- A survey reveals 43 per cent of office workers have received a job offer from company competitors and 28.5 per cent among them were asked to give company’s confidential to them.

- The US government is considering setting up a Representative Office in Pyongyang,
RFA(Radio Free Asia) quoted a US government official as saying.

- The Bank of Korea faces criticism that it is spending too much on employee’s welfare amid increasing budget deficit. It has spent W2.27 bn as of August this year in employees’ welfare, up 82.5 per cent from W1.24 bn, the last year’s total welfare budget.

- The competition among applicants to enter Samsung Group reach a record high with an average ratio of 9.9 to 1 this year. The ratio for Everland is the highest with 40 to 1.

- The unification ministry belatedly ordered to take back to Korea some ‘strategic products’ from Kaesung Industrial complex, for they could be converted to be used in military purposes, in its first such move since the complex was established.

- Thaehaksa, a publisher, said the National Institute of Korean Language called it to ask whether it is possible to recall its Korean dictionary containing new terms and coined words after it received a complaint from Cheong Wa Dae for including “놈현스럽다(노무현-스럽다 : like Roh Moo-hyun)” in the new book. It means “not up to expectation and disappointing.” The NIKL later withdrew the request.

- After asking Roh Moo-hyun “do you nap?” at the summit, Kim Jong-il said “I have never had a nap in my forty-year working life.”