Daegu, South Korea News

Kingston -, May 14 - Sprint legend Usain Bolt has announced that he will compete at the Diamond League meeting in Zurich in August.

Financial regulators recently conducted close inquiries into the eligibility of several candidates for the next chairmanship of the state-funded Woori Financial Group "in terms of policy direction code," market insiders said Sunday.

There was a strong rally today in the most liquid dollar bonds from South Korea as dealers covered shorts afer the Bank of Korea implemented a rate cut.

May 8, 2013 The Chinese and Russian governments have committed to sending high-level delegations to the World Energy Congress in South Korea in October.

PLASTIC NOT SO FANTASTIC?: "Trying to treat poor self-esteem with cosmetic surgery is like trying to treat gangrene with a band-aid. The only way to truly heal is to cut out the rot." If you want evidence that definitions of female beauty are becoming as narrow as a Mattel product catalogue, look no further than the entrants from this year's Miss ... (more)

But it appears the story of the identikit Korean beauty pageant hopefuls is not what it seems after new claims emerged explaining the reason why the 20 contestants all looked so alike: Photoshop and make-up. The debate began after pictures were published last week on Reddit.com under the headline: "Korea's plastic surgery mayhem is finally ... (more)

A video shows that those Korean beauty contestants whose faces were thought to be almost identical through plastic surgery, do not really look alike after all.

This week, photos of Korean contestants surfaced online. The photos all seemed eerily similar.

Scott Atran might be right: "When we devote such massive societal attention to a few homegrown terrorists , we may not ultimately be doing ourselves any favors." And, of all places, in Daegu, South Korea, Boston P.D.'s decision to crowd-source its investigations, to apprehend the Tsarnaev brothers might have inspired two losers, to set a bomb in a ... (more)

The 2013 World Energy Congress Organizing Committee announced recently some of the significant program topics that will be discussed by leading figures in the energy sector at the world's premier energy event, to be held in Daegu, South Korea from October 13 to 17, 2013.

An optimistic opening this morning in the Asian credit market turned to gloom after Chinese PMI data for April pointed to a weak second quarter for the world's second-largest economy.

The letter threatens Kim Kwan-jin with unspecified punishment if he harms the dignity of North Korea.

From the Department of Neurology, Seoul Medical Center, Seoul, Korea ; St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada ; Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea ; Eulji University Hospital, Daejeon, Korea ; Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea ; Yeungnam University Hospital, Daegu, Korea ; Eulji General ... (more)

A handmade bomb exploded at a private English academy for elementary students in Daegu.

Calls for more stringent regulations on guns are mounting in the wake of four shooting incidents within a month in a nation that many believed to be free from the dangers of firearms.