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How Many Foreigners Live In Pyongyang?
	Oct 28, 2011	848
Foreigners pass through Pyongyang all the time and diplomatic staff from some countries, including Sweden and the U.K., are based there for extended periods. But the size of the foreign population of the North Korean capital is something of a mystery. So a r...
South Korea Ruling Party Loses Seoul Vote in Warning for Lee
	Oct 27, 2011	689
Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Independent candidate Park Won Soon won the Seoul mayoral election, dealing a blow to the ruling party ahead of elections for South Korea’s legislature and president next year. Park, 55, beat Na Kyung Won, a lawmaker from President Lee Myun...
Korean Pop Machine, Running on Innocence and Hair Gel
	Oct 26, 2011	996
Think of the work required to make just one Justin Bieber. The production, the management, the vocal training, the choreography, the swagger coaching — all that effort to create one teen-pop star in a country that’s still starving for them. South Korea has no ...
The Korean invasion: New Yorkers are screaming for the new wave of pop stars
	Oct 25, 2011	859
The symptoms are uncontrollable shrieks, intense heart palpitations, soaked palms, speaking — and squealing — in foreign tongues. Now arriving in New York City: The South Korean phenomenon known as "hallyu," or "Korean Wave." Already a craze in Asia, the wave has ...
Personal stories warm up Seoul's subway rides
	Oct 24, 2011	705
But these private thoughts are presented in a public place: The short tales, signed by their authors, are part of a new storytelling program on Seoul's Metropolitan Subway System. Posted above the exit doors inside trains, they provide emotional tonic — and p...
Samsung beats Apple in smartphone sales
	Oct 21, 2011	684
[From The Australian] SAMSUNG Electronics shipped more than 20 million smartphones in the quarter ended September 30, a person familiar with the situation said, beating close competitor Apple, which sold 17.1 million units in its fiscal fourth quarter, ended Se...
Digital textbooks open a new chapter
	Oct 20, 2011	724
South Korea, one of the world's highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum. By 2015, it wants to be able to deliver all its curriculum materials in a digital form through computers. The information that would ...
Second Chance for Korea Bicycle Show with New Show Dates
	Oct 19, 2011	657
With 20% of South Korea’s population, a sophisticated, health-conscious, consumer market and local government investment of KRW 1.833 trillion (1,140 million euro) into public transport infrastructure, Seoul city should seem a logical location for a bicycle exhibitio...
South Korea World’s Largest Shipbuilder
	Oct 19, 2011	689
South Korean shipbuilders received 50% of global ship orders in Q-3 due to Strong demand for high value-added ships, a government report showed Wednesday. New vessel orders won by the nation’s shipyards totaled 2.47 million compensated gross tons (CGTs) during...
Korea searching for Formula One star
	Oct 18, 2011	582
Korean football fans pack into bars all over the country anytime national hero Park Ji-sung is in action for Manchester United in the English Premier League. The stands at the Korean Grand Prix last weekend were not nearly as full, but that could have been ...
Disgraced S Korean cloner Hwang back with coyote claim
	Oct 18, 2011	640
Disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who fabricated research on human embryos, claims to have cloned coyotes for the first time. He handed over eight muzzled coyotes to an animal shelter, in a scene reminiscent of his glory days as South Korea's top scie...
Sniffer dogs join fight to protect S.Korea heritage
	Oct 14, 2011	814
"Bobae, go!" The trainer snaps her fingers and the English springer spaniel dashes off to sniff the lofty wooden pillars at Gyeongbokgung palace, one of South Korea's most important cultural heritage sites. Suddenly Bobae stops sniffing and sits and stares at a sp...
US Congress passes FTA with Korea
	Oct 13, 2011	1027
WASHINGTON (Yonhap) -- In an unusually speedy legislative process, both chambers of the U.S. Congress on Wednesday approved a free trade pact with Korea which will apparently help broaden the scope of the alliance. The move is expected to give a jolt to ...
Rain, South Korea's modern-day Elvis, joins army
	Oct 12, 2011	715
More than half a century after the US military draft put Elvis Presley's career on hold, his modern-day South Korean counterpart bade farewell to tearful fans this week as he prepared for two years' national service. Sporting closely cropped hair, Jung Ji-hoo...
Korea's Busan stakes claim as Asian film hub
	Oct 10, 2011	654
With a new name, a new venue and an emphasis on actors and directors from lesser-known parts of Asia, this South Korean port city is moving decisively to assert its status as the region's pre-eminent film industry destination. The 16th annual Busan Internatio...
Film festival makes Busan a gala city
	Oct 08, 2011	795
An atmosphere of festivity prevailed in South Korea's southeastern port city of Busan as a handful of events organized on the sidelines of Asia's largest film festival amused spectators. The second night of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) was again...
Korea's first 'Slow City' in limbo
	Oct 08, 2011	606
Being the first slow city of Asia, along with the completion of the bridge that connects the island to the peninsula ? which opened last year ? brought many changes to Jeungdo. As the number of visitors increased dramatically, the island faced more demand f...
South Korea Reacts: ‘We Are Weepy’
	Oct 06, 2011	699
The news of Steve Jobs’s death came as South Koreans were beginning work Thursday, and the day was soon abuzz with reaction. Cable news channels and talk-radio stations immediately began broadcasting blanket coverage, calling their correspondents in the U.S. and ...
South Korea's cartoon penguin sparks paternity suit
	Oct 05, 2011	883
Pororo, South Korea's friendly blue cartoon penguin beloved by children worldwide, has become the subject of a paternity suit in the land of his birth. Ocon Animation Studio said Wednesday it has brought a case in a local court against its partner Iconix...
Gukak girl groups ready to spread another Korean wave 'Gukak Hallyu'
	Oct 04, 2011	764
SOREA (Photo courtesy of SOREA) A beautiful lady wearing a short Hanbok skirt is playing a janggu, a Korean percussion instrument, under the glamorous lights of the stage. Dynamic breakdancing is also performing at the same time. The dances and the janggu, a gayageum, ...