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Ador CEO denies allegations, accuses Hybe of mistreating NewJeans
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Medical reform committee kicks off despite boycott from doctors
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10-man S. Korea lose to Indonesia to miss out on Paris Olympic football qualification
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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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Over 9,000 hotline calls made by stalking victims in 2023
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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[Hello India] Hyundai Motor vows to boost 'clean mobility' in India
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Monthly users on local streaming platforms outpace Netflix, Disney+
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US will take steps for three-way engagement on nuclear deterrence with S. Korea, Japan: Campbell
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China's No. 2 man expresses will to recommend 'samgyetang'
Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Sunday he will recommend "samgyetang," or South Korea's ginseng chicken soup, to his people, a day after the neighbors agreed to draw up rules to pave the way for exporting the signature dish to China. "I will recommend samgyetang to China through this visit ...which will allow more (Chinese) people to enjoy this delicious food," Li said in his congratulatory remarks during the closing ceremony of the 2015 China Visit Year in Seoul.On Saturday, the two na
Nov. 1, 2015
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Korea, Japan FMs discuss agenda of summit talks
The top diplomats of South Korea and Japan on Sunday tried to narrow differences in the interpretation of shared history ahead of a summit between the leaders of the two sides.Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se talked for 50 minutes with his Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida, in Seoul on the eve of the bilateral meeting between President Park Geun-hye and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe."The main purpose (of the Yun-Kishida talks) was to prepare for the South Korea-Japan summit tomorrow," a South Korean
Nov. 1, 2015
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Leaders of Korea, Japan and China hold talks in more than 3 years
The leaders of South Korea, Japan and China called Sunday for cooperation in the region long mired in historical and territorial disputes as they met for the first time in more than three years.The meeting represents the resumption of a trilateral summit, which had been suspended since 2012 due to a territorial dispute between China and Japan, as well as Japan's attempts to whitewash its wartime atrocities and colonial occupation.President Park Geun-hye said the three countries are deepening the
Nov. 1, 2015
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Indonesia approves budget for joint development of Korean fighter jet
The Indonesian parliament has approved the first batch of funds for joint development of a new South Korean fighter jet with stealth capabilities, government officials said Saturday, amid mounting questions here over the possibility of the very project.According to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the Indonesian parliament approved a 1.07-trillion-Rupiah (US$78.6 million) budget Friday to be invested in South Korea's fighter jet development project, called KF-X.The money is th
Oct. 31, 2015
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Park holds talks with Chinese PM
President Park Geun-hye began talks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Saturday ahead of a trilateral summit with Japan. Park and Li are expected to discuss ways to further boost bilateral relations and exchange opinions on issues of mutual interest, including North Korea's nuclear weapons program, according to South Korean officials. Li arrived in Seoul earlier in the day in his first trip to South Korea since 2013 when he took office. Park and Li are set to meet with Japanese Prime Mini
Oct. 31, 2015
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Korea set for first-ever gov't event with Macedonia
South Korea plans to hold its first-ever governmental event with Macedonia this week, as the two sides have no formal diplomatic relations, an official said Thursday.The 2015 Korean Culture Week is to open later in the day in the Balkan country's capital Skopje for a three-day run."It's the first culture event for our government to hold in cooperation with the government of Macedonia, with which South Korea has not established diplomatic relations," the Foreign Ministry's spokesman Noh Kwang-il
Oct. 30, 2015
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Park hopes to resolve wartime sex slave issue this year
President Park Geun-hye expressed hope Friday that Seoul and Tokyo could resolve this year the issue of former South Korean sex slaves for Japan's World War II soldiers, in the latest pressure on Japan ahead of the crucial summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe next week."It is important for Japan to quickly offer measures to resolve the issue in a way that victims can accept and South Koreans can understand," Park said in a written interview with Japan's Asahi Shimbun and Mainichi Shimb
Oct. 30, 2015
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Korea, Japan should open talks to tackle sex slavery issue: ex-Japan PM
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should make a determination to embark on sincere negotiations with South Korea over the resolution of Tokyo's wartime sex enslavement of Korean women, a former Japanese premier said Thursday.Tomiichi Murayama made the remarks a few days before the leaders from South Korea and Japan will hold their first summit in more than three years next Monday amid diplomatic tension over Japan's sex slaves during World War II.Murayama said that Abe should lead Seoul and Tok
Oct. 29, 2015
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Constructive Korea-Japan relations strategic priority for U.S.: State Department
Constructive relations between South Korea and Japan are a strategic priority for the United States, the State Department said Wednesday after the two American allies agreed to hold the first summit of their leaders in more than three years.The planned summit between South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would mark the first bilateral summit between the two countries in about three and a half years and could serve as a turning point in their long-frayed rela
Oct. 29, 2015
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Sweeping partnerships key to post-2015 development era
With a new development agenda taking off over the next 15 years, traditional and emerging donors should join forces alongside the private sector, civil society and other non-state actors to beef up financial sources and leverage inclusive growth, leading international policymakers said Tuesday. The Korea Herald brought together four officials from around the world to explore ways to better implement the Sustainable Development Goals set forward early this year by 193 countries at the U.N. They a
Oct. 28, 2015
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Seoul calls for peaceful resolution of disputed sea
Cheong Wa Dae on Wednesday urged for a peaceful resolution to escalating tensions between the U.S. and China over territorial disputes in the South China Sea.“South Korea has been strongly calling for restraint of any action that affects peace and stability in the region through various channels including global forums,” a senior official at the presidential office told reporters. “Disputes should be resolved in accordance with international norms.”The U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Lass
Oct. 28, 2015
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Expectations low for first Park-Abe summit
The leaders of South Korea and Japan will hold their first-ever bilateral summit Monday in Seoul, paving the way for improved ties that remained strained for years over historic and territorial disputes. (Yonhap)The summit will take place a day after trilateral talks among the two countries and China, Kim Kyoo-hyun, senior presidential secretary on foreign affairs said at Cheong Wa Dae on Wednesday. The leaders will have an in-depth talk on a wide range of issues including sex slaves, but they w
Oct. 28, 2015
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Park to hold talks with Abe next week
President Park Geun-hye will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe next week, Cheong Wa Dae said Wednesday, in the first bilateral summit between leaders of the two neighbors in more than three years.Park has so far shunned a bilateral meeting with Abe due to territorial and other historical disputes stemming from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.Park is set to meet with Abe next Monday, Kim Kyou-hyun, senior presidential secretary for foreign affairs, told reporters.
Oct. 28, 2015
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Regional powers gather to discuss peace, cooperation
Senior government officials from South Korea, the United States and other regional powers gathered in Seoul on Wednesday to discuss ways to promote peace and cooperation in a region fraught with historical and territorial disputes.President Park Geun-hye launched the Northeast Asia Peace and Cooperation Initiative in 2013 with the aim of building regional peace by first cooperating on soft issues, such as nuclear safety, disaster management and the environment.The second government-level meeting
Oct. 28, 2015
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China to expand memorial hall honoring anti-Japanese Korean independence hero
China plans to double the size of a memorial hall honoring a revered Korean independence hero who assassinated a prominent Japanese colonial leader more than a century ago in China, the memorial hall's officials said Wednesday. Chinese railway authorities opened the memorial hall earlier last year honoring the Korean independence hero Ahn Jung-geun, who assassinated the Korean Peninsula's first Japanese governor-general, Hirobumi Ito, at a railway station in the northeastern Chinese city of Harb
Oct. 28, 2015
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Japan scholars urge Abe to address 'comfort women' issue during summit
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should address the thorny issue of wartime sex slavery when he holds summit talks with President Park Geun-hye next week, Japanese scholars said Wednesday.South Korea has proposed the two leaders hold a separate bilateral meeting in Seoul next Monday following a trilateral summit with China.Park and Abe have yet to meet one-on-one as bilateral ties have frayed over various historical and territorial disputes. If they meet next week, a key focus of public attent
Oct. 28, 2015
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KORUS FTA, TPP key part of Obama's rebalance to Asia: Russel
Concluding the free trade agreement with South Korea and negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership were key economic parts of U.S. President Barack Obama's "rebalance" to Asia policy, a senior U.S. diplomat said Tuesday.Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Russel made the remark during an Atlantic Council discussion, saying that upon taking office, Obama recognized that the Asia-Pacific region was emerging as the driver of global economic growth and made the region a strategic priority.The rebala
Oct. 28, 2015
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'China, U.S. vie with visions for regional order’
This is the third installment in a series of interviews with renowned scholars and experts on China as a resurgent Asian power triggering shifts in the regional order. This installment looks into China’s vision for a regional order and the ongoing Sino-U.S. rivalry. -- Ed. China and the U.S. have been envisioning different regional orders with the former seeking one that encompasses Asians’ unique cultural aspects and the latter pursuing a strictly rule-based approach anchored in its alliance ne
Oct. 27, 2015
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‘5 IS members held in Korea for smuggling bomb ingredient’
A ruling party lawmaker said Monday that South Korean authorities have detained five members of the militant group Islamic State after they were caught trying to smuggle a key bomb-making ingredient out of the country.Rep. Lee Cheol-woo of the Saenuri Party said in a radio interview that they were held here as they tried to smuggle ammonium nitrate which cannot be easily obtained in their home country, Lebanon.“Our authorities blocked them from taking ammonium nitrate to their country,” Lee said
Oct. 27, 2015
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China urges Japan to face history ahead of 3-way summit
Japan must squarely face up to its "unbeautiful" past and learn lessons from its wartime aggression if it wants to ensure smooth cooperation with South Korea and China, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Tuesday, ahead of a trilateral summit among the three nations in Seoul.President Park Geun-hye will host Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over the weekend for the three-way summit that had been on hold since 2012 due to a bitter territorial dispute between Chi
Oct. 27, 2015