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UN human rights rapporteur's visit

Prime Minister Chung Hong-won, right, poses with Margaret Sekaggya, U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights, at the Government Complex in Seoul, Wednesday. During her 10-day visit until June 7, Sekaggya plans to meet rights advocates and government officials to assess South Korea’sefforts on human rights. She is expected to submit her findings to the U.N. Human Rights Council next March. / Yonhap

May 29, 2013
UN human rights rapporteur's visit

Foreign brides keep coming in search of better life

Five Korean men and their brides from Vietnam and the Philippines pose after holding a traditional Korean wedding ceremony at the Seocho Cultural Arts Center in Yangjae-dong, southern Seoul, on May 22.  / YonhapMoney is often hidden cause for breakup of interracial couples By Kim  Ji-sooBeginning in the early 1990s, middle-aged Korean bachelors in the countryside found it difficult to find Korean brides as young women left for the city in search of a better life.As a result, arranged interracial marriages became popular as local governments, fearing depopulated rural areas, helped finance marriage brokers seek foreign brides for farmers and others and offered additional support for couples if they met certain requirements.Korea, like many Asian countries, has long had a tradition of arranged marriages and marriage brokers have been accepted as part of the process. Interracial marriages were also not that unusual since Korean men and women working abroad have often found foreign mates. Kim Mose, 60, chairman of Sky Multiculturalism Corp., witnes

May 29, 2013By Kim Ji-soo
Foreign brides keep coming in search of better life

Chinese graffiti in Egypt causes stir in China

Chinese graffiti in the Temple of Luxor caused outrage in China this week after a tourist posted a picture of it online.The graffiti scratched on the temple’s wall by a 15-year-old is in Chinese characters and spells out “Ding Jinhao was here”.According to BBC News China, the teen’s mother explained that the graffiti was scratched years ago when they were visiting Egypt and that the teen is now very sorry for his actions.This incident came in the wake of Chinese Official Wang Yang’s comment in state run media about Chinese tourists’ “uncivilized behavior” abroad. He singled out actions such as “talking loudly in public places, jay-walking, spitting and willfully carving characters on items in scenic zones”.On the other hand, the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities was not aware of the incident and the Ministry of Antiquities was unavailable for comment.Archeologist Monica Hanna said no one noticed the incident “because it was kept on a low profile by the ministry on purpose”.Hanna said it is the responsi

May 29, 2013
Chinese graffiti in Egypt causes stir in China

KOSPI breaks through 2,000 points

The Korea Stock Price Index (KOSPI) broke through the 2,000-point mark for the first time since April 2 at 12:15 Wednesday. At closing, the index was 2,001.20, up 14.98 points from the previous closing.Investor sentiments were boosted by improvements in economic indexes in he United States.Foreign investors injected 160.8 billion won (about $150 million) with private and institutional investor working on par.Most of the blue chips fared well, with Samsung Electronics climbing up 1.08 percent and Hyundai Motor 1.69 percent. 

May 29, 2013
KOSPI breaks through 2,000 points

Prosecution raids residence of CJ Group chairman Lee Jay-hyun

 Prosecution raided residence of CJ Group chairman Lee Jay-hyun

May 29, 2013

More middle-aged people than teenagers hooked on social media

Users of social media in their 50s now outnumber those in their teens in Seoul. And the number of subscribers to Facebook and Twitter is the highest in the Jung, Yeongdeungpo and Gangnam districts. SK Telecom on Monday released a study of users who accessed social media more than once last month and found that around 660,000 are in their 50s compared to around 600,000 in their teens. Among the total 7.74 million users, 50-somethings account for 8.5 percent and teenagers for 7.7 percent. Users in their 20s make up the biggest group with 34.6 percent (2.68 million), followed by those in their 30s (29.5 percent or 2.28 million), and 40s (16.5 percent or 1.28 million). Some 250,000 people over 60s also use social media, making up 3.2 percent. An SK Telecom spokesman described the findings as "surprising." "It looks like people in their 50s have become hooked on communicating via social media on their smartphones," he said. 

May 29, 2013
More middle-aged people than teenagers hooked on social media

N. Korea calls for replacing Korean War armistice with peace treaty

North Korea on Wednesday called for replacing an armistice signed at the end of the Korean War with a formal peace treaty in order to enhance stability on the Korean Peninsula.In an article carried by the Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the communist country claimed efforts to hold onto the cease-fire pact that halted the three-year conflict in July 1953 can only be viewed as an attempt to start another war of invasion."There is a pressing need to replace the Armistice Agreement, which is a relic of the war, with a permanent peace regime," the daily monitored in Seoul said.An armistice does not guarantee "complete peace" and Washington's move to hold onto the cease-fire agreement reflects its desire to stifle the DPRK by force, it said. DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the North's official name. "If the peace regime was created in the past, the current standoff over denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula would not have become a problem in the first place," said the paper, which effectively reflects the view of the WPK a

May 29, 2013

S.Korea Ranks 10th in BBC Popularity Poll

South Korea ranks 10th among 16 countries and the EU in this year's annual Country Ratings Poll for the BBC World Service. More than 26,000 people were surveyed in 25 countries for the poll. Respondents were asked to rate 16 countries and the EU on "whether their influence in the world was mainly positive or mainly negative." South Korea came out marginally on the side of the angels with a 36 percent positive rating and 31 percent negative rating. Positive views of the country dropped 1 percentage point from 2012 and negative ones rose 4 percentage points. But in overall rankings, South Korea still jumped two notches. Chung Won-chil at the East Asia Institute said the country's ranking was positively affected by the Korean Wave, especially the popularity of rapper Psy's "Gangnam Style," despite the North Korean threat. Germany was the most positively rated country but Germans rated South Korea most negatively, with 65 percent against a mere 17 percent positive votes. Germans viewed Asian countries in general negatively, with only 13 percent and 28 percent having a friendly view of Ch

May 29, 2013

Sexual assault reported at Korea Military Academy

For the first time at the Korea Military Academy, a sexual assault between cadets has been reported and no less than in the middle of the day.According to an academy official, cadets had boiler-makers _ soju mixed with beer _ in the presence of a professor during an annual celebration event.A male senior cadet became overly intoxicated, dragged one of his junior female cadets to his room and allegedly raped her.The incident came to light after other cadets went to check on the two after detecting their disappearance. It was the first time that such an incident was reported at the academy.The academy is dealing with the incident with alarm and is holding the two cadets under investigation.Drinking at the academy is prohibited but allowed under the guidance of professors or senior officers.

May 29, 2013
Sexual assault reported at Korea Military Academy

What are they writing?

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un instructs military officers at an unidentified port, the Rodong Sinmun reported, Tuesday. Kim’s visits are seen as moves to inspire the military’s loyalty to him. / Yonhap

May 28, 2013
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