The non-profit foundation to be established by Ahn Cheol-soo, the former chief executive of a leading South Korean anti-virus software firm, will be called after him, sources said Wednesday. “Ahn Cheol-soo Foundation” was chosen from the three shortlisted names out of 4,045 online submissions by the general public, the source involved in setting up the foundation said. He added that the name best reflected the purpose upon which the foundation is established and its future course of action.Ahn,

Police have arrested three people for rigging share prices last month by spreading false rumors of a nuclear explosion in North Korea.Three others involved in the crime were booked without detention, the cyber crime bureau said Tuesday.They sent more than 200 online messages to securities analysts and traders on Jan. 6, claiming that a light-water reactor in Yongbyon had exploded and that radioactive materials were moving to the South. The groundless rumor caused the KOSPI to plummet by close to

[URGENT] Assembly speaker Park, former Lee aide Kim indicted without detention in connection a ruling party vote-buying scandal<한글 기사>검찰, 박희태ㆍ김효재 불구속기소조정만 수석비서관도 기소한나라당(현 새누리당) 전당대회 돈 봉투 살포 의혹을 수사해온 서울중앙지검 공안1부(이상호 부장검사)는 2008년 전대 당시  후보 였던 박희태(74) 국회의장과 박 후보 캠프 상황실장이던 김효재(60) 전 청와대 정무 수석을 정당법

Gangnam Boulevard, one of the most bustling spots in Seoul, will be designated as a no-smoking zone as part of citywide anti-smoking efforts, the Gangnam district office said Tuesday. Smoking on the 1 km boulevard from Sinnonhyeon subway station to Gangnam station will be prohibited from April along both sides of the street and those caught smoking will be fined 100,000 won ($90) from July. For three months starting in April, district officials plan to promote the policy without imposing fines.T

The government is planning to push for a legal revision allowing cessation of life support for terminally-ill patients in order to guarantee peaceful and less painful deaths. The authorities are to form a consultative group and a hearing board by end of the month to raise public awareness and speed the necessary discussion for the institutionalization of the “death with dignity.” Death with dignity refers to cessation of excessive treatments such as life support administered to simply extend the

Schools will be able to set their own student conduct rules without interference by their superintendents, education ministry officials said Monday. The Education Ministry is expected to issue an advance legislative notice Tuesday on the revision to the primary and secondary education law that will allow schools to set their own conduct guidelines on dress code, hairstyles, carrying cellphones and other issues. The revision came after the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education proclaimed an ordi

Speaker said to have denied giving instructions or receiving report on vote-buying schemeNational Assembly Speaker Park Hee-tae could be indicted without detention over allegations of vote-buying in the ruling party’s leadership election in 2008.In the early hours of Monday, investigators from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office finished questioning Park at this official residence in Seoul. The prosecutors’ office plans to announce the results of the 16-hour-long questioning within th

Two middle school students were sentenced to prison terms Monday for habitually bullying a classmate until he jumped to his death last year after blaming them in a suicide note.The Daegu District Court sentenced the two, both 15-years-old, to imprisonment of three and a half years and three years, r

More than one in four South Korean private business employees resides in Seoul, with nearly 22 percent of domestic business establishments located in the capital, data showed Monday.According to the data from the Seoul Metropolitan Government, a total of 4.49 million people worked for Seoul‘s business establishments that employ at least one worker last year, up by 7.49 percent from a year earlier. The figure represented 25.42 percent of the country’s total business workers.　The number of busines