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13 July 2016
This sign, it seems, may be common in South Korea. Outside public toilets and restaurant toilets.
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Amanda D There should be a the toilet signs of Korea dot tumblr dot com
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find amusement from the toilet signs in korea
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“@iTweetFacts: Toilet signs get creative ” definitely looks like what I’ve seen in #korea
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From Korea, the nation that gives us K Pop and excellent cars, comes the first woman charged with rape!
Straits Times
Woman charged with rape for first time in South Korea
SEOUL (KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – A woman in her 40s has been indicted on charges of attempting to rape a man after drugging him, becoming the first woman to be charged for such an offence in South Korean history.
Up until June 2013, Korean law did not acknowledge women as rapists, which meant it was not possible for male victims to file complaints to the police.
This is also the first time a woman was arrested for sexually abusing a man.
According to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in Seoul, the woman, who is only identified with her surname Jeon, was charged with attempting to rape her boyfriend after drugging him at her place last year. He was married to another woman at that time.
– See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/east-asia/story/woman-charged-rape-first-time-south-korea-20150403#sthash.0VThYZzx.dpuf
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Household debt crisis continues in S.Korea. Here is my 2014 story on how debt is linked to Korea‘s high suicide rate: http://goo.gl/0DxJ3U
Last month, a middle-aged couple and their teenage daughter in Incheon committed suicide by inhaling poisonous fumes, leaving behind a hand-written note in which the mother detailed the family’s hardships.
The 12-year-old daughter also left behind a note. “It’s going to be OK because our family is going to be together forever,” it said.
A week later, the reasons behind the family’s suicide emerged. According to the police, it was debt.
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The family members are just three of some 14,000 South Koreans who kill themselves every year. Last year, 14,427 people ended their lives in Asia’s fourth-largest economy, equal to an average of 40 suicides every day.
South Korea’s suicide rate is already notorious, the highest among OECD nations from 2003 to 2013. The latest statistics show that an overwhelming majority of people who consider ending their lives do so due to financial hardship — particularly debt.
According to data of the National Assembly Budget Office obtained by The Korea Herald, South Koreans in every age group ― except teenagers and children ― said they thought of killing themselves the most when they faced “financial difficulties,” through the years of 2006 to 2012.
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20141116000273
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AMAZING! Only 2 dead in a 100-in-1 accident! But at least 42 were hurt,
2 dead in 100-car pile-up near S Korea’s Incheon airport http://cna.asia/17dW6fl
The multiple collision occurred in heavy fog on the Seoul-bound lane of a bridge that forms part of the main expressway linking Incheon airport with the capital. The pile-up appeared to have been started when a limousine ran into the back of a car, an Incheon police station spokesman said.
“More than 100 vehicles were involved,” he said, adding that the foggy conditions meant drivers could only see 15 meters in front of them. Five foreigners were among the 43 injured, but their nationalities were not immediately released, the spokesman added.
TV footage showed emergency rescue workers trying to access the mass of twisted and crumpled wrecks on the fog-covered bridge.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/2-killed-in-100-car-pile/1651178.html?cid=twtcna
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2 dead, dozens injured in 100-vehicle pileup in Incheon http://bit.ly/1E6ZHp6
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watch a news. 100+ vehicle pileup on Yeongjong Bridge, Incheon. It might caused by heavy fog lowering visibility
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bubble tea ‘ㅅ’ watch a news. 100+ vehicle pileup on Yeongjong Bridge, Incheon. It might caused by heavy fog lowering visibility
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100-car pileup on bridge leaves 2 dead, 42 hurt
#SouthKorea#Incheon http://www.nst.com.my/node/72552
New Straits Times Korean hospital responsible for faulty hair transplant: Court
Korean hospital to compensate patient $65,000 for faulty hair transplant: Court http://bit.ly/1u39XN8
Before
The Korea Herald/Asia News Network
A Seoul court ruled Thursday that a hospital was responsible for a patient who lost much of his hair due to a faulty hair transplant.
The Seoul Central District Court ordered the two doctors who performed the surgery to pay 54 million won (S$65,000) in compensation to the patient.
The 25-year-old patient received a hair transplant in 2012 at a plastic surgery clinic in Seoul.
After the surgery, the patient developed a skin infection that left a 22-by-3-cm scar on his scalp.
As the hair did not grow due to the scar, Park became almost bald.
According to the court, the hospital had excessively cut the scalp during the operation, and did not give proper treatment until the skin had already died.
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NOW A SUBWAY TRAIN ACCIDENT!
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NDTV
Subway Trains Crash in South Korean Capital, 170 People Hurt
World | Reuters | Updated: May 02, 2014 15:10 IST
Photo Credit: AFP
South Korean railway workers inspect two damaged trains after they collided at Sangwangsimni station in Seoul on May 2, 2014.
Seoul: A subway train in the South Korean capital Seoul crashed into another one at a station on Friday, injuring about 170 people, news reports and the emergency services said, although no one appeared to be seriously hurt.
The accident came just over two weeks after a South Korean ferry capsized and sank leaving 300 dead or missing in the submerged hull of the ship in the country’s worst disaster in 20 years.
Witnesses said one train was leaving Sangwangsimni station in the east of the capital when it was hit from the rear by an incoming train.
One subway car was derailed and passengers walked a short distance along the tracks to the station, YTN television said.
Many of the injuries were caused by passengers jumping from the subway cars onto the tracks, a government emergency official said.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/subway-trains-crash-in-south-korean-capital-170-people-hurt-517368
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SOUTH KOREA: FERRY SINKS, HUNDREDS MISSING!
Death toll rises to 213 in S. Korean ferry sinking disaster
Editor: Ren Zhongxi 丨Xinhua
05-01-2014 14:49 BJT
JINDO, South Korea, May 1 (Xinhua) — Death toll rose Thursday to 213 in a South Korean ferry disaster where the 6,825-ton passenger ship capsized and sank off the country’s southwestern coast.
As of Thursday afternoon, 213 people have been confirmed dead, leaving 89 others still missing. There has been no rescue reported since 174 people were saved from sea and the ship on April 16 when the ferry was upturned.
http://english.cntv.cn/2014/05/01/ARTI1398926844286200.shtml
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20 April 2014: Official death toll 50+
DEATH TOLL EXPECTED TO RISE!
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YAHOO! NEWS MALAYSIA
Divers begin pulling bodies from sunken ferry
By | Associated Press
MOKPO, South Korea (AP) — The confirmed death toll from South Korea’s ferry disaster rose past 50 on Sunday as divers finally found a way inside the sunken vessel, quickly discovering more than a dozen bodies in what almost certainly is just the beginning of a massive and grim recovery effort.
About 250 people are still missing from the ship, which had been packed with high school students on a holiday trip, and anguished families are furious with the pace of rescue efforts. Divers had previously failed to enter the ferry, officials said, because of extremely strong currents and bad visibility due to foul weather.
Beginning late Saturday, when divers broke a window, and continuing into Sunday, multiple teams of divers have found various routes into the ferry, discovering bodies in different spots, coast guard official Koh Myung-seok said at a briefing. Thirteen bodies have been found in the ship, while six other bodies were found floating outside Sunday, bringing the official death toll to 52.
At least 23 of the dead are students, according to coast guard spokesman Kim Jae-in. Divers have yet to find any survivors in the ship.
https://my.news.yahoo.com/divers-begin-pulling-bodies-sunken-ferry-025015634.html
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theguardian
South Korea ferry captain arrested
- theguardian.com, Friday 18 April 2014 21.18 BST
The captain of a South Korean ferry that sank on Wednesday leaving hundreds missing, feared dead has been arrested, the country’s Yonhap news agency says. Warrants for the arrest of two other crew members have also been lodged with a court.
The arrest came as speculation mounted that more lives could have been saved had the captain, Lee Joon-seok, issued an evacuation order sooner. Investigators were also examining reports that the ferry took a sharp turn just before it started listing as well as claims that Lee, 69, abandoned the ship, as hopes dimmed for the 268 passengers still trapped inside the vessel.
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Star
Friday April 18, 2014 MYT 10:05:04 PM
Vice-principal of South Korea school in ferry disaster commits suicide
MOKPO/JINDO, South Korea (Reuters) – The vice-principal of a South Korean high school who accompanied hundreds of pupils on a ferry that capsized has committed suicide, police said on Friday, as hopes faded of finding any of the 274 missing alive.
The Sewol, carrying 476 passengers and crew, capsized on Wednesday on a journey from the port of Incheon to the southern holiday island of Jeju.
Kang Min-gyu, 52, had been missing since Thursday. He appeared to have hanged himself with his belt from a tree outside a gym in the port city of Jindo where relatives of the people missing on the ship, mostly children from the school, were gathered.
Police said Kang did not leave a suicide note and that they had started looking for him after he was reported missing by a fellow teacher. He was rescued from the ferry after it capsized.
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NST photo
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Danwon High School students hold papers with messages such as “come back,” “miss you,” “love you” and “don’t loose your hope” for their friends who are missing after Wednesday’s ferry disaster during a candlelight vigil at the school yard in Ansan, South Korea. AP Photo
NST
S. Korea Ferry Incident: Death toll rises, hopes fade for hundreds missing
JINDO, South Korea: The death toll from a capsized South Korean passenger ferry rose to 25 today as parents of missing schoolchildren blamed the ship’s captain for the tragedy after he and shipping company officials made emotional apologies for the loss of life.
Of 475 passengers and crew on the Sewol ferry, which capsized in calm seas on Wednesday, 179 people are listed as safe and 271 are still missing.
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“(The child) told me in the text message, ‘I am alive, there are students alive, please save us quickly,” the father said.
Reuters
Survivors still alive on South Korean ferry: father
JINDO, South Korea
South Korean ferry ”Sewol” (L) is seen sinking at the sea off Jindo, as lighting flares are released for a night search, April 16, 2014.
(Reuters) – Several people appear to have survived in an air pocket of a capsized South Korean ferry, the father of one of the school children aboard the boat told a Reuters reporter accompanying families out to the scene of the disaster on Thursday.
About 290 people are still missing out of 450 passengers on the Sewol ferry, which capsized in still-mysterious circumstances off the Korean peninsula on Wednesday in what could be the country’s worst maritime accident in 20 years.
Many of the passengers were school children from one high school on the outskirts of Seoul.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/16/us-korea-ship-idUSBREA3F01Y20140416
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New reports say passengers aboard the capsized South Korean ferry Sewol were told to stay in place as water levels began to rise and the ship began to sink into the sea.
“Don’t move,” a voice warned, according to a recording obtained by CNN affiliate YTN. “If you move, it’s dangerous. Don’t move.”
Many victims claimed that the ferry operator was slow to react during the tragedy.
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RT @STForeignDesk LATEST: At least 4 killed in S.Korea #Sewol ferry disaster; 291 missing http://bit.ly/P4QeL6 pic.twitter.com/FGUkEwxykS
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CLICK ON LINK FOR VIDEO:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/apr/16/south-korea-ferry-sinks-helicopter-rescue-video
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韩国海警表示，在客轮沉没现场有2人死亡，其中一名死者是27岁的朴智元（音译），是船务公司女职员，第2名遇难者为韩国京畿道安山市檀园高中男生。
据悉，“岁月号”客轮载有339名京畿道安山市檀园高中学生和教师、2名菲律宾女歌手、24名工作人员等共477人。其中，檀园高中师生正准备前往济州岛毕业旅行。
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Bloomberg News
South Korea Says 293 Missing After Ferry Sinks En Route to Jeju
Apr 16, 2014
The passenger ship “Sewol” is sinking off 20 kilometers north of Jindo, South Korea on April 16, 2014.
South Korea’s government said 293 people are missing after a ferry carrying hundreds of high school students sank en route to the resort island of Jeju. At least two people, including a student, died in the accident.
A total of 164 people were rescued from the vessel, fewer than the 368 people announced earlier due to double-counting, Lee Gyeong Og, vice minister at the Ministry of Security and Public Administration, said at a televised press briefing. The total on board was also revised to 459, including 325 students, 15 teachers, and 30 crew members.
The passengers included 324 students and 14 teachers from Danwon High School near Seoul on an excursion to Jeju island, Kim Tae Eun, an official at the school southwest of Seoul, said by phone. A board posted at the school trying to track those rescued showed that only 80 had been accounted for.
Passengers are rescued by South Korean Coast Guard helicopter in the waters off the southern coast near Jindo
Rescue boats sail near the passenger ship “Sewol”, sinking off 20 kilometers north of Jindo, South Korea on April 16, 2014.
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