Korea Electric Power Corp. has broken the record for the most organ donors in one company, Korean Organ Donor Program announced on Tuesday.The program said that 8,138 KEPCO employees, 42.8 percent of the company’s total staff, have pledged to donate their corneas, beating the previous record of 6,217 donors at Hyundai Heavy Industries, set in 2007. KEPCO Pesident Kim Ssang-soo (second from right)

Human rights lawyer Lee Don-myung, who defended democratization and labor activists in the 1970s and 1980s, died of natural causes at his home Tuesday. He was 89.Born in Naju, South Jeolla Province in 1922, he graduated from Chosun University in Gwangju with a major in political science, passed the judicial examination in 1952 to be a judge, and began practicing law as an attorney in 1963. He took

Mike Kim also working on movie project on defectorsThe sight of North Korean refugees near the North Korea-China border changed Mike Kim’s life.Kim, then a financial planner, became an activist who risked his life to help North Koreans escape to freedom from 2003 to 2006.A 34-year-old second-generation Korean-American, Kim led hundreds of North Koreans out of the repressive regime through the 10,0

Korea’s biggest family buck the growing one-child national stereotypeAmid a backdrop of a looming demographic crisis in South Korea, due to one of the lowest birthrates in the world and an aging population, the country’s largest nuclear family ― with 13 children ― makes a welcome change. Attempts to boost the current rate of around 1 child per family have proved unsuccessful, with worries over cos

DALLAS, Texas (AFP) ― After spending more than 30 years in a Texas prison for a crime he did not commit, Cornelius Dupree Jr. became a free man when his conviction was overturned.Dupree, who was sentenced to 75 years for kidnapping, rape and robbery, had his conviction reversed in a Dallas courtroom Tuesday when State District Judge Don Adams declared him “free to go.”Dupree, 51, who had been rele

A shareholder of recently licensed Yonhap News Television has no stipulation regarding broadcast business in its articles of association. Critics note that Eulji General Hospital’s participation in television business is in violation of the law requiring a medical corporation to carry out business activities within the boundary of its articles of association.They also point out that the violation

LOS ANGELES ― Elvin Flynn is a dying man, but no one here is about to deprive him of his chances to live. He lies in a hospital bed on the seventh floor of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, a fungal infection threatening his central nervous system. He is already on a rigorous regimen of antibiotics. More surgery is an option but after three operations, he says he has had enough. There is the

Eulji Hospital’s participation in Yonhap consortium accused of violating lawThe eligibility of a shareholder in the recently licensed Yonhap News TV has emerged as a matter in dispute.Local news media has raised the possibility that the Eulji General Hospital may have violated laws to join the tentatively named consortium led by the Yonhap news agency to get a news television license. The hospital

Panel applies impractical rule too strictly in selecting new cable television operators The recent selection of successful applicants for general and news programming television licenses resulted from the application of ambiguous criteria which may be viewed as illegal. The ignorance over a criterion which restricts double investment by a stakeholder of an applicant in another applicant has led to

CHICAGO ― Adopted as an infant, Karen Mead says she has a special kinship with all the children she has encountered in Russian orphanages over the last decade ― dozens of them.“There’s something inside an orphan that’s broken that only God can fix,” Mead said. “There’s a feeling that no one can love you ― that there’s something wrong with me. I get these kids.”As she prepared to leave for yet anot

Major Events in 2011January1: Brazil’s new president Dilma Rousseff takes office 1: Estonia joins euro club 1: France takes over the presidency of Group of Eight 6-9: Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas 14: U.S. Defense Minister Robert Gates to visit Korea19: Barack Obama-Hu Jintao summit in Washington26-30: World Economic Forum in DavosChinese President Hu Jintao will meet U.S. President Barac