Interrogation focuses on whether 200 million won was bribe Kwak No-hyun, Seoul’s embattled education chief, faced interrogation from city prosecutors on allegations that he paid a rival candidate to quit last year’s election. An expressionless Kwak arrived at the lobby of the Seoul Central Prosecutors’ Office at around 11 a.m., greeted by a feisty crowd of supporters, opponents and the media. ...

Some 50 state leaders will also deal with North Korea uranium issue Following Japan’s nuclear crisis at Fukushima, next year’s nuclear security summit in Seoul will focus on how to improve safety in atomic energy, organizers said Monday. Since the March Fukushima Daiichi plant disaster ― considered the world’s worst nuclear-related disaster in 25 years ― nuclear safety has become the most impor...

Ministry sets out on restructuring following dispute over tuition The government on Monday took the first step in a long-term drive to pressure poorly managed universities to shut down by naming 43 underperforming schools in terms of student enrollment and graduates’ employment. State financial aid will be limited to the 43 schools that rank below the 15th percentile in the study by the Educati...

HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) ― For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut’s suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages on a glossy iPad tablet computer. A few hours away, every student at Burlington High School near Boston will also start the year with new school-issued iPads, each loaded...

Hyundai Motor Co., the largest carmaker in the country, on Monday agreed with Intel Korea and C&S Technology Ltd. to jointly develop infrastructure needed to deliver new channels of entertainment to drivers. The three plan to put together In-Vehicle Infotainment system enabling drivers to access out-of-home TVs, social networking services, smartphone applications, games and internet radio. Yang...

Amore Pacific Corp. on Monday held a ceremony marking the company’s 66th anniversary, renewing its long-term target to nurture “mega brands” with more than 500 billion won ($468 million) in annual sales. “We have succeeded in having brands whose annual sales exceed 100 billion won. And now is the time to seek the 500 billion won mark through mega brands,” CEO Suh Kyung-bae said. “We need to con...

Shinsegae Group said Monday it will build a multiplex shopping mall in Hanam, Gyeonggi Province, by 2015 in a partnership with a U.S.-based developer Taubman Centers. Located at a 117,000-square-meter site in Hanam, one of Seoul’s satellite cities, Hanam Union Square will be the largest shopping mall in Seoul and surrounding Gyeonggi Province, the nation’s No. 1 retail giant said. Shinsegae rev...