Police requested an arrest warrant Monday for a monk on suspicion of embezzling a massive amount of temple funds. The case is likely to heighten concerns about corruption among Buddhist monks following a gambling and prostitution scandal involving the Jogye Order last week. The suspect, surnamed Lee, misappropriated public funds while taking charge of payment for temple construction work in 2009, police said.The 39-year-old, who used to be a monk of Daeheung Temple in Northern Gyeongsang Provinc

Parents of special education students at Mesquite High School in Mesquite, Texas, are outraged by a yearbook section that called their kids "mentally retarded."The Mesquite Independent School District wanted to honor students in the special education program with their own section of the yearbook. Spokeswoman Laura Jobe said the section read:"Some of the disabilities the students in the Special Ed

   A South Korean climber has been reported missing while descending the highest peak in the world, officials said Monday.   The climber, identified as 24-year-old Song Won-bin, was descending Mount Everest in Nepal with a teammate on Saturday when he disappeared, a South Korean Embassy official in Nepal said.   "(We're) assuming Song suddenly collapsed from altitude sickness and fell off a cliff,

An Anderson, S.C., cocker spaniel emerged unhurt after falling down a 30-foot-deep well, its owner said.Amanda Schronce and her family were working Friday to repair a home well when the 4-year-old dog, Reese, jumped on top of the well around 6:30 p.m. to get a look into the well house. Schronce told The Independent Mail the dog did it all the time.But the well cover had been removed earlier, so Re

An appellate court on Sunday justified an airline company’s dismissal of a pilot who invited a comedian to the flight deck during operation without prior authorization. The Seoul High Court ruled against Choi, a former pilot of a carrier, who was fired after being revealed that he had invited one of the passengers, his favorite comedian, to the flight deck during flight in November 2008. He called for the annulment of the dismissal, claiming that other companies’ disciplinary measure for cases o

Police are questioning a guesthouse owner in downtown Seoul over allegations that a Japanese guest was sexually assaulted there earlier this month. According to officers in Mapo, the probe was launched after the Japanese Embassy filed a complaint against the guesthouse on May 16 after learning that a 45-year-old woman who had stayed there on May 6 was raped after sharing drinks with fellow guests, the owner and his friends. She claimed that right after she returned to her room late at night she

Starting in July, nursery headmasters who close their institutions for more than one day without legitimate reason will be penalized and their facilities could be shut down, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Sunday.The rule is expected to put fetters on 15,000 private nurseries looking after more than 750,000 children nationwide. The measures came as groups of nursery operators including the Korea Edu-Care Association have been on months-long protests against the government’s recent freeze

The Supreme Court’s ethics committee said on Sunday it decided to recommend that judges exercise caution when using social networking services to avoid “unintended consequences.”Following the decision, made on Thursday at the Supreme Court’s ethics committee meeting, the Supreme Court issued recommendations outlining what to be careful of when using social networking services. According to the committee, the recommendations summarize SNS-related issues judges need to be beware of and will help “

Despite its role in shaping global environmental action, few people outside the conservationist community know about the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the organizer of the WCC. Founded in 1948, the IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest environmental organization. Most of the world’s governments and hundreds of non-governmental organizations are members. Many of the world’s environmental treaties such as the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention on International

Police arrested a university student and charged him with sexual assault of a minor on Sunday. The 24-year-old man obtained the female student’s contact number while he was training as a teacher at her school in April, Daejeon police said. The police said the incident occurred on May 14 when the man allegedly enticed the 17-year-old student to eat with him at his home, where he sexually assaulted her.<한글 기사>교생, 여고생에게 '라면 먹자'하고 성추행교생실습으로 알게 된 여고생을 '라면 같이 끓여 먹자'고 유인해 강제로 성추행한 대학생 A(24)씨가 경찰에 성폭력 혐