It seems that department stores and discount stores did good business during this lunar new year shopping season. Reportedly they sold more gift sets than last year. Traditional markets still did not .. [Feb.11,2005 06:55 KST]

As of Friday, Lee Hun Jai will have been deputy prime minister for finance and economy for a full year. There have been ups and downs, but the accomplishments of a year's worth of effort to revi.. [Feb.7,2005 09:33 KST]

There are hopeful signs that a fourth round of six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue might be opening in the not too distant future. An example of one of those signs would be a comme.. [Feb.7,2005 09:32 KST]

The ruling Uri Party has submitted to the National Assembly a new bill about an "administrative city," in place of an "administrative capital," though lacking the key elements in the initial leg.. [Feb.7,2005 09:31 KST]

The Seoul Administrative Court has granted a partial victory in the lawsuit by environmental groups calling for the Saemangeum land reclamation project to be scrapped. Specifically, the court ord.. [Feb.5,2005 14:00 KST]

Venerable Jiyul has ended her hunger strike in protest of the construction of a tunnel through Mount Cheonseong for the Seoul-Busan express rail line after 100 days. The news is quite fortunate .. [Feb.5,2005 13:59 KST]

The Grand National Party's (GNP) retreat in Jecheon, North Chungcheong Province, was already going to be the object of much interest in that the party itself had been calling the situation it fi.. [Feb.5,2005 13:57 KST]

Can ethics in the media and the survival instincts of a company co-exist? It turns out that 20 members of the media are acting as outside directors at state and private companies. That does not in any.. [Feb.4,2005 06:51 KST]

The National Intelligence Service’s (NIS) “Development Through Truth About Past Incidents Committee” has decided to look into seven cases in recent Korean history about which there remain various susp.. [Feb.4,2005 02:28 KST]

The Constitutional Court has declared the hojuje to be unconstitutional, a decision that puts a final end to the long controversy about the “family headship system.” The court is right and clear when .. [Feb.4,2005 02:27 KST]