Political Sentiment during Chuseok Holiday

2011-09-18

Political parties have turned their full attention to the swaying of public opinions during the Chuseok holiday, but the different parties have ...

Prospects for 2012 Presidential Election

2011-09-18

The sudden rise of Seoul National University Professor Ahn Cheol-soo as a political dark horse has provoked parties to make haste in their preparations ...

Microsoft Data Center

2011-09-18

The world's number one software company Microsoft is planning to open a state of the art data center in South Korea. If the plan is realized, this will ...

Thursday's Power Outages

2011-09-16

The government held an emergency meeting on Friday to review the power outages that occurred nationwide on Thursday. The meeting, chaired by Minister ...

Government to Scale down Assistance for Universities in Line with University Restructuring

2011-09-16

Greece's Financial Turmoil

2011-09-15

The trilateral teleconference among leaders of Germany, France and Greece on Wednesday provided a breakthrough in efforts to address concerns ...

NK Boat People

2011-09-14

Until the 1980s, attempts by North Koreans to escape their homeland using boats were extremely rare. The first time North Korean escapees fled the ...

Ahn Cheol-soo & Park Won-soon

2011-09-11

Seoul National University Professor and Ahnlab founder Ahn Cheol-soo has decided not to run for Seoul mayor in the October 26th by-election. He ...

Tax Cut Plan Withdrawn

2011-09-11

The government and the ruling Grand National Party during high level talks on Wednesday agreed to withdraw the plan to cut corporate and income taxes ...

NK-Russia Natural Gas Project

2011-09-11

The South Korean government holds the view that the gas pipeline project between the two Koreas and Russia does not violate U.N. Security Council ...