| June 28, 2008 | - Police in South Korea fired water cannons at protesters as Condoleezza Rice visited Seoul. “We don't need U.S. troops,” read a protest slogan, “we don't need U.S. mad cows.”
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BBC News
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| September 1, 2007 | -
South Korea was scandalized by resume cheats. “Before, we struggled more with fake luxury goods,” said Moon Moo-il, a prosecutor who combats credentials fraud. “Now that we have entered the knowledge-based society, we have to deal with an overflow of fake knowledge.”
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NY Times
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| June 1, 2007 | - A robot was assigned to guard duty at a South Korean school. The robot, said DU Robo CEO Kang Jung-Won, “will alert officials when it detects someone trying to seduce a student.”
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AFP via The Age
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| May 21, 2007 | - For the first time since the Korean War a train traveled between North and South Korea and a North Korean cargo ship docked in a South Korean port.
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ABC Radio Australia
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| January 19, 2007 | -
United States/South Korea trade talks came to a halt after the Koreans refused to accept shipments of U.S. beef that contained bone fragments.
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International Herald Tribune
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| November 27, 2006 | -
South Korea's
Agriculture Ministry announced plans to kill all the cats and dogs in Iksan, Korea. Minister Kim Chang-sup defended the action, undertaken in response to an outbreak of avian flu, by saying, “Other countries do it. They just don't talk about it.”
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New York Times
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| November 3, 2006 | - In South Korea, where miniskirts will soon be legalized, police have begun using “cyber terror units” to curb the rise of online bullying by the mob.
| Source 1:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
Source 2:
BBC News
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| October 19, 2006 | -
South Korean
scientists announced the development of a new genetically altered strain of adenovirus capable of destroying cancer cells.
| Source:
AFP via Breitbart
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| October 7, 2006 | -
South Korean soldiers fired 60 warning shots after North Korean soldiers crossed into the demilitarized zone, but it was not clear if North Korea's action was a deliberate provocation or an attempt to go fishing.
| Source 1:
CNN
Source 2:
Chicago Sun-Times
Source 3:
CNN.com
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| August 17, 2006 | -
South Korean DNA tests on tissues obtained during a 2003 hysterectomy indicated that a Frenchwoman was the mother of two rotting infant corpses found in a freezer at her home in Seoul, but she and her husband denied any relationship to the dead babies.
| Source:
Digital Chosunilbo
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| May 12, 2006 | - In South Korea
stem-cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk was indicted for fraud, embezzlement, and violation of bioethics laws.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| May 4, 2006 | -
Scientists in Korea revealed a new, attractive female robot that understands 400 words and can blink. "We are working," said one roboticist, "on upgrading the android with the aim of making it move its legs by the end of this year."
| Source:
The Korea Times
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| November 24, 2005 | - In South Korea
geneticist Hwang Woo-suk, who cloned an Afghan hound named Snuppy, resigned as chairman of the World Stem Cell Hub after it was discovered that he had used the eggs of women from his research team in experiments. “We needed a lot of ova for the research,” he explained, “but there were not enough ova around.”
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BBC News
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| October 3, 2005 | - Eleven people were killed during a stampede at a South Korean concert of songs popular with the elderly.
| Source:
SFGate.com
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| August 9, 2005 | - A South Korean man played video games for 50 straight hours, then died.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 7, 2005 | - And North Korea would not make changes to its nuclear program, despite the efforts of China, Japan, Russia, the United States, and South Korea.
| Source:
VOA.com
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| August 3, 2005 | - In South Korea, scientists cloned an Afghan hound. The clone is named Snuppy, for Seoul National University Puppy.
| Source:
AP
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| June 29, 2005 | - A South Korean pastor announced that he had raised enough money to send 1.2 million rabbits to North Korea.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 15, 2005 | - The grand opening of a new post office at a United States air base in South Korea was postponed, and a nearby shopping mall evacuated, when a mail-scanning device mistook a package of sauerkraut for a dangerous chemical.
| Source:
Stars and Stripes
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| February 4, 2005 | -
South Korea downgraded North Korea from "main enemy" to "military threat."
| Source:
BBC News
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| October 4, 2004 | -
Korean and Italian researchers developed a tiny robot with multiple legs designed to crawl through a patient's guts.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| August 16, 2004 | -
Korean researchers found that leukemia deaths are 70 percent higher among people who live near AM radio broadcasting towers.
| Source:
Wired
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| June 25, 2004 | - A South Korean hostage was beheaded.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 14, 2004 | -
South Korea's constitutional court reinstated President Roh Moo Hyun, who was impeached in March.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 14, 2004 | - Three crewmen died on a South Korean freighter after inhaling rotten squid gas.
| Source:
Mainichi Shimbun
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| February 12, 2004 | -
South Korean scientists created 30 human clone embryos and harvested embryonic stem cells from one of them; the stem cells were then injected into mice, where they formed cartilage, muscle, bone, and other tissues.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| February 12, 2004 | -
South Korea cracked down on lewd candy and cakes.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
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| January 17, 2004 | -
South Korea was incinerating tons of American beef products.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 30, 2003 | - Eight aides to President Roh Moo Hyun of South Korea were indicted for illegal fund-raising.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 20, 2003 | - A South Korean
farmer set himself on fire during a memorial for another Korean farmer who committed suicide (by stabbing himself in the heart with a Swiss Army knife) at the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun, Mexico.
| Source:
Reuters
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| July 18, 2003 | -
North and South Korean troops had a gunfight at the border.
| Source:
Sydney Morning Herald
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| June 9, 2003 | - It was announced that U.S. troops will be pulled back from the "tripwire" along the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.
| Source:
International Herald Tribune
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| February 11, 2003 | -
South Korea was wondering what to do with a gigantic rice surplus.
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| January 7, 2003 | -
South Korea's president-elect said that he was skeptical about President Bush's policies on North Korea, particularly the new notion of “tailored containment” that was suggested this week.
“Success or failure of a U.S. policy toward North Korea isn't too big a deal to the American people,” he said.
“But it is a life-or-death matter for South Koreans.”
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| December 4, 2001 | -
South and North Korea exchanged fire in the demilitarized zone separating the two countries.
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| September 18, 2001 | -
South Korea banned Japanese beef after a Holstein cow on a farm near Tokyo tested positive for mad cow disease.
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| August 14, 2001 | - A 20-mm Vulcan anti-aircraft cannon on top of a hotel in Seoul, South Korea, went off accidentally during an inspection.
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| June 19, 2001 | -
South Korea called out the army to fight a drought.
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| May 29, 2001 | -
South Korea's advertising review board banned a Kim Jong Il impersonator from television ads, apparently worried that the public was not yet ready to buy soap from the Dear Leader of North Korea.
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| May 1, 2001 | -
South Korea announced that it would send 200,000 tons of fertilizer to the North.
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| March 20, 2001 | -
North and South Korea exchanged mail for the first time since the Korean War.
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| March 20, 2001 | - Apparently offended by President Bush's comments last week about dear leader Kim Jong Il, North Korea cancelled peace talks with South Korea and denounced the United States as a “nation of cannibals.” South Korean scientists discovered over 100 endangered species thriving in the Demilitarized Zone along the border with North Korea.
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| March 13, 2001 | -
President Bush told South Korean president Kim Dae Jung, who recently won the Nobel Peace Prize, that the United States would not continue the Clinton Administration's efforts to make peace with North Korea. Bush said: “We're not certain as to whether or not they're keeping all terms of all agreements.” A White House spokesman later admitted that North Korea has not violated its single agreement with the U.S. and explained that although the president did not use the future tense he was in fact referring to future agreements. “That's how the president speaks,” the spokesman said.
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| March 6, 2001 | -
South Korean president Kim Dae Jung pleased Russian president Vladimir Putin by declaring his opposition to the United States' plan to build a national missile defense system that would violate the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty.
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| October 3, 2000 | - The defense ministers of North and South Korea met and decided to fix a railroad.
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| September 26, 2000 | -
South Korea urged Japan to get friendly with North Korea.
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