- Amid increasing number of Asian women coming to Korea to go under plastic surgery, the Seoul City Government plans to set up a support center next year which connect overseas patients with hospitals. The center will provide various services including interpretation. It expects Chinese customers to surge after the Beijing Olympics.

- Foreign minister Song Min-soon voiced concern over NK’s report on nuclear programs in a stalemate, saying “right now, the nuclear issue is at the crossroads whether it will go into the stabilizing phase or it will suffer from creaking instability.” But “the government tries to solve it in a stable matter no matter how long it will take,” he said.

- Park Yeon-cha, CEO of Taekwang Ind Co. and President Roh’s close friend, issued a public apology on the company website for making an ugly scene inside a plane on Dec 3. He was under the influence when he picked a fight with flight attendants, thereby delaying the plane by 1 hour and being kicked out of the plane.

- Erica Kim, the sister of Kim Kyung-joon, canceled a press briefing aimed at countering prosecutor’s yesterday investigation results, just one and half hour before the expected briefing. The reason for the cancellation is not immediately known.

- After the prosecutor’s announcement on the BBK investigation, LMB’s approval rating soared to 45.3 per cent, up 6.1 per cent from a week earlier, cementing his status as the frontrunner, according to the poll by CBS and a survey company, Real Meter. But Lee Hoi-chang slid to the third spot with 13.1 per cent allowing Chung Dong-young to climb up to the second post with 18.5 per cent.

- Four major telecom companies, LG Telecom, KTF, LG Dacom, and LG Powercom, called on the government to intervene in the possible problems arising from SK Telecom’s expected takeover of Hanaro Telecom. They argued SK Telecom would distort the market using its monopolistic status and huge capital.

- 'Brand Call-taxi’ will be up and running from Dec 10 in Seoul. Customers can get a taxi within five minutes and the Seoul City government has chosen three taxi companies to do the service. Payment will be available by credit card and female drivers are available upon request.

- Democratic Labor Party will charge Seoul mayor O Seo-hoon of damaging cultural heritage. The party said the Seoul City seriously damaged Koeui water purification plant, a registered cultural treasure, in the process of building a baseball field on that site and ignored warnings from Cultural Heritage Administration.

- Samsung Electronics lost an appeal cast it filed against Intergigital, the US IT company, and has to pay it $134 m in royalty. The court ruled that Samsung Electronics infringed the 2G terminal equipment patent.