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›

MOVE OLYMPICS OVER ZIKA CALL REJECTED

The World Health Organization WHO has rejected a call to move or postpone this summer's Rio Olympic Games over the Zika outbreak... 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›

PASSENGER TRAINS COLLIDE IN IRAN, 44 KILLED

Semi-official Mehr news agency said four of the dead were railway employees aboard the trains... READ MORE›

NORTH AND SOUTH KOREAN GYMNASTS POSE FOR OLYMPIC SELFIE

North and South Korea gymnasts at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games have shown the world a brief moment of unity, in the form of a selfie... 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›

NORTH KOREA CREATES ITS OWN TIME ZONE

SEOUL South Korea AP North Korea has no time for Japan... 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›

'NO TO THE GAMES OF CONCRETE'

Rome is set to drop its bid to host the Olympic Games in 2024, after its anti-establishment mayor said it would be irresponsible to be a candidate... READ MORE›

FINANCIAL CALAMITY DECLARED IN RIO WEEKS BEFORE OLYMPICS, BUT GAMES WILL GO ON

On Friday morning, Rio state Finance Minister Julio Bueno said that if the state were a company, it would enter into judicial recovery... READ MORE›

NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA 'ON BRINK OF WAR'

US troops in Humvees were seen in the South Korean town of Paju bordering North Korea on Thursday afternoon... 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›

WHO SAYS SOUTH KOREA'S MERS OUTBREAK LARGE AND COMPLEX

All of South Korea's cases have been linked to health facilities... READ MORE›

DEAL BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA DEFIES DISDAIN

South Korean officials said that caveat would discourage further provocations from the North, but the two sides are likely to have very different definitions of abnormal... 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›

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›

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›

KIM JONG-UN'S AUNT DIED OF STROKE DURING 'HEATED ARGUMENT ON PHONE WITH LEADER'

08 Dec 2013 She missed a number of key dates on the North Korean calendar, including events to mark the death of Kim Jong-il, her brother, in December... READ MORE›

NORTH KOREAN LEADER HAS EXECUTED 70 OFFICIALS

Jang was married to Kim Jong Il's sister and was once considered the second most powerful man in North Korea... READ MORE›

RIO OLYMPICS: BRAZIL WEIGHS JIHADI THREATS

Brazil's intelligence agency said it was reviewing all threats against the Rio 2016 Games after a jihadi messaging channel called for its followers to target the Olympics... READ MORE›

'NUT RAGE' EXPOSES THE MANY CRACKS IN SOUTH KOREA'S ELITE

Korean Air had sent Ms Cho to work in the US two months before her due date... READ MORE›

REMAINS OF NEARLY 2750 KOREAN WARTIME LABORERS FOUND IN JAPAN SOUTH SAYS

About 300 Japanese companies still in operation are believed to have used such workers, South Korean officials said... READ MORE›