Uncategorized: Friday Online Presidential Archive Opens Presidential Archive
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Online Presidential Archive Opens Friday
The National Archive has opened an online archive of presidential documents.
The new service will be available to the public from Friday. On the archive’s Web site, people will be able to search and view electronic documents related to former presidents.
The Presidential Archives hold five-and-a-half million electronic documents from the 14th president Kim Young-sam, when Cheong Wa Dae began to use the Internet, to the transition team of 17th President Lee Myung-bak.
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Female Lawyers Increasing in Korea
If this article is correct, the number of woman lawyers in South Korea has grown ten-fold in the past decade. Those interested in reading more about women lawyers in Korea could start with this post from Korea Law Blog. more »
culture korean disapora news: Students Study Abroad
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Growing No. of Students Study Abroad
A growing number of Korean students are leaving the nation to study abroad.
The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education said some 15-thousand elementary, middle and high school students in Seoul left for study in foreign countries last year, up from seven-thousand two years ago.
Particularly noteworthy is the rise in the number of elementary school students studying abroad. Their ranks nearly doubled to 82-hundred last year from 49-hundred in 2006.
The surge is attributed to intense pressure among Koreans to learn English. Also, many young students want to study abroad to ease their entry into foreign-language high schools in Korea.
Uncategorized: Australian PM Boost Cooperation Lee
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Lee, Australian PM Agree to Boost Cooperation
President Lee Myung-bak and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd have held telephone talks on ways to expand economic and commercial cooperation.
In the phone talks that lasted 15 minutes on Tuesday, Lee stressed his wish to enhance cooperation with Australia in the fields of mineral resources and energy, in particular.
The two leaders agreed to foster an overall comprehensive cooperative relationship between South Korea and Australia.
Lee and Rudd also agreed to strengthen cooperation on global issues including climate change and denuclearization.
Rudd reportedly expressed his wish to accelerate negotiations on a free trade agreement with South Korea.
Big Foreign Investors Fast-Tracked for Residency
Foreigners in South Korea will be eligible for immediate permanent residency if they invest more than 500-thousand dollars here and employ more than five Koreans.
The new regulation will likely come into effect in October.
In the past, foreigners could gain permanent resident status immediately if they invested more than two million dollars and hired more than five Koreans.
For investments under two million dollars, foreigners had to live in Korea for more than three years before becoming eligible for permanent resident status.
In the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the government also decided to simplify administrative procedures for overseas travel by those serving in the army.
