Parents teaching their kids at home say results are good but kids sometimes need more companyFor expatriates with children to raise, living in Korea brings new educational concerns. If they can find somewhere for their children to live, sending them to their native countries is an option. If they can afford it, the parents may try an international school. And if they feel their child is sufficient

PARIS (AP) ― Rafael Nadal is gaining on Roger Federer. Quickly. By winning four of the past five Grand Slam tournaments ― capped by a victory over Federer in the French Open final ― Nadal has raised his career haul to 10 major championships. That’s only six fewer than Federer’s proudly held record of 16.“Ten Grand Slams is a lot,” Federer said. “He knows this. I know this. Everybody knows this.”Se

　A soldier was caught seven and a half hours after fleeing from his camp in Inje, Gangwon Province with a rifle on Tuesday. 　　An army camp in Gangwon Province (Yonhap News)According to the military authorities, the deserter, a 22-year-old private surnamed Yoon, was found while sheltering himself at a crop field 2 kilometers away from where he had run away. He reportedly showed no signs of resistan

   SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Steve Jobs re-emerged from his latest medical leave Monday to show off Apple Inc.'s latest innovations and sustain the hope that he eventually will return to dream up more ways to reshape technology.   The highlight, as usual, came at the end of Jobs' presentation. He was onstage for less than 30 minutes during a nearly two-hour event that primarily featured his subordinate

South Korean girl group Girls' Generation topped a weekly Japanese music chart with their first Japanese album, the music statistics company Oricon said Tuesday.The eponymous Japanese debut by the nine-girl group, released on June 1, sold 232,000 copies in its first week, according to the Oricon Weekly Charts. Oricon said it was the best first-week performance for a foreign artist's Japanese debut

NEW YORK (AP) _ A teary-eyed congressman from New York confessed Monday that he tweeted a lewd photo of himself to a young woman and admitted ``inappropriate'' exchanges with six women, reversing his string of denials about the incidents.In an apparent attempt to end the scathing headlines that the allegations have drawn, U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, a democrat, apologized repeatedly in a half-hour n

Vietnam War veteran stresses calm amid defoliant contamination allegationsTheir missions during the Vietnam War ended four decades ago, but they are still fighting a war ― an unexpected one against illnesses resulting from their exposure to Agent Orange, a senior member of a veterans’ group here said Monday.Pointing to the gray-haired members of the Korean Disabled Veterans’ Association for Agent

A tripartite tie-up between multinational companies, conglomerates and small- and mid-sized firms is one way the Korean government can attempt to cope with the daunting task of leveling the corporate playfield, says the head of the Korean CEO’s Association of Multinational Corporations.“We may have the drive and means for helping these small- and mid-sized companies, but it can’t be done without a