A law school student who allegedly tried to steal exam questions by hacking into a professor’s computer is facing disciplinary measures.Yonsei University said the 24-year-old student, named Choi, sneaked into the professor’s office on the night of Dec. 10 and tried to embed hacking software on the computer.He was caught by a security official while installing software that can remotely monitor a computer, the school said. The university has reported the case to the school’s board and will hold a

Starting next year, the government will pay more incentives to firms introducing a wage peak system in an effort to reduce financial burdens caused by extending the retirement age of their workers under a new law, the labor ministry said Tuesday.The plan is a key part of a revised enforcement decree to the employment and labor law which was approved by the Cabinet that day, the ministry said. In South Korea, no parliamentary endorsement is required for the revision of an enforcement decree.Under

Police raided the offices of the state-run rail operator’s labor union Tuesday, as its strike entered the ninth-day, taking a toll on passenger and cargo services.Korea Railroad Corp. has filed complaints against 190 unionists for impeding business with their “illegal” strike.Courts issued warrants to detain 10 union leaders including chairman Kim Myung-hwan after they refused to respond to a summons by prosecutors.About 30 investigators seized computer hard drives and documents at the two offic

DAEGU --  Two POSCO employees were found dead Monday at the steelmaker's main plant in Pohang, southeastern South Korea, fire officials said.An accident of unknown cause occurred at an oxygen production facility of the Pohang plant about 380 kilometers southeast of Seoul at 8:30 p.m., said the officials, adding that fire fighters have rushed to the scene.The officials and the municipal government of Pohang said an investigation was under way to determine the cause of the accident."The Pohang fir

An administrative court ruled Monday against a group of high school seniors seeking a change to their scores on the national college entrance exam.Thirty-eight students who took the College Scholastic Ability Test on Nov. 7 filed a lawsuit last month, claiming that the test organizers chose an incorrect answer to Question 8 in the geography section.The multiple-choice question asked examinees to choose the correct statement about the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement blo

The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Monday that it has established a support center for patients and doctors coming from Middle Eastern countries for intensive medical treatment and training.The Global Healthcare Center for Middle East, located in Itaewon, central Seoul, will perform online coordination of medical services between patients from the region and Korean hospitals. The center will also provide a wide range of consulting services, helping with visa issuances, traffic information,

The government on Monday unveiled the personal information of 14,500 high-profile tax delinquents including former President Chun Doo-hwan. The Ministry of Security and Public Administration disclosed a list of those who failed to pay over 30 million won ($28,500) for more than two years. Their number rose by 25.7 percent from last year largely due to more business failures in the economic slowdown. The total amount in arrears also jumped 26.6 percent year-on-year to 2.14 trillion won, while the

South Korea selected two U.S. companies ― Boeing and Kaman Aerospace Corporation ― to jointly produce air-to-ground bombs guided by the global positioning system for its fighter jets, the state arms procurement agency said Monday. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration opened the bid in July to equip F-15Ks and KF-16s with the smart bombs capable of launching precision attacks against North Korea’s artillery bases or hidden targets using the GPS system. The precision-guided bombs will be

It started with a single school board post, calling for students to pay attention to social issues at hand. Now, more posts are popping up across the country, urging people to open their eyes to key issues facing Korean society.On Monday, a first-year high school student in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province, put up a post on her school bulletin board pressing fellow students to play a bigger role in “protecting the democracy as citizens of Korea.” “Even as I heard the news of the state-run National

The number of Internet users in Korea has topped 40 million, with the rate of Internet use also surpassing the 80 percent mark, a survey showed on Monday.According to the report compiled by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, the number of Internet users in the country, with a population of nearly 50 million, reached some 40.08 million as of September, up from 38.12 million a year ago, and some 82 percent of South Koreans log on to the Internet at least once a month, also up from 7

Prosecutors said Monday they will seek arrest warrants for 10 unionized rail workers for refusing to respond to a summons as part of an investigation into an ongoing strike.More than 6,500 unionized workers of state-run Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL) went on strike last Monday in protest against a government decision to set up a new rail operator that they claim is the first step toward privatization."Arrest warrants will be sought for 10 union members, including a union leader, as they have refu

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency arrested 650 people related to brothels on Sunday, exposing 231 illegal gambling houses and brothels. “We will reinforce the criminal penalty given to such brothels as prostitution is now mutating in various forms and places,” said an official from the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency.Tightening control of widespread sex-trafficking, the police agency issued warnings to landlords that they could also come under fire for providing the location for brothels. Th

The head of Tong Yang Group was called in by prosecutors Monday over suspicions that the financially troubled group fraudulently issued commercial papers, inflicting heavy losses on retail investors.Hyun Jae-hyun appeared at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in southern Seoul around 9:40 a.m. to undergo questioning.The 64-year-old chairman is accused of issuing some 160 billion won ($150 million) worth of asset-backed commercial papers, a type of short-term debt, in July and Septemb