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02/22/12--07:46: South Korea’s KB Financial Eyes ING Insurance (chan 1325683)

South Korea’s KB Financial Group is interested in buying ING Groep NV’s South Korean insurance operations, chairman Euh Yoon-dae said. The parent of the country’s top mortgage ...


02/22/12--08:01: Seoul Summit Described as Part of Campaign against DPRK (chan 1325683)

Pyongyang, Feb 22 (Prensa Latina) Institutions from the Democratic People''s Republic of Korea (DPRK) described the nuclear security summit to be held next month in Seoul, as a new U.S. ...


02/22/12--14:57: Ants remember enemy's scent collectively;study (chan 1325683)

Scientists in Australia have discovered that ants have an incredible memory for smell, which means they can sniff out their enemies, BBC News reported Tuesday. When one ant fights with an ...


02/22/12--14:57: Actress Kim’s commercial event cancelled in Tokyo due to anti-Korean sentiment (chan 1325683)

Korea's top actress Kim Tae-hee was unable to hold a commercial event in Tokyo, Tuesday, due to harsh anti-Korean sentiment in Japan amid the wide spread of the Korean wave into every corner of ...


02/22/12--14:57: Hubble reveals a new class of extrasolar planet (chan 1325683)

Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have come up with a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere, the Science Daily reported Tuesday. It's ...


02/22/12--14:57: Sydney councils requested to inform number of Korean prostitutes (chan 1325683)

The Korean government says it has written to a dozen Sydney councils asking for any information they might have about Korean nationals who are involved in prostitution at local brothels, ABC News ...


02/22/12--14:57: Kim Tae-hee’s Japan event canceled (chan 1325683)

By Do Je-hae Actress Kim Tae-hee has been forced to pull out of a press conference for a new cosmetics commercial in Japan. Kim was supposed to attend the event Tuesday for her new ...


02/22/12--14:57: Reveling in music, youth, hallyu (chan 1325683)

F.T. Island aims for success outside K-pop comfort zone By Kwaak Je-yup At a studio in Samseong-dong, southern Seoul, only three out of five members of the F.T.Island are waiting; the missing ...


02/22/12--14:57: Moon cautious about revealing amb.. (chan 1325683)

Moon Jae-in, left, shakes hands with an old woman during his campaign for the April general elections at a kindergarten in Sasang district, Busan, Feb. ...


02/22/12--22:03: MRI for Seoul mayor`s son (chan 1325683)

Park Joo-sin, the son of Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, undergoes an MRI test at Yonsei University Severance Hospital in Seoul Wednesday. After the test, the hospital said the results were the same as ...


02/22/12--22:23: Police draw fire for using Angry .. (chan 1325683)

National Police Agency (NPA) chief Cho Hyun-oh poses with Henri Holm, senior vice president of Rovio Asia, after signing an agreement to use the firm's Angry Birds characters for the ...


02/22/12--22:23: N. Korea bans civilian exchanges with S. Korea amid tensions (chan 1325683)

North Korea banned its Buddhist officials from meeting with their South Korean counterparts earlier this week in its border city of Kaesong, officials said Thursday, in a sign of persistent tensions ...


02/22/12--22:23: N. Korea, US open first nuclear talks since Kim's death (chan 1325683)

BEIJING (Yonhap) -- Senior diplomats from North Korea and the United States began talks in Beijing Thursday over the North's nuclear weapons program that are the first such since the death of ...


02/22/12--23:10: South Korea's e-commerce sales hit all-time high (chan 1325683)

South Korea's e-commerce sales hit an all-time high last year due to a surge in cyber transactions between businesses, a government report showed Thursday.


02/22/12--23:19: Asian Stocks, Korean Won Drop on Economy Concern; Oil Declines (chan 1325683)

Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks fell and the South Korean won weakened as reports signaled slowing global economic growth and Hewlett-Packard Co. forecast profit that missed estimates. Oil ...


02/22/12--23:40: Top Diplomats of S. Korea, Armenia Hold Talks in Seoul (chan 1325683)

Seoul, Feb.23 (BNA) - The foreign ministers of South Korea and Armenia held talks in Seoul Thursday to discuss how to increase substantive cooperation in economic, trade, development and cultural ...


02/23/12--04:39: Lee Charm, sixth from left, CEO of the Korea Tourism Organization ... (chan 1325683)

Visit Korea again: Lee Charm, sixth from left, CEO of the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO), poses with KTO employees in Myeong-dong, central Seoul, Thursday, during a street campaign to make Korea a ...


02/23/12--04:40: • Kyung Hee founder laid to rest (chan 1325683)

The hearse of Kyung Hee University founder Choue Young-seek leaves the funeral service venue on the campus, Seoul, Thursday. Choue died of old age Saturday. / Courtesy of Kyung Hee ...


02/23/12--04:40: • Students experience bullying at younger ages (chan 1325683)

By Na Jeong-ju Korean students are experiencing bullying at school at younger ages than in the past, and a majority of victims don't tell their parents or teachers, the latest government ...


02/23/12--04:40: • Minister promotes green growth at UN forum (chan 1325683)

Environment Minister Yoo Young-sook, center, speaks during the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Governmental and Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, ...


02/23/12--04:40: • Thief caught giving stolen TVs away (chan 1325683)

A bizarre thief was apprehended for stealing wall-mounted flat screen TVs from hospitals and restaurants and giving them away to homeless people, police said Thursday. The police will have the ...


02/23/12--06:44: South Korea puts two budget airlines on Taipei-Gimpo route (chan 1325683)

Seoul, Feb. 23 (CNA) South Korea has assigned the new direct route between Taipei and Seoul airports to two low-cost airlines, the country's Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs ...


02/23/12--11:10: Nepalese man claims to be world's shortest at 56 cm (chan 1325683)

He has never worked outside the home or seen a doctor, and until Wednesday, he had never left his remote mountain village in western Nepal. So 72-year-old Chandra Bahadur Dangi only recently learned ...


02/23/12--11:10: Paparazzis earn big money for only one picture (chan 1325683)

A former reporter of France's Le Monde newspaper received an urgent phone call. It was about fashion model/actress Kim Kardashian who has recently drawn public attention for her divorce and sex ...


02/23/12--11:10: Temples offer quick spring getawa.. (chan 1325683)

By Do Je-hae Templestays are hosted throughout the year but the Jogye Order, running many of Korea's oldest and most prominent Buddhist temples, recently announced a special program geared ...


02/23/12--11:10: Vietnamese man and North Korean sweetheart reunited (chan 1325683)

The love story between a North Korean woman and a Vietnamese man was aired on Feb. 14, Valentine's Day, on BBC, attracting sympathy from across the world. They became united beyond the border ...


02/23/12--11:10: No substitute for practice in lan.. (chan 1325683)

The U.S. ambassador in Seoul believes there is no substitute for repeated practice for Korean students to gain good command of English-language skills, according to an article he posted on his ...


02/23/12--11:10: LSIS taking salient spot in smart.. (chan 1325683)

LSIS CEO Koo Ja-kyun, right, attends a tape-cutting ceremony with General Motors Executive Vice President Robert Socia for the "GM-Korea Autoparts Plaza" event in Detroit, last year. By ...


02/23/12--11:10: 'Samsung worker accused of shadow.. (chan 1325683)

By Kim Rahn CJ Group has claimed that a Samsung employee has been following its chairman around, demanding an apology from Samsung. Samsung declined to comment until the police conclude an ...


02/23/12--11:10: Rip-offs hit Japanese tourists (chan 1325683)

By Lee Hyo-sik A growing number of Japanese tourists here are lodging complaints against a widespread cheating scheme engineered by taxi drivers, street venders and other hospitality-related ...


02/23/12--11:11: Ex-vice minister tapped as top en.. (chan 1325683)

By Lee Tae-hoon President Lee Myung-bak named Choi Young-jin, a former vice foreign minister and ambassador to the United Nations, as ambassador to the United States, Thursday, to fill the post ...


02/23/12--11:27: South Korea qualifies for 2012 Olympic Games (chan 1325683)

South Korea celebrates after they qualified for their seventh consecutive appearance at the Olympic Games after easing to a 3-0 win over Oman on Wednesday night. (AN ...