Topic: South Korea — Neutral reports only
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[2026-09-01 12:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- The labor ministry said Tuesday it seeks more than 38 trillion won (US$27.7 billion) for next year's budget to bolster support for youth employment.
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[2026-09-01 12:49 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Collectible design fair returns with first gallery program and expanded Korean designer showcase
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[2026-09-01 12:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: JEJU, South Korea, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- A Jeju police officer arrested for wrongfully closing a missing person case that may have contributed to the woman's death has claimed to have done so to avoid an increased workload, police said Tuesday.
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[2026-09-01 12:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL/SEJONG, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean government on Tuesday unveiled details of the Future Fund, which it plans to launch next year to channel an unprecedented tax revenue windfall generated from the semiconductor boom into sustainable economic growth by prioritizing "productive spending" over one-off expenditures amid the global artificial intelligence (AI) boom.
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[2026-09-01 12:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL/SEJONG, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- The following is the gist of the 820.9 trillion-won (US$595 billion) state budget for next year that the budget ministry proposed on Tuesday. The government also gave estimates on total revenue and midterm fiscal management plans.
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[2026-09-01 12:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: RECASTS throughout with details)By Kang Yoon-seung
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[2026-09-01 12:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: ADDS instructions from President Lee in paras 8-10)By Oh Seok-min
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[2026-09-01 12:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded lower late Tuesday morning as investor sentiment was dampened due to renewed military tensions in the Middle East.
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[2026-09-01 12:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- Former Spain head coach Robert Moreno was named the temporary manager of the South Korean men's national football team Tuesday.
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[2026-09-01 12:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- Seven in 10 South Koreans said they support the introduction of a policy restricting social media use by teenagers, a poll showed Tuesday, amid growing concerns over the excessive use of such platforms.
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[2026-09-01 12:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: ADDS more details throughout, additional photo)By Oh Seok-min
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[2026-09-01 12:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Kim Yong-beom had drawn criticism over the rapid introduction of single-stock exchange-traded funds and ‘citizen dividend’ proposal
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[2026-09-01 12:15 UTC+10:00] [stock market] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Kim Yong-beom had drawn criticism over the rapid introduction of single-stock exchange-traded funds and ‘citizen dividend’ proposal
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[2026-09-01 12:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- The budget minister on Tuesday proposed a record 820.9 trillion won (US$595 billion) budget for 2027.
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[2026-09-01 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- Los Angeles has officially declared "BTS Week" ahead of the K-pop supergroup's four sold-out shows, the latest in a series of such honors bestowed on the group by cities around the world, the group's agency BigHit Music said Tuesday.
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[2026-09-01 11:52 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea will release a record 183,000 tons of key food products ahead of the Chuseok holiday later this month, the finance ministry said Tuesday, as part of its effort to stabilize consumer prices.
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[2026-09-01 11:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will release a record 183,000 tons of key food products ahead of the Chuseok holiday later this month, the finance ministry said Tuesday, as part of its effort to stabilize consumer prices.
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[2026-09-01 11:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
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[2026-09-01 11:45 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
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[2026-09-01 11:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
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[2026-09-01 11:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: GYEONGSAN, South Korea, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- Police on Tuesday disclosed the identity of a Chinese man suspected of killing his student, also from China, in the southeastern city of Gyeongsan last month.
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[2026-09-01 11:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- Industry Minister Kim Jung-kwan will visit the United States from Sept. 1-4 (U.S. time) to attend a Group of 20 (G20) meeting on innovation and a groundbreaking ceremony for the Hyundai-POSCO Louisiana steel plant (HPLS), the ministry said Tuesday.
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[2026-09-01 11:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: CHANGES headline, lead; UPDATES with latest info)By Yoo Jee-ho
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[2026-09-01 11:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- Kim Si-woo and Tom Kim have made the International Team for the upcoming Presidents Cup, the biennial match play event pitting non-European international stars against their American counterparts.
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[2026-09-01 11:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. said Tuesday that it has signed a 1.72 trillion-won (US$1.25 billion) contract to supply multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) for artificial intelligence (AI) servers to a U.S.-based customer.
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[2026-09-01 11:14 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: A South Korean disaster relief team was set to leave for Nepal late Tuesday to support search, rescue and other relief efforts following devastating floods, the foreign ministry said.
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[2026-09-01 11:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: REWRITES lead; ADDS more details in last 6 paras)By Oh Seok-min
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[2026-09-01 11:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: ADDS details in last 3 paras)
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[2026-09-01 11:09 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea's finance ministry on Tuesday decided to impose antidumping duties on Chinese butyl acrylate after concluding that the imports had harmed the domestic industry.
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[2026-09-01 11:04 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Actor Ha Young, who had come under fire over allegations surrounding her great-grandfather's pro-Japanese activities during Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of Korea, will not appear in the next season of the Netflix series "The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call," the streaming platform said Tuesday.
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[2026-09-01 11:00 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: For over a decade, I’ve navigated the complexities of North Korean affairs, security, and foreign policy from both Seoul and Washington, D.C. As the National Desk Political Team Lead, I track the pulse of geopolitics, closely following developments from the Unification Ministry and the Foreign Ministry. My mornings start with Rodong Sinmun—North Korea’s state mouthpiece—before diving into the day’s headlines from Seoul and Washington.
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[2026-09-01 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's finance ministry on Tuesday decided to impose antidumping duties on Chinese butyl acrylate after concluding that the imports had harmed the domestic industry.
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[2026-09-01 10:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- A flagship submarine of the South Korean Navy returned home Tuesday after completing the first and longest round-trip transit across the Pacific Ocean, the armed forces said.
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[2026-09-01 10:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korea was set to dispatch a disaster relief team to Nepal on Tuesday to support search, rescue and other relief efforts following devastating floods, the foreign ministry said.
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[2026-09-01 10:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- Seven military officers have been disciplined over lax management of firearms and ammunition since July last year, data showed Tuesday, amid continued gun-related incidents in the military.
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[2026-09-01 10:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
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[2026-09-01 10:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: CHANGES headline, lead; ADDS details in last 6 paras)
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[2026-09-01 10:30 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean stocks opened lower Tuesday, dragged down by losses on Wall Street due to a resumption of military clashes between the United States and Iran.
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[2026-09-01 10:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: UPDATES with latest figures in paras, 2, 5-9)
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[2026-09-01 10:13 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean pitcher Go Woo-suk has become a free agent after refusing an outright assignment to the minor league by the Minnesota Twins.
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[2026-09-01 10:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- Actor Ha Young, who had come under fire over allegations surrounding her great-grandfather's pro-Japanese activities during Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of Korea, will not appear in the next season of the Netflix series "The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call," the streaming platform said Tuesday.
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[2026-09-01 10:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's monthly exports soared 68.7 percent in August from a year earlier on solid chip shipments, data showed Tuesday.
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[2026-09-01 10:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks opened lower Tuesday dragged down by losses on Wall Street due to a resumption of military clashes between the United States and Iran.
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[2026-09-01 10:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
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[2026-09-01 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
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[2026-09-01 09:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- Presidential chief of staff for policy Kim Yong-beom has offered to resign, and President Lee Jae Myung has accepted his resignation, a presidential spokesperson said Tuesday.
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[2026-09-01 09:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korean pitcher Go Woo-suk has become a free agent after refusing an outright assignment to the minor league by the Minnesota Twins.
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[2026-09-01 09:40 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: A South Korean government rapid response team has searched the flood-hit area in Nepal with a helicopter and drones, but made no meaningful progress in finding nine South Koreans missing in massive floods in the country, according to its official.
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[2026-09-01 09:36 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Unionized workers of Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's largest automaker, have voted to accept a wage deal for this year, including a 100,000 won ($73) increase in monthly base pay, the union said Tuesday.
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[2026-09-01 09:33 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The White House has asked a Pentagon agency what it could do should US President Donald Trump be able to reach a deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the agency's director said Monday, another sign that Trump is looking to resume summitry with Kim.
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