SEOUL, June 18 (Yonhap) -- North Korea plans to import about 100,000 smartphones from China this year, a report said Tuesday. China is planning to export a total of 500,000 mobile phones to the North and 100,000 of them will be smartphones, the Washington-based Radio Free Asia report said, referring to a Chinese government official's posting on Weibo, a Chinese microblogging website.

SEOUL, June 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korea held the world's seventh-largest entertainment and media market last year on the back of rising demand for services on mobile devices, a global consulting firm said Monday. According to the data by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the volume of South Korea's entertainment market came in at US$45.1 billion last year, accounting for 2.8 percent of the global market whose value stood at $1.6 trillion.

TORONTO - L'actualite won a leading six gold prizes at the 36th National Magazine Awards on Friday night, while The Grid picked up five golds and The Walrus won four. Gold, silver and honourable mention prizes were presented in 47 categories at the ceremony, hosted by Canadian actor Zaib Shaikh. The magazine of the year prize went to Corporate Knights, a publication which looks at sustainable businesses. Honourable Mention for Magazine of the Year was awarded to Cottage Life, UPPERCASE and Urbania. Meanwhile, Canadian House

SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors investigating CJ Group's alleged slush fund and tax evasion are looking into suspicions that the conglomerate holds borrowed-name accounts at foreign financial institutions here for money transfers and stock trading, prosecution officials said Friday. For the past two weeks, the food and entertainment conglomerate has been under an intense prosecution investigation into allegations that it has created a secret fund worth tens of millions of dollars, while evading taxes in the process.