The People's Action for Media Reform is again going after the "improprieties" of the newspaper market. On Wednesday it called on the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) to engage in a full and instant offici.. [May.5,2005 13:19 KST]

First year high school students have become so outspoken in their displeasure with the "high school achievement ranking system" that they are organizing a candlelight protest. Education officials are .. [May.5,2005 03:00 KST]

On the occasion of Korea's first Children's Day on May 1, 1923, Bang Jeong Hwan wrote something titled "An Open Letter to Adults." The document was distributed in various places around Seoul that day,.. [May.5,2005 02:59 KST]

Rank-and-file prosecutors are taking organized action in opposing the Presidential Committee on Judicial Reform's ideas about amending the law regarding criminal court proceedings. They are meet.. [May.4,2005 09:28 KST]

The "Atomic Bomb Victim Welfare Fund" run by the Korean National Red Cross with government support is going to run out of money by the year after next and that will force the program to cease to.. [May.4,2005 09:27 KST]

The National Statistical Office (NSO) released figures on Tuesday showing that 16,894 young people (cheongsonyeon) between the ages of 9 and 20 went missing last year, 26.3 percent more than in 2003. .. [May.3,2005 21:52 KST]

The Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, held every five years, opens Monday in New York and continues through to the middle of the month. The NPT is in a weaker state than it has been at.. [May.3,2005 08:08 KST]

The Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development wants to test a system of teacher evaluation at elementary, middle, and high schools, and then implement such a system in full starting in 200.. [May.3,2005 07:57 KST]

Korean alpinist Park Yeong Seok and three others arrived at the North Pole on the weekend, which means that Park has achieved the "grand slam" of mountaineering, having been to both the North and Sout.. [May.3,2005 07:42 KST]

The by-election of April 30 ended with a crushing defeat for the ruling Uri Party and an overwhelming victory for the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP). It was the harsh judgment of the rulin.. [May.2,2005 03:17 KST]