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NHN, Korea’s biggest search engine operator, is coming under mounting pressure by state regulators as the country’s antitrust agency has further expanded its probe into not only the company but also...
Updated : 2013.05.21 20:22
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Bae Sang-moon cemented his status as one of South Korea’s rising golf stars by nabbing his first U.S. PGA Tour title two years after his debut on the tour. The 26-year-old won the HP Byron Nelson Cha...
Updated : 2013.05.20 21:19
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Nam Duck-woo, a former prime minister and finance minister who led the country’s economic modernization in the 1970s, died on Saturday night.The 89-year-old former official had suffered complications...
Updated : 2013.05.19 21:16
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The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced Thursday that it would order Janssen Korea to halt production of five drugs including Children’s Tylenol syrup and file a criminal complaint against the...
Updated : 2013.05.16 21:05
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The new floor leaders of the ruling and main opposition parties took office on Wednesday with the shared goal of highlighting the presence and role of their respective parties. The Democratic Party’s...
Updated : 2013.05.15 20:54
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Choi Yang-hee, head of Samsung Group’s ambitious new technological research foundation, is determined to produce Nobel Prize winners through advancing basic sciences.Fostering Nobel laureates is actu...
Updated : 2013.05.14 20:34
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Nawaz Sharif became the first man to earn a third stint as Pakistan’s prime minister after his Pakistan Muslim League-N won the largest share of seats in Saturday’s general election.The election as ...
Updated : 2013.05.13 21:01
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Even before his dismissal amid allegations of sexual assault last week, former Cheong Wa Dae spokesman Yoon Chang-jung was a controversial figure for his unreserved and often vulgar political comments...
Updated : 2013.05.12 20:28
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Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, the most successful manager in British football history, announced Wednesday that he will retire at the end of the season, ending a trophy-filled career of mor...
Updated : 2013.05.09 19:52
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The World Trade Organization is to have its first leader from the BRICS group of nations in Brazilian Roberto Azevedo, following his election to the post.As a symbol of so-called emerging economies’ ...
Updated : 2013.05.08 20:37
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The Pentagon’s release Monday of a report accusing the Chinese government of cyber espionage against the United States will do nothing to improve the uneasy relations between the world’s two most po...
Updated : 2013.05.07 20:40
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Rep. Shin Kyung-min, a former TV anchor renowned for his biting comments and staunch liberalism, became a political star Saturday by taking the No. 2 post in the main opposition Democratic Party just ...
Updated : 2013.05.06 20:20
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New opposition leader Rep. Kim Han-gil is said to be a moderate centrist, an astute strategist and a resilient fighter roaring from the wilderness to the helm of the Democratic Party.The four-term law...
Updated : 2013.05.05 20:30
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The police are set to launch an investigation into alleged racist online attacks aimed at Hwang Min-woo, a 7-year-old singer who shot to fame after appearing in the music video for Psy’s "Gangnam Sty...
Updated : 2013.05.02 20:25
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Promotional interviews seldom go so badly. Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose has been forced to apologize to the Muslim world over remarks made in an interview with the New York Times about his city’s bid to ho...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:59
