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Police crack down on Web site manipulators

Police Monday raided the homes and offices of three netizens who allegedly manipulated public opinion at Agora, an online discussion forum operated by Daum, one of the country’s biggest portal sites. The three are suspected of posting anti-govern…

Mar 18,2009
Space fantasies

인공위성 TV 오락프로 '무한도전'에 특별출연한 당신에게 다음과 같은 과제가 주어졌다고 가정해보자. "다 마시고 난 350㎖들이 음료수 캔에 전자 회로와 통신 장비를 장착해 인공위성을 만들 것. 이를 우주 공간으로 쏜 뒤 캔에 부착된 카메라렌즈가 찍은 …

Mar 18,2009
How clear is DP’s ‘vision’?

The Democratic Party’s new vision committee unveiled its “new Democratic Party” declaration following six months of debate and deliberation. It remains to be seen whether the new plan will crystallize into concrete party plans, but this developm…

Mar 18,2009
North lets stranded workers go back home

North Korea allowed South Koreans to come home yesterday from the Kaesong Industrial Complex, three days after shutting the border without any explanation. But northbound travel remained closed yesterday. South Korea’s Unification Ministry annou…

Mar 17,2009
Our Kaesong dilemma

North Korea is once again using the Kaesong Industrial Complex to pressure South Korea. Last July, shortly after a South Korean tourist was shot dead at Mount Kumgang, North Korea delayed approval for South Koreans traveling to Kaesong and the ind…

Mar 17,2009
Closed border leaves hundreds trapped in North

North Korea kept the inter-Korean border closed on Saturday, leaving 427 workers who were scheduled to depart the Kaesong Industrial Complex stranded. There are no cross-border trips on Sundays. According to South Korea’s Unification Ministry,…

Mar 16,2009
Reinventing the wheel

볼펜·아이팟·신문 오카다 요시오가 1961년 커터 칼을 발명한 건 절실한 필요 때문이었다. 오사카의 인쇄공장 말단 직공이던 그는 종이 자르는 일을 했다. 손에 힘을 줘 칼질을 하다 보면 날이 금새 무뎌져 불편이 이만저만 아니었다. 어느날 구두 수선공이 유리 파…

Mar 16,2009
At the forefront of change

On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, an economic ice age befell us, bringing to mind the phrase “survival of the fittest” used by the English naturalist. Will Korea become extinct, like the dinosaurs, or will it crash through …

Mar 16,2009
FSC to create fund to back up banks

The Financial Services Commission, the top financial policy maker, said yesterday it will create a fund to provide public money even to financial companies with a sound capital base. The fund, tentatively named “Finance Stability Fund,” will be c…

Mar 14,2009
X gig axed

엑스 재팬 서태지와 아이들이라는 신인 그룹이 폭발적인 인기를 모으던 시절, 리더 서태지의 예명이 일본 록 밴드 엑스 재팬의 베이시스트 타이지(Taiji)에게서 따 온 것이라는 주장이 나온 적이 있었다. 서태지도 한때 록 그룹 시나위의 베이시스트였…

Mar 14,2009

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