- South Korea's economy was being battered by PIGS, and now it is falling victim to STUPID countries. Yeah, well I know some Americans who aren't too happy about the combined challenge brought on by Dubai, Ireland, China, Korea, and Singapore (DICKS).
- Cell phone handset prices are expected to stabilize in 2010, with a stronger focus being made on operating systems, service, and applications.
- Samsung will soon have no foreign citizens on its board.
- CJ O Shopping is seeking 120 billion won in loans to buy On*Media.
- Short-hour employees, those working only two to three hours a day, reportedly topped one million last year. The Korea Times also has the story, as does the Korea Herald.
- The number of Chinese firms operating in South Korea has quadrupled over the past decade.
- Korea-made cars rose to a record high global share last year, 3.513 million vehicles accounting for 5.7% of the world's total.
- Seoul's spy agency is saying that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is expressing anxiety over pending state matters.
- So much for South Korean officialdom's supposed opposition to the iPhone: The Korean Times reports that not only are more government bureaucrats using one, but government agencies are making more and more apps for it.
- South Korean college students dream of working for Samsung. Then they dream of getting back to sleep again.
- In the wake of the arrest in Taegu of an alleged member of the Taliban who had posed as an imam, the Korea Times reports that image problems continue to haunt the Muslim community in South Korea.
- The Korea Herald has a report on protests over the arrest of undocumented Nepali residents who were caught up in what was supposedly an anti-gambling raid.
- University entrants have to keep up with their hagwon English classes even after they enter school.
- Kim Yuna of South Korea and Mao Asada of Japan both hope to avoid Olympic curse of figure skating gold being won by unknowns. Meanwhile, the Chosun Ilbo asks if Japan might not win any medals at all, which may invite karma over to Vancouver.
- A Hannara Party official has proposed doubling the pension of Olympic medal winners.
- Two of the 234 women who registered as former sex slaves of Imperial Japan's military have died in the past two months, leaving only eighty-six still alive.
- The UN says cell phone service has surged, with 4.6 billion subscriptions around the world at the end of last year, including 57% of the people in developing economies. South Korea comes in third in advanced cell phone technology available to customers, after Sweden and Luxembourg. Reuters has a similar story.
- This Washington Post story says Apolo Ohno is genetically designed for short track.
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