More young employees pursue degrees abroad; schools offer flexible courses for studying without leaving full-time job

Convict to be executed for girls' murdersAn Arizona convict is just days from execution for raping and killing two teenage girls while his co-defendant is now a free man.Richard Stokley, 60, will, barring an unlikely stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court, be executed Wednesday in Florence, while Randy Brazeal, 41, was released from prison last year and has married, The Phoenix Arizona Republic reported Saturday.Evidence ultimately showed the two raped, strangled, stabbed and stomped on

The weekend collapse of a highway tunnel about 50 miles west of Tokyo killed nine people, authorities said early Monday.Kyodo News reported police confirmed there were nine bodies in three vehicles trapped in the 2 1/2-mile-long Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi prefecture.The Japanese broadcaster NHK reported emergency officials found five bodies in a van, the body of a man in a refrigerated truck and three other bodies in a car.NHK said there were about 30 vehicles in the tunne

Four South Korean sailors who were captured by Somali pirates are returning to their families, ending nearly two miserable years under constant threats and fear of death.They were freed on Saturday after ransom talks between the Singapore-based owner of the MT Gemini and the pirates made a breakthrough. They are expected to arrive in Kenya on Monday on the South Korean navy vessel that operates in Somali waters as part of a multinational anti-piracy campaign. The four will go through a quick med

Eugene Bell Foundation leads humanitarian aid trips to MDR TB patients in N. Korea; exchanges ‘love letters’ from both sides

Eugene Bell founder calls for concerted efforts to save lives and fight disease in North Korea

The Linton family has a century-old history of contributions to Korean society, making it a household name in the country’s religious, educational and medical circles.The family’s ties with Korea date back to 1895 when Eugene Bell came here as a Southern Presbyterian missionary. Rev. Bell established a number of Christian churches and helped build educational institutions including Jeongmyeong School and Yeongheung High School in Gwangju and South Jeolla Province. He also helped establish Jaejoo

Leadership void makes called-for reform of prosecution difficult

With its population becoming more multicultural and aging rapidly, Korea should debate more vigorously ways to embrace immigrants and foster inclusive growth, Kim Woo-sang, president of the Korea Foundation, said Friday. As the number of foreign residents steadily grows, the mainstay of policy discourses has shifted from whether to accept migrants to how best to accommodate them, he told a forum on multiculturalism in Seoul.“Accommodation and integration of intercultural differences into nationa

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs appointed Min Byoung-chul, Konkuk University professor and founder of the Sunfull movement, as its cyber public diplomacy envoy.The Sunfull movement is a non-profit organization Min set up in 2007 in order to stop younger people from cyber-bullying and post positive comments. So far, there are over 4,000 students participating in the movement.The ministry said they appointed Min for his efforts to provide a healthy Internet culture, such as campaigning for writing