A south korean court handed down the country's first conviction under a hate crimes law yesterday when it fined a man who racialy abused an Indian on a commuter bus. The Incheon District Court, west of Seoul, fined the Korean man 1 million won for telling the Indian to move away from him on the bus as he was dirty and smelly. South Korae lawmakers has been working on new legislation that would expand racial discrimination laws, while the government wants to lure more skilled foreign workers to help boost the population in the country with the lowest birth rate in the developed world. AP