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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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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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Hopes rise for possible Gaza truce deal
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Ex-pro baseball player who killed debtor appeals sentence
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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 toughens smoking ban in restaurants
Smoking will be prohibited in restaurants, bakeries, coffee shops and bars with a surface area of 150 square meters or larger nationwide starting from Dec. 8, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Tuesday. Indoor as well as outdoor areas of public buildings such as hospitals, libraries, day-care centers, government offices and commercial complexes will also be designated as smoke-free zones, the ministry said. The amendment to the National Health Promotion Act was endorsed at the Cabinet meeti
Dec. 4, 2012
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Prosecution makes efforts to regain public trust
The prosecution picks up the pace in rebuilding its tarnished reputation and cutting the Gordian knot of corruption inside the prosecutorial body. The Supreme Prosecutors’ Office said Tuesday that it will fire trainee prosecutor Jeon Jae-mong who was involved in a sex scandal.Jon was accused of having sex allegedly in return for favors with a female suspect whom he was interrogating.Choi Jaek-kyung, the head of the SPO’s Central Investigation Unit, on the same day was acquitted of accusations he
Dec. 4, 2012
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Food poisoning suspected at top five-star hotel
The Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas Hotel in Samseong-dong, Seoul, is in hot water after a group of guests who dined at a private function there fell ill. This is the third time this year that the five-star hotel has been involved in an incident concerning food safety.On Nov. 27, more than 80 people attended a private dinner where, according to participants, at least 10 of them fell ill during or after the event. One of those taken ill was a Korea Herald reporter. “I had sashimi, red wine, c
Dec. 4, 2012
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Hundreds of cardholders under hacking attack
Police said Tuesday they have launched an investigation into the hacking of a widely-used online payment service operated by two major South Korean credit card firms.The so-called Internet Secure Payment (ISP) is a password-encrypted service used when making credit card payments online of less than 300,000 won ($276). The system is managed by KB Kookmin Card Co. and BC Card Co.The investigation comes after 199 cardholders who use the service had their accounts hacked, which resulted in losses es
Dec. 4, 2012
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Another prosecutor implicated in corruption case
Internal inspectors at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office are investigating another corruption case involving a prosecutor who allegedly introduced a suspect he was investigating to a law firm where his brother-in-law worked.The inspectors raided the prosecutor’s office Monday and are looking into whether he took any illegal benefits in exchange for favorable treatment of the suspect, they said.“The SPO is currently investigating a prosecutor suspected to have been involved in influence peddling,”
Dec. 3, 2012
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Sailors describe 19 months of ‘animal-like’ life in cage
South Korean sailors who were recently freed by Somali pirates said on Monday that they were locked up in cages and treated like animals for nearly two years. Park Hyun-yeol, captain of the MT Gemini, a tanker highjacked by Somali pirates on April 30, 2011, said he and his three Korean crewmates survived 582 days by filtering bugs and worms from rain water with their undershirts. “We were put in a cage and lived like animals. The only human thing we were allowed to do was use the toilet,” he sai
Dec. 3, 2012
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What do you think of no alcohol on campus?
It was this summer when a newspaper agency ran a special feature on the drinking culture of Korea that people started to voice their thoughts on the matter. Not long after that, the Ministry of Health and Welfare proposed the pre-announcement of legislation on smoking and drinking, including compulsory display of alarming pictures on cigarette boxes and restricting the places where alcohol could be advertised.However, criticism started to fly, especially among university students. Under Article
Dec. 3, 2012
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The best business schools of 2012
The full-time MBA ranking published last month by BusinessWeek brings the 2012 season of media rankings of business schools to a close, and the results will be met with the usual mix of joy, despair and skepticism by the business school community. Staff, students and alumni will be assessing the impact of their school’s standing in the global market, while potential applicants may over-rely on these league tables to determine their shortlist of target schools.For the first time in 2012, Korean b
Dec. 3, 2012
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Economic uncertainty fuels demand for MBAs
The boom in MBA programs in the early 2000s has been on the wane in the wake of the global economic crisis. Top business schools around the world have lost some of their appeal and their number of applicants continued to decline.Yet, recent figures show that business schools are slowly regaining steam and the demand for high-caliber MBA graduates with strong overseas credentials is growing in the highly competitive job market.According to the Graduate Management Admissions Council, the number of
Dec. 3, 2012
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Convict to be executed for girls' murders
Convict to be executed for girls' murdersAn Arizona convict is just days from execution for raping and killing two teenage girls while his co-defendant is now a free man.Richard Stokley, 60, will, barring an unlikely stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court, be executed Wednesday in Florence, while Randy Brazeal, 41, was released from prison last year and has married, The Phoenix Arizona Republic reported Saturday.Evidence ultimately showed the two raped, strangled, stabbed and stomped on
Dec. 3, 2012
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Nine dead in Japan tunnel collapse
The weekend collapse of a highway tunnel about 50 miles west of Tokyo killed nine people, authorities said early Monday.Kyodo News reported police confirmed there were nine bodies in three vehicles trapped in the 2 1/2-mile-long Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi prefecture.The Japanese broadcaster NHK reported emergency officials found five bodies in a van, the body of a man in a refrigerated truck and three other bodies in a car.NHK said there were about 30 vehicles in the tunne
Dec. 3, 2012
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[Newsmaker] Sailors freed from 19-month Somali ordeal
Four South Korean sailors who were captured by Somali pirates are returning to their families, ending nearly two miserable years under constant threats and fear of death.They were freed on Saturday after ransom talks between the Singapore-based owner of the MT Gemini and the pirates made a breakthrough. They are expected to arrive in Kenya on Monday on the South Korean navy vessel that operates in Somali waters as part of a multinational anti-piracy campaign. The four will go through a quick med
Dec. 2, 2012
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Only daughter raises fathers’ sense of gender equality
Daughters raise the social awareness of their fathers, especially if they are the only child, according to the Korean Women’s Development Institute, a leading research institute for gender policy, on Sunday.A KWDI report that surveyed 1,800 parents of elementary, middle, and high school students in July showed that fathers who have an only daughter scored the highest average points of 76.76 in a gender equality index.The average score is two points higher than that of mothers of at least two dau
Dec. 2, 2012
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4 Korean sailors freed by Somali pirates after 19 months
Four South Korean sailors have been set free more than 19 months after they were seized by Somali pirates, after paying an unspecified amount of ransom, a Seoul official said Saturday.The four South Koreans were kidnapped by Somali pirates on April 30, 2011 aboard the MT Gemini, a tanker operated by Singapore-based Glory Ship Management, along with 21 non-Korean sailors. The ship was en route from Kenya to Malaysia at that time.Seven months later, the pirates freed the vessel, but broke an agree
Dec. 1, 2012
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Koreas one in TB fight
A North Korean man identified with a false name, Shin Jung-nam, first saw symptoms of tuberculosis (TB) in 1996. Living with the excruciating pain, he went through medical treatment time after time with the regular TB-fighting drugs. But no progress was made in more than 10 years, leaving him with no option but to embrace death. At that moment, he saw a miracle in the helping hands of the Eugene Bell Foundation, an Anyang, Gyeonggi Province-based charity organization. He sent his phlegm samples
Nov. 30, 2012
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‘Golden moment for two Koreas to cooperate on human issues’
South Korea needs to depoliticize the issue of medical support to the North and find a mechanism to work with people in the communist regime to save people from deadly diseases, a U.S. humanitarian expert said.“This is a golden moment. If Koreans, both North and South, can figure out a mechanism to address this issue now, whether it is through China or a third party, before ‘tongil’ (unification), life will be much better for Koreans in the future and (it will) save a lot of lives and money,” sa
Nov. 30, 2012
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Linton family has century-old history of service to Korea
The Linton family has a century-old history of contributions to Korean society, making it a household name in the country’s religious, educational and medical circles.The family’s ties with Korea date back to 1895 when Eugene Bell came here as a Southern Presbyterian missionary. Rev. Bell established a number of Christian churches and helped build educational institutions including Jeongmyeong School and Yeongheung High School in Gwangju and South Jeolla Province. He also helped establish Jaejoo
Nov. 30, 2012
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Han’s exit sets prosecution adrift
Prosecutor-General Han Sang-dae quit his job on Friday amid an internal turmoil at the powerful investigative body over reform directions. “I am resigning today as the prosecutor general,” Han said at a press conference at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in Seoul. “I bid farewell now, leaving the reform of the prosecution and all other pending tasks to whoever succeeds me.” President Lee Myung-bak accepted his resignation, the Presidential Office of Cheong Wa Dae said. Deputy Prosecutor-General
Nov. 30, 2012
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Schools get tough on violence: survey
Schools took stern measures against in-campus violence coupled with strengthened prevention efforts for the first half of this year, a survey showed Friday.The education ministry announced the results of its second nationwide survey conducted between August and October, following the first one earlier this year, involving the country’s 11,000 elementary, middle and high schools. The result of the same survey on students’ experience of violence was released last month.The online survey aimed to g
Nov. 30, 2012
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Immigration policy needs urgent attention: KF chief
With its population becoming more multicultural and aging rapidly, Korea should debate more vigorously ways to embrace immigrants and foster inclusive growth, Kim Woo-sang, president of the Korea Foundation, said Friday. As the number of foreign residents steadily grows, the mainstay of policy discourses has shifted from whether to accept migrants to how best to accommodate them, he told a forum on multiculturalism in Seoul.“Accommodation and integration of intercultural differences into nationa
Nov. 30, 2012