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Hyundai hacker suspect arrested

Apr 18, 2011

Police have arrested a 40-year-old man who reportedly planned the theft of customer information from Hyundai Capital earlier this month, putting more than 420,000 people’s privacy in danger. However, they have yet to locate his accomplices residing in the Philippines and China. According to officers at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, the suspect surnamed Heo handed in 20 million won ($18,...
Boy handcuffed after argument over spilt milk

Apr 18, 2011

A 12-year-old boy was reportedly handcuffed and detained by a U.S. school resource officer after an argument over milk he spilt. The sixth-grader at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Indiana was to face juvenile probation, according to a local newspaper. On Tuesday, the school staffer ordered him to clean up after he spilt milk on the table during lunch. The boy refused and shouted back at him...
SNS saves lives

Apr 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

Apr 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...
Lee calls for removing prejudices about disabled

Apr 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

Apr 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,...
Rhee’s son to apologize to April 19 victims

Apr 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...
Rights watchdog starts inspection of KAIST tuition system

Apr 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

Apr 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

Apr 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...
S. Korea finds trace levels of radioactive particles in air

Apr 16, 2011

Traces of radioactive materials have been discovered across South Korea due to the inflow of contaminants from Japan's stricken nuclear power station, a state nuclear safety body said Saturday. The Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety confirmed diminishing traces of iodine-131, cesium-137 and cesium-134 have been detected by the country's 12 detection centers. It, however, stressed that concentrat...
10 S. Korean tourists injured in Vietnam in car accident

Apr 15, 2011

(Yonhap) -- A tourist bus overturned in Vietnam Friday, leaving 10 South Korean tourists injured, Seoul's foreign ministry said. The accident took place in Uongbi, Quang Ninh Province, in the northeastern region of Vietnam at around 2:30 p.m. (local time), according to the ministry. The injured tourists were moved to nearby hospitals and are not in life-threatening condition, it said. South Ko...
Board won’t discuss chief’s fate

Apr 15, 2011

Board directors of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology on Friday chose not to discuss sacking president Suh Nam-pyo despite the controversy over his policies triggered by the recent suicides of four students. The 16-person board received a report from KAIST on the latest suicide cases and the school’s plans to go back to providing scholarships to all of its students and to red...
KAIST faculty asked to raise grades

Apr 15, 2011

Professor dismisses reports of out of control competition at top science college A professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has dismissed claims that competition at the college is out of control, revealing that the then-dean of academic affairs sent a memo to professors last year asking them to bump up the average GPA of freshman. The memo, which was seen by The Korea Her...
Door-to-door health service ready for N.K. defectors

Apr 15, 2011

People who have fled North Korea will be able to receive door-to-door healthcare service in the South from fellow North Korean defectors from this month. They will also be able to receive tailored medical services at local public healthcare centers, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Friday. The authorities have hired 10 North Korean defectors with counseling licenses here at public health...

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