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Contentious grain bill put directly to plenary meeting for vote
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Yoon's approval rating plunges to all-time low
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Will tug-of-war between doctors, government end soon?
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Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GDP by nearly a fifth
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Trilateral talks acknowledge ‘serious’ slumps of won, yen
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[Graphic News] More Koreans say they plan long-distance trips this year
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[KH Explains] Hyundai's full hybrid edge to pay off amid slow transition to pure EVs
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North Korea removes streetlights along cross-border roads with South
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Russia's denial of entry of S. Korean national unrelated to bilateral ties: Seoul official
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Farming households dip below 1m for first time in 2023
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KAU charts course beyond pilot training
President Yuh aims to build globally competitive school to power Korea’s aerospace industryA fleet of training airplanes and a runway greet visitors to Korea Aerospace University.Founded 60 years ago during the Korean War, the university has long been the main supplier of pilots and aerospace engineers in the nation.Initially, the school’s primary goal was to educate students to serve in civil and military aviation: Some 600 pilots from the school are currently working at home aabroad. The count
Sept. 11, 2012
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Fire breaks out in building in central Seoul
A fire broke out in a building in central Seoul on Tuesday night. No injuries were reported. The fire started at around 7:07 p.m. on the fourth floor of the building, unleashing dark plumes of smoke. It was put out about 47 minutes later. The floor is used for storing clothes. The cause of the fire has yet to be known. The nearby fire station sent some 30 fire engines along with about 120 firef
Sept. 11, 2012
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Int‘l forum on kimchi to be held in Washington
The flavor of kimchi, Korea’s national dish, will spice up the capital of the United States this week.The 4th International Kimchi Conference is to open here on Thursday, introducing everything about the fermented food from Chinese cabbage or radishes.Kimchi is served as side dish at almost every meal in Korea. It has been gaining international recognition as healthy food. With the theme of “Kimchi from the East Meets Pickle from the West,” the one-day forum aims to provide an opportunity for ex
Sept. 11, 2012
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Police detain civil servant for allegedly killing wife
Police said Monday that they have arrested a man for allegedly killing his wife and then chopping up her body and dumping it at a mountain.The suspect, a 46-year-old civil servant identified only by his family name Jin, was arrested earlier Monday in Icheon, about 80 kilometers southeast of Seoul.Jin is suspected of striking his wife with a liquor bottle during a quarrel late Saturday after he had
Sept. 11, 2012
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N.K. accepts Seoul’s aid offer
North Korea on Monday accepted Seoul’s flood relief aid, raising hopes for the improvement of cross-border ties chilled for two years, the Unification Ministry said. “The North notified through the Red Cross channel at Panmunjeom that it would receive flood assistance,” said an official of the ministry, which handles inter-Korean affairs. Last Monday, the South’s Red Cross chief sent a proposal calling for talks with the impoverished North on aid shipment.It would be Seoul’s first official assis
Sept. 10, 2012
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Korea has cheapest tobacco, 2nd-highest smoking rate in OECD
Cigarettes in Korea are the cheapest in the OECD, while the smoking rate is the group’s second highest. According to the data from the European Commission Excise Duty on Tobacco which surveyed the price of the best-selling tobacco in 22 member nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in 2012, Korea sells the cheapest tobacco at 2,500 won ($2.21) per pack of 20 cigarettes, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Monday.Korea also had the second-highest smoking rate, re
Sept. 10, 2012
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Education Ministry to issue booklet on Web addiction
The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said Monday it plans to distribute a booklet on the prevention of youth addiction to the Internet, games and smartphones to all schools by mid-September.The booklet will include a diagnostic quiz for students’ addiction levels and activity guides to encourage time away from media usage. The ministry also plans to train teachers on how to use the booklet from December to next February.According to the Korean Internet and Security Agency, the avera
Sept. 10, 2012
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Weather chief grilled over bidding suspicions
Police said Monday they have summoned the head of the state weather agency for questioning over suspicions that he gave preferential treatment to a particular business in connection with a bid for a new weather instrument.Cho Seok-joon, the chief of the Korea Meteorological Administration, is under investigation on charges of abusing his authority to select Kweather, a private weather service provider, as the final provider of a LIDAR observation device, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Polic
Sept. 10, 2012
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Another TOEFL results delay enrages Korean test takers
Another delay in releasing the results of the Test of English as a Foreign Language, or TOEFL, infuriated Korean test takers once again, affecting the credibility of the U.S. based test developer, ETS. The ETS said in a notice posted on its website that the results of the tests taken on Aug 25 and 26, have been postponed and will be announced by Sept. 12.It usually takes 10 days for the test results to be released online, so Korean takers expected to know the results by Friday, which was the dea
Sept. 10, 2012
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‘N.K., China agree on joint use of Cheongjin Port’
SHENYANG, China (Yonhap News) ― A Chinese company has been allowed to share the rights to use a northeastern North Korean harbor in a deal with Pyongyang, a move expected to accelerate China’s forays into the East Sea, a report said Monday.The North forged the agreement on the use of the port of Cheongjin with the private firm based in the city of Tumen, Jilin Province, on Sept. 1, according to China’s Korean-language press Yanbian Daily, which caters to ethnic Koreans living in China.Under the
Sept. 10, 2012
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Penalty for rapes against minors to be strengthened
The government will revise the law to increase the penalty for sex offenses against minors, the women’s and family affairs ministry said Monday after a number of brutal sex crimes against youths has sparked public uproar in recent months.The maximum penalty for rape of a minor will rise from the current five years in jail to 10 years or life imprisonment, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said.The revision will also no longer allow the influence of alcohol to be treated as a mitigating
Sept. 10, 2012
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Leader of embattled UPP resigns from politics
Kang Ki-kab, the chairman of the minor opposition Unified Progressive Party, said Monday he is stepping down to take responsibility for the party’s split.Four lawmakers quit the embattled party Friday after months of factional infighting over an allegedly rigged primary race ahead of April’s parliamentary elections.The self-expulsions came as little surprise as the party’s two factions have made no headway in their talks to resolve their differences over the voting scandal.“I have put in my all
Sept. 10, 2012
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Government mulls punishing sex offenders regardless of victim's complaint
The government is considering revising the law to punish sex offenders without a complaint from their victims, the justice ministry said Monday, in response to growing calls to eliminate loopholes in the current law. Under the current law, those suspected of committing sex-related crimes are indictable only if a formal complaint is made by the victim, stoking concerns that sex offenders sometimes
Sept. 10, 2012
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Suicide rate in S. Korea 2.6 times higher than OECD average: report
South Korea's suicide rate was again the highest among the nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), coming in 2.6 times higher than the OECD average, a government report showed Sunday. An average of 33.5 people per 100,000 took their own lives in South Korea in 2010, up from 28.4 in 2009, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said in a report, citing the OECD Healt
Sept. 10, 2012
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Calls for action to tackle Korea’s suicide rate
As Korea continues its battle against rising suicide rates, organizations and civic groups planned a wide range of activities and events for Monday to mark World Suicide Prevention Day here.While suicide rates have decreased in many developed nations since 1995, the rate has increased rapidly in Korea. In 2010 alone, more than 15,500 people in Korea committed suicide. This amounts to about 28.4 deaths by suicide for every 100,000 people, or 42 deaths every day ― the highest rate among the OECD c
Sept. 9, 2012
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Child benefit to be expanded to all children under 2
The government and ruling Saenuri Party reached an understanding to give child rearing allowances to all babies under age two starting next year to expand welfare coverage, sources said Sunday.Saenuri sources said the new plan is a move in the right direction and could make it easier to deal with soaring costs of looking after babies.South Korea has one of the lowest birthrates in the world. Low birthrates can hurt the country’s growth potential down the road and fuel rapid population aging.At p
Sept. 9, 2012
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Prosecutors protest court’s denial of lawmaker’s arrest
Prosecutors investigating a cash-for-candidacy scandal in the ruling Saenuri party strongly protested the court’s decision Friday to reject the arrest warrant sought after a former Saenuri lawmaker suspected of bribery.“It is a decision that is extremely difficult to understand. We cannot help but view it as an intentional rejection in favor of a certain suspect,” the Busan District Prosecutors’ Office said in a four-page statement on Saturday.The court denied the prosecutors’ request, citing a
Sept. 9, 2012
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Child porn to be censored on mobile messengers
Child pornography could be automatically blocked on online messengers, and people making or distributing such material could face tougher punishments in a move to crack down on sex crimes against children.Public calls are growing for a stricter crackdown on child porn in the wake of increasing cases of child sexual abuse, including a 7-year-old girl who was kidnapped and raped by a 23-year-old man in Naju, South Jeolla Province. And police are working to introduce comprehensive measures to deal
Sept. 9, 2012
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2 bodies recovered on Mount Rainier glacier
Park rangers returned to a glacier on Mount Rainier Saturday to search for a fourth victim of a series of winter storms, a day after recovering what they presume to be the second and third bodies.The climbers _ two parties of two _ vanished during unrelenting storms on the 4,392-meter volcano in mid-January. The summer snowmelt last month revealed one of the bodies not far from the climbing route
Sept. 9, 2012
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Seoul City plans elderly-friendly streets
Seoul’s Jongmyo Park and Tapgol Park will receive a makeover as part of the metropolitan government’s efforts to turn the districts in central Seoul into elderly-friendly areas, officials said Friday.The two parks now surrounded by elder-oriented facilities, such as a classic movie cinema, hairdresser and soup kitchen, are visited by an estimated 3,000 senior citizens every day. The metropolitan government and the Ministry of Health and Welfare will collaborate to refurbish the surrounding areas
Sept. 7, 2012