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Korean Air heiress denies charges in ‘nut rage’ trial
Korean Air heiress denies charges in ‘nut rage’ trial

Korean Air heiress Cho Hyun-ah on Monday stood in her first trial hearing on allegations that she had changed flight plans and interfered with a government …

Key North Korean defector ‘misled’ him on life story

A prominent North Korean defector who fled a prison camp and became the face of international efforts to hold the country accountable for widespread human …

S. Korea’s workplace deaths sink 16.6 pct in 2014

The number of work-related deaths in South Korea dipped nearly 17 percent in 2014 from a year earlier due largely to government efforts to tighten control on …

19 tln won of taxpayers’ money goes to military pension for past 42 yrs

A total of 19 trillion won (US$17.6 billion) of taxpayers’ money has been channeled into South Korea’s military pension fund for the past 42 years …

Park calls for creating conditions for talks with N. Korea

South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Monday called on officials to create conditions to allow North Korea to come forward for talks in the latest …

S. Korean police find IS images on missing teen’s computer
S. Korean police find IS images on missing teen’s computer

A South Korean teenager who went missing in Turkey near the Syrian border had images of what appeared to be Islamic State militants on his home computer, …

Opposition chief denounces U.S. policy on N. Korea

By Jeong Hunny South Korea’s main opposition party leader on Monday criticized the U.S. dismissal of a recent North Korean proposal to suspend its nuclear …

Univ. students trust strangers more than politicians, corporations: survey

South Korean university students find strangers to be more trustworthy than local politicians and companies, a survey showed Monday, demonstrating the high …

S. Korea to redouble efforts to prep for unification

South Korea plans to ramp up efforts to prepare for unification and seek dialogue with North Korea on a variety of cooperative projects this year, the …

Seoul, Tokyo hold fresh talks on wartime sex slavery

South Korea and Japan held talks on Tokyo’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II on Monday, one of the most knotty issues for bilateral …

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