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The National Assembly is set to debate a proposal to give incentives to working mothers in employment with the government and state-run firms as part of steps to tackle the declining birthrate. Rep....
Updated : 2013.04.17 20:51
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The state-run Korea Labor Foundation will host an international conference on employment and welfare support customized to life stages to cope with a fast-aging society next Tuesday. “This symposiu...
Updated : 2013.04.17 20:46
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An owner of a local travel agency has been indicted on charges of defrauding hundreds of foreign tourists with bogus hotel reservations, prosecutors said Wednesday. The 32-year-old agent, only ident...
Updated : 2013.04.17 20:45
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Korea should encourage the growing number of multiethnic children not only to speak Korean fluently, but also to learn their native languages to help them adapt here, a head of school for multicultur...
Updated : 2013.04.17 20:41
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The only Korean one 15-year-old Chinese boy knew was simple greetings when he came to Seoul last summer with his mother, who married a Korean man. But even after spending more than six months learni...
Updated : 2013.04.17 20:40
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Grieving parents who thought their daughter had died in a car accident recently found out that she was alive and the girl they had buried was someone else. Gyeonggi Province police on Wednesday reve...
Updated : 2013.04.17 16:25
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A South Korean man has been hospitalized with wounds from an explosion during the Boston Marathon, which left three dead and more than 170 others hurt, officials said Tuesday. Ahn Dong-sik, 23, unde...
Updated : 2013.04.17 10:07
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Health authorities said Tuesday they toughened quarantine inspections of passengers from Beijing and Henan province, as China confirmed that the new strain of bird flu, H7N9, had spread to its capita...
Updated : 2013.04.16 20:06
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The government on Tuesday allowed North Korean defectors to work as experienced public servants in an effort to better embrace them as members of society. According to a revision of related rules en...
Updated : 2013.04.16 16:05
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A South Korean man was shot dead and another Korean was seriously injured in a shooting attack in Angeles City of the Philippines, a Seoul official said Tuesday. Unknown gunmen shot the two Korean n...
Updated : 2013.04.16 09:36
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A Korean tourist who went missing while visiting Guam was attacked by a shark before he drowned, according to findings from an autopsy. Authorities identified the man as Nae Dok Kim, 40, Pacific Dai...
Updated : 2013.04.16 08:56
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The state-run Korea Gas Corp. said on Monday that its president and CEO Choo Kang-soo has offered to resign. In a press release, Choo said that he wants to step down to help South Korea open a "new ...
Updated : 2013.04.15 22:13
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Dozens of South Korean civic groups on Monday urged the two Koreas to defuse escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula by seeking a peaceful resolution through dialogue. Tensions have been simmeri...
Updated : 2013.04.15 22:12
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The number of Korean medical institutions expanding overseas has nearly doubled in the last three years, a report showed Monday. According to the report released by the state-run Korea Health Indust...
Updated : 2013.04.15 20:24
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The government and political parties reached an agreement Monday to readjust the proposed rules for real-estate tax breaks aimed at boosting the lackluster property market. The government has propos...
Updated : 2013.04.15 20:23
