On Tuesday, after the episode on the flight bound for Incheon, South Korea, from New York's Kennedy Airport had become public, Ms... READ MORE›

By Tuesday, with many South Koreans calling for a boycott of Korean Air, which they nicknamed Air Nuts, the airline announced that Ms... READ MORE›

AN IRISH TEACHER WAS REJECTED FROM A JOB IN SOUTH KOREA JOB DUE TO THE 'ALCOHOLISM NATURE OF [HER] KIND'

An Irish school teacher was turned away from a position in South Korea due to the alcoholism nature of her kind ... READ MORE›

KIM JONG UN SAYS HE'S READY FOR WAR IN NEW YEAR SPEECH

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he is ready for war if provoked by invasive outsiders... READ MORE›

NORTH KOREA ANNOUNCES IT CONDUCTED NUCLEAR TEST

Why would North Korea test a hydrogen bomb?... READ MORE›

MERS TARNISHES KOREAN PRESIDENTS IMAGE AS LEADER

Once-bustling shopping districts in Seoul have emptied of the Chinese visitors who are the biggest source of foreign tourist income for South Korea... READ MORE›

NORTH KOREAS NEIGHBORS DENOUNCE CLAIM

North Korea is banned from conducting nuclear tests under a series of resolutions the Security Council has adopted in recent years... READ MORE›

DID NORTH KOREA DETONATE A HYDROGEN BOMB HERES WHAT WE KNOW

Douglas MacArthur wanted Washington to allow the use of nuclear weapons against Chinese and North Korean troops during the Korean War... READ MORE›

'NUT RAGE' EXECUTIVE APOLOGISES

Korean Air initially defended Ms Cho's behaviour, noting that as vice-president overseeing flight service, she was responsible for making sure service standards were upheld... READ MORE›

SUIT HAS SOUTH KOREA LOOKING ANEW AT ITS HARD LINE ON PROSTITUTION

SEOUL, South Korea -- Kim Jeong-mi, a 43-year-old prostitute in Seoul, says she knows about humiliation... READ MORE›

GLOBAL POWERS CONDEMN NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS TEST

North Korea has had a strategic plan to develop nuclear weapons for more than 20 years, and there are only two ways to change that... READ MORE›

US DEPLOYS B-52 BOMBER AFTER NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR TEST

Osan is south of Seoul and roughly 100 km from the North Korean border... READ MORE›

IN SOUTH KOREA, A REHAB CAMP FOR INTERNET-ADDICTED TEENAGERS

MUJU, South Korea -- Since he arrived at the camp, Yoon Yong-won had experienced recurrent nightmares... READ MORE›

NORTH KOREA BOMBARDS SOUTH WITH USED TOILET PAPER

South Korea resumed launches of balloons carrying propaganda into the North in the days after Pyongyang carried out its fourth underground nuclear test on January 6... READ MORE›

THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE DEAD NORTH KOREAN DOCTORS AND THEIR WIVES

There's Jang Song Thaek, the mercurial uncle who North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had shot... READ MORE›

NORTH KOREA FAKED SUB-LAUNCHED MISSILE TEST FOOTAGE

North Korea faked sub-launched missile test footage analysis... READ MORE›

NORTH KOREA ROCKET LAUNCH: UN TO HOLD EMERGENCY MEETING

A Foreign Office spokeswoman said North Korea is fully aware that multiple UN security council resolutions prohibit the use of ballistic missile technology... READ MORE›

DONALD TRUMP SAYS KIM JONG UN DESERVES 'CREDIT' FOR WIPING OUT RIVALS

How does he do that? Trump then answered his semi-rhetorical question Kim, who was actually 28 when his father died, does that through executions... READ MORE›

FACING A BOLD NORTH KOREA CHINA STRUGGLES FOR BALANCE

In recent years, South Korea has aggressively courted closer ties with China, hoping it would help tame North Korea's nuclear ambitions... READ MORE›

KIM YOUNG-SAM FORMER PRESIDENT OF SOUTH KOREA DIES AT 87

Mr. Kim had a lifetime rivalry with Kim Dae-jung, a fellow opposition leader from the southwest Jeolla region... READ MORE›

HIGH-TECH SCIENCE CENTER LAUDS NUCLEAR ADVANCES

Inside north korea high-tech science center lauds nuclear advances... READ MORE›

NORTH KOREA FIRES ROCKET SEEN AS COVERT MISSILE TEST

The two leaders said they would coordinate their responses to Pyongyang's recent nuclear test and would not accept North Korea as a nuclear weapon state... READ MORE›

NORTH KOREA LAUNCHES 'SATELLITE,' SPARKS FEARS ABOUT LONG-RANGE MISSILE PROGRAM

Kim, the 33-year-old third-generation leader of North Korea, personally signed the order to launch on Saturday, Ri said... READ MORE›

UN DRAFTING FURTHER SANCTIONS ON NORTH KOREA AFTER 'HYDROGEN BOMB' TEST

It is dangerous to assume that North Korea would never really use a nuclear weapon... READ MORE›

HOSPITAL AT CENTER OF SOUTH KOREA'S MERS SUSPENDS SERVICES; SEVEN NEW CASES

MERS was diagnosed in South Korea on May 20 in a businessman who had returned from a trip to the Middle East and has spread through hospitals... READ MORE›

NORTH KOREA HINTS IT HAS A HYDROGEN BOMB, BUT SKEPTICISM ABOUNDS

I think that's virtually impossible, said Daniel Pinkston, an expert on North Korea's nuclear weapons who is currently at Babes-Bolyai University in Romania... READ MORE›

US BOMBER FLIES CLOSE TO NORTH KOREA AS SHOW OF FORCE AFTER NUCLEAR TEST

After the North's last test, in 2013, the United States sent a pair of nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers over South Korea... READ MORE›

NORTH KOREAN AIRCRAFT APPROACHES SOUTH KOREA, WHICH FIRES WARNING SHOTS

There could be firing by the North Koreans, which then could prompt South Koreans to retaliate very quickly, she said... READ MORE›

THAILAND SAYS 175 EXPOSED TO MERS PATIENT; SOUTH KOREA REPORTS NO NEW CASE

In South Korea the health ministry said that no new cases of the disease had been recorded in the country for the first time in 16 days... READ MORE›

IN SHOW OF ALLIANCE US B-52 FLIES OVER SOUTH KOREA

But North Korea's defiant nuclear test, which took place despite warnings and increasingly tightened sanctions, has rattled the region... READ MORE›