The Korea Herald

Digital era dominates lawsuit filings

Apr 26, 2011

As many futurists predicted, digital is dominant in many areas of our society and lawsuits are no exception. According to the Supreme Court, 79.5 percent of the suits filed with the Patent Court sin...
Sleepy husband stabs wife for waking him up

Apr 26, 2011

SELANGOR - An angry husband, who was awakened from his morning slumber, beat up and stabbed his wife, Harian Metro reported. The woman is now in a coma and fighting for her life at a hospital, the pa...
College students don’t invest much time on study: report

Apr 26, 2011

South Korean college students spend less time on study and are passive in class, research showed Tuesday. A report released by the Korea Educational Development Institute indicated that full-time co...
Fire hits SK oil storage

Apr 26, 2011

A fire broke out at SK Energy’s oil storage facility in Incheon Tuesday afternoon. No casualties were reported. Fire fighters have been struggling to put out the fire.
Police probing online commerce fraud

Apr 26, 2011

A woman in Gwangju requested a police investigation after she received a can of butane gas from an online seller instead of the iPod she had paid for. Kim ordered an iPod from an online second-hand ...
Judges, prosecutors lured into law by fat salaries

Apr 25, 2011

When South Korea’s first-ever female Supreme Court justice retired from the bench in August, she was surprised to learn how much she could earn in her first year if she practices law. “I heard that ...
ROTC program grows popular among coeds

Apr 25, 2011

The Army’s college-based program to train officers is drawing keen attention among young women now that they are allowed to enroll in the Reserve Officer Training Corps as of last year, officials sai...
Four charged with rape of hagwon teacher

Apr 25, 2011

Four teenagers have been charged with the gang rape of an English teacher in Anyang, Gyeonggi Province. The three university students and one unemployed man are accused of taking turns raping the 24...
Umbrella unions join forces

Apr 25, 2011

FKTU, KCTU leaders agree to team up against labor policy The heads of the nation’s two umbrella unions vowed Monday to stand against what they call a oppressive Lee Myung-bak administration and infl...
Austrian authorities reveal find of buried treasure

Apr 25, 2011

Picture of a backyard (MCT) VIENNA (AP) ― A man turning dirt in his back yard stumbled across buried treasure ― hundreds of pieces of centuries-old jewelry and other precious objects that Austrian a...
Seoul to complete anti-quake subway reinforcement project by 2014

Apr 25, 2011

Citizens participate in the earthquake exercise held in Incheon Metro subway station in March 30. (Yonhap News) The Seoul city government said Monday that it will complete an ongoing project to make...
Man sues over FMD burial site management

Apr 24, 2011

A real estate owner near a burial site for cattle culled to prevent the further spread of foot-and-mouth-disease filed suit against the government Saturday over environmental damage he said the slaug...
Derailing puts subway safety in focus

Apr 24, 2011

Union blames accidents on massive layoff of KORAIL maintenance workers KORAIL’s union has slammed staff cuts, blaming them for Saturday’s derailment of a metro train. While the operator discribes t...
Father claims 2-year-old son killed mother

Apr 24, 2011

A toddler in Florida has allegedly shot his mother by accident, his father told police. Julia Bennet, 33, was found dead in her apartment by police who came immediately after the 911 call made by th...
Subway car on Bundang Line derails near Jukjeon Station: reports

Apr 23, 2011

News reports said a subway car running from Bojeong Station to Jukjeon Station on Bundang Line derailed at Jukjeon Station at around 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, forcing more than 40 passengers to get off...