South Korea on Monday announced a plan to gradually shorten the current two-year term of compulsory military service by six months by 2014, as part of its defense reform drive. The government .. [Feb.5,2007 21:50 KST]

The South Korean government said Monday it plans to bring job seekers into the labor market earlier while pushing back the retirement age in an effort to preempt future shortages in the workforce. .. [Feb.5,2007 21:46 KST]

A Hankyoreh opinion survey performed February 3 indicates Lee Myung-bak is the overwhelming frontrunner in the presidential election scheduled for December of this year, as 47.7 percent of respondents.. [Feb.5,2007 16:44 KST]

A county has seemingly ‘stacked the deck’ so that a park in the area would be renamed after former president Chun Doo-hwan, who was born there.... [Feb.5,2007 16:34 KST]

Late last year, the government announced it would introduce a new English test from 2010, aimed at replacing the existing U.S.-based Test of... [Feb.5,2007 16:24 KST]

A South Korean court ruled that the government is not required to disclose a current draft of the proposed South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement. The suit was brought by two lawmakers of the minority .. [Feb.3,2007 15:17 KST]

South Korea is expected to have the third-warmest winter it has seen in the past 102 years. "The average nationwide temperature in December and January has been 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than tha.. [Feb.3,2007 14:53 KST]

Professional Baduk player Yoon Young-sun has been in Hamburg, Germany since Summer 2006 teaching the traditional game known in the West by its... [Feb.3,2007 14:43 KST]

Several lawmakers from the ruling Uri Party proposed special legislation to neutralize guilty verdicts made in the 1970s against suspects charged with violating the so-called Emergency Measures of the.. [Feb.2,2007 15:12 KST]

As South Korean court has ruled that illegal migrant workers should be allowed to set up labor unions. On February 1, the Seoul High Court... [Feb.2,2007 14:56 KST]