Old dog’s new tricks
NHN struggles to extend dominance to mobile Web NHN, the owner of Korea’s most widely used Web portal Naver, is ready to embrace mobile advertisements at a time when its key businesses are stalling. It remains uncertain whether the company’s new initiative will pay off but NHN is confident that the transition will cushion falling […]
Are privileges for elite athletes necessary evil?
This is the first in a series of articles aimed at helping determine whether the current system of rewarding outstanding athletes with privileges is still relevant or needs changing. — ED. Does Korea need to keep the current “old” system of awarding outstanding athletes with exemptions from mandatory military services and “unearned” diplomas from universities […]
NK’s economic reliance on China increases
North Korea’s trade dependence on China grew by leaps and bounds last year while economic relations with South Korea remain frozen, according to a report released Friday by Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA). In 2011, 89.1 percent of Pyongyang’s total external trade came from its neighboring economic powerhouse China recording $5.6 billion, a 62.4 percent […]
More grownup children live with parents
Koreans once held that when children became adults, they supported their parents. However, this is no longer the general trend, with more aging parents having to support adult sons and daughters, according to a Seoul City report Friday. The number of people in their 30s or 40s still living at home with their parents almost […]
‘Apple CEO would want to drop lawsuit’
Wozniak calls for Korean companies to become more innovative Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said that the ongoing patent battle between Apple and Samsung Electronics is doing no good to anyone, citing the dispute as a “pain in the ass.” “I have no details and paid no attention about the talks between Apple CEO Tim Cook […]
NK denounces S. Korea’s attempt to expel pro-NK lawmakers
North Korea has condemned Korea’s ruling Saenuri Party for seeking to strip two alleged pro-North Korean lawmakers of their parliamentary seats. “The madcap smear campaign … is nothing but a ‘witch hunt’ of modern version and sordid fascist politically-motivated terrorism,” the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in an English-language statement carried […]
Are they the only ‘fake’ foreign students?
KAIST kicks out 6 Indians; Suh’s experiment in jeopardy Six Indian students have been expelled from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), one of the country’s top universities, for presenting fabricated award certificates to gain admission, the school said Thursday. The students were admitted between 2009 and 2011 and had been taking […]
NK calls itself ‘nuclear-armed state’ in revised constitution
North Korea calls itself a “nuclear-armed state” in its recently revised constitution, according to its full text confirmed on Wednesday in the North’s “Naenara” web site. Following December’s death of leader Kim Jong-il, the North has revised its constitution to add three new sentences and one of them contains the term of a nuclear-armed state. […]
2nd ‘Comfort women’ ad placed in NYT
Singer Kim Jang-hoon and freelance Korean publicist Seo Kyoung-duk placed a full-page ad promoting awareness of “comfort women” in Tuesday’s edition of the New York Times. The ad was the second of its kind following one published in March. There were no pictures or images of the comfort women themselves. Instead, the ad, published on […]
UN tells NK to release South Korean family
The United Nations has requested North Korea to release and compensate a South Korean family held in the Stalinist state for 25 years, confirming it is a case of arbitrary detention, activists said Tuesday. It was the U.N.’s most specific statement over Shin Sook-ja, a 70-year-old South Korean woman — who the North claims is […]
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