The Korea Herald

Sales of imported vehicles rise 5.2 pct in Feb.

Foreign vehicle brands in South Korea saw a steady rise in their sales last month from a year earlier, flashing a green light for their goal of selling over 100,000 cars in the local market for the first time, a trade association said Friday. A total of 6,770 imported vehicles were sold here in February, up 5.2 percent from the same month last year, according to the Korea Automobile Importers

Mobility March 4, 2011

Lee calls for rebirth of military

GYERYONGDAE -- Attending an unprecedented joint commissioning ceremony of South Korea's major military academies Friday, President Lee Myung-bak urged his military to be reborn as an "advanced, strong armed forces" through sweeping reform and stressed the importance of teamwork among soldiers "wearing different colors of uniforms." "The military should make a revolutionary change in its syste

Politics March 4, 2011

Obama hopes Egypt will follow S. Korea's suit for democratization

U.S. President Barack Obama has suggested that Egypt could become a democracy modeled after South Korea, Indonesia and Chile. Speaking at a meeting with American Jewish leaders at the White House Tuesday, Obama "elaborated on his optimistic vision for Egypt and for democratic change in the Middle East" and expressed optimism that "Egypt could transform itself into a democracy on the model of Ind

Politics March 4, 2011

Obama hopes Egypt will follow S. Korea's suit for democratization

Web sites of Cheong Wa Dae, gov't agencies attacked

The Web sites of South Korea's presidential office, government agencies and financial institutions came under a cyber attack on Friday, industry sources said. The presidential office Cheong Wa Dae, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and top lender Kookmin Bank were among some 40 institutions whose Web sites were infected by the so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) from 10 a.m.,

Technology March 4, 2011

(URGENT) Web sites of Cheong Wa Dae, 40 agencies come under DDoS

(URGENT) Web sites of Cheong Wa Dae, 40 agencies come under DDoS

Technology March 4, 2011

Warship Choi Young departs from Libya with 32 S. Koreans aboard

A South Korean warship is on the way to Malta on Friday after departing from Libya with 32 passengers aboard as part of efforts to evacuate its nationals from the North African nation engulfed in bloody turmoil, an official said. The 4,500-ton destroyer Choi Young left the port of Tripoli at 4 p.m. Thursday (11 p.m. Korean time) and is scheduled to arrive at the nearby island of Malta around 7

Defense March 4, 2011

Warship Choi Young departs from Libya with 32 S. Koreans aboard

Over 80,000 fans sign petition for JYJ

　Foreign fans of K-pop group JYJ said on Tuesday that they submitted a petition on Monday to the Seoul Central District Court and the Fair Trade Commission for the recognition and protection of the boy-band’s legal and human rights.　The petition urges prompt action by the South Korean government and justice system to “concretely block the illegal interferences and anti-trust activities of SM Enter

Performance March 1, 2011

Lee says S. Korea wants 'open-minded' talks with N. Korea

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak reaffirmed Tuesday that Seoul was willing to hold "open-minded" dialogue with Pyongyang regardless of its timing, offering another olive branch to the communist neighbor that has been ratcheting up military threats.President Lee reaffirmed that Seoul was willing to hold "open-minded" dialogue with Pyongyang. (Yonhap News) "Now is an opportune time to open a

Politics March 1, 2011

Lee says S. Korea wants 'open-minded' talks with N. Korea

S. Korea's trade surplus reaches $2.8 bln in Feb.

South Korea's trade surplus reached $2.84 billion in February mainly due to solid export gains in the face of unfavorable global developments, a government report showed Tuesday. The February trade surplus marked a slight dip from the $2.92 billion tallied for January, although on a daily basis exports reached a record 2.05 billion, the report by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy said, This mark

March 1, 2011

U.S. has no plans to redeploy tactical nukes to S. Korea: White House

WASHINGTON -- The United States has no plans to redeploy tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea despite renewed threats from North Korea, the White House said Monday. "Our policy remains in support of a non-nuclear Korean peninsula," Robert Jensen, deputy spokesman for the National Security Council, told Yonhap News Agency in an e-mail. "There is no plan to change that policy. Tactical nucle

Defense March 1, 2011

U.S. has no plans to redeploy tactical nukes to S. Korea: White House

U.S. working hard to ratify Korea FTA this spring: USTR

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is working hard to clear the pending free trade deal with South Korea through Congress this spring so as not to lag behind the European Union, which ratified a similar deal with Seoul set to take effect in July, the chief U.S. trade official has said. "The EU-Korea trade agreement is scheduled to take effect on July 1 of this year," U.S. Trade Representa

March 1, 2011

S. Korea expresses deep concern over bloodshed in Libya, urges N.Korea to improve human rights

South Korea expressed deep concern over the bloodshed in Libya and urged North Korea to improve its human rights conditions during a U.N. human rights meeting held in Geneva on Monday, the foreign ministry said. Second Vice Foreign Minister Min Dong-seok made the appeal during a keynote speech at a high-level segment meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council that opened in Geneva, Switzerland, o

Foreign Affairs March 1, 2011

N.K. threatens attack on Southern propaganda

North Korea on Sunday threatened to strike South Korean psychological warfare apparatus on the border “in light of self-defense,” in more tough rhetoric ahead of the South Korea-U.S. joint military exercise to begin Monday.“Should the anti-North psychological warfare continue, our army will directly fire at the (Imjin) Pavilion and other origins of the psychological warfare to destroy them under t

North Korea Feb. 27, 2011

N.K. threatens attack on Southern propaganda

Think tank estimates unification cost for Koreas at $2.14 tln

SEOUL -- The unification cost on the Korean Peninsula in the wake of a sudden collapse of the North Korean regime is estimated to reach an astronomical 2,525 trillion won (about $2.14 trillion), a state-run think tank said Sunday. Nam Sung-wook, director of the Institute for National Security Strategy, made the estimate in a report to be presented to a unification policy public hearing, which

Defense Feb. 27, 2011

Disgraced clone scientist Hwang wins research project from Libya

A disgraced South Korean clone scientist has won a research project from Libya amid growing unrest in the North African nation, colleagues at his research lab here said Sunday. Under the 150-billion won ($133 million) project with the Libyan government, Hwang Woo-suk will conduct stem cell-related research activities for incurable diseases, according to Hwang's Sooam Bioengineering Research In

Technology Feb. 27, 2011

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