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SEOUL (CNN)NORTH KOREA FIRED AN UNIDENTIFIED PROJECTILE THURSDAY AFTERNOON KOREAN TIME, SOUTH KOREA"S DEFENSE MINISTRY SAID.
LARGE AREAS OF SOUTH KOREA WERE BLANKETED IN FINE DUST IN SPRING, PROMPTING CALLS FOR ACTION ON AIR POLLUTION. UP TO A QUARTER OF COUNTRY』S COAL-FIRED PLANTS WILL TEMPORARILY SHUT DOWN OVER WINTER.PHOTOGRAPH: LEE JAE WON/REUTERS
UPDATE AT 1916 KST: THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE COMMENTS FROM SOUTH KOREA"S JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF.NORTH KOREA ON THURSDAY LAUNCHED TWO SHORT-RANGE PROJECTILES FROM WHAT IS PRESUMED TO BE A LARGE-CALIBER MULTIPLE LAUNCH ROCKET SYSTEM (MLRS) ON THE COUNTRY"S EAST COAST, SOUTH KOREA"S JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF (JCS) ANNOUNCED.THE TWO PROJECTILES WERE LAUNCHED
LAST YEAR, SOUTH KOREAN COURT RULINGS THAT ORDERED JAPANESE FIRMS TO PAY COMPENSATION TO KOREANS OVER FORCED WARTIME LABOUR INFLAMED LONG-RUNNING TENSIONS.
IN SOUTH KOREA, CHINESE AND KOREAN STUDENTS ARE CLASHING OVER HONG KONG PROTESTS
RESPONSIBILITY IN THE “AKARA CORRIDOR” THROUGH SOUTH KOREAN AIRSPACE IS CURRENTLY SPLIT, WITH SOUTH KOREAN CONTROLLERS SHEPHERDING NORTH-SOUTH FLIGHTS, AND JAPAN’S DIRECTING EAST-WEST FLIGHTS, MANY OF THEM IN AND OUT OF SHANGHAI.
SEOUL (REUTERS) - THE APPARENT SUICIDE OF A SECOND K-POP ARTIST IN A MONTH HAS CAST RENEWED FOCUS IN SOUTH KOREA ON VICIOUS PERSONAL ATTACKS AND CYBER BULLYING OF VULNERABLE YOUNG STARS, AND HOW IT MOSTLY GOES UNPUNISHED.
THE NHRCK』S WORK IS BADLY NEEDED. LGBT PEOPLE FACE WIDESPREAD DISCRIMINATION IN SOUTH KOREA, WITH ONE NATIONAL SURVEY FINDING THAT NEARLY HALF OF SOUTH KOREANS DO NOT WANT GAY FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, OR COLLEAGUES. IN INTERVIEWS WITH HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, LGBT YOUTH DESCRIBED HOW INDIFFERENCE OR OUTRIGHT HOSTILITY TOWARD LGBT PEOPLE LEFT THEM FEELING ISOLATED AND ALONE, JEOPARDIZING THEIR MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING.
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — SOUTH KOREA』S LAST-MINUTE DECISION TO EXTEND A U.S.-BACKED MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SHARING PACT WITH JAPAN WAS GOOD NEWS FOR WASHINGTON AFTER A WEEK OF SETBACKS ON THE DIVIDED PENINSULA.
UPBIT, ONE OF SOUTH KOREA』S LARGEST CRYPTO EXCHANGES, SAID 342,000 ETHER COINS—WORTH ROUGHLY $49.2 MILLION—WERE SENT TO AN UNIDENTIFIED CRYPTO WALLET WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THE COMPANY REVEALED THE WALLET ADDRESS WHERE THE COINS WERE SENT AND SAID IT REPORTED THE INCIDENT TO SOUTH KOREAN AUTHORITIES WHO ARE INVESTIGATING...
J.P. MORGAN HAS AN OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK ON ASIAN STOCKS, WITH SOUTH KOREA AND INDIA POSITIONED TO PERFORM PARTICULARLY WELL GOING INTO 2020.
「FROM AN EARLY AGE, THEY LIVE A MECHANICAL LIFE, GOING THROUGH A SPARTAN TRAINING REGIMEN,」 SAID LEE HARK-JOON, A SOUTH KOREAN JOURNALIST WHO HAS PRODUCED A TV DOCUMENTARY ON THE MAKING OF A K-POP GIRL GROUP AND CO-WROTE THE BOOK 「K-POP IDOLS: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE KOREAN MUSIC INDUSTRY.」 「THEY SELDOM HAVE A CHANCE TO DEVELOP A NORMAL SCHOOL LIFE OR NORMAL SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AS THEIR PEERS DO.」
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.
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.
「[SOUTH] KOREAN PEOPLE FEEL REALLY SHAMEFUL BECAUSE [SOUTH] KOREA IS A DEVELOPED COUNTRY AND THEY WANT [SOUTH] KOREA TO BE THE LEADER OF JUSTICE AND MORALITY, BECOMING A ROLE MODEL [FOR OTHER COUNTRIES],」 HE SAID. 「BUT WHAT WE』RE DOING IS TOTALLY THE OPPOSITE, SO WE ARE REALLY ASHAMED.」
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.
A REUTERS ARTICLE SUGGESTED LAST WEEK THAT THE UNITED STATES IS CONSIDERING WITHDRAWING AS MANY AS 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.

 

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