South Korea's employment numbers are still lower than the previous year as the country slowly recovers from the economic damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The rate of employment for people aged 15 and over ....
The South Korean government is strengthening its investigation into the overheated housing market. Finance minister Hong Nam-ki held an online briefing on Wednesday and said that the police has been holdi....
Despite the raging controversy at home, the annual increase in housing prices in South Korea is actually in the lower ranks compared to other countries. In its quarterly report on housing prices in 63 countries, the IMF sa....
On the issue of arming South Korea and other countries with nuclear weapons against China,... President Donald Trump said during a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday,... that it's a "big p....
Seoul's AI Yangjae Hub is helping to create more jobs and foster more talent for South Korea's Artificial Intelligence industry. The Seoul Metropolitan Government has been helping more than 80 AI startup....
Democrat Joe Biden chooses Senator Kamala Harris for White House running mateDemocratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday picked Senator Kamala Harris as his choice for vice president, making her the first Black woman on a major-party US presidential ticket and giving him a partner well prepared to go on the attack against Republican President Donald Trump.
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Aardvarks are Ailing Amidst Heat and DroughtClimate change is expected to bring more frequent droughts and heat waves to Africa’s Kalahari desert. And aardvarks might not be able to cope. Jason G. Goldman reports.
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U.S. Presidential candidate Joe Biden has picked his running mate for the 2020 election Senator Kamala Harris making her the first black and South Asian American woman on a major U.S. party's presidential ticket.
The White House has reportedly instructed the U.S. negotiation team to imply that President Trump could withdraw some American troops from South Korea in light of their deadlocked defense cost negotiation....
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BLACKPINK Reveal Their New Single Features Selena Gomez!BLACKPINK finally made the big reveal! After weeks of teasing, the massively popular South Korean girl group finally announced the exciting news of their much-teased special guest for their upcoming single – and it’s Selena Gomez! PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Selena Gomez The gir....
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Job losses extend into July amid pandemic, unemployment rate up to 4%South Korea lost about 277,000 jobs in July, marking a decline in the number of the employed for a fifth consecutive month, as the new coronavirus pandemic strained business activities, data showed Wednesday. The country's jobless rate rose by 0.1 p....
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Harris has spent her entire career breaking barriersSen. Kamala Harris on Tuesday became the first Black and South Asian American woman chosen for national office by a major political party, when former Vice President Joe Biden named the moderate former prosecutor to be his running mate this fall.....
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Covid-19 affects police stationA returnee from South Africa Ncube Thandazile(31) who allegedly skipped Covid-19 quarantine when she came back is reported to have spread the deadly pandemic to....
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Meet Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's pick for vice presidentScott Olson/Getty Images
Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee for President Joe Biden has picked Kamala Harris to join him on his ticket as his VP.
Harris, a senator from California, was one of the many Democrats who had initially tossed their hats in the ring for president b....
This is the US coronavirus hotspot that's getting worse right nowCoronavirus test positivity rates are climbing again in Texas, to the point that public health experts are worried about the state becoming a new coronavirus hotspot.
Testing is down but case positives are up in Texas, which has seen more than half a million coronavirus cases so far during th....
LIVE UPDATES: Fulton County DA Paul Howard faces a runoff fight against Fani WillisAP Photo/Brynn Anderson
Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Paul Howard is facing the toughest re-election fight of his career in the run-off against South Fulton Judge Fani Willis.
In an upset, Willis was the top vote-getter in the three-way June 9 Fulton County DA Democratic pri....
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How I learned that even money and economic privilege couldn't protect me from racism in AmericaCourtesy Mitra Sharifi
Growing up biracial in a fairly wealthy family, I have always experienced some forms of privilege.
While I have a light complexion, spoke "well," and was able to wear name-brand clothes in school, I was still seen as "different" and unwelcome in white spaces — and tr....
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Viola Davis Buys the Former Plantation Where She Was Born for Her 55th BirthdayViola Davis has bought the house she was born in and the surrounding land, and she has announced this news on her 55th birthday. If you don’t know, Viola was born on a former plantation in South Carolina. “The above is the house where I was born August 11, 1965. It is the birthplace of [....
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LATAM Kicks Off Miami-Brazil Cargo FlightLATAM Cargo, South America's largest freighter operator, has started a weekly flight between Miami and the Florianopolis airport in southern Brazil.
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Worldwide virus cases top 20 million, doubling in six weeksIt took six months for the world to reach 10 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus. It took just over six weeks for that number to double.
The worldwide count of known COVID-19 infections climbed past 20 million on Monday, with more than half of them from just three countries: the U.S., Indi....
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Where will we live?: Palestinian girl weeps as Israel razes her homeA video has emerged of a teary-faced young Palestinian girl screaming “where will we live?” as her family's home was being bulldozed in front of her eyes in the south of the occupied city of Jerusalem al-Quds; a scene all too familiar to Palestinians, whose homes have been bulldozed by the Israe....
UK court says face recognition violates human rightsLONDON (AP) — The use of facial recognition technology by British police has violated human rights and data protection laws, a court said Tuesday, in a decision praised as a victory against invasive practices by the authorities.
In a case trumpeted as the first of its kind, Britain's Court of A....
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Korean football league adjusts fixtures ahead of Asian club tournamentThe top South Korean football league announced changes to its fixtures on Tuesday, a move designed to accommodate teams playing at a continental tournament in October. The six K League 1 matches set for Sept. 25-27 will be pl....
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Jeju Air Q2 net losses widen on failed Eastar merger Jeju Air Co., South Korea's biggest low-cost carrier, on Tuesday announced a revised second-quarter earnings report, which showed the company posted larger net losses than initially estimated due to the unsuccessful acquisition of debt-ridden....
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Veteran KBO slugger hits milestone home runKiwoom Heroes' slugger Park Byung-ho blasted a milestone home run on Tuesday, becoming only the second player in South Korean baseball history with seven straight 20-homer seasons. Park smacked a two-run homer off Warwick Sau....
The rainy season comes every year here in South Korea, but it's been for a record long 49 days this year and set to be even longer as more rain is in the forecast until this weekend. Landslides and fl....
Though it looks like we may be experiencing a respite from the rain, thousands who have lost homes from landslides and flooding triggered by the days-long downpour remain in temporary shelters... unable to retur....
President Moon Jae-in is calling on officials to do their utmost to prevent further loss of life and property damage from South Korea's record breaking monsoon rains. This at a Cabinet meeting today. At th....
The global coronavirus pandemic has hit the world hard with economies across the globe expected to shrink by at least five-percent. But the OECD expects South Korea to take the smallest hit to growth....
The South Korean government posted the biggest budget deficit in history in the first half of this year on a combination of high spending to stop COVID-19... and a drop in tax revenue. According to the finance min....
The world has reached the grim milestone of 20 million confirmed coronavirus cases and is edging closer to 750-thousand deaths globally. That's according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. is the hardest hit coun....
Amid warnings of a possible second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea's Ministry of Education has announced that it will provide free influenza vaccinations to all elementary, middle and high school stud....
South Korea's foreign minister Kang Kyung-wha has returned from her first overseas visit in almost six months. She had been in Berlin where she met her German counterpart Heiko Maa....
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'There is a political crisis in Zimbabwe' ANC saysSouth Africa ruling party ANC's International Relations Committee Chairperson, Lindiwe Zulu says the party has resolved that there is a political crisis in Zimbabwe.In a....
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UK court rules police use of facial recognition was 'unlawful'British police used facial recognition unlawfully, the Court of Appeal ruled today, in a landmark decision that could have a big impact on the technology's use in the UK. The judgment stems from a complaint by Cardiff resident Ed Bridges, who said police had scanned his face while he was Christmas ....
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Crowds at South Dakota motorcycle rally raise fears of super spreader eventHundreds of thousands of motorcycle riders and enthusiasts have descended on Sturgis, South Dakota, for the annual motorcycle rally. The event is raising concerns about the spread of coronavirus. CNN's Ryan Young reports.....
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Trevor Noah says we should *actually* put Trump on Mount RushmoreOn Aug. 9, Donald Trump tweeted that he thought it would be a "good idea" to add his face to Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, alongside the heads of former presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. The president's tweet came after reports from th....
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SA envoys shows Chamisa the middle fingerSPECIAL envoys appointed by African Union chairperson, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to probe reports of gross human rights violations in Zimbabwe jetted out of....
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Gyeonggi Province sets example for universal basic incomeWhen Gyeonggi Province Gov. Lee Jae-myung first brought the idea of universal basic income to South Korea’s political arena years ago, it was quickly dismissed as too far-fetched and populist. Now, the COVID-19 crisis put the universal basic i....
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US military personnel must be tested for coronavirus before traveling hereStarting Aug. 21, all US military personnel will be required to undergo coronavirus testing before departing for South Korea, a US military newspaper reported Friday. They must also observe a two-week quarantine before departure and again upon arri....
Pakistan's Covid-19 situation better than region's but can worsen if people stop precautions: UmarMinister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Tuesday compared Pakistan's Covid-19 situation to that of the region, saying the country's positivity rate and death toll was much better than its neighbours, at the same time warning that the situation could worsen if people st....
