South Korea launched a satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia on Friday that will help the country make timely updates on geographical changes and assist in the search for natural .. [Jul.28,2006 20:43 KST]

"When concerns come up in the government’s basic foreign and security policies, which stress peace and stability, I think we can voice different views from the United States," South Korean prim.. [Jul.28,2006 10:21 KST]

Hong Seok-hyun, former president of the JoongAng Ilbo newspaper, did not show up at the Seoul Prosecutor’s Office for questioning related to his involvement in murky financial transactions with.. [Jul.28,2006 10:19 KST]

South Korea's education minister on Thursday apologized for inflating his research work in 2001, when he was a professor at a Seoul university. Kim Byong-joon admitted to having published.. [Jul.27,2006 19:39 KST]

The 1973 kidnapping of Kim Dae-jung from a hotel in Tokyo was ordered by Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) director Lee Hu-rak,... [Jul.27,2006 13:37 KST]

Park Jae-du, 42, is classified as having mental retardation, but that did not stop him from being granted a patent for one of his... [Jul.27,2006 12:34 KST]

Koreans think that the country's best symbols are the taegeukgi, South Korea's flag; gimchi; hangeul, the Korean writing system (and the book... [Jul.27,2006 11:58 KST]

North Korea was seriously hit by the torrential rains that swept the peninsula in mid-July, with crops destroyed and thousands displaced.... [Jul.27,2006 11:50 KST]

South Korea's main opposition party swept Wednesday's parliamentary by-elections, which are viewed as a litmus test of voter sentiment ahead of next year's presidential elections. The conse.. [Jul.26,2006 23:11 KST]

Park Yong Hyoun, reporter for the Hankyoreh Yun Yeong-hun, age 30, otherwise known as Daejeon Prison’s prisoner No. 436, recently wrote to... [Jul.26,2006 11:55 KST]