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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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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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Samsung chip business back on track, logs W1.9tr operating profit in Q1
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Shinsegae faces showdown with investors over SSG.com's delayed IPO
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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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Hopes rise for possible Gaza truce deal
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Class-action suit against Apple withdrawn in Korea
A two-year-long collective lawsuit filed by a group of Korean iPhone users against Apple Inc. wrapped up as the plaintiffs withdrew the case, citing the difficulty of proving the alleged irregularities by the tech company. Twenty-nine iPhone users filed the complaint in 2011 against Apple Korea Inc. and U.S.-based Apple Inc. insisting that the tech giant had illegally gathered users’ location information in a hidden file “consolidated.db” on the handset. “It was impossible to acquire evidence fo
Jan. 18, 2013
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100 doctors face probe for kickbacks from pharma firms
The Seoul Central Prosecutors’ Office said Friday it will call in around 100 doctors at hospitals and medical centers across the nation on charges of receiving illegal commission from Korea’s largest pharmaceutical firm Dong-A Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.The prosecutors have already sent summonses to some of the doctors, who allegedly received kickbacks from pharmaceutical firms. The rest will be summoned in the coming days. The doctors are thought to have received money or goods worth more than 3 m
Jan. 18, 2013
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Officials slam four-river audit
Controversy over President Lee Myung-bak’s ambitious four river restoration project deepened Friday as the government found itself at odds with the ruling party after the state auditor issued a report calling the project a failure.Minister of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs Kwon Do-youp and Environment Minister Yoo Young-sook held a joint press conference Friday defending the restoration project, saying there are no safety or functional problems.“As the public paid attention to the project,
Jan. 18, 2013
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Nearly 100 doctors face summons over alleged illegal 'rebates'
Nearly 100 doctors will be scrutinized for allegedly receiving illegal kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies, sources said Friday. The doctors are accused of accepting money or other kickbacks, known as "rebates," worth more than 3 million won (US$2,840) each, from drug makers in exchange for prescribing their products, prosecution officials and pharmaceutical industry sources said. Some of them were already notified to appear before prosecutors for questioning, according to the officials
Jan. 18, 2013
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Four dead in ship sinking in sea south of Jeju
A South Korean fishing boat sank in waters far south of the country's southern island of Jeju on Friday, leaving four dead and four missing, the Coast Guard and the foreign ministry said.The 29-ton Hwanggeum 3005 carrying nine people -- two Chinese and seven South Koreans -- caught fire in waters 289 nautical miles off of Jeju's city of Seogwipo around 3:40 a.m., due to an unidentified cause, they said. The boat went down about three hours and 40 minutes later after being burned down. One Chines
Jan. 18, 2013
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Foreign veterans of Korean War to be honored
Tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers killed in the Korean War will be posthumously awarded commemorative medals as South Korea marks 60 years since the end of the conflict, organizers said Thursday.The first recipients of the medals, made of rusty barbed wire from the tense inter-Korean border, will be the families of 36,000 American soldiers killed in the 1950-53 war, they said.The Korean war, which started with an invasion by North Korea on June 25, 1950, ended in an armistice three years later.
Jan. 17, 2013
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Epidemic flu alert issued nationwide
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Thursday that influenza could fast spread across the nation. During the second week of this year, 4.8 per 1,000 people were infected with the flu. The figure, which is less than the 11.3 recorded in the same period last year, nonetheless surpasses the threshold of 4 that indicates an epidemic, according to the KCDC.The Gangwon area and cities of Seoul, Incheon, and Gwangju recorded relatively high infection rates. Those aged between 20
Jan. 17, 2013
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Transition team flip-flops over hacking attempt
President-elect Park Geun-hye’s transition team released conflicting reports Thursday on a possible hacking attempt by North Korea on its computer system. Lee Won-ki, a spokesperson of the team, told reporters early in the morning that its computer security team discovered a possible hacking attempt from the North while checking its security system.The official said only the server connecting the Internet for the press room had been attacked, while the transition team’s main system was not.The t
Jan. 17, 2013
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[Newsmaker] Residents fume at Taean spill ruling
A court’s ruling on the Taean oil spill on Wednesday is likely to rekindle controversy as its assessment of financial damages fell short of expectations. The Seosan Branch of the Daejeon District Court ordered a 734 billion won ($694 million) compensation payout to victims of the country’s worst oil spill in Taean, South Chungcheong Province, after five years of legal disputes.About 128,000 people including residents, fishing and tourism business operators and local government offices sought 4.2
Jan. 17, 2013
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Green exports jumped by 60% in 2012
Despite the global slowdown, Korea’s environmental industry exports grew 60 percent on-year to reach 515 billion won ($486 million) in 2012, according to official data released Thursday.The expansion was driven by surging demand for eco-friendly products and technologies in both emerging and advanced economies, the state-run Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute said. In 2012, Korea’s green export market, which had focused on Asia, expanded to the Middle East and North Africa, ac
Jan. 17, 2013
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Man found dead after six years
The body of a man in his fifties who died six years ago was found on Thursday, said Busan police.The man was found by his landlord in the building’s boiler room. The corpse was badly decomposed. The police assumed the date of death to be at least six years ago, as the calendar in Kim’s house was for the year 2006. Also, Kim’s family members and neighbors stated they had not seen him since 2006. From news reports (khnews@heraldcorp.com)<관련 한글 기사>50대男, 숨진 지 6년만에 발견돼부산에서 혼자 살던 50대 남자가 집에서 스스로 목숨을 끊
Jan. 17, 2013
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Court questions constitutionality of punishing conscientious objectors
A Seoul court has brought the law that punishes conscientious objectors before the Constitutional Court, according to court officials Thursday.It is the eighth time a local court has challenged the article of the military service law that punishes people who refuse to serve compulsory military service due to their political or religious beliefs. All able-bodied men have been required to serve about two years in the military or other public sectors since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. Under
Jan. 17, 2013
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More green cars run on Korean roads
The number of environmentally friendly cars sold in Korea increased 79.6 percent on-year in 2012 to 36,544 units, the Ministry of Environment said on Wednesday.They accounted for 3.1 percent of the 1.17 million newly-registered vehicles last year, according to the ministry’s data.Most of them were hybrids (35,830 units), while only 714 electric cars were sold.Japan and the U.S., which lead the world green car market, sold 450,000 and 280,000 environment-friendly cars, respectively. The number of
Jan. 16, 2013
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Gray smog blows in from China
Gray pollutants that have turned China’s Beijing into “Gray-jing“ appear to be affecting Korea as well, government researchers said Wednesday.The level of particulate matter and air pollutants including sulfur oxide and nitrogen oxide in major cities surpassed two times the standard in recent days, prompting authorities to issue health advisories and environmentalists to take to streets. “The recent smog in Korea is a mixture of air pollutants coming from China, water vapor and polluting substan
Jan. 16, 2013
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Distance learning booms thanks to social shifts
For the past 40 years, the Korea National Open University has played a key role in broadening higher education in the nation. More than 528,000 students, mostly unable to attend a regular university or wanting additional learning in their spare time, received a degree through its distance learning program on TV and radio.The school is taking on greater roles with the sweeping changes in education spurred by technology, globalization and an aging population.An increasing portion of its students a
Jan. 16, 2013
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Hagwon chief gets suspended term for leaking test content
The chief of a local English education institute received a suspended prison term on Tuesday for instructing his employees to illegally record questions of official English proficiency tests, according to court officials. The Seoul Central District Court sentenced the Hackers Group chairman, surnamed Cho, to 18 months in prison, suspended for three years, for violating the copyright law, they said. His brother also received a suspended prison term for the same charge.“(The two) used elaborate an
Jan. 16, 2013
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Most colleges to cut, freeze tuition this year
More than 90 percent of the country’s colleges are expected to either lower or freeze their tuition fees this year in accordance with the government’s effort to reduce the burden shouldered by students and their parents. According to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, 317 out of the country’s 339 colleges, including two- to three-year community schools, expressed their willingness to join the government’s policy of giving state scholarships to students whose schools vow not to ra
Jan. 16, 2013
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Ministry details plan to stop students studying ahead of curriculum
The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology on Tuesday reported to the presidential transition committee its plan to ban schools from teaching ahead of the curriculum.The plan is one of the key parts of President-elect Park’s education reform strategy that aim to cut private tutoring and upgrade public education.In its briefing to the presidential transition committee, the ministry reportedly proposed to establish a special supervisory commission at all 17 regional education offices to mon
Jan. 15, 2013
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Parents protest ban on student exchange programs
More than 10 parents occupied the president’s office at Chung-Ang University for a second consecutive day on Tuesday in protest of the school’s plan to close a recently outlawed program through which their children were admitted. More than 240 students were admitted through the so-called “1+3” student exchange program, in which they study at the university for one year and at another university abroad for three years. Late last year, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology announced th
Jan. 15, 2013
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Ministry to step up support for Korean studies
The government announced Tuesday it would invest 28.8 billion won ($27 million) this year to promote Korean studies at home and abroad.The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the Academy of Korean Studies, a state-run research and educational institution, started the project in 2007 with the aim of broadening Korean studies with a budget of 4.5 billion won.The budget has increased significantly since then thanks to growing interest in Korean culture and entertainment, breaking the
Jan. 15, 2013