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Gov't Announces Sweeping Measures To Offset Sky-high Oil Prices [Jun 08, 2008]
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The government said Sunday (Jun. 8) that it will spend
over 10 trillion won ($9.77 billion) over the next year as part of
a comprehensive policy package meant to help citizens deal with
record-breaking crude oil prices.
According to the new policy plans agreed upon during a ...
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Korean Volunteer Helps Clean Up The Amazon [Jun 08, 2008]
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By Jeong Hyeon-ji
Staff writer
Central Peru's Huanuco Province is a highland where the
world's longest river, the Amazon, originates.
Son Tae-moon, a volunteer at the Korea International Cooperation
Agency, has spent almost two years cleaning up the Amazon. When he
came to Huanuco for the ...
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Inter-Korean Textile Plant To Begin Production In Pyongyang [Jun 07, 2008]
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An inter-Korean textile plant will begin production in Pyongyang
around August, the head of the local partner of the cross-border
venture said Saturday (June 7).
Kim Jung-tae, chairman of Andong Daema Spinning Co., said 34
containers carrying weaving equipment and other machinery ...
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A Living Heritage - Porcelain Master Kim Jeong-ok [Jun 07, 2008]
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By Lee Ji-yoon
Staff writer
An old handcart full of broken ceramic pieces sits
beside a wood-burning kiln in the workshop of porcelain master Kim
Jeong-ok, who is also known by his penname "Baeksan" or White
Mountain.
While a modern gas kiln, which is designed for the mass
production of ...
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N. Korea's Dialogue With Int'l Community 'positive, ' Lee Says [Jun 06, 2008]
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South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Friday (June 6) assessed
North Korea's engagement with the international community to
denuclearize itself as a "positive" move.
"I see North Korea's cooperation with the international community
to denuclearize as positive, and see the need to have ...
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Simplify Your Life At Temple Stay [Jun 06, 2008]
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By Derek Winchester
Contributing writer
We all have hectic lives where one thing
or another adds stress to our existence. At those times, all we
want to do is return to a time when everything was simple, maybe
not easy, but simple.
Tasks where you knew what you were doing to solve the ...
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Seoul To Commemorate 53rd Memorial Day [Jun 05, 2008]
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South Korea will hold Memorial Day commemorations this week to
honor tens of thousands of people who gave their lives while
defending the country against the 1950 invasion by communist North
Korea and the Japanese colonial rule of Korea in the early 20th
century, the government said Thursday ...
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Presidential Office Launches No-tie Campaign [Jun 04, 2008]
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Male officials at Cheong Wa Dae, the presidential office, have
been instructed not to wear neckties during the three summer months
ending in August, in line with a government-wide energy-saving
campaign, officials said Wednesday (June 4).
All Cheong Wa Dae officials were recently notified of ...
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Lee Vows Not To Import U.S. Beef From Cattle Over 30 Months Old [Jun 03, 2008]
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President Lee Myung-bak said Tuesday (June 3) that the
Korean government will not allow the import of U.S. beef from
cattle aged 30 months or older in order to ease concerns over mad
cow disease.
"It is natural for the government to ban the imports of U.S.
beef from cattle 30 months old and ...
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Two Koreas' Nuclear Envoys Meet In Beijing [May 30, 2008]
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Top South and North Korean nuclear envoys had brief talks in
Beijing on Friday (May 30), showing that the two nations keep an
open dialogue channel on the nuclear issue despite their frayed
ties.
The South's Kim Sook met with his counterpart Kim Kye-gwan at
the Chinese state guesthouse ...
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Seoul To Revamp Contingent In Iraq With 300 Fresh Troops [May 27, 2008]
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Korea will this week dispatch a group of 300 troops to Iraq to
replace the same number of troops currently deployed there, Army
officials said.
The deployment, the eighth of its kind since Korea joined the
U.S.-led war on terror in 2004, will likely be the last of its kind
as Seoul is set to ...
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S. Korea To Send Copper To N.K. In Nuclear Disablement Deal [May 26, 2008]
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South Korea will send 1,000 tons of copper to North Korea this
week in return for the communist state's disabling of its nuclear
facilities under a key international deal, the Unification Ministry
said Monday (May 26).
A cargo ship carrying copper worth 8.9 billion won ($8.5
million) will ...
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'EV Boyz' Celebrate A Slice Of Foreign Life In Korea [May 25, 2008]
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Since the Canadian ?imchi Man?captured the public's interest last
year with his spoken-word version of the Korean folk song
Arirang on Youtube (user name kimchiman1000), several
other non-Koreans have achieved some level of attention by
uploading their own Korean language musical offerings, ...
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Remembering Dr. Lee Jong-wook, Veteran Health Worker [May 24, 2008]
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It has been two years since the passing of Doctor Lee
Jong-wook, then director-general of the World Health Organization
and the first Korean to head an international agency.
But the World Health Organization (WHO) where Lee spent 23 years
and the people of Korea still remember his dedication ...
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Manchester United's Star Asian Remembered At Boyhood School [May 23, 2008]
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Behind the spotlight that
surrounds Park Ji-sung, a two-time Premier League champion playing
for the acclaimed Manchester United club, hangs the shadow of a
scrawny teenage boy plodding home alone in dirty soccer gear from a
hillside vocational school.
Raised by parents selling meats and ...
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Address To The Nation By President Lee Myung-bak [May 22, 2008]
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Address to the Nation by President Lee Myung-bak
May 22, 2008
Distinguished citizens,
It has been almost three months since I was inaugurated
as President. During that period, I have been working hard to live
up to the aspirations of the entire Korean people with the idea
that, ?he economy ...
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[Photo News] Traditional Korean Hairstyles [May 22, 2008]
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Visitors take pictures of female mannequins with hairstyles
that were popular in Korea during the 17th-18th centuries at a
Korean folk village in Seoul on Thursday (May 22).
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[Photo News] Harvesting Green Tea Leaves [May 21, 2008]
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Villagers pick green tea leaves at a field in Hadong,
Gyeongsangnam-do (South Gyeongsang Province) on
Wednesday (May 21). Hadong is famous for green tea, and a green tea
festival is underway there.
Those interested in Hadong Tea Festival can go to ...
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Int'l Meeting Of Waterside Cities Opens In Busan [May 21, 2008]
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The triennial meeting of an association of the world's waterside
cities opened Wednesday (May 21) in Busan, Korea's southern port
city, organizers said.
The opening ceremony for three-day International Conference of
Aquapolises (ICAP) took place Wednesday at Nurimaru ...
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English Booklet On Dokdo To Be Distributed Worldwide [May 21, 2008]
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An English report that details Dokdo as legitimately
Korean territory will be distributed worldwide to Korean studies
scholars by the latter half of this year. Dokdo is an island
located off the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula.
According to the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritimes ...
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