SouthKorea

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  Four given jail terms for conspiring to bilk money in Russian warship scam SEOUL -- Four people were jailed for up to five years for conspiring to deceive thousands of investors and bilking their money with false claims that a Russian Imperial Navy warship carrying gold was discovered near an island located between the Korean peninsula and Japan. The main culprit has been at large. The four included three four executives of Shinil, a Seoul-based company which claimed to have found Dmitrii Donskoi, a Russian warship, lying on a seabed nea 2019-05-02
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  ​Supreme Court finds Man guilty of obscene act for standing naked on hotel balcony SEOUL -- A 36-year-old man, who stood naked on the balcony of a hotel in a broad daylight facing towards an outdoor swimming pool, was found guilty of a lewd act after a 19-month legal battle that caused a heated online debate in South Korea over whether he should be punished or not. The man stood trial after a woman saw him standing naked on the sixth-floor balcony of a hotel room on September 11, 2017, in the southern port city of Busan, overlooking an outdoor swimming p 2019-04-30
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  4.3-magnitude quake rattles S. Korea's east coast, causes no casualties Primary school students run out of their classrooms on April 19 in the eastern city of Chuncheon after a 4.3-magnitude quake hit the east coast. SEOUL -- A 4.3 magnitude earthquake rattled the east coast of the Korean peninsula, but no casualties or grave property damage were reported because the epicenter was located in waters some 54 kilometers (33.4 miles) northeast of the port city of Donghae. The tremor began at 11:16 a.m. on Friday, shaking buildings and t 2019-04-19
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  Eleven apartment residents killed or injured by knife-wielding neighbor SEOUL -- A 42-year-old man went berserk, setting his house afire and wielding two knives blindly at fleeing apartment neighbors in a pre-dawn stabbing spree that killed five, injured six others and left stairways and corridors smeared with blood. The tragedy began at 4:25 a.m. Wednesday on the fourth floor of a 10-story apartment building in Jinju, 270 kilometers (167 miles) south of Seoul. The man identified by his surname An set afire the dining room of his house wit 2019-04-17
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  Jeju revokes license for S. Korea's first for-profit hospital built with Chinese money SEOUL -- South Korea's first for-profit hospital built by a Chinese investor on the southern resort island of Jeju lost its license due to a legal dispute over how to run it and a negative public perception, four months after hospital operators received conditional approval to start their business only for foreigners. The investor-owned hospital dates back to November 2005 when South Korea promulgated a special law to allow the construction of a health town in Se 2019-04-17