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Funding for small and mid-sized firms and support for innovative entrepreneurs.
These are the key goals for 2015 set by Korea's economy related agencies.
A Korean parliamentary delegation meets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Japan today.
There are high hopes the meeting will contribute to thawing frosty relations between the two nations.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claims responsibility for the recent terror attacks in Paris, adding that they planned it for years... as revenge against a magazine that poked fun at the Prophet Muhammad.
Meanwhile in France, authorities arrested 54 people who were not terror suspects but shared sentiments that could be interpreted as defending the Charlie Hebdo attack.
More at 6 p.m. Korea time.
