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Seoul to recall authority to punish taxis that refuse passengers
The Seoul Metropolitan Government is taking further steps to try and prevent taxis from refusing customers. The city government has decided to take control over the authority to punish taxi drivers, which had previously been under the jurisdiction of district authorities. It will also punish taxi drivers who receiv...
2018-09-10 09:58:51 KST -
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S. Korean intelligence chief Suh Hoon to brief Japan PM on N. Korea visit
The head of South Korea's National Intelligence Agency is due to meet on Monday with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo to brief him on his recent visit to North Korea. It's expected Suh Hoon will convey Kim Jong-un's reported willingness to denuclearize and ask for Japan's support i...
2018-09-10 08:28:02 KST -
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First MERS patient in 3 years quarantined as 22 people confirmed to have had close contact with man
Let's begin with South Korea's first confirmed case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, in three years. A 61-year-old man was quarantined over the weekend after testing positive for the deadly virus, which killed almost 40 people in the country in 2015. The Korea Centers for Disease Control an...
2018-09-10 07:13:35 KST -
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After MERS is detected, S. Korean PM says better to overreact than respond late
After a 61-year-old man tested positive for MERS on Saturday upon returning to Seoul from Kuwait, Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon presided over an emergency inter-ministerial meeting on Sunday at the Seoul Government Complex. (KOREAN - ) "In 2015, we learned that it's better to overreact to an outbr...
2018-09-10 07:12:35 KST -
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S. Korean official briefed China on his recent visit to N. Korea
South Korea's top national security official returned from Beijing on Sunday after meeting with a top Chinese official to discuss his recent visit to North Korea. At a press briefing upon his arrival back in Seoul, National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong said he met with Yang Jiechi , a top official at China's C...
2018-09-09 10:31:37 KST -
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S. Korea sees first MERS diagnosis in three years
A 61-year-old South Korean man tested positive on Friday for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, after returning to Seoul from Kuwait via the UAE on a business trip that lasted about three weeks. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday the patient, identified only as a Seoul residen...
2018-09-09 09:05:43 KST -
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Blue House confirms slogan for 2018 Inter-Korean Summit Pyeongyang
"Peace, a New Future" That's the slogan for the 2018 Inter-Korean Summit Pyeongyang. (KOREAN) "The summit, which will be the first held in Pyeongyang in 11 years, is aimed at carrying out the Panmunjom Declaration, in which President Moon pledged to visit Pyeongyang in the fall. The slogan conveys the people's ...
2018-09-08 08:58:50 KST -
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S. Korea to expand cooperation in peacekeeping operations with Vietnam
Seoul is expanding cooperation with Hanoi in peace-keeping operations. The defense ministry announced today, as Vietnam plans to deploy an engineering unit to South Sudan next year, the country asked the South Korean government to share their know-how, gained through the successful deployment of the Hanbit Unit to S...
2018-09-07 19:26:18 KST -
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Main press center for Pyeongyang Summit to be established in Dongdaemun Design Plaza
Staying with the hotly anticipated summit. The main press center will be set up at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul. Because a joint press pool will be formed to cover the event in Pyeongyang, the top office confirmed that the center will serve up to a thousand journalists with facilities to help them monitor t...
2018-09-07 18:18:22 KST -
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President Moon reveals plan to make 'irretraceable progress' on denuclearization
Seoul's top office unveiled its plan to speed up the process of denuclearization. In an interview with Indonesian newspaper Kompas on Friday, South Korean President Moon Jae-in emphasized the implementation of what was agreed at the Panmunjom and Singapore summits, and that the two leaders' goal is to produce *irrev...
2018-09-07 18:01:32 KST -
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Gov't to send special envoys to China, Japan to explain results of N. Korea visit
The South Korean envoys who recently went to North Korea and met with Kim Jong-un will be sent to China and Japan this week and next to explain the results of their meeting. The presidential office of Cheong Wa Dae said Friday that it'll send the Director of the National Security Office, Chung Eui-yong , to Beijing t...
2018-09-07 15:40:01 KST -
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One fourth of people change their opinions from reading online news comments
One in four people admit to having changed their opinion of an online news story after reading user comments. That's according to the result of Yonsei University’s Barun ICT Research Center's research on the effect of online comment manipulation. Conducted on about 900 adults in their 20s to 50s, the team partial...
2018-09-07 14:24:54 KST
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