South Korea cracks down on draft-dodger advice sites
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Robots can't do it all, say generals The South Korean defence ministry has cracked down on web-assisted draft dodging, according to reports. The country's military depends heavily on conscript manpower, but service is unpopular and there are various loopholes through which young men can avoid it.â¦
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Acting on recommendations in the Mitchell Report, Major League Baseball cracked down on clubhouse security Monday in an effort to prevent the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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(InfoWorld) - American soldiers in South Korea face a tough call on using Internet telephony in the country. Thursday was the last day the U.S. military community in South Korea could make VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) calls through companies based in the U.S., such as VonageÂ and Lingo, according to a report Thursday in Stars & Stripes, a U.S. Department of Defense authorized newspaper. Beginning Friday, all new contracts must be made with South Korean VOIP providers, the report said. For service members used to making and receiving calls to and from the U.S. for as low as $15 a month, the move to a South Korean provider -- and a local phone number -- could ring up a pricey phone bill. Because U.S. VOIP providers assign service members a U.S. phone number, these users can be reached from the U.S. without callers being billed for international calling charges. Prices for VOIP services in the U.S. vary from around $15 to $25 a month for unlimited local and long-distance calls. South Korea's major Internet service providers, including LG Dacom, said in June 2006 they would block Internet calls through companies not registered under the Korean Telecommunications Business Act. But after U.S. Forces Korea Commander General Burwell Baxter Bell said the move would impact service members' quality of life, the companies agreed to delay enforcing the act until June 1, 2007. Demand for VOIP services have surged as service members -- and many others -- seek cheap ways to communicate with their families, friends, and business partners around the globe. Vonage offers a VOIP service that replaces the traditional telephone. Customers connect their phones to an IP-transformation device, which connects to the home or small-business DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) or cable modem. Vonage doesn't offer PC-to-PC VOIP service provided by companies such as Skype Ltd. Brooke Schulz, a Vonage spokeswoman, was unable to confirm whether the company's service is no longer available in South Korea and, if so, whether Vonage plans to apply for a VOIP license with the South Korean government. Companies registered to provide VOIP service in Korea include Korea Telecom, Hanaro Telecom, as well as LG Dacom.
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South Korea, home to the world&#039;s  most sophisticated online games, is preparing an assault on  North America, Japan and Europe, setting the stage for an  international scrum in an industry poised to nearly triple in  value in the coming years.
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North Korea is threatening to use  terrorism against the South, Seoul's intelligence agency said  in a rare public advisory on Monday, and warned South Korean  citizens in China and Southeast Asia to be on their guard.
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The South Korean government is drawing up an ethical code to prevent humans abusing  robots and vice versa.
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The next time you're inclined to dismiss baseball's Rule 5 draft in December as an exercise of little consequence, remember that Johan Santana, the pitcher Pedro Martinez said reminded him of a younger version of himself, only with better stuff, was a Rule 5 pick five years ago.
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China is tightening controls on its booming online game industry, requiring distributors to closely monitor game contents after some were found that included forbidden religious or political material, a state news agency said Tuesday.
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Roh's move to do away with the security law has become the latest symbol of an ideological battle now raging in South Korea over whether detente with the North is happening too fast, too soon.
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TOKYO : Major newspapers were divided over Japan&#39;s new defence guidelines which end its decades-old ban on military exports and deem China and North Korea as potential threats.
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A growing number of matchmaking services in South Korea, where families still arrange many marriages, rely heavily on the Internet.
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The UN nuclear watchdog has said South Korea has been illegally conducting secret nuclear tests on a larger scale than Seoul had previously declared.
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A top scientific journal plans to adopt some stricter safeguards against fraud, in wake of a headline-grabbing South Korean cloning sham exposed a year ago.
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South Korea is set to cleanse gender   stereotypes from its school textbooks, where women have long   been depicted as housekeepers and men as the breadwinners.
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The old bilingual switcheroo Microsoft has taken another slap from the authorities in Korea, after a court decision in a patent dispure raised the prospect of Office being taken off the shelves in the country.â¦
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SEOUL -- An epidemic of phony academic credentials has broken out in South Korea, a nation where calibrations of human worth are obsessively tied to college achievement.
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South Korea has become one of the worldâs most credit-card-friendly countries. With cards everywhere, however, the challenge is to attract consumers.