- Cargill, an international food company, chose Kim Ki-yong as CEO in its animal nutrition division who was the president of Purina, a Korean pet food company that it incorporated.

- Defense minister Kim Jang-soo is told to have conveyed his strong willingness to “continue to protect the NLL according to my conviction.”

- According to the Korean food Research Institute, the level of spiciness of Kimchi has become stronger by 2-3 times compared to years earlier.

- Lee Myung-bak called for an establishment of an agency within the party to ensure “clean” election campaign.

- Labor minister Lee Sang-soo denied media reports that he would step down as minister next month to come back to politics.

- Soribada, a music file sharing site, is to appeal against a court decision to order it to stop service for reasons of copyright infringement.

- Within Samsung Electronics, expectations are very high for the mobile phone business while worries are increasing for the semiconductor.

- Doosan launches a soju(120ml) sized a third its existing one(360ml), aimed at light drinkers.

- It is reported North Korea has encroached on the NLL 135 times since 2001, 65 times by security ships and 37 by fishery ships.

- A college-graduated Chinese becomes popular with well-off Koreans as a language tutor as well as a maid, amid an increasing number of children to go to China to learn the language. Their average monthly salary is believed to be around 1.3-1.8m.

- North Korea is reported to levy W0.8m on every flight flying over its land. Korean air companies have paid North Korea over W9bn in passing the sky over North Korea for the last 8 years.