According to reports, Hwang Woo-suk, the main culprit behind the stem cell research license controversy, has again become the chief highlight.

However, this time the scientist claimed that by using the latest technology, he has finally cloned more eight coyotes.

In a Friday announcement, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said that his government intends making a $90-million investment for reviving its stem cell research program in 2012.

South Korean currency is facing trouble against dollar due to the offshore demand by the investors on Monday. This has happened in spite of an intervention by the central bank to slow down the currency gain.

Tuberculosis is a scar for any nations around the world. If statistics are to be believed, around 88 of every 100,000 people in Korea were diagnosed with TB in 2009. With the mortality rate rising, the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has made an appeal to control the diagnose rate to OECD average of 17.7 per 100,000.

South Korea has decided to supply more than 2 million barrels of oil products to Japan in order to plug an output gap after last week's killer earthquake.

Top Korean refiner, SK Energy would offer a helping hand to its neighbors by buying crude oil at the time when the nation is grappling with the loss of about a third of its 4.5 million barrel-per-day refining capacity.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has started his visit to UAE where he will hold discussions with top officials of the country besides attending a ceremony to mark the construction of nuclear reactors. He is also scheduled to see Korean troops deployed in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), located some 300 kilometers west of Abu Dhabi.

A fresh case of bird flu has been reported from the southeastern region of South Korea. The new case was conformed on Sunday and it has increased the risk of spreading the disease in the country.

South Korea is dealing with a major national crisis. This is the result of the spread of the Foot and Mouth Disease that has spread all over the country and there millions of cattle have been culled off. There have been more than 140 cases registered of the disease.

Dairy farmers in South Korea are currently suffering losses amounting to the wastage of 200 tons of milk a day. Apparently, the milk that is produced, is being poured away to minimize the spread of the dreaded foot and mouth disease in the country.

In Japan as well as South Korea the industrial output soared more than what was expected in December in an indication that due to draw down of inventories and a bounce back of export demand the global economy in this year will be strengthened.