U.S. technology giant Apple may face a class action lawsuit in South Korea for an iPhone feature that can track the location of users. Apple Korea said Thursday that it paid a $950 judgment last month to a lawyer who sued the company for violation of privacy.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) selected Pyeongchang, South Korea as host of the 2018 Winter Games today. The committee meeting in Durban, South Africa, made its selection in the first round of voting. The South Korean city won over Munich, Germany and Annecy, France after failing in two previous tries. It was an emphatic success […]
The South Korean military and Korea University have signed an agreement to set up a cyberdefense program aimed specifically at training students in cyber warfare to combat virtual threats from North Korea. The four-year cyberdefense major will be offered at Korea University’s Graduate School of Information Security starting next year and will accept 30 undergraduates, […]
Troops in South Korea attacked a passenger jet Saturday after mistaking it for a North Korean aircraft. The Asiana Airlines plane was out of range and escaped undamaged; the 119 on board were unharmed. Soldiers fired 99 rounds, including two blanks, from their K2 rifles at the Airbus A321 as it approached Incheon International Airport […]
The body of a South Korean man has been discovered nailed to a wooden cross in a manner echoing representations of the death of Jesus Christ. Police say the body of a 58-year-old man identified only as Kim was found Sunday in an abandoned rock quarry in the central city of Mungyeong. He was dressed […]
BANGKOK, 23 March 2011 (NNT)-Energy Minister Dr. Wannarat Charnnukul has revealed during the opening of the energy meeting cooperation in the South East Asian region that the meeting is aimed at creating an energy cooperation network among ASEAN member nations, which include Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand, with South Korea being persuaded to […]
On March 12th, some of Korea’s top idols will perform at the Rajamangala National Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand for MBC’s 50th Anniversary Hallyu Concert. Many stars showed off their ‘airport fashion’ as they departed at Incheon National Airport on March 10th. Participants of the concert include TVXQ, SNSD, Wonder Girls, 2PM, Secret, Brown Eyed Girls, […]
The Information and Communications Technology Ministry is pushing ahead with plans to sell the mobile concessions of Advanced Info Service to a group of foreign telecom giants if compensation negotiations fail. “We are in preliminary talks with eight international telecom firms and they all expressed interest in taking over the mobile operations of the country’s […]
