Kim Hyeong Yul, a leader in the campaign for the rights of the children of victims of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, has died at the young age of 35. It was in 2002 that he first went public.. [May.30,2005 06:41 KST]

It is causing concern that at a time when North Korea will be making its final decision about the nuclear issue and whether to participate in the six-party talks, the United States continues to .. [May.30,2005 06:40 KST]

Some of Seoul's district offices (gucheong) are buying private enshrinement facilities in other cities and provinces to keep the ashes of their cremated citizens. Starting this year the Seoul ci.. [May.28,2005 06:53 KST]

About the recent request to the government by the Hankyoreh and four other newspapers that there be official support for the "newspaper distribution service," the Chosun Ilbo says "controversy i.. [May.28,2005 06:52 KST]

The very day that scholars in the three countries of Northeast Asia published History to Open the Future, a history textbook for building a mutually beneficial community that goes beyond a history ful.. [May.28,2005 03:14 KST]

The simultaneous publication of a history textbook, History to Open the Future, by a committee with members from Korea, China, and Japan is itself a historical event. There was a press conferenc.. [May.27,2005 06:47 KST]

The National Intelligence Service's (NIS) truth commission has concluded as part of its inquiry into the disappearance of Kim Hyung Wook that Kim Jae Kyu, then head of the Korean Central Intelligence .. [May.27,2005 02:29 KST]

Over a period of ten years, Constitutional Court justice Lee Sang Kyung underreported rent earnings from a building of his ownership by W300 million and embezzled the taxes. As a justice on the Consti.. [May.27,2005 01:09 KST]

The Korea Institute for Health & Social Affairs, in the process of performing the first survey of conditions faced by the country's poor, estimates that Korea has 5 million poor people. That is .. [May.26,2005 06:51 KST]

Comments to Korean parliamentarians by Japanese vice foreign minister Shotaro Yachi on May 11 are only now becoming known and causing controversy. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has r.. [May.26,2005 06:50 KST]