South Korea Travel News

The Chinese are the brand-conscious bulk-buyers while Japanese are frugal, sophisticated consumers, Hyundai Department Store said.

A South Korean wedding company says it is using the Internet to woo Chinese couples looking for better services than Chinese firms provide.

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The fallout from Dubai's debt crisis rippled across the globe Friday, raising concerns of another wave of financial turmoil and showing how vulnerable the world economy remains despite signs of recovery.

SEOUL, South Korea: A South Korean court convicted a man of insulting an Indian professor, a judge said Friday, in what is seen as the country's first punishment of racist remarks against a foreigner.

South Korea has launched a dispute at the World Trade Organization against the United States over U.S. measures to raise prices on imports of steel, a South Korean embassy official said on Thursday.

The Chosun Ilbo has been doing a series on foreign tourism in South Korea, which has been growing.

The tourism industry is showing signs of growth for the first time after a nine-year deficit, with the number of visitors increasing while outbound travelers dwindled due to the recession and the weak won.

South Korea plans to ease domestic investment rules and foreign entry procedures by 2020 in a bid to vitalise tourism, China's Xinhua news agency reported quoting the nation's culture minister as saying Friday.

Michael Hurt is a photographer in Seoul. He speaks fluent Korean, in part because it was the language of his mother.

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President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he was still weeks away from deciding how many more U.S. troops to send to Afghanistan and that he would like to fire officials who had leaked details of his deliberations to the news media.

Seonghyo Lee, standing, translates Shawnee County District Court proceedings Monday to, first row, left to right, Presiding High Court Judge Gyun-yong Lee; District Court Judge Mun-sung Kim; and Associate High Court Judge Do Sung Chung; second row, District Court Clerk Byeong-rok Im and Assistant Court Officer Jong-pil Oh; and third row, Associate ...

Most families assigned to Camp Humphreys in South Korea should expect to live off post and wait up to 18 months before an on-post apartment becomes open, according to Army officials.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 12 -- Asean and South Korean relations progressed in many areas since Seoul became a full Dialogue Partner of the 10-member regional grouping in 1991.

Things are looking up for military members and their families assigned to South Korea.

South Korea on Tuesday said the existing inter-Korean exchanges and cooperation will go forward as usual and not be affected by an earlier naval clash with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea .

The naval patrols of North and South Korea exchanged fire in disputed waters on Tuesday morning.

Tourists look at South Korean flags and reunification banners hung on a barbed wire fence, on Freedom Bridge at Imjingak pavilion near the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, about 52 km north of Seoul, November 9, 2009.

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