[News Briefing] Buddhists visit N.Korean temple on Mt. Kumgang

Posted on : 2011-05-05 13:43 KST Modified on : 2019-10-19 20:29 KST

Ten member delegation of Jogye Order, South Korea’s largest Buddhist sect, crossed the heavily fortified border into North Korea to hold a joint service at Singye Temple on Mount Kumgang with its North Korean counterpart on Wednesday prior of Buddha's Birthday, next Tuesday.
The one-day trip by Buddhists marked the first time since South Korea suspended Mt. Kumgang resort tour program in 2008 when a female South Korean tourist was fatally shot. The South Korean government, however, did not approve a joint service by the several hundred member delegation's visit to Singye Temple on Buddha's Birthday, which the Jogye Order has carried out since restoration of the temple in 2004.
The Buddhist delegation also delivered humanitarian aid including 100,000 tablets of vermifuge to North Korea.

Boeing’s bad bolt caused emergency MB landing
A single bolt improperly installed by U.S. aerospace company Boeing Co. caused Korea’s presidential jet to make an unprecedented emergency landing in March, Air Force investigators concluded yesterday.
The presidential jet, a Boeing 747-400, was forced to land at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on March 12 while heading to the United Arab Emirates for an official visit.
Although no passengers suffered injuries and the presidential jet resumed its flight about two hours after repairs on a malfunction in the plane’s ventilation system, it marked the first emergency landing by a presidential jet in Korea.
The investigation attributed the emergency landing to a bolt in the plane’s air-distribution system that was “incorrectly installed by Boeing.”
(Yonhap News)

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The massive cash withdrawals were stirred by the Financial Supervisory Service's inspection on the bank and prosecutors' investigation into the executives and employees who were found to have given a 60 billion Won illegal loan to a real estate developer. In response, both institutions have attempted to quell heightening fears among ordinary depositors saying ongoing investigations are to confirm bank officials' personal corruption.