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    Changing tastes lead to sharp drop in price for traditional ingredients like ox tail, bones, increase in prices for luxury cuts of beef and popularity of fast food.
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  • Court Forces Man to Pay Lottery Winnings After Drunk Promise
    After man promises to pay back a friend with lottery winnings, he later wins ₩1.4 billion but refuses to pay. Court says it was a legal contract, forces him.
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  • Korean Mother Kills Her Autistic Child, Gets 3 Years in Prison
    After woman strangles her four-year-old girl, court gives special consideration for the "hardship of raising her child" in sentencing, netizens sympathize
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  • Balloons Carry News of Ri Sol-ju’s ‘Porno’ to North Korea
    After reports that Ri, wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, starred in a pornographic film, South Korean groups sent news of the film over the border.
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  • Adultery Scandal at Korea’s Elite Law School Ends in Suicide
    Wife commits suicide after hearing about her husband's infidelity from his lover, netizens shocked by the behavior of Korea's brightest scholars, future judges.
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  • Wild Boar Rampages through South Korean City, Injures 5
    Online animal rights activists protest police killing of wild boar, claiming that habitat destruction has driven the animals to seek food in cities.
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  • Rebuttal: Why Korea is Ranked 108th in Gender Equality
    Responding to last week's article, Chelle B. Mille, editor of Korea Gender Cafe, offers an explanation for Korea's low ranking in international report.
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  • Disbelief as Korea is Ranked 108th in Global Gender Equality
    New criticism online points out flaws in "unflattering" World Economic Forum ranking that puts South Korea far behind Tanzania and Senegal in gender equality.
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  • “The man must buy the house” Men Protest Marriage Burden
    Report on the stress Korean men feel trying to meet social obligations and buy a house before getting married brings widespread support and criticism online.
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  • Man Arrested for Pretending to Graduate from Harvard
    Seoul police arrest man after he defrauds fiancee out of $50,000 by lying about his background, maintains the lie for six years. Netizens applaud his boldness.
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  • South Korean Soldiers Shoot Man Defecting to the North
    On September 16, thirty South Korean sentries opened fire on a man attempting to swim across the Imjin River to North Korea, killing him.
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  • Vietnam Welcomes President Park’s State Visit
    Citing large number of Korean-Vietnamese marriages as a sign of close bilateral relations, Vietnamese President calls South Korea "our country-in-law".
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  • Jealous Over a Girl, Students Beat Boy To Death
    Korean media and Facebook shocked after footage emerged of a group of high school students trying to wake up a younger student they had just beaten to death.
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  • Rival Gangs Declare War in Daejeon
    As gang members brawl in alleys and show off their tattoos, Koreans laugh at their antics and demand a ruthless crackdown on the "pussy wannabe thugs".
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  • Celebrities Sucked Into Ilbe Controversy
    As the controversy over Ilbe membership spreads to mainstream Korea, Crayon Pop, Busker Busker, and other celebrities have been accused of supporting the website.
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  • ‘Dog Beach’ Provokes Backlash against Pet Owners
    South Korea's first beach to allow dogs is attracting both praise and disgust, netizens ask the critical question: "Do dogs pee in the ocean?"
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