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All posts tagged "South Korea"

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  Religious leaders of two Koreas to gather in N. Korea next month

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — Religious leaders in South Korea will visit North Korea next month to hold a joint event for peace with their counterparts in the communist country, a religious group said Friday. Some 150 men from...

  • Posted October 23, 2015
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  Battling modern day music industry, JiHAE lets passion prevail

  By Brian Han Brooklyn-based South Korean musician JiHAE comes off her latest album “Illusion Of You” already looking forward to her next project – a musical theater piece that will also be released as a record. When...

  • Posted October 22, 2015
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  S. Korean Audi owners file class action suit against Volkswagen

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — A group of South Koreans who drive Volkswagen’s luxury brand, Audi, have filed a class action suit against the German automaker to retract their contracts after it admitted to cheating on U.S. emission tests,...

  • Posted October 22, 2015
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  N. Korea demand for peace treaty worth taking note: Russian envoy

  SEOUL (Yonhap) – Moscow’s top envoy to Seoul said, in clear contrast to the positions of Seoul and Washington, that it is worth taking note of North Korea’s renewed demands for a peace treaty with the United...

  • Posted October 22, 2015
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  Korean American selling illegal painkillers in South Korea arrested

  Korean Americans selling illegally obtained painkillers in South Korea via Craigslist have been caught by Seoul police. A, a 33-year-old U.S. citizen, was arrested on charges of selling Oxycontin and Fentanyl acquired by prescription from hospitals on...

  • Posted October 22, 2015
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  Samsung chairman donates more than $17 million to help young job seekers

  By Kim Yoo-chul Ailing Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee has donated 20 billion won (US$17.4 million) to a government-initiated fund to help operate various programs for young job seekers. The decision by the chairman has increased the amount...

  • Posted October 22, 2015
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  Seoul National University to require payments from professors with side jobs

  By Kim Se-jeong Seoul National University (SNU) is considering making it mandatory for professors who have positions outside the university as directors of private companies to give part of their income to the university. The move is...

  • Posted October 22, 2015
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