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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
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The trouble surrounding Jinju Medical Center entered a new phase as the South Gyeongsang Provincial Government and the medical trade union agreed to postpone its closure and resume talks over its ope...
Updated : 2013.04.24 17:50
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The government is moving to strengthen penalties for any behavior that could jeopardize the safety of a flight, including any type of violence against flight attendants, it said Wednesday. The move...
Updated : 2013.04.24 15:05
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A man has received a suspended prison term for blackmailing figure skater Kim Yu-na demanding that she not appear in a liquor advertisement, court officials said Wednesday. The Seoul Central Distric...
Updated : 2013.04.24 09:58
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Rival parties reached a final agreement Tuesday to raise the legal retirement age to 60 starting in 2016 in a landmark move to help the nation cope with the aging population and an impending pension ...
Updated : 2013.04.23 20:22
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A string of cases involving parents killing their children have recently shocked the nation, ringing the alarm on the dangers of broken families and mental vulnerability. On Sunday, a mother in her ...
Updated : 2013.04.23 20:18
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Police in Daegu are searching for two suspects in an arson attack on a private English institute which the self-proclaimed anti-American activists apparently mistook for a U.S. government facility. ...
Updated : 2013.04.23 20:17
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Consensus was reached between ruling and opposition parties on Tuesday to extend the legal retirement age of South Korean workers to 60 beginning in 2016. Under the agreement, the public sector and ...
Updated : 2013.04.23 16:07
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The nation's police chief pledged Monday to investigate claims that high-ranking police officers had tried to affect the outcome of a police probe into allegations that government spy agents interven...
Updated : 2013.04.22 20:30
