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- Korean adoptees can submit DNA to Korean overseas missions in family search
- Korean adoptees living overseas are now able to submit a DNA sample at a South Korean foreign mission in an effort to locate their family. Previously, they’d been required to tr...
- Dec.27,2019 19:06 KST
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- S. Korea life expectancy stops increasing for first time since 1970
- “82.7 years.”The rise in South Korea’s average life expectancy has come to a halt for the first time since the National Bureau of Statistics (now Statistics Korea) first began c...
- Dec.27,2019 19:02 KST
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- [Special report] South Korea’s social divide between universities within Seoul and universities without
- IIn the British House of Commons, two red “sword lines” have been drawn into the floor. The lines were put there to prevent the opposing lawmakers facing each other across the f...
- Dec.26,2019 10:26 KST
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- More and more young S. Koreans suffer from panic disorders every year
- The number of South Koreans in their 20s who suffer from panic disorders has been substantially increasing each year, health data shows. Panic episodes are characterized by an a...
- Dec.26,2019 10:09 KST
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- 30% of S. Korean graduates overqualified for their current jobs
- The “underemployment rate,” representing university graduates who have chosen a profession below their qualifications, has passed the 30% mark for the first time, research findi...
- Dec.26,2019 10:06 KST
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- In trilateral summit, S. Korea, China, and Japan agree to push for denuclearization and renewed N. Korea-US dialogue
- During a summit on Dec. 24, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to “continue close communication and co...
- Dec.25,2019 12:31 KST
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- [News analysis] Moon and Abe have rekindled dialogue, but challenges remain
- The summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Dec. 24 didn’t culminate in a specific agreement about rescinding Japan’s export ...
- Dec.25,2019 12:23 KST
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- Moon and Abe open path to “dialogue-based resolution” on export control, forced labor issues
- South Korean President Moon Jae-in called for a swift rollback of the Japanese government’s export controls to their levels before July 1 in a Dec. 24 summit with Japanese Prime...
- Dec.25,2019 12:16 KST
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- S. Korea to provide US$1.7 mln in aid for N. Korean villages damaged by Typhoon Lingling
- The South Korean government plans to provide 2.01 billion won (US$1.7 million) in inter-Korean cooperation funds to restore North Korean villages that suffered typhoon damage la...
- Dec.24,2019 18:14 KST
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- Japan to either dump contaminated water into ocean or release it as steam
- The Japanese government is narrowing down its plans for the disposal of contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant to two possible approaches: an ocean du...
- Dec.24,2019 18:10 KST
