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Seoul bizmen to visit joint industrial park amid wage row

A group of South Korean businessmen was to visit a joint industrial complex in North Korea on Monday amid the ongoing row over the North’s unilateral bid …

THAAD ‘litmus test’ for S. Korea-U.S. alliance: report

The potential deployment of a THAAD missile defense unit to South Korea has become a “litmus test” for how Seoul is aligned between Washington and …

N.K. ordered to pay $330 mln to kidnapped pastor’s family

A U.S. court has ordered North Korea to pay $330 million in compensation to the family of a late Korean-American pastor abducted by the North in 2000 while …

Gov’t to decide whether to recover Sewol this week

The government will make the final decision later this week on whether to salvage a passenger ferry that sank last year along with the salvage method, based …

Danish minister visits water forum

Kirsten Brosbol, the Danish minister for environment, visited Korea last week to participate in the World Water Forum in Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province, …

Sewol clash prompts blame game
Sewol clash prompts blame game

A weekend demonstration to mourn the victims of Sewol ferry sinking culminated in an intense clash between the demonstrators and the law-enforcement …

[Herald Interview] Japanese scholar urges Abe to act on sex slavery
[Herald Interview] Japanese scholar urges Abe to act on sex slavery

With time running out for the aging sex slavery victims, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should sincerely atone for the so-called comfort women during World …

Park arrives in Peru for economic boost

President Park Geun-hye will seek the export of South Korea’s light attack aircraft to Peru during her four-day state visit to the South American country, an …

[Herald Interview] ‘Disability does not mean lower work capacity’
[Herald Interview] ‘Disability does not mean lower work capacity’

As the machines hum in the background, drowning out the occasional chatter, workers cut fabric, sew and iron it at a suit factory in Guro-gu, western Seoul, a …

Global governance key to water crisis
Global governance key to water crisis

The international community must stop putting climate change on the back burner of its development agenda, the head of an environment institution has stressed, …

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