Recently added articles from Korea Times (Seoul, Korea):
- Doosan's Lee Hei-chun: Wise Beyond His Years Back in 1998, the Doosan Bears drafted a not-so-highly touted prospect out of Pusan High School named Lee Hei-chun. Lee was a scrawny 69kg and was just 180cm tall but he was a lefty, and that gave him at least a certain value to the team.
- Jun 14, 2001
- Us Open Turns Into Tiger Hunt When Tiger Woods won the Masters in April, it wasn't so much that he finished first that was surprising. After all, his victory at Augusta almost seemed inevitable considering the hot streak he was on coming into the tournament.
- Jun 14, 2001
- US Calls for Car Tariff Reduction The United States has strongly called on Korea to slash its tariff on imported cars in yesterday's annual automobile consultation talks, a Foreign Affairs-Trade Ministry official said yesterday.
- Jun 14, 2001
- Sherman Urges NK Leader to Visit Seoul Wendy Sherman, former U.S. North Korea policy coordinator, yesterday called on North Korea's National Defense Commission Chairman Kim Jong-il to make a return visit to South Korea as soon as possible, saying it would be vital to proving its will for the peace process to the world.
- Jun 14, 2001
- Japan Takes Issue With Korea's Labor Movement Japan has taken issue with Korea's alleged hardline labor movement, contending that labor-related provisions should be included in a bilateral investment treaty currently under negotiations as guarantees for Japanese investment here.
- Jun 14, 2001
- Deadlock in Inter-Korean Ties Warned A former foreign minister yesterday forecast that inter-Korean relations would likely remain stalled for the time being.
- Jun 14, 2001
- President Kim Out on Mission to Pep Up Farmers President Kim Dae-jung yesterday visited a farming village in Chinchon, Chungchong-pukto, in order to give encouragement to farmers fighting the worst drought in 90 years.
- Jun 14, 2001
- Ruling Camp Rebuts GNP Head's Attack on Sunshine Policy A senior ruling camp official yesterday strongly criticized opposition leader Lee Hoi-chang for his ``parochial'' view on inter-Korean relations and lack of a global sense of leadership.
- Jun 14, 2001
- Parties Stop Assembly to Help Farmers While the nation is engulfed by a general strike orchestrated by an umbrella labor group, rival political parties also put down the gavel and suspended their planned standing committees yesterday.
- Jun 14, 2001
- Navy Ships to Make Maiden Voyage to Mainland China BEIJING (Yonhap) -- South Korean naval vessels will visit mainland China in late October for the first time since the two nations opened diplomatic relations in 1992, military sources here said Wednesday.
- Jun 14, 2001
- Korea-US Business Council to Debate Steel Conflict Korea and the United States will debate a number of outstanding trade issues, particularly the ongoing steel dispute, when representative of the private sector meet next week.
- Jun 14, 2001
- IT Training Program Unveiled for Foreign Workers The Ministry of Information and Communication announced yesterday it would launch an information-technology (IT) training program for foreign workers with the aim of narrowing the IT skills gap.
- Jun 14, 2001
- Hospital Workers Join Escalating Strike, Airline Chaos Continues for Second Day Thousands of nurses and hospital workers walked off their jobs yesterday, as a general strike which crippled airline operations nationwide entered a second day.
- Jun 14, 2001
- Korean Air Sets Deadline for Striking Pilots' Return to Work With flight operations still crippled on the second day of a strike, Korean Air ordered its pilots to return to work by 6 p.m. Wednesday, threatening that they would otherwise face stern punishment as well as responsibility for financial losses stemming from the walkout.
- Jun 14, 2001
- High-Ranking Thai Official Warns of Narcotic Threat From S-E Asia A visiting high-ranking official from Thailand's narcotics authorities underlined the importance of close cooperation between Korea and Southeastern Asian countries to crack down on drug trafficking.
- Jun 14, 2001
- Growth Rate Projection to Be Lowered to 4-5 Pct for 2001 The government is considering revising its earlier projected economic growth rate of 5-6 percent for this year down by 1 percentage point to 4-5 percent.
- Jun 14, 2001
- At Any Cost.
- Jun 14, 2001
- Hong's `Red Buddha' a Humorous Mixture of Sacred and Secular ``Red Buddha.'' The title itself mirrors the double-sidedness of the sacred and the secular nestled in the new dance piece created by choreographer Hong Sung-yop, a rising star in the Korean contemporary dance world.
- Jun 14, 2001
- 3 Scenarios for Korean Economy McKinsey &Company came out with an unsolicited report featuring three scenarios for Korea's economic future.
- Jun 14, 2001
- Hynix Making Smooth Progress in Introduction of Foreign Capital Hynix Semiconductor's efforts to attract foreign capital have been going smoothly, as the rapid progress has been made through an overseas road show, Lee Keun-young, chairman of the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) said yesterday.
- Jun 14, 2001
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