...g economic growth by creating new job opportunities and growth engines through green technologies and clean energy, he pointed out. He defended the ongoing project to clean and refurbish the country’s four major rivers despite criticism that it will eventually devastate the ecosystem. “The U.N. Environment Program announced that Korea’s Four Rivers Project is an exemplary model of environment-friendly endeavors as well as an efficient means of coping with climate change,” he said. “The core idea behind the Four Rivers Project lies ...

...eir son had been kidnapped with a fake voice of a boy screaming through the telephone. It took only nine minutes for the scammer to withdraw the money from a bank account opened under another person’s name, after the embarrassed father, surnamed Yoon, immediately sent ransom money, court documents showed. Voice phishing involves random phone calls made to dupe victims to send money to fraudulent...

Korean stocks finished 0.47 percent higher on Monday, led by financial companies, as upbeat U.S. data boosted investor sentiment amid subdued trading after a national holiday, analysts said. The loca...ee Jae-man, an analyst at Tongyang Securities Co. The KOSPI started brisk in the morning after a U.S. government report showed on Friday that the country’s unemployment rate fell in January. “But th...

Korea’s major economic organizations called on the government Monday to significantly postpone its plan to introduce a carbon emissions trading system in 2012, saying it could hurt the country’s indu... Korean Employers Federation and the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, noted China, the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gas, and the world’s second largest greenhouse gas producer, the Un...

Korea’s video search technology provider, Enswers Inc., said Monday that it has agreed to acquire a Silicon Valley-based online company, Soompi Media LLC, to create a U.S.-based Web portal for Korean pop culture and news. Under the agreement, Enswers will introduce this month a revamped service of Soompi.com powered by its own video search technology in a bid to bring Korean dramas, music, movie...

HONG KONG (Yonhap News) ― Kia Motors Corp., Korea’s second-largest automaker, posted record-high monthly sales in China last month, backed by strong demand for its sport utility vehicle, company officials said on Sunday. In January, Kia Motors sold 38,858 units of vehicles in the world’s most populous country, up 22.7 percent from a month earlier and also 13.7 percent from the same period last y...

...tle girl could get a better look at the leaping dragons shimmying to a boisterous drumbeat. For Wu’s daughter, Yvonne, this is what Chinese New Year is all about. The Wu family, who live near Los Ang...s the Mirage and Bellagio casinos. “I think overall it’s helped. Having a property over there that’s recognized and established there is really important. It’s become significantly easier to move our...

... in China which artisans here see both as a threat ― and a boon ― to their livelihood. Even with U.S. interest in classical music slipping, and some orchestras folding in harsh economic times, suppor...dividual American violin-makers are thriving. “Violin and bowmaking in this country is the best it’s been in U.S. history,” and the instruments being produced are among the world’s finest, Jerry Pase...

LONDON (AFP) ― The world’s great museums are increasingly using the Internet and social networking sites to pique the interest of people who might never think of setting foot in an art exhibition. A...about Google Art. The Louvre in Paris, a true giant of world culture and home to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” spurned Google’s advances and chose instead to build up its own website, which curren...

...ward in Physiology or Medicine by 2030 was unveiled by the government Monday. The plan, tentatively called “Nobel Project in Physiology or Medicine,” will support young medical scientists in their 20s or 30s for their own long-term research work, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said in its annual budget for health technology. A total of 10 scientists will be selected to receive government subsidies ...