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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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S. Korea calls on Japan to confront history amid Yasukuni Shrine visit
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Yoon’s jailed mother-in-law excluded from latest parole list
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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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Hybe and Min Hee-jin, CEO of Hybe sublabel Ador, lock horns
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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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[Pressure points] Leggings in public: Fashion statement or social faux pas?
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Nicaragua shuts down Seoul embassy
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Rocket engine expert, ex-NASA exec to lead Korea's new space agency
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‘Gangwon Province residents smoke, drink the most’
Adult males in Gangwon Province showed the highest smoking and drinking rates while those in the Jeolla provinces stayed the most sober and smoke-free, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. The more stable a region’s economy, the more likely its residents will refrain from an unhealthy lifestyle, the institute said.According to its research based on data collected fro
Social AffairsApril 1, 2011
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Park counters Lee’s decision on airport
Lee to speak on broken election pledge FridayRep. Park Geun-hye, currently the ruling Grand National Party’s strongest presidential hopeful, on Thursday expressed regret over the government’s decision to chuck President Lee Myung-bak’s election pledge to build an airport in the southeastern part of the country, adding that Korea should keep pushing for it.The GNP’s factional leader and Lee’s polit
PoliticsApril 1, 2011
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Japan expected to repeat territorial claims over Dokdo in diplomatic report
Japan was expected to repeat its territorial claims over South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo in its annual diplomatic report, sources said Friday, just two days after Tokyo approved a series of textbooks claiming the islets as its territory.Japan's Cabinet planned to approve the "Diplomatic Blue Paper" report for 2011 that was expected to carry the same territorial descriptions of Dokdo as i
Foreign AffairsApril 1, 2011
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Park counters Lee's decision on airport
Let to speak on broken election pledge FridayRep. Park Geun-hye, currently the ruling Grand National Party’s strongest presidential hopeful, on Thursday expressed regret over the government’s decision to chuck President Lee Myung-bak’s election pledge to build an airport in the southeastern part of the country, adding that Korea should keep pushing for it.The GNP’s factional leader and Lee’s polit
PoliticsMarch 31, 2011
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South Korea willing to hold military talks with North: minister
South Korea’s defense minister said Thursday his military was willing to hold low-level military talks with North Korea if the North suggests such a meeting again, but insisted that no progress would be possible unless Pyongyang apologizes for last year’s deadly attacks. “If North Korea proposes a dialogue again, (the South’s military) will accept the proposal,” Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin said
North KoreaMarch 31, 2011
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ICAO help sought over N.K. jamming
South Korea’s foreign minister met with the head of the U.N. aviation safety agency to ask for continuing help in stopping North Korea from sending jamming GPS signals across their heavily fortified border, officials said Thursday. Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan meets Secretary-General Raymond Benjamin of the International Civil Aviation Organization at his office Thursday. (Yonhap News)South Kor
Foreign AffairsMarch 31, 2011
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Seoul moves to consolidate right to Dokdo
Heliport repair under way, to be completed in May: government sourceWhile cautious not to provoke too much tension as Japan continues to suffer from the aftermath of a powerful quake, South Korea is quietly carrying out projects aimed at countering the neighboring state’s continued claims over its islets of Dokdo, sources here said Thursday. Japan strengthened its claims over South Korea’s eastern
Foreign AffairsMarch 31, 2011
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Ministry to help foreign spouses find work
The Ministry of Employment and Labor will help foreign spouses here find jobs through a set of programs in April. During the month, the candidates can receive subsidies for job training fees up to 3 million won ($2,600) and tailored job consultations. Successful candidates will then be able to work at social enterprises, as care-givers, factory workers and more.The applicants should visit their lo
Social AffairsMarch 31, 2011
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Student suicides call KAIST competitive policy into question
A student of KAIST was found dead Tuesday in a suspected suicide, the third this year at the nation’s top university in science and technology, raising questions about the competitive environment there.According to police, a 25-year-old KAIST senior surnamed Jang was found in a parking lot of an apartment complex in Jamwon-dong, southern Seoul. He appeared to have fallen from the building. He was
Social AffairsMarch 31, 2011
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Buckle up or pay up on expressways
Starting in April, all vehicle passengers on expressways here will be required to wear seatbelts, said the National Police Agency on Thursday.Under a revised traffic law, drivers on expressways including Olympic and Gangbyeon Expressway risk being fined 30,000 won ($27) when carrying passengers not buckled in.The law originally stated that only front-seat passengers of private vehicles and all pas
Social AffairsMarch 31, 2011
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Court upholds ban on gays in military
The Constitutional Court ruled the law which penalizes homosexual relations in the army as being in accord with the Constitution.“The corresponding clause may be regarded neither ambiguous, nor unnecessarily discriminative against homosexual individuals,” said the court in its ruling on Thursday.“Anyone with common sense may judge what the clause signifies by ‘homosexual relations and other sexual
Social AffairsMarch 31, 2011
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Heliport renovation on Dokdo under way to counter Japan's territorial claims: sources
South Korea has already begun work to renovate a heliport on its easternmost islets of Dokdo in an effort to reinforce the country's sovereignty over the territory amid Japan's continued attempts to lay claims to the islets, officials said Thursday."It is difficult to make a public announcement on this, given the issue's sensitivity, but the heliport repair work has already been launched and is qu
Social AffairsMarch 31, 2011
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Is your smartphone bad for your relationship?
(iPhone 4 /Yonhap News)Smartphones, with more than 10 millions users in South Korea, are changing the dating culture of people in their 20s and 30s, a survey conducted by marriage consulting agency Duo showed. Duo asked 294 unmarried people aged between 20 and 39 years old how smartphones affected their relationship with their boyfriend or girlfriend. A whopping 79.6 percent of those surveyed said
Social AffairsMarch 31, 2011
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All passengers on motorways required to wear seat belts
A compulsory seat belt-wearing law for all passengers on motorways nationwide will take effect on Friday, the National Police Agency (NPA) said Thursday. Under the new law, all passengers of vehicles, including those sitting in the back seats, must put on seat belts when they are on a motorway, a measure aimed to reduce casualties in traffic accidents, said the NPA. NPA officials said offen
Social AffairsMarch 31, 2011
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S. Korea resumes civilian humanitarian aid to N. Korea
South Korea said Thursday it has allowed civilian groups to resume humanitarian aid to North Korea for the first time since last November when the North bombarded a South Korean island. The Unification Ministry approved requests by three relief groups to send aid to the North, an official here told reporters amid reports of dire food shortages in the communist country.<한글뉴스>민간단체 北취약계층 지원재개 허용연평
North KoreaMarch 31, 2011
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Lee to hold press conference on scrapped airport plan
President Lee Myung-bak plans to hold a press conference later this week to express his position on the government's decision to abort a major airport construction project, his aides said Thursday, amid fierce backlash from local residents, authorities and lawmakers. "The president is scheduled to express his position tomorrow," a senior official at the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said o
PoliticsMarch 31, 2011
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Politicians decry canceled airport plan
Ministry ditches Lee’s election pledge, citing economic viabilityThe government’s decision to ditch a plan to build a new international airport in the southeastern part of the country drew angry backlash from legislators Wednesday ahead of the by-election next month as well as the general and presidential elections next year.The airport was one of President Lee Myung-bak’s election campaign pledge
PoliticsMarch 30, 2011
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Japan textbooks strengthen claim over Dokdo
Japan strengthened its claims over South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo in its revised textbooks Wednesday, provoking Seoul to take a set of countermeasures feared to weaken ties between the two neighboring states. Tokyo has for years laid territorial claims over the South Korean islets and glorified its wartime past in textbooks for young students, often providing a stumbling block to mendin
Foreign AffairsMarch 30, 2011
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N. Korea proposes inter-Korean Red Cross talks over return of defectors
North Korea on Wednesday proposed holding inter-Korean Red Cross talks to discuss the repatriation of four North Korean defectors, officials said.The four were among 31 North Koreans who strayed across the inter-Korean border in the Yellow Sea on a wooden boat last month.The remaining 27 were repatriated to the North by sea earlier this week, in accordance with their wishes.North Korea agreed to a
North KoreaMarch 30, 2011
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Chung calls for return of U.S. tactical nukes
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― A senior South Korean lawmaker Tuesday called for redeployment of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea to pressure China to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear stockpile.“The threat of a counter-nuclear force may be the only thing that will discourage North Korea from developing its nuclear arsenal,” Rep. Chung Mong-joon, former chairman of the ruling Gra
DefenseMarch 30, 2011