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Peru Aims For Japan, South Korea Trade Talks In April

Posted 113 minutes ago: Asian nations want this to be the last round" of negotiations, he added.At the last meeting between Peruvian and South Korean representatives, Seoul offered to lower a proposed tariff on 200 [Link]

Peru Aims For Japan, South Korea Trade Talks In April

Posted 2 hours ago: Peru is aiming to complete negotiations on free trade agreements with Japan and South Korea in April, Trade Minister Martin Perez said Friday. The new round of talks with South Korea will take plac... [Link]

South Korea Speedskaters Dominate Early At Worlds

Posted 8 hours ago: South Korea has dominated the first day of the short track speedskating world championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. Yoon-Gy Kwak posted a time of two minutes 24.316 seconds to win the men's 1,500-metre t... [Link]

South Korea Speedskaters Dominate Early At Worlds

No Death In The Afternoon At South Korea Bullfight

Posted 9 hours ago: Two bulls enter the oval arena, bellowing loudly, and exchange momentary glares. Then they clash head to head - and there's not a matador in sight.Centuries after the tradition began, Korean bullfight... [Link]

lee Tops List Of Stock Riches In Entertainment

Posted 9 hours ago: By Yoon Ja-young Staff Reporter SM Entertainment CEO Lee Soo-man, which represents idol groups such as Girls' Generation and Super Junior, is the entertainment scene's biggest investor. Actor B... [Link]

Benefits For Foreign Direct Investment To Increase

Posted 10 hours ago: A revision in the foreign investment promotion act aimed at enticing overseas firms to pump more money into Korea has passed the National Assembly, the Ministry of Knowledge Economy said yesterday. [Link]

Ex-chief Of Seoul Education Summoned

Posted 10 hours ago: Former Seoul Education Superintendent Kong Jung-tack yesterday appeared before the prosecution for allegedly accepting bribes while in office in return for using his power to help senior schoolteacher... [Link]

Ministry Press Room Leader Moving Up After 32 Years

Posted 10 hours ago: The press room at the Ministry of Strategy and Finance in Gwacheon, south of Seoul, is immersed in a constant cacophony, with reporters always on the phone reading out press releases, clarifying quote... [Link]

Doctor Develops Strong Bond With Woman In Need

Posted 10 hours ago: The friendship between former comfort woman Yi Ok-seon, left, and Dr. Lee Su-chan, the head of Himchan Hospital in Seoul, dates back nearly 10 years. Lee performed knee surgery on Yi and paid for the ... [Link]

Automakers, Tech Stocks Lead Market Rise

Posted 10 hours ago: Korean stocks closed 0.65 percent higher yesterday as investor sentiment was soothed by overnight gains on U.S. markets with tech and auto shares leading the advance, analysts said. The local currency... [Link]

Unemployed Graduates Feeling The Gender Gap

Posted 10 hours ago: Her drawbacks, she says, are being female and being a rising college graduate. And figures recently released by Statistics Korea back up her claim. The number of female college graduates without jobs... [Link]

Refugee Made A Korean Citizen For The First Time

Posted 10 hours ago: Korea has granted citizenship to a refugee for the first time since it joined the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees in 1992. [Link]

Gender Equality Ministry Gets A New Name

Posted 10 hours ago: The Ministry of Gender Equality officially changed its name to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (MOGEF) yesterday after taking over the jurisdiction of government policies on family, youth, ... [Link]

Many Firms Not Preparing For Ifrs

Posted 10 hours ago: The majority of publicly traded companies and firms planning to issue stock in the near future are gearing up to adopt internationally approved financial reporting standards before a government-impose... [Link]

OhmyNews International :: KOREA

Balancing Work, Life, And Children

Posted 4 days ago: Two parents at L'Oreal, a leading French cosmetics company, discuss how they manage to work while raising a family, with help from their employer and the state... [Link]

More than policy is needed to raise birthrates

Posted 9 days ago: Korean women are forced to choose between a family and a career; the only way to raise birthrates is to make women feel they can do both, according to Willem Adema, an economist with the OECD.... [Link]

The European Dream: 2 Children

Posted 20 days ago: In the first story of OhmyNews' year-long series "Reporting the European Dream," a team of reporters, citizens, and experts arrive in Paris to examine the high birthrate in that country, and what Korea can learn from it... [Link]

Happy 10th Birthday to OhmyNews

Posted 4 weeks ago: Web-research pioneer and OhmyNews columnist Ronda Hauben wishes the organization a happy 10th anniversary, and tells how some of her stories for the Web site helped to change her world... [Link]

Korea's "Comfort Women" Rally at 900th Protest

Posted 4 weeks ago: Bundled up against a temperature of 3¡ÆF, survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery, also known as the "comfort women," gathered on Jan. 13 for their 900th weekly protest... [Link]

[Opinion] Dictating Nuclear Terms

Posted 4 weeks ago: In order to transform the nuclear energy debate framed in 1970s into that of the 21st century, there is no reason that the U.S. can't communicate better with South Korea, its major ally in Northeast Asia, says Lee Byong-Chol.... [Link]

Why do we study Korea?

Posted 4 weeks ago: Australians, North Americans, and European's interest in Korea's dynamic present and promising future that stimulates curiosity about its tumultuous history, says Leonid Petrov, writing from Australia.... [Link]

Never Underestimate Local Knowledge

Posted 4 weeks ago: Google's famed front page is optimized for sequential online search. In contrast, the implicit message embedded in the design of Korean portals seems to be that you will surf but spatially, like scanning for banchans on the dinner table.... [Link]

Jeju Olle: The Korean Pilgrimage For Hikers

Posted 4 weeks ago: Citizen reporter Jean K. Min describes how a visit to an ancient trail in Europe inspired a fast-growing tourist destination on Korea's Jeju Island.... [Link]

Victims of HIV-related Travel Restrictions in Korea

Posted 4 weeks ago: In light of Korea's E-2 visa restrictions making HIV-testing mandatory for foreign instructors in Korea, two women have stood up against policies that they believe discriminatory.... [Link]

Single Homes, The New Face of Korea

Posted 4 weeks ago: With the explosion of single homes, Korea is going through a seismic social change that will have more fundamental implication in the future of the country.... [Link]

Infected, Detected, Accepted?

Posted 4 weeks ago: To this day, Korea remains one of seven countries that uphold the most rigid forms of HIV-related travel restrictions. However a case now before the Constitutional Court may help to change those rules.... [Link]

The Real-Time Web? Been There, Done That

Posted 4 weeks ago: What Koreans need now is not so much be the Web of immediacy, optimized for the instant gratification, as the Web of accountability and credibility, verified over months and years.... [Link]

Court Ends Night Assembly Ban in Korea

Posted 4 weeks ago: On September 24th, the Constitutional Court ruled that Article 10 of 'Assembly and Demonstration Law' forbidding the outdoor assembly at nighttime is 'not consistent' with the Constitution.... [Link]

How to Separate North Korea from China

Posted 4 weeks ago: We have little time left for North Korea's tactics of dragging out the talks while its centrifuges spin. Instead, one citizen reporter thinks we should look to lessen the country's dependence on China.... [Link]