The 2.7 percent first-quarter GDP growth announced last week by the Bank of Korea is indeed disappointing. It is the result of the fact domestic consumption did not come back as expected. It is only n.. [May.23,2005 00:25 KST]

The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy's Korean Agency for Technology and Standards has standardized 133 Korean names for colors, and that is significant. "Skin color," which was called racist,.. [May.23,2005 00:23 KST]

Uri Party member of the National Assembly lee Kwang Jae has issued statement on his homepage in answer to the controversy over the fact he received an exemption from military service because the.. [May.21,2005 08:28 KST]

The vice-ministerial talks between North and South were not easy but have ended with the adoption of a joint press statement with three clauses. It was agreed that there would be ministerial talks .. [May.21,2005 07:39 KST]

Former Grand National Party (GNP) Assemblyman Kim Young Eil and attorney Suh Jeong Woo, both serving time in prison for collecting illegal campaign funds during the last presidential election, are bei.. [May.21,2005 01:55 KST]

Yesterday the US dollar started at 999.5 to the Won on Seoul's foreign currency market, W5.7 lower than it had the previous day, and it was quite a disturbance. It started when Park Seung, head of the.. [May.20,2005 02:45 KST]

According to the latest survey, 79 percent of the country thinks it is more important that high-level government officials be ethically sound than that they possess ability in carrying out their.. [May.19,2005 06:47 KST]

Seoul National University (SNU) is opposing every policy produced by the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development and it is starting to look like the two sides are in an arm-wrestli.. [May.19,2005 06:46 KST]

The intra-Korean vice ministerial talks taking place for the first time since July of last year have arrived at a larger framework to work with but there are problems when it comes to the details. On .. [May.19,2005 03:03 KST]

The labor movement is facing a crisis as the prosecution investigation into a labor union picks up momentum. Prosecutors have been investigating current and former offices in the national taxi u.. [May.18,2005 06:39 KST]