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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea flouted United Nations resolutions on Monday by launching two Scud-type ballistic missiles toward the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, as the United…
The missiles were fired from North Korea’s west coast toward the sea east of the Korean Peninsula around 6:30 a.m. and 6:40 a.m. Monday (4:30 p.m. and 4:40 p.m. ET…
SEOUL, South Korea — President Park Geun-hye of South Korea urged Japan on Sunday to have the “courage and honesty” to admit to its historical wrongdoings against Koreans and other…
Last year, a North Korean defector said that Kim Kyung Hee had died from a stroke while arguing on the phone with the North Korean leader about her husband’s execution….
The drills, involving thousands of troops and state of the art military hardware, don’t go down well with North Korea. “Each year, Pyongyang complains and demands a stop to these…
Citing fears of the spread of Ebola, North Korean officials have slapped a ban on runnersboth professional and amateurfrom overseas. The marathon is going ahead, but only for locals. –…
SEOUL, South Korea — When the North Korean carpenter was offered a job in Kuwait in 1996, he leapt at the chance. He was promised $120 a month, an unimaginable…
YEONGAM, South Korea — Eight years ago, the South Korean province of South Jeolla, which includes this sleepy coastal county, cleared 1,000 acres of rice paddies and embarked on a…
A Seoul court on Thursday sentenced a former Korean Air executive to a year in prison for aviation law violations that stemmed from her inflight tantrum over how she was…
SEOUL, South Korea — A former Korean Air vice president who ordered a plane back to its gate in a fit of anger over how she had been served macadamia…
The comedy lampoons North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, whose dynasty she loathes. Her father died in custody of North Korean security forces, who tied him by his wrist in…
JEJU, South Korea — In a political blow to President Park Geun-hye, a South Korean appeals court on Monday convicted a former government intelligence chief on charges of intervening in…
But some analysts are saying North Korea’s touted missiles appear to be Russian designs. The announcement of the tests also occurs just weeks before the annual joint U.S.-South Korea military…
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired five short-range missiles off its eastern coast on Sunday in a demonstration of its improving missile technology, the South Korean Defense Ministry said….
The flight attendant who served the offending macadamia nuts testified that she and the chief flight attendant knelt before Heather Cho, the former vice president at Korean Air, and the…
For years, Samsung has sold more smartphones than Apple. The Korean electronics giant makes dozens of different types of handsets, many of which cost much less than the iPhone. –…
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea repeatedly but unsuccessfully pushed for a summit meeting with the former South Korean leader Lee Myung-bak, demanding a huge aid package, including $10 billion…
“This is what I wanta real musical with Chinese characteristics,” he told CNN. San Bao has made seven musicals since 2005 and his latest “Nie Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen” —…
Thanks to the Korean skincare phenomenon of the past few years, American consumers have learned their ABC’s via BB and CC cream. But many Korean beauty treatments remain fascinating, complicated…
SEOUL, South Korea — As a math professor in North Korea, Jang Se-yul was among the nation’s relatively privileged classes; he got to sit in special seats in restaurants and…
Now the publisher of the book and its author say Shinwho claims to have been born in and escaped from a North Korean prison camphas revealed that parts of the…
Grand jury dismissal of charges against police officers in the July 17, 2014, chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York has returned racism to the forefront of the American…