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Ambassador Attacked in South Korea
U.S. ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert was attacked in Seoul, possibly by more than one person, according to U.S. government sources in the U.S. and South Korea.
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N. Korea threatens merciless punishment against S. Korean activists
North Korea on Tuesday threatened to mercilessly punish South Korean activists for allegedly hurting the dignity of its young leader Kim Jong-un during a public demonstration, the latest in a series of harsh rhetoric against rival South Korea. The latest threat came days after a conservative activist in Seoul trampled a photo of Kim and slashed it with a knife during a rally as others burned printed replicas of North Korean flags.
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The World Capital of Plastic Surgery
If you want to feel bad about your looks, spend some time in Seoul. An eerily high number of women there—and men, too—look like anime princesses. Subway riders primp in front of full-length mirrors installed throughout the stations for that purpose. Job applicants are typically required to attach photographs to their résumés. Remarks from relatives, such as “You would be a lot prettier if you just had your jaw tapered,” are considered no more insulting than...
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177 Samsung execs quit jobs amid profit slump
More than a hundred executives at Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s No. 1 tech giant, left their posts between late last year and the first quarter of 2015, data showed Thursday, in what seems to be an aftereffect of the lackluster performance in 2014 smartphone sales. The number of unregistered executives at the world’s top smartphone and memory chipmaker had stood at 1,219 in the quarter ending in September 2014...
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Woman charged with attempted rape for first time in S. Korea
The prosecution has indicted a woman for the attempted rape of a man, the first such indictment in Korea since a related law was revised in June 2013 to include men as potential rape victims. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said on Friday that the woman, identified only by her surname Jeon, 45, allegedly drugged her boyfriend, 51, and attempted to rape him.
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S. Korea to develop, commercialize graphene by 2017
South Korea will move to start producing and selling products using graphene by as early as 2017, becoming one of the world’s first countries to commercialize the new advanced material, the government said Monday. Graphene is an atom-thin sheet of carbon that can transmit electric currents by up to 1 million times faster than conventional conductors, such as copper, and has twice the strength of diamonds.
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Seoul to adopt urban agriculture by introducing ‘vertical farms’
Seoul City Hall is planning to introduce “vertical farms.” The farms would be three stories high, with vegetables and crops grown on the second and third floors, while the first floor would serve as a classroom for teaching agriculture, city officials said Tuesday. The farms will be computer controlled to provide the right light, temperature and humidity, and check carbon dioxide levels. The western district of Yangcheon will be home to the first farms.
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South Korea government under fire after suicide note alleges bribery
South Korean President Park Geun-hye faced charges Wednesday that members of her administration received bribes from a businessman found dead in an apparent suicide last week. A Seoul prosecution official said that an investigation team has been formed to look into suspicions that Prime Minister Lee Wan Koo and presidential chief of staff Lee Byung Kee among other political figures received bribes from Sung Wan-jong...
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Obama praises S. Korea for paying teachers as much as doctors, engineers
U.S. President Barack Obama has praised South Korea’s education system again, saying teachers in Korea are paid as much as doctors and engineers. “My sister was a teacher, and so I know how little she got paid. It’s hard to support a family. And there are a lot of young people who are really talented who want to go into teaching,” Obama said in a town hall meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday.
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Kenyan headed for South Korea accidentally traveled to North Korea
An indigenous Kenyan cow herder registered to attend a U.N. biodiversity conference in Pyeongchang, South Korea, said he was detained in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, after booking a wrong flight last September. Daniel Olomae Ole Sapit, 42, who is from Kenya's semi-nomadic Maasai tribe, said the similar sounding names had confused him and his travel agent in Kenya, who booked the flight. "For an African, who can tell the difference?" Sapit told The Wall Street Journal.
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Suicide is leading cause of death among South Korean teens, says report
Suicide is the leading cause of death among South Korean teenagers and young people, a government survey stated on Tuesday. Yonhap reported in 2013 those between the ages of nine and 24 experienced an increased rate of suicide than a decade earlier. For this age category, the suicide rate rose to 7.8 per 100,000, up from 7.4 in 2003. The Korea Times reported nearly eight percent of young people surveyed said they have contemplated suicide in 2014.
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Google launches first campus for startups in Asia
U.S. Internet giant Google Inc. opened its Seoul Campus in South Korea on Friday, its first Asian campus for nurturing local startups.
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ABC picks up ‘Dr. Ken’ for a full season
ABC picked up “Dr. Ken” for a full season on Friday, which means that there will be two Asian American families featured on primetime network television next season according to The Wrap. The show will feature Korean American actor Ken Jeong as both the shows lead and as its executive producer.
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North Korea executes defense chief with an anti-aircraft gun: South Korea agency
North Korea has executed its defense chief on treason charges by putting him in front of an anti-aircraft gun at a firing range, Seoul's National Intelligence Service (NIS) told lawmakers. Hyon Yong Chol, 66, who headed the isolated country's military, was purged late last month for disobeying Kim Jong Un and falling asleep during a meeting at which North Korea's young leader was present, according to South Korean lawmakers briefed in a closed-door meeting with the spy agency on Wednesday.
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South Korea's New Law Mandates Installation Of Government-Approved Spyware On Teens' Smartphones
Considering the extent of its (most web-related) censorship efforts, South Korea must consider itself fortunate to be next-door neighbors with North Korea. Any time another censorship effort arrives, all the government has to say is, "Hey, at least we're not as bad as…" while pointing its index fingers in an upward/roughly northerly direction. It blocks sites and web pages with gusto, subverting its own technological superiority by acting as a Puritanical parental figure.
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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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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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Heavy metal: Life at the world's largest shipyard
How South Korea has become a global leader in shipbuilding.
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Nearly 60% of South Koreans view Japan as military threat: joint survey
About 58.1 percent of South Koreans view Japan as a military threat, up from 46.3 percent the previous year, now that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is moving to beef up postwar security policy, a survey said Friday. The joint survey, conducted by Japanese civic group Genron NPO and South Korean think tank East Asia Institute from April to May, drew responses from around 1,000 people in each country and found that only 11.2 percent of Japanese respondents view South Korea as a military threat.
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North and South Korea collaborate in excavating ancient palace
North and South Korean researchers are collaborating on the excavation of an ancient historical site at Manwoldae, home to the Koryo dynasty’s royal palace, in an unprecedented joint project between the two countries who have technically been at war since the 1950-53 Korean conflict. Historians and archaeologists from the South crossed the border to the North Korean city of Kaesong yesterday to begin the work, hoping that the project will...
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