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    South Korea to face Great Britain in Cardiff

    South Korea will face a tough challenge against the host country Great Britain in the men’s football quarterfinal at the Millennium Stadium which will be filled with 70,000 home fans at 3:30 a.m. Sunday (KST). “We won’t back down against Team GB,” manager Hong Myung-bo said Friday. “In football, anything…

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    Start of Sino-Japanese War

    As the 19th century closed, Joseon (1392-1910) increasingly found itself in the center of intrigue and conflict — some of it of its own making. In the summer of 1894, insurrection and unrest ruled the Korean countryside — especially in the southern provinces. The government, unable to put the unrest…

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    [Nigeria Report] Cause of Nodding Syndrome has yet to be known

    Nodding disease or nodding syndrome is a recent, little-known disease which emerged in Sudan in the 1960s. It is a fatal, mentally and physically, disabling disease that only affects children, typically between the ages of 5 and 15. It is currently restricted to small regions in South Sudan, Tanzania, and…

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    Swiss National Day celebrated in Seoul

    A reception to celebrate the Swiss National Day and 50 years of diplomatic relations between Korea and Switzerland was held Wednesday (Aug. 1) at the Grand Hilton Seoul. It was also a gathering for Amb. Thomas Kupfer of Switzerland to bid farewell to his diplomatic colleagues in Seoul as well as Korean…

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  • North Korean citizens see wide Olympic coverage

    North Korea is providing its citizens with wide coverage of the London Olympics, officials said Thursday, as its athletes continue to attribute success to their new leader. According to one North Korean official, the country’s impressive showing _ five medals so far including four golds _ has caused a sensation…

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  • Koreans found negative in accepting multiculturalism

    General people’s awareness about multiculturalism appeared to be neither positive or negative. Ahn Sang-oo, researcher of the Korea Women’s Development Institute, said Saturday (July 25) that the average culture receptivity index among Korean people was found to be 51 points (full marks: 100 points) in a survey conducted on some 2,500 people…

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    Contraception still in shadows

    A couple of weeks ago, Park So-yoen, a 27-year-old department store sales manager, visited Jeju Island for a summer holiday, together with her boyfriend. After a fantastic day sightseeing around the beautiful resort island, the couple ― as many others do ― went to bed together that night. “Of course…

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  • Marriage brokers for overseas brides under greater scrutiny

    The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said Wednesday it will implement stricter rules on interracial marriages brokered by matchmaking firms, mandating the companies to provide detailed personal information about Koreans looking for foreign spouses. The measure comes amid concerns that many brokers have provided foreign women seeking to marry…

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    Macquarie deal up for revision

    The contract between Seoul City and investors in the capital’s subway line 9, including Macquarie Korea Infrastructure Fund (MKIF), is being reexamined and should be amended, if found to contain unfair and improper elements, Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon said, Monday. “It appears that investors including Macquarie have failed to keep…

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  • Police investigate firms after snakes found in western Seoul

    Police said Wednesday that they plan to investigate companies making products advertized as stamina food containing snake-based ingredients, in an effort to find where a number of snakes caught and sighted in Sinwol-dong, western Seoul, came from. Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said Wednesday that investigators will enter businesses located in…

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