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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Korea enters full election mode
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Dialogue hopes fade as doctors pick hard-liner as new head
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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Court upholds jail term for man who attempted to murder ex-girlfriend
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[Newsmaker] Legendary rock star Shin Hae-chul dies
Iconic ’90s rock musician Shin Hae-chul, 46, was pronounced dead at 8.19 p.m. Monday at the Asan Medical Center in southern Seoul following a massive heart attack on Oct. 22, which left the singer in a comatose state for five days. Although it was previously reported that doctors were unsure of what caused the singer’s heart to suddenly fail, according to a statement from Shin’s agency, KCA Entertainment, the cause has now been determined to be the result of widespread infection in the intestine
PerformanceOct. 28, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Brazil’s Rousseff, who held on for new term
BRASILIA ― President Dilma Rousseff, a former leftist guerrilla once imprisoned and tortured by Brazil’s military regime, upheld her reputation for toughness in a hard-fought campaign that won her a new term Sunday.Rousseff, Brazil’s first woman president, won a second four-year term in a tight runoff election against business-world favorite Aecio Neves.Rousseff, 66, is known as a no-nonsense manager with a commanding grasp of even the smallest policy details who upbraids her ministers in public
World NewsOct. 27, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Medical establishment a casualty of Ebola
PARIS ― Beyond the human tragedy of the Ebola epidemic unfolding in west Africa, the crisis is claiming a collateral victim: trust in the medical order.The biggest casualty is the reputation of the U.N.’s World Health Organization, which analysts fault for foot-dragging and misjudgements.Also under assault are Big Pharma, the West’s aid policies in Africa and public faith in the rich world’s lavishly funded health systems. “Failures in leadership have allowed a preventable disease to spin out of
World NewsOct. 26, 2014
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[Newsmaker] KB Financial chief came up the hard way
By picking one of its former executive members as the new chairman, KB Financial Group made it clear that it is determined to end its deep-rooted leadership strife. It has also proclaimed that it will no longer welcome government meddling in its personnel management.On Wednesday, KB Financial Group’s chairman nominee recommendation committee said it had named Yoon Jong-kyoo, former chief financial officer of the company, as the sole candidate for the currently empty chairman post.Yoon outran Cit
Oct. 23, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Park, Saenuri at odds over constitutional revision
Conflict between President Park Geun-hye and her party has escalated, with Cheong Wa Dae publicly firing back at the party chief, after he attempted to open a discussion on constitutional revision.On Tuesday afternoon, a high-ranking official at Cheong Wa Dae criticized Saenuri Party chairman Kim Moo-sung, charging that the remark he made last week was calculated, not a mistake.“We believe that the chairman of the party didn’t make the comment by mistake,” the official told reporters. “Bringing
PoliticsOct. 22, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Rubber duck enthralls despite Lotte debate
A giant yellow rubber duck sitting on Seoul’s Seokchon Lake has captured the hearts and minds of thousands of South Koreans, while carrying the hopes of a local retail giant trying to dampen public fears over a controversial construction project in a posh Seoul neighborhood.Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman’s rubber duck, weighing seven tons with a concrete anchor and pontoon that supports it, arrived at the Seoul lake last week in time for the opening of Lotte World Mall, a disputed high-rise deve
World NewsOct. 21, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Concert accident refocuses parties on safety
Public safety has once again gripped the National Assembly with the recent ventilation shaft accident making the ruling and opposition parties hone in on related issues.On Friday, grates covering a ventilation shaft collapsed under the weight of people watching a K-pop performance in Techno Valley in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. The accident killed 16 people, and injured 11, eight of whom are said to be in critical condition. Main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy’s interim leader R
PoliticsOct. 20, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Vent shafts accidents waiting to happen
The innumerable ventilation shafts around the country may be accidents just waiting to happen, with no regulations to ensure their structural integrity. With thousands of ventilation shafts, covered by metal grates, located in Seoul alone, their construction is subject to almost no safety regulation, often leaving it up to the construction companies to build according to their internal regulations. The related construction regulation simply states that the ventilation outlet should be located 2
Social AffairsOct. 19, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Why did N.K. chief join inter-Korean talks?
The appearance of North Korea’s military spy chief Kim Yong-chol at rare inter-Korean military talks on Wednesday has left many observers wondering what message Pyongyang wanted to convey through sending the hawkish figure.Some analysts argued that the head of the Reconnaissance General Bureau, well-known for spearheading provocations against the South, attended the talks to show Pyongyang’s resolve to reconcile and improve cross-border relations.Others said that the appearance of the spy chief
North KoreaOct. 16, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Ebola infections may hit 10,000 a week: WHO
GENEVA ― The World Health Organization said Tuesday the Ebola infection rate could soon reach 10,000 a week as world leaders prepared to hold talks on the crisis at the United Nations.WHO assistant director general Bruce Aylward, describing his figures as a working forecast, said the epidemic “could reach 5,000 to 10,000 cases per week by the first week of December.”The latest death toll is 4,447, from 8,914 recorded infection cases, Aylward said as the worst-ever Ebola outbreak spirals in the t
World NewsOct. 15, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Tirole honored for firms' market power study
PARIS ― French economist Jean Tirole is a master of game theory and industrial organization, who on Monday added a Nobel prize to a gleaming heap of honors for his work.The 61-year-old was hailed by the Nobel Economics Prize jury as “one of the most influential economists of our time” for his analysis of big companies, market power and regulation.The professor at the Toulouse School of Economics has long been tipped as a potential economics laureate, an award that has been largely dominated by e
World NewsOct. 14, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Homeplus faces torrid Assembly audit
Homeplus, one of South Korea’s largest grocery chains, will have to explain during a parliamentary inspection what seems like an intentional leakage of its customers’ private information to third parties.Its alleged wrongdoings come at a time when public criticism is growing against the country’s weak security protection systems, following a series of information theft, leaks and monitoring.Homeplus executives, including chief executive Do Sung-hwan, as well as its multinational owner U.K.-based
TechnologyOct. 13, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Anti-N.K. leaflets: Double-edged sword
Steered by North Korean defectors and activists, civic groups and their anti-Pyongyang leaflets have long goaded the Kim regime into fury at what it calls an act of hostility. The two Koreas traded fire Friday after the North began shooting heavy machine guns, apparently aiming at balloons launched by two organizations which were filled with flyers denouncing the communist regime, $1 bills, mini radios and other items. A group of North Korean defectors living in South Korea sends balloons carry
North KoreaOct. 12, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Young writers debut on global literary scene
When people think of Korea, many identify the country with K-pop, TV dramas and, to a lesser extent, films. As the Korean wave, or Hallyu, has been shaped around the popular Korean culture, the country is taking the chance to prove the excellence of other aspects of Korean culture. This time, young Korean writers and editors have gathered to introduce contemporary Korean literature. Under the title “K-fiction,” the project has released Korean-English translations of short stories by young, emerg
BooksOct. 9, 2014
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[Newsmaker] LED: Light-bulb moment reducing carbon
PARIS ― Just over 20 years ago, three physicists working in two laboratories in Japan cracked a problem that had stumped rivals for decades ― how to prise blue light from a semiconductor.The feat paved the way to a low-energy source of light for illuminating homes, buildings, computers and mobile phones.On Tuesday, it earned Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura the 2014 Nobel Physics Prize, and a flow of tributes for providing the world with a weapon against global warming.By the time
World NewsOct. 8, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Nobel shows importance of location
PARIS ― Generations of scientists have pored over a seemingly basic but ultimately complex skill: how are humans able to find their way from one spot to another?Little by little, the fog of mystery is beginning to dissipate, thanks to work revealing the key areas in the brain that enable us to orientate ourselves and navigate.On Monday, the 2014 Nobel Prize for Medicine went to a trio of scientists who identified the brain cells essential to this task.In the early 1970s, John O’Keefe, a British-
World NewsOct. 7, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Counting cost of college application
With Korean universities continuing with their early admission programs for 2015, the nonrefundable application fees for higher education institutes have become topic of discussion as the sky-high fees deal a significant financial blow to poor students.A total of 24 colleges across the country are currently charging 80,000 won ($74) or more for each applicant, according to Education Ministry data recently revealed by Rep. Han Sun-kyo of the Saenuri Party. The data showed that students had to pay
Social AffairsOct. 6, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Visit by N.K. officials hogs limelight
The 17th Asian Games Incheon 2014 that ended on Saturday surprised the world ― not just for its spectacular K-pop performances or medals dominated by China, but because of an unprecedented visit by top officials from North Korea.The North Korean delegation consisted of the three confidants to North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un. They are known as the secretive state’s political and military heavyweights who buttress the leadership of the young ruler, who took over the reclusive regime in De
PoliticsOct. 5, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Daum Kakao eyes growth as platform provider
Daum Communications and Kakao Corp. have joined forces and are looking ahead to an era in which everything is connected to the Internet.After five months of consolidating the two entities and their corporate cultures, the newly merged 12 trillion won ($11 billion) company will henceforth be called Daum Kakao.With a new black-and-white logo and the new slogan “Connect Everything,” Daum Kakao chief executives Choi Sae-hoon and Lee Sir-goo say the company aims to grow as a platform service provider
TechnologyOct. 1, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Korea takes aim at mobile subsidies
On Oct. 1, South Korea will enforce a revised law governing the sales and subsidies of mobile devices such as smartphones in an effort to eradicate long-standing malpractices by telecommunications operators.Consumers will no longer be discriminated against on the basis of age, place of residence or monthly subscription plan when using their existing mobile phones, buying a new phone or switching their mobile carriers.Everyone, regardless of their class and status, will be entitled to a subsidy s
TechnologySept. 30, 2014