...fiscal crisis, the G20 summit and bilateral relations. They also assessed in addition to assessing the immediate results of the Korea-EU free trade agreement that tentatively took effect in July, Lee’s office said in a press release. Two-way trade between July and September increased 11.8 percent year-on-year to $25.36 billion. The Korea-EU summit took place before Lee’s business luncheon with other leaders of the Group of 20 economies, followed by the first session of the G20 Summit on “action plans for growth.” At the two-day G20 summit that opened in Cannes on T...

Some regard Park’s mayoral election as threat to civil activism, while others an evolution Upon the election of liberal activist Park Won-soon as Seoul mayor, civic groups stepped forward into the p...pon the ruling party but also upon the main opposition Democratic Party, as it reflected the public’s general distrust of political parties. As he won the liberal bloc’s sole candidacy, the DP added ...

...iplomacy Council of the National Assembly, and Christion Ehler, chairman of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with the Korean Peninsula. They discussed ways to promote cooperation be...hosted by the East Asia Foundation. The FTA between the partners that took effect July 1 is the EU’s first FTA with an Asian country. Before the FTA, the EU was already Korea’s second-biggest trading...

...o avoid the inheritance tax, the NTS said. There was also a case in which a parent transferred property to a company in abroad for money-laundering in the name of his children. “With the government’s surveillance on illegal wealth transfer getting stricter recently, the means of inheritance have become more diverse and sophisticated,” said Im Hwan-soo, a director general of investigation bureau ...

...The DP, as the leading opposition, shall set an example and open up its doors for the cause.” Sohn’s move came amid the awareness that the DP may no longer dominate the left. New liberal forces such ... civic groups have risen as influential powers upon the election of activist Park Won-soon as Seoul’s mayor. Responses from non-DP members varied. “We welcome the DP’s willingness to achieve integra...

...ing the researchers to destroy the cells with a medicine that did no damage elsewhere in the animal’s body. “The clearance of these senescent cells, which are basically a byproduct of a mechanism to ...h drugs, it drilled a hole in the cells and killed them, according to scientists at the Mayo Clinic’s Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging in Rochester, Minnesota. “By attacking these cells and wh...