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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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A Quirky Moon-Shaped Building By Moon Hoon Architects
Designed by Seoul-based architecture studio Moon Hoon, 'Two Moon' is a quirky two-building structure with complementary moon-shaped facades near the Korean city.
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North Korea welcomes agreement but says Seoul 'learned a lesson'
The agreement between North and South Korea to defuse tensions has been welcomed on both sides – but Pyongyang's official narrative indicated it held a different view from Seoul on the recent skirmishes. Hwang Pyong So, director of the general political bureau of North Korea's military said on state television Tuesday that South Korea had learned a "serious lesson" on creating provocations without cause, Yonhap reported.
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South Korea: Suicide Nation
People & Power investigates South Korea's disturbing rise in suicides, particularly among the elderly.
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Fun Korea Restaurant for Singles
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North and South Koreas agree to rare family reunions
The two Koreas agree to hold rare reunions next month for families separated by the Korean War, according to Seoul.
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Hyundai N 2025 Vision Gran Turismo Concept looks ready for Le Mans
Hyundai's N 2025 Vision Gran Turismo Concept is a wild, Le Mans-style racing prototype that "highlights sustainable technology".
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South Korean forest bulldozed to create ski run for Olympics
South Korea, host of the 2018 Winter Games, has been accused of bulldozing a 500-year-old virgin forest to make room for an Olympic ski slope. The site is on the sacred Mount Gariwang, a mountain with connections to the Chosun Ruling Dynasty, the country’s last royal dynasty which lasted more than 500 years till 1897.
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Plastic Surgery For Pets Is On The Rise In South Korea
Is your dog ugly? Well, you should probably get it some plastic surgery. According to an an article from Korean news site Chosun that Kotaku reported on in English, South Korea is experiencing a growing trend of owners taking their pets to get a little nip-tuck.
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First look at North Korea's $200 million Kalma Airport in Wonsan
Book early!
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Superscript: South Korea’s hangul alphabet
“LIKE trying to fit a square handle into a round hole” is how Sejong the Great, a Korean king, viewed the practice of using hanja, classical Chinese characters, to transcribe Korean. Hanja recorded meaning alone, not sound, and only aristocrats knew it. So the king and his literary circle crafted an alphabet from scratch and started promoting it in 1446.
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South Koreans cross into North for emotional family reunion
Nearly 400 mostly elderly South Koreans crossed the heavily militarised border into North Korea on Tuesday (Oct 20) for a rare, emotional meeting with relatives they have either never met or last saw more than six decades ago. A fleet of buses led by four black sedans flying Red Cross flags carried the family members from a resort in the port city of Sokcho to the frontier that has divided the peninsula - and its people - since the 1950-53 Korean War.
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A Lonely End for South Koreans Who Cannot Afford to Live, or Die
As a growing number of South Koreans are dying alone with no relative willing to claim their remains and perform a final ritual, an activist and his organization help to fill the void. By Choe Sang-Hun.
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South Korea police clash with 70,000 protesters at anti-government Seoul rally
Some 70,000 people have taken to the streets of Seoul for the largest South Korean anti-government rally in years. The protesters spoke out against conservative labor reform and state-issued history books.
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North Korea executes 3 women for recording South Korean TV drama
North Korea has executed three women for circulating a South Korean television drama, UPI reported Wednesday, citing a source. The three women were pronounced guilty for making copies of the show. The women resided near Hyesan University of the Arts in the northern Ryanggang Province and were detained by police officials for recording the South Korean drama, which is based on a true story of a North Korean dancer who defected to the South...
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Thousands march in new anti-government rally in South Korea
Thousands of South Koreans, many wearing masks, marched in Seoul on Saturday against conservative President Park Geun-hye, who had compared masked protesters to terrorists after clashes with police broke out at a rally last month. The march Saturday was organized by labor, farmer and civic groups to protest what they say are setbacks in labor conditions and personal and political freedoms under Park's government.
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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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Civil Rights At Issue In Korea, But Not The Korea You'd Expect
"Every issue that we are facing violates the core principles of democracy," says a South Korean labor leader. The government says it's cracking down to protect national security.
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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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S. Korea fires warning shots after North Korean drone seen
South Korea on Wednesday fired 20 machine gun warning shots after a North Korean drone briefly crossed the rivals’ border, officials said, the first shots fired in a Cold War-style standoff between the Koreas in the wake of the North’s nuclear test last week.
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