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South Korean survivor @songyi_baek_86 endured reporting her workplace bully and reliving the ordeal, only to be denied the right to know exactly how her harasser was disciplined. Now, she is fighting to change that. My @AFP story ➡️ tinyurl.com/3y87fn3s
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Firefighters battle a blaze in Guryong Village, the last shanty town in the South Korean capital of Seoul, known for its location next to the affluent Gangnam district.
No injuries have so far been reported, but 39 residents were forced to flee, according to local authorities
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North Korea said it tested an intermediate-range strategic missile on Saturday that involved the use of AI, hours after Seoul said Pyongyang had launched a ballistic missile.
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🇰🇵 🇰🇷 The blasts that wounded three South Korean soldiers last week were apparently caused by North Korean mines, Seoul said Tuesday, adding it was an armistice violation that would prompt "corresponding measures".
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ALT File image shows a North Korean soldier standing guard on a watchtower near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas in Paju.
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South Korea demands apology from Ukraine for denying an agreement to keep the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to Seoul confidential.
Ukrainian President Zelensky disclosed last week that his country had sent two North Korean soldiers to South Korea, adding they were "not easy to capture alive"
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🇰🇷 🦈 A wayward shark has become an unlikely celebrity in South Korea, drawing massive crowds, earning plaudits from the local mayor and even moving the stock market.
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South Korea’s president, Lee Jae Myung, said it was time to ease sanctions on North Korea, with conditions. nyti.ms/4yiDHcP
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OpenAI sued over Canada school shooting.
British Columbia has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in California over the company's failure to report violent activity on its ChatGPT service by the person who committed a mass school shooting in the western Canadian province
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South Korea’s grinding work culture is drawing some young women to a meaningful — if punishing — life as haenyeo, or “sea women,” who plunge into the ocean without oxygen tanks, eking out a living from the sea. My story for @AFP ➡️ shorturl.at/sG8Ix
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South Korea says it will not deploy troops to intervene militarily in the Iran war.
"There will be no involvement or intervention in the war. We will not deploy troops or military assets in that manner," President Lee said Friday, dismissing reports Seoul was weighing a possible deployment to the Strait of Hormuz.
Lee said South Korea will "carry out the minimum necessary activities," to protect their own merchant ships and oil shipping routes
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As scientists investigate the deadly floods that swept through Nepal and Tibet, online posts baselessly claim the disaster was caused by a Chinese dam collapse.
We reviewed forensic evidence and spoke to five experts to break down the sequence of events behind the devastation 🧵
ALT Infographic showing the route that the China-Nepal floods took through the Himalayas
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South Korea's rapid shift to all things digital has left many older citizens behind in one of the world's most tech-savvy & fastest-aging societies. Now Seoul is offering tech training for the elderly to narrow the "grey digital divide." My latest for @AFP france24.com/en/live-news/20…
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South Korea's all-consuming work culture is pushing some young women towards a meaningful - and punishing - way to make a living as haenyeo ("sea women"), who dive without oxygen tanks to catch what they can. Great @AFP story by @CLAIRE_D_AIRE france24.com/en/live-news/20…
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Nepal orders rescuers searching for survivors of deadly floods to get to safety as it reports a debris dam burst in Tibet on Friday, bringing risks of new torrents.
Emergency teams have so far recovered 472 bodies after a tsunami-like wall of water and mud crashed down on Wednesday in Nepal and Tibet
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🇳🇵 What caused the Nepal-Tibet flash floods?
A huge piece of ice that fell thousands of metres from a glacier into a river below may have unleashed the disaster in Nepal and Tibet. Here is what experts believe happened.
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Kept in the dark after reporting her boss for harassment, South Korean advocate Baek Song-yi is now campaigning for survivors' right to know how their bullies were disciplined.
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South Korea sent its first trial container ship through the Arctic on Saturday, as the Middle East war rattles global shipping, while environmental groups warned the route could accelerate polar ice melt.
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Saturday he would slap retaliatory tariffs on the United States after walking away from a "bad deal" on trade, deepening the rift between the longtime allies. u.afp.com/SV3Y
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North Korea slammed Japan's reported plans to increase its defence budget, accusing Tokyo on Saturday of preparing for a "war of aggression" as its US ally pursues talks with Pyongyang.
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