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Michelle Rhee Interviewed By TBS’s This Morning Program

» by GI Korea February 2nd, 2010 at 5:16 pm » Comments (0)

Over at the TBS This Morning website they have finally started posting radio broadcasts again this past month, which are all interviews with various people by hosts Kim Juweon and ...more »

South Korea Announces It Will Use Full Body Scanners at Airports

» by GI Korea January 28th, 2010 at 9:40 am » Comments (10)

Is everyone ready to get a full body scan when they fly out of Korea?: International travelers will have to go through full-body scanners and liquid bomb detectors in airports across ...more »

Lee Myung-bak Looking To Strengthen Ties With India

» by GI Korea January 26th, 2010 at 4:56 pm » Comments (5)

Lee Myung-bak is currently in India working to better Korean relations with that country: South Korea and India are expected to cement a strategic partnership that aims to more than double ...more »

Recession Leading to Increase In Korean-American Suicides

» by GI Korea January 20th, 2010 at 3:35 am » Comments (5)

South Korea has long been known as one of the world leaders in suicide and now it appears this penchant for suicide has spread among Koreans living in New York ...more »

Hagwon Teacher Charged In SAT Fraud

» by GI Korea January 19th, 2010 at 9:42 pm » Comments (24)

What jumped out at me about this story was not the fraud but how much this guy was making teaching students how to take the SAT: Police are investigating whether a ...more »

South Korea to Donate $1 Million to Haiti Earthquake Relief

» by GI Korea January 16th, 2010 at 6:12 am » Comments (13)

In the wake of this weeks earthquake that has devastated Haiti the Korean government has decided to donate $1 million dollars in earthquake relief which the Chosun Ilbo is not ...more »

Man Caught Smuggling Fireworks to South Korea

» by GI Korea January 4th, 2010 at 4:00 pm » Comments (1)

There are plenty of examples of people being caught trying to smuggle drugs into South Korea, but fireworks?: Screeners at Honolulu International Airport have confiscated fireworks found in the luggage of ...more »

Korean Government Announces New Citizenship Guidelines

» by GI Korea January 2nd, 2010 at 2:03 am » Comments (7)

I posted before about the new regulations from the Korean government in regards to spouses receiving dual citizenship and now even more guidelines to offer Korean citizenship to ethnic Koreans ...more »

The Top 10 Korean Stories of the Decade

» by GI Korea January 1st, 2010 at 3:59 pm » Comments (17)

In my prior posting yesterday I listed Top 10 stories in various categories for 2009.  In this posting today, I have decided that in honor of the end of the ...more »

A Look At Korea’s Online Electric Cars

» by GI Korea December 29th, 2009 at 9:06 pm » Comments (1)

Now here is a technology advancement that I am quite intrigued by: Via Korea Insider. more »

Korea to Build Nuclear Power Plant In UAE

» by GI Korea December 29th, 2009 at 8:18 am » Comments (2)

Here is something that is becoming an increasingly large industry for South Korea: President Lee Myung-bak will visit the United Arab Emirates today to make a last big push for Korea ...more »

South Korean Government Approves Dual Citizenship Bill

» by GI Korea December 24th, 2009 at 7:35 am » Comments (17)

Here is some new legislation that some of you out there may find of interest: The Cabinet has approved a bill that allows Koreans to hold multiple citizenship, while restricting such ...more »
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