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Okada apologizes for Japan’s rule of Korea as colony

Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada offered a rare apology to South Korea yesterday for Japan’s colonial rule over Korea from 1910 to 1945. “I fully understand the agonies of people who lost their countries and had their national pride harmed…

Feb 12,2010
A brief history of earthquakes

The earthquake that occurred around Seoul on Tuesday evening didn’t register much on the Richter scale, nor in the news. It comes after 60 earthquakes took place on the peninsula last year, and follows a long …

Feb 12,2010
Hoam’s pioneering spirit

Today marks the 100th year since the birth of one of the greatest modern entrepreneurs the country has seen, Samsung Group founder Lee Byung-chull. Samsung Group, as well as other business and social organizations, has taken the moment to contemp…

Feb 12,2010
Police say public workers gave $14.7 million to DLP

Police said yesterday that they suspect the Democratic Labor Party collected 17 billion won ($14.7 million) from up to 2,600 teachers and civil servants who were registered as party members. Teachers and civil servants are banned from political activ…

Feb 11,2010
A Chinese laundry for cash

It is a well-known fact that history contradicts literature in its portrayal of Cao Cao, one of the central figures of the Three Kingdoms period in China. The novel “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” takes great crea…

Feb 11,2010
No winners in tug of war

Four opposition parties - the Democratic, Democratic Labor, Creative Korea and New Jinbo - have agreed to submit a bill to the National Assembly calling for the dismissal of Prime Minister Chung Un-chan. Another minor opposition group, the Liberty Fo…

Feb 11,2010
North’s nuclear negotiator takes a trip to Beijing

In a move thought to be related to the possible reopening of the six-party denuclearization talks, Kim Gye-gwan, North Korea’s chief nuclear negotiator, arrived in Beijing yesterday. Kim’s trip came a day after the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il…

Feb 10,2010
Horses and buggy cars

Horses produce as much as 11 kilograms, or more than 24 pounds, of waste each day. When horse-drawn carriages were the main means of transportation, the streets of urban areas smelled badly of horse droppings. T…

Feb 10,2010
GNP needs a smarter policy

The ruling Grand National Party has joined the smartphone fad, declaring it will become a so-called “SMART” party that makes full use of mobile Internet network technology. The party’s new secretary general, Choung Byoung-gug, said the party plan…

Feb 10,2010
Court finds for banks in 1st KIKO litigation

A Seoul court ruled in favor of banks in the nation’s first ruling in a nearly two-year dispute over the currency derivative called a knock-in, knock-out (KIKO) contract. The court’s decision is expected to have a wide impact on the remaining 100…

Feb 09,2010

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