As Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon has emerged as the clear front-runner to be the next U.N. secretary-general, President Roh Moo-hyun reportedly is... [Oct.4,2006 14:05 KST]

Eleven people were killed and 50 others injured on Tuesday after a collision on a bridge caused a pileup of 23 cars and trucks on an expressway along South Korea's west coast, police said. The pileu.. [Oct.3,2006 16:13 KST]

A 28-year-old visually disabled man, Gang Yun-taek, had gone to sit for this year’s Seoul Metropolitan Government civil service exam on September... [Oct.3,2006 14:38 KST]

Several times a month, 38-year-old homemaker Yi U-seon reads stories to her children by candlelight. She likes to put them to sleep with the sound... [Oct.3,2006 14:16 KST]

South Korea has introduced a new personal identification number system for use on the Internet, a move intended to block personal data theft prevalent in cyberspace, a government ministry said Monday.. [Oct.2,2006 21:06 KST]

More than half of South Koreans who died in 2005 were cremated, pointing to the public's increasing preference for cremation over burial, a government report said Monday. The country's crema.. [Oct.2,2006 20:50 KST]

Military officers from South and North Korea met briefly on Monday for the first time since the communist country conducted missile tests in July, but they failed to find a way to put stalled inter-K.. [Oct.2,2006 20:39 KST]

South Koreans are bracing for an early presidential campaign, as key opposition contenders have one by one declared their ambitions to run for the December 2007 elections. The latest public su.. [Oct.2,2006 16:52 KST]

A veterinary hospital specializing in the treatment of wild animals is set to open at Kangwon National University; it will be the first of its kind in South Korea. The ‘Wild Animal Rescue Center’ .. [Oct.2,2006 15:09 KST]

President Roh Moo-hyun said Sunday that the South Korean military will be capable of providing a deterrent to war on the peninsula by 2010, when... [Oct.2,2006 14:58 KST]