Yonhap News Summary

The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Monday.

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(3rd LD) Prosecution, police agree on criminal law procedure revision
SEOUL -- The prosecution and police reached a last-minute compromise Monday to end a dispute over investigative rights, agreeing to empower police to open investigations on their own under the broad supervision of prosecutors.
Justice Minister Lee Kwi-nam and National Police Agency chief Cho Hyun-oh reached the agreement on revising the criminal procedure code in negotiations mediated by Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik, presidential chief of staff Yim Tae-hee and other officials.

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Military apologizes for mistakenly firing at civilian airliner
SEOUL -- South Korea's military apologized to the nation Monday for last week's incident in which two Marines fired rifles at a civilian jetliner by misidentifying it as a North Korean military aircraft.
"The military sincerely apologizes to our people for causing worries over the incident," Col. Lee Bung-woo, a spokesman at the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), told reporters.

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S. Korea ranks 3rd in college tuition fees among OECD countries
SEOUL -- South Korea's university tuitions were the third most expensive among the OECD member countries last year, Seoul's education ministry said in a report Monday.
Government scholarships accounted for 4.4 percent of the nation's total public education costs, compared with the OECD average of 11.4 percent, and student loans bore 5.7 percent of the total expenses, far lower than the OECD average of 8.8 percent, the report said.

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Officials hail Korea-EU FTA as successful
SEOUL -- Officials from South Korea and the European Union (EU) on Monday gave high marks to a free trade accord between the two sides and said the trade pact will serve as a model for similar subsequent deals.
Seoul and Brussels are set to implement their free trade pact on July 1, which was signed in October last year after more than three years of tough negotiations.

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S. Korean FM to meet Clinton on 6-way talks' resumption
SEOUL -- South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan will visit Washington late this week to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on ways to revive the multilateral talks for the North's nuclear dismantlement, officials said Monday.
Kim will have talks with Clinton Friday, focusing on ways to resume dialogue with North Korea in the wake of its increasingly belligerent attitude toward the South, the officials said.
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