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East Asia
USFK offers apology for handcuffing of Koreans Goto robibar korear gyeonggi prodesher pyeongtaek a gari rakhake kendro tin jon sadharon koreabashi ke American soinno gothi r greptar korar ghotonaye US Korea Force khoma prarthona koreche. soinno ghatir 500 meter-r modhye gari rakhle soinnora ta baron korte parleo kauke greptar korar adhikar tader nei.tobuo goto robibar yang namok…
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Politics
USFK offers apology for handcuffing of Koreans
The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) apologized Sunday for the handcuffing of three Korean civilians by American troops during a dispute over parking outside a U.S. Air Force base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province. USFK Deputy Ccommander Lt. Gen. Jan-Marc Jouas, said in a news conference, “I have ordered a full investigation…
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Korean-Chinese being targeted for crackdown
130 rounded up in June alone A major crackdown is under way targeting Korean-Chinese here their advocates said Sunday. This could spook them into hiding and lead to a spike in illegal immigrants. Since January, the Ministry of Justice has detained about 1,500 Korean-Chinese laborers who used forged identities to…
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People
Eximbank CEO calls lenders ‘domesticated’
The head of one of the nation’s state-run lenders said that Korean banks should revamp their business models so as to better serve retail customers and play a bigger role in helping Korean companies overseas. He stressed that leading domestic lenders, such as KB Kookmin, Shinhan, Woori and Hana, should…
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Immigration process for investors to be shortened
More foreign investors are expected to enjoy a shortened immigration process from Monday, as the financial authorities in cooperation with the justice ministry plan to expand the scope of beneficiaries of the finance investor express card system. Financial Hub Korea (Fn Hub Korea) said they have revised the system to…
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Galaxy S3 LTE phones to hit shelves Monday
The long-term evolution (LTE) model of Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S3 will be available nationwide from Monday. The Suwon-based firm announced Friday its highest quarterly operating profit as of yet of 6.7 trillion won thanks to global sales of the handsets. The three domestic mobile carriers _ SK Telecom, KT and…
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IT-Science
Kakao Story tops Facebook
Kakao Story has topped Facebook to dominate the mobile social network service (SNS) market in Korea only three months after its launch. According to a survey of 13.95 million smartphone users using Google’s Android Operating System (OS) released Thursday by market research agency Nielsen KoreanClick, Kakao Talks’ SNS held 49.1…
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Business
Chaebol bosses’ stock wealth rising
Leading chaebol bosses are combining to make more in the stock market than the gross domestic product (GDP) of Bahrain, according to figures from a local think tank. The report by the Korea CXO Institute shows that the combined value of stocks held by the corporate owners of the country’s…
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Society
A book detailing what happened under Khmer Rouge published in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH — A Cambodian journalist on Thursday launches his new book on the Khmer Rouge aiming to provide the Khmer Rouge Tribunal extra information on the serious child rights violation during the Democratic Kampuchea rule in 1975-79 when some 2 million people died of murder, torture, starvation, sickness, and…
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Society
Post-1990s generation marches into Chinese society
BEIJING, July 5 (Xinhua) — Chinese adults have a wide variety of opinions on the “jiulinghou,” or “post-1990s” generation, finding it difficult to understand the unintelligible slang, bizarre hairstyles and erratic behavior of children born after that year. But with the first group of post-1990s kids graduating from Chinese universities…
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