The number of North Koreans who have illegally migrated to Thailand has jumped 50-fold in the past six years and the Thai government is not happy about the sudden influx, a Thai newspaper reported last week. According to the Bangkok Post, an English newspaper in Thailand, the number of North Korean defectors to Thailand marked 2,482 in 2010, compared to 46 in 2004. From October until April, 899 ...

The nuclear materials found in Libya in 2004 were highly likely to have been produced by North Korea, U.S.-funded broadcaster Voice of America said Saturday, citing an interview with a former senior official of the U.N. nuclear watchdog. In the interview, Olli Heinonen, the former deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said uranium hexafluoride, or UF6 ― used in urani...

Korean and U.S. ministers of education and science will hold talks to discuss ways to boost personnel and research exchanges, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said Sunday. The talks will be the first of their kind in 30 years. Education and Science Minister Lee Ju-ho will visit Washington Tuesday for the talks with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan from May 11-13. The two...

Retired provincial public service employees and politicians dominate management posts of local public firms, even though many have no corporate management experience, reports said. Chief executives or board chairmen in 95 of the 127 provincial public firms are former local civil servants or politicians, Yonhap news agency reported Sunday, citing the Ministry of Public Administration and Security...

More and more high schools are selecting Chinese and Japanese as their second foreign languages, elbowing out French and German, the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education said Sunday. Experts say practicality was the main drive, which may hurt the diversity of language education in the society. According to the education office, 196 out of 222 high schools in Seoul established Japanese classes...

The French Institute and CampusFrance are holding a study fair to promote higher education in France. From May 21-22, there will be a presentation of management studies, economics and business program options in France. There will also be a presentation of employment training courses using the testimony of former students now in senior management positions. Both French agencies will facilitate...

Education links between Ireland and Asia, and with it Korea, have been strengthened with the launch of a master’s business program at University College Cork. The Irish Embassy said the MBS Asian Business scholarship is a one-year full-time program awarded by UCC and delivered in partnership with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and the Farmleigh Fellowship. The initiative combines ...

The ASEAN-Korea Center presents the second series of their Brownbag Seminar every Thursdays. The seminar will provide an opportunity for the general public to discover diverse aspects of Southeast Asian cultures by inviting prominent researchers and professors as lecturers. The next lecture on May 12 will examine literature from the Association of Southeast Asia Nations by Chungang University p...

Four months after the Queensland flood and cyclone disasters, the state government told Korean authorities and business leaders that the Australian state is open for business. The series of disasters that hit Queensland, including the capital city Brisbane, forced the evacuation of thousands of people from towns and cities. “Our estimate for the flood damage is in the order of ($6 billion),” Qu...

With Parents’ Day coming up on May 8, most of Korean college students claimed that the best filial duty is lower tuition fees, according to a recent survey. Korean recruitment website Alba’s survey of some 1,323 university students on filial duty found that 46.7 percent were concerned about the price of their tuition fees. A further 15.3 percent responded that ‘having conversations’ was an impor...