South Korea News

North Korea launched two ballistic missiles into the sea on Sunday, South Korea said, the latest in a series of test-firings seen as expressions of anger over the North's failure to win talks on receiving outside aid, and over U.S.-South Korean military drills.

The projectiles were fired from the North Korean city of Kaesong near the border with the South and had a range of about 500 kilometers , said a South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of department rules.

A TV news program reports on missiles launched by North Korea at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, July 13, 2014.

A wildfire burning grass, brush and scattered timber in central Washington has grown by about 2 square miles, but officials reported good progress in protecting homes in the area.

Cho Myung-ja ran away from home as a teenager to escape a father who beat her, finding her way to the red light district in a South Korean town that hosts a large U.S. Army garrison.

Pope Francis will visit South Korea in his second major overseas apostolic voyage in August, from the 13th to the 18th, in a visit that will be seen as a way to help boost morale and numbers on Korea 's growing community of Christians.

The south Korean authorities are now getting more frantic in their suppression of the South Headquarters of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea's Reunification , according to Thongil News, an internet paper of south Korea.

Twenty-two years ago, while living in Sapporo, Japan, I nearly made it to Seoul.

A woman opens Kakao Talk, a South Korean mobile messaging app with more than 60 million users, on her smartphone in Seoul.

North Korea on Saturday condemned a port visit by a US aircraft carrier to the South as a "reckless" act of provocation following proposals by Pyongyang to ease cross-border tensions.

Ordinary North Koreans are lucky to earn US$30 a month, but senior state officials easily make more than $100 a day from endemic corruption, a survey shows.

South Korea plans to launch production plants in Iran to manufacture various products, including cars and home appliances, South Korean Ambassador to Tehran Sung Wung Yeub said on Thursday.

Korea's oldest bookstore in Seoul, Jongno Books, was a landmark in terms of numbers of customers and its symbolic significance as the trove and exchange of knowledge.

INCHEON, South Korea-The official opening of the tallest building in South Korea, the Northeast Asia Trade Tower , took place Thursday.

The latest unlikely victims in the spat between Japan and South Korea are a ballroom reception and an anime exhibit.

Inspired to create a dance festival under the premise of showcasing "ballet for all to enjoy," the Korea Ballet Association is returning with the annual "K-Ballet World" two-week-long ballet extravaganza.

Seoul, South Korea, Jul 10, 2014 / 03:14 pm .- The vitality of the Church in South Korea is behind the many conversions that have taken place in the nation which Pope Francis is set to visit Aug. 13-18, according to a Salesian bishop.

An autopsy of a Korean mummy entombed in the 17th century shows that the middle-age man suffered from a potentially painful hernia during his lifetime, according to a new study.

Sat in an upholstered armchair, elbows resting upon a desk laden with charts, North Korea's Dear Leader channelled his best Bond villain pose as his military launched two ballistic missiles yesterday.

The US-government funded despicable imperialist pigdog news agency Voice of America today reports that North Korea has filed a formal complaint to the United Nations over " The Interview ," a James Franco/Seth Rogen comedy about an attempt to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.