Lee Myung-bak News

Twenty-five self-governing private high schools that went into operation in 2010 are undergoing a review by metropolitan and provincial education offices.

Environment protection advocates have raised a new claim that the four-river refurbishment project, led by former President Lee Myung-bak, has undermined water quality.

The National Assembly's foreign affairs committee on Monday blasted Japan for suggesting the Kono Statement - a 1993 apology by Japan admitting to Tokyo's sexual enslavement of thousands of women during World War II - was a result of a diplomatic bargain between Seoul and Tokyo.

In South Korea, presidential aspirants are known as lurking dragons, referring to dragons that are still submerged under water and have yet to climb into the sky.

The Supreme Court overturned the decisions of a Seoul district and appellate court against ruling party lawmaker Chung Doo-un for taking illicit kickbacks and ruled in favor of a retrial on Thursday.