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Korea is strengthening anti-bribery rules to improve transparency in business, the head of the government’s anti-corruption agency said in a meeting with foreign business leaders Tuesday. Anti-corru...
Updated : 2013.04.30 20:39
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About 40 lawmakers on Monday launched a study group aimed at sustaining and expanding hallyu. At its inaugural meeting at the National Assembly, the participants pledged their commitment to maturing...
Updated : 2013.04.29 20:15
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A Korean professor has been captured on film scolding two Indonesian exchange students, calling one “not human” and “a low animal.” The online video shows the professor at Gyeongsang National Un...
Updated : 2013.04.29 18:50
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Prosecutors questioned former National Intelligence Service chief Won Sei-hoon Monday as part of a probe into the national spy agency’s alleged attempt to intervene in the 2012 presidential election....
Updated : 2013.04.29 18:38
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A group of lawyers accused the National Intelligence Service of fabricating a pro-North Korea espionage charge against a Chinese-Korean man. In February the former Seoul City employee identified by ...
Updated : 2013.04.28 20:45
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Mental health accounted for over one-quarter of problems for which teenagers consulted experts last year, a sharp increase from four years before, according to a report released Sunday. The Korea Yo...
Updated : 2013.04.28 20:45
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123rf Flight attendants represent nice and kind service manners which bring nothing but positive images to the customers’ minds. However a recent study revealed that such attitudes trigger an imper...
Updated : 2013.04.28 17:18
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A South Korean major general was appointed to lead the United Nations Command’s military armistice commission, which supervises the implementation of the Armistice Agreement that ended the Korean War...
Updated : 2013.04.26 20:49
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The nation’s top court on Friday upheld the conviction of a medical doctor for murdering his pregnant wife. The 33-year-old doctor, surnamed Baek, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for strangling ...
Updated : 2013.04.26 20:49
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The Foreign Ministry plans to establish a website on Dokdo in seven languages, including Japanese, in August to counter Tokyo’s claim to the easternmost islets. The ministry also plans to create a m...
Updated : 2013.04.25 21:09
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Naturalized migrant spouses in South Chungcheong Province can now apply to get a Korean name. The Chung Cheong Nam Do Council of Social Welfare, the provincial government and law firm Blue and Wise ...
Updated : 2013.04.25 21:06
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President Park Geun-hye will meet with government officials and businesspeople next week to discuss ways to boost trade and investment during the prolonged economic slump, a senior government officia...
Updated : 2013.04.25 21:06
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President Park Geun-hye on Thursday renewed her call for a strict rule of the law, saying laws should be a means to protect the weak. “The law should be a warm protective shield for the weak in soci...
Updated : 2013.04.25 21:05
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In 1996, eight Chinese laborers ran away from the sock factory where they were employed and sought refuge at nearby Cheong Am Church in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. Minister Choi Eui-pal was not ver...
Updated : 2013.04.24 20:20
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Korea began inviting foreign workers in 1993 to make up for labor shortages in smaller firms. In 2012, the nation hired 791,000 non-Koreans, according to Statistics Korea. A majority of alien workers...
Updated : 2013.04.24 20:20
