- Hynix, world's second largest semiconductor, announced this morning that it will enter into CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) business as the world’s first semiconductor company to do so. It will cut green house gas emission and sell Certified Emission Reduction corresponding to the level of cut.

- The Foreign Ministry is at odds with National Intelligence Service on the peace regime talks. NIS Director Kim Man-bok said in a column posted on the Cheong Wa Dae website that a declaration to end the war was one of the process to establish a peace regime and would be the start point for peace regime negotiation. Foreign Minister Song Min-soon, however, said peace process on the peninsula could be completed only after denuclearization and a subsequent declaration to end a war.