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All posts tagged "South Korea"

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  Head of 2018 Olympic Winter Games says efforts under way to cut costs

  SEOUL, July 20 (Yonhap) — The chief organizer for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics said Monday that efforts are already under way to reduce the cost of running South Korea’s first Winter Games. At a press conference...

  • Posted July 20, 2015
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  N. Korea firmly rejects S. Korea’s offers for dialogue

  SEOUL, July 20 (Yonhap) — North Korea rejected South Korea’s recent offers for talks Monday, claiming Seoul should first give up its confrontational policy toward Pyongyang. South Korea’s parliamentary speaker Chung Ui-hwa proposed inter-Korean talks Friday to...

  • Posted July 20, 2015
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  Obama again praises S. Korea for ‘paying teachers the way they pay doctors’

  By Brian Han During U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech on Wednesday regarding a new government initiative to bring high speed internet access to low-income groups, the topic of South Korea’s education system came up. “In South Korea...

  • Posted July 17, 2015
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  2 arrested for leaking Hyundai car designs to China

  By Jung Min-ho Two people have been detained for allegedly leaking car designs of Hyundai Motor Group to a Chinese automobile manufacturer, police said Friday. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, a former employee of a...

  • Posted July 17, 2015
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  ‘Sexy’ not on Apink’s agenda for now

  SEOUL, July 16 (Yonhap) — Girl group Apink said Thursday they currently have no plans to try a sultrier look and will stick to their original motif of innocence for now. The six-member group released its second...

  • Posted July 17, 2015
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  S. Korea invites North to int’l security talks in Seoul for the first time in 3 years

  SEOUL, July 17 (Yonhap) — South Korea invited North Korea on Friday to join international security talks for vice defense ministers slated for September in Seoul, the Defense Ministry said, opening the door for a possible high-level...

  • Posted July 17, 2015
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  S. Korean spy agency to release usage record of hacking programs

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea’s top spy agency said Friday that it will show the usage records of controversial hacking programs to lawmakers in coming days, a rare move to back up its claims that it has...

  • Posted July 17, 2015
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