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East Asia
‘Seowon of Korea’ designated UNESCO World Heritage Site
A selection of nine South Korean Neo-Confucian academies that promoted learning, veneration of scholars and interaction with the environment, have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. “This site, located in central and southern parts of the Republic of Korea, comprises nine seowon, representing a type of Neo-Confucian academy…
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East Asia
Korean cultural festival to open in France next week
A Korean cultural festival will be held in Rouen, northern France, next week, featuring traditional music, art and street parades, the Korean Cultural Center in France said Friday. The 6th annual Korea Live will run from Monday to Friday in the capital city of Normandy. It is organized by the…
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East Asia
Korean astronomers discover asteroid that could potentially hit Earth
South Korean astronomers have discovered an asteroid that could potentially collide with Earth, although the odds are extremely low, marking the first finding of a hazardous asteroid by the country’s scientists, a state-run science institute said Tuesday. The potentially hazardous astroid (PHA), provisionally labeled 2018 PP29, earlier this month by…
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East Asia
South Korea: over 700 cases of workplace sexual harassment reported in 1 year
Workplace sexual harassment is still prevalent in Korea despite measures to increase awareness of sexual crimes and the #MeToo movement, with insufficient measures to properly discipline the offenders, according to recent government data. The Ministry of Employment and Labor said Thursday it had received 717 reports of sexual harassment at workplaces…
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Politics
Trans-peninsula DMZ hiking trail to open in 2022
The government said Tuesday it will create a coast-to-coast hiking trail along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates South and North Korea by 2022. The newly envisioned route, tentatively named East-West Crossing Route of DMZ Peace Trail, will be 501 kilometers in length and pass through 10 local autonomous districts…
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East Asia
New language model for advanced Korean-based AI service developed
A new Korean language model that can advance artificial intelligence (AI) services and searches have been developed for a wide range of applications, a state-run electronics institute said Tuesday. The system has an average 4.5 percent better processing and understanding capability compared with Google Inc.’s widely used Bidirectional Encoder Representations…
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East Asia
7 South Koreans killed, 19 missing in Hungary cruise sinking: foreign ministry
Seven South Koreans were killed and 19 others went missing after a tourist boat sank in Hungary’s Danube River, the foreign ministry here said Thursday. A total of 33 Koreans and two Hungarian crew members were aboard the cruise when it collided with another vessel and sank in the river…
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East Asia
N. Korea closely monitoring Seoul’s DMZ demining, excavation work
North Korea built a small observation post inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to closely monitor the demining and war remains excavation work under way south of the border, officers said Wednesday. Since April, the South Korean military has been carrying out the project to remove land mines and recover war…
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S. Korea, U.N. aid agencies discuss how to spend Seoul’s promised donation for N. Korea
South Korea has launched discussions with international aid agencies on how to spend its recently promised donation aimed at helping North Korean people in need, a unification ministry official said Thursday. Last week, Seoul pledged to donate US$8 million to the World Food Programme and UNICEF to support their projects…
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East Asia
Unification minister to visit inter-Korean liaison office this week
Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul will visit the inter-Korean liaison office in North Korea’s border town of Kaesong this week in his first trip to the North since taking office last month, a ministry official said Tuesday. Kim plans to cross the border via the western land route on Wednesday morning…
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