- The Government has delayed its discussion on the establishment of for-profit hotels hospitals in South Korea. (Thanks for catching the error, Brendon.)
- Tax accountants are the highest earners in South Korea, taking in an average monthly salary of 10.73 million won (around $10,000) per month.
- "Apple envy" is behind a shake-up at Samsung.
- South Korea will launch Yuan futures in 2011.
- Jane's Intelligence Weekly says the North Korean weapons stash was bound for the Sudan.
- The White House and the State Department have confirmed that President Obama wrote a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il that was delivered by envoy Stephen Bosworth.
- An op-ed in the Asian Wall Street Journal says that the arms seizure in North Korea shows us the real Kim Jong-il.
- Choe Sanghun of the New York Times reports on the "sea of opposition" to President Lee's Four Rivers Project.
- South Korea has dismissed Taliban warnings against ROK military deployment as psychological rhetoric.
- The main opposition party has proposed a bill that would require a court-issued warrant for authorities to enter the home of suspected illegal aliens in South Korea.
- The US and South Korea will forge a set of symbolic guidelines to reaffirm the ROK-US alliance as the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War approaches. Story also here.
- Opposition lawmakers are trying to initiate serious study of an underground — and below-water — extension of the high-speed KTX railway to Chejudo.
- The Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Family Affairs is investigating G-Dragon for obscene content in his songs and performances.
- Gallup Korea says Kim Yuna has been rated the top athlete of the year.
- More healthy bacteria found in kimchi.
- The US and Vietnam have agreed to expand military links.
g-dragon is cool and i am in solidarity with him. this is my official statement.
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