KOREANS SEPARATED ALMOST A LIFETIME REUNITE BRIEFLY

On Thursday, an additional 90 elderly South Koreans will cross the border for another round of three-day reunions with 188 relatives in the North... READ MORE›

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›

NORTH KOREA ORDERS TROOPS ON WAR FOOTING AFTER EXCHANGING FIRE WITH SOUTH

The latest tensions come after North Korea fired a shell at South Korea's western border on Thursday, reportedly to protest against the South's propaganda broadcasts... 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›

YOUNG SOUTH KOREANS CALL THEIR COUNTRY 'HELL' AND LOOK FOR WAYS OUT

South Korea is, in the minds of many young people here, a living hell -- and they're not going to take it anymore... READ MORE›

NORTH KOREA THREATENS US AND S KOREA WITH NUCLEAR STRIKES

North Korea says it sees the annual US-South Korean war games as a rehearsal for invasion... 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 KOREA PLANNING TERROR ATTACK, SPY AGENCY SAYS

Hide Caption 4 of 8 8 photos North Korea launches rocket North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looked on as the rocket blasted off... 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›

U.S. STEALTH JETS FLY OVER S. KOREA AMID N. KOREA STANDOFF

Pyongyang has also called regular U.S.-South Korea military exercises a rehearsal for a northward invasion... 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›

NORTH KOREA'S KIM SAYS COUNTRY HAS MINIATURISED NUCLEAR WARHEAD

He stressed the importance of building ever more powerful, precision and miniaturised nuclear weapons and their delivery means, KCNA said... 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›

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›

AUDACIOUS NORTH KOREAN KIDNAP PLOT FOILED AT PARIS AIRPORT AS 'ASIAN MEN' ATTEMPTED TO BUNDLE STUDENT ONTO PLANE

Five North Korean students at another architectural school, Paris-Belleville, in the centre of the capital, are attending their classes normally... 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›

IN KOREA, A NEW INGREDIENT FOR TV COOKING SHOWS

It's the latest food craze in South Korea sexy cooking men... 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›

'THE NORTH KOREAN POSTERS THAT GOT ME ARRESTED FOR ESPIONAGE'

'The North Korean posters that got me arrested for espionage'... 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›