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SEOUL, KOREA --- Despite the recent death of the former  North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, private economic research institutes as well as the Bank of Korea are not planning to make any sudden modifications

SEOUL, KOREA --- There was a time when phones were just for calling people. Then they were for texting people and calling them. Now, they are for watching movies, listening to music, surfing the Internet, and occasionally calling people.

Some things are hard to improve upon.  The rubber tire is one of those - it just works so well that what are you going to do to make it better?  Tables are also pretty well-developed.  You have a flat surface at arm height.  Where do you go from there?  Books are pretty great too.  You have black inked words on white paper, sometimes with pictures. How can you go wrong?

The power of cultural content is tremendous.

An unlikely meeting took place at a restaurant in Hongdae, Friday night, May 6: Choung Byoung-gug, the new Minister of Culture, Sports, and Tourism who took office just 100 days ago met with bloggers.

IT Times was able to get some time with Choi Joong-Kyung, Minister of Knowledge Economy, to ask him questions about this Seoul Motor Show 2011. The following are excerpts from the interview with him - Ed.

Starting a business is not as easy as it sounds with financing to corporate registration; there are so many boxes to tick, on top of the fear of possible failure that prevents so many people

Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology (AICT) is a technological convergence complex in Suwon's Gwanggyo Techno Valley.