» by GI Korea May 8th, 2012 at 3:54 am » Comments (18)

Here is an update on the Samsung versus Apple patent infringement lawsuit: Samsung Electronics, sanctioned by a U.S. judge for its failure to produce source code in a patent-infringement case in ...more »

» by GI Korea May 7th, 2012 at 11:17 pm » Comments (0)

This is the 2nd tragic fire in recent years in Busan:  Nine people were killed, including two foreigners, and 10 others injured when a fire raged through a karaoke facility in ...more »

» by GI Korea May 7th, 2012 at 5:20 pm » Comments (16)

Does anyone know if stopping retailers from offering discount prices is illegal anywhere else in the world? The U.S. outdoor brand that has dominated the South Korean market for years is ...more »

» by GI Korea May 7th, 2012 at 8:10 am » Comments (4)

This squabble between Korea and China is about as stupid as the effort to rename French Fries: “The Koreans stole Dano from us, and now they’re stealing our cabbages,” say Chinese ...more »

» by GI Korea May 7th, 2012 at 3:44 am » Comments (8)

If you thought that coffee shops were expensive in Korea before, well they are about to get more expensive this summer: Coffee franchises are raising prices, making consumers anxious that it ...more »

» by GI Korea May 6th, 2012 at 5:34 pm » Comments (20)

Via a reader tip from the Open Thread comes this news that there is supposedly a lot of Korean prostitutes Down Under: The Australian state with the largest Korean population in ...more »

» by GI Korea May 5th, 2012 at 1:00 pm » Comments (7)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="499" caption="Korea Tourism Organization chief Lee Cham (C, back) takes part in a campaign on Seoul's Myeongdong street on May 3, 2012, to welcome foreign tourists, mainly ...more »

» by GI Korea May 4th, 2012 at 1:00 pm » Comments (10)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="A farmer drives a bull to till his hillside field in the city of Gangneung on South Korea's east coast on May 3, 2012. Farming machinery ...more »

» by GI Korea May 2nd, 2012 at 5:24 pm » Comments (4)

South Korea's National Assembly has passed a bill that supposedly will prevent future outbreaks of violence that has made the lawmakers at times the laughingstock of the world: South Korea's parliament ...more »

» by GI Korea May 1st, 2012 at 5:55 pm » Comments (4)

The South Korean city of Uijongbu has a long history of being host to hundreds of thousands of US Soldiers over the past 60 years.  Out of all the current ...more »