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The two Koreas briefly exchanged naval fire Tuesday along their disputed western sea border, with a North Korean ship suffering heavy damage before retreating, South...
made popular Nov 10 2009
A SOUTH Korean woman has passed a written exam for a driver’s licence after 950 attempts.
made popular Nov 7 2009
On the evening of July 10, Bonogit Hussain, a 29-year-old Indian man, and Hahn Ji-seon, a female Korean friend, were riding a bus near Seoul when a man in the back...
made popular Nov 3 2009
Brides in white wedding gowns and Japanese kimonos joined bridegrooms in black suits and red ties today for one of the biggest mass weddings in a decade — a spectacle...
made popular Oct 14 2009
Four years ago, when she found that she was pregnant by her former boyfriend, Choi Hyong-sook considered abortion. But after she saw the little blip of her baby’s...
made popular Oct 8 2009
Lee Sun-ok fled from North to South Korea to escape chaotic fighting during the Korean War, boarding a ship along with thousands of other people in December 1950. There...
made popular Sep 25 2009
South Korea’s president offered North Korea a “grand bargain” Monday in which the North would receive much-needed economic assistance in return for...
made popular Sep 22 2009
South Korea has long felt under-recognized for its many achievements: it built an economic powerhouse from the ruins of a vicious war in just decades and, after years...
made popular Sep 12 2009
The six South Koreans, who are still missing, include an 8-year-old boy. They were camping or fishing on the Imjin River, which flows from the North, enters South Korea...
made popular Sep 7 2009
South Korea’s first rocket blasted off into space Tuesday following an aborted attempt last week and just months after its rival North Korea drew international...
made popular Aug 25 2009
In pursuit of middle-class prosperity, South Koreans have looted their household savings like no other people on Earth.
They have collectively binged on private...
made popular Jul 30 2009
North Korea on Thursday seized a stray South Korean fishing boat and its four crew members, ratcheting up tensions after a week of aggressive sabre-rattling from the...
made popular Jul 30 2009
Korean mountaineer Eun Sun Oh reached the summit of the famous Himalayan peak Nanga Parbat, on Friday, July 10, 2009. She was leading an expedition including...
made popular Jul 13 2009
U.S. and South Korean computer networks were besieged for days by a series of relatively unsophisticated attacks, possibly from North Korea, that were among the...
made popular Jul 9 2009
Dressed in white or yellow T-shirts and black slacks, the dozens of people at Wednesday’s ceremony looked like typical South Korean company trainees. But the high...
made popular Jul 8 2009
With his clean white university sweatshirt and shiny cellphone, Lee Chang-shik looks the part of a manager at a condominium development company, the job that he held...
made popular Jul 7 2009
when Ms. Choi, 39, was found dead in her apartment on Oct. 2 in what the police concluded was a suicide, her grief-stricken homeland sought an answer to why the actress...
made popular Oct 14 2008
Financial markets in Asia have risen sharply, with the Nikkei gaining 13% in morning trading, and Sydney up 5%.
made popular Oct 14 2008
After the melamine-tainted milk in China found its way to Korea, Seoul responded by improving their food labeling requirements for imported food.
made popular Sep 29 2008
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Chatter - Breaking news - and good news at that - for South Korea! It appears that the U.S. Board on Geographic Names has reinstated South Korea’s sovereignty...
made popular Aug 1 2008
The Korea Beat translated an extremely biased South Korean news report yesterday. No surprise on the stance this reporter assumes. You can read the original report...
made popular Jul 29 2008
The battle rages on for possession of the neutrally named Liancourt Rocks, situated halfway between mainland Korea and Japan.
Depending on who you talk to the rocks...
made popular Jul 22 2008
As those familiar with protests in Korea well know, they can become quite unusual at times. However, nothing brings out the crazy protesters better then the good old...
made popular Jul 19 2008
Dokdo. Takeshima. The Liancourt Rocks.
This small group of islets, roughly situated between South Korea and Japan in the East Sea, has been a startling topic of...
made popular Jul 15 2008
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