South Korean Constitutional Court takes up the question of NIS “packet interception” Packet interception is a method that intercepts all data traveling over online circuits, providing images of what a user sees on his or her internet or social media. But is it allowed under the South .. http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/825699.html

Rise of Bitcoin causing a reexamination of basic questions about finance and currency The still pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto published the first paper about Bitcoin (“Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”) in October 2008. For several years after that, the virtual currency r.. http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_business/825662.html

SpaceX selected to assist 2020 South Korean lunar orbiter voyage A South Korean orbiter to be launched toward the moon in 2020 will be carried on a rocket by the private US aerospace manufacturer SpaceX. “The US company SpaceX has been selected to carry out the sch.. http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/825661.html

Recently discovered historical records show presence of comfort women on Chuuk Islands In 1943, a 17-year-old employee at a sewing factory in Chilgok, North Gyeongsang Province, boarded a boat to the Chuuk Islands, trusting someone who told her about a factory there where she could earn.. http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/825576.html

Supreme Court grants refugee status to girl who fled Liberia to avoid circumcision An administrative agency acted unlawfully in denying refugee status to a 15-year-old Liberian girl attempting to avoid female circumcision on the grounds that her mother’s refugee application had been.. http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/825575.html

KIST gearing up to conduct doping tests for Pyeongchang Olympics The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), in Seoul’s Seongbuk District, has been designated as an “important state facility” and is thus subject to the strictest security protocol. But ins.. http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/825574.html

Court assigns refugee status to Nigerian man and his family “K,” a 44-year-old Nigerian national, arrived in South Korea for a short-term stay in Feb. 2015 and applied for refugee status with [his] two children. K claimed to have been threatened due to his Chr.. http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/825395.html

Liberian woman wins defamation judgment after being harassed by elderly Korean “T,” a Liberian-born resident of Gyeonggi Province married to a South Korean, had an unpleasant experience while riding a bus in Nov. 2016. The passenger in the seat next to her, a man in his sixties .. http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/825392.html

[Interview] American journalist seeks to pull back the curtain on “Samsung Empire” Back in 2009, when Geoffrey Cain first arrived in South Korea as the senior correspondent for GlobalPost, a US-based current affairs news website, he was planning to focus on the North Korean issue, l.. http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_business/825391.html