- The FCC has announced a plan that would expand Internet capabilities and use to levels similar to those of Korea and Japan today.
- Some members of the US Senate might slap sanctions on Chinese goods if it doesn't revalue the yuan.
- South Korean department store sales are up for the twelfth straight month.
- The US has agreed to resume imports of South Korean tangerines and apples.
- The shrinking of South Korea's middle class seems to have halted.
- The Korea Times reports that the IMF is becoming more receptive to the idea of capital flow controls.
- The governments of the City of Masan and South Kyŏngsang Province have announced plans to build a $182 million robot park. The cheaper, original robert park is malfunctioning.
- Mothers of children at North Korea-affiliated high schools in Japan demand that their institutions be included in government plans to offer free tuition.
- Inter-Korean trade jumps 52% in February.
- Former US President Jimmy Carter is visiting Seoul next week to receive an honorary doctorate from Koryŏ (Korea) University and give a lecture on North Korea going nuclear.
- Police say that some two hundred rape suspects are on the loose.
- Authorities are going to look into the feasibility of building an airstrip for light aircraft on Ullŭngdo Island, in order to facilitate tourism to that island and the nearby Tokto islets.
- South Korea is reportedly seeking an apology on par with then-PM Murayama's statement in 1995 if President Lee is to visit Japan, where he was born.
- The Justice Minister has hinted at the resumption of executions in the wake of the rape and murder of a thirteen-year-old girl in Pusan named Lee.
- The Korea Times has a timeline of the murder of Miss Lee.
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