Today's News..

1. President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korean leader Kim Jong-in agreed to hold a second-ever inter Korean summit in Pyongyang from Aug. 28-30

2. The agenda of the inter Korean summit will likely include the denuclearization of the North, the establishment of the peace regime on the peninsula and the cross-boder economic cooperation..

3. Religious leaders and peace activists from around the world issued a statement, calling on the Taliban to free 21 Korean hostages immediately in Afghanistan..
*issue a visa..비자받다..

4. Korean Federation of Banks decided to tighten the requirement for foreign nationals to open a new account from this month to curb financial phone fraud..

5. The downpour dropped a total of more than 200mm of rainfall, damaging southern parts of the country.


Vote for the new face of Korea's new bills..

Excitement over the Bank of Korea's plans to issue 50,000 and 100,000 won bills has only gotten stronger..The public will now have a say on who will grace the newest banknotes. The BOK compiled a list of 10 historical figures who the general public can vote on.. Votes will be accepted via BOK's homepage through Tuseday, August 21th.. The final decision is expected to be made by October. The 10 historical figures include Kim Koo, Kim Jeong-hui, Jang Yeong-sil, and 2 women Yu Gwan-sun, and independence fighter during Japanese colonial rule and Shin Saimdan, an artists and mother of the Confucian scholar Yulgok.. The new bills are expected to be in circulation in the first half of 2009..
*Have you say..발언대..



Plastic surgery helping tourism..

Coined as "healthcare tourism", more Europeans are spending their vacation going abroad for private cosemtic treatment.. Dentists in eastern Europe started the trend by attracting the British patients, but now plastic surgeons are following suit.. Cost is the major factor. A woman from the U.K. had loose skin removed from her belly and arms in Budapest, Hungary.. Her total cost, including accommodations and a roundtrip ticket, was less than a third of what she would have paid at home.. The affordable prices abroad only to look to propel the trend..
*a coined word..신조어/ coined phrases..유행어..


From Morning Special..