A South Korean private bioengineering laboratory led by disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk said Monday it is stepping up efforts to make progress in cloning an extinct woolly mammoth. To that end, the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation signed an agreement Sunday with Russia’s North-Eastern Federal University that gives the foundation the exclusive right to study the mammoth remains found...

Saenuri candidate acknowledges suffering caused by Park Chung-hee government Saenuri Party presidential candidate Rep. Park Geun-hye publicly apologized to the people who suffered under her father’s iron-fisted rule Monday in a move to ward off controversy over her historical views and regain her frontrunner status. “The May 16, Yushin and Inhyeokdang cases damaged the value of the Constitution...

A Korean private bioengineering laboratory led by disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk said Monday it is stepping up efforts to make progress in cloning an extinct woolly mammoth. To that end, the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation signed an agreement Sunday with Russia's North-Eastern Federal University that gives the foundation the exclusive right to study the mammoth remains found in no...

The ruling Saenuri Party is pushing to move the country’s top-ranked Seoul National University (SNU) to the new administrative city of Sejong in a move to woo voters ahead of December’s presidential election, party officials said Monday. The move would help the Seoul-based state-run university attract additional investment and cut tuition if it sells its land and buildings, a party official said...

Each candidate expected to finish campaign team organization, flesh out policies this week Three presidential candidates are stepping up their campaigns ahead of a national holiday late this month which is crucial to voter sentiment. With less than three months to go before election day, Rep. Park Geun-hye of the ruling Saenuri Party, Rep. Moon Jae-in of the main opposition Democratic United Pa...

Seoul and Washington have provisionally agreed to revise their bilateral pact to allow South Korea to develop ballistic missiles with a range of up to 800 kilometers, up from the current 300 km, reports said Sunday. The weight of the payload is expected to remain at the current 500 kg. The allies are fine-tuning details and likely to announce the result of their negotiations next month, the repo...

Protests across the Muslim world against a U.S.-made film trailer deemed insulting to the prophet Muhammad have shown few signs of abating, with the latest protests in Pakistan over the weekend leaving at least 19 people dead. Demonstrations also took place in Indonesia, Libya, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Nigeria, among other countries, over the weekend. Scores have been killed in violent protests ...

Mitt Romney, the Republican challenger to President Barack Obama in November’s U.S. presidential election, tried to dampen speculation and political attacks over his finances on Friday with the release of his 2011 tax return and a 20-year overview of tax payments. Last year’s tax return showed that the former governor of Massachusetts paid $1.9 million in taxes on income of $13.6 million, for an ...

Worrying about their livelihood and longing for political reform, people in their 40s, especially those who are middle class and reside in the Seoul metropolitan area, are emerging as a decisive section of the electorate for the close presidential race. Their potential to determine the December election was pronounced in last week’s opinion polls. Polls show that the age segment has sharply shi...