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In South Korea, Internet cooking shows have become a huge fad, giving viewers someone to dine with and be entertained by.

Protesters hold defaced Japanese rising sun flags and portraits of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as they shout slogans during a rally to celebrate the March First Independence Movement Day in front of Japanese Embassy.

A case of avian influenza was confirmed at a chicken farm near Gyeongju city, North Gyeongsang Province, over the weekend.

Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Sunday he hopes to finalize a free trade agreement with South Korea during a trip there this week.

Ukrainian man attends a rally to denounce Russia's President Vladimir Putin and its military presence in Ukraine's Crimea region, in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, March 9, 2014.

North Koreans voted Sunday in a pre-determined election for a rubber-stamp parliament -- an exercise that doubles as a national head count and may offer clues to power shifts in Pyongyang.

CAIRO: The explosion of a suspected homemade bomb targeting a tram station in eastern Cairo wounded at least one person on Saturday, Egyptian security officials said.

Kim Soo-Hyun and Jeon Ji-Hyun attend the SBS Drama 'My Love From The Stars' Press Conference at SBS Broadcasting Center on December 16, 2013 in Seoul, South Korea.

Every evening at 8 p.m. in South Korea, a lot of people go online to stream the latest trend - a stranger, eating.

Just weeks before he heads to The Hague for the third Nuclear Security Summit, President Obama has unveiled a budget that includes more than $220 million in cuts for nuclear security programs in Your Take contributions have not been reviewed for accuracy by USA TODAY.

Seoul, March 8 : South Korea, almost a quarter of whose population of 50 million are Buddhists, has received a sapling of the sacred Bodhi Tree from India's Bodh Gaya town, a fulfilment of an offer Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made to South Korean President Park Geun-hye, as a special gesture of India's friendship and goodwill, when she ... (more)

Several books released in the past few years - notably Blaine Harden's "Escape from Camp 14" and Barbara Demick's "Nothing to Envy" - give a vivid, if partial, picture of repression and trauma in North Korea.

The 29-year-old woman identified only as Jeon was taking part in a reality dating programme called Jjak when she died, the Chosun Ilbo daily reported on Thursday.

North Korea's state media published photos Friday of Vice Marshall Choe Ryong-Hae, quashing intense speculation that the man seen as the number two to paramount leader Kim Jong-Un had been purged.

A group of Japanese historians on Friday stood behind their government's 1993 apology over wartime sex slavery, slamming Tokyo's possible move to revise it as "unforgivable".

The United States has a long history of denying, or seriously complicating, visa requests from foreigners for a wide range of political reasons.

London, Mar. 07 : Hackers who yielded personal details of 12 millions customers form one of South Korea's biggest phone companies have reportedly been arrested.

North Korean voters will make a choice Sunday when they elect a new national legislature, but not for a candidate.

NMCB 1 engaged in activities with the Republic of Korea navy including a seaside walk, installation of a guardrail, and team-building games with the residents and staff.

South Korea is no stranger to controversy over its Internet policies. The country still mandates virus protection and security measures that essentially require the use of Internet Explorer and Windows, and the government has one of the most aggressive Internet policing bureaucracies in the democratic world .