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  North Korea

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  North Korea

  Moon calls for UN role in North Korea crisis

  In debut UN speech, president reiterates dual approach toward Pyongyang of pressure and dialogue

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  North Korea

  Seoul OKs $8m aid to North Korea

  The South Korean government on Thursday announced it will proceed with the plan to send $8 million in humanitarian aid via UN agencies amid the international community’s efforts to maximize economic pressure on North Korea.This is set to mark the Moon Jae-in administration’s first state-backed aid to the reclusive state.  (Yonhap)The Unification Ministry here has approved the aid plan, reconfirming the current administration’s basic stance that humanitarian assistance should continue regardless

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  Social affairs

  W17m booze tab: Itaewon bars face probe over foreign tourist ripoff

  A promise of a fun night out at a bar in Itaewon left an American tourist with a booze tab totaling 17 million won ($15,000).Seoul police said on Thursday owners and employees at three bars in Itaewon, Yongsan-gu, have been indicted without detention for overcharging foreign tourists.One of the indicted bar owners, surnamed Lee, allegedly charged an American tourist 17 million won for drinks he had during his one hour and 40 minutes stay at the bar.An American tourist was charged 17 million won

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  Social affairs

  Subway Line No. 2 may get 24-hour service: official

  Seoul Metro is considering operating its subway line No. 2 around the clock. Kim Tae-ho, managing director of Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation said it will run Subway Line No. 2 all night every Friday and Saturday during a test period.  (Yonhap)Subway Line No. 2 is the most used line in Seoul and connects the city’s key areas. There has been an increasing demand for late night service.By Im Eun-byel (silverstar@heraldcorp.com)

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  North Korea

  US envoy defends Trump's 'Rocket Man' remark

  US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Wednesday defended President Donald Trump's reference to the North Korean leader as "Rocket Man," saying other world leaders have started to use the term.In his first address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump said, "Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime," referring to Kim Jong-un's pursuit of nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles.It was the second time the American president used the label. US President Donald

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  9 in 10 Koreans say anti-corruption law effective

  Nearly a year after the implementation of an anti-corruption law, 9 in 10 Koreans said the law was effective, a recent survey showed, despite an ongoing debate on whether to raise price ceilings, as the law bans those subject to it from receiving meals and gifts exceeding designated prices.A flower shop owner looks at the empty store. YonhapAccording to a survey conducted last month by professor Lim Dong-kyun from University of Seoul, 89.5 percent of some 1,202 respondents said that the new law

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  Prosecutors raid financial watchdog for alleged illicit hiring

  Prosecutors raided South Korea's financial watchdog on Friday over alleged unfair recruitment of some graduate staff with ties to influential figures including politicians and bankers.Investigators from the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office searched the headquarters of the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) in Seoul's Yeouido district and seized documents, according to the prosecution. (Yonhap)The Board of Audit and Inspection has raised suspicions through its own probe that a top FSS

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  North Korea

  Full text of Kim Jong-un's response to Trump

  In a rare if not unprecedented move, North Korea released a statement directly from its leader in response to President Donald Trump's criticism in his speech to the United Nations earlier this week. The response, transmitted by North Korea's state news agency KCNA, reads as follows:___Respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, released a statement on Thursday. (KCNA-Yonhap)The full text of the statement reads:The speech made by the US president i

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  Soccer

  Korean pro footballers association officially set for operation

  South Korea's professional football players' association will officially begin operating after earning the government's approval to become a legal entity, officials here said Friday.FIFPro Korea said it is now officially an incorporated association following the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's authorization, which allows the organization to register assets and manage its operations systemically."As an organization that represents South Korea's pro footballers, we will work closely with

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  North Korea

  N. Korea designated as food-shortage nation again

  The Food and Agriculture Organization has listed North Korea as one of 37 food-shortage nations in need of external assistance, a US broadcaster reported Friday. North Korea's crop yields decreased due to severe droughts between April and June, and a shortage of water supplies for irrigation, the FAO's third-quarter report on the global food situation was quoted as saying by Voice of America. The report was released the previous day. North Korea (Yonhap)The North's food shortage amounts to 458,0

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  Television

  Actor Jang Keun-suk’s fan club to donate exhibit proceeds to charity

  Actor Jang Keun-suk’s fan club will donate the proceeds of its photo exhibition to charity to mark the star’s birthday, the actor’s PR agency said Friday.Y Tree Co. said the club Cri J earned some 75 million won ($66,000) from the photo event held in Seoul earlier this month and will donate all of the proceeds to cover medical costs for sick children and buy food for abandoned dogs. Jang Keun-suk (Yonhap)The fan club annually holds an exhibition with photos of the actor and has been using the pr

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  Is Laboum’s Yulhee dating F.T. Island’s Choi Min-hwan?

  Girl group Laboum member Yulhee was caught up in a dating rumor on Friday involving F.T. Island drummer Choi Min-hwan.The rumors were fueled by a photo posted on her Facebook page late Thursday, which showed a photo of her with a man fans suspect is Choi. It was accompanied by the message, “10 minutes before we say good-bye. I was almost in tears up because I didn’t want to let him go. But it helps to see a photo, at least.”Yulhee(Instagram)Choi Min-hwan (FNC Entertainment)The photo was taken do

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  Culture

  7 out of 10 Korean stars putting off military duties

  Serving in the military is a duty that falls upon every able-bodied Korean male, but 73.9 percent of entertainers here have delayed enlistment, according to a local lawmaker.Of the 794 male entertainers due for enlistment, 587 have yet to enlist, according to a statement released by Rep. Kim Hack-yong of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party Thursday.The percentage of those putting off enlistment among entertainers was far higher than those in other fields of work. The figure was 43.3 percent

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  Politics

  First lady serves homemade dish to Korean-American elders

  First lady Kim Jung-sook treated Korean-American elders to lunch with homemade dishes during her visit to New York with President Moon Jae-in Wednesday. First lady kim Jung-sook visits the Korean American Senior Center of Flushing (Yonhap)According to the local media reports, Kim visited the Korean American Senior Center of Flushing, the senior center run by the Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York, and set the table for the first-generation immigrants. For the event, Kim made kimc

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  Mobile & Internet

  UberShare makes global debut in Korea

  Sharing economy pioneer Uber Technologies on Sept. 21 announced the global debut of its carpooling service UberShare in Seoul. The service allows users to share rides only during specific hours on weekdays for work, unlike its regular carpooling service UberPool that is available in other countries. This is in accordance with local transport laws, which allow use of private vehicles for commercial purposes only during peak hours to ease traffic congestion. “We are very excited to

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  Mobile & Internet

  [Q&A] Kakao CEO vows to push AI, content biz

  Although Kakao rules the Korean market with its immensely popular messenger app KakaoTalk, penetrating the global markets has remained a far-fetched dream.The firm’s past efforts to increase its footing in Japan and Indonesia came to a naught due mainly to bigger competitors like Google, Facebook and Naver.Kakao CEO Rim Ji-hoon, who took office in October 2015, said in a media interview on Sept. 20 that the mobile messenger and web portal operator will try to put more focus on wha

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  F.T. Island to hold 10th anniversary event

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  Kakao seeks to go global with content distribution business: CEO

  On home turf in Korea, Kakao seeks to become AI platform partner that “connects everything”

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  Industry

  Suprema seeks opportunity in mobile fingerprint scanner

  These days, the key is to go mobile, meaning integrating technologies and solutions onto mobile devices often become the make or break factor in the fast-changing industries. The same goes for a Korean biometric tech firm, Suprema, which is the nation’s largest biometric access solution provider by sales specializing in fingerprint and facial recognition readers for home and businesses. Moving to capitalize on the growth potential of mobile biometrics by expanding its business in fingerprint sca

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  Finance

  Hacker-turned-CEO brings digital currency offline

  The Korea Herald is publishing a series of interviews on promising startups in the fintech industry. This is the first installment. -- Ed. While cryptocurrency exchanges among those in their 40s and 50s deal with larger volumes, the older generation more often than not face inconveniences in trading their digital currencies.“Some traders often found themselves in trouble,” Kevin Cha, founder and chief executive of digital currency exchange Coinone, told The Korea Herald in an interview. The inte

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  Cosmos in full bloom

  Visitors take in the view of a cosmos field in Guri, Gyeonggi Province, on Tuesday prior to the local festival’s opening. A yearly celebration of the season’s blooms, “Guri Cosmos Festival 2017” will take place for a three-day run from Friday.By Park Hyun-koo (phko@heraldcorp.com)

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  Ever-expanding universe of ramen

  Barley, maize noodles and self-cookers lead Korean ramen trend

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  Korean colleges alert about ‘spy cam’ on campus

  The recent rise in the number of “spy cam” cases on campus is pushing colleges to come up with measures to protect students and make sure their policies keep up with the reality of campus life.According to The Herald Business on Thursday, a growing number of universities, including top-rated Seoul National University, are grappling with the reports of spy cams on campus.(Yonhap)At College of Natural Sciences building in Seoul National University last month, a male student was reportedly caught i

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  Social affairs

  3 in 10 divorces happen after 20 years of marriage

  Three out of 10 divorced couples in South Korea last year were married for at least 20 years, setting a new record in “gray divorces,” a judicial yearbook showed Wednesday. According to 2017 Judicial Yearbook released by the Supreme Court, 32,594 couples got a divorce after living together for more than 20 years, accounting for 30.4 percent of all the divorces last year. The proportion of divorces accounted for by couples who have lived together for more than 20 years has been gradually increasi

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  Technology

  LG takes pride in camera of V30 smartphone

  Industry’s first F1.6 glass-added dual camera to empower V30

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  Automode

  Hyundai Motor Genesis G70 sees brisk sales start

  Hyundai Motor has received a total of 2,100 orders for its newly launched Genesis G70 sports sedan in the first day of sales on Wednesday, the company said Thursday.This is around 42 percent of this year’s sales target of 5,000 units, and threefold the average monthly sales of other European rivals last year in premium vehicle market. Hyundai Motor's Genesis G70 (Hyundai Motor)Following the launch, Hyundai Motor aims to sell 15,000 units next year here in Korea.Hyundai Motor as well plans to lau

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  In search of youth

  Anti-aging care growing popular among Koreans, old and young