Seoul - North Korea on Wednesday defended a recent series of missile and rocket tests as justifiable self-defence drills and hit back at "vicious" criticism of them by Seoul and Washington.The tests were largely seen as a calculated display of military muscle-...

Seoul - South Korean consumer prices rose 1.0 percent in February as stable prices of farm produce helped keep inflation in check, state data showed Tuesday.The on-year increase in the consumer price index compared to 1.1 percent inflation posted in January, s...

Seoul - North Korea said Monday it would release and deport a 75-year-old Australian missionary detained since last month for allegedly distributing religious materials.John Short was arrested after leaving "Bible tracts" in a Buddhist temple in the capital Py...

Seoul - North Korea test fired two short-range missiles on Monday, the South's Yonhap news agency reported, the second in series of launches that Seoul has denounced as a calculated provocation.The two missiles were fired off the east coast into the Sea of Jap...

Seoul - North Korea on Friday refused to entertain an official request from Seoul to release a South Korean missionary arrested four months ago on espionage charges.The South's Unification Ministry said it had attempted to send a written demand for Kim Jeong-W...

Seoul - South Korea's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a four-year jail sentence for the head of the country's third largest conglomerate, the SK Group, for embezzlement.Chey Tae-Won, 54, was convicted of diverting 46.5 billion won (43.5 million) from two affi...

Seoul - A North Korean patrol boat repeatedly crossed the disputed Yellow Sea border with the South in an apparent show of force at the start of South Korea-US military drills, Seoul's defence ministry said Tuesday.The incursion took place three times overnigh...

Seoul - South Korea on Monday offered to send vaccine and medical equipment to North Korea to help contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, in a further sign of warming cross-border ties.The offer came days after North Korea confirmed cases of the highly...

Seoul - South Korea kicked off its annual joint military exercises with the United States on Monday, despite vocal opposition from North Korea which could threaten a recent upswing in cross-border ties.The start of this year's drills overlaps with the first re...

Seoul - LG will launch its first smartwatch in 2014, the head of its mobile unit said Monday, tapping into the nascent market for wearable devices seen as the mobile industry's new source of growth.The announcement from the South Korean smartphone maker came a...

Seoul - LG will launch its first smartwatch in 2014, the head of its mobile unit said Monday, tapping into the nascent market for wearable devices seen as the mobile industry's new source of growth.

Pretoria - As the world marks the centenary in 2014 of the outbreak of World War One, South Africans are commemorating those who lost their lives 97 year ago in one of the country’s worst maritime disasters during that war.

Sokcho - A second group of 350 South Koreans have crossed into North Korea to take part in a reunion for divided families Sunday, a day before South-US military drills that threaten to undo a recent upswing in cross-border ties.The latest event -- held in the N...

Seoul - South Korea and Australia signed Sunday a currency swap deal worth $4.5 billion, Seoul's central bank said, in a move to boost trades and help curb currency swings.The deal -- signed by the countries' central bank governors -- allows the two nations to...

Sokcho - North and South Korean families held a final farewell Saturday after they were reunited for the first time since war divided them 60 years ago, knowing they will almost certainly never be together again.On the third and last day of their brief, emotion...

Sokcho - Around 80 elderly South Koreans met privately Friday with North Korean relatives they haven't seen for 60 years, on the second day of a highly-charged reunion for families divided by the Korean War.In contrast to the previous day when their tearful and...

Sokcho - A group of 82 elderly, frail South Koreans, two of them in ambulances, left for the North Korean border Thursday to attend the first reunion in more than three years for families divided by the Korean War.Ten coaches, with half a dozen police vehicles ...

South Korean tech giant Samsung is suing the British company Dyson over action taken last year by Dyson. Samsung is claiming that Dyson's action has "hurt" their brand and image.

Gyeongju - At least 10 people were killed and more than 100 injured when an auditorium packed with students collapsed at a resort near the southern South Korean city of Gyeongju, officials said Tuesday.More than 560 college students participating in a freshman or...

Gyeongju - Three college students were killed and 50 more feared trapped after an auditorium collapsed under heavy snow Monday in the southern South Korean city of Gyeongju, Yonhap news agency reported.Emergency services would not confirm the reported deaths, but...