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Some 75% of citizens believe Lee Myung-bak has not done a good job of leading the economy in his first six months in office. In a survey conducted Friday by the polling company Research Plus a..

“We are significantly reinforcing security on computer servers containing personal information. However, we always feel uneasy about having subscribers’ personal data.” An official at an Inter..

Responding to reports that President Lee Myung-bak is set to issue a statement on demands of his administration from the Buddhist community on September 9, conservative civic groups, some Protest..

The civic group People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, which marks its 14th year in existence Monday, faces a crisis. The group found itself at the center of the summer anti-U.S. bee..

Strategy and Finance Minister Kang Man-soo has always said that policy is justifiable only when its target and its means meet. On August 29, two days before offering the ministry’s largest tax-cut ..

Instead of easing, the discord between the Lee Myung-bak administration and the country’s Buddhist community appears to be getting worse. That is because while it is the Buddhists who were hurt, ..

First lady Kim Yoon-ok recently compared the early days of her husband’s time in office to the process of giving birth, saying that the Lee Myung-bak administration’s “morning sickness period..

YOKOHAMA -- Kwak Kwi-hoon, the honorary president of the Korean Hibakusha Association, left, and Morita Takashi, of Associacao das Vitimas de Bomba Atomica no Brasil, right, embrace one another ..

3 Held in Leak of GS Caltex Data The loss of customer data at GS Caltex, Korea's second largest refinery, was potentially the largest ...

Next week's Chuseok holiday is not attracting as many holiday shoppers to traditional Korean markets as expected. High oil prices and rumors of a ...

Almost nine percent of last years tax was uncollected, according to the National Assembly's finance committee. The committee said that 8.6 percent of ...

Koreans spent more money than ever before on education in the first half of this year, statistics released by the Bank of Korea on Sunday ...

Expats Unhappy With Education, Housing in Korea Expatriates in Korea are dissatisfied with the high education and housing costs here. A poll of 312 foreigners ...

Korean scientists have discovered a gene in plants that can increase the absorption of carbon dioxide, paving the way for air-purifying plants that can ...

Samsung Electronics is considering buying or forming a strategic alliance with the worlds top flash memory card maker SanDisk. But the company on Friday said ...

A sense of crisis is growing in the international semiconductor market due to the global economic slowdown and plummeting prices of computer chips. Despite losses, ...

The Korean governments travel advisory has wreaked havoc among Korean expatriate businesses in Thailand. A Korean who runs a travel agency in Bangkok on Sunday ...

S. KOREA'S NONG SHIM EXPANDS INSTANT-NOODLE PLANT IN SHANGHAI SEOUL, Sep 08, 2008 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX News Network) -- Nong Shim Co., South Korea' ...

S.Korea won up over 3 pct, erases last week's fall SEOUL, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The South Korean won extended gains ...