Korea NewsWire
Here’s a range of headlines which are out there on the web right now. This page is work in progress, and if anyone can recommend any other sources of rss feeds for Korean news, please leave a comment below.
Posted 4 hours ago: SEOUL - South Korea has selected 'Crossing' (Keurosing), a drama about a North Korean defector, as its official candidate for the foreign-language Oscar.Pic, helmed by Kim Tae-gyun, better known for t... [
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Posted 4 hours ago: By Park Si-soo Staff Reporter Online shopping malls are banned from selling and displaying product replicas on their Web sites. The Seoul Central District Court ordered Thursday the nation's to... [
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Posted 4 hours ago: QINHUANGDAO, East China, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- The indomitable African lions were not to be tamed as they rallied from one goal down to level South Korea 1-1 in a close match in the Olympic men's soccer ... [
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Posted 4 hours ago: South Korea and the U.S. have become close neighbors in Beijing, where the new American mission compound will be dedicated at 8 a.m. on Friday, the opening day of the Beijing Olympics. The U.S. govern... [
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Posted 4 hours ago: The complex houses factories run by small to midsize ventures supplying textiles and intermediate construction materials. The scene was the same inside the complex. There were almost no passersby an... [
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Posted 4 hours ago: By Kim Sue-young Staff Reporter North Korea and Russia will redraw their border along the Tumen River as the terrain has changed over time, a report said Thursday. The two countries first discu... [
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Posted 4 hours ago: EI Solutions, a leader in smart solar solutions, today announced their partnership with The North Face , the world's premier supplier of authentic, innovative and technically advanced outdoor apparel,... [
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Posted 4 hours ago: By Park Si-soo Staff Reporter An ethnic Japanese Korean expert on Dokdo has said that the Japanese government has officially denied its sovereignty over Dokdo three times in the past. ``The top... [
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Posted 4 hours ago: HEPI ) announced today that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Lava Corporation of Seoul Korea for distribution rights for ProAlgaZyme, HEPI's primary product. Lava had been i... [
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Posted 4 hours ago: By Kang Hyun-kyung Staff Reporter Prime Minister Han Seung-soo's absence Wednesday from an ad hoc National Assembly committee meeting on the resumption of American beef imports without prior notic... [
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Posted 4 hours ago: Celltick has launched a new mobile media service over China Unicom's network, starting with the 2008 Olympic Games. Designed and implemented as a managed service through Celltick's LiveScreen Media pl... [
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Posted 4 hours ago: The number of insurance consultants earning 100 million won ($98,434) or more annually rose 25 percent to 11,000 last year compared to the year before, the Financial Supervisory Service announced yest... [
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Posted 4 hours ago: Executives of Kyobo Life Insurance tie the shoelaces of Kyobo employees during an event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the life insurer, at the headquarters of the company in Gwanghwamun, centra... [
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Posted 4 hours ago: . Shares of the DRAM chipmaker fell 2.5%. Japan's Cabinet Office on Wednesday described the economy as "worsening," signaling what may be the end to Japan's longest postwar boom. Elsewhere, Austr... [
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Posted 4 hours ago: In South Korea, there is only one speed: full throttle.Buildings go up almost overnight, trends pass no sooner than they have arrived and presidents' approval ratings drop from 70 to 20 per cent in th... [
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Posted 3 days ago: Obama took a firm stance on the North Korean issue by referring to its not-yet-confirmed number of nuclear weapons in an "undiplomatic" way. It reflected a deliberate, conscious judgment, not some kind of implicit antagonism... [
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Posted 5 days ago: Washington has been pushing Pyongyang to reveal more details about its secretive nuclear program. Bush has expressed that the United States may take North Korea off the list of state sponsors of terrorism as early as Aug. 11 if... [
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Posted 6 days ago: Analysts say that if the election for the Superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Board of Education is an assessment on the Lee Myung-bak presidency thus far, the results show a marked decline in support... [
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Posted 8 days ago: Students have much to say about the election of the Seoul superintendent of education. OhmyNews interviewed four female high school students from a girls' high school for two hours this past Monday. These students are ordinary... [
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Posted 10 days ago: Jo will swim around Dokdo island 33 times on July 30. Thirty-three circles represents the 33 national representatives who signed onto March 1 Korea's Declaration of Independence. Its aim was to declare solidarity... [
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Posted 10 days ago: In the early dawn of June 1, protesters were still wide-awake with their candles in front of the presidential Blue House when the riot police rewarded them with water cannons and metal clubs. Lee stood in the front line facing... [
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Posted 12 days ago: Protesters were afraid that it would be an illegitimate board meeting. The sudden dismissal of the KBS board director following the election of a pro-national party official, Gang Seong-chul, was not what they expected... [
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Posted 14 days ago: Some media observers publicly questioned the President's political agenda regarding Dokdo Islands. The progressive daily, Hankyoreh questioned whether various conservative media forces were pushing... [
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Posted 14 days ago: The source of this dispute may be the fact that the islands lie in mineral-rich fishing grounds. These renewed tensions have led to angry anti-Japanese demonstrations in Korea, and have prompted the Korean government to consider... [
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Posted 14 days ago: Following the "Together We Go" Commencement Ceremony, the students, parents and staff went on a field trip around Ganghwa Island. The children had a terrific time at the mudflats and the parents focused... [
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Posted 15 days ago: The problem that citizens and netizens in South Korea are dealing with is the difficult one of how to supervise elected officials who disregard the needs and opinions of the people. The candlelight demonstrations, as a... [
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Posted 15 days ago: Mun Ji-oh traveled longer than any of the other students. He comes from Gageo Island in Shin-an District, at the southwest tip of Korea. The island is closer to China then to the nearest port, Mokpo, which... [
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Posted 21 days ago: Another scandal hit the Korean presses as former Samsung Chairman Lee Gun-hee was cleared of the charge of related dealings to hand-over Samsung to his son Lee Jae-yong. Lee was convicted of tax evasion and... [
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Posted 21 days ago: Right now it's half past midnight on Thursday. I was on my way home, but when I saw what was happening below I decided to return. Of course I'd prefer to go home, but I couldn't ignore what was happening here... [
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Posted 21 days ago: The shooting has shocked and angered South Koreans, but, as this video suggests, it also a disaster for the many North Koreans who have worked to make Mt. Geumgang a place of friendship... [
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Posted 96 minutes ago: Our Bureau Thiruvananthapuram, Aug. 7 The Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission (KSERC) has called upon all categories of consumers to restrict use of electricity in view of the severe power crisis in the State. The call comes in the wake of the [
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Posted 96 minutes ago: Samsung isn't just pushing the envelope in storage capacity of SSDs (solid-state drives), it is also working with software makers to boost SSD performance on operating systems. The company on Wednesday said it was in talks with Microsoft to improve the [
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Posted 96 minutes ago: BURLINGTON, Mass. - (Business Wire) Acme Packet (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session border control solutions, today announced that Korea Telecom (KT), Korea's largest integrated wired and wireless communications service provider, has selected Acme [
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Posted 96 minutes ago: with shares in South Korea among the leading decliners after its central bank raised lending rates, noting the highest inflation in a decade remains at the forefront of its concerns even though economic growth is decelerating. Japan's Nikkei 225 [
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Posted 96 minutes ago: US President George W. Bush Wednesday said that despite North Korea having made progress in dismantling its nuclear programme, it still must meet many more obligations in order for it to be no longer regarded as a rogue state.Addressing a joint press [
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Posted 96 minutes ago: A group of 86 Korean students are enhancing their English reading and writing skills for four weeks through the UCLA Writing Project, housed at the university's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. UCLA News By Shaena Engle A GROUP OF [
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Posted 96 minutes ago: The top-ranked Chinese men and women aren't expected to face stiff competition during the first round of team table tennis at the Beijing Olympics, though other strong squads such as South Korea and Japan will have a tougher road to the playoff rounds. [
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Posted 96 minutes ago: SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- The South Korean government plans to build a solar power plant on the disputed islets of Dokdo, which Japan calls Takeshima, by November, the Korea Herald reported Thursday. According to the report, the government will erect a [
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Posted 96 minutes ago: SEOUL, Aug 6: US President George Bush expressed concern on Wednesday at North Korea's nuclear weapons programmes and rights record, and said it is premature to drop the communist state from his "axis of evil." Bush also said the North has "a lot to do" [
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Posted 96 minutes ago: Breakfast in Seoul, 6:32 p.m. EDT: We had breakfast this morning next to an American who lives in Vietnam, and works in Southeast Asia in the avionics business. He hasn't lived in the U.S. for 10 years, but his company is based in Kansas. He fell in love [
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Posted 96 minutes ago: GMT by Amy-Mae Elliott Looks like Samsung might be planning to go all iPhone 3G on us with a white version of the i900. Although this only appears to be launching in Singapore at this stage, time will tell if it makes it to Blighty... Go to the light [
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Posted 96 minutes ago: North Korea has rejected a request from the United States special envoy on human rights in North Korea to visit the Kaesong industrial complex. An estimated 23,000 North Koreans are employed at nearly 70 South Korean manufacturing facilities in the [
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