SKorea begins bidding for $7.3 billion fighter buy
22 hours, 25 minutes ago
South Korea has begun accepting bids from aircraft makers to supply 60 new fighter jets at an estimated cost of $7.3 billion (8.3 trillion won).
Incentive for Korea talks remains despite failure
6 days ago
The talks were meant to focus on reviving South Korean tours to a North Korean mountain resort, and on restoring operations at a factory park in the North Korean border city of Kaesong.
Crackdown filling NKorean prisons with defectors
7 days ago
On their arrival in the country, all spend three months at a center run by South Korea's intelligence agency, where they are pumped for information, in part to establish whether they might be spies.
SKorea says it considers talks with North scrapped
7 days ago
South Korea says its planned talks with North Korea have been scrapped a day before they were supposed to begin because of a stalemate over who will lead each delegation.
Koreas agree to meeting in bid to ease tensions
11 days ago
Other items to be discussed when the Koreas hold ministerial talks include stalled South Korean cross-border tours to a North Korean mountain and the reunions of families separated by war.
UN official criticizes South Korean security law
11 days ago
She says the law's broad definition of what constitutes a threat to social order blocks constructive criticism of South Korean government policies.
NKorea proposes working level talks with SKorea
12 days ago
Pyongyang, which wants to meet Sunday in its border city of Kaesong, also said it would reopen a Red Cross communication line with South Korea in their truce village later Friday.
ITC rules for Samsung, bans iPhone 4 imports
13 days ago
A U.S. trade agency on Tuesday issued a ban on imports of Apple's iPhone 4 and a variant of the iPad 2 after finding the devices violate a patent held by South Korean rival Samsung Electronics.
South Korea's president to make state visit to UK
15 days ago
The palace said Monday that Park, South Korea's first female leader, has accepted an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II.
SKorea to open new stock market to foster startups
18 days ago
He said KONEX will help startups find investors even before meeting the requirements of KOSDAQ, South Korea's equivalent of the NASDAQ.
