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All posts tagged "South Korea"

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  S. Korea asks Russia for help in denuclearization of N. Korea

  North Korea made it clear that it has no plans to enter into a dialogue with the U.S. or South Korea especially in regards to talks on denuclearization. So the South is trying a new route by...

  • Posted August 5, 2015
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  Tom Cruise pens letter to Korean fans

  By Tae Hong The “Kind Mr. Tom Cruise,” who visited South Korea to promote the fifth installment in the “Mission Impossible” series last month, wrote a letter to his Korean fans. According to Yonhap, Lottee Entertainment released...

  • Posted August 5, 2015
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  S. Koreans buy new smartphones every 14 months: poll

  SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Yonhap) — South Korean smartphone users change their devices every 14 months, with teens changing their handsets in less than a year, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the survey conducted by the Korea...

  • Posted August 4, 2015
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  S. Korea’s ex-first lady set to make high-profile visit to N. Korea

  SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Yonhap) — The widow of former President Kim Dae-jung was to visit North Korea Wednesday for four days in a rare and high-profile trip that may help improve long-strained inter-Korean relations. Lee Hee-ho, 93,...

  • Posted August 4, 2015
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  Anti-Lotte sentiment rising in S. Korea

  Consumer groups plan to launch boycott campaign By Lee Hyo-sik The escalating family mudslinging at Lotte Group is triggering a public uproar as consumers are exasperated by the “foul infighting” over control of the country’s fifth-largest conglomerate....

  • Posted August 4, 2015
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  S. Korea to replace health minister after MERS outbreak

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president has decided to replace her health minister, officials said Tuesday, in the wake of criticism over the government’s handling of the MERS virus outbreak that killed 36 people and...

  • Posted August 4, 2015
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  S. Korea deploys anti-artillery rockets as defense to N. Korea

  South Korea plans to fight North Korean artillery with some of its own just in case tensions between the two countries reach a boiling point. The South is in the process of deploying mobile rocket launchers that...

  • Posted August 4, 2015
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