• Society

    Turkey celebrates anniversary of “Conquest of Istanbul”

    Light and water show Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbas comes to ceremony area 559th anniversary of the “Conquest of Istanbul” was celebrated across Turkish biggest city of Istanbul with colorful organizations (May 30). Celebrations main address was Halic (“Golden Horn”) this year. Peoples who joined the celebrations lived magnificent in the…

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  • NK calls itself ‘nuclear-armed state’ in revised constitution

    North Korea calls itself a “nuclear-armed state” in its recently revised constitution, according to its full text confirmed on Wednesday in the North’s “Naenara” web site. Following December’s death of leader Kim Jong-il, the North has revised its constitution to add three new sentences and one of them contains the…

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  • Society

    2nd ‘Comfort women’ ad placed in NYT

    Singer Kim Jang-hoon and freelance Korean publicist Seo Kyoung-duk placed a full-page ad promoting awareness of “comfort women” in Tuesday’s edition of the New York Times. The ad was the second of its kind following one published in March. There were no pictures or images of the comfort women themselves.…

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  • Society

    Chinese VP asks Bill Gates to have close cooperation with China

    Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping met Wednesday (May 30) with Bill Gates, chairman of the Microsoft Corporation where Jinping called for closer cooperation between China and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A statement from the Chinese government observed Jinping and Gates had discussed closer cooperation between China and the Bill & Melinda Gates…

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  • Society

    Density of radioactive remains alarming in Fukushima

    The radioactive detector, at right, set up at the flowerbed to measure radioactive density in the Fukushima station shows 6.36 μSv(micro mili siverts) at 9 a.m. Wednesday (May 30) while another detector, at left, installed in eastern Seoul displays 0.17 at the same time. The density of radioactivity in Fukushima…

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  • Indonesia boosts sanitation facilities

    JAKARTA, May 29 (Xinhua) — The Indonesian Public Work Ministry has started projects of building sanitation infrastructure in some parts of the country as an effort to boost the level of sanitation in Indonesia, senior official of the ministry said here on Tuesday. The projects included the waste water processing…

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  • Society

    Buddhist leader vows to behave

    The country’s Buddhist leader expressed deep regret Monday over the gambling scandal that hit the largest Jogye Order. In a speech commemorating the anniversary of Buddha’s birth, Ven. Jaseung, head of the order, said the scandal has provided a serious test to Korean Buddhism. “I’m here with a heavy heart…

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  • Society

    ‘Attachment parenting’… umm

    Jane Han, The Korea Times’ New York correspondent, writes her column Jane’s Americanology in order to fill the gap between cultures of the two countries. ― ED. American moms prize independence and self-sufficiency when raising their kids ― or so we thought, until Time magazine’s latest provocative cover of a…

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  • Society

    Why do US colleges reject Korean applicants?

    New York University American colleges and universities mailed out their admissions decisions in the past weeks, leaving many competitive and qualified Korean students puzzling over why they were rejected. The truth is, in the eyes of admissions officers, students from Korea look as if they came off an assembly line.…

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  • Politics

    NK stays mum on UK refugee policy: envoy

    North Korean refugees and their human rights is a touchy issue which often provokes a stormy reaction from the reclusive Stalinist state whenever South Koreans address it. Yet, according to Ambassador Scott Wightman, the North’s regime has yet to complain about the political refugee policy of the United Kingdom, a…

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