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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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Hybe and Min Hee-jin, CEO of Hybe sublabel Ador, lock horns
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[Pressure points] Leggings in public: Fashion statement or social faux pas?
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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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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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N. Korea not opposed to discussing uranium enrichment in six-party talks
North Korea told a visiting top Russian diplomat that it does not oppose discussing its uranium enrichment activity in the stalled six-party talks once they resume, a report said Tuesday.North Korea also told Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin that Pyongyang was ready to rejoin the talks "without any preconditions" and hopes to work under an "action-for-action principle," the offici
PoliticsMarch 15, 2011
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N. Korean Red Cross expresses sympathy for quake-ravaged Japan
North Korea's state-run media said Monday that the North's Red Cross sent a message of sympathy to its Japanese counterpart, a rare move considering the communist state has remained largely mum on the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan."Jang Jae-on, chairman of the DPRK Red Cross Society, Monday sent a message of sympathy to Konoe Tadateru, president of the Japan Red Cross Society," said
North KoreaMarch 15, 2011
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Pizzerias to cooperate on safe delivery
The government and pizza delivery franchises Monday agreed rules to protect delivery staff who often drive dangerously due to fierce competition within the industry. Triggered by the deaths of delivery drivers and protests by their colleagues, they also decided to hold safety campaigns.The Ministry of Employment and Labor signed with Pizza Hut, Mr. Pizza and Domino’s Pizza as well as the Korean Fr
Social AffairsMarch 15, 2011
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Cho, Kim condemned for quake comments
Senior pastor Cho Yong-gi of Yoido Full Gospel Church, the largest Christian church in the world, has faced vicious public condemnation as he called the catastrophic Japanese quakes and tsunamis "God’s warnings.""I fear that this disaster may be warnings from God against the Japanese people’s atheism and materialism," an online Christian press quoted the elderly religious leader as saying Saturday
Social AffairsMarch 15, 2011
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Koreans admire Japan’s calm
Many Koreans spent the weekend in front of televisions watching news of the magnitude-9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and volcanic and nuclear power plant explosions shaking the eastern part of the Japanese archipelago. They were first shocked by the natural disaster and then impressed by the calm of the Japanese people, even in the face of such a catastrophe. Koreans paid their condolences and praised t
Social AffairsMarch 15, 2011
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N. Korean Red Cross expresses sympathy for quake-ravaged Japan
North Korea's state-run media said Monday that the North's Red Cross sent a message of sympathy to its Japanese counterpart, a rare move considering the communist state has remained quiet on the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan."Jang Jae-on, chairman of the DPRK Red Cross Society, Monday sent a message of sympathy to Konoe Tadateru, president of the Japan Red Cross Society," said the N
North KoreaMarch 14, 2011
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Aid groups, broadcasters to raise funds for Japan quake victims
South Korean relief organizations and broadcasters said Monday that they will collect donations to help the victims of Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami, adding to the global efforts to support the quake-hit country.The move comes after South Korea has pledged to provide as much support as possible for Japan after a magnitude 9.0 quake struck Japan on Friday, unleashing a gigantic tsunami
PoliticsMarch 14, 2011
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Seoul gauges impact of Fukushima nuclear plant blasts
Lawmaker calls for joint study with N.K. on Mount Baekdu volcanoCheong Wa Dae held meetings Monday to assess the impact of the explosions at a Japanese nuclear plant and to check the safety of Korea’s atomic power facilities, while lawmakers discussed plans to assist the quake-ridden country.A second hydrogen explosion occurred Monday at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 240 kilometers nort
PoliticsMarch 14, 2011
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Opposition leader visits Japanese embassy over quake
The leader of South Korea's main opposition party on Monday visited the Japanese Embassy in Seoul to express deep consolation for Japan's enormous human and property losses caused by massive earthquake and tsunami."I express my deepest consolation to the Japanese people," Sohn Hak-kyu, chairman of the Democratic Party (DP), said in his meeting with Masatoshi Muto, Japan's ambassador to South Korea
PoliticsMarch 14, 2011
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U.S. professor urges fight on modern-day slavery
The term “slavery” may seem rooted in the past, not associated with modern day. A U.S. professor, however, has set about to reaffirm its meaning, create awareness, and combat the slave trade.David Batstone, a professor at the University of San Francisco, with his non-profit corporation, Not for Sale, is spearheading the fight against modern-day slavery including its most common form, sex trafficki
Social AffairsMarch 14, 2011
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S. Korea, Philippines defense chiefs hold talks
Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin discussed bilateral military exchanges and cooperation in the defense industry with Philippine Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin in Seoul on Monday, officials said.Gazmin, 68, arrived here Sunday for a four-day schedule. During his stay here, he is scheduled to visit Seoul National Cemetery, the monument in Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi Province, which marks the participation o
PoliticsMarch 14, 2011
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Document verifies Japan forced labor of Koreans on peninsula
A decades-old document has revealed that Japan forced labor upon Koreans not only outside the country but at places on the Korean Peninsula during the 1910-45 colonial rule of Korea.The document, which is believed to have been drawn up by the Japanese government in the 1950s, is expected to back arguments that compensation should also be made to victims who claim to have been forced into labor on
Foreign AffairsMarch 14, 2011
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Lee sees start of building of UAE reactor
President Lee Myung-bak said on Monday that Korea will make the utmost efforts to ease concerns over the safety of the nuclear power plants that it builds in the United Arab Emirates.“I am confident that cooperation between the two nations in the construction of nuclear reactors will further solidify bilateral relations,” Lee said at a groundbreaking ceremony for initial works at the proposed nucl
PoliticsMarch 14, 2011
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Seoul appoints 20 new envoys, 4 consuls general
South Korea appointed former Deputy Trade Minister Ahn Ho-young as its new ambassador to the European Union and Belgium on Monday in a reshuffle that also replaced 19 other ambassadors and four consuls general, the Foreign Ministry said.Ahn Seong-doo, former deputy chief of the ministry’s South Asian and Pacific affairs bureau, was named to head the embassy in Afghanistan, where South Korea has a
Foreign AffairsMarch 14, 2011
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Cheong Wa Dae probing presidential jet fault
South Korea’s presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Monday it was investigating a maintenance problem in the country’s presidential jet after it was forced to make an unprecedented emergency landing.The plane, a Boeing 747-400 leased from Korean Air, bound for the United Arab Emirates carrying President Lee Myung-bak and First Lady Kim Yoon-ok, flew back less than half an hour after taking off on
PoliticsMarch 14, 2011
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Trilateral talks to be held as scheduled
S. Korea, Japan, China foreign ministers to meet in Kyoto this weekendForeign ministers of South Korea, Japan and China will meet as scheduled this weekend, Seoul said Monday, as Japan notified it will host the talks despite the earthquake and tsunami that are believed to have killed tens of thousands of people.The Tokyo government notified the governments of Seoul and Beijing that it will go ahea
Foreign AffairsMarch 14, 2011
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Japan quake affects S. Korea-US military drill
SEOUL, (AFP) - US and South Korean troops will consider scaling down a planned joint sea drill after a US aircraft carrier joined rescue and recovery efforts in Japan, officials said Monday.The aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan and its strike group arrived Sunday off Japan's northeast coast devastated by the earthquake and tsunami that is feared to have killed more than 10,000.This image provided by
DefenseMarch 14, 2011
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Most S. Korean school buildings vulnerable to quakes: report
Nearly nine out of 10 primary and secondary schools in South Korea are not designed to absorb shock from an earthquake, a government report said Monday, in the wake of the worst earthquake to ever hit neighboring Japan.The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology report, obtained by Rep. Park Young-ah of the ruling Grand National Party, said 87 percent of South Korea's elementary, middle and
NationalMarch 14, 2011
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India world's biggest arms importer 2006-10: think tank
STOCKHOLM, (AFP) - India over the last five years was the world's biggest importer of weapons, said a report published Monday, which also showed big arms suppliers had scrambled during the period to sell to Libya."India is the world's largest arms importer," the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a statement upon releasing the report."India receives nine percent of th
DefenseMarch 14, 2011
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Korea's 102-member rescue team to arrive in Japan
A 102-member Korean rescue team departed for Japan aboard Air Force planes Monday to help the neighboring country cope with the massive devastation left by a record earthquake and tsunami.Three Air Force C-130 planes carrying the rescue workers took off from a military airport in Seongnam, south of Seoul, around 8:10 a.m. and were scheduled to land at Japan's Narita airport around 10:50 a.m., the
Social AffairsMarch 14, 2011