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Over the last weekend, hundreds of thousands of people visited the international garden expo being held in the southern coastal city of Suncheon, South Jeolla Province. Organizers have raised the targeted number of visitors to the event, which will continue through Oct. 20, from 4 million ...
Updated : 2013.05.21 19:59
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North Korea has ratcheted up tensions again in a measured way by firing what appeared to be short-range missiles into the East Sea for three consecutive days starting Saturday. Speculation has arisen about the North’s intention behind the launches, which it claimed were part of “a normal...
Updated : 2013.05.21 19:59
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The most effective way to address working moms’ concerns about child care is to have their companies operate an on-site nursery school, given that parents prefer day care facilities to be in the workplace.But companies are reluctant to set up nurseries for employees because of the financi...
Updated : 2013.05.20 20:25
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The district court in the industrial city of Ulsan has put the brakes on job inheritance practices at Hyundai Motor.On Thursday, the court nullified a clause in the automaker’s collective bargaining agreement that requires management to hire a relative of an employee who dies or retires d...
Updated : 2013.05.20 20:25
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Rep. Choi kyung-hwan, the new floor leader of the ruling Saenuri Party, and his opposition Democratic Party counterpart, Rep. Jun Byung-hun, have much to do in shaping new strategies and directing activities on the floor.They will have to fiercely compete against each other to win the hear...
Updated : 2013.05.19 20:18
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On May 3, South Korea delivered $13 million in cash to North Korea and withdrew the last batch of seven South Koreans from the industrial complex in the North Korean border town of Gaeseong. The money was for back pay and severance pay to 53,000 North Koreans that had been withdrawn from t...
Updated : 2013.05.19 20:18
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The government has started to churn out detailed policy measures geared toward realizing President Park Geun-hye’s economic vision ― building a “creative economy.” On Wednesday, the government unveiled steps aimed at boosting investment in venture companies, the key players in an innov...
Updated : 2013.05.16 20:06
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The government has come up with a plan to reform the National Basic Living Security System, a social safety net designed to provide income security for people in poverty.The proposal is aimed at increasing the number of beneficiaries by easing the eligibility criteria and changing the way ...
Updated : 2013.05.16 20:06
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Japan’s rightwing political leaders, including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, have raised the ire of neighboring countries with acts and remarks denying Tokyo’s pre-1945 wartime atrocities. Abe recently exacerbated the angry sentiment with a photo showing him sitting in the cockpit of a trai...
Updated : 2013.05.15 20:27
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Hours after an abrupt instruction from President Park Guen-hye on Tuesday, Seoul’s Unification Ministry proposed talks with Pyongyang on bringing South Korean products and raw materials out of a suspended joint industrial complex in a North Korean border city. The proposal was seen as ref...
Updated : 2013.05.15 20:27
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The sexual abuse scandal involving a now-sacked presidential spokesman has exposed another big hole in the governance system of the Blue House. The first hole needs no further explanation. A series of personnel appointment debacles by President Park Geun-hye a couple of months ago showed t...
Updated : 2013.05.14 20:03
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About three years have passed since the government launched a campaign to promote mutual prosperity between big companies and their smaller partners. Yet the deeply entrenched practice of large corporations bullying their suppliers still remains firmly in place.This is well illustrated by ...
Updated : 2013.05.14 20:02
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President Park Geun-hye came forward Monday to apologize over allegations her now-dismissed spokesman molested a young Korean-American woman hired as his secretary while accompanying the president on her U.S. visit last week. Park broke her silence three days after the snowballing scandal ...
Updated : 2013.05.13 20:40
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Concerns have been growing over the possible exhaustion of the national pension fund. As of the end of February, about 20.18 million people subscribed to the pension service with an accumulated fund of 401 trillion won ($361.9 billion), according to data from the National Pension Service. ...
Updated : 2013.05.13 20:40
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The Japanese yen fell below the 100-per-dollar mark over the weekend, sending shivers down the spine of the Korean government, which was deeply concerned about its potential impact on the fragile Korean economy. A weak yen is set to boost Japan’s exports of autos, ships, steel products an...
Updated : 2013.05.12 19:48
