BEIJING — An agriculture vocational school has decided to scrap a new rule requiring all female students to take pregnancy tests amid concerns the tests would violate the girls’ privacy. SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean court rejected a plea for the release of Hanwha Group Chairman Seoung Youn Kim , who is jailed on charges of involvement in an assault against six bar workers in Korea. Police say Kim, who heads South Korea’s 12th largest business conglomerate, arranged for gangsters to kidnap and assault six employees of a Seoul bar in revenge for an earlier scuffle between the bar workers and Kim’s son, a student at Yale who was in Korea participating in an exchange program with a local university. SEOUL, South Korea — Dating agencies, both offline and online, are becoming widely accepted among Korean single men and women who are looking for potential partners. read more

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