentarians and some of the nation’s corporate leaders escalated Thursday, as politicians threatened legal action if the businessmen defied their request to testify before parliament next week. Members of the National Assembly’s Knowledge Economy Committee decided to call to a public hearing it is organizing three of the nation’s major business organizations’ chiefs ― Huh Cha
PoliticsJune 24, 2011
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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