The Korea Herald

RSS

TV actor Hyun Bin assigned to frontline Marine unit

DefenseApr 18, 2011

A popular TV actor who enlisted in the Marine Corps last month for his mandatory military service has been assigned to serve on a frontline island on the Yellow Sea border with North Korea, Marine officials said Monday. Hyun Bin, 29, who starred in "Secret Garden," one of this season's most popular TV dramas in South Korea, is scheduled to finish six weeks of basic training this week and will se...
SNS saves lives

Social affairsApr 18, 2011

A man planning to commit suicide decided not to die thanks to Twitter. On April 16, a man wrote that he was leaving a will on Twitter because he didn’t have paper. The message was directed to his parents and friends, as well as his brother serving in the military. Twitter users, shocked by the message, started retweeting the message along with a note saying that the man should be stopped from c...
College graduates outside labor force near 3 mln

Social affairsApr 18, 2011

The number of South Korean college graduates outside the labor force was close to 3 million in the first quarter due to the country's sluggish job market, a government report showed Monday. According to the report by Statistics Korea, 2.95 million people with two-year college degrees or higher were not in the labor force during the January-March period. The number accounted for roughly 18 percen...
Three bodies found in northern Mexico grave

Foreign affairsApr 18, 2011

MONTERREY, Mexico (AFP) - Three mutilated bodies were found buried outside the city of Monterrey, officials said Sunday, bringing to at least 169 the number of victims recovered from mass graves in northern Mexico. The three bodies found late Saturday were bound hand and foot and showed signs of torture, officials from the nearby town of Escobedo said. Most of the bodies found so far were disco...
Lee calls for removing prejudices about disabled

Social affairsApr 18, 2011

President Lee Myung-bak on Monday called for tearing down prejudices about the disabled, saying that their physical challenges never mean they cannot be as competitive as the non-disabled. "I believe that the disabled can be competitive workers as much as they want, depending on the types of work and duties," Lee said in his biweekly radio address ahead of the April 20 Day for the Disabled, call...
Seoul, Washington agree to start joint study on nuclear fuel reprocessing

Social affairsApr 17, 2011

South Korea and the U.S. have agreed to carry out a joint study on safe ways to store spent nuclear fuel, including exploring the feasibility of pyroprocessing technology, the government said Sunday. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said the two sides agreed to conduct two years of preliminary storage-related research up till 2012 that is technologically and economically viable,...
Inter-Korean volcano talks ‘premature’: Seoul official

North KoreaApr 17, 2011

JEJU (Yonhap News) ― It is “premature” for the two Koreas to hold governmental talks for a joint survey of a North Korean mountain to assess the risk of its potential volcanic eruption, a high-level Seoul official said Sunday. The remark came days after the two Koreas agreed to conduct a joint on-site survey of Mount Baekdu during a rare civilian-led meeting that experts say may help open the wa...
Rhee’s son to apologize to April 19 victims

Social affairsApr 17, 2011

The family members of the deceased former President Syngman Rhee are to make their first official apology to students killed in the April 19 revolution in 1960. Rhee In-soo, the foster son of the late president, will visit the graves Tuesday morning, the 51st anniversary of the revolution, and pay respect to the victims who died under police fire, according to the Syngman Rhee Committee on Sunda...
By-election candidates stress personal touch

PoliticsApr 17, 2011

Candidates for the April 27 by-elections emphasized their personal qualities over the first weekend since the official campaign kicked off last Thursday. Though candidates have been holding public campaigns during weekday commuting hours, all seized the weekend as a chance to attract the full attention of the voters. In the Bundang-B constituency, the former head of the ruling Grand National Pa...
Rights watchdog starts inspection of KAIST tuition system

Social affairsApr 17, 2011

The state human rights watchdog said Sunday that it has started an investigation into the punitive tuition system at Korea Institute of Science and Technology following recent student suicides at the school. The minority New Progress Party filed a petition with the National Human Rights Commission on April 8, claiming that the tuition system, under which students pay different amounts of fees ba...
Lawmaker claims reactor rules ignored

Social affairsApr 17, 2011

The government resorted to expedience and bypassed set inspection rules to extend the operational life of South Korea’s oldest nuclear reactor, an opposition lawmaker claimed Saturday. Rep. Kim Young-hwan of the main opposition Democratic Party said when engineers tested the pressure vessel of the Gori-1 reactor in 2005, the critical system did not meet minimum safety requirements. He also argu...
Seoul offers free medical checkup for expatriates

Social affairsApr 17, 2011

Seoul City on Sunday launched a mobile clinic to offer free medical checkups for foreign residents here, officials said. The traveling clinic provides medical inspections including for blood sugar, liver and kidney functions and hepatitis. People who are found to suffer from any illness will be guided on medical institutions where they can receive treatment free of charge. Starting with Itaewo...
Australia Embassy recruiting bloggers

Foreign affairsApr 17, 2011

In celebration of the Year of Friendship, the Australian Embassy is recruiting university student bloggers who hold a special interest in the country down under. The chosen 50 student online reporters will be provided with opportunities to experience Australia by participating and covering a series of Year of Friendship events and activities. The events include the aboriginal art exhibition BAL...
Military agreement expands cooperation

Foreign affairsApr 17, 2011

The Defense Ministries of Denmark and Korea signed an agreement on sharing of classified military material recently. Signed by Danish Ambassador Peter Lysholt Hansen on behalf of the Danish Defense Ministry, the agreement gives the two ministries and their respective agencies access to each others’ classified material on issues of common relevance. This concerns issues related to the work on th...
Thai travel road show in Seoul, Busan

Foreign affairsApr 17, 2011

The Tourism Authority of Thailand is bringing their travel opportunities to the land of smiles to Seoul and Busan. The Thailand Road Show in Korea will highlight 70 sellers at the Lotte Hotels in central Seoul and Busan on April 19 and April 21, respectively. There will be a total of 49 hotels and resorts, five golf clubs and a slew of other services such as airlines, car rental companies and c...

MORE 15 / 81416▽

Go to Desktop Version

The Korea Herald by Herald Corporation Copyright Herald Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Address : Huam-ro 4-gil 10, Yongsan-gu,Seoul, Korea
Online newspaper registration No : Seoul 아03711
Date of registration : 2015.04.28
Publisher. Editor : Jeon Chang-hyeop
Juvenile Protection Manager: Ahn Sung-mi
Tel : 02.727.0114