International oil prices continue to rise. OPEC has announced increased production and still, on Wednesday petrol recorded the highest prices ever in the United States. Korea imports a lot of Dubai oi.. [Mar.18,2005 09:18 KST]

Various government ministries are in a war of nerves over an additional increase in the price of cigarettes. Last year the government decided to increase the cost of a pack of cigarettes in two separa.. [Mar.18,2005 09:17 KST]

On Thursday the government announced a new "Korea-Japan relationship doctrine" that brings considerable changes to the underlying tone of policy towards Japan. The "quiet diplomacy" that has bee.. [Mar.18,2005 02:58 KST]

The Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs (MOGAHA) is reorganizing its structure to something it is calling "headquarters / team system." The idea is that it is going to take the vert.. [Mar.17,2005 07:46 KST]

Japan had gone ahead and done it. Ignoring repeated protests and warnings from Korea, Shimane's prefectural legislature approved an ordinance creating a "Takeshima Day," "Takeshima" being Japan's term.. [Mar.17,2005 07:45 KST]

Once again the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU, Minju Nochong) failed to open its representatives' meeting. The meeting was scheduled to deal with the proposed "social contract" but this is.. [Mar.17,2005 07:44 KST]

Starting today, electricity from the South gets supplied to the Gaeseong Industrial Complex in the North. It is happening on a minor scale using telephone poles instead of transmission towers, but it .. [Mar.16,2005 07:34 KST]

It is nothing new that private welfare facilities not registered with the government but that house the mentally handicapped, alcoholics, the schizophrenic elderly, and other handicapped persons viola.. [Mar.16,2005 07:33 KST]

On Wednesday the legislature in Japan’s Shimane Prefecture is expected to pass an ordinance declaring the yearly observance of a “Takeshima Day,” Takeshima being Japan’s name for Dokdo, and all of Kor.. [Mar.16,2005 00:59 KST]

Uri Party's Kim Young Joo and Democratic Labor Party (DLP) members Dan Byung Ho and Jo Seoung Soo, all members of a National Assembly group called the "Assembly Study Group on Implementing Basic Labor.. [Mar.15,2005 07:25 KST]