5 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.
5 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.
9 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.
10 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.
12 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.
14 days ago
The palace said Monday that Park, South Korea's first female leader, has accepted an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II.
20 days ago
North Korea says South Korean businessmen can enter a jointly run industrial park in the North that has been emptied since April after tensions between the two countries soared.
26 days ago
The deal with South Korea is one of three free-trade agreements, along with Colombia and Panama, that Congress passed in 2011 at the urging of President Barack Obama.
33 days ago
A South Korean presidential spokesman who was fired after inappropriately touching a woman during a U.S. trip blames a "cultural difference" with America.
39 days ago
North Korea says a summit between the U.S. and South Korean presidents is a prelude to war against the North.
39 days ago
Dozens of screaming and shouting Harvard University students have welcomed South Korean pop star PSY for a conversation inside an ornate church dedicated to the memory of those who lost their...
39 days ago
Villaraigosa quipped that when he visits South Korea, he is introduced as mayor of that country's seventh-largest city - a reference to the number of Koreans in Los Angeles.
40 days ago
South Korean President Park Geun-hye is getting a grand welcome from Congress as Seoul and Washington resolve to stand firm against North Korean provocations.
45 days ago
South Korea says its last remaining nationals are about to leave a jointly run factory park in North Korea.
98 days ago
The last time North Korea disconnected the hotline, in 2010, the North killed four South Koreans when it shelled an island and was accused of torpedoing a South Korean naval ship, killing 46...
100 days ago
"In South Korea, worry can be seen most clearly on the Internet, where some believe that South Koreans, world leaders in broadband access, are less afraid to express their honest, anonymous feelings.
101 days ago
"- March 1993: North Korea declares a "semi-state of war" to protest joint U.S.-South Korean war games that it says threaten its security.
105 days ago
Kim Hyun-soo drove in two runs for South Korea, which rebounded from an uncharacteristically sloppy display against the Netherlands in a 5-0 loss.
122 days ago
Roh, who was a lawmaker for the opposition Progressive Justice Party, has been a vocal critic of Samsung, South Korea's most powerful conglomerate, which dominates the country's economy.
122 days ago
Mariajo Uribe shot a six-under 67 on Friday to overtake South Korea's Jiyai Shin and overnight leader Lydia Ko, claiming the second-round lead at the LPGA Tour's Women's Australian Open.
125 days ago
An official familiar with the decision says a South Korea soccer player who displayed a political banner after a match at the London Olympics will receive his bronze medal.
125 days ago
A weaker yen is partly behind Japan's higher growth forecasts and the stock market in Tokyo is booming because investors expect corporate earnings to swell.Q: Is there any upside for South Korea?
139 days ago
South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. said Wednesday it posted a profit for a second straight quarter as the stronger won reduced the amount of debt denominated in foreign currencies.
141 days ago
About 1,000 Iranian workers have staged a protest rally in front of the South Korean Embassy in Tehran demanding the return of $70 million allegedly held by Seoul after a collapsed business deal.
145 days ago
My cab crawls out of the South Korean capital at a sloth's pace, modern skyscrapers gradually giving way to concrete and barracks-style high-rises, then finally to open highway.
