The social gap between high and low income earners has been widening in terms of spending on private education, as the top 10 percent of earners spend 10 times as much as the bottom decile on t.. [Aug.15,2006 11:35 KST]

Though they are too young to be making a contribution to the economy, the third-generation offspring of South Korea’s family-owned... [Aug.15,2006 10:56 KST]

South Korea ranks at the bottom of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) members in national medicare expenditures to gross domestic product (GDP), a report said Monday. .. [Aug.14,2006 20:47 KST]

The public sector had proudly announced last year that they had surpassed the 2 percent compulsory disabled employment rate mandated by the Disabled Employment Promotion Act by having a 2.49 percen.. [Aug.14,2006 13:27 KST]

Insurance companies routinely shun disabled applicants and their claims without any reasonable cause, according to the National Human Rights Commission of Korea. To make matters worse, the commission .. [Aug.14,2006 13:23 KST]

The U.S. Commerce Department announced Saturday a preliminary ruling to impose countervailing duties on Hynix memory chips for the year 2004, saying South Korean "government authorities" may have pro.. [Aug.13,2006 19:42 KST]

Nine directors of Ssangyong Motor Co., controlled by China's Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., face a lawsuit for allegedly stealing technology from the company for its Chinese parent, according t.. [Aug.12,2006 15:57 KST]

The United States welcomed Friday an agreement reached with South Korea on a pharmaceutical pricing system that had impeded bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) talks but denied it was a concess.. [Aug.12,2006 15:51 KST]

South Korea’s health ministry said on Aug. 11 that the U.S. has agreed to accept the Korean government’s so-called positive-list system, which... [Aug.12,2006 12:30 KST]

Seoul and Washington reportedly have a plan to hold separate negotiations on the controversial issue of pharmaceutical pricing in a third... [Aug.11,2006 14:06 KST]