NASA released the first 360-degree view of the entire sun on Sunday. The photo comes courtesy of NASA ’s twin STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RE lations Observatory) spacecraft, which aligned exactly opposite each other on opposite sides of the sun to capture the image. (Yonhap News)

...als with inter-Korean relations as well but the issue makes up less than 10 percent of the magazine’s content, he said. “We hope the magazine can make contributions to Korean unification, too,” he sa...m in East Asia written by late President Roh Moo-hyun. President Lee Myung-bak also wrote on Korea’s new economic model based on green growth in January 2010. “U.S. universities are adopting Global ...

...returned home Monday from the Asian Winter Games in Kazakhstan, where they put together the country’s most successful Winter Asiad performance. South Korea won its all-time high of 13 gold medals in ...r great performance at the Vancouver Winter Olympics last year,” Kim said, referring to South Korea’s most successful Winter Olympics with six gold and 14 medals total. “I think this will help us prep...

...chairman Sohn Hak-kyu this week. The pro-Park faction has suspected the pro-Lee majority is trying to keep Park in check should she become president. The former GNP chairwoman is currently the party’s strongest presidential hopeful. Park wants a four-year, two-term presidency. The DP dismissed the drive for constitutional revision as the “pro-Lee faction’s strategy for survival” in case it loses the next presidential election. “Whatever conclusion is drawn in the GNP’s general meeting, the DP will not take part in the parliamentary committee for cons...

...he data offered by the finance ministry and the statistics agency, the average prices of the nation’s 32 major public services, including heating gas and tap water, rose 0.9 percent last month from De...l medical treatment jumping 4.6 percent from a month earlier. The rise came despite the government’s intensifying drive to ease growing inflationary pressure, driven by increasing food and commodity ...

Korea’s stock market capitalization returned to the $1 trillion level for the first time in three years in 2010 as an economic recovery and corporate profit gains led to strong rallies, the bourse operator said Monday. The country’s total market cap of its main board and the tech-heavy junior market reached $1.92 trillion at the end of 2010, up 30.8 percent from a year earlier, the Korea Exchang...

Korea’s foreign exchange reserves rose to a fresh high in January as a soft U.S. dollar bolstered the conversion value of assets in other currencies, the central bank said Monday. The country’s foreign reserves reached $295.96 billion as of the end of January, up $4.39 billion from the previous month, according to the Bank of Korea. The reserves rose for the second straight month in January, su...

...recovery and improving labor market conditions have been encouraging companies to recruit workers on longer-term contracts, bolstered by reduced business uncertainties, experts say. Meanwhile, Korea’s jobless rate stood at 3.5 percent in December last year, unchanged from a year earlier. The total number of employed people came to 23.68 million, up 455,000 from a year earlier, according to separa...