SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will set up 1,300 gas stations selling cheaper gasoline and diesel by 2015 as part of an ongoing effort to control inflationary pressure, the government said Thursday. The "thrift gas stations" will receive their fuel from state-run Korea National Oil Corp. (KNOC) and the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (Nonghyup), the Ministry of Knowledge Econ...

Newly elected Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon’s ambitious dream to halve college tuition is about to take off as the Seoul Metropolitan Government is considering subsidizing the University of Seoul from next year in tuition terms. According to the municipal government, it has recently received a request from the public university to provide a total of 18.2 billion won ($16.2 million) so that students ...

SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Yonhap) -- A former legal affairs aide for President Lee Myung-bak was sentenced to one and a half years in prison on Thursday for receiving bribes in return for using his influence to gain favor for a scandal-ridden savings bank. The Seoul Central District Court handed down the prison term to Eun Jin-soo, who also served as a vice-ministerial level auditor at the Board of Audit a...

SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Yonhap) -- Divorces filed by international couples in South Korea grew nearly 5 percent last year, data showed Thursday, possibly leaving many of their children vulnerable to poor parental care and education. According to the data by Statistics Korea, a total of 14,319 couples with different nationality, racial and cultural backgrounds filed for divorce last year, up 4.9 percent f...

DOHA ― The third World Innovation Summit for Education, one of the largest international education forums, kicked off its three-day run in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday with more than 1,000 attending. The forum has attracted about 1,200 participants and 140 distinguished speakers from about 120 countries, including Colombia University professor Jeffrey Sachs, former U.K. prime minister Gordon Brown an...

The diplomatic community is up in arms over the death of Thitinart Satjipanon, spouse of Thai Ambassador Chaiyong Satjipanon, on Sept. 19 at Soonchunhyang University Hospital. A letter sent by Uzbekistan Ambassador and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Vitali Fen to Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik and Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Kim Sung-hwan condemned, in the harshest of language and tone, the ...

Native English speakers are being sought to teach kids attending a social welfare study room in Daegu. The elementary school students at the Jisan-dong center are in need of extra English-language assistance. Some of the 40 attending kids are orphans while others live with their grandparents, or in dorm-style housing. The Daegu Gyeongbuk branch of ATEK is seeking five volunteer teachers to help...