Korean companies urged to upgrade CSR
Participants are all ears during an international seminar about corporate social responsibility, organized by the Korea Social Responsibility Institute, at a Seoul hotel, Wednesday. Wayne Visser, an internationally-renowned corporate social responsibility(CSR) expert said Wednesday that companies need to change their traditional CSR concepts to more creative and transformative ways, which he named CSR 2.0. The […]
Universities need freedoms to go global
Harvard professor says research key to becoming global university A Harvard University professor said universities should strengthen their research as one way to become a global entity. Jorge I. Dominguez, vice provost for international affairs at Harvard University, spoke at a forum Wednesday under the theme, “Global Higher Education from the Eyes of Harvard University.” […]
Beijing’s naval buildup leaves Seoul vulnerable
Claim to Ieodo linked to China’s strategy to become naval power Korea and China will resume working-level talks soon to draw a maritime boundary to end a dispute regarding Ieodo, a submerged reef in waters south of Jeju Island. Prospects for progress in the meeting are bleak, given that the previous 16 rounds of talks […]
China has no self-interests in Syrian issue
China has no self-interests in the Syrian issue and respects the demand for democracy by the Arab people, Premier Wen Jiabao said Wednesday. “China does not take sides with any party, including the government of Syria. We make our own right judgement and determine our own position on this issue on the basis of actual […]
UN envoy presses China on NK defectors
Marzuki Darusman, left, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on North Korean human rights, talks at the U.N. office in Geneva, Monday, with former National Assembly Speaker Rep. Kim Hyong-o, third from right, and Rep. Park Sun-young of the Liberty Forward Party, at Kim’s left, about the Chinese government’s forced repatriation of North Korean defectors. The U.N. […]
Heartthrob determined to go beyond his image
More than a decade into his career, Joo Jin-mo, 37, is still considered one of the best-looking faces in Korean cinema. He is also a victim of that image, however, incarnating one virile leading man after another. Even in his newest film “Gabi” that opens today, he plays that tough-guy role again. Yet according to […]
Both men and women dislike clothing that is too revealing
Unexpectedly, both men and women dislike clothing that is too revealing, according to a survey Sunday. Clothing that is too revealing was the worst dress both for men and women, followed by jogging suits (16.7 percent for men, 15.5 percent for women) and everyday casual (16.7 percent for men, 13.5 percent for women), said the […]
KORUS FTA: boon or bane?
A sign offering a 40 percent discount for American wines in celebration of the March 15 effectuation of the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (KORUS FTA) hangs at the entrance of a wine store in an E-Mart outlet in downtown Seoul, Tuesday. The KORUS FTA will remove a 15 percent tariff on U.S. wines. Korean automakers […]
Amid brouhaha, KORUS FTA goes into effect
Seoul expects 5.7% GDP growth over next 10 years After nearly five years of debate, division and political bickering, Korea’s controversial free trade agreement with the United States (KORUSFTA) goes into effect at the stroke of midnight today. The deal brings together the world’s largest and 15th largest economies whose current annual exchange of goods […]
Stay in Pyongyang teaches many things
Interview with Chinese students who studied Korean in Pyongyang BEIJING – A growing number of Chinese students are coming to Seoul and other major cities of South Korea for studying. Of some 90,000 total foreign students here, about 70 percent are from China. However, not a few other Chinese students also go to Pyongyang, North […]
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