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5 PH-South Korea deals signed, but no free trade agreement yet @ 2019-11-26T20: Back Hot News
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IT WAS FRIDAY MORNING, AND YANG WAS AT HIS DESK AT THE SEOUL SEOBU POLICE STATION"S MAJOR CRIMES UNIT WHEN HE RECEIVED A TELEPHONE CALL. HE SAID SOMEONE ON THE OTHER LINE CLAIMED TO BE FROM KOREA TELECOM (KT), A MAJOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDER IN SOUTH KOREA.
SECRETLY FILMED VIDEOS OR PICTURES OF INTIMATE MOMENTS OR BODY PARTS AND THEIR CIRCULATION ONLINE HAVE BEEN A WIDESPREAD CRIME IN SOUTH KOREA. PERPETRATORS, IF CONVICTED, CAN FACE UP TO FIVE YEARS IN JAIL OR FINES OF $25,500. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF WOMEN PROTESTED IN THE STREETS OF SEOUL LAST YEAR, DEMANDING HARSHER PUNISHMENT AND RAISING WIDER PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE ISSUE. IN MARCH, FOUR KOREAN ENTERTAINERS RETIRED AFTER THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN CASES OF EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN BECAME KNOWN.
BUILDING BRIDGES IN SOUTH KOREA
THEN, ON SUNDAY, THE SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE EXPRESSED DEEP REGRET OVER THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT’S HANDLING OF THE JOINT ANNOUNCEMENT ON GSOMIA. IT ACCUSED TOKYO OF NOT ABIDING BY THE AGREED TIMING FOR THEIR JOINT STATEMENTS AND OBJECTED TO SOME OF ITS CHARACTERIZATION OF SOUTH KOREA’S POSITIONS.
「THE COASTAL GUNNERY EXERCISE THAT THE NORTH MADE MENTION OF VIOLATES THE MILITARY AGREEMENT OF SEPTEMBER 19, WHICH THE SOUTH AND NORTH KOREAN MILITARY AUTHORITIES HAVE HITHERTO FAITHFULLY IMPLEMENTED AFTER AGREEING ON IT LAST SEPTEMBER,」 CHOI HYUN-SOO, A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SOUTH KOREAN MND, REMARKED DURING A PRESS BRIEFING.
"A SOUTH KOREAN SUPREME COURT RULING LAST YEAR ALLOWED KOREAN VICTIMS OF FORCED LABOR DURING WORLD WAR II TO SEEK COMPENSATION FROM JAPANESE FIRMS. SOUTH KOREA ALSO SHUT DOWN A JAPANESE-FUNDED FOUNDATION THAT SUPPORTED KOREAN COMFORT WOMEN WHO WERE FORCED INTO SEXUAL SLAVERY DURING THE WAR. BOTH ACTIONS INCENSED THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT."
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — NORTH KOREAN LEADER KIM JONG UN ORDERED AN ARTILLERY FIRING DRILL NEAR THE DISPUTED BORDER IN THE SEA OFF THE WESTERN COAST, STATE-RUN MEDIA REPORTED MONDAY, PROMPTING A PROTEST FROM SOUTH KOREA』S MILITARY.
A REUTERS ARTICLE SUGGESTED LAST WEEK THAT THE UNITED STATES IS CONSIDERING WITHDRAWING UP TO 4,000 TROOPS FROM SOUTH KOREA IF SEOUL DOES NOT PAY MORE MONEY TO MAINTAIN THE U.S. DEPLOYMENT THERE. THE PENTAGON DENIED THE REPORT, WHICH APPEARED TO ECHO OTHER REPORTS THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP DEMANDED GREATER CONTRIBUTIONS FROM SOUTH KOREA AND JAPAN TO SUPPORT THE U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE IN THOSE COUNTRIES.
LEGENDARY HIP-HOP GROUP WU-TANG CLAN ARE SOON TO BECOME WOOHOO-TANG CLAN, WITH A THEME PARK SET TO OPEN IN SOUTH KOREA THAT’S BASED ENTIRELY ON THE GROUP’S HISTORY AND MUSIC.
DURING HIS 2016 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, TRUMP SEEMED TO EMBRACE THE IDEA THAT SOUTH KOREA AND JAPAN SHOULD HAVE THEIR OWN NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO DEFEND AGAINST NORTH KOREA. "AT SOME POINT," HE TOLD ANDERSON COOPER IN A CNN TOWN HALL, "WE HAVE TO SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE』RE BETTER OFF IF JAPAN PROTECTS ITSELF AGAINST THIS MANIAC IN NORTH KOREA, WE』RE BETTER OFF, FRANKLY, IF SOUTH KOREA IS GOING TO START TO PROTECT ITSELF. ... WOULDN』T YOU RATHER IN A CERTAIN SENSE HAVE JAPAN HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS WHEN NORTH KOREA HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS? ... WOULDN』T YOU RATHER HAVE JAPAN, PERHAPS, THEY』RE OVER THERE, THEY』RE VERY CLOSE, THEY』RE VERY FEARFUL OF NORTH KOREA."
GEN PRAYUT"S INVITATION WAS MADE DURING BILATERAL TALKS WITH SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT MOON JAE-IN WHICH TOOK PLACE ON THE SIDELINES OF THE 3RD ASEAN-REPUBLIC OF KOREA COMMEMORATIVE SUMMIT AND THE 1ST MEKONG-REPUBLIC OF KOREA SUMMIT IN BUSAN.
THE COMMENTS FOLLOWED THE PENTAGON SAYING THURSDAY THERE WAS 「ABSOLUTELY NO TRUTH」 TO A REPORT IN CHOSUN ILBO, SOUTH KOREA』S BIGGEST NEWSPAPER, THAT THE U.S. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT WAS 「CURRENTLY CONSIDERING REMOVING ANY TROOPS FROM THE KOREAN PENINSULA.」 THE U.S. MAINTAINING A 28,500-STRONG CONTINGENT ON THE PENINSULA TO DETER NORTH KOREAN AGGRESSION.
SIMMERING TENSIONS BETWEEN THE TWO NEIGHBORS EXPLODED AFTER SOUTH KOREA』S SUPREME COURT RULED LATE LAST YEAR THAT JAPANESE COMPANIES SHOULD PAY REPARATIONS TO SOUTH KOREANS FOR FORCED LABOR DURING THE COLONIAL ERA. JAPAN INSISTS THAT ALL WARTIME CLAIMS WERE SETTLED WHEN IT AND SOUTH KOREA ESTABLISHED DIPLOMATIC TIES IN 1965.
SEOUL, NOV. 26 (XINHUA) -- SOUTH KOREA』S EXPORT VOLUME FELL FOR SIX STRAIGHT MONTHS THROUGH LAST MONTH AMID WEAK DEMAND FOR DISPLAY PANELS AND OIL PRODUCTS, CENTRAL BANK DATA SHOWED TUESDAY.
BY LAW, ABLE-BODIED SOUTH KOREAN MEN MUST REGISTER TO SPEND ABOUT TWO YEARS IN THE ARMED FORCES, AS PART OF A CONSCRIPTION SYSTEM SEEN AS CRUCIAL TO THE COUNTRY』S DEFENSE AGAINST NORTH KOREA. WOMEN ARE EXEMPT, BUT CAN ENLIST.

 

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