South Korea allows private condolences Kim

S Korea: The South Korean government will allow private groups to send messages of condolence to North Korea after the death of its leader Kim Jong-Il, Seoul's unification ministry said Tuesday.

The last gesture of reconciliation came a day after Seoul expressed solidarity with the people of North Korea Kim's death, despite the high cross-border tensions. The ministry, which by law must approve all contacts between South Korea and North, who "basically allow" this type of message, the spokesman said Boh-Seon Choi.

"Our position is that we will authorize requests unless there is a special reason (not to)," Choi told reporters.

He said four groups seeking to send such messages include Hyundai Asan and the government of Roh Moo-Hyun Foundation, named in memory of the late former president of the South met with Kim in the second inter-Korean summit in 2007.

The South also suspended Tuesday a plan to display Christmas lights near the border, which had criticized the communist North as "psychological warfare".

Seoul not to send official delegates to Pyongyang to attend the funeral of Kim on December 28.

However, it has allowed the Hyundai Group chairwoman Hyun Chung-Eun and family of the late President Kim Dae-Jung Dae-Jung visit.Kim held its first summit with North Korean leader in 2000, while Hyundai was pioneer in cross-border business projects.

Hyun and Lee Hee-ho, the widow of Kim Dae-Jung, are taking formal steps to visit Pyongyang.

The media upstate announced Monday that leader Kim died Saturday of a heart attack at age 69. AFP

South Korea to crack down on prostitution in Australia

S. Korea: South Korea, where Korean women to stop prostitution and human trafficking to a boom in Australia to help the investigation should be sent to a state prosecutor, said in a statement Friday.

Seoul city's prostitutes, smuggling rings broken by Australian authorities to try to bring women together to work on the house which forms part of a crackdown, Yonhap news agency reported.

 

"Australia, the Korean government's stance that we seize this opportunity to eradicate prostitution of women is widespread," an unnamed senior foreign ministry official was reported as saying.

Representatives of government agencies including the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Justice and the South Korean Consulate General at Sydney airport last week agreed to a state prosecutor, said in a statement.

Statement of Foreign Ministry officials declined comment.

A Korean woman forced to work as a prostitute he tries to rescue an Australian man, Abraham, Papo, Chinese, Korean women arm prostitution in Australia in 2009 when the murder came to light.

About 1,000 South Korean foreign ministry official in Seoul as women, working holiday visa holders are allowed to stay up to one year in the country, in Australia, working in the sex trade. It is illegal for officials to report their own country, since this drastic action, or Australia, Japan and South Korean sex workers are not displaced.

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Korea helps to Develop in Srilanka

South Korea is an ally and a partner in the post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation in Sri Lanka is ready to help with activities, Sri Lanka, C. Moon, South Korean Ambassador Jong said. "The South Korean companies are interested in investing in Sri Lanka," he noted recently, Galle Face Hotel on the South Korean national was speaking at a reception.

Significantly improved relations between the two countries wanted the moon.

In South Korea there is a strong workforce of about 25,000 in Sri Lanka and contribute to economic growth in both countries. Senior Minister of Rural Affairs Athauda Seneviratne, relations between the two countries in 1977, the South Korean Embassy in Colombo said there was strong from the opening.

"Seoul is a Resident Mission in Sri Lanka back to it," he said.

Seneviratne, between the two countries in political, social, cultural and commercial fields, deep under the government led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa on the relationships that have been added.

Senior Minister of Development Assistance in Sri Lanka expanded the Korean government kurattatu Seneviratne. Generous support from the major projects in Sri Lanka is in Korea, he said. Korean investors in the country's ability to use a broader peace in Sri Lanka, said Dan.

Thousands of Sri Lanka to study the Korean language and the close connection between the two countries to create avenues that were explored.

Minister Senevirathne and assistance extended to Sri Lanka after the tsunami in 2004 and the Korean people kurattatu government. Diplomatic corps, ministers, MPs and members were present.