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- US unilaterally halts 3rd round of defense cost-sharing negotiations
- After pushing South Korea to assume an unprecedented financial burden of US$5 billion for stationing US troops on the Korean Peninsula, American representatives walked away from...
- Nov.20,2019 17:44 KST
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- Moon says GSOMIA termination won’t end security cooperation with Japan
- “Even if GSOMIA comes to an end, we’ll continue to cooperate with Japan on security matters,” South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Nov. 19. Moon was referring to the two c...
- Nov.20,2019 17:40 KST
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- [Photo] Samsung, SK Hynix see semiconductor sales drop; to be respectively overtaken by Intel, TSMC
- Semiconductor sales for Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have dropped significantly, leading industry observers to conclude that the South Korean companies will relinquish their...
- Nov.20,2019 17:35 KST
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- [Photo] Yemen’s Houthi rebels release S. Korean ships and crewmen
- South Korean vessels and crewmen seized by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been released. Yemen’s Iran-based Houthi rebels captured two South Korean vessels, one Saudi vessel, and 16...
- Nov.20,2019 17:34 KST
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- [Photo] China accounts for 32% of S. Korea’s air pollution, joint study finds
- A joint study conducted by researchers from South Korea, China, and Japan has concluded that 32% of South Korea’s ultrafine dust came from China in 2017. China accounted for 25%...
- Nov.20,2019 17:32 KST
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- Radioactive soil spilled over into roads, rivers, during Typhoon Hagibis, report says
- Japanese media has reported that soil with relatively high concentrations of radioactive contaminants spilled over from forested regions in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture onto nei...
- Nov.19,2019 17:36 KST
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- S. Korean students stand in solidarity with Hong Kong protesters
- “Stand with Hong Kong.” “Hong Kong’s struggle is legitimate.” “Stop police brutality.”Seoul’s Sinchon area, which is home to numerous universities, rang out around noon on Nov. ...
- Nov.19,2019 17:33 KST
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- Naver, SoftBank reach deal on merger
- On Nov. 18, South Korea’s Naver and Japan’s SoftBank reached an agreement to form a joint venture that will merge the former’s Line messenger app and the latter’s Yahoo! Japan p...
- Nov.19,2019 17:30 KST
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- US puts massive pressure on S. Korea, Japan to resume GSOMIA
- South Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo said that the US is putting major pressure on both South Korea and Japan to maintain their General Security of Military Informatio...
- Nov.19,2019 17:26 KST
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- N. Korea responds to Trump’s tweet by demanding the end of Washington’s “hostile policy”
- In a tweet on Nov. 17, US President Donald Trump urged North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to “act quickly [and] get the deal done,” hinting at the possibility of a third North Kore...
- Nov.19,2019 17:24 KST
