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The Upcoming General Election in South Korea The South Korean 22nd general election will be held on April 10, 2024. Thus, each political party is busy formulating election strategies. The ruling People Power Party (PPP) and the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) are gearing up for a fie
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Kim Su-yeon
2024.03.14 09:20
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The First U.S. President in CourtOn April 4, 2023, former President Donald Trump appeared in a Manhattan court on 34 charges related to sexual misconduct allegations. He is the first U.S. president to appear in court. He replied “not guilty” for all 34 charges, but prosecutors believe Trump manipula
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Cho Eun
2023.05.15 15:27
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Netflix’s Original Series of the Korean drama “Squid Game” became the first non-English drama to win an Emmy Award, the most prestigious in the American broadcasting industry. At the 74th Emmy Awards held on September 12, 2022, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, U.S., Director Hwang Dong-hyuk
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Yang Yu-min
2022.10.12 14:32
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Queen Elizabeth II, the spiritual leader and the head of the United Kingdom, passed away on September 8, 2022, at the age of 96. Buckingham Palace announced that the Queen passed away peacefully at Balmoral Castle in Scotland this afternoon on September 8, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II held her throne fo
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Yang Yu-min
2022.10.12 14:28
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On August 1, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released a map showing the distribution of the highest temperature in July in the Western Hemisphere. Looking at the image, the earth is losing its blue color and getting hotter. NASA combined satellite observation figures with a
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Yang Yu-min
2022.09.15 16:21
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Since August 8, the central districts of South Korea including the metropolitan area have been subjected to “historic” torrential rain. The daily precipitation record for August 8 of the Automatic Weather System (AWS) installed at the Seoul Building of Korea Meteorological Administration in Shindaeb
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Yang Yu-min
2022.09.15 16:21
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Applications for double majors begins at the end of November. HUFS is implementing a double major system to give an opportunity for students to gain expertise in fields other than their main major. Application for double majors is for first-year students in principle and can be made on the school we
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Yoo Hwa-in
2021.11.30 21:53
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Lost near the Han RiverOn April 25, a 21-year-old college student, Son Jung-min, was lost near the Han River, to be found dead five days later, on April 30. However, controversy arises regarding how the student died, and whether it was a case of murder by a friend. Moon entering his last year in off
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Jang Soo-hyun
2021.06.03 13:58
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LG Will No Longer Manufacture Phones On April 5th, LG Electronics announced they would close their mobile communication (MC) division by July 31. The company plans to stop the sale of mobile phones after selling them for 26 years. The decision was made due to the highly competitive mobile market as
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Jang Soo-hyun
2021.05.12 11:19
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LH’s Breach of TrustKorea Land & Housing Corporation (LH), responsible for Korea’s public housing and development projects, is embroiled in a massive scandal involving employees purchasing land using insider information. Currently, more than 20 employees are under investigation for purchasing land i
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Jang Soo-hyun
2021.04.09 23:07
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Korea’s Worst Unemployment Since 1998Amid the pandemic, Korea has recorded the largest job loss since the 1997-8 Asian financial crisis. As of Jan. 2021, the average unemployment rate was 5.7 percent a record high, summing up to 1.57 million. Taking a little look closer, youth unemployment – those a
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Jang Soo-hyun
2021.03.08 00:29
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Fire Ravages 33-story Building On Oct. 8, a 33-story high-rise apartment in Ulsan caught fire, forcing hundreds to evacuate. 93 residents were treated for abrasion and smoke inhalation, and 77 residents were rescued from the evacuation floor of the building. Thanks to the quick evacuation by residen
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Park Chang-hwan
2020.11.16 02:54
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Comfort Women Activist Under FireYoon Mee-hyang, former chair of a comfort women advocacy group and a newlyelected lawmaker for South Korea’s Together Citizen’s Party, faced accusations that she inappropriately used public donations that were intended to support elderly comfort women victims, for he
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Kwak Hyun-jeong
2020.06.07 16:49
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Escapist Fantasy from the Drudgery of Real LifeSequestered at home on lockdown, for an unknown, possibly interminable duration, the debut of Nintendo’s latest instilment, Animal Crossing: New Horizons on March 20, has been flying off the shelves. Physical copies in Japan alone have already eclipsed
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Kwak Hyun-jeong
2020.05.04 20:46
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The Parliamentary Passage of the Anti-Tada BillOn March 6, the revision bill aimed at banning Tada, the rental van-hailing service launched in late 2018, has been passed into law by the National Assembly. Tada has been renting out 11-seat rental Kia Carnival vehicles with outsourced drivers and has
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Kwak Hyun-jeong
2020.04.02 19:03
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#I Am Not a Virus, I Am a HumanThe outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic has shown the potential to violate human rights. French national newspaper Le Courier Picard used incendiary headlines such as “Alerte jaune” (Yellow alert) and “Le peril jaune?” (Yellow peril?), both paired with a photograph of
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Kwak Hyun-jeong
2020.03.07 00:01
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“How Come When It’s Us, It’s an Abortion, and When It’s a Chicken, It’s an Omelet?” ~George Carlin The Constitutional Court overturned Korea’s decades-old ban on abortion on April 11, which had stated that it was unconstitutional to bar women from terminating a pregnancy as it violates women’s right
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By Moon Chae-un
2019.05.15 15:18
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The Government Congratulates BTSCheongwadae, the Korean presidential residence, and Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon congratulated BTS, a K-pop boy band, for taking the top spot on the Billboard 200 for the second time. The Blue House tweeted on their official account to celebrate BTS’s ranking. The prime
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By Jeon Nu-ri
2018.10.02 20:00
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Crazy Heat WaveIn 2018, Seoul experienced one of its hottest days. The record of 1994, which is remembered as the “year of the worst heat wave,” is expected to be broken by 2018’s summer with the highest temperature exceeding 35 C for a long time. The crops burned in the heat and the resulting price
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By Jeon Nu-ri Editor-in-Chief
2018.09.03 17:37
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Nuclear Disarmament at DeadlockNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un threatened to reconsider the upcoming Washington-Pyongyang summit, citing the South Korea-U.S. joint air force exercises and unyielding pressure to drop all nuclear weapons by U.S. President Donald Trump.The Hot Public Turned ColdA much
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By Lee Sei-yon
2018.06.14 19:58