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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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[Weekender] How DDP emerged as an icon of Seoul
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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Doctor group's incoming head renews call for govt. to scrap medical school quota hike for dialogue
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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[Music in drama] An ode to childhood trauma
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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U.S. agrees to support S. Korea's exports of nuclear power plants
The United States has agreed to actively support South Korea seeking to export its nuclear power plants, government sources here said Friday, though the countries have failed, at least for now, to renew their bilateral accord on civilian nuclear cooperation.The countries held three days of talks in the U.S. this week to revise their nuclear accord, known as the 123 agreement."There were three main areas of discussion in the negotiations, which were what to do with spent fuel rods, how to secure
April 19, 2013
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Korea, U.S. extend talks on nuclear accord
South Korea and the United States decided to extend formal negotiations aimed at revising a bilateral civilian nuclear accord for an additional day, a Seoul official said Thursday, after two days of talks failed to narrow differences. The allies began a new round of talks on Tuesday in Washington to rewrite the 1974 agreement that bans Seoul from reprocessing spent fuel because it could yield plutonium that could be used to build atomic bombs. Seoul wants Washington to allow it to use a prolifer
April 18, 2013
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Police find NIS intervened online in presidential election
Police concluded Thursday that two National Intelligence Service agents illegally intervened in the last presidential election by posting comments critical of the opposition party on the Internet closely before the poll.Police have looked into suspicions that a female employee tried to influence the Dec. 19, 2012 presidential election on behalf of the agency by writing more than 120 online posts about politically sensitive issues under multiple IDs months before the polls opened.After four month
April 18, 2013
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[Photo News] French ambassador's courtesy call
April 17, 2013
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Aussie expert to lead GGGI
Australia’s special advisor on green growth was appointed Tuesday as the new director-general of the Global Green Growth Institute, the Seoul-based organization said. Howard Bamsey will replace Richard Samans, who will return to the World Economic Forum as managing director for global cooperation after spearheading the GGGI’s transformation into an international body last year. Bamsey, who took office immediately, is also an adjunct professor at Australian National University’s Climate Change In
April 16, 2013
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China joins disaster talks in US-Philippine drills
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Two Chinese military officers have for the first time joined a closed-door discussion on disaster response which is part of major annual U.S.-Philippine military exercises that Beijing has protested in the past. Philippine Brig. Gen. Aurelio Baladad says the inclusion of military officers from the United States and China along with nine other countries in Monday's talks on responding to sea disasters shows that major powers sometimes seen as rivals can work togethe
April 15, 2013
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ASEAN-Korea Center hosts ‘Plus Three’ meetup
In a bid to expand multilateral cooperation among Southeast Asia’s so-called “Plus Three” grouping of China, Japan and Korea, ASEAN-Korea Center’s secretary-general hosted his counterparts from the ASEAN centers of China and Japan on Friday.ASEAN-Korea Center Secretary-General Chung Hae-moon hosted counterparts Ma Ming-qiang of China and Yoshikuni Ohnishi of Japan at the ASEAN-Korea Center in downtown Seoul. They agreed to seven areas of cooperation, including linking their respective websites,
April 14, 2013
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Kenyan Embassy awards stipends to worthy overseas students
The Kenyan Embassy and the Kenyan Community in Korea helped award four students stipends on April 6 in recognition of their academic excellence and overcoming personal and financial challenges while studying abroad here in Korea.Kenyan students Josephine Kamakia, Wesley Kirui, Alias Kirugi and Mirriam Karithi were awarded stipends of 250,000 won ($220) each during a reception that also doubled as an organizing meeting of the KCK at restaurant Silk Road in Itaewon in Seoul. Kenyan Ambassador Ngov
April 14, 2013
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Israel recalls Holocaust on Remembrance Day
An entire nation stopped its daily routine for two minutes on Monday. Drivers stopped their cars on crowded highways and got out to stand quietly on the street as mourning sirens wailed throughout Israel, as they do every year, to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.Here in Seoul, too, far away from the Middle East, the Israeli Embassy and about 100 guests including some two dozen foreign envoys held a silence to remember the 6 million Jews systematically murdered during World War II by Nazi Germany,
April 14, 2013
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New Indonesian envoy introduces self to diplomatic community
The Indonesian Embassy in Korea hosted the foreign diplomatic community, business executives with ties in the Southeast Asian country and local media on April 4 to more fully introduce its country and its top diplomatic representative here.The country went through rapid changes over the past decade, including sweeping democratic reforms and the settlement of a decades-old dispute in East Timor.“Although our transition to democracy in the 1990s and early 2000s was a bit chaotic, nevertheless we n
April 14, 2013
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Korean, Turkish national libraries expand cooperation
The national libraries of Turkey and Korea expanded their cooperation with the opening of a new section of the National Library of Korea, “Window on Turkey.”Turkish Ambassador to Korea Naci Saribas inaugurated the new section with an opening ceremony at the National Library of Korea on Monday.The section consists of 1,168 items of books and non-book materials about Turkey. “Window on Turkey” consists of books in Turkish and English languages, including those of famous Turkish novelists such as N
April 14, 2013
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Georgia upgrades ties with Korea, East Asia
Korean relations in the Caucasus could be poised for a leap forward in every area including diplomacy, energy investment, tourism and even wine imports, with the opening of an embassy in Georgia this year. That is because Georgia, a small country strategically located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, and between the energy-rich Caspian and Black seas, is working double-time to expand its diplomatic reach in East Asia and upgrade its bilateral ties with countries such as Japan and Korea. In
April 14, 2013
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Asia expert named deputy foreign minister
Lee Kyung-soo, minister at the Korean Embassy in Japan, was named the new deputy foreign minister Friday. Lee succeeded Kim Kyou-hyun, who was recently promoted to vice minister in charge of political affairs. Since entering the agency in 1981, Lee has served key posts including ambassador to Cambodia, director-general of South Asia-Pacific affairs, embassy councilor in Beijing and director of the Southeast Asian division. The Foreign Ministry also selected Shin Dong-ik, deputy representative at
April 12, 2013
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Korea backs ASEAN nations’ democracy
Korea is broadening its engagement with Southeast Asia by providing support for emerging countries to consolidate democracy and build institutions indispensable for sustaining their growth, Chung Hae-moon, chief of the ASEAN-Korea Center, said. Ties between Seoul and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations have been evolving for the past 25 years from an economy-centered partnership to comprehensive cooperation in security, politics, culture and global diplomacy.Korea is keen to sha
April 11, 2013
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FM confirms N. Korea can launch mid-range missile 'at any time'
Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se confirmed Wednesday that North Korea has moved a mid-range Musudan ballistic missile to its east coast and Pyongyang is prepared to launch the missile "at any time." "According to intelligence obtained by our side and the U.S., the possibility of a missile launch by North Korea is very high," Yun told a parliamentary hearing, adding that North Korea can launch the missile "at any time from now." Yun said, "The Musudan missile has a range of 3,500 kilometers and
April 10, 2013
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Saudi Arabia upgrades visa services
The Saudi Arabian Embassy announced it has upgraded its visa services for travelers and business persons going to the largest Arab country in western Asia.The Saudi Arabian Embassy in Korea will move its visa services to a single contractor, the VFS Tasheel International Visa Service Centre, as of April 15 to improve services for travelers and business people going to the Arab Kingdom. The embassy currently uses 10 designated travel agencies to process its visa applications.VFS Tasheel will prov
April 7, 2013
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Queen’s Birthday graces Seoul through charity gala
Tickets for this year’s Queen’s Birthday Ball, a glittery and regal gala organized annually to raise money for charity, are now on sale, the British Embassy here and the British Association of Seoul announced on Tuesday.The Queen’s Birthday Ball is one of the year’s biggest events for the foreign diplomatic and expatriate communities. The night will include a five-course dinner, delicious wines, a raffle of fabulous prizes and a live auction and dancing to the music of The Light Years, the band
April 7, 2013
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Local embassy staffer receives royal Swedish order
A Korean local staffer at the Swedish Embassy here was awarded the prestigious Royal Order of the Polar Star in a ceremony at the residence of Swedish Ambassador to Korea Lars Danielsson on Monday.Bak Hyun-jung, director of press, culture and information at the Swedish Embassy, received the order “for her exceptional contributions to Sweden and Swedish interests, notably in promoting cultural exchanges” between Korea and Sweden, Danielsson said during the award ceremony on Monday. “The awarding
April 7, 2013
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Cine France kicks off season with ‘Populaire’
With pomp and celebrity, Cine France kicked off its new season of French film at its new venue, Cine Nine, in the Sadang-dong neighborhood of Seoul on Tuesday.“We were seeking a new dynamic in this new venue with new people and a new program,” Daniel Kapelian, audiovisual attache at the French Embassy, said during the opening reception. French Ambassador to Korea Jerome Pasquier, actor Ahn Sung-ki and a coterie of professionals from Korea’s creative arts sipped wine, nibbled from a well-stocked
April 7, 2013
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Angola celebrates 11 years of peace
Since the end of Angola’s 27-year-long civil war on April 4, 2002, the country’s economy has prospered thanks to oil. Africa watchers feared parliamentary elections last year in August could reignite political violence and instability. Instead, the poll went off with little more than a hiccup. Election observers from Southern African Development Community, the African Union, and the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries issued statements labeling the elections free and fair. While Angola is
April 7, 2013