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Korean Olympic Games athletes welcoming parade

Korean, Hong Kong Scientists Find Diabetic Gene

Korean A-Bomb Survivors to Get Compensation

Korean survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing in Japan will receive damages from the Japanese government.

Japan’s NHK television has reported that Tokyo will pay one-point-two million yen, or 12-million won, to non-Japanese atomic-bomb victims living outside Japan.

The move follows a Japanese court’s ruling that the Tokyo government must pay the money to survivors living overseas.

Before the ruling, Tokyo had refused to pay the damages to around four-thousand foreign atomic bomb survivors living outside the country.

Kor-US FTA Might be Ratified after US Pres. Election

A Republican senator says that the U.S. Congress might wait to ratify the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement after the U.S. presidential election in November.
It has been one year since the two countries concluded free trade negotiations.
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Microsoft Commissions ‘Traditional Korean’ Xboxes

Artisan Kim Young-jun, the president of Gookbo

When Bill Gates met President Lee Myung-bak at Cheong Wa Dae on May 6, the Microsoft chairman came bearing a very special gift: a Microsoft Xbox video game console inlaid with traditional Korean mother-of-pearl. In fact 100 similar Xboxes are being prepared by a Korean artisan, intended as special VIP gifts from the Microsoft chief.

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