More and more young people who are trying to lose weight look for a “diet mate,” with whom they can check the progress of their regime and encourage each other along the way.
They exchange photos of the food they eat, their weight and exercise.
One 27-year-old office worker said, “When I go to a res… …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
[Economy] : South Korea’s three major shipbuilders are suffering from falling demand amid a prolonged global …[more…] …read more
Source:: KBS World Radio
[Economy] : South Korea’s Finance Minister Yoo Il-ho says that it is necessary to resume a currency swap deal with the United States.
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[Domestic] : The first test of the nation’s 58th state bar exam took place at eleven test sites nationwide Saturday morning.[more…] …read more
Source:: KBS World Radio
[International] : The commander of U.S. Forces Korea has warned that a conflict with North Korea could …[more…] …read more
Source:: KBS World Radio
Football’s world governing body FIFA has elected a new president after its former leader, Sepp Blatter, was forced to step down last year after being charged with corruption. New president Gianni Infantino faces a huge task in trying to clean up the body. Infantino won with a majority in the s… …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
Sul Soo-jin, actress and runner-up for Miss Korea in 1996, has been working for a foundation to support patients with burn injuries since 2011. The foundation provides financial support along with mentoring programs for the patients.
Sul spent many sleepless nights before she decided to accept the o… …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
[Domestic] : Recent tallies show that close to 100-thousand South Koreans receive at least one million won, or about 810 U.S. dollars, per month from the country’s National Pension Service(NPS).
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[Economy] : South Korea’s short-term external debt dropped in 2015 compared to a year earlier.
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Low cost carriers are trying to boost their profitability by offering optional extras like meals and priority baggage handling. Jeju Air said Wednesday that inflight food and beverages generated W223 million in sales last year, almost doubling from 2014 (US$1=W1,234). Among the options, pot noodles,… …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
[Politics] : Opposition lawmakers are continuing a filibuster that began on Tuesday night to stall voting on an …[more…] …read more
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Facebook has placed orders for 8,000 units of Samsung Electronics’ virtual reality headset Gear VR. The social media company is aggressively investing in virtual reality technology and hopes to exploit the market in earnest.
Facebook acquired 3,000 Gear VRs for its developers and the remainder for … …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
[International] : U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will attempt to iron out details of fresh UN sanctions on North Korea for its nuclear weapons test last month.[more…] …read more
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Google has been named the best foreign employer in Korea among young prospective workers.The tech giant received over 70 percent of the votes in a poll of 2,007 college students and jobseekers by job search portal Job Korea from Feb. 11 to 18, making it almost three times more popular than second-pl… …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
[International] : The Wall Street Journal(WSJ) has reported the U.S. and North Korea engaged in peace talks before …[more…] …read more
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North Korea conducted a coastal artillery drill on Saturday morning, firing rounds westwards near the Northern Limit Line, the de facto maritime border.
No rounds crossed the NLL, but residents on nearby Baeknyeong Island were tense amid the boom of the gunfire.
The South Korean military broadcast a… …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
[International] : A Japanese expert on Tokyo’s wartime sex slavery has slammed the Japanese government’s claim that no evidence has been found that Japanese troops forcibly recruited foreign women as sex slaves.[more…] …read more
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[Economy] : Unionized pilots of South Korea’s flagship carrier Korean Air have voted in favor of a …[more…] …read more
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U.S. President Barack Obama has signed legislation imposing new sanctions against North Korea in response to Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile tests.
The bill calls for imposing mandatory sanctions on anyone assisting Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programs, cyberattacks and human rights abuse… …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
Vast numbers of Koreans with PhDs or other higher degrees are employed on temporary contracts as the job market is being squeezed on all sides.
Statistics show that 76 percent of recent PhDs managed to find work, but 40 percent of them only on temporary contracts.
According to a survey of 9,259 ne… …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
[Politics] : South Korea’s UN Ambassador Oh Joon has questioned North Korea’s right to remain a UN member, …[more…] …read more
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[Politics] : Seoul’s National Intelligence Service(NIS) says North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered his …[more…] …read more
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SK Innovation will supply batteries for Mercedes-Benz’s electric vehicles. SK on Wednesday said it signed a deal with Daimler, the manufacturer of Mercedes-Benz, to supply lithium-ion batteries for the carmaker’s EVs. Daimler, which competes with BMW and Audi in the global luxury car market, launche… …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
[Politics] : In the latest show of force following the escalation of inter-Korean tensions, a Seoul defense …[more…] …read more
Source:: KBS World Radio
The U.S. Forces Korea are sending four F-22 stealth fighter jets to their air base in Osan, Gyeonggi Province Wednesday, a military source said Tuesday.
The dispatch is part of a buildup of weaponry in response to North Korea’s recent nuclear test and rocket launch.
It also includes a nuclear-powere… …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
[Politics] : President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday will meet with leaders of rival parties before her speech at the …[more…] …read more
Source:: KBS World Radio
[International] : The New York Times has urged South Korea, the U.S., China and Japan to restart talks with the North aimed at “constraint” and “persuading” the North to end all testing and transfers of its nuclear technologies.[more…] …read more
Source:: KBS World Radio
North Korea has launched a new brigade in charge of intercontinental ballistic missiles, a government source here said Sunday.The source said the brigade comes under the Strategic Force supervising all missile units but is a separate unit from those handling shorter-range missiles.The move comes aft… …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
[Sports] : South Korea’s star figure skater Kim Yu-na has attended the opening ceremony of the 2016 Winter …[more…] …read more
Source:: KBS World Radio
[International] : North Korea on Friday warned that the U.S. policy of trying to crush the regime will only increase …[more…] …read more
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Speculation rose Friday that the Bank of Japan would call an emergency meeting prior to its next scheduled session in mid-March amid a surging yen and plunging equity prices.
Observers are saying the central bankers might push interest rates even further below zero and expand an asset purchase progr… …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
North Korean Army chief Ri Yong-gil was apparently executed early this month on charges of corruption, abuse of power and forming a political faction. Ri served as chief of the Army’s General Staff since 2013.
It is unclear whether he was executed for opposing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in som… …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
[International] : A Japanese news agency reports that South Korea, the U.S. and Japan are arranging a summit on the …[more…] …read more
Source:: KBS World Radio
German environmental lobby group DUH stepped up its campaign against auto industry pollution on Tuesday, accusing Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ 500X compact sport-utility vehicle of releasing excessive levels of toxic diesel emissions.
DUH has already accused General Motors’ Opel division, Renault and … …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
[Politics] : A source familiar with North Korea affairs said Wednesday that Ri Yong-gil, the chief of the Korean …[more…] …read more
Source:: KBS World Radio
[Culture] : Family fun events are being held in various parts of downtown Seoul during the Lunar New Year …[more…] …read more
Source:: KBS World Radio
[Politics] : The National Intelligence Service(NIS) says the rocket launched by North Korea on Sunday should be viewed as a ballistic missile based on the weight of the satellite mounted on top of the rocket.[more…] …read more
Source:: KBS World Radio
Two survivors have been recovered from the rubble of a 17-story apartment building in the Taiwanese city of Tainan, two days after it collapsed during a powerful earthquake that left at least 36 people dead.
Authorities say a woman named Tsao Wei-ling was discovered lying under the body of her husba… …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
[Politics] : Seoul and Washington have agreed to officially discuss the issue of deploying the U.S. Terminal …[more…] …read more
Source:: KBS World Radio
A new poll suggests Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and real estate mogul Donald Trump are maintaining their large leads in the northeastern U.S. state of New Hampshire, which holds a crucial presidential primary vote Tuesday.
The poll, released by Monmouth University Sunday, showed Trump with suppor… …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
A strong earthquake struck southern Taiwan near the city of Tainan Saturday, collapsing at least one building and raising fears that residents could be trapped inside. So far there have been no reports of causalities.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the epicenter of the shallow 6.4 magnitude quake w… …read more
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[International] : The North Korea monitoring website, 38 North, said Friday that satellite imagery shows signs that North Korea has begun fuel injection at its Dongchang-ri missile site.
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Source:: KBS World Radio
A growing number of young Koreans are avoiding family gatherings over the Lunar New Year to escape being grilled about their lives.
One good excuse is to get a part-time job during the holidays. Part-time job portal Alba polled 1,267 members on Monday and found that 50.4 percent plan to work p… …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
[Politics] : Anchor: Part of the time window North Korea gave for its planned missile launch overlaps with the …[more…] …read more
Source:: KBS World Radio
The senior U.S. military commander in Afghanistan told Congress on Thursday that training for Afghan forces would be severely constrained if the number of American troops there was cut to 5,500, as President Barack Obama has proposed.
Obama is planning to cut the number of American forces in Afghani… …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
[Economy] : Regulatory filings showed that South Korea’s shipbuilders suffered record losses last year.[more…] …read more
Source:: KBS World Radio
It is ethical, under certain conditions, to create an embryo from the DNA of three people, according to a new report.
The report from the Institute of Medicine said using DNA from three people, a man and two women, was ethical in certain situations. Researchers think creating embryos this way could … …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
[Politics] : KBS has exclusively obtained a voice recording of a former key North Korean military commander, …[more…] …read more
Source:: KBS World Radio
[Politics] : As North Korea revealed its plans for what it called a satellite launch, the South Korean …[more…] …read more
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[Politics] : South Korean Health Minister Chung Chin-youb has vowed all out efforts to prevent the spread of the Zika virus in the country.[more…] …read more
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Two Chinese military airplanes flew over the East Sea before heading back to China, Japan’s Kyodo News reported Sunday.
The aircraft apparently entered the so-called air defense identification zones of both countries without advance notice, but Tokyo said they did not invade its airspace.
Kyodo New… …read more
Source:: Chosun Ilbo
