Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea: "A Private Vendetta Against the Press

A Cabinet meeting chaired by President Roh Moo-hyun on Tuesday decided to merge 37 press rooms in government agencies into a handful of briefing rooms at the government complexes in central Seoul, Gwacheon and Daejeon. As a result, up to 16 agencies will use one of the press rooms to brief reporters on government policy. The government will start constructing the new briefing rooms at the end of June and have them operating in August. The government said it will come up with strong measures to keep reporters from entering the government offices."

[Column] Mother Teresa meets Google : Editorial & Opinion : Home

[Column] Mother Teresa meets Google : Editorial & Opinion : Home [Hankyoreh]: "By Lee Won-jae, Head of The Hankyoreh Economic Research Institute

In 1998, Stanford University Ph.D. students Sergey Brin and Larry Page gave up their studies and left graduate school, founding an Internet search company instead. They had left a world renowned university for an unknown world with an unsure future, at a time when there was still a lot of noisy uncertainty of what the future of the Internet would look like. Thus was Google born. Brin and Page have now joined the ranks of the world’s richest men individuals."