Two Korean expatriates who are registered as members of North Korean propaganda website Uriminzokkiri were found to have conducted pro-North Korean campaigns, according to news reports Tuesday.International hacking group Anonymous disclosed the information of 15,000 members of Uriminzokkiri, including 2,600 presumed to be South Korean nationals, after it hacked the website last week.One person surnamed Kim who went to the U.S. in 1990 is thought to have operated a pro-North Korean website and vi

The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday it will launch two lines of late-night buses crossing the city this month for a three-month test run as part of efforts to enhance public convenience and encourage more use of mass transportation.The test run will begin on April 19 for three months, with the buses set to run two routes: One line will run across the city from Gangseo ― the western part of Seoul ― to Hongdae, to Jongno and to Jungnang ― the eastern side of town. The other line will ru

A local court dismissed Tuesday a police request to arrest the union leader for Ssangyong Motor Co.'s laid-off workers on charges of interfering with officials' attempt to dismantle protest tents in central Seoul, citing a lack of justification for his detention.Kim Jeong-woo, who leads Ssangyong's labor union affiliated with the Korea Metal Workers' Union, was detained on Saturday on suspicion of the obstruction of justice and violating the law on assembly and demonstration. (Yonhap News)

A doctor in Seoul has been found guilty of disclosing confidential information of a patient suspected of being infected with human immunodeficiency virus, court officials said Tuesday.The doctor, whose identity has been withheld, was charged with notifying a fellow doctor of the HIV status of the patient last year, in breach of the relevant law that prohibits doctors or other medical personnel from disclosing any medical information on those infected with HIV.The defendant divulged that a blood

The government will expand its plan for granting regular job status to temporary workers in public workplaces until 2015, officials said Monday. More contract workers at state-run offices and public companies will be made “indefinite contract workers,” who will have job conditions and security similar to that of permanent workers, the Ministry of Employment and Labor said. The government has been making efforts to improve working conditions for irregular workers since 2011. But the new plan will

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – Outsiders might hear the opening notes of a war in the deluge of threats and provocations from North Korea, but to South Koreans it is a familiar drumbeat. Separated from the North by a heavily fortified border for decades, they have for the most part lived with tough talk from Pyongyang all their lives. In annual defense drills, war alarms ring in their ears. Foreigners unused to North Korean rumblings have canceled trips to the Korean Peninsula. But to get South Korea

A higher court cleared a man of killing his girl friend, overturning a previous ruling in the “octopus murder” case.The 32-year-old man was sentenced to life imprisonment last year for suffocating his 23-year-old girl friend in a motel in Incheon. He had claimed that she died while eating an octopus. But the victim’s family later discovered that she had signed up for life insurance only a week before her death with Kim as the beneficiary.The Incheon District Court concluded in October last year