Tag: South Korea

SEOUL- South Korean President Park Geun-Hye apologised Tuesday for her government´s failure to combat systemic and regulatory "evils" blamed for the loss of about 300...

SEOUL- A boy and girl trapped in a sinking South Korean ferry with hundreds of other high school students tied their life jacket cords together,...

JINDO- The confirmed death toll from South Korea's ferry disaster passed 100 on Tuesday as divers, under growing pressure from bereaved relatives, speeded up the...

MOKPO— The confirmed death toll from South Korea's ferry disaster rose past 50 on Sunday as divers finally found a way inside the sunken...

JINDO- Some relatives of the more than 200 children missing in a sunken South Korean ferry offered DNA swabs on Saturday to help identify the...

MOKPO- The captain of the ferry that sank off South Korea, leaving more than 300 missing or dead, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of negligence...

MOKPO- The vice-principal of a South Korean high school who accompanied hundreds of pupils on what turned out to be a disastrous ferry trip has...

SEOUL- Nearly 300 people are still missing after the ferry sank on Wednesday morning. Heart-wrenching messages of fear, love and despair, sent by high school students...

JINDO- Almost 300 people were missing after a ferry sank off South Korea on Wednesday, the coastguard said, in what could be the country's biggest...

South Korean President Park Geun-hye proposed a broad range of economic aid for impoverished North Korea on Friday if it agrees to give up...

SEOUL- South Korean President Park Geun-hye expressed relief on Saturday over remarks by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that his government would adhere to apologies...

TOKYO- Japan is trying to arrange a trilateral summit with South Korea and the United States for this month, a government official said on Wednesday,...

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Saturday warned Japan would face "isolation" if it pushed ahead with a move to revisit an apology over...

SEOUL- South Korea's president on Saturday proposed the rival Koreas hold reunions of Korean War-divided families on a regular basis, saying time was running out...

South Korea is planning to develop cyber-attack tools in a bid to damage North Korean nuclear facilities. The South Korean defence ministry “seeks developing weapons...

SEOUL- South Korea is planning to develop cyber-attack tools in a bid to damage North Korean nuclear facilities. The defence ministry of South Korea seeks developing...

SEOUL- At least 10 people were killed on Monday night when a resort building collapsed in South Korea. The victims included nine college students while a...