• Landmark Supreme Court ruling allows legal change of sex
    In a landmark ruling, South Korea’s top court on Thursday cleared the way for the country’s transsexuals to legally change their gender. The Supreme Court ruled that a female...
    Jun.23,2006 10:02 KST
  • Private school probe says over $83 million illegally taken
    The speculation of widespread corruption at private schools in South Korea has, in most cases, been confirmed by an ongoing investigation by the Board of Audit and Inspection (B...
    Jun.23,2006 09:39 KST
  • Private schools never change
      Korean society is changing, as seen by the fact that the Supreme Court has decided to allow persons who have had sex-change operations to be legally classified according to ...
    Jun.23,2006 09:36 KST
  • Expectations and concerns
    Foreign business workers based in Seoul watch North Korean workers manufacture containers for cosmetics at a plant in the Kaesong Industrial Complex, North...
    Jun.23,2006 09:32 KST
  • Former top financial officials detained on Hyundai bribe charges
    Prosecutors investigating the Hyundai Motor Group’s use of illegal slush funds have detained Yon Won-young, former president of the state-run Korea Asset Management Corp. (KAMCO...
    Jun.22,2006 11:43 KST
  • [Column] Iran, North Korea, and gambling with missiles
    The Pew Research Center is a private American "fact tank," an institution that, unlike "think tanks," speaks with facts. A survey of public opinion in fifteen countries that Pew...
    Jun.22,2006 11:20 KST
  • North calls for negotiation on missile issue
    North calls for negotiation on missile issue Pyongyang says it is exercising its ’sovereignty’ As North Korea continues to delay the test launch of a technologically imp...
    Jun.22,2006 10:47 KST
  • 20 private schools netted in corruption probe
    State auditors are expected to announce the results of their three-month probe of South Korean private schools on suspicion of corruption. The Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI...
    Jun.22,2006 10:05 KST
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