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Call to lower age limit for boys in public baths
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Tuesday it is considering lowering the age that boys can accompany their mothers to gender segregated areas in public bath houses. The current law bans boys over the age of five from entering areas used by the opposite sex in public bathhouses. It…
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Korea – hackers’ safe haven
One in five data theft cases in the world occur here This is the first in a series of articles highlighting the recent massive breach of cyber security. ― ED. Around 35 million of Korea’s population of 52 million population use mobile devices. But with this rising connectedness comes increased…
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Park makes apology to save spy master
President Park Geun-hye apologized Tuesday for the spy agency forging evidence in an attempt to convict a former Seoul city employee of spying for North Korea. Park’s remarks came on the heels of the apology from National Intelligence Service (NIS) Director Nam Jae-joon after Seoul prosecutors indicted two NIS officers,…
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East Asia
Are they really sick?
Stars suspected of malingering to shun tough military life Are they really sick? Or is it another outrageous case of preferential treatment? People are casting a suspicious eye on K-pop singer Sangchu and actor Kim Moo-yeol, who began their compulsory military service in 2012. They are currently having extraordinarily long…
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State agency sues cigarette firms
The National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) filed a 54 billion won damages lawsuit against three cigarette makers — KT&G, Philip Morris Korea and BAT Korea — Monday. This is the first suit to be brought by a state-run agency here. In the case filed with the Seoul Central District Court,…
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Spy master exonerated
Two NIS officials indicted in evidence fabrication case A special prosecution team confirmed Monday that a number of spy agency officials fabricated evidence to frame Yu Woo-sung, a former Seoul government official who posed as a North Korean defector, for espionage. National Intelligence Service (NIS) Director Nam Jae-joon and two…
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South Asia
Sindh through Centuries
Korean, Japanese, Indian, American, German and other research scholars explore hidden aspects of Great Indus Civilization Around 25 foreign research scholars from South Korea, Japan, India, USA and Germany joined local historians and scholars at 3-day International Seminar on ‘Sindh through Centuries’ from March 24 to 26, 2014 at Karachi,…
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Samsung boss receives biggest dividend payments
Last month’s executive pay disclosure painted a rather incomplete picture of who earns how much in Korea’s business world because it exempts non-board member executives from disclosure. However, dividend payment data helps present a clearer picture. While the income of Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee remains unknown, dividend payment data…
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Korean kids vs Jewish kids
Inquisitive mind key to successful education; experts Korean and Jewish moms have a single-minded devotion to their children’s success and put an overwhelming emphasis on education as a means to achieve it. Korean students have been at the top of international tests measuring the performances of 15-year-olds in math, reading…
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South Asia
African presence in Sindh
Prof. Adams B. Bodomo, hailing from Ghana, who headed the Department of African Studies at University of Hong Kong and University of Vienna, Austria, and also a visiting professor at Ansted University, Malaysia, rightly said over a decade ago during a lecture that despite not-so-tenuous historical, cultural and linguistic connections…
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