Tag: South Korea
S. Korea develops smartphone app to curb student suicide
South Korea has developed smartphone apps to help bring down its high student suicide rate by warning parents when their…
S. Korea activists plan to send ‘The Interview’ to N. Korea
South Korean activists vowed Tuesday to sneak copies of Hollywood satire “The Interview” across the border by propaganda balloon later…
S. Korea shocked and shamed by attack on US ambassador
South Korea has reacted with shock and a little shame to a violent knife attack on the US ambassador that…
US ambassador slashed, bloodied in Seoul attack
The US ambassador to South Korea, Mark Lippert, was slashed on his face and arm in Seoul on Thursday by…
N.Korea set to strike US after warnings
North Korea’s foreign minister warned Tuesday Pyongyang had the power to conduct a “pre-emptive strike” on the United States, following…
S. Korea urges Japan to apologise to ‘comfort women’
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Sunday repeated a call for Japanese leaders to apologise to former wartime sex slaves,…
South Korea legalises adultery
South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Thursday struck down a controversial adultery law which for more than 60 years had criminalised…
South Korea court to rule on legalising adultery
South Korea’s Constitutional Court is set to rule Thursday on a motion to strike down a controversial law that outlaws…
Missing Korean teen at IS training camp
A South Korean teenager who went missing last month has joined the Islamic State (IS) group and is receiving training,…
Japan set to end S.Korea currency swap pact
Japan was moving to end a 14-year-old, $10-billion currency swap accord with South Korea, as the neighbouring US allies fail…
Australia wins Asian Cup final in extra time
James Troisi’s extra-time winner fired Australia to their first Asian Cup title as they downed South Korea 2-1 in a…
Heavyweights collide in blockbuster Asian final
Free-scoring Australia will seek continental glory in the Asian Cup final on Saturday but South Korea could gatecrash the party…
“I want to join IS”, missing Korean teen tweeted
A missing South Korean teenager suspected of joining the Islamic State group had a twitter account, “Sunni Mujahideen”, on which…
S. Korean president says yet to see ‘The Interview’
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye said Monday she had yet to see “The Interview” — the Hollywood comedy about a…
Three killed, 101 injured in S. Korea fire incident
Three people were killed and more than 100 injured in a fire that swept through an apartment building north of…
S.Korean president welcomes N.Korea’s dialogue offer
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Tuesday welcomed North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s statement that he was open to the…
New Year Resolution? N. Korea’s Kim open to ‘highest-level’ talks with South
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un proposed the “highest-level” talks with South Korea Thursday, opening the way to a historic summit…
S. Korea proposes talks with N. Korea next month
A top South Korean official offered Monday to hold high-level talks with North Korea in January, as Pyongyang battles growing…
S.Korea women to outnumber men in 2015
South Korea will undergo a major demographic change next year when, for the first time, women will outnumber men —…
S. Korea ferry disaster captain jailed for 36 years
A South Korean court handed down a 36 year jail sentence Tuesday to the captain of the Sewol ferry that…
S. Korea fires warning shots at North border patrol
South Korean troops fired warning shots Monday as a North Korean patrol approached the heavily fortified border inside the so-called…
S. Korea prosecutors seek 15 years jail for ferry CEO
South Korean prosecutors on Thursday demanded a 15-year jail term for the president of the firm which operated the sunken…
16 killed in vent collapse at S. Korea pop concert
Sixteen people were killed and nine others seriously injured when they plunged down a ventilation shaft after a grating gave…
S.Korea ferry tragedy film causes stir at festival
A South Korean documentary about the Sewol ferry disaster has stoked controversy ahead of Thursday’s opening of Asia’s pre-eminent film…
South Korea to increase cigarette price by 80%
South Korea on Thursday proposed a steep 80 per cent hike in cigarette prices to cut consumption in a nation…
US, S. Korea create army unit to destroy North’s nukes
South Korea said Thursday it would create a combined army unit with the United States, reportedly tasked with destroying North…
S. Korea ferry victim’s father ends 45-day hunger strike
The father of one of the high school students killed in South Korea’s ferry disaster on Thursday abandoned a hunger…
N. Korea fires rockets as Pope arrives in South
North Korea fired five short-range rockets into the sea off its east coast Thursday, just as Pope Francis arrived in…
Fresh suicides fuel military service concerns in S. Korea
The South Korean military said Tuesday that two conscripts were found dead in an apparent suicide, the latest in a…
Student survivors testify in Korea ferry trial
Student survivors of South Korea’s ferry disaster, testifying for the first time Monday in the murder trial of the captain…