Credit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:05:37 +0000
SEOUL — Ultrafine dust, smaller than 2.5 micrometer in diameter, may increase emergency hospitalization for mental illness, analysis showed Monday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:11:53 +0000
The Seoul High Court ruled that the import of sex dolls should not be prohibited on grounds that that it corrupts public morals.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:27:19 +0000
SEOUL — Pueong, 7, smaller than his peers, is an undocumented child living with his undocumented Vietnamese migrant parents in Gyeonggi Province.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:24:45 +0000
Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon on Saturday pledged to completely eliminate the business of dog meat in South Korea’s capital.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:17:02 +0000
SEOUL — A funeral was held Sunday for emergency doctor Yoon Han-deok, who died of a heart attack at his office and whose death cast light on the difficult working conditions faced by emergency medical staff.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:11:05 +0000
South Korea and the United States signed a provisional agreement Sunday on the sharing of costs to maintain US troops here, with South Korea raising its share by 8.2 percent.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 09:48:08 +0000
The United States and North Korea will meet again this month in an unidentified Asian country ahead of their leaders’ planned second summit in Vietnam in late February, South Korean officials said Sunday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 10:18:02 +0000
South Koreans are reacting with both hope and wariness to the second Trump-Kim summit in Vietnam.
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Read moreCredit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 07:29:32 +0000
Over half of South Korean men in their 20s have anti-feminist attitudes and engage in a “hostile” form of gender discrimination, a recent survey shows.
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Credit to Author: dmorcoso| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 06:45:46 +0000
SEOUL — More women in Korea take into consideration a potential partner’s financial capability than men when they choose a spouse, a recent survey showed Wednesday. According to research from the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, which surveyed 1,140 unmarried men and 1,324 unmarried women aged between 20 and 44 , 92.7 percent of […]
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