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Korea enters full election mode
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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Lee Jong-sup resigns as envoy to Australia
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Yellow dust engulfs S. Korea, advisory alert issued
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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S. Korea to boost support for single-parent families
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Court upholds jail term for man who attempted to murder ex-girlfriend
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Kia EV9 wins world car of year
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Korea misses out on global bond index boost
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Gangnam Station most used subway station
Seoul’s Gangnam Station on Line 2 is the most heavily used subway station in the capital city, data showed Thursday.An average of 130,745 people per day used the station in southern Seoul during the first half of this year. The next most popular was Seoul Station on Line 1, at the center of the capital, with 105,000 users, followed by Jamsil Station on Line 2 in southeastern Seoul, with 97,000 users, according to the data compiled by the Seoul Metro and Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corp., wh
Aug. 2, 2012
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30 nabbed for selling, using drugs
Police said Thursday they have arrested 20 people and booked 10 others without physical detention on charges of selling and using illegal narcotics. The suspects, including a 51-year-old habitual user, identified only by his surname Ye, allegedly circulated, sold, and used a total of 12 grams of methamphetamines worth 40 million won ($35,000) between December and June, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency.In order to avoid the police crackdown, the suspects concealed the methampheta
Aug. 2, 2012
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Record high air passengers for vacation season
The Korea Immigration Service said Thursday that the number of inbound and outbound air passengers through Incheon International Airport hit a record high of 3.2 million in July.The figure shows an eight percent increase from the year earlier when 2.9 million people passed through the airport.The immigration office cited the vacation season as the reason behind. Around 60,000 passengers departed between July 23 and 29 to their destinations from the airport, up from 47,000 during the same days la
Aug. 2, 2012
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Koreas in diplomatic war with Japan on East Sea
NEW YORK (Yonhap News) ― The two Koreas have informally teamed up against Japan in a war of diplomacy in the United Nations on the naming of the waters near them, sources said Wednesday. The 10th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names open earlier this week at the U.N. headquarters here, setting the stage for experts from around the world to discuss key issues relating to the handling of place names.International organizations formally call the waters between the
Aug. 2, 2012
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Street trees up for adoption
Seoul Metropolitan Government will put its street trees up for adoption, offering citizens a chance to look after the plants that line them, officials said Thursday. The “Adopt-a-Tree” project will launch in September with about 8,600 trees. It will be expanded to all 284,000 of its trees next year, the officials said. The trees will be allotted to institutions only, such as schools and companies, but not to individuals. Interested institutions should send in an application, officials said, alth
Aug. 2, 2012
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Police nab traditional tonic maker after snake outbreak
More than a dozen snakes that appeared in Sinwol-dong in southwestern Seoul escaped from a traditional health-supplement shop, it was revealed Thursday.Since June 29, 17 snakes have appeared in an area of Sinwol-dong undergoing redevelopment. With the sightings being concentrated in an area with a radius of 200 meters, the police raided a health-supplement shop in the area on Wednesday. According to the police, the unidentified owner of the shop illegally captured 23 snakes and brought them back
Aug. 2, 2012
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Under the knife too young
More teens get plastic surgery in pursuit of beautyPlastic surgeon Na Min-hwa gets more teenage patients in July and August than at any other time of the year. “The number of teen patients increases especially during the summer and winter vacations,” said Na who runs YEROM Plastic Clinic in Gangnam, Seoul. “Most of them go under the knife for aesthetic reasons rather than medical.”The patients getting younger at this time of the year is not a trend confined to Na’s clinic. More and more teenager
Aug. 2, 2012
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Student gets 12-year sentence for murdering his girlfriend
An appellate court in Seoul on Thursday upheld a 12-year prison term for a college student charged with killing his girlfriend in anger at her texting with another man.The student, surnamed Lee, was convicted of strangling his girlfriend to death during an argument that occurred last November when he saw her sending a KakaoTalk message to another man, according to court officials. KakaoTalk is a p
Aug. 2, 2012
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30 nabbed for selling, using meth
Police said Thursday they have arrested 20 people and booked 10 others without physical detention on charges of selling and using illegal narcotics.The suspects, including a 51-year-old habitual user, identified only by his surname Ye, allegedly circulated, sold, and used a total of 12 grams of methamphetamines worth 40 million won ($35,000) between December and June, according to the Seoul Metrop
Aug. 2, 2012
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Line No. 2 Gangnam Station most used in Seoul: data
Seoul‘s Gangnam Station on Line 2 is the most heavily used subway station in the capital city, data showed Thursday.An average of 130,745 people per day used the station in southern Seoul during the first half of this year. The next most popular was Seoul Station on Line 1, at the center of the capital, with 105,000 users followed by Jamsil Station on Line 2 in southeastern Seoul, with 97,000 users, according to the data compiled by the Seoul Metro and Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corp., whi
Aug. 2, 2012
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Heat wave set to drag on
A scorching heat wave is continuing to roast Seoul and most parts of the country, with no end in sight. A heat wave warning was issued for the capital and most other cities on Wednesday, as the mercury rose closer to 35 degrees Celsius in Seoul, the hottest this season. It was the first time that the city received such a warning for high temperatures since the national weather agency began issuing them in 2008. A high pressure system, which settled in the peninsula last month, is blamed for the
Aug. 1, 2012
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Korea to tighten rules on international marriage brokers
South Korea will intensify background checks on locals wanting to tie the knot with foreign spouses through marriage brokers as a related revision is set to come into force this week, the women’s affairs ministry said Wednesday.Under the revised law, Korean citizens who received 10 years in jail or a heavier sentence over the recent 10 years must provide their criminal records to their would-be spouses.The scope of criminal records subject to report is currently limited to such offenses as sexua
Aug. 1, 2012
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Report warns of devastating climate change impact
South Korea will see 40 percent more heavy rains by the end of this century if it continues to increase greenhouse gas emissions at the current rate, a report showed Wednesday.A constant growth in emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide is expected to bring torrential rains of at least 80 millimeters per day on an average of 4.4 days each year after 2100, according to the report by the National Institute of Meteorological Research (NIMR) under the state weather agency.That number is
Aug. 1, 2012
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Acid victim gets stem cell surgery
A group of local doctors on Wednesday injected grown stem cells into a severely-burnt Malaysian woman to repair her skin. In an extremely rare procedure, doctors extracted, cultivated and then injected adult stem cells into the woman to treat intractable burn scars, experts said.Doctors with JK Plastic Surgery Center in Seoul said the surgery on 19-year-old Hui-Linn was successful. The women’s body was scarred after her father Lim Teik Swee splashed acid on her mother and her while they were sle
Aug. 1, 2012
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Seoul under first ever heat wave warning
A child cools off under the waterfall at a swimming pool in Seoul Wednesday. Earlier in the day, the state weather agency issued a heat wave warning for Seoul.(Yonhap News)The state weather agency issued a heat wave warning for Seoul on Wednesday in response to predictions that the mercury will rise to a record high of 35 degrees Celsius in the afternoon.The warning, which is issued when temperatu
Aug. 1, 2012
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Chairman of suspended savings bank gets 12-year prison term
A Seoul court sentenced the chairman of a now-suspended savings bank to 12 years in prison on Tuesday for extending more than 200 billion won ($177 million) in illegal loans.Shin Hyun-kyu, chairman of the Tomato Savings Bank, was charged last year with dereliction of duty, for incurring huge losses to the troubled bank through illegal loans.The bank's operation was suspended by the nation's top fi
July 31, 2012
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U.N. team visits N.K. over flood
ANJU, North Korea (AP) ― U.N. staff visited storm-pounded counties in North Korea on Tuesday, after two days of heavy rain submerged buildings, cut off power, flooded rice paddies and forced people and their livestock to climb onto rooftops for safety.The rain Sunday and Monday followed downpours earlier this month that killed nearly 90 people and left more than 60,000 homeless, officials said. The floods also come on the heels of a severe drought, fueling renewed food worries about a country th
July 31, 2012
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U.S. criticizes N.K. over religion
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) -- The U.S. government said Monday that North Korea‘s continued crackdown on religious freedom is “deplorable,” but it sidestepped a question on the possibility of change under Pyongyang’s new leadership.“North Korea continues to be on our countries of particular concern list. The situation is really deplorable,” Suzan Johnson Cook, ambassador at large for religious freedom at the State Department, said at a press briefing on the update of its International Religious Fre
July 31, 2012
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Chinese fugitive gets prison term
A Seoul court has sentenced a Chinese fugitive wanted for murder in his home country to 10 months in prison for falsifying his identity to seek naturalized South Korean citizenship, court officials here said Tuesday.The 30-year-old man, known by the surname of Liang in China, entered South Korea in May 2006 using a fake passport after being put on the wanted list for killing a man after an argument in Changan, China, court records showed.He was naturalized as a South Korean citizen surnamed Kim
July 31, 2012
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Prison term confirmed for ex-baseball official
The top court has confirmed a seven-year prison term for a prominent former baseball official for embezzling a massive amount of funds from a school foundation that he managed, court officials said Tuesday.You Young-koo, a former commissioner of the Korea Baseball Organization, was convicted of embezzling nearly 80 billion won ($70.4 million) from the Myongji Educational Foundation while working as board chairman of the foundation.The foundation operates Myongji University in Seoul along with an
July 31, 2012