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South Korea offers $500,000 reward for tips about missing billionaire Sewol ferry owner Yoo Byung-eun
Yoo Byung-eun is also the leader of the Salvation Sect, and was financially tied to a splinter group that carried out a murder-suicide pact in 1987.
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North Korea sentences South Korean to life of hard labor for spying
North Korea sentenced a South Korean missionary to life with hard labor on Friday after convicting him of espionage and setting up an underground church. North Korea's official KCNA news agency reported that the South Korean, identified as Kim Jong Uk, had admitted his guilt at a court trial held on Friday.
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The Korean grandmothers who sell sex
Koreans could once be sure that their children would look after them in their old age, but no longer - many of those who worked hard to transform the country's economy find the next generation has other spending priorities. As a result, some elderly women are turning to prostitution.
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The war that never ends between the Koreas
On a clear day, residents of Yeonpyeong Island can see North Korea, 10 kms (six miles) away. They can also sometimes watch South Korean warships chase North Korean and Chinese fishing boats.
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South Korean 'killer soldier' captured
A South Korean soldier who killed five members of his unit has been captured after a failed suicide attempt, defence officials say. The soldier, identified only as Im, shot himself in the chest and was being sent to hospital, they said. His capture ends a tense stand-off in a forest near his outpost by the border with North Korea.
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South Korea debates the wisdom of a video game addiction law
South Korea takes gaming more seriously than most other counties: eSports tournaments air on TV, game-friendly cafes are everywhere and StarCraft is practically a cultural institution. However, there's a concern that some are taking it too seriously, to the point that they're putting lives (including their own) at risk.
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Inside South Korea's Penis Restaurant
If you miss the sign in Pocheon City for the restaurant Deolmusae, no worries. You can always look for the giant erect penis. Think I'm joking?
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China's President Visits South Korea, Snubs North Korea
China's president is in Seoul to meet his South Korean counterpart. In a not-so-veiled gibe at North Korea, the two leaders repeated their opposition to nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula.
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North Korea to send cheering squad to Asian Games
North Korea said Monday it will send a cheering squad to the coming Asian Games in rival South Korea that its athletes plan to attend.
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North Korean defectors 'promised apartments and jobs if they return'
The North Korean security forces in the country’s northeasterly border region are renewing their attempts to coax defectors to return from South Korea, according to sources inside the country. One source in the area said her people’s unit (or inminban) meeting, which North Koreans are expected to attend regularly, was recently dominated by a lecture concerning instructions handed down by security services.
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South Korean Police Think They’ve Found Body of Owner of Sunken Ferry That Killed Hundreds
South Korean police believe they have found the body of the owner the South Korean ferry that sank killing hundreds of schoolchildren in April. Billionaire businessman Yoo Byung-eun, owner of the ferry company involved in the horrific accident, disappeared shortly after the ferry sank leading to a massive manhunt as South Korean police investigated possible criminal negligence on Yoo’s part.
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In Ferry Deaths, a South Korean Tycoon’s Downfall
The sinking of the ferry Sewol killed 304 passengers and exposed a web of questionable business practices by Yoo Byung-eun, who was found dead in June.
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South Korea’s first—and only—astronaut just quit her job, ending the country’s manned space program
It was something of a lark all along. South Korea started its space program in 2006 with a national search for qualified astronaut candidates. The country doesn’t have the technological infrastructure to blast a human into orbit, but it partnered with Russia—as does the US, for now—to send the winner, engineer Yi So-yeon, to the International Space Station in 2008 for a 10-day trip focused on science experiments and publicity.
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Seoul: N. Korea fires projectiles as pope visits
South Korea said Thursday that rival North Korea had fired two additional projectiles into the sea. The latest apparent test firings follow three earlier short-range projectiles that were launched less than an hour before Pope Francis arrived in the morning for the first papal visit to South Korea in 25 years.
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North Korea fires projectiles before Pope Francis arrives in Seoul
As Francis became the first pope in 25 years to visit South Korea on Thursday, Seoul's never-timid rival, North Korea, made its presence felt by firing three short-range projectiles less than an hour before he arrived, officials said.
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Instant noodles: friend or foe? South Koreans defend diet
Kim Min-koo has a reply to new American research that hits South Korea where it hurts: in the stomach. Wobbling drunk and hungry just after dawn, he rips the lid off a bowl of his beloved instant noodles, defiant over a report that links them to health hazards.
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North Korea Returns a Defector to the South
North Korea returned a South Korean man on Thursday who had defected to the North, in the first such repatriation since October. The 52-year-old man, identified as Kim Sang-geun by the North, was handed over to the South Korean authorities at Panmunjom, a village that straddles the border between the Koreas.
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N.Korea says imprisoned American tried to become 'second Snowden'
An American recently sentenced to six years hard labor by a North Korean court pretended to have secret U.S. information and was deliberately arrested in a bid to become famous and meet U.S. missionary Kenneth Bae in a North Korean prison, state media said on Saturday.
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North Korea threatens attack if leaflets are launched from South
North Korea on Saturday (Sep 20) threatened to attack South Korean activists if they launch anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border while the South hosts the Asian Games. A group of South Korean activists plans to launch 200,000 leaflets slung from gas-filled balloons into the North from a site near the border on Sunday.
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Insurance scammer goes all out
Insurance scammer goes all out
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