- The Nano may help Tata surpass Hyundai as India's #2 automaker. I've seen the Tata Nano, and let me tell you, they're on fire!
- Lone Star is getting ready to sell off Korea Exchange Bank again.
- Most South Korean firms don't expect to be affected by the travel slowdown caused by the Iceland volcano that no one can spell or pronounce.
- South Korea's stock-investing population has reached a record high. Let's just hope the wisdom of crowds notion holds true, though I'm skeptical in this particular case.
- South Korea is the eighth most competitive in the OECD. That's average; it's putting the C in OECD.
- Security has been tightened around high-level defector Hwang Jang-yop after two were arrested in a plot to assassinate him. The Chosun Ilbo reports that he lives under constant threat.
- The attempt on Mr Hwang is being linked to the succession of Kim Jong-il's son, Kim Jong-un (story also here).
- The ROK Navy was supposedly warned of North Korean human torpedoes being used in retaliation (mildly amusing picture in the link).
- More rules that may or may not come to pass about getting dual citizenship in Korea.
- The National Assembly, in a bid to increase security against terrorism, has voted to allow fingerprinting and photographing of suspicious foreign arrivals.
- The Wall Street Journal has a review of the expensive Omnia II smartphone that is popular among thirtysomethings (those with jobs, anyway) who want fast email access.
- Pusan gets its first Chosŏnjok (ethnic Korean from China) police officer.
- Juan Antonio Samaranch, the IOC head who oversaw the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics coming to South Korea (and nearly to North Korea as well), has died at the age of eighty-nine.
- Eleven workers near the Gulf Coast are missing after a blast on an oil rig that was built in South Korea.
- The debate against baggy pants is flaring up (ha ha — get it? Flare!) in the US.
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