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...Passed down from monk to monk over the centuries, it was first documented by abbot Seol Jeog Un, who established a training centre here in 2001....
...asks Hye-jin, a 31-year-old South Korean who works in finance....
...Sung Il-jong, a ruling People Power party lawmaker, said that the repatriation proved that “the Moon administration was a friend of the Kim Jong Un regime”....
...The latest UN World Population Prospects report from 2019 predicts global population growth will level off by roughly 2100, while a paper published by researchers in The Lancet last year forecasts that the...
...They have mostly languished since the downfall of Park Geun-hye, the president who was ousted from office and imprisoned over corruption....
...Shin Hye Yong, the interpreter for Mr Kim at the Hanoi meeting, has also been detained at an internment camp for political prisoners for undermining his authority by making a critical mistake in interpretation...
...Samsung has come under fire at overseas plants for labour issues with UN experts voicing concern in March about the treatment of workers at its smartphone factories in Vietnam....
...Samsung said it took the UN allegations seriously, that it was investigating the matter and will co-operate closely with the relevant UN bodies....
...UN experts voiced concern in March about the treatment of workers at Samsung’s massive smartphone factories in Vietnam....
...Kim Ji-hye, a social worker, worried the Yemenis could take South Koreans jobs or the government would be forced to provide them with welfare support....
...Russia’s UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia cited UK TV show Midsomer Murders, Alice in Wonderland and Joseph Goebbels in his warnings to Britain at the meeting....
...Friday’s meeting between South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in and North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un will mark the culmination of whirlwind diplomacy that has taken the two neighbours from the edge...
...Ban Ki-moon, the former UN secretary-general, was at one point angling at a run but quickly dropped out amid what he called “slander close to character assassination”....
...Critics of South Korea point to the impeachment of former President Park Geun-hye and her ongoing corruption trial, or the jailing of Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong as signs of chaos and rot....
...As in the north, events in South Korea are moving fast, leaving this first edition of The New Koreans without any mention of the recent impeachment of President Park Geun-hye or of the arrest of Samsung’...
...With former president Park Geun-hye now officially impeached, South Korea’s political parties are preparing for presidential elections on May 9....
...“It will be remembered as a decision going against the rule of law in favour of criminal acts by President Park Geun-hye and big businesses,” said Ms Choo....
...South Korean lawmakers on Friday voted decisively to impeach President Park Geun-hye following a scandal that gripped the nation for weeks and sparked massive anti-government demonstrations....
...The country is facing a power vacuum after the impeachment of former president Park Geun-hye....
...of a baby Hawaiian bobtail squid was among winning entries in the Wellcome Image awards A stork chases another away from its nest in Biebesheim, south of Frankfurt, Germany Tuesday March 7 Kim Jong Un...
...In addition to the economic posts, Mr Moon on Sunday announced Kang Kyung-hwa, a veteran diplomat at the UN, would head up the ministry of foreign affairs....
...Mr Moon suggested that the great powers were taking advantage of the country’s political vacuum following the impeachment of former president Park Geun-hye to exclude it from deliberations on North Korea...
...represents a break from nine years of conservative rule, and as a leader who can restore stability in the chaotic aftermath of the corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of his predecessor Park Geun-hye...
...In South Korea, the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye is likely to lead to a government that is more willing to sit down with its counterparts from the north....
...which sees the Thaad system as a threat to its security, has stepped up economic retaliation against Korean companies in recent months, angry over Seoul’s rushed instalment of the system under Park Geun-hye...
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