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Acupuncturist fights for recognition

Aug 11, 2011

Court bars Kim from practicing despite large following, experience The Oriental medical field is abuzz over whether to acknowledge Gudang, the pen name of Kim Nam-su, as a medical practitioner. Is the widely hailed acupuncturist who is not acknowledged by the orthodox circle a persecuted guru or a conman endangering people’s lives? While the Association of Korean Oriental Medicine vows to take...
Secretary-General Ban kicks off model U.N. conference

Aug 11, 2011

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday kicked off a U.N. conference where students from some 60 countries will discuss global warming and other pending issues. “You are an important part of the solution. The world needs your active engagement,” the 67-year-old diplomat told those attending the event in Incheon. The twice-elected secretary general offered strong words of encouragement to...
Man arrested for rape of pregnant woman

Aug 11, 2011

A man in his 30s was arrested for two sexual assaults, involving violence and theft, including one against a pregnant woman, according to Incheon Nambu Police Station. The offender, whose name has not been released, allegedly broke into a pregnant woman’s home on July 23 and threatened her with a weapon. The investigators revealed that he had kicked and punched the victim in the face, before ra...
Curtain raised on model U.N. conference

Aug 10, 2011

Students from some 60 countries around the world discussed global warming, financial crisis, war and other pending issues at the U.N. model conference that opened in Incheon on Wednesday. The annual conference, hosted by the international body and participated in by nearly 1,000 college and high school students, will be held through Sunday under the theme “Sustainable Development: Advancing Huma...
U.N. chief stresses role for scholars in global challenges

Aug 10, 2011

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon emphasized the role of the academic community in tackling global challenges and praised Korean universities for contributing to the nation’s economic development and democracy. At the U.N. Academic Impact Forum in Seoul on Wednesday, he also stressed the responsibility of academics in solving major challenges in the global society, such as climate change, pover...
Adultery law faces constitutional review

Aug 10, 2011

A district court judge has requested its ruling on the constitutionality of the penal punishment for adultery. It is the fifth time the penalty for adultery has been be brought to the Constitutional Court, which ruled it constitutional in 1990, 1993, 2001 and 2008. Clause 24 of the nation’s criminal law stipulates that criminal conversation, the legal term for the offense of adultery, carries a...
Ex-police chief gets six years for taking bribes

Aug 10, 2011

Former National Police Agency commissioner general Kang Hee-rak, was on Wednesday sentenced to six years in prison for taking bribes from Yu Sang-bong, a construction site canteen operator and lobbyist. According to the Seoul Eastern District Court, he was also given a 170 million won fine and will forfeit another 170 million won he took in bribes from Yu. The former police chief received some ...
Hanjin’s Cho ‘regrets’ strife, keeps layoff plan

Aug 10, 2011

Critics denounce news conference as stunt to evade grilling at parliament Reeling from a long strike and protest over layoffs causing social and political upheaval here, chairman of Hanjin Heavy Industry & Construction Cho Nam-ho vowed Wednesday to take full responsibility for the aftermath of the strife. In his first public appearance after about two months overseas however, he refused to with...
Securities firm employee kills himself after stock loss

Aug 10, 2011

A South Korean securities company employee jumped from an apartment building to his death in a southern city on Wednesday in an apparent suicide after a recent stock market rout triggered by the grim U.S. economic outlook, police said. The 48-year-old man surnamed Seo was found lying dead in front of the gate to a high-rise apartment building in Daegu, 302 kilometers south of Seoul, at around 7 ...
Students gather in Songdo for model U.N. conference

Aug 9, 2011

Undergraduate and graduate students from 61 countries will take part in an annual model conference hosted by the United Nations at Songdo Convensia in Incheon, starting Wednesday through Sunday. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is scheduled to give a keynote speech on Thursday, after which he will offer a special lecture to teenagers and college students at the nearby University of Incheon. S...
Officials under fire for lack of disaster readiness

Aug 9, 2011

The local and central governments have come under fire for the nation’s lack of disaster readiness made apparent by the floods that ravaged the country this July. Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon has also drawn criticism for his decision to continue with the already highly controversial plebiscite vote on free school lunches as scheduled despite the recent crisis. “As someone who should be managing flood...
Kim of Ewha Medical Center wins Hippocrates Award 2011

Aug 9, 2011

Kim Young-hoo, director of Ewha Womans University Medical Center’s Joint Replacement Center, was named the winner of the Hippocrates Award 2011 by the American Biographical Institute, the hospital said Tuesday. ABI is one of the top three biographical dictionaries. The two others are International Biographical Centre and Marquis Who’s Who. Kim is among 10 doctors who have taken the honor this ye...
Three receive Proud Korean Award

Aug 9, 2011

Winners honored for making contribution to Korean-American community Former National Assembly Speaker Lee Man-seop, Philip Kim, a professor of physics at Columbia University and Colonel Daniel Yoo of U.S. Marine Corps received the Proud Korean Award from the Korean American Leadership Foundation in Los Angeles on Aug. 7. Lee and Kim were selected for the award last month, and more recently Col....
Man found hanged in airplane toilet

Aug 9, 2011

A Korean man was found dead in an apparent suicide in an airplane lavatory on an international flight operated by an unidentified domestic air carrier, police said Tuesday. The 43-year-old man, identified only by his surname Yang, an employee of a private company, apparently hanged himself aboard the flight departing from the Chinese city of Guangzhou for Incheon International Airport on late Mo...
Woman arrested for producing fake bills for luxury shopping

Aug 9, 2011

A woman was arrested for allegedly producing fake money in order to repay debts stemming from her lavish purchases of luxury handbags and cosmetics, police said Tuesday. The 27-year-old woman, surnamed Lee, is suspected of printing out 1.7 million won (US$1,560) worth of counterfeit bills and checks and spending them in violation of the local currency counterfeit law, according to Gangnam Police...

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