Lotte opens store in Tianjin; E-Mart looking to sell outletsLotte Shopping will open its first wholly invested department store on Friday in Tianjin, China, company officials said Thursday.The country’s top retail giant said the store in Tianjin will be the third establishment built overseas, but the first operated “Korean style.”The department store, located in one of the largest cities in China,

Falling energy costs temper price rises; Americans pay more for cars, clothing and hotelsWASHINGTON (AP) ― Falling energy prices cooled overall inflation in May, offering some relief to consumers who have been coping for months with high gas prices.Consumer prices rose 0.2 percent, the smallest increase in six months, the Labor Department said. It was the first drop in energy costs in nearly a yea

Professor Min Byoung-chul of Konkuk University received a national award Tuesday for his role in fighting cyber bullying and negative online comments.The professor of intercultural education and renowned English educator started the “Sunfull Movement” in May 2007 to promote a healthy culture of online communications.  Professor Min Byung-chul receives a national award for his role in fighting cybe

Kim Yoh-jin emerging as a leading figure on TwitterKim Yoh-jin, an established actress, is attracting attention as a social activist as she takes part in various rallies on sensitive social issues.The police are considering summoning the actress for questioning over her participation in a sit-in protest at Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction’s shipyard in Busan last week.She was one of the ac

OXFORD ― Can moral judgments be true or false? Or is ethics, at bottom, a purely subjective matter, for individuals to choose, or perhaps relative to the culture of the society in which one lives? We might have just found out the answer.Among philosophers, the view that moral judgments state objective truths has been out of fashion since the 1930s, when logical positivists asserted that, because t

Celebrated in June 2009 as a model of nonviolent protest against autocracy, the Iranian Green Movement has lost much of its strength and mobilizing capacity inside Iran while the Arab Spring has toppled regimes across the region.In Egypt, Hosni Mubarak is under arrest. But in Iran, the two defeated candidates in the disputed presidential elections of June 2009 who played such an important role in

ISLAMABAD (AP) ― The Pakistani army denied Wednesday that one of its majors was among a group of Pakistanis who Western officials say were arrested for feeding the CIA information before the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden.The New York Times, which first reported the arrests of five Pakistani informants Tuesday, said an army major was detained who copied license plates of cars visiting t