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In context, this is from the same country where the government mandates that tutoring centers (known as hagwon or "cram schools") all close at 10pm because students would be there until 2am in the morning during weekdays. Also to be noted that students and parents protested this government ordinance because they were afraid that students would fall behind their peers in the high pressure education environment in Korea. To this day, students and hagwon operators regularly flout the law, covering up windows and going cloak and dagger when government inspectors come by.

Yep, the safety records of Russian systems are not very pretty, particularly in recent years where the whole program keeps going downhill. They've not killed anyone onboard recently, but that's pure luck - they've had plenty of accidents with unmanned Soyuz that could easily have killed the crew, many onboard near-incidents which could have killed the crew, plenty of crew injuries, and the death of ground crew. And the sort of faults they're getting are just humiliating - forget things like "didn't realize that we lost O-ring redundancy at temperatures below 40F", the sort of errors the Russians have been making are along the lines of "installed a sensor upside down and repeatedly whacked it with a big hammer to make it fit" (actual failure cause). And their management is just absurd. After one accident that could have killed the crew on return, they responded by superstitiously banning two women from being on the same spacecraft. "This isn't discrimination. I'm just saying that when a majority (of the crew) is female, sometimes certain kinds of unsanctioned behaviour or something else occurs, that's what I'm talking about.'' (the article incorrectly states that the crew was "unharmed", the initial Russian statement, but one of the astronauts had to be hospitalized due to a compressed spinal column)

Partial answers are given in this article, where a whistleblower answers some of these questions. Some of the answers seem like they have suffered in translation, unfortunately.

By the way, the fraud was not committed by Zalman, but by the South Korean company, Moneual, that bought Zalman in 2011.

I had to click on several links from the link in the summary to actually get to something that details the fraud:

http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2996835

While Asian countries are often accused of taking jobs from the West, the President of South Korea's Hyundai Motors visited factories in Russia and the Czech Republic. He said he was impressed by the quality of workers who were far superior to South Korean workers -- they never staged strikes and had far lower wages. While a South Korean factory takes 30 hours to make a car, the Czech factory takes 16. The visiting Korean managers could not keep up with the pace of production, so they received help from local secretaries in their 20's to fill their checklists. South Korean industry has been crippled by constant labor strikes demanding ever more wages and shorter working hours.

Do students who score high on achievement tests demand higher wages, cushy jobs, and become less internationally competitive?

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20131203-00000030-xinhua-cn
http://japanese.joins.com/article/999/178999.html?servcode=300&sectcode=300

The gamer blog has it wrong, the article poster didn't help, and the Slashdot "editors" blew it as usual. Read the article in JoongAng Daily (which they offer in English). The key issue here is that online gambling is illegal in Korea, and two game players were charged criminally for making money from an online game. The Supreme Court of Korea ruled that they were not gambling, so they don't get fined.

This decision doesn't affect relationships between players and game operators. It's not about EULA enforceability or property rights. It's a criminal law issue. If you trade game currency, you're not going to be fined or go to jail in Korea. Whether a game site can ban you is a separate issue.

Problem is, RNL Bio isn't "licensed to clone": http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2890020 BioArts International, on the other hand, is: http://www.bioarts.com/downloads/BAI_PressRelease_5-15-08.pdf

I mean, it is not like the NK will not have week, month or year to map map out where those are, then prepare artillery bombardement on those coordinate.

Not a problem. According to this this page they have a mobile version. A picture of it is here.

video here and pictures and shakey translation here.

It appears she didn't prove much of anything. In fact, it may have been decompression on her spinal cord that caused the short-term improvement, not stem cells at all.

Ministry promotes robot to teach students English

Network Robots Will Become Family Member This Year

Looks like the staff at JongAng Daily didn't like the fact that I linked to the print version of the article where no ads are shown...

Here is the link to the story in normal viewing mode (whatever normal means under these circumstances...): http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200510/02/200510022 148293739900090609062.html

And hey, trust me, the goatse guy wasn't present on that page until it got published on slashdot.

First, here are the actual URL's(I hope). IT's appeared as if they've changed their page to moon slashdot...

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200510/02/200510022 148293739900090609062.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=Ministry+promotes+r obot+to+teach+students+English&sourceid=mozilla-se arch&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=fire fox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

I just know some network admin is laughing his ass off at this prank. ...

No, that wasn't MEANT as a pun. FSCK!

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200510/02/200510022 148293739900090609062.html

it's possible that their server has been compromised. it looks like the printable version of this article will display Mr Goatse. but the original article page is fine. so yeah.. don't click on the Print icon. unless that sorta thing turns you on.

why is there no mention on http://joongangdaily.joins.com/ or any other newspaper ? some other site is reporting the death of a 24year old after 86 hours of gaming http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=q w103415130387B262&set_id=1 but this true either ? what are they trying to sell us ? "gaming is bad for your health" ???

• engaget
• Joongang
• Forbes

Republican and proud of it. I don't read 2-bit hack news sources--especially ones I get from liberals (my friend). I have found such news sources to be full of so-called truths which are usually distorted.

Well as an outsider to US politics (no I'm not French, or even European, my country is one of the few that has supported yours in the "War on Terror", Geography question: Which country am I from?), it appears to me that all American news comes from 2-bit hack sources. The New York times is OK, but that is about it.

I've said it before, but I question the sanity of anyone who supports GWB. The only other explanation is that you have been brainwashed by the partisan "news sources" of the US.

Explain to me how George's war in Iraq is a good thing.
1. No WMD
2. No Al-Quaeda link (indeed no significant terrorist links)

Over this war George has alienated all of his allies, and he is even proud of it? What kind of logic is that! He has broken international Law. He has lied to the American people. By invading he has ensured that generations of arabs will have one more reason to hate America, he has sown dragons teeth.

Tell me again why George is a good man? Can you even tell me he is a Christian?

Before you write me off as some wacky liberal, note a few things that might surprise you:
1. I am a faithful, evangelical, bible believing Christian. My oposition of GWB comes directly from my beliefs as a Christian.
2. My entire family, of whom 5/6 of us are Christians, has the same views
3. We live the conservative heartland of my country, in a wealthy area. The area we have lived in is one of the safest conservative seats in parliment.

We all think GWB should go.

In fact in a recent coordinated survery around the world this view was confirmed by all countries except Israel (for obvious reasons).

Along the same lines, I'd like to have some verification that de Icaza is not setting Ximian or Gnome up to be taken down by submarine patents at some future date. So far I've not heard anything other than vague verbal assurances that it's been taken care of or that some non-distinct vocal noises from Chairman Bill have been interpreted as "A-OK". "Taken care of" can be interpreted in too many ways.

Back to FAT. I think that everyone now recognizes that Enron^H^H^H^H^HMicrosoft has entered the final phase of the death spiral and that the accounting discrepancies can no longer be hidden. We'll see even more litigation and cancelled products and services before the end. We'll also see more fines for failed security, false advertising, back taxes and anti-competitive practices. C'mon. For years, the only profit has been from MS-Windows and MS-Office and those have been losing market share.

(Way off topic, but . . .)

Straight lines, eh?