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- [Photo] S. Korea’s foreign exchange reserves high record high in December for 3rd straight month
- South Korea’s foreign exchange reserves climbed to a record high in December 2019, reaching US$408.82 billion, an increase of US$1.36 billion from the previous month. It was als...
- Jan.6,2020 16:56 KST
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- [Photo] “Parasite” wins Golden Globe for best foreign language film
- Bong Joon-ho’s film “Parasite” won the Golden Globe prize for best foreign-language film on Jan. 5, becoming the first South Korean film to win a Golden Globe. “Once you overcom...
- Jan.6,2020 16:53 KST
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- Hyundai Motor launches carsharing service in LA
- The time was the morning of Jan. 4 at a transfer parking facility near Union Station on the Los Angeles subway. Dressed in T-shirts, employees of car sharing businesses were nim...
- Jan.6,2020 16:51 KST
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- UN calls for S. Korea to ratify core ILO conventions
- South Korea is coming under growing pressure from the international community to ratify key labor conventions. Following criticism from the EU, now the UN has called out the Sou...
- Jan.6,2020 16:48 KST
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- Employers circumvent minimum wage burdens by reducing hours and benefits, report shows
- An increase in the minimum wage resulted in hourly wages increasing last year for the bottom-earning 10-20% of workers, but a comparison in terms of monthly income showed an act...
- Jan.6,2020 16:47 KST
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- Seasonal foreign workers regularly stripped of wages by brokers in worker-exchange program
- “A,” 32, and “B,” 35, are workers from the city of Santa Rosa in the Philippines who arrived in South Korea in September of last year through the Ministry of Justice’s “foreign ...
- Jan.6,2020 16:45 KST
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- [Editorial] US, Iran seriously need to de-escalate their conflict
- After the US military launched a surgical drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, a leading figure in the Iranian military and head of the Quds Force, part of the Revolutionar...
- Jan.6,2020 16:42 KST
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- US drone strike expected to negatively impact N. Korea-US negotiations
- As tensions in the Middle East rise following the US drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, a top Iranian military leader and commander of its Quds Force, the incident is exp...
- Jan.6,2020 16:41 KST
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- US airstrike in Iran causes S. Korea to rethink option of deploying naval vessels to Strait of Hormuz
- Tensions in the Middle East are rising after Qasem Soleimani, a powerful figure in Iran’s military and commander of the Quds Force, part of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, was kille...
- Jan.6,2020 16:21 KST
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- [Correspondent’s column] The hazardous nature of hate speech
- The following incident occurred when I joined a candlelit march organized to protest the Yasukuni Shrine, held in downtown Tokyo on Aug. 10, 2019. The demonstrators some Kore...
- Jan.3,2020 19:24 KST
