South Korea confirmed seven additional foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks at beef and milk cattle farms and a pig farm in provincial areas on Sunday despite nationwide quarantine efforts to contain the spread of the highly contagious animal disease, central and provincial government officials said.The South Chungcheong provincial government said two milk cows at a farm in the central city of C

For better and for worse, Julian Assange pushes limits. In his work life and his sex life, he stands at the border dividing legal conduct from criminality, though it’s not clear which side of that border he occupies. U.S. officials are looking for a way to prosecute him for publishing secrets while women in Sweden say he crossed the line between consensual romps and rape. Mainstream journalists sa

Japanese politician Ichiro Ozawa describes himself as a mere ippeisotsu (foot soldier) in the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), giving the innocuous term a whole new meaning.For despite what he claims, Ozawa is undoubtedly the most powerful politician in Japan today.No other politician in the country attracts as much attention or controversy ― not even Prime Minister Naoto Kan.Even though Oz

A new children’s book available from a UNESCO division presents a collection of 27 prominent folktales from 11 East Asian countries.The book, “Telling Tales from Southeast Asia and Korea: Teacher’s Guide,” can boast of being the first of its kind.The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s Asia-Pacific Center of Education for International Understanding hopes to help tea

The Korea-EU Free Trade Agreement, expected to be implemented from July, represents the beginning of a new era of trading opportunities for both sides.To assist Danish exporters in understanding the new benefits this deal entails, the embassy set up a website with relevant information.The European Union notes that this FTA with South Korea is the most ambitious and far-reaching free trade agreemen

The ASEAN-Korea Centre has published a book compiling a wide range of information and statistics on ASEAN member states and South Korea.The “2010 ASEAN and Korea in Figures” statistical yearbook contains information on topics such as trade, investment, culture, tourism, and key social indicators of the Association of Southeast Asian member states and Korea shown through tables and diagrams. “This