Woman's place no longer at home in S.Korea textbooks
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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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Microsoft may have to pull its Office suite from the shelves in South Korea as a result of losing a patent lawsuit in that country, according to published reports.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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Text of report in English by South Korean newspaper Choson Ilbo website on 18 December  Radio broadcasts produced by college students here will be aired in North Korea.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft may have to pull its Office suite from the shelves in South Korea as a result of losing a patent lawsuit in that country, according to published reports. Several news outlets reported Monday that a South Korean Supreme Court ruling on Friday refused a request from Microsoft that patents obtained by Hankuk Aviation University professor Lee Keung-Haie in 1997 be nullified. The decision strengthens the case of Lee and the company acting as his agent, called P and IB, which filed for damages against Microsoft in 2000 for infringing on Lee's patents, according to a report by the Agence France-Presse . Now that Microsoft's request has been struck down, P and IB leader Kim Kil-Hae said the company and Lee have a better chance at winning damages in their lawsuit and also in stopping the sale of the version of Office that includes the patented technology, according to a report by the AFP. Lee and P and IB are seeking damages of 70 billion won, or about $75 million. In an e-mailed statement through its public relations firm, Microsoft said it does not anticipate any interruption in the sales of Office in Korea, and is positive about its chance in the current infringement case that is still pending. Lee and P and IB filed suit against Microsoft in 2000 for infringing on Lee's patents for technologies that automatically switch the input mode of Office between the Korean and English languages. That case remains unsettled in an appeals court after Microsoft filed a separate lawsuit attempting to invalidate Lee's patents. The patent dispute is just one of Microsoft's legal woes in South Korea. In May,Â South Korea ruled against MicrosoftÂ in an antitrust case, forcing the company to sell a version of its Windows OS without its media player and instant-messaging programs after finding that their inclusion breached antitrust laws. An antitrust case in Europe also has not gone well for the Redmond, Washington, software vendor. In March 2004, the European Commission ruled that Microsoft must sell Windows without media player software in the European Union to compete fairly with rivals there. The ruling alsoÂ ordered Microsoft to provide informationÂ that allows rival server software vendors to design server products that interoperate well with Windows PCs. Microsoft is still embroiled in its legal battle with the Commission and continues to file documents to prove it is complying with the antitrust ruling. The Commission fined Microsoft $357 million in July for failing to comply with the antitrust order, and could face more fines of up to $3 million per day if it does not meet the Commission's latest deadline to prove compliance.
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Soldiers in South Korea can no longer use U.S.-based VoIP services, but must use more-expensive local Internet telephony providers.
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The countdown is on. With less than a year to go until massive bundles of books leave Incheon International Airport for Germany, preparations for the 2005 Frankfurt Book Fair are underway with South Korea set ...
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Over the past year, the once feverish housing market in South Korea has come to a near halt, as buyers and sellers have become scarce.
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South Korea has tightened security at home and overseas after a new threat by the al-Qaida terrorist network against countries supporting the US-led coalition in Iraq.
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Â· Seoul says withdrawal of troops planned alreadyÂ· At least 15 women among 23 Christian hostages
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For the first time, an international study is showing the gap between top and bottom students appears to be closing. The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study assesses students in 25 countries
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Taiwan clamps down on a matchmaking industry that leaves many women vulnerable to abuse
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SRINAGAR, India  - Books are back on the shelves of insurgency-wracked Kashmir which has been blighted by a literary drought for several years.
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Sandra Luque, 28, was browsing the familiar books on the Asian culture shelf at the Casa Asia Centre in Barcelona before her eyes halted on a book titled: Viet Nam.
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The rules seem to be the problem. The South Koreans are upset that the rules are too strict. The Americans are upset that the rules are being broken.
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Is the women's retailer on the road to recovery?
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DALLAS (BP)--A stay-at-home mom who became fed up with the influence of âliberal-leaning groupsâ and unelected bureaucrats on textbook content developed a simple strategy for change.
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MANO, SADO ISLAND, Japan  - A former U.S. army  sergeant who deserted to North Korea four decades ago will have  to wait a while to start a new life in his Japanese wife's home  town on the northern island of Sado.