‘Noda’s comfort women remarks wrong’
Seoul rejected Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s remarks made Monday that there was no evidence indicating that the Japanese military enforced sexual slavery during World War II. A foreign ministry official told reporters that wartime sex slaves were a historical fact that cannot be denied, expressing regret over the Japanese leader’s comments. “Through a statement […]
PSY’s ‘Gangnam Style’ introduced in NBC, following CNN, ABC
Korea’s popular singer PSy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ was introduced in the NBC’s morning news “The Today Show” following the CNN and ABC, confirming its growing popularities in the United States. Natalie Morales who is a co-anchor of the NBC Today Show, introduced PSY’s ‘Gangnam Style’ for one minute on August 22nd (local time). NBC’s Today Show showed PSY’s music […]
Survey result: Majority of Koreans view Lee’s visit to Dokdo positively
Some 26 percent of those polled to assess President Lee Myung-bak’s duty performance in the third week of August (13th – 17th) were learned to have assessed positively. It was 6 percent higher than that of the positive repliers in previous week, according to recent survey conducted by Gallup Korea. The survey was aimed to know people’s reaction following […]
Actor Song remains calm on Japan’s entry denial
Hallyu actor Song Il-gook responded matter-of-factly to a senior Japanese official’s comment that he may not be allowed to enter Japan. Appearing on a cable network Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi said that it’s regrettable but Song may find it difficult to visit Japan in the future because that’s the state of Japanese […]
EU invites Koreans to apply for unique scholarship
When Suh Sim-eun, a former research officer at the Global Green Growth Institute, studied environmental studies, her classrooms were scattered across Europe: Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and Denmark. When not working, she made time to study Spanish or crossed a border into another country for the weekend. “Mobility was so convenient, and I liked […]
KR to lead global railway market
Korea Rail Network Authority (KR), the state-run railway builder and maintenance manager, is stepping up efforts to share its knowhow with developing countries as trains have emerged as a preferred, sustainable means of transportation across the world. It has offered China and other developing economies construction supervision and consulting management assistance in railroad projects over […]
US fence-sitting on Dokdo row
NEW YORK — Korea-Japan relations are getting rockier by the day, with stories about the bilateral standoff starting to take up more space, more often in U.S. print, television and online news. Not surprisingly, Washington is sitting on the fence over the intensifying territorial feud between its two most important allies in Northeast Asia. But […]
Did Steve Jobs dupe us all?
Set aside all the hanky panky about the U.S. jury’s $1.05 bil. verdict in favor of Apple over Samsung Electronics in their patent dispute. The real issue is whether the framework of the century-old patent laws, which served as the basis for the San Jose decision, has outlived its essential usefulness for inspiring innovation. The […]
Apple’s design claim rejected
A Korean court gave a partial victory to Samsung in its patent dispute with Apple, Friday. The three-judge panel in the Seoul Central District Court ruled that the Korean firm didn’t infringe on Apple’s designs, the key part of the iPhone maker’s legal argument, while the American firm copied two of Samsung’s wireless patents. The […]
‘Takeshima doesn’t exist’
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade criticized the foreign minister of Japan Thursday for his remarks on Dokdo made a day earlier in the Diet, demanding the neighboring country stop its diplomatic provocation over the islets’ sovereignty. Speaking in a regular briefing, foreign ministry spokesman Cho Tae-young demanded Koichiro Gemba withdraw his remarks that […]
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