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Life expectancy forecast to exceed 90 years in coming decades
Study shows significant increase in lifespan, with South Korea top of league table and other countries not far behind
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Why America Should Not Be Asia’s Globo-Cop
The Korean peninsula is no longer critical for U.S. security. By Doug Bandow.
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Remembering the Korean War
Sixty-three years ago today, on July 27, 1953, the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed, ceasing hostilities between North Korean Communist forces, backed by China, and South Korean forces, backed by the United Nations. The war had raged across the Korean Peninsula for three years, leaving hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians dead. The Armistice formed the famous Demilitarized Zone that still separates North Korea and South Korea, technically still at war with each other. On this anniversary of the armistice agreement, a look back at the people and places involved in the conflict sometimes called "the forgotten war.”
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#Olympics: South Korea's anti-Zika uniform
The Rio Olympics are less than 100 days away and it seems South Korean athletes are taking no chances when it comes to the threat of contracting the Zika virus. South Korea's stars will wear tracksuits which have been infused with insect repellant designed to keep mosquitoes away, as well as long pants and blazers for the opening and closing ceremonies.
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Five Things to Look Out for When You Fly With Air Koryo, the World’s Worst Airline
Change is in the air in North Korea. After years of being ranked by Skytrax as the world's worst airline, national carrier Air Koryo is undergoing a revolution, according to interviews with passengers and travel agents.
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South Korea's leader warns of North Korea collapse
South Korea's president warned Tuesday that rival North Korea faces collapse if it doesn't abandon its nuclear bomb program, an unusually strong broadside that will likely infuriate Pyongyang. President Park Geun-hye, in a nationally televised parliamentary address defending her decision to shut down a jointly run factory park in North Korea, said South Korea will take unspecified "stronger and more effective" measures to make North Korea realize its...
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As Kaesong complex shuts, era of North-South Korea rapprochement fades
At the dawn of the millennium in Pyongyang, the leaders of North and South Korea announced a bold agreement for achieving peace and reunification through economic and cultural exchange. Today, one of the few remaining fruits of that historic deal, a jointly-run industrial park located six miles north of the border, faces an uncertain future after its suspension in the latest flare-up of inter-Korean tensions.
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Seoul: North Korea Has Sent 1 Million Propaganda Leaflets
North Korea has launched an estimated 1 million propaganda leaflets by balloon into South Korea amid increased tension between the rivals following the North's recent nuclear test, Seoul officials said Monday. A Cold War-style standoff has flared since North Korea's claim on Jan. 6 that it tested a hydrogen bomb. South Korea resumed blasting anti-North propaganda broadcasts and K-pop songs from border loudspeakers. North Korea quickly responded by restarting...
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South Korea to Inflict K-Pop Blasts on Kim Jong Un for Nuke Test
With Kim Jong Un turning up the heat with North Korea’s fourth nuclear test, South Korea responded Friday by pumping up the volume. Literally. At noon on North Korean leader Kim’s birthday, South Korea fired up loudspeakers along the heavily fortified border and resumed the propaganda blasts that brought the reclusive regime to a war footing in August -- and then to the negotiating table. South Korea has reinforced defensive positions near...
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South Korean "mock funerals" seek to ease life's stresses
In a dimly lit room, people dressed in white burial shrouds slowly sit up inside the wooden coffins where they had been lying, enclosed, for 10 minutes. Blinking, pale and solemn, they say they thought about their past and their loved ones while inside the coffins and vow to live better lives now.
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North Korea and South Korea reach agreement to defuse crisis
South Korea has agreed to stop its anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts after North Korea expresses regret over a land mine blast that maimed two South Korean soldiers.
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North Korea Lands First Ever Man On Saturn
North Korea has issued a statement to the State News Agency that their recent space exploration mission to Saturn was a huge success. It’s been confirmed that North Korea has become the first country to land a man on Saturn. Hung Il Gong made landfall on Saturn at approximately 3 a.m. this morning.
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Heavy metal: Life at the world's largest shipyard
To a European visitor, the city of Ulsan on the southern tip of the Korean peninsula seems like a throwback to some lost world....
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LG Showcases 55-inch, Wallpaper-Thin OLED Panel
During a press event in Korea this week, LG Display unveiled a working prototype of a 55-inch paper-thin OLED display that peels like wallpaper.
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The woman who liberated South Korea's housewives - BBC News
BBC Seoul correspondent Steve Evans meets five people in the capital to find out about their working lives
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