Tag: South Korea

Sees no extra budget for economy after MERS outbreak South Korean health officials on Sunday reported 14 more cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS),...

A South Korean court on Thursday abolished a 62-year-old law that criminalized extramarital affairs, and the stock price of a prominent condom maker immediately...

South Korea's Constitutional Court on Thursday struck down a 60-year-old statute outlawing adultery under which violators faced up to two years in prison. The nine-member...

SEOUL — A Seoul court on Thursday sentenced a former Korean Air executive to a year in prison for aviation law violations that stemmed from...

  A dozen dogs originally destined for dinner tables in South Korea arrived in the Washington area to be adopted as pets. They were the first...

SEOUL- That selfie stick in your hand. A harmless memory-maker? Or a potentially chaos-inducing electromagnetic radiation emitter? In South Korea, it seems, it could be...

SEOUL— For more than 30 years, chef and restaurant owner Oh Keum-il built her expertise in cooking one traditional South Korean delicacy: dog meat. In...

SEOUL — Pope Francis has generally avoided hot-button "culture war" issues like abortion, arguing that the church's doctrine on the sanctity of life is...

SEOUL- South Korean police announced Tuesday that a badly-decomposed body found last month had been identified as that of the fugitive tycoon whose family...

SEOUL, South Korea North Korea threatened Friday to review its decision to enter the upcoming Asian Games in South Korea, a day after their talks...

SEOUL, South Korea Asia's major stock markets abandoned earlier modest gains, trading mostly lower on Thursday ahead of the release of U.S. economic data and...

North Korea launched what were believed to be short-range ballistic missiles from the northern part of the southern border city of Kaesong

Alexander Kerzhakov scored with one of his first touches after coming on as a substitute to earn Russia a 1-1 draw with South Korea...

  GWANGJU-   Fifteen crew of a South Korean ferry that sank in April killing more than 300 people, most of them children, went on trial on...

A fire swept through a South Korean hospice for elderly and infirm patients early Wednesday, killing 21 people in what police suspect was an...

SEOUL- Scores of South Korean investigators on Wednesday raided a sprawling religious compound in a widening probe into last month’s ferry disaster in which hundreds...

SEOUL- The captain and three senior crew members of a South Korean ferry that capsized in April, killing more than 280 passengers, many of them...