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Oxford alumni gathering

Professor Andrew Hamilton, the vice-chancellor of Oxford University,speaks during an alumni reception at Pony Chung Hall in I Park Tower, Seoul, Saturday. Oxford University Society Korea hosted the reception. Professor Hamilton, an internationally distinguished chemist, was named vice-chancellor of the university in October 2009.                                                                                           / Courtesy of Oxford alumni

Apr 7, 2013

K-pop groups metamorphosize

Working as units allows for degree of musical freedomBy Kim Ji-sooHyorin, left, and Bora of SISTAR19, kicked off the “unit”activity among K-pop groups with the start of 2013 with theirsingle “Gone Not Around Any Longer.” Korea Times fileOne of the attractions of K-pop groups is there are numerical as well as qualitative advantages to them.The popular Girls’ Generation has nine members — Sunny, Tiffany, Taeyeon, Seohyun, Yoona, Yuri, Hyoyeon, Jessica and Sooyoung.Super Junior has 10 members currently active —Lee Teuk, Ye Sung,  Kang In, Shin Dong, Sung Min,  Eun Hyuk, Dong Hae, Si Won, Ryeo Wook and Kyu Hyun.INFINITE has seven members, SHINee has five, and all have their distinctive charms that can be obfuscated in a group.For fans, this means they are able to adore the members both as individuals and as a whole. For the group and their agencies, it allows for fluid business and musical metamorphosis.The cover of Super Junior M’s second album “Break Down.” Super Junior M is a Mandarin-speaking spinoff from the wildl

Apr 7, 2013By Kim Ji-soo
K-pop groups metamorphosize

Uriminzokkiri's Web site has been restored

An international hacking group released on Saturday its second list of thousands of members it claims were registered with North Korea's main news and propaganda Web site, Uriminzokkiri. Investigators suspect that the list may include some South Koreans.Through its account on Twitter (@YourAnonNewsKR), the group, which calls itself "Anonymous Korea," released the personal information of 6,216 members registered on the North Korean propaganda Web site, operated by the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, the North's arm for dealing with cross-border affairs with South Korea.Anonymous Korea is part of the Anonymous hacktivist group, a loose association of hackers from all over the world whose exact identities have never been made public. The group caused a sensation when it took credit for hacking into five North Korean Internet sites on Thursday, and claimed to have stolen information on over 15,000 registered members.The new release comes just two days after the group divulged personal information of 9,001 accounts registered with Uriminzokkiri, which included

Apr 7, 2013

Peek into North

Tourists observe North Korean territory from the Unification Observatoryin Paju, Gyeonggi Province, Friday amid escalating tension on the Korean Peninsula.                                                     / Korea Times photo by Kim Ju-sung

Apr 5, 2013

Reserve Forces Day

Female reserve troops salute during the 45th foundation anniversary of the ROK Reserve Forces in Seoul, Friday. They were first organized in 1968.                                                                                                                                / Yonhap

Apr 5, 2013

Kazakh envoy's visit

Kazakh Ambassador to Korea Dulat Bakishev, left, speaks with The Korea Times President-Publisher Park Moo-jong, during a courtesy visit to the paper’s headquarters in Seoul, Friday. Bakishev arrived in Korea in March 2012.                                                        / Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul

Apr 5, 2013

7 in 10 company workers looking for new jobs

Seven in 10 Korean company workers are secretly looking for new jobs, a survey of 2,602 respondents showed.Asked if they were looking for job alternatives, a surprising 74.4 percent said they were.By gender, 76.2 percent of male workers were clandestinely search for different jobs with the rate being 71.1 percent for women.Asked why they were keeping the job search a secret, 59.5 percent said they wanted to keep it under cover until the situation became more firm and 40.2 percent said they were not sure if they could get another job.On the average, those looking for new jobs spent about four months in preparation with 11.3 percent saying that they spend up to a year in doing the necessary research.In the process, these people looking for new jobs constantly tap into recruit sites on the Internet to see what is out on the market. They prepare resumes and take English language tests to improve what is now called in Korea as “spec” or specification.While most of them said they use their extra time _after work and on weekends _ on the job search, more than 16 percent confesse

Apr 5, 2013

S. Korea 'strongly protests' Japan's renewed claim to Dokdo

South Korea lodged a formal protest on Friday shortly after Japan approved an annual foreign policy report that renewed a territorial claim to Seoul's easternmost islets of Dokdo.Escalating diplomatic tensions with South Korea, Japan formally issued the Diplomatic Blue Book 2013 that reiterated its claims that Dokdo is Japanese territory historically and under international law."The Korean government strongly protests against the Japanese government's endorsement of the Diplomatic Blue Book that contains an unjust sovereignty claim to Dokdo," foreign ministry spokesman Cho Tai-young said in a statement. "(South Korea) once again emphasizes that, in order for the two countries to restore the trust between them, the Japanese government should heal the wounds of the past as soon as possible by looking squarely at its past and acting in a responsible manner," Cho said, demanding Japan "immediately withdraw" the claim to Dokdo. Dokdo, a group of rocky outcroppings lying in the East Sea between the two countries, has been a source of diplomatic tension between the two countries for years.J

Apr 5, 2013

Man arrested for selling apps for wiretapping

A businessperson has been caught by the police for the first time for selling illegal smartphone applications for not only wiretapping but checking into text messages and location tracking.The 39-year-old Choi has been nabbed by the Cyber Terrorism Prevention Center of the National Police Service for violating regulations on the distribution of rogue software and the operation of information and telecommunications networks.According to police investigators, Choi brought in the wiretapping apps from Chinese operators and pocketed 3.9 million won (($3,500) in the process.Choi worked with a party of five, including a 31-year-old Kim and secretly installed the apps in smartphones. Among them were those running call centers who often do errands on behalf of debt collectors.

Apr 5, 2013

US asked to waive jurisdiction of GI over shooting

The Justice Ministry said Thursday that it has sent a request to the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) to relinquish jurisdiction over one of its soldiers allegedly involved in a BB gun shooting incident in downtown Seoul last month.The 26-year-old staff sergeant, surnamed Lopez, is accused of shooting the BB gun at pedestrians and leading police on a high-speed car chase in the crowded multicultural Itaewon district in Seoul on March 2, leaving one South Korean police officer injured.As part of legal procedures to try Lopez in the country, a Seoul court on Wednesday issued a warrant to place him in pre-trial detention. After receiving the detention warrant, the ministry sent the request to the USFK to turn over Lopez, who currently remains under U.S. custody.It marks the first time for South Korea to ask the USFK to turn over the jurisdiction of a U.S. soldier implicated in a general crime, in accordance with a relevant clause in the Status-of-Forces Agreement (SOFA) that governs the legal status of the 28,500 U.S. soldiers stationed in South Korea.The so-called "sympathetic consideration" c

Apr 4, 2013
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