• East Asia

    People’s Changing Life Style In Major Cities Of North Korea

    Three North Korean men play chess at a Folk Street in Sariwon, North Korea Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012.  A North Korean girl looks at her fingers at a game booth at a Folk Street in Sariwon, North Korea Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. In this Sept. 22, 2012 photo, North Koreans…

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  • World

    Funeral Held For Israeli Soldier Killed By Islamic Militant

    Israeli soldiers carry the coffin of their comrade Cpl. Netanel Yahalomi, 20, during his funeral in the Israeli city of Modiin, early Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. Yahalomi was killed Friday in a shootout between Islamic militants and Israeli troops along Israel’s southern border with Egypt. The Israeli troops returned fire,…

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  • Column

    Patent war of Apple vs. Samsung has yet to over

    Later this year, it’s expected to hear the last of the ongoing war between Samsung and Apple, over patent rights. People have been going on about the technicalities and how Samsung ripped Apple’s rights, but let’s take a deeper look, shall we? How it all started: Firstly, for those who…

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  • Putin’s Kulturkampf

    MOSCOW ― August is often an unlucky month in Russia, particularly President Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Submarines have sunk, neighbors have been invaded, and forests have burned out of control. But, this August, the crisis was purely man-made ― indeed, made by one man. The conviction of three members of the…

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  • Psy and K-pops

    Few Koreans will want to make little of or speak ill of the global sensation Psy has touched off. Still, one can hardly deny some bewildering elements in the worldwide frenzy about this Korean singer-rapper and his mega hit, “Gangnam Style.” We Koreans, who understand the delicately nuanced messages in…

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  • Society

    Mutual relations witness steady developments

    Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ahmad Al-Barrak contributed the following article to The Korea Times on the occasion of the 82nd National Day of Saudi Arabia. — ED. The 82nd celebration of the National Day of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the year 2012 comes while the…

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  • World

    Yemen Starts Probe On Brutality During Anti-Gov’t Protest Last Year

    A Yemeni walks past pictures of protesters allegedly killed during the 2011 uprising against former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, at the Change Square in Sanaa, Yemen, Sept. 23, 2012. Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi on Saturday issued a decree to investigate alleged human rights violations that occurred during protests last…

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  • West Asia

    Iranians Protest Against Anti-Islam Caricature At French Embassy

    Iranian protestors chant slogans in front of the French Embassy during a demonstration to condemn a French magazine caricaturing prophet Muhammad in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. <AP Photo/Vahid Salemi> news@theasian.asia

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  • IT-Science

    iCourt: Season 2?

    Samsung calls for new trial, Apple seeks $707 million more in damages Samsung Electronics has officially requested a U.S. court to throw out a decision by a San Jose jury, which found the Korean technology giant guilty of copying the look and feel of Apple’s iPhones and iPads. In legal…

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  • West Asia

    18-Month Syrian Conflict Claimed To Have Killed 30,000

    A Syrian man reacts outside of his damaged home, which was destroyed by a Syrian government airstrike earlier in the day, in Marea village, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. Syria’s bloody 18-month conflict, which activists say has killed nearly 30,000 people, has so far eluded…

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