More than 500 South Korean enterprises that have been placed under the government’s carbon dioxide emission trading scheme will be limited to release less than 1.69 billion tons of greenhouse gases between 2015 and 2017.The Cabinet on Thursday approved the plan, proposed by the Ministry of Environment, as the nation is scheduled to implement the emission restriction system on Jan. 1, 2015.The quota for Korean businesses has been set at 1.687 billion tons over the next three years via consultatio

More than 70 aging women live in a squalid neighborhood between the rear gate of the U.S. Army garrison here and half a dozen seedy nightclubs. Near the front gate, glossy illustrations posted in real-estate offices show the dream homes that may one day replace their one-room shacks. Camp HumphreysThey once worked as prostitutes for American soldiers in this “camptown” near Camp Humphreys, and they've stayed because they have nowhere else to go. Now, the women are being forced out of the Anjeong

North Korea fired three short-range missiles into the East Sea on Saturday, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said.The projectiles were fired between 7 and 7:30 a.m. from a site in its eastern border town of Wonsan. They were presumed to have landed in the East Sea after flying some 210 kilometers, according to the JCS."The military is staying vigilant and paying attention to movements of the North Korean military in case of an additional launch," a JCS officer said.While the military "is anal

North Korea's reactor at its main nuclear site, capable of giving the isolated regime plutonium for nuclear weapons, may be operational again, the U.N. atomic watchdog said in a report seen by AFP Friday."Since late August 2013, the agency has observed, through analysis of satellite imagery, steam discharges and the outflow of cooling water" at the reactor at Yongbyon, the International Atomic Energy Agency said.It added that such activity is "consistent with the reactor's operation. However, si

U.S. investigators have captured the late Yoo Byung-eun’s former key female confidante Kim Hea-kyung at a location in Virginia State, the Ministry of Justice said Friday.Kim Hea-kyungKim Hea-kyung, the head of Hankook Pharm Co. -- a core unit of Chonghaejin Marine Co. -- has been residing in the United States since the April 16 Sewol sinking disaster without responding to a summons from the prosecution.She allegedly had an affair with the irregularity-ridden Yoo Byung-eun, while Kwon Yoon-ja is