All posts tagged "South Korea"

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    S. Korean gov’t to help youth find overseas jobs

    (Yonhap) — South Korea will ramp up efforts to help young people find jobs in foreign countries in an attempt to cope with stubbornly high youth unemployment, the government said recently. The move comes as the jobless...

    • Posted June 15, 2015
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    [WSJ] Shanghai Film Fest, Fearing MERS, Tells Koreans: Please Don’t Come

      Shanghai is holding its 18th annual international film festival beginning on Saturday and has invited movie luminaries from around the world to attend. But for those coming from South Korea, organizers have suggested...

    • Posted June 11, 2015
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    S. Korea reports tenth MERS death, continues to spread

    SEJONG, June 11 (Yonhap) — South Korea reported an additional fatality from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) on Thursday, along with 14 new cases that brought the total number of people diagnosed with the disease to 122....

    • Posted June 11, 2015
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    [Spectrum] How S. Korea’s robot won the DARPA Robotics Challenge

    On Saturday, Team KAIST from South Korea emerged as the winner of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) in Pomona, Calif., after its robot, an adaptable humanoid called DRC-HUBO, beat out 22 other robots from five different...

    • Posted June 11, 2015
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  • South Korean elementary school students wear masks as a precaution against the MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, virus as they go to school in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 10, 2015. South Korea believes its MERS virus outbreak may have peaked, and experts say the next several days will be critical to determining whether the government's belated efforts have successfully stymied a disease that has killed seven people and infected nearly 100 in the country.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    S. Korea lifts blanket closure of schools over MERS

    SUWON, South Korea, June 11 (Yonhap) — The education office in the province where the MERS outbreak in South Korea began said Thursday classes will resume next week at schools it had ordered to shut down temporarily....

    • Posted June 11, 2015
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    WHO team puzzled by MERS behavior

    By Jung Min-ho The World Health Organization (WHO) is looking closely into the characteristics and clinical features of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, which has clearly “behaved differently” in Korea, a member of the visiting...

    • Posted June 10, 2015
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  • South Korean nuns wearing mask as a precaution against MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, virus. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    Police arrest 8 people for spreading false MERS rumors

    SEOUL, June 10 (Yonhap) — Police said Wednesday they have booked eight people for allegedly distributing false MERS-related rumors involving hospitals as well as patient information without consent. Five of them are suspected of distributing rumors that...

    • Posted June 10, 2015
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