today's headlines_Nov 21

Maeil Business Daily

- Beijing is believed to have partially lifted its freeze on North Korea’s BDA accounts, according to Chinese sources and North Korea experts in Seoul.

- Big companies say they will increase investment a little bit from this year despite bleak economic prospect next year.

- Lee Phil-sang, business management professor, was elected new president of Korea University. He is the first president of the university as a graduate of Seoul National University.

Chsoun Ilbo

- The GNP has decided not to support for the appointment of Lee Jae-joung for Unification Minister for the reason of his ‘biased history perception.’

Portal sites

- The government designated five more districts as ‘speculative zones,’ which leads to all districts in Seoul becoming real estate speculative regions.

- GNP rep. Chun Jung-bae and former GNP leader Choi Byung-ryol is going to be a relative by marriage. Chun’s eldest daughter who is working at Seoul District Court as junior judge and Choi’s cousin who has also passed national bar exam and been in train institute will get married next year.

- North Korea, China, and the US are to hold a meeting in Beijing today to talk about details of date, time and agenda for the six party talks.

- According to Seoul Metropolitan Government, a ‘Wall for Proposal of Marriage’ is going to be built in Cheongkyechon by the first half of next year. The city government has been received good ideas from citizens and now decided to adopt nine most feasible ideas as official city development policies.

- National Human Rights Committee advised local banks not to put limitation on education level for new staff. It said the education requirement of current ‘university graduate’ in job application for banks is a discriminatory act.

- A recent poll on 1,000 adults shows 81.2 per cent of the respondents say street protestors’ behavior is violent and 72.6 per cent say protestors don’t abide by rules. Only 18.1 per cent say they stage a ‘peaceful demonstration.’

- US State Department rejected to issue permission for Pak Gil-yeon, North Korean Ambassador to the UN, to travel to Harvard University where he was supposed to address at a debate with Harvard professors.