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2010 May 27 |
South Korean warships fired guns and dropped anti-submarine bombs in a large-scale military exercise, a week after Seoul accused North Korea of shooting a torpedo that sank a navy frigate in March. North Korean declared it would scrap an accord with the South designed to prevent armed clashes at their maritime border, and warned of "immediate physical strikes" if any South Korean ships enter its waters. Links: North Korea, South Korea 
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2010 May 28 |
A South Korean couple were convicted of abandoning their newborn daughter, who starved to death while they addictively played an online game raising a virtual child. Links: South Korea, Internet, Sociology
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2010 May 29 |
The premier of China, North Korea's main ally, offered condolences to South Korea for the sinking of a warship blamed on Pyongyang after promising that Beijing, under pressure to punish the North, would not defend any country guilty of the attack. Links: China, North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Jun 2 |
South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said 14,579 people committed suicide last year, with people over 61 accounting for about one-third of the deaths. Yonhap said the National Police Agency provided the figures. Links: South Korea, Suicide
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2010 Jun 4 |
South Korea handed over a letter officially referring North Korea to the UN Security Council over the March 26 sinking of the Cheonan, which left 46 sailors killed. Links: North Korea, UN, South Korea
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2010 Jun 4 |
In South Korea finance chiefs of the Group of 20 leading economies worked to craft an agenda for keeping the global recovery on track and fending off future crises, sidestepping conflicts to present a united show of support for Europe's $1 trillion bailout. Links: South Korea, G20
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2010 Jun 10 |
In San Francisco the office tower at 333 Market St. was sold to a group of South Korean investors including the Korean Teacher’s Credit Union and Korean Federation of community Credit Cooperatives for $333 million. Wells Fargo occupied 100% of the rentable space with a lease that runs to 2026. Wells Fargo also provided a $200 million loan at 4.5% to the buyers. Links: South Korea, SF, Real Estate, Banking
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2010 Jun 10 |
A South Korean 2-stage Naro rocket carrying a climate observation satellite apparently exploded 137 seconds into its flight, the country's second major space setback in less than a year. Links: South Korea, Space
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2010 Jun 12 |
North Korea vowed to launch an all-out attack against South Korean loudspeakers and other propaganda facilities along their heavily fortified border, warning it could even turn Seoul into a "sea of flame." Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Jun 18 |
A South Korean Air Force fighter jet crashed into the sea after a training mission and its two pilots were killed. Links: South Korea, Air Crash
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2010 Jun 21 |
South Korea said abnormally high radiation levels were detected near the border between the two Koreas on may 15, days after North Korea claimed to have mastered a complex technology key to manufacturing a hydrogen bomb. Links: North Korea, South Korea, Nuclear
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2010 Jun 23 |
South Korean and Japanese activists floated hundreds of thousands of leaflets by balloon toward the border with North Korea to condemn the country's government amid tensions over the sinking of a South Korean warship. Links: Japan, North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Jul 9 |
South Korean prosecutors raided the office of PM Chung Un-chan over allegations that its ethics officials illegally investigated a businessman two years ago over the posting of an Internet video critical of the president. Links: South Korea
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2010 Jul 20 |
Seoul's mass-circulation Dong-a Ilbo newspaper said Kwon Ho Ung, North Korea's chief delegate from 2004 to 2007 for high-level talks with the South's then liberal government, has been executed by firing squad. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Jul 24 |
North Korea vowed to respond with "powerful nuclear deterrence" to joint US and South Korean military exercises poised to begin this weekend, saying the drills amount to a provocation that would prompt "retaliatory sacred war." Links: USA, North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Jul 25 |
The US and South Korea launched a major naval exercise involving a nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier in the Sea of Japan despite North Korea's threats of nuclear retaliation. Links: USA, North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Jul 31 |
Land mines began washing up on South Korean shores, apparently swept down from North Korea by torrential rains. One killed a man and wounded another. Links: North Korea, South Korea, Land Mines
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2010 Jul 31 |
UNESCO added seven cultural sites to its World Heritage List including Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, home to nuclear bomb testing in the 1940s and 1950s. Also added to the list were the Turaif District in Saudi Arabia; Australia's penal colony sites; the Jantar Mantar astronomical observation site in India; a shrine in Ardabil in Iran; the Tabriz historic bazaar complex, also in Iran; and the historic villages of Hahoe and Yangdong in South Korea. Links: Australia, India, UN, Iran, South Korea, Marshall Islands, Saudi Arabia
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2010 Aug 8 |
North Korean authorities seized a South Korean fishing boat and its 7-man crew. North Korea freed the crew on Sep 7. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Aug 10 |
Japan apologized to South Korea for its colonial rule over the country, seeking to strengthen ties between the two countries ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Japanese annexation of the Korean peninsula. Links: Japan, South Korea
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2010 Aug 14 |
South Korean Lee Dae-Ho broke a world record by scoring a home run for his ninth straight game. Links: South Korea, Baseball, World Record
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2010 Aug 15 |
South Korea’s Pres. Lee Myung-bak proposed a 3-step plan to unify the Korean peninsula and a new tax to help his country absorb the enormous cost of integration. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Aug 17 |
North Korea rejected a new unification proposal from South Korea, calling it a "ridiculous" plan aimed at weakening the North in preparation for a US-assisted invasion. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Aug 19 |
South Korea said it has blocked North Korea's new Twitter account from being accessed in the South, saying the tweets contain "illegal information" under the country's security laws. Links: North Korea, South Korea, Internet
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2010 Aug 20 |
South Korean authorities arrested Rev. Han Sang-ryol, a religious activist, as he returned home across the heavily fortified border after an illegal trip to North Korea. South Korea’s government prohibits its citizens from joining pro-North Korean organizations or having unauthorized contact with the communist country. They also ban citizens from supporting or praising the North. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Sep 1 |
A South Korean news report and an intelligence official said North Korea has changed the names of its trading companies and falsified trade documents to avoid international sanctions and continue exporting weapons. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Sep 2 |
Typhoon Kompasu struck South Korea, killing 5 people and toppling trees, streetlights and scaffolding in what was called the strongest storm to hit the Seoul area in 15 years. In North Korea the typhoon killed dozens of people and destroyed roads, railways and thousands of homes. Links: North Korea, South Korea, Hurricane
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2010 Sep 8 |
South Korea said it will ban unauthorized financial dealings with Iran and impose other penalties as part of a US-led campaign to enforce sanctions against the country over its disputed nuclear enrichment program. South Korea listed 126 Iranian companies and individuals for the sanctions. Links: Iran, South Korea, Nuclear
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2010 Sep 13 |
South Korea announced plans to send 5,000 tons of rice and other aid to flood-stricken North Korea in a sign of easing tension between the divided countries. Links: North Korea, South Korea, Food
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2010 Sep 15 |
The Korea Communications Commission said there were 50 million mobile service subscribers in South Korea as of this month, more than the population of 48.8 million. Links: South Korea, Telecom
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2010 Sep 16 |
North Korea said it proposed a joint probe with the US of the deadly March 26 sinking of a South Korean warship. An earlier international investigation blamed Pyongyang. Links: USA, North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Sep 21 |
Eighteen people have died and 48 are missing after Fanapi churned through southern China, while 65 people were killed in monsoon rain in India and 100,000 displaced after a lake burst in southern Pakistan. Two people went missing and thousands of homes flooded when a record rainstorm hit parts of South Korea during a national holiday. Links: China, India, Pakistan, South Korea, Hurricane
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2010 Oct 1 |
Red Cross officials from the two Koreas agreed to hold reunions for families separated by the Korean War amid mixed signals from North Korea on easing tensions over the sinking of a South Korean warship. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Oct 7 |
South Korean financial regulators said they will suspend the operations of an Iranian bank for two months, as part of international sanctions over Tehran's suspected nuclear weapons program. Links: Iran, South Korea, Banking
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2010 Oct 10 |
In South Korea Hwang Jang-yop (87), the key architect of North Korea's isolationist state policy, was found dead at his Seoul residence. He once mentored authoritarian leader Kim Jong Il before defecting to South Korea in 1997. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Oct 10 |
Some 7,200 South Korean and foreign couples exchanged or reaffirmed marriage vows in the Unification Church's second mass wedding this year. Links: South Korea
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2010 Oct 25 |
South Korea prepared to send 5,000 tons of rice to flood victims in North Korea in its first humanitarian rice shipment to its communist neighbor since a conservative, pro-US government took office in 2008. Links: North Korea, South Korea, Food, Donation
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2010 Oct 27 |
South Korea's Red Cross said North Korea is demanding that South Korea resume large-scale food aid and joint economic projects in return for regular reunions of family members separated by the Korean War more than a half century ago. Links: North Korea, South Korea, Food
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2010 Oct 29 |
North and South Korea exchanged gunfire across their heavily armed land border, despite an apparent thaw in tensions on the divided peninsula in the past few months. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Oct 30 |
Hundreds of North and South Korean family members separated for more than half a century by the Korean War embraced each other in tearful reunions. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Nov 7 |
In South Korea thousands of people chanted anti-globalization slogans in Seoul to protest this week's Group of 20 summit. Part of the crowd attempted to march down nearby streets but were stopped by riot police, who fired pepper spray. Links: South Korea, G20
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2010 Nov 10 |
President Barack Obama arrived in South Korea for the G20 summit. He said a strong, job-creating economy in the United States would be the country's most important contribution to a global recovery as he pleaded with world leaders to work together despite sharp differences. Links: USA, South Korea, G20, ObamaB
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2010 Nov 10 |
A South Korean navy ship was sinking late Wednesday after colliding with a larger fishing boat off the southern coast. 28 navy sailors were rescued but two were still missing. Links: South Korea, Ship
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2010 Nov 11 |
A 2-day G20 economic summit opened in Seoul, South Korea, with President Barack Obama and fellow world leaders sharply divided over currency and trade policies. They hoped to address 3 major concerns: a) the dominance of the dollar as a reserve currency and America’s management of it; b) the problem of vast foreign exchange reserves, particularly in emerging countries; c) The scale and volatility of capital flows. Links: USA, South Korea, Economics, Big Money, G20, ObamaB
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2010 Nov 11 |
A woman (41) made her way to South Korea from North Korea becoming the 20,000th defector to do so. The last 10,000 came over the last 3 years. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Nov 12 |
In South Korea leaders of the G20 major economies refused to back a US push to make China boost its currency's value, keeping alive a dispute that raises fears of a global trade war amid criticism that cheap Chinese exports are costing American jobs. Links: USA, China, South Korea, G20
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2010 Nov 12 |
A South Korean spy plane crashed during routine training and its two pilots were killed in the 2nd military accident to strike South Korea while it hosted the G20 summit. Links: South Korea, Espionage
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2010 Nov 14 |
Iranian officials reported that Iran’s Entekhab Industrial Group has signed a contract sealing its acquisition of South Korea's Daewoo Electronics for some $518 million. Daewoo was set up in the 1960s and became one of the biggest companies in the world before it disintegrated in financial disarray in the 1990s. Its shipbuilding and auto units are now independent companies in their own right. Links: Iran, South Korea, M&A
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2010 Nov 15 |
South Korea's government the number of North Koreans defecting to South Korea has surged in recent years because of economic suffering in the North, with more than 10,000 defections over the past three years. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Nov 15 |
In South Korea a 15-year-old boy committed suicide after killing his mother in a fight over Internet games. Links: South Korea, Suicide, Murder, Internet, Teens Amuck
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2010 Nov 23 |
North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire after the North shelled an island near their disputed sea border, killing at least 2 South Korean marines and 2 civilians, setting dozens of buildings ablaze and sending civilians fleeing for shelter. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Nov 25 |
South Korea's defense minister resigned amid intense criticism two days after a North Korean artillery attack killed four people on a small island near the Koreas' disputed frontier. Links: South Korea
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2010 Nov 28 |
China called for emergency talks on resolving a crisis on the Korean peninsula, and Seoul and Tokyo said they would study the proposal, as the US and South Korean militaries started a massive drill. Links: USA, China, North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Dec 3 |
US and South Korean representatives broke through a stalemate on issues related to the automobile industry, clearing the way for closer economic ties with fast-expanding South Korea. President Barack Obama hailed the agreement as a "landmark trade deal" that would support at least 70,000 US jobs. Links: USA, South Korea
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2010 Dec 3 |
Lithuania said a South Korean bidder, Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), had pulled out of a four-nation nuclear power plant project and another was rejected. Lithuania itself has been aiming to have a stake of around one-third, but there has been disagreement with Estonia, Latvia and Poland about their relative holdings and power share-out. Links: Lithuania, South Korea, Nuclear
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2010 Dec 3 |
South Korea threatened to bomb North Korea if it tries a repeat of last week's attack, raising its rhetoric after the US warned of an "immediate threat" from Pyongyang. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Dec 6 |
The US, South Korea and Japan all urged China to help rein in its ally North Korea and vowed solidarity in defending Seoul from any further attacks from the North. Links: USA, China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Dec 7 |
South Korea's Pres. Lee Myung-bak promised to transform five islands that lie along the tense maritime border with North Korea into "military fortresses" impervious to the kind of deadly attack the rival neighbor launched last month. Links: North Korea, South Korea
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2010 Dec 8 |
The EU competition watchdog fined 5 Taiwanese and South Korean electronics companies euro649 million ($857 million) for fixing prices on LCD panels between 2001 and 2006. Samsung Electronics Co., also participated in the price fixing but escaped a fine because it blew the whistle on the cartel. Links: Taiwan, EU, South Korea
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2010 Dec 13 |
A South Korean fishing boat sank in the Antarctic Ocean's frigid waters, with 22 sailors feared killed in the open sea where vessels trawl for deep-water fish. 20 survivors were rescued shortly after the 614-ton vessel went down some 1,400 miles (2,250 km) south of New Zealand. 5 bodies were recovered and 17 men remained missing. Links: South Korea, Tragedy, Antarctica, Fish
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